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"'SINDH KALAY', England (CNN) --",
"The aroma of freshly baking flatbread wafts through the air as a unit of British soldiers position a unit of British soldiers for a quick patrol around mock Afghan village.",
"A British soldier on patrol in the mock Afghan village of Sindh Kalay.",
"Market vendors hawk grapes and melons, as a group of village elders sit smoking water pipes and suspicious-looking men lurk beside battered motorcycles.",
"What should the soldiers do?",
"Conduct a weapons search?",
"Approach village elders first?",
"In the complex political and cultural terrain of Afghanistan, what is the best course of action?",
"Except mock Afghan village is not Afghanistan.",
"mock Afghan village's Norfolk, England.",
"Instead of the Hindu Kush mountains, it is the green ladscape and tidy farmhouses of the English countryside that stretch out behind them.",
"Welcome to the British Army's state-of-the art training ground.",
"the British Army's state-of-the art training ground cost more than $20 million to build and every British soldier serving in Afghanistan will do every British soldier serving in Afghanistan's or her training here.",
"\"I think it's the closest thing you are going to get short of being in Afghanistan,\" says Col. David Colthup of the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.",
"Col. David Colthup of the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment's troops have already served one tour of duty in Afghanistan's Helmand province and are training for another.",
"British troops serving in Helmand province are tasked with mentoring and training Afghan security forces.",
"Not an easy job in a Taliban stronghold and Afghanistan's center of opium production.",
"\"Ultimately, a soldier joins the army and trains to fight.",
"That's what a soldier trains to do.",
"But today, it's a much, much more complex environment,\" explains Col. David Colthup of the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.",
"\"The business of being able to interact either through an interpreter or through Afghan security forces, whether Afghan security forces are police or army.",
"And to understand how the people operate and how we can interact better with the people.",
"Because ultimately, that's what it's about,\" he says.",
"The most distinctive features of Sindh Kalay are the high three-meter walls that make up the village compound, creating narrow alleyways difficult for troops to patrol.",
"The village is staffed with Afghan asylum-seekers, many of whom have fled the Taliban.",
"Afghan asylum-seekers, many of whom have fled the Taliban play the roles of market vendors, village elders and sometimes Afghan security forces.",
"Several Afghan women are also on hand, useful for training British soldiers on the religious and cultural sensitivities of entering an Afghan home.",
"Watch British troops training in mock Afghan village » .",
"The Taliban insurgents are played by Nepalese Ghurkha soldiers authorized to handle weapons.",
"They play their roles silently, unable to partake in the Pashtun banter among the Afghans.",
"Fazel Beria is also an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan.",
"Fazel Beria is responsible for recruiting and for creating the sights and smells of Sindh Kalay and is easily identifiable as the only Afghan in the market in Western clothes.",
"Fazel Beria beams with pride walking down the bazaar and clearly relishes Fazel Beria's role in training the British Army.",
"\"Everything with the culture comes up with the issue of hearts and minds,\" Fazel Beria explains.",
"\"If you want to win that, you need to know about their culture.",
"You need to respect their culture, their religion and their way of life.\"",
"Fazel Beria gives high marks to the soldiers training so far.",
"After each exercise, the Afghan actors talk directly to the soldiers about what went wrong and what went right.",
"Sometimes, it's the little things that count.",
"\"Yes, there have been quite a lot of surprises,\" Fazel Beria says.",
"Like Afghan will sit cross legged for hours.",
"\"The British soldier cannot do that,\" he laughs.",
"\"Afghan will be sitting very comfortable and The British soldier is not.",
"So, they have to get used to it.\"",
"See photos of British troops on patrol in mock Afghan village -- and for real in Afghanistan » .",
"Previously, the army trained on farmhouses and in urban neighborhoods that resembled Northern Ireland more than Afghanistan.",
"But mock Afghan village does more than mimic the physical reality of Afghanistan.",
"mock Afghan village also mirrors the changing tactics on the ground.",
"Troops are grilled in IED training by amputees that act out the violence with latex wounds and fake blood.",
"When a new IED tactic is discovered by troops in Afghanistan a new IED tactic is communicated to mock Afghan village and put into practice immediately.",
"\"Before we had this, it wasn't realistic enough,\" says Col. Richard Westley, head of training here.",
"\"I think if you're going to be asking young men and women to go and risk young men and women's lives in someone else's country, then you have a moral obligation to prepare young men and women for that environment.",
"And that's what mock Afghan village does.",
"mock Afghan village gives young men and women the isolation and complexity of an Afghan village.",
"Which we can't do with farmhouses which represent Western Europe.\"",
"Some of the details in mock Afghan village don't quite ring true.",
"The slabs of lamb and beef hanging from the market stalls are plastic, as are the grapes and melons the vendors try and sell to the British soldiers.",
"Still, mock Afghan village is eerily effective.",
"When soldiers sit down for a \"shura\" or meeting with village elders, helicopters buzz overhead and soldiers seem surprised to be served a homemade yogurt and cucumber drink.",
"But the unit commander can't help laughing when one of the Afghan village heads pulls out a \"list of damages\" by British troops.",
"It turns out to be a receipt for the local supermarket."
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"Village features Afghan asylum-seekers as vendors, elders, Afghan forces .",
"Taliban militants are played by Nepalese Ghurkha soldiers .",
"Village trains soldiers to understand Afghan customs, respect Afghan culture ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Two Baltimore, Maryland, police officers were shot Saturday after a gunman's domestic dispute led to shootings at two locations, a police spokesman told CNN.",
"Crime scene tape cordons off a squad car involved in a chase and shootings Saturday in Baltimore.",
"Rampage began at the home of the suspect's ex-girlfriend, who has a restraining order against the suspect, a police spokesman said.",
"The suspect, 34, forced the suspect's way into the suspect and they argued, a police spokesman said.",
"In an apparent rage, the suspect fired a round from a 9 mm Ruger, a police spokesman said.",
"the suspect called police about 10:30 a.m.",
"a police spokesman described to CNN what unfolded next.",
"Police have not released the names of anyone involved.",
"Police received a call from the suspect's current girlfriend just before 11 a.m.",
"the suspect told Police the suspect came to the suspect's home and assaulted the suspect, and the suspect suffered minor injuries.",
"While a 42-year-old policeman was at the suspect's home tending to the suspect's report, the suspect called the suspect.",
"The officer talked to the suspect on the phone and convinced the suspect to return to west Baltimore, where the suspect lived.",
"When the suspect pulled up in a car, The officer approached the suspect and was fired upon, suffering a gunshot wound to the buttocks.",
"The officer got into The officer's patrol car and chased the suspect.",
"An officer providing backup at the first shooting scene spotted the suspect's vehicle parked three blocks away.",
"As the policeman observed the vehicle from inside the officer's patrol car, the suspect appeared on the driver's side and fired at the officer.",
"The backup officer, 44, who was wearing a bullet-proof vest, was shot in the chest and arm but managed to return fire, hitting the suspect three times.",
"He was in stable condition after surgery and was expected to survive.",
"the suspect is in custody and expected to live, Moses said.",
"The officer shot in the buttocks was treated and released from the hospital Saturday."
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"the suspect told police the suspect came to the suspect's home and assaulted the suspect, CNN told .",
"One officer received minor wound, and a second was stable after surgery .",
"Second officer shot returned fire, wounding suspect, who is expected to survive ."
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"(CNN) --",
"In these eco-conscious times, there are few areas of life that have not been touched by the drive to go green, and golf is no exception.",
"Justin Timberlake has been an advocate of eco-golf at Justin Timberlake's course in Tennessee.",
"The trend for environmentally friendly golf is rocketing with celebrities such as Justin Timberlake taking up the cause in unveiling one of the world's top eco-golf courses earlier this year.",
"Justin Timberlake's club, the Mirimichi Golf Course in Tennessee is the first in the country to be designated as a certified Audubon International Classic Sanctuary, re-using 80 percent of the energy it produces.",
"Next month Stockholm will host one of the largest meetings of American and European golf clubs to decide how the game can become more environmentally and socially responsible.",
"Living Golf looks at a selection of some of the best eco-equipment making our greens even greener.",
"The recyclable golf ball: .",
"Every club player will be familiar with the age-old problem of losing golf balls -- but what happens to the collection of wayward balls once the search is over?",
"Dixon Golf are asking for Dixon Golf's customers to recycle their balls.",
"It is estimated 300 million golf balls are discarded in the United States alone, every year -- that is enough balls to create a solid line from Los Angeles to London and back.",
"Dixon Golf are encouraging golfers to recycle golfers's lost and found by offering a dollar for each ball that is returned to golfers's recycling centers throughout the US and in over 15 countries worldwide.",
"\"Dixon Golf're getting the word out there.",
"Dixon Golf don't have the advertising revenue of [bigger] companies but the more people know, the more people chose Dixon Golf's eco-friendly balls.",
"\"Dixon Golf're also developing Dixon Golf's first prototype putter made entirely from recycled crushed golf balls,\" said company owner Mike Carey.",
"The solar-powered cart: .",
"Ever felt like your golf cart could do with that extra bit of oomph?",
"Well, SolarDrive sun-powered, solar-paneled golf cart could be the answer.",
"The SolarDrive sun-powered car - an energy solution for the future?",
"By recharging itself throughout the day, the cart can work in drizzly and damp conditions -- which could be good news for golf lovers in rain-soaked Britain and sun-baked Abu Dhabi alike.",
"The design has proved so popular that golf clubs such as the Jockey Club Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course in Hong Kong and Sebonack Golf Club in the United States have recently converted entire fleets to use the power of the sun.",
"General Manager at Sebonack Mark Hissey says it has been a great move for the club: \"First, it's a wonderful idea and second they look fantastic.",
"Plus they're financially better for us to run, saving us over two-thirds on our electrical costs.\"",
"Large-scale gated communities in the UEA are also reportedly keen to use the carts as a more environmentally-friendly alternatives to gas-run vehicles.",
"The biodegradable tee: .",
"A littered tee box may be a thing of the past with the biodegradable golf tee.",
"Manufacturers XT-1 believe they are saving over 100, 000 trees with the tee's nifty corn based tee.",
"The manufacturers of the XT-1 claim the tee will biodegrade within three months.",
"Unlike wooden tees which take up to two years to degrade, XT-1s take just two to three months by way of an interesting eco-system.",
"Once the tee comes in contact with the soil, the corn-based product is attacked by incredibly small microbes (or micro-bugs) that eat away at the tee to corrode the core.",
"A slightly unusual method perhaps but an effective one, as sales in the last few years have soared.",
"Manager Alan Berry told CNN: \"We're gaining interest all over the world -- Australia, the Middle-East, Europe and the States.",
"Our sales figures speak for Our sales figures.\""
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"New developments in golf show that the sport has a drive to go green .",
"Dixon Golf aim to recycle some of 300 million discarded balls in the U.S.",
"SolarDrive can convert golf carts so golf carts can run off the power of the sun .",
"XT-1 have developed a golf tee that can biodegrade in just three months ."
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"(CNN) --",
"When Michele Maro became captivated by \"The Lord of the Rings\" movies, Michele Maro never imagined Michele Maro would one day be walking around in the Shire, touring Hobbiton and peeking into hobbit holes.",
"Fans of the \"Lord of the Rings\" trilogy can tour a New Zealand farm that was used as the setting for Hobbiton.",
"Those are all fictional places, but fans can visit the closest thing possible in New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed and where specially designed tours will take visitors to some of the stunning locations featured in the movies.",
"Maro, who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, spent two weeks in New Zealand in 2003 being guided around forests, national parks and farms, exploring sites that Michele Maro didn't think were real when Michele Maro first saw them on the big screen.",
"\"The scenery was so pretty that I thought The scenery had to be computer-generated,\" Michele Maro said.",
"But the place that moved Michele Maro most was a serene sheep farm in Matamata, New Zealand, where filmmakers brought to life author J.R.R. Tolkien's vision of Hobbiton, the hobbit village where Frodo Baggins lives, complete with hobbit holes peeking out of hill sides.",
"\"I just stood there and cried.",
"It was like, 'I can't believe I'm actually here,' \" Michele Maro said.",
"\"I loved the movie so much, and to actually be there where they filmed that, it overwhelmed me.\"",
"See iReporters' film location photos » . Sing along with 'The Sound of Music'",
"Such passion has prompted tour operators all over the world to take fans to sites that have served as settings for blockbusters on the big and small screens.",
"They can be legendary places recognized on their own or seemingly mundane restaurants, houses and street corners that become instantly recognizable when put in the context of a favorite movie or TV show.",
"In London, England, you can visit locations used in movies such as \"Bridget Jones's Diary\" and \"Four Weddings and a Funeral.\"",
"When in Rome, Italy, world-famous landmarks like the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum will make you feel as if you've stepped right into \"Roman Holiday\" and \"La Dolce Vita.\"",
"Tours highlighting sites used during the filming of \"The Sound of Music\" have many visitors singing with joy in Salzburg, Austria.",
"\"The buses were packed.",
"It seemed to be very popular,\" said Kelly Van Baren, a sales manager who lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois.",
"Kelly Van Baren, a sales manager who lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois and Kelly Van Baren, a sales manager who lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois's sister watched the musical over and over while growing up, Kelly Van Baren, a sales manager who lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois recalled, and when She and her sister visited Munich, Germany, in the fall of 2007, She and her sister made a special one-hour train trip to Salzburg just to take one of the tours.",
"It turned out to be an adventure in itself.",
"A convoy of three huge buses with scenes from the film painted on their sides shuttled mostly American tourists to various sites, including the church where the main characters were married and a gazebo featured during some of the musical numbers, Kelly Van Baren, a sales manager who lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois recalled.",
"Kelly Van Baren, a sales manager who lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois's favorite site was a majestic palace used as the von Trapp family home in some of the exterior shots.",
"The movie was played on the bus during the tour, and the sightseers were encouraged to sing along, prompting Kelly Van Baren, a sales manager who lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois to wonder what the locals must think of the visitors.",
"\"It was just hilarious, these three giant buses full of Americans driving around the countryside.",
"It wasn't a proud moment, but it was fun,\" Kelly Van Baren, a sales manager who lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois said.",
"Big Apple lures fans .",
"Movie and TV fans who want to stay closer to home to explore famous locations have plenty of movie tours to choose from in the United States.",
"New York, which has served as the backdrop for countless films and television shows, offers a wide variety of sites.",
"Seeing them in person for the first time can be shocking, tour operators say.",
"\"Guests are definitely surprised by the appearance of the locations,\" said Pauline Gacanja, public relations and marketing assistant for On Location Tours.",
"\"On TV, things generally look larger and more dramatic than things really are.\"",
"The company takes about 100,000 visitors a year to dozens of well-known sites around the city by bus, by water taxi or on foot.",
"Buildings used as homes in \"Friends\" and \"The Cosby Show\" are among the most popular places, Gacanja said.",
"Visitors can also see locations such as the diner used in \"Men in Black\" and the firehouse used in \"Ghostbusters,\" according to The company's Web site.",
"But the most popular tour focuses on sites used in the television and big screen hit \"Sex and the City,\" Gacanja said.",
"Fans of \"the Sopranos\" also have Fans of \"the Sopranos\"'s own tour.",
"\"Seinfeld\" aficionados may opt for Kramer's Reality Tour, offered by Kenny \"The Real\" Kramer, the man said to have inspired Jerry's colorful friend Cosmo Kramer.",
"Stops include the Soup Shop that inspired the \"Soup Nazi\" episode and the real Monk's Restaurant, used for the exterior shots of the diner where the characters hung out.",
"This may be the only tour that tempts visitors with highlights such as \"Visit the office building where Elaine worked for Pendant Publishing, Kramer had Kramer's coffee table book published and George had sex, on his desk, with the cleaning lady.\"",
"Plenty of movie tours also thrive outside New York, in cities such as San Francisco, California; Boston, Massachusetts; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.",
"For Maro, the experience in New Zealand was so unforgettable, Michele Maro went again a year later for another look at \"The Lord of the Rings\" sites.",
"\"My imagination went wild there.",
"It was so fabulous.",
"It was just a great trip,\" Michele Maro said."
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"\"Lord of the Rings\" fans flock to New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed .",
"\"The Sound of Music\" tours have visitors singing with joy in Salzburg, Austria .",
"Popular tours in New York take fans to \"Sex and the City,\" \"Sopranos\" locations ."
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"GUANTANAMO Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (CNN)",
"-- Families of September 11 victims visiting Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday urged the Obama administration to drop plans to close Guantanamo Bay and to restart terror trials there.",
"A guard talks with a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, earlier this year.",
"\"I am opposed to the closing of Guantanamo Bay because of political reasons,\" said Gordon Haberman whose daughter, Andrea, was killed when terrorist planes struck the World Trade Center.",
"\"I believe that Obama administration spoke too quickly on this.\"",
"Gordon Haberman whose daughter, Andrea, was killed when terrorist planes struck the World Trade Center said Gordon Haberman whose daughter, Andrea, was killed when terrorist planes struck the World Trade Center thinks Obama should not insist on carrying out Obama's campaign pledge to shutter Guantanamo Bay.",
"Gordon Haberman whose daughter, Andrea, was killed when terrorist planes struck the World Trade Center was one of nine people visiting Guantanamo this week who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks.",
"He and the others had the opportunity to observe pre-trial hearings for some suspects on Wednesday and Thursday.",
"Several were critical of Obama's decision to suspend military commissions at Guantanamo Bay while Obama administration reviews what to do with each detainee.",
"\"Our government's current executive order to halt the military commissions makes us foolish and weak, and invites more attacks,\" said Melissa Long, whose boyfriend was a first responder killed in New York.",
"\"What is fair and just is to continue the military commissions and punish those who have committed acts of terrorism against Americans, period.\"",
"Long later married a man who lost his parents when his parents's plane slammed into the Pentagon on that fateful day.",
"Brian Long acknowledged that some of the detainees may have gone through some inhumane treatment through the years, but Brian Long thinks some of the detainees are being well taken care of now.",
"\"The only injustice is being orchestrated by Obama by making decisions about something Obama knew nothing about,\" Brian Long said.",
"Other September 11 families have visited Guantanamo Bay for previous hearings and voiced support for using the facility for terror trials.",
"The government uses a random process to select names of family members invited to observe.",
"family members said family members think Guantanamo detainees have been provided with good attorneys, who, in many cases, are paired with clients who don't want their help.",
"Some of that was on display at a hearing Thursday for five detainees charged with orchestrating the September 11 attacks, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed.",
"Khalid Sheik Mohammed and fellow prisoner Ramzi Binalshibh refused to come to the proceeding, after being told no detainees would be allowed to make statements.",
"Three others did show up.",
"But one, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, left quickly because Mustafa al-Hawsawi was not allowed to talk to the judge about problems Mustafa al-Hawsawi said Mustafa al-Hawsawi was having with one of Mustafa al-Hawsawi's military lawyers.",
"All five September 11 suspects want to act as All five September 11 suspects's own attorneys.",
"Thursday's hearing focused on discussions about the competence of al-Hawsawi and Binalshibh to stand trial and represent al-Hawsawi and Binalshibh.",
"Khalid Sheik Mohammed and two others have been granted permission to defend Mohammed and two others."
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"ANTIOCH, California (CNN) --",
"Investigators who completed their search of the California property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido said initial findings do not connect the couple to the disappearances of two young girls.",
"Ilene Misheloff, left, has been missing since 1989; Michaela Garecht disappeared in 1988.",
"But police said that police have not eliminated Phillip Garrido as a suspect in the decades-old cases.",
"Bone fragments found on the couple's property near Antioch could be human but are \"far too old to be relevant in our cases,\" said Lt. Chris Orrey of the Hayward police department.",
"Teeth found on an adjacent property are most likely from an animal, she said.",
"And some anomalies found by ground-penetrating radar uncovered \"chunks of concrete, tree roots, and in one case a floor mat,\" Orrey said at a news conference.",
"Investigators had already found bone fragments at the property in unincorporated Contra Costa County, but have not said if they are human.",
"\"Although nothing [was found] that would definitively link Phillip and Nancy Garrido to the disappearance of Ilene Misheloff or Michaela Garecht, we're going to continue to follow up on the evidence that we have recovered,\" Lt. Kurt von Savoye of the Dublin Police Department said at a news conference.",
"\"We're going to examine and process all items that have been taken from the property in unincorporated Contra Costa County to see if there is any possible link to the couple.\"",
"The processing of all the evidence could take several weeks, Orrey said.",
"Police from Hayward and Dublin began executing search warrants simultaneously last week on the Garrido property and an adjacent property to which he had access.",
"Police from Hayward and Dublin sought any evidence in the 1988 abduction of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht of Hayward and the 1989 disappearance of 13-year-old Ilene Misheloff of Dublin.",
"The search of the adjacent property was also completed and the resident will be able to return soon, police said.",
"the couple's home will remain boarded up and the fence locked, Orrey said.",
"the couple face a combined 29 felony counts in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, then 11, from South Lake Tahoe, California.",
"Authorities say the couple held Jaycee Dugard in a hidden compound behind the couple's home for 18 years and have said Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, fathered Jaycee Dugard two children.",
"Phillip Garrido won't be eliminated as a suspect because of similarities in the Jaycee Dugard case and the other disappearance cases, Orrey said.",
"\"I can't help but feel relief that Police from Hayward and Dublin didn't find anything here,\" Michaela Garecht's mother, Sharon Murch, told reporters.",
"\"If Police from Hayward and Dublin had found something on this property, it most likely would have meant Michaela Garecht wasn't alive.\""
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"Authorities seek evidence in abductions of Michaela Garecht, Ilene Misheloff .",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"It was a heartwarming sight: Laura Ling and Euna Lee landing on U.S. soil and being reunited with Laura Ling and Euna Lee's families.",
"To the elation of Laura Ling and Euna Lee's families, Bill Clinton returned to the U.S. with journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.",
"Then, after an appropriate amount of time for hugs and kisses, Bill Clinton appeared, descending from Bill Clinton's movie-producer friend's plane like an angel from heaven.",
"An emotional Laura Ling practically referred to Bill Clinton as a messiah, describing to the media and well-wishers waiting at the airport how Laura Ling and Euna Lee thought Laura Ling and Euna Lee were being sent to a hard-labor camp, only to walk through a door to find Bill Clinton.",
"The crowd broke into loud applause.",
"For all of those who wondered what Bill Clinton would do in Hillary Clinton's diplomatic world, wonder no longer.",
"As details of the Bill Clinton mission came out, it was revealed that the North Koreans themselves asked for Bill Clinton, promising amnesty for the women upon delivery of the former president, whose visit eluded them while he was in office.",
"The deal was done even before Bill Clinton stepped on his movie-producer friend's plane.",
"So what is next for Bill Clinton?",
"If the mere thought of a meeting with Bill Clinton is enough to move a regime notorious for never moving, can the Obama administration use that star power to rescue three American hikers who ventured into Iran and are believed to be held by Iranian authorities?",
"Can Bill Clinton head off two Russian attack submarines cruising in the Atlantic off the East Coast of the United States?",
"Former presidents are used as envoys and undertake humanitarian missions all the time.",
"Then-Bill Clinton used former President Jimmy Carter to travel to North Korea in 1994 to negotiate the end to the first nuclear crisis.",
"Bill Clinton and Bill Clinton's predecessor, George H.W. Bush, were tapped by Bush's son, then-President George W. Bush, to lead relief efforts to help Asian and African nations devastated by the 2004 tsunami and again in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina.",
"But the relationship between Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's and Obama is complex, to say the least.",
"After a bitter-fought battle during the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton's supporters were looking for a robust role for Hillary Clinton's in exchange for Hillary Clinton's's support of Obama, with many even suggesting Hillary Clinton's as a possible candidate for vice president.",
"That idea was short-lived.",
"The Obama team wanted Hillary Clinton's far from the West Wing.",
"And The Obama team wanted Bill Clinton even farther.",
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"The Clintons agreed to strict rules of the road to avoid such conflicts going forward.",
"However Hillary Clinton's never demurred in Hillary Clinton's's praise for what Hillary Clinton's's husband has accomplished, both during Bill Clinton's eight years in the White House or post-presidency.",
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"In May, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed Bill Clinton as the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti in an effort to refocus international attention on the Caribbean country's deep economic problems and environmental decay.",
"But with the success of Bill Clinton's North Korean mission so quick and easy, it's conceivable that Bill Clinton could add the role of \"diplomatic cleaner\" to Bill Clinton's resume -- a version of Harvey Keitel's role as Winston Wolfe in the movie \"Pulp Fiction\" -- a fixer of messy problems, which Bill Clinton solves with a combination of stylish charisma and lucid thinking under pressure.",
"The Obama administration has no shortage of messy foreign policy problems that Hillary Clinton knows could use a Winston Wolfe."
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"In the seven weeks since the military-backed bloodless coup in Honduras, several hundred people protesting against the de facto government have been arbitrarily arrested and beaten by government forces, a new Amnesty International report says.",
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"The report, released Wednesday, said the beatings were meant to punish those who opposed the ouster of Zelaya in June.",
"The report, released Wednesday includes testimony from, and photographs of, several people who were baton-whipped and detained by police officers who sometimes wore no visible identification and hid their faces behind bandanas as they broke up demonstrations.",
"\"They beat us if we raised our heads; they beat us when they were getting us into the police cars,\" said a student whom Amnesty International interviewed in late July at the police station where he was being detained.",
"\"They said, 'Cry and we'll stop.'\"",
"Multiple requests to the government for comment went unanswered.",
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"The Honduran political crisis stems from President Manuel Zelaya's defiant push to hold a referendum that could have led to extending term limits by changing the constitution.",
"The country's congress had outlawed the vote and the supreme court had ruled it illegal.",
"President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a coup on June 28.",
"The congress named Roberto Micheletti provisional president shortly after the military detained President Manuel Zelaya and sent President Manuel Zelaya into exile.",
"Micheletti and his supporters deny that a coup took place, calling the action a constitutional transfer of power.",
"The coup resulted in unrest throughout The country, with frequent clashes between police and military on one side and civilian protesters on the other.",
"At least two people were shot to death, Amnesty said.",
"Among several examples, the Amnesty report quotes F.M., a 52-year-old teacher, who said he was demonstrating peacefully when police descended on the rally.",
"\"They grabbed me and shouted, 'Why do you (all) support President Manuel Zelaya's government?'",
"They beat me.",
"I have not been informed as to why I am detained.\"",
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"\"Detention and ill treatment of protesters are being employed as a form of punishment for those openly opposing the de facto government and also as a deterrent for those contemplating taking to the streets to peacefully show those contemplating taking to the streets's discontent with the political turmoil The country is experiencing,\" said Esther Major, Amnesty's Central America researcher."
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"Obama urged Congress to adopt a \"pay-as-you-go\" approach to federal spending in order to restore fiscal discipline, but critics say the president's call lacks credibility.",
"Obama says PAYGO is common sense.",
"Faced with a record $1.8 trillion deficit, Obama on Tuesday pushed Congress to take up the spending rules, known as PAYGO.",
"The approach would require lawmakers to pay for new programs, dollar-for-dollar, with budget cuts elsewhere.",
"\"The 'pay as you go' rule is very simple.",
"Congress can only spend a dollar if Congress saves a dollar elsewhere,\" Obama said, as Obama announced that Obama was submitting to Congress a proposal to make PAYGO law.",
"Obama repeated Obama's vow to halve a record $1.8 trillion deficit by the end of Obama's first term, and Obama said PAYGO is an important step toward making that happen.",
"A previous PAYGO mandate helped erase federal budget deficits in the 1990s, and subsequent ineffective rules contributed to the current budget deficits, Obama said.",
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"\"It seems a tad disingenuous for the President and Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi to talk about PAYGO rules after ramming trillions in spending through Congress proposing policies that create more debt in the first six months of this year than in the previous 220 years combined,\" Cantor, R-Virginia, said in a statement Tuesday.",
"Republicans point to the $787 billion stimulus package as evidence that Obama is not following Obama's own advice.",
"Republican Whip Eric Cantor's statement included a \"fiscal timeline\" highlighting government spending initiatives this year.",
"The timeline entry for June 8 points to polls showing dissatisfaction with the administration on spending and a record $1.8 trillion deficit.",
"The entry for June 9 shows the president holding a PAYGO summit.",
"However, a group of fiscally conservative Democratic representatives known as the Blue Dogs say Obama's proposal is responsible and necessary.",
"\"Obama inherited an economy in free fall and a $10.6 trillion national debt,\" said Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, vice chairman of the Blue Dog Budget and Financial Services Task Force.",
"\"While short-term spending was necessary to get the economy moving again, our long-term fiscal problems became that much more urgent.\"",
"But when it comes to reducing a record $1.8 trillion deficit, even the Senate Budget Committee's Democratic chairman doubts Obama can deliver on Obama's promise.",
"Asked if Obama could halve a record $1.8 trillion deficit -- given the recent government spending --- Sen. Kent Conrad said, \"I don't believe so.",
"I don't believe anybody could.\"",
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"\"Pay-as-you-go embodies a common sense principle that you shouldn't dig a hole deeper,\" said Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget.",
"CNN's Kristi Keck and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"new law would permit shops, department stores, and shopping malls to open on Sundays in 20 zones.",
"What seems routine in much of the Western world has been fiercely resisted in France, where Sundays have officially been set aside as a day of rest for more than a century and where a 35-hour workweek remains the norm.",
"The new legislation, if approved by French Senate, would overturn a 1906 law that forbids Sunday trading in all but the largest cities.",
"It is part of a raft of reforms Sarkozy has pushed for since becoming president.",
"While the change is significant, the change is not as much as the government originally hoped because Sarkozy had to deal with opposition from both the left and the right.",
"Socialists filed thousands of amendments to Sarkozy's original version of new law.",
"Leftists and unions said it would effectively introduce a seven-day workweek and allow bosses to force employees to work Sundays.",
"Members of Sarkozy's own ruling conservative party opposed new law despite assurances new law would boost economic activity, saying new law would instead deprive families and church groups of church groups's dedicated day.",
"If approved by French Senate, new law would permit shops, department stores, and shopping malls to open on Sundays in 20 zones of what are called \"exceptional commercial\" centers near three of the country's largest cities: Paris, Marseilles, and Lille.",
"Additionally, 29 areas involving about 500 cities and towns would be added to the list of tourist areas, which already allow some economic activity on Sundays.",
"new law will, among other things, straighten out a somewhat chaotic situation in which some stores managed to obtain exceptions from the old law and others didn't, and where some stores found it made more sense financially to accept fines for breaking the old law because the income from Sunday sales more than made up for the penalties.",
"new law passed the National Assembly last Tuesday by a vote of 282 to 238.",
"new law will go French Senate for three days of debate next Tuesday, where it is almost certain to be approved.",
"Opinion polls in France show that slightly more than half the population want shops to have the freedom to open on Sundays, according to Time magazine.",
"CNN's Jim Bittermann contributed to this report."
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"Afghanistan estimates the number of addicts in Afghanistan could be as many as five percent of Afghanistan's 25 million people.",
"Watch Nic Robertson's report from the 'house of hopelessness' » .",
"And though nascent efforts are being made to tackle the problem, chronic funding shortfalls have prompted the United Nations to warn that drug use will escalate, potentially driving an HIV/AIDS crisis as junkies move from smoking to high risk needle-sharing.",
"Afghanistan has always been a major narcotics supplier -- responsible for 95 percent of the world's heroin -- although this was scaled back under the rule of the Taliban, which outlawed poppy cultivation and imposed strict penalties for drug users.",
"Since 2001, when the extremist regime was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion that installed President Hamid Karzai, production has doubled.",
"And for many in the country still mired in poverty and conflict, these cheap drugs offer a tempting escape.",
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"According to Afghan Counter Narcotics Minister Khodaidad, the figure is now far greater.",
"\"More than 1.2 million people in Afghanistan are addicts.",
"It's a very huge number and every year it increases,\" Afghan Counter Narcotics Minister Khodaidad told CNN.",
"Afghan Counter Narcotics Minister Khodaidad says the Afghan government is largely powerless to control the production of opium while Taliban extremists, who now control and draw funding from drug crops, control cultivation areas despite major international military efforts to push them back.",
"\"Afghanistan did very little due to weakness of governors, due to insurgents, due to pressure of terrorism in the area,\" Afghan Counter Narcotics Minister Khodaidad added.",
"\"Afghanistan don't have sufficient law enforcement agencies -- the police, the border security force, and other special forces to control the area -- so it will take time.\"",
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"As intravenous drug use takes hold, raising the prospect of needle sharing, he says HIV/AIDS will follow quickly.",
"\"The little data we have at the moment are very alarming,\" he told CNN.",
"\"They tell us that we should not wait longer and if not, Afghanistan will be saddled with another burden Afghanistan just can not afford.",
"\"I think it is already happening today.",
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"\"Here we deal with the problem from a humanitarian perspective, not from an addiction perspective, to save lives,\" says Jehan Zeb Khan, UNODC program manager.",
"But says Khan, with what little funding there is now dwindling fast, the salvation offered to shaven-headed junkies may be short lived -- shaven-headed junkies will be forced back out on the streets, where more opium dens will flourish, bringing yet more misery for Afghanistan."
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"(CNN) --",
"There is more water on the moon in more locations than originally thought, a discovery that may bolster NASA's long-held goal of setting up an outpost there, a researcher said Thursday.",
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"One ton of the moon's surface -- in which the water's ingredients are held -- could yield as much as 32 ounces, or one quart, of water, according to three reports from research teams who studied data from three spacecrafts.",
"Although that amount isn't large, said geological sciences professor Jack Mustard, the findings show \"there are ways you could convert these amounts of water into higher amounts\" that could support human activity.",
"The water was discovered in rocky environments and in craters, geological sciences professor Jack Mustard said.",
"\"It's in more places and in different places than were inferred previously,\" geological sciences professor Jack Mustard said.",
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"geological sciences professor Jack Mustard was on a team led by Carle Pieters, science manager of the NASA-supported Keck Reflectance Experiment Laboratory at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.",
"Pieters also is principal investigator for NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), which the space agency contributed to India's first mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, in October 2008.",
"The mapper was a \"state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer\" that provided the first map of the entire lunar surface at high resolution, revealing the minerals of which The mapper is made.",
"Examining data from Chandrayaan-1, Pieters' team found signs of water at the moon's frigid poles.",
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"The researchers's overall findings also were confirmed by data from a high-tech spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft -- which also found evidence of water at lower latitudes away from the poles -- and from infrared mapping done by the Deep Impact spacecrafts -- which found trace amounts over much of the moon's surface.",
"Reports on those findings came from teams led by Roger Clark of the U.S. Geological Survey and Jessica Sunshine of the University of Maryland.",
"This most recent information is far more precise than any previous data, geological sciences professor Jack Mustard said.",
"Previous measurements were \"the size of Texas, say, and now are the size of Providence.\"",
"\"We find it (water) distributed more broadly,\" geological sciences professor Jack Mustard added.",
"In the late 1990s, scientists found pockets of hydrogen on the moon, and inferred that the moon's molecules could bond with oxygen to make water, geological sciences professor Jack Mustard said.",
"geological sciences professor Jack Mustard called the older information much coarser.",
"This time, researchers are reassured that the components are on the moon to make water because of the presence of hydroxyl -- produced when hydrogen and oxygen also bond with a mineral structure.",
"The researchers said the results also suggest that its molecules are continually being created on the lunar surface, perhaps as a result of the solar wind -- the stream of ionized particles ejected by the sun.",
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"Joshua Duane Barnes, 21 was serving 35 years in prison for several felony convictions, including seven burglary charges, two escape charges and an aggravated assault charge in the Texas Panhandle area, according to a TDCJ press release.",
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"A Saudi Arabian man who was arrested for bragging about Mazen Abdul Jawad's sex life on television has apologized for Mazen Abdul Jawad's comments while Saudi authorities discuss whether Mazen Abdul Jawad should be charged with a crime, according to local media.",
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"Man set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.",
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"CNN producers armed with cameras put the puzzler to passersby in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Bangkok, Tokyo, New Delhi and Paris.",
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"\"It allows you to be whomever you want, in whichever world you want, and lets you live an alternate fantasy life,\" one man said.",
"One hopeful businessman in Spain told us, perhaps prematurely: \"Peace, I'd say peace.",
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"A desperate Zimbabwean farmer fighting to hold onto One farmer's land -- a year after Zimbabwe's political rivals pledged to govern jointly -- fears One farmer will eventually lose to politics and violence.",
"Ben Freeth's farm was gutted by fire, as was Ben Freeth's's father-in-law's.",
"The power-sharing agreement included an undertaking by both parties to ensure property rights are upheld but farm attacks and invasions continue unabated in Zimbabwe.",
"Charles Lock is one of an estimated 400 farmers who have remained in Zimbabwe despite President Robert Mugabe's policy of redistributing white-owned farms to landless blacks.",
"\"Why do they want to remove me when I've complied with everything they want?",
"What more do they want other than for me to pack my bags and leave and if that's the case, then admit that that is the policy.",
"Pass a law: no whites are allowed to farm.",
"Then a law makes it clear,\" Charles Lock said.",
"Since 2000, President Robert Mugabe's controversial land reform program has driven more than 4,000 commercial farmers off more than 4,000 commercial farmers's land, destroying Zimbabwe's once prosperous agricultural sector.",
"\"When Mugabe's controversial land reform program began, we decided we were not going to have a confrontational attitude; that we would actually go along with Mugabe's controversial land reform program because Mugabe's controversial land reform program was the only way that this whole thing would be sorted out.",
"So I voluntarily gave away my own farm and moved onto my father-in-law's farm,\" Charles Lock said.",
"That was in 2002.",
"A year later the government came knocking on Charles Lock's door again, Charles Lock said, demanding more land.",
"Charles Lock told CNN Charles Lock eventually gave up 70 percent of Lock's farm's father-in-law's farm, which Charles Lock then owned.",
"Now an army general is demanding Charles Lock's remaining 30 percent.",
"When Zimbabwe's new unity government was formed -- with President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change -- in February this year, the general allegedly posted soldiers on Charles Lock's farm.",
"Charles Lock said Charles Lock stopped farming and trade at gun point.",
"When CNN visited Charles Lock's farm this month, workers were standing idle.",
"Maize and tobacco, which Charles Lock said is worth more than U.S. $1 million, lay in storage.",
"\"They've switched off our irrigation system, taken out keys and stop our trucks if we want to deliver maize,\" Charles Lock told CNN.",
"So Charles Lock had to sneak into Lock's farm's own property like a thief by cutting open the gate leading to Charles Lock's store room.",
"Charles Lock took a few valuables from Charles Lock's workshop suspecting that Lock's farm's whole place will soon be looted.",
"With the formation of a unity government farmers were hoping for some protection but Charles Lock said: \"Nothing is happening here.",
"There is no land audit happening, no one comes out here to check, to see.",
"We are just left vulnerable.\"",
"On another farm, Ben Freeth's's fight for Ben Freeth's's land has just escalated to another level.",
"Ben Freeth's has been repeatedly beaten, arrested and harassed.",
"Now Ben Freeth's's farmhouse and that of Ben Freeth's's father-in-law have been gutted by a mysterious fire.",
"See the destruction a mysterious fire caused .",
"Ben Freeth's could not say for sure that this is arson but told CNN that the group of ZANU-PF youths who have occupied Ben Freeth's's farm have repeatedly threatened to burn Ben Freeth's's house.",
"\"One time they came round with burning sacks at night and they started making a huge noise and ringing a great big bell and shouting and screaming.",
"They were going underneath the thatch saying we are going to burn his house down if you don't get out,\" he said.",
"Ben Freeth's and Ben Freeth's's father-in-law Mike Campbell are among a group of Zimbabwean farmers who won the right to remain on their land at a southern African tribunal.",
"But President Robert Mugabe has declared the ruling null and void and pulled out of a southern African tribunal.",
"Farmers cannot contest land issues in Zimbabwe and approaching international courts has thus far not worked either.",
"When CNN interviewed President Robert Mugabe's minister of state, Didymas Mutasa, about the disregard for human and property rights on the farms, he blamed the farmers for the violence, saying landless blacks are getting frustrated with landless blacks's refusal to relinquish landless blacks's land.",
"\"Human rights are beginning to be seen now because Human rights benefit the whites, and when Human rights were affecting blacks badly as Human rights did the likes of us, it didn't matter and nobody raised anything about those human rights.",
"\"And sometimes we say, good heavens, if that is the kind of human rights you are talking about, you better keep Human rights away from us; we don't want to see Human rights,\" he told CNN.",
"But it is black farm workers who are caught in the cross fire.",
"black farm workers continue to bear the brunt of Mugabe's controversial land reform program by repeatedly being beaten and intimidated.",
"Some have even been killed.",
"Tractor driver William Kale said it is farm laborers working for white farmers who are targeted.",
"\"They actually say you the workers, you are ones that are supporting the white farmer.",
"That is why he is carrying on farming and we refuse to go because we have nowhere to go,\" Tractor driver William Kale told CNN.",
"Many farmers and farm workers we spoke to say Many farmers and farm workers are in a worse position now under the unity government than Many farmers and farm workers were before.",
"Lock said: \"When ZANU-PF was in power, you had hawks and doves in government and the doves were approachable and often helped us.",
"But now that these positions are being shared with Mr. Tsvangirai's MDC, President Robert Mugabe has only appointed hawks to President Robert Mugabe's cabinet who insist on continuing Mugabe's controversial land reform program.",
"And when it comes to the MDC, the land issue seems to be a hot potato the MDC do not want to touch.",
"I have asked Mr. Tsvangirai to intervene but nothing is happening.\"",
"Mr. Tsvangirai refuted that.",
"\"That is not true,\" Mr. Tsvangirai said.",
"\"We initiated to find out who is being affected, the few remaining white farmers.",
"Let's be frank here, we are talking of farmers as being white, but to me any destruction of farm production affects the whole viability of agriculture.",
"There should be no disruption of any farm activity.\"",
"To those under siege these words are little comfort as those under siege continue to fight a battle those under siege are unlikely to win."
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"North Korea's rhetoric toward the United States has always had a certain bizarre, over-the-top quality to it.",
"Under the Bush administration it labeled Undersecretary of State John Bolton \"human scum.\"",
"\"Complete and irreversible denuclearization is the only viable path for North Korea,\" Clinton says.",
"But the North Korea's latest comments about Secretary of State Clinton are stunningly personal.",
"An unnamed North Korean official quoted by the state-run KCNA news agency calls Clinton \"by no means intelligent\" and a \"funny lady.\"",
"\"Sometimes Clinton looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,\" he said.",
"The remarks seem to be a reply to Clinton's comments to ABC News in which Clinton compared North Korea's leadership to \"small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention.\"",
"Behind the scenes, U.S officials for months have made similar comparisons, claiming North Korea's modus operandi is to be deliberately provocative, to \"act out\" to get the United States' attention and be rewarded for its \"misbehavior.\"",
"This time, they say, it's not going to work.",
"Clinton said North Korea has \"no friends left.\"",
"After North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test in May and fired several ballistic missiles over Japan, the United States rallied the United Nations to pass resolution 1874, which invoked strong sanctions, including targeting top North Korean officials connected to North Korea's nuclear program.",
"Significantly, resolution 1874, which invoked strong sanctions, including targeting top North Korean officials connected to Pyonyang's nuclear program was supported by Russia and China, countries that have been reluctant to impose strict sanctions on North Korea.",
"\"Complete and irreversible denuclearization is the only viable path for North Korea,\" Clinton said at the Association of Southeast Asia Nations meeting in Thailand this week.",
"\"We do not intend to reward North Korea just for returning to the table, nor do we intend to reward North Korea for actions North Korea have already committed to taking and then reneged on.",
"The path is open to North Korea, and it is up to North Korea to follow The path.",
"Unless and until North Korea do, North Korea will face international isolation and the unrelenting pressure of global sanctions.\"",
"North Korea, however, says the six-party talks with the United States, South Korea, Russia, China and Japan are dead and it's not going back.",
"North Korea has the right to a nuclear program, North Korea says, since North Korea must defend North Korea against possible attack from the United States.",
"With strong words on both sides, the standoff seems intractable.",
"Clinton maintains the door still is open to the North, but only if North Korea does what North Korea already has committed to: resume talks and dismantle North Korea's nuclear program -- completely, irreversibly and verifiably.",
"\"We have made it very clear to the North Koreans that if the North Koreans will agree to irreversible denuclearization the United States, as well as our partners, will move forward on a package of incentives and opportunities, including normalizing relations that will give the people of North Korea a better future,\" she said.",
"But a North Korean official, quoted by South Korean news agency Yonhap, calls the package of incentives \"nonsense.\"",
"\"The U.S. is telling us to take off all of our clothes,\" he's quoted as saying.",
"\"The most important thing for us is sovereignty.",
"Sovereignty, security, namely life, should be guaranteed.",
"How can we barter life with money?\""
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"U.S. officials have likened North Korea's provocative actions to children acting out .",
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"North Korea remains defiant, showing no signs of abandoning nuclear program ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A leading international children's charity has warned that Elton John's desire to adopt a 14-month-old baby boy could lead to more children being abandoned.",
"Elton John's kisses baby Lev during Elton John's's visit to the orphanage in Ukraine on Saturday.",
"The singer, 62, made the announcement during a visit with Elton John's's partner, 46-year-old David Furnish, to an orphanage for HIV-affected children in Ukraine on Saturday.",
"\"David always wanted to adopt and I always said no because I am 62 and I think because of the traveling I do and the life I have, maybe it wouldn't be fair for the child,\" he told reporters.",
"\"But having seen Lev today, I would love to adopt Lev.",
"I don't know how we do that but Lev has stolen my heart.",
"And Lev has stolen David's heart and it would be wonderful if we can have a home.",
"I've changed my mind today.\"",
"While EveryChild praised the British musician for helping raise awareness of children affected by HIV/AIDS, EveryChild said international adoption is sending out the wrong message.",
"James Georgalakis, EveryChild's Communications and Advocacy Manager, told CNN: \"Research conducted in Ukraine in 2007 which showed high-profile celebrity adoptions and news around foreigners coming into the country and adopting children generally was actually encouraging vulnerable young mothers to abandon their children into homes hoping their children's child would be adopted by a rich foreigner and have a better life.",
"\"So it's quite well documented that these high-profile adoptions could actually be increasing the number of children in institutions.\"",
"Do you think celebrity adoptions are a good thing?",
"According to research by the charity's Web site, 95 percent of the children in Ukraine's institutions are not orphans, with babies born to HIV+ mothers facing particular discrimination.",
"They are separated from their mothers and often end up in children's homes and institutions segregated from children not affected by HIV.",
"It argues that governments such as Ukraine need to be encouraged to put more emphasis on keeping families together rather than placing families in outdated Soviet-era children's homes.",
"\"After a great deal of campaigning by charities such as ours, the Ukraine government introduced a new 'gate-keeping' system which means the authorities will have to consider all available options before a child is placed in an institution,\" Georgalakis said.",
"\"So when a child is taken into care or abandoned, they will have look at whether a child has other family or can be fostered by another family for example.",
"This is a huge step forward and one that needs support.",
"\"We will definitely be speaking to Elton John's and Elton John's's representatives about this.\"",
"Elton John is the latest high-profile figure to be linked with a case of this kind.",
"Earlier this year, Madonna won a court appeal to adopt a second child from Malawi.",
"Critics of the pop-star accused the pop superstar of taking advantage of \"archaic adoption laws\" in a bid to adopt three-year-old Chifundo James.",
"Madonna's initial attempt was denied because Madonna did not meet a residency law that requires applicants to have lived in the country for some time before adoption.",
"This condition was waived when Madonna -- and then husband Guy Ritchie -- adopted Madonna's first Malawian child, David Banda.",
"The judge in that case said the interest of her first Malawian child, David Banda outweighed the issue of residency.",
"Meanwhile, the British Association for Adoption and Fostering said around 4,000 children need to be adopted in Ukraine each year, with many facing a considerable wait.",
"BAAF Chief Executive David Holmes told CNN: \"While Elton John may be considered too old under current guidance to adopt a baby in Ukraine, there are many children, particularly older children, sibling groups, children with disabilities, and children from black minority groups, all waiting for a family.",
"\"We'll certainly be reinforcing this message during National Adoption Week in Britain later this year.\""
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"EveryChild charity believes international adoption sends wrong message .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Obama has ordered national security officials to look into allegations that Bush administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the killings of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001.",
"In an exclusive, CNN talked with President Obama in Ghana about Obama's order to review alleged deaths of Taliban.",
"\"The indications that this had not been properly investigated just recently was brought to my attention,\" Obama told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview during the president's visit to Ghana.",
"an exclusive interview during the president's visit to Ghana will air 10 p.m. Monday.",
"\"So what I've asked my national security team to do is to collect the facts for me that are known, and we'll probably make a decision in terms of how to approach it once we have all of the facts gathered up,\" Obama said.",
"The inquiry stems from the deaths of at least 1,000 Taliban prisoners who had surrendered to the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in late 2001.",
"The fighters were in the custody of troops led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, a prominent Afghan warlord who has served as chief of staff of the country's post-Taliban army.",
"Dostum, a former communist union boss and militia leader who fought against the U.S.-backed mujahedeen in the 1980s, is known for switching sides as Afghanistan's political conflict has evolved.",
"When the United States invaded Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, Dostum sided with the Americans and received military and CIA support to battle the Taliban.",
"The allegations against him first surfaced in a 2002 Newsweek report, which cited a confidential U.N. memo saying the prisoners died in cramped container trucks while being transported from the prisoners's Konduz stronghold in northern Afghanistan to Sheberghan prison, west of Dostum's stronghold at Mazar-e Sharif.",
"At the time, the Boston, Massachusetts-based group Physicians for Human Rights said the Boston, Massachusetts-based group Physicians for Human Rights found a mass grave in nearby Dasht-e Leili, where witnesses said the bodies of Taliban prisoners were buried.",
"The finding prompted U.S. Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the invasion of Afghanistan, to support an investigation into The allegations against him.",
"But The New York Times, citing government officials and human rights organizations, reported Friday that Bush administration \"repeatedly discouraged efforts to investigate the episode.\"",
"State Department officials recently have tried to derail Dostum's reappointment as military chief of staff to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the newspaper reported, citing several senior officials who suggested Bush administration \"might not be hostile to an inquiry.\"",
"Dostum, a key ally of Karzai, was reportedly living in exile in Turkey until last month, when Dostum was reinstated to Dostum's post as defense minister.",
"Dostum had left Afghanistan over allegations that Dostum had kidnapped Akbar Bai, a former ally turned political rival.",
"When asked by CNN about whether Bush administration would support an investigation, Obama replied, \"I think that, you know, there are responsibilities that all nations have, even in war.",
"And if it appears that Bush administration's conduct in some way supported violations of laws of war, then I think that, you know, Bush administration have to know about that.\"",
"Watch part of CNN's exclusive interview with Obama » .",
"Susannah Sirkin, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights, on Sunday praised Obama \"for ordering his national security team to collect all the facts in the Dasht-e-Leili massacre and apparent U.S. cover-up.\"",
"\"U.S. military and intelligence personnel were operating jointly and accepted the surrender of the prisoners jointly with General Dostum's forces in northern Afghanistan,\" Sirkin said earlier in the week.",
"\"The Bush administration administration has a legal obligation to determine what U.S. officials knew, where U.S. personnel were, what involvement U.S. personnel had, and the actions of US allies during and after the massacre.",
"These questions, nearly eight years later, remain unanswered.\""
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"DALLAS, Texas (CNN) --",
"Police in Irving, Texas, captured a convicted burglar Wednesday who escaped from a medical facility last weekend by rappelling off the building using a string of bedsheets, a department spokeswoman said.",
"Saturday night's escape was the third for Barnes', since June 2008.",
"Barnes', escaped Saturday night from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Hospital at Galveston.",
"It was Barnes' third escape from authorities since June 2008.",
"Each time, Barnes' was caught in four days.",
"Barnes' will face felony escape charges, spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said.",
"According to the Criminal Justice Department's inspector general, about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, police received a call about a suspicious person in a park, spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said.",
"Barnes ran as police approached Barnes, and police chased Barnes.",
"Barnes, later identified as Barnes, barricaded Barnes in an abandoned residence before surrendering to police without incident about 10 a.m.",
"Barnes was to be taken to one of the Criminal Justice Department's's Huntsville-area prisons later in the day.",
"When authorities realized Barnes was missing Saturday, authorities noticed a hole in the wall where a vent had been removed.",
"Barnes also had broken through a thick window.",
"Barnes was serving 35 years in prison for felony convictions including seven burglary charges, two escape charges and an aggravated assault charge in the Texas Panhandle area, according to a department statement.",
"Barnes began serving Barnes's sentence in January.",
"Barnes was housed at a prison in Midway, Texas, but authorities said Barnes was taken to the medical facility in Galveston last week after being hurt in a fight.",
"Barnes' two other escapes took place in Potter County in the Texas Panhandle while Barnes was under the control of local authorities.",
"On June 6, 2008, Barnes fled the county courthouse shortly after being asked to take the stand during a probation violation hearing.",
"The second escape was on October 4, 2008, when Barnes fled the county jail recreational yard after hopping onto the corner of a roof and peeling back layers of sheet metal and galvanized fencing.",
"In both cases, Barnes was found four days later, hiding out at motels.",
"CNN's Ed Lavandera contributed to this report."
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"(CNN Student News) -- September 10, 2009 .",
"Quick Guide .",
"Health Care Address - Hear the latest arguments in the debate over U.S. health care reform.",
"Campaign Finance - Review the details of a court case that could impact U.S. elections.",
"Purifying Invention - Find out how one inventor hopes to quench concerns about clean water.",
"Transcript .",
"THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN THIS COPY's FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR:",
"On HLN, online, on iTunes; here, there and everywhere, this is CNN Student News!",
"Thank you for spending part of your Thursday with us.",
"From the CNN Center, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"First Up: Health Care Address .",
"AZUZ:",
"First up, health care reform reclaims the spotlight as President Obama takes up the issue in a speech to Congress.",
"the debate over U.S. health care reform has been heating up for months, with politicians and citizens weighing in with citizens's opinions.",
"It's an incredibly complicated issue, so we're gonna look at some of the main points right now.",
"Some people think the country's health care system is fine the way the country's health care system is.",
"Others think the country's health care system's broken, but what Others don't agree on is how to fix the country's health care system.",
"For example, how much would it cost to reform the country's health care system, and where would that money come from?",
"Should there be a government-run health insurance program?",
"And if so, how might that impact private insurance companies?",
"Those are just a few of the questions facing lawmakers.",
"President Obama says President Obama isn't the first president to take on health care, but President Obama hopes to be the last.",
"President Obama's been pushing for reform since President Obama took office, and President Obama believes the time for action is now.",
"President Obama: The time for bickering is over.",
"The time for games has passed.",
"Now is the season for action.",
"Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do.",
"Now is the time to deliver on health care.",
"Health Care Response .",
"AZUZ:",
"After President Obama wrapped up President Obama's address to Congress, the Republican Party offered a response from U.S. Representative Charles Boustany.",
"The Louisiana representative, who has more than 20 years of experience as a surgeon, says he agrees with parts of President Obama's plan.",
"But he thinks it also presents several problems.",
"Last night, he outlined some alternative ideas about how to improve the health care system and how to lower the health care system's costs.",
"REP. CHARLES BOUSTANY JR, (R) LOUISIANA:",
"We need to establish tough liability reform standards, encourage speedy resolution of claims, and deter junk lawsuits that drive up the cost of care.",
"Real reform must do this.",
"Let's also talk about letting families and businesses buy insurance across state lines.",
"I and many other Republicans believe that that will provide real choice and competition to lower the cost of health insurance.",
"Shoutout .",
"GEORGE RAMSAY, CNN STUDENT NEWS:",
"Time for the Shoutout!",
"Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas are all members of what governmental body?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Congress, B) The U.S. Supreme Court, C) President Obama's Cabinet or D) The Federal Reserve?",
"You've got three seconds --",
"GO!",
"Along with six other justices, these people compose The U.S. Supreme Court.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Campaign Finance .",
"AZUZ:",
"It's their job to interpret our country's laws, and one case the justices are looking at right now could have a major impact on elections, including the ones coming up next year!",
"It's all about how much money corporations can give to candidates.",
"Right now, there's a limit on that, but some people argue that violates the Constitution.",
"Elaine Quijano is on the case.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)",
"FROM CITIZENS UNITED AD FOR \"HILLARY, THE MOVIE\": Who is Hillary Clinton?",
"ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.:",
"It started small.",
"During last year's presidential primaries, a federal court said campaign finance laws barred this ad for an anti-Hillary Clinton movie by an advocacy group, a non-profit corporation.",
"FROM CITIZENS UNITED AD FOR \"HILLARY, THE MOVIE\": If you thought you knew everything about Hillary Clinton, wait 'til you see the movie.",
"QUIJANO:",
"But now, the Supreme Court could make a monumental change in how money influences politics, deciding, in the name of free speech, whether there should be any limits at all on corporate campaign spending.",
"FRED WERTHEIMER, DEMOCRACY 21, CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM SUPPORTER:",
"Allowing corporations to flood our elections and use campaign expenditures to buy influence would fundamentally undermine our democracy.",
"QUIJANO:",
"Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21 warns overturning a century of precedents would shut average citizens out of the political process.",
"WERTHEIMER:",
"The little guy would have no role here, because the dominant force in our politics, the dominant force in Washington decision-making, would become corporations.",
"QUIJANO:",
"But David Bossee of Citizens United, the group behind the anti-Hillary Clinton movie, argues that anyone pooling resources, including unions, the health industry, advocacy groups like the National Rifle Association, has free speech rights.",
"DAVID BOSSEE, CITIZENS UNITED:",
"I actually went out and looked for this fight, because I don't believe the government should have the right to impede people's entry into the process.",
"And that's what the Federal Election Commission is trying to do here, squelch our first Amendment Rights.",
"QUIJANO:",
"Interestingly, the American Civil Liberties Union agrees.",
"A final ruling is expected in a couple of months, and legal observers say conservatives could hold the key, with enough votes to possibly declare much of current campaign finance law unconstitutional.",
"Elaine Quijano, CNN, the Supreme Court.",
"(END VIDEO CLIP)",
"Flash Flooding .",
"AZUZ:",
"Six months' worth of rain in two days!",
"That is what residents in parts of Turkey are dealing with.",
"This massive downpour triggered flash floods in Turkey this week, claiming more than 30 lives.",
"In this video - look at this - you can see how the water rushed through a low-lying valley.",
"the water flipped and ripped up dozens of cargo trucks.",
"Hundreds of other vehicles were washed out into the sea.",
"Turkey's prime minister said emergency workers rescued around 1,300 people from the floods.",
"The country's prime minister's already pledged money to get help and relief to the affected regions that need it.",
"I.D. Me .",
"RAMSAY:",
"See if you can I.D.",
"Me!",
"I'm a rock band originally from Liverpool, England.",
"I made my first U.S. appearance in 1964.",
"20 of my songs landed at number 1 on the U.S. charts.",
"And I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.",
"I'm the Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr!",
"The Beatles: Rock Band .",
"AZUZ:",
"The Beatles were a rock band.",
"Now The Beatles are in Rock Band!",
"A new game featuring the famous Fab Four is out this week.",
"A new game featuring the famous Fab Four lets players jam out on dozens of the group's biggest hits.",
"Plus, A new game featuring the famous Fab Four gives younger audiences -- you -- a chance to check out some of rock and roll's most famous songs nearly four decades after the band's last gig.",
"That's not the only reason The Beatles are back in the spotlight.",
"All 15 of The Beatles's albums have been re-mastered and put back on store shelves.",
"Purifying Invention .",
"AZUZ:",
"Meanwhile, a famous inventor wants to do some re-mastering of a famous inventor's own.",
"But we're not talking about digital, we're talking liquid.",
"More than a billion people around the globe don't have access to clean drinking water.",
"Sure, there're water water everywhere, but if it's not clean, it can cause serious consequences.",
"a famous inventor looks at one idea designed to quench the problem.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)",
"GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Water:",
"It's the most abundant resource on the planet, yet every year, millions of people die because millions of people don't have access to clean water.",
"So Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, decided to take this problem on with a machine he calls the \"Slingshot.\"",
"DEAN KAMEN, INVENTOR:",
"We believe the world needs a slingshot to take care of its goliath of a problem: bad water.",
"a famous inventor: He says a machine he calls the \"Slingshot can turn contaminated water like this dirty river water into clean drinking water by boiling, distilling and vaporizing it.",
"KAMEN:",
"In goes the bad, and as you can see, out comes the good.",
"That is pure water.",
"a famous inventor: a machine he calls the \"Slingshot is smaller than some other water purifying systems, making a machine he calls the \"Slingshot more portable.",
"KAMEN:",
"a machine he calls the \"Slingshot's ideally suited to go to places in the developing world.",
"a famous inventor: KAMEN says it requires very little electricity and maintenance to function.",
"But until KAMEN finds partners and distributors to keep costs down, Slingshots won't be available to the people who need Slingshots most.",
"KAMEN:",
"We've got to find better strategies to deal with this incredibly unique and valuable resource called water, that we've all come to take for granted, but we'll not be able to do that in the future.",
"a famous inventor: Gary Tuchman, CNN.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ:",
"Before we leave you today, we've got a story about something that's pretty darn fast.",
"Usian Bolt may be the quickest person on the planet, but Usian Bolt's got nothing on Sarah.",
"The cheetah charged into the record books yesterday as the world's fastest land mammal.",
"She made the 100-meter dash in 6.16 seconds.",
"Then she went out and shaved some more time off in her second attempt.",
"Now for reference, sprinter Usain Bolt did it in 9.58 seconds.",
"So, cheetah wins.",
"Think you could outrun her?",
"You're welcome to give it a shot.",
"Goodbye .",
"AZUZ:",
"But you've got to make sure that she doesn't break any rules.",
"After all, she's a cheetah.",
"Okay, we know a lot of you probably saw that coming, but you just can't miss the opportunity to make a cheetah pun.",
"It's where we cross the finish line for today, but we'll be back tomorrow to close out the week.",
"We look forward to seeing you then.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"(CNN) --",
"Giant jellyfish descend on the Sea of Japan, causing untold devastation to coastal villages and leaving a trail of destruction and human misery behind.",
"A diver attaches a sensor to a Nomura's jellyfish off the coast of northern Japan in October 2005.",
"Sounds like a great sci-fi flick.",
"But it's not.",
"It's real and a nightmare for Japanese fishermen.",
"The massive sea creatures, called Nomura's jellyfish, can grow 6 feet (1.83 meters) in diameter and weigh more than 450 pounds (204 kilos).",
"Scientists think the jellyfish originate in the Yellow Sea and in Chinese waters.",
"For the third year since 2005, ocean currents are transporting the jellyfish into the Sea of Japan.",
"Monty Graham, a marine biologist at Alabama's Dauphin Island Sea Lab, said the jellyfish grow to an enormous size as the jellyfish are transported by ocean currents.",
"Monty Graham, a marine biologist at Alabama's Dauphin Island Sea Lab said the jellyfish stay together in packs and as the jellyfish drift northward, the jellyfish get caught in fishermen's nets.",
"the jellyfish are one of about 200 species of coastal jellyfish or large jellyfish that exist around the world.",
"But Nomura's stands out because of Nomura's enormous size.",
"\"The sheer size of the jellyfish, individually, makes the jellyfish fairly spectacular,\" Monty Graham, a marine biologist at Alabama's Dauphin Island Sea Lab said.",
"Spectacular, perhaps, to scientists, but perilous to villagers along the Japanese coast who have seen the destructive habits of these colossal creatures in the past.",
"They had giant-jellyfish invasions in 2005 and 2007, and because they've recently been spotted in the Sea of Japan, they're bracing for another, potentially harmful wave this summer.",
"The jellyfish destroy fishermen's nets, getting trapped in fishermen's nets, tearing holes and ruining catches.",
"Fishermen often use expensive mazelike nets that stretch for hundreds of kilometers.",
"When swarms of giant jellyfish tear them, the result is devastating.",
"\"Communities of fishermen and these fishing villages own these nets,\" Monty Graham, a marine biologist at Alabama's Dauphin Island Sea Lab said.",
"\"When these nets get wiped out, it actually has this economic devastation for an entire community.\"",
"The good news is that previous attacks have prompted Japan to put in place a warning system for fishermen.",
"While fishermen still risk losing a big catch, fishermen can, at least, save fishermen's pricey nets from the invasion of the giant jellyfish.",
"It's not clear why waves of Nomura's jellyfish have made it to the Sea of Japan in recent years.",
"Some have speculated that overfishing, pollution or rising ocean temperatures may have depleted the kinds of fish that prey on Nomura's jellyfish in the polyp stage.",
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"Visitors mark 60th anniversary of liberation Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 2005.",
"Two of Two suspects, Johann Leprich and Anton Tittjung, each 84, are thought to live in the United States, while the third, Josias Kumpf, also 84, is believed to live in Austria, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.",
"They are accused of serving in the Nazi SS.",
"Johann Leprich and Tittjung were armed guards at the Mauthausen concentration camp and Gross Raming subcamp, while Kumpf served at the Sachsenhausen camp, the court order viewed by CNN said.",
"In addition to Jews and other types of prisoners, A Spanish judge said there more than 7,000 Spaniards held prisoner at Mauthausen, of whom 4,300 died.",
"Some Spaniards arrived at the Sachsenhausen camp, in convoys from France, the court order viewed by CNN said.",
"The order, including international arrest warrants, was issued by Judge Ismael Moreno of Spain's National Court, which investigates genocide and crimes against humanity involving Spaniards.",
"the court order viewed by CNN cited prior judicial investigative work from other countries regarding the backgrounds of the three alleged ex-Nazi guards and their suspected roles in the notorious Nazi death camps during World War II."
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"the country's Interior Ministry has identified the suicide bomber who attempted to assassinate the country's assistant interior minister last Thursday and released details of a phone conversation between the two men prior to the attack.",
"A Saudi man reads a newspaper featuring a front-page story on the attack.",
"The disclosures reported by the country's official news agency were highly unusual.",
"The agency, SPA, reported the attacker, Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri, a wanted Saudi militant who had been hiding in Yemen, got in touch with Saudi authorities telling Saudi authorities Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri wanted to turn Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri in to Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Naif, the assistant minister of Interior for Security Affairs.",
"After arriving back in the country, Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri spoke by phone to Mohammed, who agreed to see Security Affairs during a Ramadan reception at Security Affairs's home in the city of Jeddah.",
"According to a transcript provided by SPA, during the phone call the two men exchanged greetings and discussed the importance of the holy month of Ramadan.",
"Security Affairs is quoted as telling Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri that \"one should be careful; evil people would like to exploit all of you.",
"Now only you to fear Allah Almighty and come home.\"",
"Later in the conversation, Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri asked if a special plane could be dispatched to take Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri to meet with Security Affairs.",
"Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri, escorted by security, was transported to Jeddah, where Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri met with Security Affairs at his palace.",
"During the meeting, Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri explained to Security Affairs that other Saudi militants in Yemen also wished to surrender but sought reassurances from Security Affairs.",
"According to SPA, a call was then placed to one of the militants in Yemen.",
"While Security Affairs was on the phone, Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri blew Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri up, SPA reported.",
"Mohammed, who is also the son of the country's Interior Minister, was lightly injured in the attack.",
"Saudi King Abdullah was shown visiting the prince in the hospital after the attack.",
"Saudi King Abdullah asked Security Affairs why the militant was allowed to get so close Security Affairs without being inspected properly and searched thoroughly.",
"Security Affairs answered Saudi King Abdullah by telling him it had been a mistake.",
"SPA adds that \"the concerned security authorities opened an investigation into the incident.",
"However, the criminal laboratory and a forensic report have reached conclusions that, for security considerations, will not be announced at this time.\"",
"Wanted Saudi militant Abdullah Hassan Talea' Asiri's name was on a list of 85 most wanted suspects released by the country in February.",
"At the time a list of 85 most wanted suspects released by Saudi Arabia in February was released, the country asked Interpol for its help in apprehending dozens of the wanted Saudis on the list who were suspected of plotting attacks against the country from abroad.",
"The announcement was significant because it is rare for the country to announce that some of the country's most wanted terrorists are on the loose.",
"It is also unusual for the country to ask for help in finding them.",
"Some of the suspects on the most wanted list had been released from Guantanamo Bay, returned to the country, and had then gone through a Jihadi reeducation program run by the Interior Ministry, before fleeing to Yemen and taking up terrorist activity once more.",
"the country has been battling terrorism since 2003, when al Qaeda launched a series of attacks inside the country.",
"In the security crackdown that followed, Asiri, like many other wanted Saudi militants, fled to Yemen.",
"Earlier this year, al Qaeda and Yemeni al Qaeda merged to form \"Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.\"",
"Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which operates out of Yemen, claimed responsibility earlier this week for the attack against Mohammed.",
"In August, the country's Interior Ministry announced that over the past year, 44 al Qaeda suspects across the country had been arrested.",
"While the Interior Ministry is calling the attempted assassination an \"action of treachery and treason\", SPA reports that the Interior Ministry will not change the Interior Ministry's \"open-door policy\" of granting amnesty to militants wishing to surrender - in particular, \"those citizens residing outside the country\" who wish to \"take advantage of the state-sponsored program of advice and care.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Jordan Belfi has a great job: Jordan Belfi plays acting agent Adam Davies on the HBO show \"Entourage,\" a comedy series that takes a look at the life of a young actor, Vincent Chase, and the old friends who surround him in Hollywood.",
"Jordan Belfi arrives at the premiere of \"Entourage\" season six in Los Angeles, California.",
"acting agent Adam Davies is one of the few characters on the show who has the ability to shake one of the central figures: the unshakeable agent Ari Gold's.",
"Jordan Belfi has been around since the early days of \"Entourage\" and remembers the humble beginnings of acting agent Adam Davies's character's career as an agent under Gold's direction.",
"Since that first season, acting agent Adam Davies has risen to become Ari's chief rival on the show.",
"Jordan Belfi believes conveying the tension between acting agent Adam Davies and Ari Gold's is easy, based on the great material he's given.",
"\"It's a testament to the writing by Doug Ellin, the creator of the show.",
"It's just on the page,\" Jordan Belfi said.",
"\"When you get setups and writing and dialogue and scenes that good, it makes your job that much easier.\"",
"CNN talked to Belfi, who's also in the movie \"Surrogates\" (opening Friday), about Jordan Belfi's experiences on the show and Jordan Belfi's inspiration for the role.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN:",
"A lot of fans really missed that rivalry between you and Ari Gold.",
"Talk a little about how you and Jeremy Piven kind of prepare for that and try to make that real on screen.",
"Belfi:",
"acting agent Adam Davies has become ... one of the few characters on the show that really knows how to get under Ari Gold's's skin and push Ari Gold's's buttons.",
"Ari Gold's is an entertaining character, and it's fun to watch him go after things,",
"but people really enjoy kind of when Ari Gold's's off balance.",
"That interplay, that back and forth, particularly the sort of thing that's happening now [on the show], the constantly one-upping each other, is just really fun to watch.",
"It's entertaining.",
"And I get that response from a lot of the fans of the show.",
"They love acting agent Adam Davies for that reason because acting agent Adam Davies just knows how to do it.",
"Jeremy ... [is] an actor with so much power and force and impact that you're sort of forced to up your game.",
"You're really present in the moment.",
"And when you're there and you're really going back and forth, that's when the sparks really fly.",
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"Talk little bit about the inspiration you draw from to play acting agent Adam Davies.",
"Belfi:",
"I started way back on season one in the beginning of the show.",
"And back then, acting agent Adam Davies was still in acting agent Adam Davies's cubicle.",
"So a lot of the inspiration came from meetings I had when I was starting out -- you know, behavior I experienced from agents and other industry people when I was starting out.",
"I was in a not-too-dissimilar position. ...",
"And I think that's what people really respond to.",
"There's an absolute foundation of truth -- almost scary truth -- to the things Adam says, the things Ari Gold's does, all that kind of stuff.",
"And it's why it's such a visceral experience for people in the industry and fun for people that happen not to be in the industry.",
"CNN:",
"What are your thoughts on Adam Davies as a person?",
"Belfi:",
"What gives Ari Gold's a little bit of acting agent Adam Davies's soul, acting agent Adam Davies's heart, is that we have all these scenes with acting agent Adam Davies's wife and acting agent Adam Davies's family, and you really get to see acting agent Adam Davies as a dad.",
"[But] we haven't gotten to see any of the personal life of acting agent Adam Davies.",
"So I don't know if there's anything yet to kind of balance out those ruthless qualities he has.",
"But I think acting agent Adam Davies's the kind of agent that I'd certainly like to have if you're that actor trying to go after that job.",
"You want that agent who's going to beg, borrow and steal to help prove that you're the guy.",
"So in that respect, it seems like acting agent Adam Davies's someone you'd want on your side.",
"And the thing is, I think that's what made the rivalry between acting agent Adam Davies and Ari Gold's so great.",
"You know when acting agent Adam Davies was coming up, acting agent Adam Davies probably did a lot of the same things [as Ari Gold's] and ran over people in similar kinds of ways.",
"They're really kind of the same in a lot of ways.",
"So you're either best friends or mortal enemies when you share that much in common with somebody.",
"CNN:",
"Exempting Davies, who's your favorite character on the show and why?",
"Belfi:",
"Ah!",
"Impossible question!",
"I have to exempt acting agent Adam Davies from the answer? ...",
"If I absolutely, gun-to-my-head have to choose, there's a quality about [Chase's brother] Drama that I've always loved.",
"And it was maybe more prominent in the first couple of seasons than it is now because it's evolved slightly.",
"The quality that I always found the most entertaining, is that Drama was always this mix of desperation and simultaneous pride.",
"And that's really funny.",
"You know at the beginning acting agent Adam Davies was just scratching, begging for something, some chunk of the game or to get back in the game.",
"But acting agent Adam Davies simultaneously kind of knows it all.",
"And that mix is a great comedic mix, comedic recipe.",
"It was both funny and heartbreaking.",
"CNN:",
"Of course, our diehard \"Entourage\" fans would love to get some scoop on the coming story lines.",
"You've gotta give us something.",
"Belfi:",
"A little something?",
"Well, I don't think I'd be giving away too much to say that acting agent Adam Davies might get Lloyd.",
"In terms of the story line, there's some stuff that I'm told with Drama and acting agent Adam Davies's going after this role on \"Melrose Place\" and the screen test for that role and the ups and downs of that.",
"And also, some big things happen between Eric and Sloane.",
"But in terms of the really exciting stuff between Adam Davies and Ari Gold's, I guess I'll say this: At the end of season two, when Ari Gold's is trying to form Ari Gold's's coup, to break up the agency, and acting agent Adam Davies is the one who rats Ari Gold's out and gets Ari Gold's fired and humiliated and causes that whole thing ...",
"In the amazing way that Doug has constructed it, all that stuff from the end of season two comes full circle.",
"There's this one thing that happens that will really stand out and that people will talk about.",
"So some fun, exciting stuff to look forward to."
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"(CNN) --",
"The name is already taken, but \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to our galaxy\" might be a fitting title for a new interactive view of the Milky Way unveiled this week by the European Southern Observatory.",
"Hundreds of photos taken with a regular digital camera, along with computer crunching, formed The 800-million-pixel panorama.",
"The 800-million-pixel panorama shows an edge-on view of the plane of our galaxy, complete with points of interests such as the 12-billion-year-old, star-packed globular cluster Omega Centauri and the beautiful, reddish Rosette Nebula.",
"Want to stay closer to home?",
"The 800-million-pixel panorama also points out familiar landmarks such as Jupiter, noting it's the third-brightest object in our night sky after the moon and Venus.",
"For a bit of a head-rush, you can choose to zoom in and click on \"Tour Destinations,\" which will take you on a trip from one end of our galaxy to another, stopping at your selected point of interest.",
"Users can explore the image in magnificent detail, uncovering millions of individual stars forming a dustlike haze, or superimpose a map of the different constellations in the sky.",
"The 800-million-pixel panorama is the first to be released as part of the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, which seeks to \"link the sky we can all see with the deep, 'hidden' cosmos that astronomers study on a daily basis,\" according to ESO.",
"The image is composed of almost 1,200 photos, which were taken by French astrophotographer Serge Brunier with a regular digital camera from ESO observatories at La Silla and Paranal in Chile and from one of the Canary Islands.",
"\"I wanted to show a sky that everyone can relate to, with its constellations, its thousands of stars, with names familiar since childhood,\" French astrophotographer Serge Brunier said.",
"The images were then crunched into the single panorama using special software, an effort that took about 340 computing hours to finish, according to ESO.",
"You can chart your own trip across the Milky Way at GigaGalaxyZoom.org.",
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"Mugabe, in a rare interview Thursday, depicted Mugabe as an African hero battling imperialism and foreign attempts to oust Mugabe rather than the widespread perception of a dictator clinging to power at the expense of the welfare of his people and country.",
"Mugabe says sanctions against Mugabe's country are \"unjustifiable.\"",
"The 85-year-old Mugabe, the only leader of Zimbabwe since it became independent from Britain in 1980, rejected repeated assertions by CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Mugabe's policies have driven the nation once known as Africa's breadbasket to virtual economic collapse.",
"Instead, Mugabe accused Britain and the United States of seeking to oust Mugabe by imposing economic sanctions, the effects of which Mugabe said were worsened by years of drought.",
"Mugabe denied that Mugabe's country is in economic shambles, saying Zimbabwe grew enough food last year to feed all Zimbabwe's people, and defended policies that have driven white farmers off white farmers's land as properly restoring their land to indigenous Africans.",
"\"The land reform is the best thing (that) could have ever have happened to an African country,\" said Mugabe, a former revolutionary leader who came to power when white-ruled Rhodesia became black-ruled Zimbabwe.",
"\"It has to do with national sovereignty.\"",
"Watch Mugabe on Mugabe's controversial land reform program » .",
"It was Mugabe's first interview with a Western television network in several years, and Mugabe appeared to get frustrated with some of Amanpour's direct questioning, repeatedly denying widely accepted evidence and reports on his nation's woes.",
"Mugabe denied that Mugabe's ZANU-PF party lost elections in 2008 that forced Mugabe to accept a power-sharing agreement with Mugabe's chief rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, who now is prime minister.",
"Violence surrounding the disputed election, much of Violence surrounding the disputed election against opposition supporters, further damaged Zimbabwe's standing, but Mugabe rejected any blame on Thursday.",
"\"You don't leave power when imperialists dictate that you leave,\" Mugabe insisted.",
"\"There is regime change.",
"Haven't you heard of (the) regime change program by Britain and the United States that is aimed at getting not just Mugabe out of power but get Mugabe and Mugabe's party out of power?\"",
"Mugabe also waved off Amanpour's assertion that the power-sharing arrangement is not working, and that opposition political figures are continuing to get harassed and arrested.",
"Watch Mugabe talk about power-sharing » .",
"Asked about Roy Bennett, a white opposition figure who has yet to be sworn in as agriculture minister a year after formation of the power-sharing government, Mugabe stammered before saying Roy Bennett faces charges of \"organizing arms of war\" against Zimbabwe.",
"Mugabe added that Mugabe's heard the prosecution lacks evidence in the case, but said Mugabe won't agree to swearing in Roy Bennett until after any charges are dropped.",
"Mugabe also denied any responsibility for harm to the nation from Mugabe's economic policies, instead blaming what Mugabe called \"unjustified\" and \"illegal\" sanctions that Mugabe said were intended to bring regime change.",
"\"\"unjustified\" and \"illegal\" sanctions that he said were intended to bring regime change must be lifted.",
"We should have no interference from outside,\" Mugabe said.",
"\"The continued imperialist interference in Zimbabwe's affairs is affecting Zimbabwe adversely.\"",
"When Amanpour challenged Mugabe by saying most of \"unjustified\" and \"illegal\" sanctions that he said were intended to bring regime change were directed at individuals, rather than economic entities, Mugabe said Amanpour was wrong.",
"\"\"unjustified\" and \"illegal\" sanctions that he said were intended to bring regime change are real sanctions, economic sanctions.",
"Have you looked at \"unjustified\" and \"illegal\" sanctions that he said were intended to bring regime change?\" Mugabe said.",
"\"It's because of sanctions, mainly.\"",
"Amanpour tried to push the point, saying outside observers blamed Mugabe's policies and not sanctions.",
"\"Not everybody says so,\" Mugabe cut Amanpour off.",
"\"It's not true.\"",
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"\"It's not a basket case at all,\" Mugabe said.",
"Mugabe later called Tutu's comments \"devilish talk\" and added: \"He doesn't know what he's talking about, the little man.\"",
"On the takeover of white-owned farms -- a policy blamed for undermining the agriculture sector -- Mugabe displayed the African nationalist fervor of Mugabe's revolutionary days.",
"\"Zimbabwe belongs to the Zimbabweans, pure and simple,\" Mugabe said, then adding that white Zimbabweans -- even those born in Zimbabwe with legal ownership of their land -- have a debt to pay.",
"\"They occupied their land illegally.",
"They seized their land from our people,\" Mugabe said.",
"When Amanpour pressed Mugabe on white farmers being forced off white farmers's land, Mugabe shot back, \"Not just off white farmers's land.",
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"\"They are British settlers,\" Mugabe said, later calling them \"citizens by colonization, seizing land from original people, indigenous people of Zimbabwe.\"",
"Asked if would run again in elections likely to take place in 2011, Mugabe refused to answer, but denied Mugabe feared defeat and again rejected charges of past electoral wrongdoing.",
"\"Elections don't go all that smoothly all the time in many countries,\" Mugabe said, tossing a jab at the United States.",
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"They didn't go smoothly here, look at what happened during the first term of Bush.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Jaycee Dugard will testify against the couple that allegedly held Jaycee Dugard's captive in an elaborate compound hidden in their backyard for 18 years if there is a trial, a lawyer for Jaycee Dugard's family said at a news conference Thursday.",
"This photo of Jaycee Dugard was taken at the 1991 Rose Bowl parade.",
"Jaycee Dugard was abducted later that year.",
"Attorney McGregor Scott admitted it has been a difficult transition for Jaycee Dugard and Jaycee Dugard's two children -- who police say were fathered by Jaycee Dugard's captor -- given Jaycee Dugard's captivity spanned more than half Jaycee Dugard's life and was the only world Jaycee Dugard knew for so long.",
"\"But there is no question that Jaycee Dugard knows that terrible and wrong things were done to Jaycee Dugard and that those people must be held accountable,\" Attorney McGregor Scott said.",
"Attorney McGregor Scott said Attorney McGregor Scott had no idea when a trial would be set for Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who have both pleaded not guilty to charges relating to Jaycee Dugard's alleged kidnapping and subsequent abuse.",
"Attorney McGregor Scott acknowledged Jaycee Dugard would have to relive the \"trauma\" in court by sharing the \"very, very sordid tale.\"",
"Attorney McGregor Scott also said that because of Phillip Garrido's previous criminal history, which includes a kidnapping and rape charge for which Phillip Garrido's was registered as a sex offender, Phillip Garrido's would automatically receive a sentence of 25 years to life if Phillip Garrido's were found guilty on only one felony charge.",
"But Attorney McGregor Scott said Family is trying not to focus on any of that and instead work on building a new life together.",
"Attorney McGregor Scott said Attorney McGregor Scott had met with Jaycee Dugard and Jaycee Dugard's family twice for a couple of hours and was happy to see \"how well Family had been doing.\"",
"\"Even more encouraging was the second time I met with Family, I saw progress,\" Attorney McGregor Scott said.",
"\"I'm just very pleasantly surprised watching the dynamics, and I think it's a very positive thing going forward.\"",
"Attorney McGregor Scott said Jaycee Dugard's daughters, who police said never went to school or a doctor, were receiving tutoring.",
"Jaycee Dugard has been participating and observing.",
"\"This is a woman whose [own] formal education ended in the fifth grade,\" Attorney McGregor Scott said.",
"\"Jaycee Dugard has a brain that Jaycee Dugard wants to develop, so it's a very positive thing.\"",
"Family received medical attention and counseling beginning the day Dugard and Jaycee Dugard's children were discovered, Attorney McGregor Scott said.",
"Attorney McGregor Scott also said Family had received donations of more than $100,000 from the public, which would help the girls as they get older.",
"Attorney McGregor Scott praised law enforcement and family members for helping protect Jaycee Dugard and Jaycee Dugard's children after Jaycee Dugard's discovery.",
"\"[Family are] very guarded in allowing the girls access to TV news, Internet, etc.,\" Attorney McGregor Scott said.",
"\"Because Family're being a mother, a grandmother, protecting the girls from too much information too early.\"",
"Attorney McGregor Scott said Attorney McGregor Scott knows there is a curiosity about where Family is, but pleaded that the public and the media give the family time to heal.",
"More than anything, Attorney McGregor Scott said, Jaycee Dugard's family is working to make life as normal as possible and allow Family to make up for lost time.",
"\"To watch the interaction between Jaycee Dugard and Jaycee Dugard's mother ... after 18 years is remarkable,\" Attorney McGregor Scott said.",
"\"The emotions there, I think they're still wrestling with all of that but I think they're making great progress.\""
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"The Beastie Boys canceled all scheduled concerts and delayed The Beastie Boys's next album release while member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch is treated for a cancerous tumor in a salivary gland, member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch says in a video statement to fans.",
"The Beastie Boys's Adam Yauch will be treated for a cancerous tumor in a salivary gland.",
"\"The good news is that they did scans of my whole body and it's only localized in this one area and it's not in a place that affects my voice,\" member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch says.",
"\"So, that's nice.",
"That's convenient.\"",
"a cancerous tumor is in member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch's left parotid gland and \"also in a lymph node right in this one area,\" member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch says.",
"member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch will probably have surgery next week and radiation treatments afterward, member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch says.",
"With band mate Adam \"Ad-Rock\" Horovitz sitting next to member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch, member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch tells fans how member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch found out member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch had cancer.",
"\"About two months ago, I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything,\" member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch says.",
"member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch's doctor sent member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch to a specialist who diagnosed the cancer, member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch says.",
"member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch does not estimate how long the tour will be delayed, but member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch apologizes to \"anyone who's made plans\" to come to the shows.",
"The illness will also delay the release of the band's next album, \"Hot Sauce Committee Part 1,\" member Adam \"MCA\" Yauch says."
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"Drew Barrymore sat down with InStyle for InStyle's October issue, on newsstands Thursday.",
"Drew Barrymore earned critic's attention with Drew Barrymore's uncanny portrayal of \"Little Edie\" Beale in HBO's \"Grey Gardens,\" and Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, \"Whip It,\" has been hailed as a success well before it rolls into theaters October 2.",
"But, at Drew Barrymore's core, Drew Barrymore's still the irresistible free spirit we all know and love, as Drew Barrymore revealed in the October issue of InStyle.",
"On being a celebrity ... Drew Barrymore said that while Drew Barrymore loves Drew Barrymore's life, there are still moments Drew Barrymore battles with being a celebrity.",
"\"Some days I want nothing more than a brilliant mask so I could look like someone else and go wander the streets and be free,\" Drew Barrymore said.",
"\"I'm very peeved that Halloween only comes once a year.\"",
"On exercise...",
"When it comes to transforming Drew Barrymore's body for a role, as Drew Barrymore did for \"Grey Gardens,\" the sunny actress is nothing but dedicated.",
"But in everyday life, Drew Barrymore aims for balance and body acceptance.",
"\"I don't have the time or discipline or interest in having a perfect-10 body.",
"I work out, I eat right, but I'll always be a little bit of Jell-O on a pole.\"",
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"Drew Barrymore admitted Drew Barrymore's relationship with Drew Barrymore's mom is a topic Drew Barrymore doesn't readily discuss, but the central love story between a girl and her mom in \"Whip It\" caused Drew Barrymore to reflect on Drew Barrymore's relationship",
"\"I am OK with my dad, but my mom and I have yet to work it all out,\" Drew Barrymore said, adding that Drew Barrymore doesn't talk about it because \"how do you talk about something you're confused about?\"",
"On girl power ...",
"From \"Charlie's Angels\" to Drew Barrymore's new all-girl roller derby flick, it's no secret that Drew Barrymore champions female friendships.",
"\"I like teams -- I like buddies.",
"I don't understand women who are competitive, apart from positive forums like athletics.",
"One person is a powerful thing, but a tribe is unstoppable.\"",
"On Drew Barrymore's first fashion faux pas ... Drew Barrymore is known for Drew Barrymore's ever-evolving, ever-eccentric style, but said anything Drew Barrymore donned during the \"E.T.\" era can be labeled as a fashion faux pas.",
"Or can it?",
"\"Velour and taffeta, together?",
"Oh, no, no, no.",
"Now I think it's brilliant.\"",
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"Drew Barrymore recently broke up with The Strokes' drummer Fabrizio Moretti, and called the five-year relationship one of the most important in Drew Barrymore's life.",
"But when it comes to Drew Barrymore's first broke heart, Drew Barrymore said it was Drew Barrymore \"first big boyfriend, Jamie Walters.\"",
"Read the full interview with Drew Barrymore in the October issue of InStyle, on newsstands Thursday.",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"The full interview hits newsstands Thursday ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Mackenzie Phillips has said that Mackenzie Phillips believes Mackenzie Phillips had a \"genetic predisposition\" to the life of sex, drugs and rock and roll that have come to define Mackenzie Phillips.",
"Mackenzie Phillips tells CNN's \"Larry King Live\" that Mackenzie Phillips's father raped Mackenzie Phillips in 1979.",
"In a 1999 interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on \"Why Some Childhood Stars Crash and Burn,\" the former \"One Day at a Time\" star said Mackenzie Phillips didn't blame Hollywood for the years of drug and addiction Mackenzie Phillips had endured.",
"\"I think that for a lot of us, alcoholism and addiction is the root of the problem, not the fact that we were child stars,\" Mackenzie Phillips said at the time.",
"\"Certainly, it lent to the problem, but it wasn't the root of the problem.\"",
"By the time Mackenzie Phillips did the interview, Mackenzie Phillips's well-publicized addiction to cocaine, drug arrests and stints in rehab had overshadowed an acting career once full of promise.",
"Then, on Wednesday, Mackenzie Phillips revealed on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" that Mackenzie Phillips engaged in an incestuous relationship with her father's father, legendary musician John Phillips, for nearly 10 years.",
"In Mackenzie Phillips's tell-all memoir, \"High on Arrival\" -- named after a song Mackenzie Phillips's father dedicated to Mackenzie Phillips -- Mackenzie Phillips claims the relationship began in 1979.",
"Mackenzie Phillips claims Mackenzie Phillips's father forced her father on Mackenzie Phillips while they were under the influence of drugs on the night before Mackenzie Phillips was to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones' entourage.",
"Mackenzie Phillips ended the relationship a decade later, when Mackenzie Phillips became pregnant and realized Mackenzie Phillips did not know who had fathered Mackenzie Phillips's child -- Mackenzie Phillips's husband or her father's own father -- and terminated the pregnancy, Mackenzie Phillips told CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
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"But before the incest claims -- and subsequent denials from relatives -- Mackenzie Phillips was better known as a child actor full of promise who fell from grace under the toxic guidance of her father's drug-addicted father.",
"Born Laura Mackenzie Phillips in 1959 to her father and Baltimore socialite Susan Adams, Mackenzie Phillips told People magazine in 1980 that Mackenzie Phillips alternated between two wildly different worlds after Mackenzie Phillips's parents divorced when Mackenzie Phillips was three years old.",
"\"My mother concentrated on bringing me up a proper lady,\" Mackenzie Phillips told People magazine.",
"\"And then on weekends at my dad's place, I would find Mick Jagger and Donovan and the Beatles hanging out.",
"I remember crawling all over Paul McCartney.\"",
"Mackenzie Phillips's father taught Mackenzie Phillips to roll a joint when Mackenzie Phillips was 10, Mackenzie Phillips tried cocaine for the first time when Mackenzie Phillips was 11 and lost Mackenzie Phillips's virginity at age 12, Mackenzie Phillips told Meredith Vieira of NBC's\"Today\" show.",
"When Mackenzie Phillips was 12, a talent scout for Francis Ford Coppola spotted Mackenzie Phillips's playing in a band with classmates on amateur night at the Troubadour, according to People.com.",
"Mackenzie Phillips eventually landed a memorable role in the 1973 hit coming-of-age flick, \"American Graffiti.\"",
"After filming, My mother's mother sent Mackenzie Phillips to a Swiss boarding school, but the rebellious teen didn't last long in exile.",
"Mackenzie Phillips returned to Mackenzie Phillips's father's home in Los Angeles under the supervision of Mackenzie Phillips's father's sister, Rosemary Throckmorton.",
"When her father's father and stepmother left for New York in 1974 and never returned, Mackenzie Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips's brother Jeffrey, moved in with their aunt in \"a little house behind the Hollywood Bowl which we shared with 12 cats,\" according to People.com.",
"Despite Mackenzie Phillips's relocations, Mackenzie Phillips's career continued to advance.",
"At 15, Mackenzie Phillips appeared in Mackenzie Phillips's second movie, \"Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins,\" with Alan Arkin.",
"In 1975, Mackenzie Phillips was offered the role of Julie Cooper on CBS' hit sitcom, \"One Day at a Time,\" according to IMDB.com.",
"\"By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up,\" Mackenzie Phillips told People in an interview in 1980.",
"As Mackenzie Phillips's star grew, so did Mackenzie Phillips's appetite for drugs, particularly cocaine.",
"A few years later, just after Mackenzie Phillips turned 18, Mackenzie Phillips was arrested when Mackenzie Phillips was found collapsed on quaaludes on a street in Los Angeles.",
"Mackenzie Phillips said on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" that her father's father's response was, \"Congratulations!",
"Now you're a real Phillips.",
"Now you know that even though they caught you, the rules don't apply.\"",
"Mackenzie Phillips's weight loss and erratic behavior disrupted the show's filming and became a source of distress to Mackenzie Phillips's co-stars, Bonnie Franklin and Valerie Bertinelli, according to People.com.",
"According to Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh's \"The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows,\" Mackenzie Phillips missed the 1980-81 season while in rehab for addiction issues.",
"When Mackenzie Phillips went to seek treatment at Fair Oaks, a psychiatric hospital in Summit, New Jersey, in December 1980, Mackenzie Phillips joined her father's father and stepmother, who entered the hospital after being charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics, according to People.com.",
"Mackenzie Phillips left with a clean bill of health, but soon enough resumed using drugs even as Mackenzie Phillips attempted to rebuild Mackenzie Phillips's career as a member of Mackenzie Phillips's father's new version of the Mamas & the Papas.",
"In Mackenzie Phillips's memoir, Mackenzie Phillips recalls arriving at a hotel room to find two packages -- one containing Mackenzie Phillips's father's newly published memoir and another containing an eighth of an ounce of cocaine, according to excerpts of the book published on MSNBC.com.",
"After shooting up, Mackenzie Phillips recalls reaching for the book and looking up Mackenzie Phillips's name in the index.",
"\"Under her name was a list of subheadings and page numbers.",
"I scanned down the entries: . Phillips, Laura Mackenzie .",
"acting career of... arrested on drug charges... attempts to clean out... in California... childhood of... drug use by... early childhood of... at finishing school in Switzerland... Jeff Sessler and... marriage to Jeff Sessler...",
"Peter Asher and... rape.... shipboard romance on QE 2...",
"\"There it was, my life to date, with highlights selected, cross-referenced, and alphabetized.",
"I had been organized and reduced to a list of sensational and mostly regrettable and/or humiliating anecdotes.",
"Being indexed, particularly under such dubious headings, gave me a weird feeling that definitely wasn't pride.",
"I felt like I wasn't a real person, just a list of incidents and accidents,\" Mackenzie Phillips writes in the book.",
"Mackenzie Phillips's television career experienced a revival in the 1990s, with guest appearances on hot shows including \"Beverly Hills, 90210,\" \"Melrose Place,\" \"Walker, Texas Ranger\" and \"Chicago Hope,\" Mackenzie Phillips's profile on IMDB.com states.",
"From 1999 to 2001, Mackenzie Phillips had a regular role in the Disney series, \"So Weird,\" and several other television guest appearances followed, according to IMDB.com.",
"Mackenzie Phillips appeared to be getting Mackenzie Phillips's life back on track, eventually giving birth to a son, Shane.",
"Mackenzie Phillips was arrested in for drug possession in 2008 on Mackenzie Phillips's way to an \"One Day at a Time\" reunion.",
"Since then, Mackenzie Phillips says Mackenzie Phillips has been drug-free, and hopes that purging Mackenzie Phillips of the secret incestuous relationship will help Mackenzie Phillips's recover.",
"Yet Mackenzie Phillips insists Mackenzie Phillips does not hate Mackenzie Phillips's father for what her father did.",
"\"I have to say that I loved her father, and I still do.",
"I've been trying to come to terms with this very difficult past,\" Mackenzie Phillips told Winfrey."
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"(CNN) --",
"Authorities have seized $1 billion worth of marijuana plants and have arrested 82 Mexican nationals with ties to drug cartels in the first week and half of an effort to eradicate marijuana fields from California's Fresno County, the county sheriff's office said Wednesday.",
"The 82 suspects arrested so far have links to Mexican drug cartels.",
"Operation Save Our Sierra began July 13 and involves local, state and federal agencies working together to remove marijuana growing operations, investigate and arrest drug traffickers, and remove infrastructure on public lands in Fresno County, a news release said.",
"\"This is a high-intensity drug trafficking area,\" U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske said in a phone interview.",
"\"I think what should be highlighted here is the local authorities' work to reclaim the land from the drug traffickers.\"",
"The 82 suspects arrested so far have links to Mexican drug cartels, local authorities said, though local authorities did not release further details.",
"Eastern Fresno County, where the seizures have been made, is mountainous and sparsely populated.",
"Growers exploit the area's streams, rivers and lakes to create elaborate drip lines for Growers's plants.",
"A mature plant can be worth $4,000, said Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims.",
"\"Fresno County is roughly the size of Connecticut, and the drug traffickers target these areas because they know there is not that significant of a law-enforcement presence,\" Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.",
"\"The chances of getting caught are slim.\"",
"\"The bottom line is our public lands are being destroyed by foreign drug trafficking and heavily armed Mexican cartels,\" George Anderson of the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday at a news conference highlighting the seizures.",
"The operation is the largest in Fresno County history and one of the largest in California, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.",
"\"What makes The operation unique is the approach: prevention, enforcement, eradication and reclamation,\" Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.",
"Intelligence gathered for The operation began in February, with community presentations about prevention.",
"The effort is now focused on shutting down the at least 70 marijuana farms identified by local authorities.",
"The operation is expected to continue into November, when colder weather makes marijuana growing more difficult.",
"At least 330,000 marijuana plants have been seized, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.",
"\"This shows what can be accomplished at the local level when agencies work together,\" Kerlikowske said.",
"Kerlikowske, who flew to Fresno County on Wednesday and toured a marijuana farm, said his office is one of the primary sponsors of The operation."
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"DALLAS, Texas (CNN) --",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi made Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's first appearance in federal court Friday.",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi said through Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's lawyer that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi understood the charges Friday.",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian, said little during a 20-minute hearing at the Dallas federal courthouse.",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's lawyer, however, said Hosam Maher Husein Smadi understood the gravity of the charge.",
"Judge Irma Ramirez set a probable cause hearing for October 5.",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi initially drew authorities' scrutiny because of Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's violent posts on an extremist chat site, court papers indicate.",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested Thursday in a sting operation, FBI said.",
"Federal officials said Smadi, who entered the United States illegally and lived in Texas, tried to set off an explosive attached to a vehicle at the base of the 60-story Fountain Place office tower.",
"Long before authorities arrested Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, however, they were following Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's Internet discussions, according to a court affidavit.",
"\"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was discovered by FBI within an online group of extremists,\" a court affidavit says.",
"\"Among many others in the group who espoused and endorsed violence, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi stood out based on Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the United States.\"",
"Undercover officers then contacted Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, posing as members of an al Qaeda sleeper cell.",
"After months of conversations, the agents considered Hosam Maher Husein Smadi a legitimate threat.",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi picked several targets to attack, including the Dallas-Forth Worth airport, before deciding on the skyscraper, which houses Wells Fargo Bank, a court affidavit says.",
"a court affidavit details a conversation that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi is said to have had with authorities: .",
"\"I have decided to change the target,\" Hosam Maher Husein Smadi said, according to a court affidavit.",
"\"God willing, the strike will be certain and strong.",
"the strike will shake the currently weak economy in the state and the United States, because Wells Fargo Bank is one of the largest banks in the city.\"",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi said many times that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi wanted to commit violent jihad and Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was a soldier of Osama bin Laden, a court affidavit says.",
"Undercover agents tried to get Hosam Maher Husein Smadi to \"re-evaluate Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's interpretation of jihad,\" saying there were nonviolent ways to commit the act.",
"But \"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi again communicated Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's continuing commitment for violent jihad,\" a court affidavit says.",
"After casing Wells Fargo Bank in July, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi told an undercover agent Hosam Maher Husein Smadi would target it, according to authorities.",
"Initially, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi told an undercover agent Hosam Maher Husein Smadi wanted to bomb Wells Fargo Bank on September 11 but decided to wait until the Islamic holy month of Ramadan ended on September 20, authorities said.",
"After receiving what Hosam Maher Husein Smadi thought was an explosive from an undercover agent, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi drove a car with the fake bomb into a parking garage under the skyscraper, authorities said.",
"Watch how a Jordanian was given fake explosive » .",
"Hosam Maher Husein Smadi thought Hosam Maher Husein Smadi could detonate the fake bomb by dialing Hosam Maher Husein Smadi's cell phone, they said.",
"When Hosam Maher Husein Smadi dialed, the number rang a phone in authorities' possession, a court affidavit says.",
"Counterterrorism officials arrested Hosam Maher Husein Smadi on Thursday before publicly disclosing a similar but unrelated terrorism sting arrest Wednesday in Springfield, Illinois.",
"A federal law enforcement official familiar with the cases said authorities feared that word of the Illinois arrest could tip off the Texas suspect to the sting operation.",
"Watch what the recent terror arrests mean » .",
"A charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction carries a potential sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.",
"In the Illinois case, undercover FBI agents foiled a plot to bomb Springfield's federal building, authorities said.",
"In neither case did authorities find ties to known terrorist groups.",
"Journalist Todd Bensman and CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Sean Callebs and Terry Frieden contributed to this report."
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"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez revealed a deeply personal side in an interview Thursday night, saying Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez loves Jesus Christ and would have liked to play Major League baseball in Yankee Stadium.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spoke highly of President Obama at the United Nations on Thursday.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also expressed a fondness for American people and culture, saying Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez likes the movie actor Charles Bronson and the poet Walt Whitman.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez loves to sing, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, though Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez does not do it well.",
"And Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had kind words for the U.S. security detail protecting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to New York, saying Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez chatted with them while out walking and that they \"have been very gracious, very efficient and very attentive, very kind.\"",
"In an exclusive interview with CNN's Larry King, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spoke at length about a host of issues: relations between Venezuela and the United States and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's hopes for improved ties with President Barack Obama; Iran, Israel and those who deny that the Holocaust existed; efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and have Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez assassinated; criticism that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is power hungry and trying to silence critics.",
"Chavez, a self-proclaimed socialist, spoke with CNN's Larry King a few hours after giving a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, in which he praised Obama but criticized some U.S. policies.",
"Watch Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speak at the U.N. General Assembly » .",
"When asked whether Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is misunderstood in the United States, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seemed to turn reflective.",
"\"I'm a man with many defects,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.",
"\"I love.",
"I sing.",
"I dream.",
"I was born in the poor countryside.",
"I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.",
"My children, my two daughters are with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.",
"\"Now, they demonize me.",
"But that's the start of these world campaigns to try to defend what you cannot defend -- a system that is destroying the world.",
"I'm a Christian.",
"I want the world of justice and equality.",
"This is the only way to achieve peace.\"",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez then talked about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's religious upbringing and current faith.",
"\"I was an altar boy,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.",
"\"My mother wanted me to be a priest.",
"I am very Christian and Catholic.",
"... I'm very faithful.",
"I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.",
"I love Jesus Christ.",
"I am a Christian.",
"... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.\"",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's comments were all the more remarkable because Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Catholic Church have been at odds since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999.",
"the Catholic Church has been one of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's major critics, with Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders expressing concern over what they see as attempts by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to limit the Catholic Church's influence.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's efforts to change anti-abortion laws have been at the top of those concerns.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in turn, has referred to church leadership as a \"tumor.\"",
"Speaking of other matters, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hopes for improved relations with Obama, but \"we want relations based on respect, relations of peoples where we are respected.\"",
"That has not been the case so far, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.",
"\"Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told King.",
"\"They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.",
"It's enough.",
"We want to be brothers and sisters.",
"We want respect and equality.\"",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez particularly criticized former President George W. Bush, whom Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused of orchestrating an assassination attempt on the Venezuelan leader during a short-lived coup in 2002.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez regained power within days.",
"Watch Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez discuss the alleged assassination attempt » .",
"\"The Bush government toppled me,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.",
"\"They asked for my assassination.",
"They disrespected us. ...",
"I saw my assassins.",
"... I was a prisoner in Venezuela, being a president.",
"They took me to the seaside.",
"I was debating with those who wanted murder me.",
"those who wanted murder me received the order to kill me.",
"However, at this very moment, a group of soldiers refused.",
"a group of soldiers did not kill me, but I saw those who wanted to kill me, and the order to kill me came from the White House.\"",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also expressed concern that the United States, which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez calls \"the empire,\" still would like to topple Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.",
"As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has numerous times in recent weeks, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized U.S. plans to begin operating out of military bases in neighboring Colombia.",
"the United States says the United States needs a presence in Colombia to fight drug traffickers.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sees a sinister intent.",
"When asked what country Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez fears would harm Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez replied, \"the United States.",
"the United States.",
"Seven military bases ... in Colombia, that's a serious threat against Venezuela.\"",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's relationship with Iran but denied having said that Iran would help Venezuela obtain nuclear technology.",
"Iran has embarked on a nuclear program that the United States and other nations think will lead Iran to develop nuclear weapons before long.",
"\"They have fooled you,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.",
"\"I've never said that Iran is going to help Venezuela to have nuclear technology. ...",
"That's a strategy to attack Venezuela and say that Venezuela are building an atomic bomb.",
"That's the next accusation.",
"And I'm going to say this now: Please, come on.",
"That's crazy.",
"That's crazy.\"",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez does not agree with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contention that the Holocaust, in which 6 million European Jews were killed during World War II, never existed.",
"\"But there also was another holocaust in South America,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.",
"\"I do not deny the Jewish Holocaust.",
"And I condemn it.",
"But in South America, when the Europeans arrived, there were close to 90 million Indians; 200 years later, we only had four million remaining.",
"That was a holocaust.",
"And the Europeans denied the Jewish Holocaust.\"",
"Israel came under criticism from Chavez, who called Israel a \"small country with atomic bombs, and very aggressive country.",
"... They have massacred entire families.",
"It is a war-mongering country.\"",
"Turning to the situation in Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's own country, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denied that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is trying to shut down critical media, such as the independent Globovision TV station.",
"Government officials have levied several charges against the independent Globovision TV station, saying that the independent Globovision TV station is disseminating false information and trying to foment dissatisfaction against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.",
"The Chavez government has repealed licenses for other independent TV and radio stations, and has threatened to do so against the independent Globovision TV station.",
"Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter this week joined human rights groups and others who have expressed concern over what they see as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez becoming too authoritarian.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dismissed the criticism.",
"\"Never in Venezuela have we had so much freedom of speech as now,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.",
"Pressed by King about whether Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is going to shut down the independent Globovision TV station, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez answered, \"I do not know.",
"It depends on them.",
"If they keep on sponsoring coup d'etats, if they keep on calling for my assassination, if they keep on breaching the law even as well, it is not Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that's going to close them.",
"I want to apply the law.",
"We need to respect the law.",
"It is the law.",
"It's out of logic, and it's pure logic.\"",
"As to Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, \"Yes, I read that and I regret for Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, because I think Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's totally confounded and lost.",
"It's a long time since Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited us.",
"I respect Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter enormously, but I think Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is wrong.",
"Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's a victim of so much falsehood in the world.\""
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"Four boys ages 9 to 14 have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year old girl, police in Phoenix, Arizona, said Wednesday.",
"8-year-old girl was lured into a vacant storage shed by the suspects, who offered 8-year-old girl's chewing gum, police said at a news conference.",
"8-year-old girl was restrained while the boys -- ages 9, 10, 13 and 14 -- sexually assaulted 8-year-old girl, police said of the July 16 incident.",
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"Detectives said 8-year-old girl was placed in the custody of Phoenix child protective services after the attack because of 8-year-old girl's parents' attitude toward 8-year-old girl.",
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"V.S. Nigam, the state's nodal officer for tackling the disease told CNN that 640 patients had tested positive for the infection, including 30 with Japanese encephalitis, which is spread by mosquitoes.",
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"Editor's note: On CNN's \"State of the Union,\" host and chief national correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on issues affecting communities across the country.",
"County administrator Brenda T. Buck is trying hard to help create eight to 10 sawmill jobs for Jefferson County.",
"FAYETTE, Mississippi (CNN) --",
"The odds are against County administrator Brenda T. Buck, and County administrator Brenda T. Buck knows it.",
"So County administrator Brenda T. Buck counts on what County administrator Brenda T. Buck calls the Sandwich Philosophy: \"Take it one bite at a time.\"",
"County administrator Brenda T. Buck is the county administrator in Jefferson County, a rural area in southwest Mississippi dotted with small churches, modest homes and markers noting a Civil War skirmish.",
"\"It is a great small town, and everybody knows everybody,\" County administrator Brenda T. Buck says.",
"If you look through the statistics, three things jump out: . • The Census Bureau lists the population of Jefferson County as 86 percent African American, the highest percentage of any county in the United States.",
"• It is the fourth-poorest county in the United States, with a median income of $15,037.",
"• The unemployment rate in August was 18.6 percent, the highest of Mississippi's 82 counties.",
"\"It has not always been this way,\" says Angelia Shelvy, a single mother of three who is among the unemployed.",
"\"I think we are forgotten.\"",
"Shelvy had a job making $10,000 a year as a teacher's assistant, but Shelvy left it to take a job paying twice as much, signing on with a union that provides workers to nuclear power plants.",
"Shelvy's parents agreed to care for Shelvy's children when Shelvy had to travel, for months at a time, as far away as Arizona.",
"Shelvy thought it was the right thing to do for Shelvy's family, but phone calls to home at bedtime proved otherwise.",
"Shelvy's 4-year-old, especially, had a rough time adjusting.",
"\"I'm like, 'You have Granny.'",
"He's like, 'No, I don't want Granny; I want you to hold me,' \" Shelvy told us.",
"\"I missed Mother's Day twice; for two years I missed it.",
"So I decided that it was more important for me to be here with my children.\"",
"Back home now, Shelvy has been searching for work since March, looking as far as 90 minutes away from Fayette.",
"\"I did Internet searching, different jobs, hospitals, different schools,\" Shelvy said.",
"\"They're not hiring.",
"They either say they are not hiring, or I'm not qualified.",
"I don't have enough years of experience.",
"'We'll call you later.'",
"'Get back with us.'",
"And it's been stressful for me.\"",
"County administrator Brenda T. Buck spends hours a day trying to help, and most of County administrator Brenda T. Buck's time with the Board of Supervisors is spent debating economic development ideas.",
"At home, too, County administrator Brenda T. Buck is reminded of the bleak local jobs market.",
"County administrator Brenda T. Buck's husband isn't there.",
"Her husband's working 900 miles away, at the moment, in Indiana.",
"\"Her husband works with a company that has been going into a lot of the car plants\" during refittings and downsizing, County administrator Brenda T. Buck said.",
"\"We have four kids.",
"... Her husband is here basically maybe a total combination of, maybe, two months out of the year.\"",
"Jefferson County got a modest amount of federal money to buy new police cruisers.",
"But Jefferson County's requests for stimulus money to improve Jefferson County's roads have been ignored, at least to date, and as County administrator Brenda T. Buck continues to press those requests, County administrator Brenda T. Buck also is pushing smaller economic development grants.",
"Reliable Mat LLC is County administrator Brenda T. Buck's current obsession.",
"The screeching hum of a giant saw greets visitors, and inside the warehouse are dozens of pallets of neatly stacked firewood, waiting to be loaded on 18-wheelers and distributed across the country for the coming winter.",
"On the grounds, there are 10 workers, some running giant logs through the saw, others stacking and wrapping the wood for shipment.",
"On average, the men make about $100 day, and Paul Southerland, the company's general manager, says the noise and activity attracts others who are down on their luck.",
"\"I see a lot of people come by looking for jobs, yeah,\" Southerland says during a tour of the grounds.",
"the company's main product is giant wooden mats used to create flat surfaces to provide access -- on foot and in vehicles -- to oil and gas fields.",
"All of the work has shifted to the firewood production because orders for the mats have dropped dramatically.",
"\"Mississippi is always last to feel the effects of a recession, and most of the time Mississippi is the last to pick back up,\" Southerland said.",
"\"It hit the company about June.",
".. It really hit the company hard, too.\"",
"Still, Southerland expects orders to pick up early next year.",
"Southerland hopes to expand the business by then if Jefferson County secures an economic development grant to help Southerland buy a bigger sawmill.",
"\"If the company had a bigger sawmill, the company would be able to add eight or 10 more folks,\" Southerland said.",
"Eight or 10 more jobs might not seem like much in many places.",
"But Jefferson County's population is just shy of 9,000, and when nearly one in five are unemployed, Buck invokes County administrator Brenda T. Buck's Sandwich Philosophy.",
"\"My short term goal is to get an economic development grant, to get those eight people working,\" County administrator Brenda T. Buck says.",
"\"County administrator Brenda T. Buck's philosophy, when I walk through the doors in the morning, just like a sandwich: take one bite at a time.\"",
"County administrator Brenda T. Buck also sees a bigger gain than just eight or 10 jobs.",
"\"Just imagine, eight people, if it were eight men making $10 to $11 an hour could actually come home and be home at night with their families,\" County administrator Brenda T. Buck said.",
"\"The impact that it would make not just from the economical standpoint but from the social standpoint.",
"\"That father's presence there in that household and not having to travel so far.",
"I mean you have a double whammy.",
"It's a win-win for any family.\""
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"County administrator Brenda T. Buck considers every new job created in County administrator Brenda T. Buck's county a small victory ."
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"U.N. (CNN) --",
"Three independent U.N. human rights experts have accused government of torturing confessions from detainees charged with fomenting political unrest, U.N. said Thursday.",
"Iranian opposition suspects cover Iranian opposition suspects's faces at a Revolutionary Court hearing in Tehran last week.",
"\"No judicial system can consider as valid a confession obtained as a result of harsh interrogations or under torture,\" said Manfred Nowak, who is the U.N. special rapporteur on torture.",
"The treatment of detainees at government's prisons has increasingly become a divisive issue within government's Islamic leadership, as reformists continue to accuse the hardline government of allowing abuse and torture in attempts to coerce false confessions.",
"Iranian officials have denied the allegations.",
"\"These confessions for alleged crimes such as threats against national security and treason must not, under any circumstances, be admitted as evidence by its Revolutionary Court,\" said El Hadji Malick Sow, vice chairman of the U.N.'s working group on arbitrary detention.",
"The United Nations, in a news release, said the statements also reflect the position of Margaret Sekaggya, special U.N. rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.",
"government is conducting a mass trial of about 100 Iranian defendants in government's Revolutionary Court.",
"Reformist politicians, lawyers and journalists are among those accused of protesting in an attempt to overturn government leadership.",
"Among about 100 Iranian defendants are Seyyed Mohammad Abtahi, a former Iranian vice president; Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian reporter for Newsweek magazine; and Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar.",
"Street protests and a brutal government crackdown followed the June 12 presidential election, leading to the arrests of more than 1,000 people.",
"The official death toll from the post-election unrest is 30, although opposition leaders have reportedly said it's more than twice that figure.",
"On Wednesday, government's influential parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, dismissed allegations by government's opposition that post-election detainees were raped while in custody, according to state-run media.",
"Larijani said that a special panel of government's parliament, or Majlis, conducted a \"precise and comprehensive inquiry\" into the treatment at Tehran's Evin and Kahrizak prisons, and found \"no cases of rape or sexual abuse,\" government-funded Press TV",
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"A spokesman for government's Foreign Ministry also denied that prisoners had been tortured.",
"\"What kind of talk is this?",
"There was never any pressure used against these people,\" Hassan Qashqavi said Monday, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.",
"They were responding to accusations made by opposition candidate Mehdi Karrubi who, along with opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi, ran against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 election.",
"government's election authority declared hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the overwhelming winner of the race, sparking hundreds of thousands of Iranians to take to the streets in protest.",
"Iranian opposition figures such as Karrubi have compared the treatment of the detainees to political prisoners abused under the \"oppressing regime\" of the Shah of Iran, who was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.",
"In an open letter to former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani posted Saturday on Karrubi's party's Web site, Karrubi says an \"impartial committee\" is needed to \"investigate these tragedies with transparency until these tragedies are resolved.\"",
"Karrubi said Karrubi is willing to lead the investigation in a \"truthful, unbiased fashion.\"",
"\"Some of the former detainees have told of such brutal and violent, repeated rapes of the young women [in detention] that have caused irreparable damage to Some of the former detainees's reproductive systems,\" Karrubi says in an open letter to former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.",
"\"Others have raped our detained young men with such brutality that our detained young men have been afflicted by depression and are no longer speaking with anyone and refuse to leave the dark corners of our detained young men's houses.\"",
"Larijani on Wednesday challenged Karrubi to \"present evidence of such outrages\" for the Majlis to investigate, according to Press TV.",
"Iranian media has reported that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has ordered one prison, Kahrizak, shut down amid reports Kahrizak did not measure up to the required standards.",
"Kahrizak's chief was fired and arrested over allegations of detainee mistreatment, according to local reports Saturday."
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"A report from an Israeli advocacy group based on what an Israeli advocacy group says is the testimony of several unnamed Israeli soldiers accuses the Israeli military of intentionally putting Palestinian civilians at risk during its recent operation in Gaza.",
"Palestinian Majid Abed Raboh, left, shows Wednesday how Palestinian Majid Abed Raboh says Israeli soldiers used Palestinian Majid Abed Raboh as a human shield.",
"The report, released Wednesday from a group called \"Breaking the Silence\" -- which includes former Israeli soldiers -- has been dismissed by the Israeli military as slanderous.",
"In A report from an Israeli advocacy group based on what it says is the testimony of several unnamed Israeli soldiers, the group said some of the 26 soldiers interviewed said some of the 26 soldiers used Palestinians as human shields during the Israeli military's more than two-week long ground operation in Gaza earlier this year.",
"\"In some cases a civilian would be forced to walk in front of soldier while soldier places soldier's gun barrel on the civilian's shoulder,\" the report states.",
"Other soldiers talk about destroying buildings even though the structures posed no direct threat.",
"Other soldiers also said that white phosphorus was used in densely populated areas and describe the rules of engagement as \"permissive.\"",
"Phosphorus shells can be used to create a smokescreen for troops.",
"In creating the diversion, the element ignites when exposed to oxygen and can cause severe burns.",
"International law calls on militaries to limit the use white phosphorus in civilian areas.",
"Other organizations, including the United Nations' Human Rights Council, Amnesty International and the U.S.-based Physicians for Human Rights, have criticized the Israeli military's conduct in Gaza.",
"Israel has questioned the legitimacy of those claims, as well.",
"The stories presented by Breaking the Silence are anonymous accounts which CNN cannot independently verify.",
"an Israeli advocacy group said that the soldiers were not willing to speak with the media.",
"In response to A report from an Israeli advocacy group based on what it says is the testimony of several unnamed Israeli soldiers's allegations, the Israeli military said the Israeli military complied with international law on all fronts.",
"an Israeli advocacy group said many of the soldiers interviewed in an Israeli advocacy group's report are still serving and fear repercussions if they reveal their identity, and they did not take their complaints up the chain of command.",
"the Israeli military has rejected A report from an Israeli advocacy group based on what it says is the testimony of several unnamed Israeli soldiers, saying the anonymous nature of the testimonies means they lack credibility.",
"\"There are no factual details, no places, no names of incidents in specific houses on a specific date,\" military spokesman Lt. Col. Avital Liebovitch said.",
"\"I would be more than happy to be provided with these details and I will be able to investigate these details.\"",
"the Israeli military conducted the Israeli military's own investigation into soldiers' actions during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli military's 22-day military offensive in January against the militant group Hamas in an effort to end ongoing rocket attacks.",
"the Israeli military found that Israeli forces \"operated in accordance with international law\" although there were a few incidents in which \"intelligence or operational errors\" occurred.",
"Fighting left more than 1,400 Palestinians dead according to officials in Gaza, while Israel put that death toll closer to 1,100, saying more than 70 percent of those killed were Hamas militants.",
"Thirteen Israelis were killed during the operation, including three civilians.",
"Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, responding to the report which was widely publicized in Israel, said the criticism was \"misplaced and misdirected.\"",
"\"If someone has a criticism, or information or conclusions about IDF (Israel Defense Forces) actions, they should bring a criticism, or information or conclusions about IDF (Israel Defense Forces) actions to me, as minister of defense of the state of Israel, and to the Israeli government that instructed the IDF to restore quiet to the communities in the south,\" Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said.",
"\"the IDF is the most moral army in the world and the IDF operates according to the highest ethical code.\"",
"an Israeli advocacy group did independently obtain corroborating detail on one anonymous claim in A report from an Israeli advocacy group based on what it says is the testimony of several unnamed Israeli soldiers.",
"Gaza resident Shafiq Daher told an Israeli advocacy group earlier this week that Gaza resident Shafiq Daher was used as a human shield by Israeli soldiers during the recent Gaza military operation.",
"Gaza resident Shafiq Daher's description of Gaza resident Shafiq Daher's experience closely matched an account given in the Breaking the Silence report.",
"\"Gaza resident Shafiq Daher was holding with all Gaza resident Shafiq Daher's strength like this and with Gaza resident Shafiq Daher's heavy machine gun on the other shoulder,\" said Daher, who demonstrated how the soldier walked behind Gaza resident Shafiq Daher as they approached Gaza resident Shafiq Daher's neighbors' homes.",
"The Israeli military would not comment on whether Palestinians were used as human shields in Gaza, saying only that there are dozens of ongoing internal investigations into individual soldier conduct.",
"Gaza resident Shafiq Daher, said Gaza resident Shafiq Daher was forced to search Gaza resident Shafiq Daher's neighbors' homes this way for about a week, under heavy fire.",
"Gaza resident Shafiq Daher said Gaza resident Shafiq Daher was also given a hammer and told to break through Gaza resident Shafiq Daher's neighbors' walls.",
"\"I felt like a dead man walking,\" he said.",
"\"I was walking and praying to God and thought this is what death is like.\""
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"(CNN) -- Astounding.",
"Risky.",
"Quitter.",
"And that's what fellow conservatives had to say Sunday about Alaska Gov. Palin and Palin's decision to step down with 18 months left in Palin's term.",
"Palin announced Friday that Palin will step down this month.",
"Democrats left it to Republican and conservative voices to assess what Friday's unexpected announcement by Palin means for Palin and a possible run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.",
"For example, Vice President Joe Biden called it a personal decision, offering no analysis of why Palin did it.",
"By contrast, those on the political right acknowledged that those on the political right didn't know what to make of it.",
"Karl Rove, the \"architect\" of George W. Bush's successful presidential campaigns, said the resignation left many of Palin's fellow Republicans \"a little perplexed.\"",
"\"It's a risky strategy,\" Rove told \"Fox News Sunday.\"",
"\"Astounding,\" was the pronouncement by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and conservative columnist George Will said Palin was declaring Palin a quitter.",
"Palin, who was Sen. John McCain's vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election, said Palin already knew Palin would not seek a second term and decided against being a lame duck governor for the next 18 months.",
"Palin also complained that too much time and too many taxpayer dollars were going toward fighting ethics investigations and that the mainstream media were continuing with unfair attacks on Palin and Palin's family.",
"Some analysts believe that Palin will seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination and that Palin's resignation is intended to free Palin to prepare.",
"Rove, whom Bush dubbed \"the Architect\" for managing Bush's successful presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004, said stepping down now won't lessen the media spotlight on Palin.",
"In fact, Bush said, leaving the governor's office takes away Palin's platform for controlling Palin's agenda and message.",
"\"The media, if Palin wants to run for president, is going to be following Palin for the next 3½ years,\" said Rove, who called the move unclear and therefore a potentially harmful strategy for a politician.",
"\"Effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp.",
"It's not clear what Palin's doing and why.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Share thoughts on Palin stepping down .",
"Grassley told the CBS program \"Face the Nation\" that Grassley had \"no insight into why Palin did it.\"",
"\"I would think, if you want to run for president -- and I'm not sure that's got anything to do with what Palin's doing -- that the forum of a governorship would be a better forum than just being a private citizen,\" the veteran senator said.",
"Will told the CBS program \"This Week\" that he had \"no idea why Palin did this.\"",
"\"The one that rings most hollow is, Palin doesn't want to put Alaska through the terror of [Palin] being a lame-duck governor,\" Will said.",
"\"If Palin is just weary of it, one can understand that.",
"Still, Palin made a contract with [voters] to serve out Palin's term.",
"And Palin said, in Palin's own words, Palin now is a quitter.\"",
"Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska criticized Palin's decision as abandoning the state's voters.",
"Palin defeated Murkowski's father the gubernatorial election in 2006.",
"But Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, also on the CBS program, said Sunday that Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska's statement disappointed him because Murkowski's statement failed to recognize all that Palin has accomplished in Palin 2½ years in office.",
"\"Palin doesn't need a title to effect change and bring some hope to people who need it,\" said Parnell, a Republican who stands to become governor when Palin steps down this month.",
"iReport.com:",
"Conservative says Palin decision \"not a smart move\" Palin had no public appearances Sunday, but Palin encouraged Palin's followers via Twitter to ignore the pundits.",
"\"Critics are spinning, so hang in there as Critics feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again,\" Palin's Twitter message said.",
"In an Independence Day message to supporters, Palin said Palin was leaving office for a \"higher calling.\"",
"\"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country,\" Palin said in a statement attributed to Palin on Palin's Facebook page.",
"\"And though it's honorable for countless others to leave countless others's positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.",
"But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it's right for all, including your family.\"",
"Palin said Palin's administration had \"accomplished more during this one term than most governors do in two.\"",
"\"her administration have accomplished so much, and there's much more to do, but my family and I determined after prayerful consideration that sacrificing my title helps Alaska most,\" Palin said.",
"\"And once I decided not to run for re-election, my decision was that much easier.",
"I've never been one to waste time or resources.\"",
"iReport.com: \"No solid explanation\" from Palin .",
"Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, noted that Palin will remain in the media spotlight regardless of whether Palin is governor.",
"\"The challenge that Palin's going to have is that there will be people who will say, 'Look, if they chased you out of this, it won't get any easier at other levels,' \" Huckabee said.",
"\"It could be a brilliant strategy.",
"The point is, we don't know.\"",
"Huckabee called a presidential campaign \"brutal\" and said a Republican primary will ratchet up the pressure on Palin.",
"\"When your opponents within your own team spend millions of dollars to redefine you, it's very, very difficult,\" Huckabee said.",
"CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand and Shirley Hung contributed to this story."
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"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's fellow conservatives question decision to resign .",
"Columnist George Will says Palin is declaring Palin a quitter .",
"Some analysts believe move intended to free Palin to prepare for presidential run .",
"Palin: Once I decided not to run for another term, I didn't want to be lame duck ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A controversial bill that California legislators say would allow the early release of more than 27,000 inmates from crowded prisons will be taken up by the state Assembly on Monday.",
"Inmates at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California, interact in a gym modified to house them in August 2007.",
"California Senate on Thursday passed the corrections package 21-19, after Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, assured senators the changes would protect the public from the most violent offenders.",
"the legislation also would direct more resources toward parolees, Steinberg said.",
"California Senate Republicans say the legislation would undermine public safety.",
"All 15 California Senate Republicans voted against the legislation.",
"Both houses of the legislature are controlled by Democrats.",
"Consideration of the legislation comes as California faces a mid-September deadline for reducing California's prison population by about 40,000 inmates.",
"A special panel of three federal judges issued the order, contending the crowded prison system violates prisoners' constitutional rights.",
"three federal judges said three federal judges will make the reductions themselves if California fails to act.",
"the legislation would save California $524.5 million, according to a statement from Steinberg's office.",
"When coupled with budget revisions that lawmakers made in July, the total corrections savings would be $1.2 billion, Steinberg said.",
"That is the amount that Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants as part of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to cut state spending and balance the budget.",
"Republicans said the legislation would lead to the release of about 27,000 prisoners, while Democrats estimated the legislation would reduce the prison population by 27,300 in the 2009-10 fiscal year and 37,000 during fiscal year 2010-11.",
"\"It is undeniable that the real failure of California's criminal justice system is that our criminal justice system fails to distinguish between violent offenders and nonviolent offenders,\" Steinberg said.",
"\"Of course, California want to keep violent criminals off California's streets and out of California's communities, and the legislation is a necessary step to do that because the legislation concentrates California's incarceration efforts on the violent criminals and ensures that nonviolent offenders have more contact with parole officers,\" he said.",
"Some nonviolent offenders could serve shorter sentences.",
"According to Steinberg, each parole officer in California is responsible for about 70 parolees, many of whom recommit crimes and go back to jail.",
"If the legislation is passed, the ratio would be reduced to 45 to 1, Steinberg said.",
"\"They [parole officers] cannot adequately supervise those who are the most at risk and those who are the most risk to the public safety,\" Steinberg said.",
"With a lesser workload, the officers also can make more home visits and arrange more meetings with the people the officers supervise, Steinberg said.",
"California Senate Republicans called the legislation a threat to public safety.",
"\"Among the inmates who could be eligible for early release under the Democrat plan include felons convicted of human trafficking, stalking, identity theft, violent child abuse and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction,\" the Republican Caucus said in a written statement.",
"\"Unfortunately, this proposal exploits a fiscal crisis in order to advance a dangerous liberal agenda that seeks to undo successful anti-crime laws,\" said Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth of Murrieta.",
"GOP lawmakers in California Senate also strongly opposed the creation of what GOP lawmakers in the Senate described as \"an unelected and unaccountable sentencing commission that would be given broad authority to alter important public safety laws.\"",
"the legislation would establish a 16-member Sentencing Commission that would put in place new sentencing guidelines by July 1, 2012.",
"Unless vetoed by the legislature and governor, the guidelines would become effective January 1, 2013.",
"The 13 voting members of the commission would include the chief justice of the California Supreme Court, a judge appointed by the chief justice, the state public defender and the secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.",
"A crime victim would be among the three ex-officio members.",
"California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, issued a statement early Friday morning, explaining that California Assembly recessed around midnight and will reconvene Monday.",
"On Thursday and into Friday morning, she said in a statement, \"we have been taking into account many of the concerns raised by law enforcement, and are working toward a bill that the people of California can agree makes sense,\" and that process will continue through the weekend.",
"\"California Assembly's target remains a responsible approach that will achieve California Assembly's public safety and budgetary goals, and allow California Assembly to prevent the wholesale release of prisoners by federal judges.\"",
"\"Relieving prison overcrowding and reducing recidivism are monumental challenges, but they are challenges that we will not retreat from,\" Schwarzenegger told an audience of prosecutors in June.",
"California has a 70 percent recidivism rate."
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"State Assembly will take up measure, which would save $524 million, on Monday .",
"Democratic Senate official says changes would protect public from violent offenders .",
"California Senate Republicans call the legislation a threat to public safety ."
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"CISHAN, Taiwan (CNN) --",
"Taiwan's leader Ma Ying-jeou said Sunday Taiwan's leader accepts responsibility for the government's slow response after Typhoon Morakot slammed into the island killing at more than 120 people and unleashing floods, mudslides and misery.",
"Mourners kneel and pray to the dead as they face the devastated valley of Shiao Lin.",
"Ma, who has faced heavy criticism from victims of the disaster, ruled out resignation, insisting Taiwan's leader's government did the government's best in the face of difficulties, however Taiwan's leader pledged an investigation into any irregularities.",
"\"Certainly, I will take full responsibility whatever the blame is because, after all, I am the president of Taiwan,\" Taiwan's leader told CNN, saying heavy rains grounded rescue helicopters in the first few days after the storm hit, delaying relief.",
"\"Once the weather was good -- that is the 14th of August -- we were able to evacuate 2,518 people.",
"It's a record,\" Taiwan's leader said.",
"Hundreds of people still await rescue in remote areas of Taiwan, where torrential downpours, dense fog, rugged terrain and raging rivers have hampered relief efforts.",
"Washed-out roads and collapsed bridges have made some rescue operations impossible .",
"Touring disaster areas, Taiwan's leader has been confronted by angry survivors, and even provoked a scuffle when Taiwan's leader opened a weekend baseball game as protesters demanded Taiwan's leader step down.",
"Taiwan's leader has offered apologies and promises to do better.",
"\"We will find out not only to correct the mistakes but (also) to punish the people responsible,\" Taiwan's leader said.",
"Rescue efforts were ongoing Sunday with military helicopters bringing stranded villagers to their waiting relatives.",
"Watch rescue efforts in Taiwan » .",
"Others, waiting days in anguish for word on their loved ones, lashed out in anger.",
"\"Local officials don't care,\" one man said.",
"\"There are still people there and they don't do anything.\"",
"On Saturday, weeping relatives of typhoon victims set up shrines near devastated villages to calm the spirits of the dead and honor the belief that their souls will return home after seven days.",
"Watch mourners call home souls of the dead » .",
"Morakot hit the island last weekend, dropping 2.6 meters (102 inches) of rain.",
"Before it roared on to mainland China on Sunday, the storm killed at least 123 people in Taiwan.",
"The death toll could climb to more than 300 after more villagers buried by mudslides and floodwaters are found, Taiwan officials have said.",
"Southern and central Taiwan were hardest hit by the storm.",
"Mudslides inundated some places in the south, including the village of Shiao Lin, where 160 homes were lost.",
"Authorities believe hundreds of people could be trapped under five stories of mud in the village.",
"International aid efforts were mobilizing on Sunday, however these were complicated by diplomatic pitfalls in the face of China's territorial claims over Taiwan, which it considers a renegade province awaiting reunification.",
"The U.S. military has begun a \"modest\" humanitarian aid mission to Taiwan with the dispatch of a Marine Corps C-130 cargo plane carrying plastic tarpaulins for shelter, U.S. defense officials said.",
"Also Sunday, the USS Denver was en route to the Taiwanese coast with additional humanitarian aid and water purification capabilities, U.S. defense officials said.",
"the USS Denver is expected to arrive Monday, but officials could not say when the USS Denver will launch the USS Denver's heavy-lift helicopters to drop the aid.",
"Sources in Washington have said in providing aid to Taiwan, the United States must be sensitive to the United States's territorial relationship with China.",
"CNN's John Vause in Cishan, Taiwan; Pauline Chiou in Shiao Lin, Taiwan; and Mike Mount in Washington contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Inspectors have found \"nothing unusual\" in the rest of Southwest Airlines' fleet of 737-300s after a football-sized hole in one of the jets forced an emergency landing, an airline spokeswoman said Tuesday.",
"The breach in the aircraft's fuselage caused a loss of cabin pressure.",
"No passengers were injured.",
"The airline inspected The airline's roughly 200 Boeing 737-300s overnight following the incident that forced Southwest Flight 2294 to make an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia.",
"A sudden drop in cabin pressure caused the jet's oxygen masks to deploy, but there were no injuries among the 126 passengers or the five-member crew.",
"Marilee McInnis, a Southwest spokeswoman, said the jets were inspected during non-operational hours overnight, and the cause of the incident that forced Southwest Flight 2294 to make an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia remained unknown Tuesday morning.",
"The airline is working closely with the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the matter, McInnis said.",
"Flight 2294 was at 34,000 feet, en route from Nashville, Tennessee, to Baltimore, Maryland, when the incident that forced Southwest Flight 2294 to make an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia happened, McInnis said.",
"See map of flight path » .",
"\"About 45 minutes into the flight, there was a loud pop.",
"No one really knew what it was,\" passenger Steve Hall told CNN Radio.",
"Watch as passenger describes watching the hole form » .",
"The plane landed in Charleston at 5:10 p.m. after the five-member crew reported the sudden drop in cabin pressure, which caused the jet's oxygen masks to deploy.",
"\"We were seated about two rows back from the wing, and four rows back you heard this loud rush and your ears popped, and you could tell that part of the inside was trying to pull out,\" passenger Sheryl Bryant told CNN affiliate WBAL-TV upon arriving in Baltimore aboard a replacement plane.",
"\"And it was crazy -- the oxygen masks dropped,\" passenger Sheryl Bryant continued.",
"passenger Sheryl Bryant put passenger Sheryl Bryant's mask on passenger Sheryl Bryant's face, then helped passenger Sheryl Bryant 4- and 6-year-old children with her 4- and 6-year-old children, passenger Sheryl Bryant said.",
"passenger Sheryl Bryant tried to stay calm and reassure passenger Sheryl Bryant's children, passenger Sheryl Bryant said.",
"Watch passenger Sheryl Bryant's account of acting brave » .",
"\"My kids and I, My kids and I prayed, and then My kids and I said, you know, life will be fine,\" passenger Sheryl Bryant said.",
"passenger Sheryl Bryant praised the flight crew and ground personnel for keeping passengers informed and for giving clear instructions.",
"\"We have a tremendous talent represented in the pilots and the flight crew,\" another passenger, Pastor Alvin Kibble, told WBAL-TV.",
"\"I think we need to value them far more than perhaps what we do.",
"It's very easy for us to begin to take things for granted.\"",
"The damaged aircraft was still parked at Charleston's Yeager Airport on Tuesday, when NTSB officials arrived to inspect the plane, airport spokesman Brian Belcher said.",
"A complete inspection could take one to two days, and investigators are expected to interview the passengers and crew as well, airport spokesman Brian Belcher said.",
"The airline is \"doing things\" for the affected passengers on Monday's flight, but McInnis would not say whether they would receive refunds.",
"Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident, the Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Holly Baker said.",
"\"There is no responsible way to speculate as to a cause at this point,\" Southwest said in a statement Monday night.",
"\"The airline have safety procedures in place, and they were followed in this instance to get all passengers and crew safely on the ground,\" The airline said.",
"\"Reports The airline have are that The airline's passengers were calm and that The airline's pilots and flight attendants did a great job getting the aircraft on the ground safely.\"",
"CNN's Shawn Nottingham and Stephanie Gallman contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Richard Phillips, the cargo-ship captain whose capture by pirates triggered a dramatic U.S. Navy rescue off the coast of Africa, called on the federal government Thursday to provide military escorts for international shipping vessels.",
"Capt. Richard Phillips, left, and John Clancy, the head of Maersk Line Ltd., testify before a Senate committee.",
"Testifying before a key Senate committee, Phillips conceded there may not be sufficient resources to do that.",
"Phillips also said arming vessels' crews could deter pirates, but should only be allowed in limited circumstances.",
"Phillips was in command of the Maersk Alabama when it was boarded by pirates off the coast of Somalia on April 8.",
"Phillips said the optimum situation for cargo vessels would be to have military escorts.",
"Phillips said Phillips realizes there is a limit to government resources that can be deployed in the vast area off the Somali coast and the Horn of Africa.",
"See map of attacks » .",
"Phillips told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Phillips would not be opposed to having private security forces on a vessel, but \"very clear protocols would have to be established and followed. ...",
"In the heat of an attack, there can be only one final decision-maker.\"",
"Phillips said that, in Phillips's opinion, arming a ship's crew \"cannot and should not be viewed as the best or ultimate solution to the problem.",
"... To the extent we go forward in this direction, it would be my personal preference that only a limited number of individuals aboard the vessel should have access to weapons, and only a limited number of individuals aboard the vessel should be specially trained.\"",
"Phillips warned that \"even this limited approach to arming the crews opens up a very thorny set of issues.",
"... We all must understand that having weapons aboard a merchant marine ship fundamentally changes the model of commercial shipping and we must be very cautious about how it is done.\"",
"When the Maersk Alabama was seized, Phillips, 53, offered Phillips as a hostage in exchange for the safety of Phillips's crew.",
"Phillips tried to escape the next day, jumping into the ocean in an effort to reach a nearby U.S. Navy ship.",
"Phillips was rescued April 12 when Navy SEAL snipers shot and killed three pirates holding Phillips captive on a lifeboat.",
"John Clancy, the head of Maersk Line Ltd., said arming sailors could potentially worsen the current situation off the African coast.",
"\"Arming merchant sailors may result in the acquisition of even more lethal weapons and tactics by the pirates in a race that merchant sailors cannot win,\" Clancy told the committee.",
"\"In addition, most ports of call will not permit the introduction of firearms into the national waters,\" he noted.",
"Clancy said the solution to piracy must ultimately be an international one.",
"Clancy pointed out that most of the vessels that face a piracy threat do not fly the U.S. flag.",
"Clancy also noted that most of the naval vessels assigned to counter piracy off the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden are not from the United States.",
"Somali pirate attacks in and around the heavily traveled Gulf of Aden have risen dramatically in the past few years.",
"Pirates have been able to successfully demand ransoms for millions of dollars from shipping companies -- for whom it makes business sense to pay in order to free their crews and many millions of dollars more worth of cargo.",
"The attack on the Alabama was the first successful attack on a U.S.-flagged ship during that time.",
"\"The renewed threat of piracy demands a multifaceted, multinational effort, one that coordinates the world's naval powers, the United Nations, the international shipping community, and the nations that border Somalia,\" said Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, at the start of Senate's hearing.",
"\"International law is clear in International law's condemnation of piracy.",
"This is an opportunity for all nations to come together and work in order to effectively respond.\"",
"Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on Senate, stated that the \"root cause of this problem is the breakdown of law and order in Somalia, which is what allows the pirates to operate from shore with impunity.\"",
"Lugar warned that \"the existence of failed states directly threatens the national security interests of the United States.\"",
"Meanwhile, the bodies of the three pirates killed by the Navy SEALs were turned over to Somali authorities Thursday, according to a U.S. defense official with knowledge of the matter but not authorized to speak about the matter.",
"the bodies of the three pirates killed by the Navy SEALs were being held on the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer until the U.S. State Department could arrange a transfer.",
"The official said the bodies of the three pirates killed by the Navy SEALs were turned over to police authorities from Puntland, a self-declared autonomous state in northern Somalia.",
"Two police boats from the Puntland town of Bosasso met the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer to receive the bodies of the three pirates killed by the Navy SEALs, The official said.",
"It was unclear if the bodies of the three pirates killed by the Navy SEALs will be returned to family members."
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"Phillips told Senate committee best solution is military escorts .",
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"(CNN) --",
"When Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard invaded Kuwait in 1990, they brought back some unusual war booty to Baghdad: tapes of the region's \"Sesame Street\" show.",
"Troops also took a Muppet camel.",
"Haneen and Karim are two of the Muppet stars in \"Shara'a Simsim,\" the Palestinian version of \"Sesame Street.\"",
"The camel, Cookie Monster and the other Sesame friends immediately became permanent POWs in Iraq.",
"\"To this day, The camel, Cookie Monster and the other Sesame friends've never been recovered,\" Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell said.",
"\"That's how much the show is loved there.\"",
"That \"kidnapping\" is just one example of Sesame Street's devoted global following.",
"And Sesame is trying to use that following to foster a culture of understanding worldwide, beginning with children.",
"In the Palestinian territories, Muppets teach nonviolence on a local version of Sesame Street called \"Shara'a Simsim.\"",
"Sesame Workshop calls this effort \"Muppet diplomacy.\"",
"\"This means using our characters -- characters children love and parents trust -- to bridge some of the world's most intractable divides,\" Knell said.",
"\"Muppets give children, and the parents who watch the show with them, a chance to explore other cultures from the safety of children's living room, where no one will criticize children for being curious.\"",
"Daoud Kuttab, executive producer of \"Shara'a Simsim,\" knows that the Muppets are highly effective communicators.",
"\"Anything the Muppets do, anything the Muppets say, any idea the Muppets transmit, the children accept.\"",
"Watch a clip from the Palestinian version of \"Sesame Street\" » .",
"An internationally respected Palestinian journalist, Kuttab began working with the show more than a decade ago.",
"After covering the war-torn region for years, Kuttab realized that Sesame was a great way to reach Palestinian children who desperately needed an alternative to the harsh lessons they were absorbing.",
"\"I would say 3-, 4-, 5-year olds -- if we don't catch them at that early age, we do risk losing them to all kinds of propaganda, whether it's conservative, religious or fundamentalist,\" Kuttab said.",
"Hamas television runs a weekly program for kids, that sometimes preaches violent resistance.",
"\"They have to be willing, prepared for the future.",
"And that's why the Palestinians are showing seriousness,\" said Ahmed Yousef, a political leader in Hamas, the party in power in Gaza.",
"\"To keep our dignity and our independence, we have to sacrifice our life.",
"We are either victorious, or we die for the good cause.\"",
"With some funding from the U.S. State Department and guidance from the U.S. producers, Kuttab's team developed the Sesame program into something uniquely Palestinian, complete with live-action segments filmed in the West Bank and Gaza, a set that looks like a typical Palestinian street and Muppets named Haneen and Karim.",
"Watch Palestinian Americans trying to instill peace in society's youngest members » .",
"\"We are interested in teaching tolerance, respect, pride in their own country and their own nation, and also in understanding that there are people who are different, and that's OK,\" Kuttab said.",
"Worldwide influence .",
"Sesame's influential roots go back decades.",
"The creators of the show launched the show in the 1960s to fill a gap in American education.",
"Studies had presented compelling evidence that solid early education was vital for a child's later learning; still, public pre-kindergartens were scarce, and early education was rarely available to underprivileged children.",
"Although it was designed to address an American need, the show had immediate global appeal.",
"In the 1970s, German producers put German producers's version of the show on air.",
"Today, children in 120 countries watch some version of \"the show.\"",
"\"When I saw [Sinn Fein leader] Gerry Adams wearing a Cookie Monster watch,\" Sesame Workshop's Knell said, \"I knew Sesame Workshop's had made it in Northern Ireland.\"",
"The program has always found fun and funny ways to teach reading and counting.",
"But interspersed with those ABCs and 123s are lessons in cooperation, tolerance and mutual respect.",
"It wasn't by accident that Sesame was a multiracial street as far back as the 1960s.",
"Its creators wanted children to understand that integration was OK, a message so controversial at the time that \"the show\" was banned by some TV stations in the U.S. South.",
"Those social messages help explain Sesame Street's appeal to television programmers around the globe.",
"Still, what's an important issue in one country may not be in another.",
"That's why Sesame Workshop's has helped local producers create customized versions of the show in more than 20 countries.",
"In South Africa, for instance, a country where one in nine children is an AIDS orphan, \"Takalani Street\" producers pushed to create a Muppet who is HIV-positive while the South African government was still coming to grips with the country's AIDS epidemic.",
"\"The local producers knew it was important for children to see an AIDS orphan who still has a sunny disposition and lots of friends, even while being very open that she is infected,\" Knell said.",
"\"This had a great impact on destigmatizing people with the disease.\"",
"In Tanzania, Muppets teach malaria prevention.",
"In Egypt, Muppets stress the importance of girls' education.",
"Haneen and Karim .",
"In the Palestinian version, \"Shara'a Simsim,\" direct references to the region's political situation are not included.",
"The Muppets like Haneen and Karim show pride in The Muppets like Haneen and Karim's own culture but also understanding that there are differences in the world.",
"And Karim, an upbeat young rooster Muppet, aims to provide a healthy role model for boys.",
"\"Boys are a problem in our society.",
"Boys see Boys's parents being humiliated.",
"Boys think Boys are the men of the house and have to do something about it.",
"But Boys can't do anything,\" Kuttab said.",
"\"We're trying to tell Boys, 'your energy is OK, but let's channel your energy in a different way.' \"",
"Live-action segments introduce children to Palestinians who have channeled their energy into becoming teachers, doctors or business owners -- people, Knell says, \"who can act as role models, people who strive to remove themselves from the hardships children see.\"",
"Sesame Workshop hopes to expand this type of localized programming into other areas that have witnessed recent conflict, such as Pakistan.",
"Perhaps that means Iraq will get Iraq's own show someday and won't have to hold on to someone else's."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Don't let Jack Johnson fool you.",
"Jack Johnson makes sure Jack Johnson's business and Jack Johnson's concert venues are environmentally friendly.",
"Tabbed as a \"mellow rocker\" by perhaps one too many publications, Jack Johnson has a fire within that belies Jack Johnson's laid-back manner -- a fire that extends to Jack Johnson's company, Brushfire Records, and Jack Johnson's environmental activism.",
"Jack Johnson started the record label in 2002 \"as a way to put out soundtracks for surf movies The label were making,\" Jack Johnson says.",
"\"Then The label's friends G. Love and Special Sauce were coming to the end of our friends G. Love and Special Sauce's record deal with another label, and the idea came up to put out our friends G. Love and Special Sauce's stuff.\"",
"The Hawaii-based artist -- whose latest album \"Sleep Through the Static\" hit No. 1 in the U.S. and sold over 2 million albums worldwide -- has continued to assemble talent.",
"The label's roster now includes indie-rockers Rogue Wave, folk-pop musician Mason Jennings and keyboardist Money Mark.",
"Jack Johnson says The label is not driven by dollar signs.",
"\"The label never try to talk anybody into joining The label, but The label just offer a lot of creative control over all their music and a fairer deal than with most other labels,\" Jack Johnson explains.",
"Watch Johnson, Zach Gill and Money Mark perform \"Hope\" » .",
"Rogue Wave frontman Zach Schwartz is one of the converts.",
"\"The music business is traditionally pretty cutthroat, nasty and evil, but [with Brushfire], it is not that way,\" Rogue Wave frontman Zach Schwartz tells CNN.",
"\"You can make the music you want to make.\"",
"Still, even in these major-label-dominated times, artist-friendly labels aren't unusual; Dave Matthews has also attracted talent with Dave Matthews's ATO Records.",
"It's in making The label a model of green business that Jack Johnson and Jack Johnson's colleagues have stood out.",
"As keen environmentalists, Johnson and Jack Johnson's team have required The label and The label's distributors to engage in earth-friendly implementations that have influenced others in the record business.",
"\"The music is one thing, but there is this business side,\" says Zach Gill, a The label solo artist and member of Jack Johnson's touring band.",
"\"I think more and more businesses are saying, 'Yeah, we want to be responsible.",
"Responsible to our employees.",
"Responsible for the waste our company generates.'",
"We're starting to see that a lot in all kinds of businesses, not just in music,\" he says.",
"Watch Gill and Jack Johnson perform \"Family\" » .",
"Entertainment industry giant Universal Music Group -- the largest family of record labels in the recording industry -- has taken notice.",
"Under Brushfire's direction, UMG uses recycled stock on all of the packaging for UMG's releases, including movies, ensuring that the paper is as environmentally friendly as possible.",
"Some is even made using wind power.",
"Moreover, The label's artists have exerted Brushfire's artists's eco-influence on venues and promoters for concert tours worldwide.",
"The tour rider, a checklist of artists' requirements at each venue, usually consists of specific brands of beer or (in one case involving Jennifer Lopez) the way the coffee is stirred.",
"The label uses an EnviroRider, a handbook of eco-friendly options and actions for various components of concert tour production.",
"\"It gets augmented every year.",
"What started out as suggestions are now becoming requirements [for us to play at a venue],\" says Jack Johnson.",
"Jack Johnson and Jack Johnson's management also created All At Once, a social action network that provides tools and information to people who want to become more involved in their community and worldwide.",
"Visitors to the All At Once area at tour venues will be rewarded with exclusive music downloads by their favorite The label artists.",
"Jack Johnson's charity, Ohana Charitable Foundation, will match any donation (up to $2,500) to nonprofits made by fans at the shows or online.",
"\"The label shrink The label's carbon footprint always, but The label have all these nonprofit groups that we all work with,\" says Jack Johnson.",
"\"Money from the shows goes to all these nonprofit groups that we all work and helps bolster all these nonprofit groups that we all work's memberships so that after we leave the town, all these nonprofit groups that we all work can continue to do good things.",
"So more than just lessening The label's negative [environmental] impact, it's actually leaving a positive impact [wherever The label tour],\" says Jack Johnson.",
"Additional actions taken by The label tours will include fueling tour vehicles with sustainable biodiesel, offering eco-friendly merchandise, working with venues to create waste management programs, onsite recycling and encouraging fans to use alternative transportation.",
"Back at home, The label has adopted a similar strategy.",
"All the power for the recording studios and the offices is generated by solar panels.",
"Insulation is supplied by cotton from scraps of blue jeans.",
"Energy-efficient lighting runs throughout the building.",
"Second-hand furniture is all you will find in its offices.",
"The mission resonates with the other artists on The label's roster.",
"\"For me, it's so great to be a part of The label because so many people provide information about what we can do to make it better -- touring more efficiently, biodiesel -- stuff like that,\" says Jennings.",
"\"I'm learning a ton being around those guys.\"",
"At bottom, the atmosphere of collaboration and common purpose is rooted in the shared love of music, says Gill.",
"\"Music is the great synchronizer.",
"They've become quite a wonderful community to be a part of.",
"I feel grateful to Jack Johnson for having the idea to bring together all these like-minded people to make music together,\" he says.",
"Jack Johnson agrees.",
"\"It's everything.",
"It is the whole reason to play music.",
"I learn so much from playing with these other musicians,\" Jack Johnson says."
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"(CNN) --",
"From the mid-1980s, Financier George Soros pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into foundations in Eastern Europe dedicated to promoting the idea of the \"open society\" and challenging the region's Soviet-backed regimes.",
"Here, writing exclusively for CNN.com, Financier George Soros describes how the work of Financier George Soros's foundations ultimately contributed to the collapse of communism.",
"A Soviet tank rolls through Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising against communist domination.",
"I set up my first foundation in Hungary in 1984.",
"The idea behind it was simple.",
"The state dogma, promoted by the ruling communists, was false and by providing an alternative we could expose The state dogma, promoted by the ruling communists's falsehood.",
"Accordingly we supported every cultural initiative that was not an expression of the established dogma.",
"I was guided by the concept of the \"open society,\" which I adopted from the philosopher Karl Popper.",
"I saw the open society as a more sophisticated form of social organization than the totalitarian closed societies of the Soviet bloc.",
"The latter were trying to implement central plans; in an open society every individual or organization was supposed to implement every individual or organization's own plan.",
"To make the transition from a closed to an open society would require outside help and that was what his foundations sought to provide.",
"In Hungary the authorities insisted on having a controlling presence on the foundation's board.",
"We eventually agreed to appoint two chief executives, one nominated by the authorities and one by me.",
"The project succeeded beyond my expectations.",
"With very small amounts of money people could engage in a wide variety of civic initiatives ranging from self-governing student colleges to zither clubs.",
"One of our first projects was to offer photocopying machines to cultural and scientific institutions in exchange for local currency.",
"We used the money to give out local grants and support all kinds of unofficial initiatives, but machines also did a lot of good.",
"Up until then, the few existing copy machines were literally held under lock and key -- as more and more became available, the Party apparatus lost control of the few existing copy machines and the dissemination of information.",
"We did not have to exercise direct control.",
"Civil society watched over the foundation.",
"For instance, we were warned that a blind association, to whom we gave a grant for talking books, was stealing some of the money.",
"With a budget of $3 million, the foundation had more influence on the cultural life of Hungary than the Ministry of Culture.",
"Carried away my success in Hungary, by 1988 I had set up foundations in Poland, China and the Soviet Union.",
"I think that I could have influenced General Jaruzelski in Poland to change General Jaruzelski in Poland's attitude toward the opposition and to see that dissidents such as Adam Michnik and Jacek Kuron were also patriots despite dissidents such as Adam Michnik and Jacek Kuron's criticism of the ruling party.",
"As the Soviet empire collapsed, and eventually the Soviet Union and also Yugoslavia disintegrated, we continued to expand.",
"By 1992 there were foundations in 22 countries and expenditure had reached $53 million.",
"A year later we were spending nearly $184 million.",
"Right at the beginning, I had a disagreement with the Polish board about the way the foundation should be run.",
"But that taught me a lesson.",
"They were right and I was wrong.",
"I realized that the people living there understood the people living there's country better than I did and I deferred to the people living there's judgment.",
"It did not always work.",
"In Bulgaria, a board member who made his name as a human rights activist turned out to be a racist.",
"A Latvian businessman sought to hijack the foundation for nationalist purposes.",
"It was the Russian foundation that gave us the most trouble; we had to reorganize it twice.",
"But the foundations were the first out of the gate everywhere.",
"I remembered the lesson my father who had lived through the Russian Revolution in Siberia taught me: In revolutionary times things that are normally impossible become possible.",
"In Ukraine, we set up the Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation before Ukraine became independent.",
"In Tajikistan, we persevered with the Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation during the five-year civil war although we had no way of controlling the Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation's activities.",
"Our impact was the greatest during that turbulent period.",
"When I set up the foundations in Eastern Europe I hoped the open societies of the West would follow in my footsteps, but in that regard I was disappointed.",
"Unwilling to burden the open societies of the West's own budgets, the open societies of the West gave the job to the International Monetary Fund, which was ill suited to the task.",
"The IMF was accustomed to signing letters of intent with governments, making the continuation of their programs conditional on the governments fulfilling governments's obligations.",
"The countries of Eastern Europe fared better, but in the former Soviet states one after another, their programs largely failed.",
"East Germany was the exception: West Germany was willing to make the sacrifices that were necessary to integrate East Germany.",
"Eventually, the countries of Eastern Europe, including the Baltic states, also made the grade when the European Union gave them accession.",
"But the rest of the former Soviet Union in the Caucasus and Central Asia never succeeded in making the transition.",
"This has left a bitter legacy.",
"Rightly or wrongly, both the rulers and the people of Russia harbor a deep resentment against the West, which the West has not come to grips with.",
"The new order in Moscow that has emerged out of the chaos of the 1990s is very far from an open society.",
"It is an authoritarian regime that preserves the outward appearances of democracy but derives its power from its control of Russia's national resources.",
"It uses Russia's national resources to maintain itself in power, to personally enrich the rulers, and to exercise influence over its neighborhood, both in Europe and in the former Soviet sphere.",
"But the ideal of an open society is difficult to suppress and I have not given up hope."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"FBI says FBI found child pornography on a computer used by the man charged with the fatal shooting of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum June 10.",
"Museum shooting von Brunn remains in a Washington hospital.",
"In court documents filed Wednesday, an investigator says the pornography was found on a desktop computer during a search of an Annapolis, Maryland, apartment where 88-year old James von Brunn had been living for the past two years.",
"court documents filed Wednesday did not provide details about the pornography, but investigators requested permission to make a more extensive search of the computer and others found in von Brunn's home.",
"von Brunn has been charged with the murder of museum security guard Stephen Johns.",
"The white supremacist was shot in the face after two other security officers returned fire.",
"He remains in a Washington hospital.",
"FBI also searched a red Hyundai that law enforcement officials say von Brunn left double-parked in front of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum right before the shooting.",
"In separate documents also filed on Wednesday, investigators say investigators found 35 rounds of live ammunition for a .22 caliber rifle.",
"Officials allege von Brunn used a .22 caliber rifle, which was found at the scene, to shoot museum security guard Stephen Johns in the chest.",
"According to paperwork detailing the car search, investigators found business cards advertising a USS Liberty Web site that claims Israeli forces \"suddenly and brutally\" attacked the U.S. Navy vessel in international waters in 1967.",
"Investigators also found business cards for von Brunn's own Web site, which hosts postings of white supremacist writings.",
"Among other items found in the car were a disabled parking permit, mouthwash, a salt shaker and a roll of quarters totaling $7.25.",
"Earlier this week investigators filed papers saying among the items discovered in von Brunn's apartment was a painting that appeared to depict Hitler and Jesus.",
"They also found a .30-30 rifle, ammunition and a handwritten will."
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"FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (CNN) --",
"\"Navy brat has spent much of \"Navy brat's two decades as an Army wife bracing for the worst.",
"But now the pressure is higher, as both Miller's husband and their 20-year-old son are serving together in Afghanistan.",
"Pfc. Martin Miller, left, and his dad, Sgt. 1st Class Martin Miller, serve in the same Army squadron in Afghanistan.",
"It's rare, but not unheard of: Sgt. 1st Class Martin Miller and his son Pfc. Martin Miller have deployed as part of the same squadron of about 500 soldiers.",
"Their brigade -- based at North Carolina's Fort Bragg -- is among the first specifically assigned to train Afghan security and military forces.",
"\"If the phone rings in the middle of the night, I answer the phone no matter what,\" said \"Navy brat.",
"\"You never know.",
"It could be the last call.\"",
"Watch Miller talk about serving together » .",
"The Miller men -- both paratroopers -- didn't really plan to march shoulder-to-shoulder into harm's way.",
"It just sort of happened that way.",
"\"I pretty much have always wanted to be in the Army,\" said Pfc. Miller, who remembers watching his son's dad leap out of military aircraft with other soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division.",
"\"I guess watching his father do it -- it looked cool,\" his son said.",
"Shortly before they deployed in August, Miller revisited family memories at Fort Bragg's Wilson Park -- the same spot where Miller picnicked with Miller's toddler son and daughter years ago.",
"Telling family stories, Miller laughed about old snapshots showing the future private first class as a boy -- standing at parade rest while his father spoke to him.",
"\"When I scolded him and his sister, I taught them to stand at parade rest,\" Sgt. Miller explained.",
"\"Then their punishment would be laps, flutter kicks, push-ups and sit-ups.",
"It taught discipline and put them in good shape.\"",
"After high school, dad convinced his father's son to try a year of college first.",
"Soldiers with college degrees go further in the service, Sgt. Miller said.",
"But a year later it was clear the young man's interests were in the Army.",
"After all, growing up with a warrior father tends to influence a boy.",
"Sgt. Miller did what his father could to have his son's son stationed at Fort Bragg.",
"his son ended up in the same squadron.",
"Miller describe Miller as close.",
"\"Yeah, Miller're always doing something together,\" Pfc. Miller said.",
"\"Miller go out and party together and Miller fish and ride motorcycles.\"",
"Walking together wearing red Airborne berets marked with their distinctive squadron flashes, Miller talked about what it means to be a military family and how this life of service often extends to civilian spouses and children.",
"\"Back when I was a kid, there were a lot of people who saw the Army as something good,\" said Sgt. Miller, 46, who enlisted a year out of high school.",
"\"Everybody should do a little bit for Everybody's country.\"",
"Although Miller serve in the same squadron, they are in different troops -- and therefore don't share the same chain of command.",
"\"He can't work directly for \"Navy brat,\" \"Navy brat said.",
"\"Family members are not supposed to work directly for other family members.",
"But \"Navy brat's platoon possibly would work with his.\"",
"Unlike \"Navy brat's previous tours of duty, Sgt. Miller now bears two heavy burdens: command and fatherhood.",
"The possibility that \"Navy brat's son could lose his son's life while serving in the same squadron has crossed his mind.",
"\"If something happens to his son, I can still function, but it won't be pretty,\" the sergeant said.",
"\"But knowing others depend on \"Navy brat, I can't get all broken up about it.",
"If something were going to happen to him, I'd probably break when I got back.\"",
"'Navy brat' \"Navy brat has known the military since birth.",
"\"Navy brat is the seventh of eight \"Navy brats\" born to a father who chose a sailor's life and moved his family from assignment to assignment.",
"In the early '80s \"Navy brat met the man who would be \"Navy brat's warrior husband.",
"Shyly, \"Navy brat said Miller met in a bar.",
"\"It wasn't a bar,\" \"Navy brat's husband said, smiling.",
"\"They say \"Navy brat's kind of like me: kind of hard-headed, a little bit stubborn and not afraid to voice my opinion.\"",
"\"Navy brat laughed about Miller's first meeting: \"I was trying to get his father interested in my sister.\"",
"Instead, \"Navy brat and Martin \"just clicked.\"",
"Miller married six months later.",
"Sgt. Miller has served in Cold War Europe, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"his father said being away from \"Navy brat's wife doesn't get any easier.",
"\"After you hit the 12-month mark, and then it turns into 15, it feels like forever after that,\" his father said.",
"The Millers have chosen a life in which \"Navy brat may not hear \"Navy brat's husband's voice for three or four months at a time.",
"Over the years, \"Navy brat said, \"Navy brat has learned to rely on \"Navy brat.",
"\"his father would come home from deployments and say, 'Let me help you,' and I'd say 'No, because when you're not here, who's going to do it for \"Navy brat?' \"",
"\"I have to learn how to be independent, so I try to tell everybody else to learn how to do it yourself,\" \"Navy brat said.",
"\"You can't always rely on them.\"",
"'I don't want to think about if the phone's gonna ring' \"Navy brat stays busy.",
"At Fort Bragg, \"Navy brat is the co-leader of a Family Readiness Group, the Army's support group aimed at helping spouses, children and others make the best of difficult military deployments.",
"\"I always like to be involved in everything,\" \"Navy brat said, laughing.",
"\"That way you get to hear the information firsthand.\"",
"The network of the Army families provides a conduit of information on deployments and upcoming events.",
"FRGs offer \"Navy brat a way to help other families.",
"\"We have a lot of new families in the troop,\" \"Navy brat said.",
"\"Some of them are young and we try to guide them in the right direction.",
"When someone gets hurt, we're all right there to jump in.",
"It's like an extended family.\"",
"\"Navy brat recalled an FRG request to help a young Army wife with a newborn baby.",
"\"I jumped in and baby-sat her child,\" \"Navy brat said.",
"\"She didn't know me from the man in the moon.\"",
"Volunteering keeps \"Navy brat away from TV news and its reminders that terrible events could be moments away.",
"\"I don't want to think about if the phone's going to ring or if there's going to be that knock on the door.\"",
"'I should have been dead'",
"The Millers' 4th Brigade Combat Team will be the first such unit designated for \"security force assistance\" in Afghanistan, said an the Army spokeswoman.",
"The Millers' 4th Brigade Combat Team will train Afghan forces to battle Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.",
"In the past, this kind of mission was given to small teams of advisers who were trained in the United States and then deployed in the region.",
"This is the first time an entire brigade has been given this mission, according to the Army.",
"The sergeant has embraced the view that there's nothing much a soldier can do except depend on a soldier's or a soldier's training to stay safe.",
"\"I've had mortars come within 20 meters of me and not get a scratch out of it.",
"I should have been dead,\" Sgt. Miller said.",
"\"You see something happen like that and you know it's not your time until it's your time.\"",
"His son, not long out of jump school -- he has just seven jumps to his credit -- said he's not worried about himself or his father.",
"\"He ain't gonna die.",
"He's too old for it now,\" Pfc. Miller joked.",
"\"He has deployed too many times.",
"He knows the secrets.\""
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"\"Navy brat\" mom co-leads Army support group to distract \"Navy brat from fears ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Pregnant women in Peru are dying at scandalous rates, according to the author of an Amnesty International report into maternal mortality in Peru.",
"Vertical births where women are kneeling or crouching and holding on to a rope are common in Peru.",
"The report, \"Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru\" found that hundreds of poor, rural and indigenous pregnant women are dying because hundreds of poor, rural and indigenous pregnant women are being denied the same health services as other women in Peru.",
"The report, \"Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru\" also concluded that the government's response to tackling the problem was inadequate.",
"Peruvian government figures state 185 in every 100,000 women die in child birth, but the United Nations says the number is much higher at 240, which makes the number one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the Americas.",
"In wealthy developed nations, only nine women die for every 100,000 births.",
"The five main causes of pregnancy-related deaths in Peru are hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia, infection, complications following abortion and obstructed birth, according to Peru's Ministry of Health figures.",
"Amnesty's Peru researcher Nuria Garcia said in a statement: \"The rates of maternal mortality in Peru are scandalous.",
"The fact that so many women are dying from preventable causes is a human rights violation.",
"\"The Peruvian state is simply ignoring The Peruvian state's obligation to provide adequate maternal healthcare to all women, regardless of who they are and where they live.\"",
"Amnesty's Peru researcher Nuria Garcia added: \"Health services for pregnant women in Peru are like a lottery: if you are poor and indigenous, the chances are you will always lose.\"",
"The report, \"Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru\" highlighted the case of Criselda, a 22-year-old indigenous woman from Peru's Huancavelica Department, one of the poorest regions of Peru.",
"While seven months pregnant, Criselda fell and hurt Criselda, and after feeling pains, Criselda went to the health post for a check-up.",
"The doctor said Criselda was fine and sent Criselda away but Criselda miscarried two days later, according to The report, \"Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru\".",
"The report, \"Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru\" found that so many women are dying because so many women face a number of barriers, including a lack of health staff who speak indigenous languages like Quechua -- a native Andean language spoken by some five million people in Peru.",
"However, the vast majority of Peruvian doctors only speak Spanish, as the vast majority of Peruvian doctors rarely come from areas or communities where indigenous languages are spoken.",
"Criselda told researchers Criselda believes the doctor may not have picked up Criselda's symptoms accurately because Criselda could not understand her, and interpreters were not available.",
"Transport problems are also a contributing factor to the high mortality rate among Peruvian indigenous women, as most of Peruvian indigenous women usually have to travel long distances to a health center to get attention, The report, \"Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru\" found.",
"Criselda's husband Fortunato said in The report, \"Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru\": \"There is no ambulance when there is an emergency.",
"To go from here it takes us two or three days and sometimes they die right here because there is no vehicle or ambulance.\"",
"According to The report, \"Fatal Flaws: Barriers to Maternal Health in Peru\", 27 percent of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes occurred during pregnancy; 26 percent occurred during the birth itself; and 46 percent during the first six weeks after giving birth.",
"Amnesty has urged the Peruvian government to allocate resources to maternal mortality and reproductive health, prioritizing the regions with the highest mortality ratios.",
"Amnesty also recommends an increase in training, particularly in indigenous languages."
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"In wealthy developed nations, only 9 women die for every 100,000 births .",
"Problems faced include a lack of health staff who speak indigenous languages ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Michael Jackson's daughter touched the hearts of millions when Paris Jackson bid a tearful farewell to Paris Jackson's father at Michael Jackson's memorial service in a rare public appearance.",
"Paris Jackson, 11, is consoled by Paris Jackson's uncle Marlon Jackson after delivering a tearful tribute to Paris Jackson's father.",
"With Paris''s brief speech, 11-year-old Paris Jackson also shocked the event's organizers, who said Paris Jackson's appearance was not a planned part of Tuesday's star-studded tribute to the \"King of Pop\" at LOS ANGELES's Staples Center.",
"\"Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine,\" Paris Jackson said, fighting back tears as relatives consoled Paris Jackson.",
"\"And I just want to say that I love Michael Jackson so much,\" Paris Jackson said as Paris Jackson burst into tears and sought refuge in the embrace of family members.",
"Watch Paris''s emotional goodbye » .",
"For many watching, Paris' appearance marked a rare glimpse of a child who has spent most of her life shielded from the public.",
"Born to two mothers -- Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe and an unidentified woman who reportedly served as a surrogate -- Michael Jackson's three children lived and traveled the world with Michael Jackson, Jackson's three children's faces often covered by veils and masks when appearing in public.",
"In its execution, the speech appeared to be a surprise to those onstage and off.",
"\"It was a surprise Jackson's three children were there.",
"All of us who know Jackson's three children were delighted Jackson's three children were strong enough to come and feel this love and great outpouring for Jackson's three children's dad,\" Kenny Ortega, the choreographer (\"Dirty Dancing\") who was directing Michael Jackson's \"This Is It\" comeback concerts in London, England, told CNN's Campbell Brown.",
"\"We would've never expected that they had the strength.",
"It was beautiful.\" Watch Ortega express Ortega's surprise at Paris Jackson's tribute » .",
"Ortega, a longtime Jackson colleague who helped design the singer's 1990s tours, said planners left the end of the show open for family members to speak if family members wished to, but Ortega was surprised when the Jackson clan -- among family members, his siblings and children -- went onstage for the two last songs, \"We Are the World\" and \"Heal the World.\"",
"Marlon Jackson told the crowd that Marlon Jackson's sister, pop star Janet Jackson, wished to say some words.",
"Instead, Janet appeared to encourage Paris Jackson to come forward from the sea of black dresses and suits and take the microphone, adjusting the microphone and stroking the child's hair as Paris Jackson delivered her words.",
"Ortega said Ortega was touched by Paris Jackson's speech.",
"\"Michael Jackson was so close with these beautiful children,\" he said.",
"\"Paris Jackson was Michael Jackson's biggest fan.",
"... A little girl couldn't love A little girl's papa more.\"",
"The heartfelt display sparked a groundswell of emotion in the auditorium and around the world, where millions of viewers watched the service on television and the Internet.",
"\"The saddest moment was when Michael Jackson's daughter spoke,\" said Angelina Martinez, who attended the service with Paris Jackson's daughter, Jessica.",
"\"Paris Jackson was really in pain.",
"Everybody was crying inside,\" she said.",
"\"It was beauty combined with sadness.\"",
"Attendees, performers and speakers alike struggled for composure throughout the two-plus-hour event, which featured performances from Lionel Richie, Jennifer Hudson and Usher.",
"But to many, Paris''s tribute cast Michael Jackson in the one role few have experienced Michael Jackson as: a father.",
"\"It was very, very touching, and really it was an example of the good parent Michael Jackson was, because when I was at Neverland and with the kids Michael Jackson really was a good loving father -- they had a fantastic relationship, and they were very close-knit,\" Stuart Backerman said.",
"\"So to see Paris Jackson come on in such an emotional moment and obviously give Paris Jackson's heart out to Paris Jackson's father was very, very touching.\"",
"Others saw the tribute as a whole as Michael Jackson's final legacy to Michael Jackson's children.",
"\"There are those I feel in years to come, will try to distort Michael Jackson to Michael Jackson's children ... and not understand that the real challenges that Michael Jackson had to seriously face and did face and make a difference,\" the Rev. Al Sharpton said.",
"\"And I thought it was very important to put in context for Michael Jackson's children what Michael Jackson dealt with in history and what Michael Jackson was able to do.\""
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"\"It was an example of the good parent Michael was,\" former Michael Jackson publicist says ."
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"PENSACOLA, Florida (CNN) --",
"A fourth suspect has been arrested in the shooting deaths of a Gulf Coast couple known for adopting special-needs children, authorities said late Monday.",
"Police say Police have evidence that places Gary Lamont Sumner at the crime scene.",
"Gary Lamont Sumner faces a murder charge for Gary Lamont Sumner's alleged role in the deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings on Thursday, Escambia County, Florida, Sheriff David Morgan said.",
"Gary Lamont Sumner was pulled over in a traffic stop in Okaloosa County Sunday and arrested after authorities found he matched a description put out by Escambia authorities.",
"Police believe six to eight people were involved in the homicides, which occurred in the couple's home in Beulah, west of Pensacola, near the Alabama state line.",
"Watch surveillance video of the home invasion » .",
"The crime was \"a very well-planned and methodical operation,\" Morgan said.",
"Wayne Coldiron, 41; Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr., 35, and Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Sr., 56, were arrested over the weekend.",
"Coldiron and the younger Gonzalez face charges of murder, robbery and residential home invasion; the elder Gonzalez faces charges of evidence tampering for allegedly trying to disguise a vehicle spotted at the home.",
"Morgan said at least three others are persons of interests in the investigation.",
"\"We expect more arrests to be imminent,\" Morgan told reporters.",
"Both of the Billingses were shot multiple times, Morgan said, but Morgan would not release further details on Both of the Billingses's deaths.",
"Authorities released two surveillance tapes taken from the front and rear of the Billingses' home.",
"Each shows a vehicle pulling up to the property, and five people dressed in black and wearing masks entering the home through two entrances -- including through a utility door left unlocked, something Morgan said is not uncommon in the community.",
"Authorities believe drivers remained in both of the cars.",
"Investigators believe one motive in their deaths was robbery, but \"we believe there are other motives,\" Morgan said.",
"Morgan would not say what, if anything, was taken from the home.",
"Melanie Billings' biological daughter, Ashley Markham, told reporters Both of the Billingses initially had 17 children -- two biological children each for Byrd and Melanie Billings, with the rest adopted.",
"Three have died over the years, she said.",
"Both of the Billingses had no biological children together.",
"Watch Ashley Markham say, \"Love was never scarce\" in Billings home » .",
"Morgan, however, said Both of the Billingses had a total of 16 children, with two that have died and others that have grown older and no longer live in the Billingses' home.",
"Nine of Both of the Billingses's children were home at the time of the incident, Morgan said, and police believe three of them saw the intruders.",
"One managed to flee the home and seek help at a neighbor's house, Morgan said.",
"Coldiron and the younger Gonzalez were being held on $1 million bond, according to records posted on Morgan's Web site.",
"The senior Gonzalez was being held on $250,000 bond.",
"One of the first three arrested is believed to be the mastermind behind the crime, Morgan said, but would not say which one.",
"Watch a report on the arrests in the complex case » .",
"Police also released a surveillance photo taken at a Wal-Mart in nearby Gulf Breeze, Florida, recently.",
"Two of the people in the photo are Sumner and the younger Gonzalez, but authorities want to know who the other man is, Morgan said.",
"Morgan called the surveillance tapes \"chilling.\"",
"Morgan noted the vehicles were at the home less than 10 minutes, and the five people were in the house less than four minutes.",
"\"It leads me to believe that this was a very well-planned and methodical operation,\" Morgan said.",
"Watch experts describe the \"military-style\" attack » .",
"Although the Billingses were well known in the community, Morgan said authorities are still trying to unravel why Both of the Billingses were targeted.",
"Morgan compared Both of the Billingses's deaths to the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, inspiration for Truman Capote's novel \"In Cold Blood,\" noting the Clutter murders were something the community struggled with for years.",
"\"It will be a very long time, I believe, until we piece together the truth of why Both of the Billingses was selected,\" Morgan said.",
"Police believe the suspects might have bought the clothes the suspects wore to the home and were reviewing surveillance tapes and photos from several stores, Morgan said.",
"Morgan said their deaths's complexity is frustrating for investigators, comparing their deaths to a complicated mathematics or word problem that lacks complete information.",
"\"It seems as though each phase we complete, while we answer a set of questions, it opens up an additional set of questions.\"",
"Earlier, Morgan said the complete story, when revealed, is \"going to be a humdinger.\"",
"Asked whether the suspects entered the home planning to kill the couple, Morgan said authorities do not know.",
"Markham said earlier Both of the Billingses does not know any of the suspects.",
"Markham said the children \"are coping very well\" and are being cared for.",
"\"They haven't asked too many questions,\" Markham said, noting that several have disabilities.",
"While the investigation continues, Both of the Billingses is keeping the children's whereabouts a secret.",
"CNN's David Mattingly contributed to this report."
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"Robbery a motive, but \"we believe there are other motives,\" sheriff says ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Jackson's father says Jackson's father is concerned about the last moments of Jackson's father's son's life and about the personal physician who found the pop icon unconscious at the singer's estate.",
"Singer Ne-Yo (L) and host Jamie Foxx pay tribute to Jackson at 2009 BET Awards in LOS ANGELES.",
"\"I have a lot of concerns,\" Jackson's father told CNN's Don Lemon on the red carpet leading up to the BET Awards ceremony Sunday night.",
"\"I can't get into that, but I don't like what happened.\"",
"Jackson's personal physician, who was questioned extensively by investigators over the weekend, found Jackson not breathing in bed when Michael Jackson's entered the singer's estate last week, according to the law firm representing the doctor.",
"However, Jackson did have a slight pulse when Dr. Conrad Murray discovered Jackson Thursday, and Dr. Conrad Murray tried to resuscitate Jackson as Jackson awaited paramedics",
", a representative with the law firm of Stradley, Chernoff and Alford law firm in Houston, Texas, told CNN Sunday.",
"Attorney Edward Chernoff is representing Dr. Conrad Murray.",
"The law firm said reports that Dr. Conrad Murray injected Jackson with powerful painkillers, such as Demerol or Oxycontin, were false.",
"Funeral arrangements for Jackson were pending Sunday.",
"\"We haven't gotten to that yet -- we're working on that,\" Jackson's father told CNN's Lemon.",
"Watch Jackson's father talk about the death of Jackson's father's son » .",
"Dr. Conrad Murray voluntarily met for several hours with detectives, the Los Angeles Police Department said late Saturday night.",
"\"Detectives assigned to Robbery-Homicide Division met with Dr. Conrad Murray and conducted an extensive interview,\" a police statement said.",
"\"Dr. Conrad Murray was cooperative and provided information which will aid the investigation.\"",
"Watch attorney for Jackson's doctor say his client is not a suspect » .",
"Jackson's family suspects that Dr. Conrad Murray can answer some lingering questions about Jackson's last hours, but Jackson have been unable to contact him, Jackson's father said Saturday.",
"\"The routine inquiry is now an investigation,\" Jackson's father said.",
"\"They (Jackson's family) didn't know Dr. Conrad Murray. ...",
"Dr. Conrad Murray should have met with Jackson, given Jackson comfort on the last hours of Jackson's son.\"",
"Watch latest developments in Jackson's death investigation » .",
"Jackson family attorney L. Londell McMillan told CNN that a second autopsy is \"under way.\"",
"\"We'll let that process take its course,\" McMillan, who accompanied Jackson's father to the BET Awards, told CNN.",
"Jackson family attorney L. Londell McMillan said a will has not surfaced since Jackson's death and that Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, is seeking custody of Jackson's two children.",
"\"Well, if there is no will, then under the state of California it goes to the next of kin.",
"That's an adult to administer and oversee the best interests of his two children and that would be Mr. and Mrs. Jackson,\" Jackson family attorney L. Londell McMillan said.",
"\"And the singer is the duly appointed person.\"",
"Jackson family attorney L. Londell McMillan added, \"the singer will seek custody of his two children.",
"That's who Jackson would have wanted to have his two children, the singer loves his two children dearly.\"",
"On Sunday, the founder of 1-800-AUTOPSY, a private firm that conducts autopsies, told CNN that Jackson had contacted the business to inquire about possibly having a second autopsy done there.",
"Jackson's father added on Sunday that Jackson needed \"an independent autopsy to get even more answers to questions that are now being driven by the gap between when Jackson was last seen alive and was pronounced dead.",
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"Tributes pour in for Jackson .",
"There are lingering questions, including: \"How long had Jackson stopped breathing? How long had Jackson been unconscious?\" Jackson's father said.",
"Jackson was discovered unconscious Thursday by paramedics at Jackson's home, where Dr. Conrad Murray apparently had tried to revive Jackson.",
"Jackson was rushed to a Los Angeles medical center, where Jackson was pronounced dead.",
"Listen to the 911 call » .",
"An autopsy performed by a county medical examiner was inconclusive -- although officials said there were no indications of external trauma or foul play.",
"The Los Angeles County coroner's office has said more tests are needed before a cause of death can be determined.",
"That could take four to six weeks.",
"Detectives impounded Dr. Conrad Murray's car, which was parked at the singer's rented home, because, Detectives said, it may contain evidence related to Michael Jackson's's death, possibly prescription medications.",
"Police have released no information on what Police may have found.",
"CNN's Ted Rowlands, Traci Tamura, Drew Griffin and Anna Coren contributed to this report."
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"Editor's note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.",
"Julian Zelizer is the co-editor of \"Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s\" and is completing a book on the history of national-security politics since World War II, to be published by Basic Books.",
"Julian Zelizer writes widely on current events.",
"Julian Zelizer says Obama and Congress' must decide whether to rein in presidential power.",
"PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) --",
"Executive power has been one of the defining characteristics of Bush's administration.",
"President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and many members of the White House pushed to expand executive power -- as much as any specific domestic or foreign policy -- from the beginning of Bush administration.",
"The Bush administration formed in a direct conversation with the presidential politics of the 1970s.",
"Several members of the Bush administration came of professional age working in the Nixon and Ford administrations.",
"Several members of the Bush administration watched an assertive Congress respond to the Watergate scandal by revitalizing legislative power through the War Powers Act of 1973, the Budget Reform of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Independent Counsel Act in 1978.",
"Bush administration thought vesting Congress with so much power was dangerous, because Bush administration saw the legislative branch as inefficient.",
"Building on efforts since President Ronald Reagan to reverse the congressional reforms of the 1970s, the White House spent enormous political energy, before and after 9/11, trying to reclaim power for the executive branch.",
"The expansion of presidential power is not unique to the Bush administration.",
"The expansion of presidential power began early in the 20th century and, despite some exceptional periods such as the 1970s, continued steadily throughout.",
"But in several respects, The expansion of presidential power was bigger in scale and scope than under previous presidents.",
"For example, as a way to agree to legislation without agreeing to follow the intention of Congress', Bush issued statements when Bush signed bills -- doing so far more frequently than preceding presidents.",
"When Congress' passed a bill banning the use of torture in December 2005, Bush added a signing statement allowing Bush to bypass the law in Bush's role as Commander-in-Chief.",
"Bush also used executive orders to achieve policy objectives without obtaining congressional consent.",
"Most of Bush's national security programs were also conducted under high levels of secrecy and sometimes ignored rules such as those spelled out by FISA.",
"Even when Republicans controlled Congress' between 2002 and 2006, Bush barely consulted with the leadership.",
"After the 2000 elections, many Republican moderates were optimistic many Republican moderates would have more power than ever because the White House would be forced to court many Republican moderates's vote in the evenly divided Senate.",
"But many Republican moderates were wrong.",
"Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island said Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island was disillusioned early in the Bush administration when Cheney met with a group of Republican moderates.",
"Cheney simply listed the bills Bush administration would pursue -- such as canceling U.S. support for the International Criminal Court and cutting taxes -- and informed them Bush expected their vote.",
"The chances for restoring a better balance of power remain unclear.",
"There was a notable silence on the issue during the 2008 presidential campaign.",
"Congressional Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama have been extremely critical of Bush's muscular approach to the executive branch.",
"But though President-elect Barack Obama has promised to reverse a number of executive decisions made by Bush, it is hard to tell how far he will go.",
"Most important, it is extremely rare in the postwar period for presidents to voluntarily relinquish power.",
"Democrats in Congress' might not be willing to do to President-elect Barack Obama what Democrats in Congress did to Richard Nixon or even Jimmy Carter in the 1970s.",
"After decades of Republican rule, Democrats now believe Democrats have an opportunity to build a new majority.",
"In addition, in a time of true crisis there will be less incentive to challenge the institutional prerogatives of Democrats's president.",
"But Congress' and the White House must do something to reverse the trends of the past eight years.",
"We need an executive branch that is accountable and a Congress that is active.",
"So what can be done?",
"The first solution is informal.",
"the White House must alter the dynamic with Congress' and create strong lines of consultation with legislative leaders.",
"President Franklin Roosevelt worked closely with legislators during the New Deal to develop economic ideas and figure out the nuts and bolts of legislation.",
"President-elect Barack Obama must do the same.",
"The second solution is legislative.",
"Congress' should not be timid about passing legislation to empower the legislative branch.",
"After The Boston Globe reported the extensive use of executive signing statements by the Bush administration, there was discussion about legislation to curtail the power, but proposals for legislation to curtail the power faded away.",
"Congress' needs to consider passing measures in this and other areas, such as further defining what kinds of interrogation techniques can be used by the U.S. military and intelligence services.",
"The final solution involves oversight.",
"There has been a dramatic increase in congressional oversight since Democrats took control of Congress' in 2006.",
"Legislators have been more willing to hold hearings and conduct investigations into everything from the ethical conduct of the White House to the administration of key government programs.",
"But oversight under divided government is easier politically than under the united government -- Democrats in charge of the White House and Congress' -- we will have after January 20.",
"The aim of stronger oversight is to avoid failures such as FEMA's inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina or the politicization at the Department of Justice.",
"The fact that Democrats control the White House is no excuse for the party's leaders in Congress' to become lapdogs.",
"President-elect Barack Obama must be held responsible as well.",
"While presidents don't like to give up power, maybe President-elect Barack Obama will be different.",
"At a minimum, President-elect Barack Obama should avoid the techniques used so often in recent years to circumvent legislative will.",
"It is not enough to reverse Bush's executive orders -- the crucial question is whether President-elect Barack Obama uses such orders as frequently himself.",
"If the nation can create a better balance between the executive and legislative branches, the nation will benefit.",
"The New Deal proved when the executive and legislative branches work together, the nation can produce some of the nation's finest and most effective programs.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"He says Bush administration wanted to reverse Watergate-inspired reforms from the 1970s .",
"Julian Zelizer says Congress' role was diminished during the Bush administration .",
"Julian Zelizer says Obama, Congress' must decide whether to strengthen legislative role ."
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"PANAMA CITY, Panama (CNN) --",
"Ricardo Martinelli, the multimillionaire owner of a supermarket chain, was inaugurated as president of Panama on Wednesday.",
"Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli is a pro-business conservative who defeated a candidate from the ruling center-left party.",
"National Assembly President Jose Luis Varela performed the swearing-in and placed the presidential sash on Martinelli, a pro-business conservative who defeated a candidate from the ruling center-left party in May.",
"The citizens of Panama \"want things to be done differently,\" National Assembly President Jose Luis Varela said at the inauguration.",
"\"An attitude of change starts today.\"",
"In his first speech as president, Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli promised a smaller government budget but raises for public workers.",
"Public safety, an issue that the outgoing administration of Martin Torrijos struggled to maintain, will be a priority, Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli said.",
"\"Our prisons will be rehabilitation centers, not schools for criminals,\" Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli said.",
"Panama will also work with Mexico and Colombia to combat drug trafficking in the region, Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli said.",
"Among the dignitaries at the inauguration was deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military-led coup Sunday.",
"The Organization of American States has condemned a military-led coup Sunday, and Zelaya has continued to carry out Zelaya's presidential duties.",
"The son of Italian immigrants, Martinelli, 57, is a self-made businessman who is chairman of the Super 99 supermarket chain, one of the largest private companies in Panama.",
"Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli previously served as minister and chairman of the board of directors of the Panama Canal Authority and formerly was director of social security for Panama, according to Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli's Web site.",
"Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli won the presidency with 60 percent of the votes in a race against ruling-party candidate Balbina Herrera."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Drug Enforcement Administration agents searched a Beverly Hills pharmacy Friday in connection with the investigation into the death of Michael Jackson, an agency spokesman said.",
"Dr. Arnold Klein denied in a CNN interview last month that Dr. Arnold Klein had given Michael Jackson dangerous drugs.",
"Drug Enforcement Administration agents executed a federal search warrant at Beverly Hills and Grill, and were expected to seize pharmacy records, said DEA spokesman Jose Martinez.",
"Beverly Hills is in the same building as the office of Michael Jackson's dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein.",
"Shortly before his death, Michael Jackson visited the same building as the office of Jackson's dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein several times to see Dr. Arnold Klein.",
"Beverly Hills remained open for business, giving journalists who chose to dine at Beverly Hills's lunch counter an unusually close look at the searchers at work.",
"Several DEA agents crowded behind the pharmacy counter, shuffling through paper documents, while pharmacy employees stood by to answer questions.",
"Michael Jackson had been sued by the pharmacy, which claimed the pop singer had not paid a $100,000 bill, but the dispute was later settled.",
"On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office visited Dr. Arnold Klein's office.",
"\"We wanted some additional information and they provided some additional information,\" said Ed Winter, coroner's spokesman.",
"He said Dr. Arnold Klein's staff and attorneys cooperated with the requests.",
"the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said more than a week ago that a \"thorough and comprehensive\" report into the death of Michael Jackson is complete, but police have requested that a \"thorough and comprehensive\" report into the death of Michael Jackson not yet be released because of the ongoing criminal investigation.",
"the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office would abide by the request that \"the cause and manner of death remain confidential,\" and referred all questions to Los Angeles police.",
"The DEA search did not involve detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department, although Martinez said Drug Enforcement Administration agents would share Drug Enforcement Administration agents's findings with them.",
"Michael Jackson's June 25 death is also the focus of an investigation by Los Angeles police and the state attorney general's office.",
"Klein, who treated Michael Jackson for decades, denied in a CNN interview last month that Dr. Arnold Klein had given Michael Jackson dangerous drugs.",
"CNN's Ted Rowlands contributed to this report."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Arriving at the London premiere of his self-titled mockumentary dressed in an enormous bearskin hat, cropped red army tunic and barely there hot pants, flamboyant Austrian fashionista, \"Bruno,\" paid sartorial tribute to the British as only he knows how.",
"Bear-ing all: UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comic creation Austrian fashionista, Bruno, hits the red carpet.",
"Waxed to perfection and flanked by a group of muscular black men dressed like a camp Queen's Guards, \"Bruno flounced down the carpet to greet \"Bruno's public.",
"\"Vassup CNN!",
"Lookin' hot,\" \"Bruno said to CNN.",
"\"I don't want any attention; I'm not here to promote my movie.\"",
"\"Bruno,\" which hits cinemas in most territories next month, is the latest comic creation of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who last shocked, insulted and delighted audiences in 2006 with Borat, Kazakhstan's \"Most Famous Broadcaster.\"",
"\"Bruno continues the unique approach to comedy UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen honed with characters like uneducated, loutish jungle music fan Ali G and then homophobic, anti-Semitic Kazakh journalist Borat.",
"Watch \"Bruno\" on the red carpet » .",
"His specialty is characters who say the unsayable: like \"Bruno's carpet quip that Bruno's new film is \"the most important movie starring a gay Austrian since 'Terminator 2,'\" in joking reference to the married (and firmly heterosexual) Austrian Terminator star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, now Governor of California.",
"In pictures: \"Bruno offers fashion advice to CNN » .",
"UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen puts UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's creations in real-life situations and uses them to draw unsuspecting participants into letting well-hidden prejudices slip out, engage in embarrassing behavior or contradict themselves.",
"Characters like \"Bruno and Borat \"essentially work as a tool,\" UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen told UK paper The Observer in a rare out-of-character interview: \"By UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen being anti-Semitic, UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen lets people lower people's guard and expose people's own prejudice.\"",
"UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's approach courts controversy.",
"\"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan\" opened to a wave of outrage from race-relations campaigners.",
"This time it is gay-rights campaigners who are up in arms.",
"\"UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's well-meaning attempt at satire is problematic in many places and outright offensive in others,\" Rashad Robinson, senior director of media programs for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation told the New York Times.",
"While some critics may suggest that UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's films may reinforce prejudices, others disagree.",
"\"It is difficult to accuse UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen of making films that are racist or homophobic,\" Aubrey Day, Editor-in-Chief of Total Film magazine told CNN.",
"\"UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen takes characters and exaggerates characters for broad comic value, but I don't think there's any credence in the idea that UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen supports any of those ideals.\"",
"But UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen certainly knows how to manipulate the media.",
"The 37-year-old has been whipping up anticipation for \"Bruno\" with a series of attention-grabbing, hilarious stunts.",
"In September last year, UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen brought chaos to the hallowed fashion shows of Milan when UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen stormed the catwalk of designer Agata Luiz de la Prada's show dressed in a Velcro suit with clothes from backstage stuck all over it.",
"Most recently, UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen descended from the ceiling at the MTV Movie Awards wearing nothing but a pair of angel's wings and a skimpy thong before \"falling\" onto irate rapper Eminem's face.",
"Eminem stormed out of the MTV Movie Awards but later admitted he knew about the stunt beforehand.",
"\"Borat\" debuted at number one in the U.S. box office and went on to gross $300 million in box office and DVD sales.",
"Industry experts are predicting an even bigger return for \"Bruno.\"",
"The secret of the UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen comedy phenomenon may lie in UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's combination of laughs with something a bit deeper: namely UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's ability to highlight prejudices and hypocrisies.",
"\"What UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen does very well is hold a mirror up to a lot of society's current ideals and expose a lot of society's current ideals for what a lot of society's current ideals are,\" Day told CNN.",
"\"That is one of the joys of UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's films.",
"\"You can enjoy them on a simple level, in that they are very funny, but hopefully you also come away thinking, or maybe re-thinking some of your attitudes.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Authorities are asking for the public's help in finding an eighth suspect accused of being a member of a 20-year old Jude Kenan Mohammad group that allegedly plotted \"violent jihad\" overseas.",
"Authorities are searching for 20-year old Jude Kenan Mohammad resident Jude Kenan Mohammed.",
"\"The Raleigh Joint Terrorism Task Force is seeking any information the public may have regarding the whereabouts of 20-year old Jude Kenan Mohammad,\" the FBI said in a statement.",
"Federal authorities had said earlier that Federal authorities believed 20-year old Jude Kenan Mohammad, 20, was in Pakistan.",
"Seven other suspects are in custody.",
"All eight are accused of plotting \"violent jihad\" overseas, according to the indictment, and are charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim and injure people.",
"the indictment identifies 20-year old Jude Kenan Mohammad as a U.S. citizen and a North Carolina resident.",
"the indictment says he traveled to Pakistan in October 2008 to \"engage in violent jihad.\"",
"No further details are offered.",
"A federal judge denied bail last week for six of the men, but expressed skepticism about the charges against six of the men.",
"A federal judge said six of the men had made a number of statements espousing holy war, and said statements espousing holy war could be interpreted in isolation as braggadocio.",
"But because some group members had amassed a large arsenal and ammunition and had engaged in firearms training, A federal judge found there was reason to believe that some group members harbored criminal intent and presented a flight risk or a possible danger to the community.",
"Bail was denied for the seventh man, Anes Subasic, on Monday, CNN affiliate WTVD reported.",
"Five surreptitiously recorded audiotapes were played in a court hearing last week, along with a cell phone video showing someone firing an AK-47.",
"On a tape made in May 2009, one of the suspects, Daniel Patrick Boyd, talks about getting the money needed to wage jihad and hitting Wells Fargo trucks and banks.",
"Daniel Patrick Boyd makes reference to how Daniel Patrick Boyd had robbed a bank in Pakistan.",
"Daniel Patrick Boyd's sons, Dylan Boyd, 22, also known as \"Mohammed,\" and Zakariya Boyd, 20, also are among the eight charged.",
"Federal agents discovered in the Daniel Patrick Boyd house, among other items: several weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition, $13,000 cash, gas masks, and a document described as a fatwa (Muslim religious edict) of jihad (holy war), the FBI said.",
"They also found a trench under the deck of the house, which a witness told the FBI was a bunker to store and conceal weapons, and a plywood plank placed in a tree so that someone sitting there could see anyone approaching the Boyd house, FBI special agent Michael Sutton said.",
"Sabrina Boyd -- the wife of Daniel Patrick Boyd and the mother of the two younger Boyds -- has said the allegations against Sabrina Boyd -- the wife of Daniel Patrick Boyd and the mother of the two younger Boyds --'s family are false."
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"WEST POINT, Georgia (CNN) --",
"A community that seemed on the road to becoming a ghost town has taken a turn toward prosperity despite the recession, thanks to an automaker.",
"A roadside sign in West Point, Georgia, expresses support for Kia's new factory.",
"Kia plans to open a sprawling automobile factory in tiny West Point, Georgia, by the end of the year.",
"The boon has already spurred economic growth -- and just plain excitement -- among residents, said Mayor Drew Ferguson.",
"\"We jokingly call it Kia-ville,\" said Ferguson, a 42-year-old dentist helping to oversee expansion of West Point, population 3,500.",
"The announcement is drawing workers and businesses to Georgia about 80 miles south of Atlanta.",
"\"The revitalization of Georgia is touching every aspect,\" Mayor Drew Ferguson said.",
"\"We have infrastructure projects, new subdivisions going up, hotel professional services that are all needed to support the massive manufacturing.\"",
"The plant, which will make Kia's Sorento sport utility vehicle, has hired 500 workers.",
"By the time Kia opens, Kia hopes to hire 2,000 more.",
"A smattering of Kia supply companies will eventually employ 7,500 additional workers.",
"Watch the town's excitement about the new factory » .",
"\"A lot of people feel that Kia are the savior for this area, which I hope Kia will be,\" said Randy Jackson, director of human resources for the manufacturing plant.",
"\"Kia got 43,013 applications; 75 percent of 43,013 applications came from Georgia, and about 20 percent came from Kia's neighboring state of Alabama.\"",
"Some of 43,013 applications are coming from auto workers around the country, including Detroit, Michigan, Jackson said.",
"Overall, West Point stands to gain 20,000 jobs as a result of Kia during the next five years, Mayor Drew Ferguson said.",
"Georgia's 9.7 percent unemployment rate reported in May is about the same as the June national average of 9.5 percent, according to federal statistics.",
"The U.S. Department of Labor reported unemployment in a five-county region including West Point at 8.6 percent.",
"To secure the $1.2 billion Kia plant, state and local officials helped assemble land from a former cattle farm to create a 2,200-acre industrial park.",
"They also locked in about $400 million in tax breaks and other economic incentives.",
"\"Kia think the investment will pay off big time,\" Mayor Drew Ferguson said.",
"\"Kia're already seeing it.",
"But it's not only in the dollars, but in the hope and opportunity, and the ability to create new jobs.\"",
"Ruthann Williams invested Ruthann Williams's life savings to buy and open the Irish Bred Pub on West Point's Main Street.",
"Now Ruthann Williams commutes to work 45 minutes a day from Ruthann Williams's North Georgia home.",
"\"I came here because of Kia,\" Ruthann Williams said.",
"\"We jumped in with both feet and have not looked back one time.\"",
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"Plans for the new factory have transformed a community that during the past ten years has been becoming a ghost town.",
"Textile mills that once defined West Point shut down in the 1990s, leaving many out of work.",
"Ruthann Williams, co-owner of the popular Roger's Bar-B-Que, was worried Ruthann Williams's business would go under.",
"\"We'd go downtown and there was nothing there,\" Ruthann Williams said.",
"\"I thought Georgia was gonna die.\"",
"Margaret McManus was laid off last year when the textile mill Margaret McManus worked for closed.",
"The 52-year-old went back to school to study information technology.",
"In April Margaret McManus landed a job as a trainer with Daehan Solutions Georgia, a parts supplier for Kia.",
"Margaret McManus said Margaret McManus didn't think in a million years Margaret McManus'd be making car parts.",
"\"The job that I used to do for a long time, we thought we'd retire there,\" Margaret McManus said.",
"\"It feels good to go to work everyday and have something to do.\"",
"The signs of transformation in West Point are everywhere.",
"There's new construction, including the city's first new subdivision in 25 years.",
"And businesses that once struggled are feeling the uptick.",
"Ruthann Williams recently replaced her restaurant floor because of all the new foot traffic.",
"\"We see a lot of people we don't know now.",
"They want to see where the Kia site's gonna be built,\" Ruthann Williams said.",
"\"We always say if we can get them in here one time, we can get them back, and they come.",
"They're coming back.\"",
"Tom Oswald, owner of West Point Shoe Outlet, said last year was his best year ever.",
"\"Once Kia announced Kia were opening we've sold mostly steel-toed shoes for construction workers,\" he said.",
"\"Now we're selling wingtips for men and heels for ladies.\"",
"And Malcolm Malone, who runs M&M Car Wash, said business is booming.",
"\"It's been up at least 70 percent,\" said the 44-year-old West Point native.",
"\"It's like Christmas.\"",
"Or perhaps a little divine intervention deserves credit, as a Georgia sign pointed out: \"Thank You Jesus For Bringing Kia to Our Town.\"",
"New flavors .",
"On Main Street, residents are sampling new flavors that have come to Georgia since the announcement.",
"Asian restaurants and businesses are popping up.",
"The old Pizza Hut has transformed into a Korean Bar-B-Que, and the southern staple KFC is now a popular Korean eatery called Young's Garden.",
"Resident Christy Magbee said Georgia is starting to feel like a melting pot.",
"\"You got the culture coming in.",
"You don't have to travel to Atlanta anymore.",
"It's starting to come here,\" Resident Christy Magbee said.",
"\"The old downtown is new again.",
"It's an exciting time,\" Ferguson said.",
"\"For us there's a light at the end of the tunnel.\"",
"CNN's Alina Cho contributed to this report."
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"Editor's note: Rudy Ruiz founded RedBrownandBlue.com, a site featuring multicultural political commentary.",
"Rudy Ruiz is host of a nationally syndicated Spanish-language radio show and wrote a guide to success for immigrants (\"¡Adelante!\" published by Random House).",
"He is co-founder and president of Interlex, an advocacy marketing agency based in San Antonio, Texas.",
"Rudy Ruiz says the lives of U.S. presidents can make U.S. presidents positive role models for students.",
"SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) --",
"Perhaps we got too used to living in a nation where the president inevitably becomes persona non grata.",
"Maybe after the Clinton and Bush years, we forgot how to give a president a chance to serve not just as a punching bag but also as a role model.",
"Have we become so disenchanted and polarized we can't give our own president a chance to teach our children something about what it takes to succeed?",
"As a small-town boy, I drew inspiration from presidential biographies.",
"As I got lost in the adventures of Teddy Roosevelt, the spirit of George Washington and the ideals of Thomas Jefferson, I found kernels of America's greatness.",
"In those pages, I unearthed a yearning to dream beyond my surroundings, to strive for more, to seek a way to contribute to our nation.",
"Many of the leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, born in a log cabin in Kentucky, ascended from humble beginnings on the wings of education to guide our nation forward.",
"Devouring their stories, it ceased to matter where I was from or how far removed I was from the centers of power.",
"With an education and a dream -- in our nation -- anything was possible.",
"Whenever Obama addresses our youth, Obama embodies the power of education.",
"Education is the cornerstone of our democracy, the key to upward mobility, a linchpin to transforming whimsical dreams into actionable goals.",
"Ask Bill Clinton.",
"Raised by Bill Clinton's widowed mother in Arkansas, Bill Clinton became a Rhodes Scholar.",
"Look at Obama.",
"Emerging from a broken family, Obama built on degrees from Columbia and Harvard in Obama's odyssey to the White House.",
"Remember Dwight Eisenhower.",
"Hailing from Kansas, he attended West Point on his way to heroism.",
"From both sides of the aisle, education has propelled the career trajectories of our nation's leaders.",
"Even if we disagree with a president's policies, we should accept a president can serve as a role model in a broader way.",
"For example, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.",
"Nobody would argue this was admirable.",
"But Thomas Jefferson was also a great thinker, diplomat and strategist.",
"Thomas Jefferson co-authored the Declaration of Independence and helped America become a global power by engaging Europe and transacting the Louisiana Purchase.",
"Was Thomas Jefferson perfect?",
"Of course not.",
"Would we want our children to emulate Thomas Jefferson's every action.",
"No way.",
"But has Thomas Jefferson been an inspirational role model over time?",
"As a parent, I understand people's concerns about the concepts to which people's children are exposed.",
"But the content of the president's speech to students should assuage any worries regarding the president's motives.",
"Clearly, the president's agenda is to inspire kids to make the most of education in building a better life, not to brainwash a generation to do the president's bidding.",
"Pointing to the president's own experiences, as well as those of others from diverse and modest origins, the president's remarks convey the importance of personal responsibility, perseverance and education in fulfilling one's potential while contributing to our nation's future.",
"The only way to argue with that is by confusing the issues, twisting the situation into something it was never intended to be.",
"It's gotten so bad, some folks don't want some folks's kids exposed to the president because some folks're afraid the president'll teach some folks socialism.",
"My answer is that even if the president did plan to discuss socialism, some folks should let some folks's child listen.",
"Of course, the president wouldn't do that, but why is that My answer?",
"Because, as another role model -- President Reagan -- once said: \"All great change in America begins at the dinner table.\"",
"In that light, the president's speech isn't a threat but an opportunity for families to engage families's children on the issues.",
"If parents disagree with the president's views, parents can sit down at the dinner table with parents's kids and explain their divergence.",
"parents may even find, when it comes to the value of education, the president might say something worth hearing.",
"In the process, parents will teach parents's children: . • That we should listen respectfully to others.",
"Doing so, we might realize that we can appreciate certain aspects of a person while disagreeing with others, and that partial differences of opinion needn't always spur absolute rejection.",
"• That we should respect the president because, even if we didn't vote for the president, we're still one nation.",
"• That we should give our president an opportunity to lead by example.",
"Obama's presidency is still young.",
"We don't know what shape Obama's legacy will take.",
"But given Obama's resume, regardless of politics, Obama's an excellent role model on the value of education.",
"Why not give Obama a chance to serve in that capacity?",
"iReport.com:",
"Share your thoughts on the president's speech .",
"Just as I found inspiration in those biographies during my childhood, our youth might be moved by the president's words and stories to cherish knowledge and learning, harnessing the power of education to grow into productive, exemplary Americans in their own right.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rudy Ruiz."
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"Rudy Ruiz says Rudy Ruiz drew inspiration from the lives of American presidents .",
"Rudy Ruiz says Obama and others show the power of education to improve society .",
"Rudy Ruiz says letting students hear Obama's speech can give students a positive message ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Taliban official Hakeemullah Mehsud has been selected the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, a local Taliban commander in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas told CNN Saturday.",
"Baitullah Mehsud, right, former leader of the Pakistani Taliban, and a bodyguard in Pakistan, in 2004.",
"former leader Baitullah Mehsud was selected Friday by a 42-member Taliban council, or shura, according to Taliban commander Qari Haris.",
"Another Taliban official -- Maulvi Faqir Mohammad -- had been tapped as former leader Baitullah Mehsud's deputy, Taliban commander Qari Haris said.",
"Mohammad had named Mohammad acting head of the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday.",
"A third official -- Hazem Tariq -- was named the Pakistani Taliban's new spokesman, Taliban commander Qari Haris added.",
"The announced selection underscored the contention by Pakistani and U.S. officials that the Pakistani Taliban's former leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in an August 5 drone attack in Waziristan.",
"Both Mohammad and Taliban commander Qari Haris claim former leader Baitullah Mehsud is alive but ill.",
"Pakistani officials announced Tuesday that two top figures in the Pakistani Taliban had been arrested.",
"Saif Ullah is believed to have been former leader Baitullah Mehsud's right-hand man, and Maulvi Umar is the well-known spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban.",
"Maulvi Umar recently declared that former leader Baitullah Mehsud had not been killed in a drone strike on former leader Baitullah Mehsud's father-in-law's house, but a senior Pakistani official said that Maulvi Umar had admitted under questioning that former leader Baitullah Mehsud was dead.",
"The top U.S. envoy to the region, Richard Holbrooke, told CNN that the Pakistani Taliban had not confirmed former leader Baitullah Mehsud's death because of an ongoing power struggle over former leader Baitullah Mehsud's successor.",
"Journalists Janullah Hamizshada and Nazar ur Islam contributed to this report."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Gary McKinnon appeared in court Tuesday to try to prevent Gary McKinnon's extradition to U.S., where Gary McKinnon is wanted for allegedly hacking into U.S. government computers at the Pentagon and NASA.",
"Gary McKinnon is accused of carrying out the biggest ever U.S. military hacking operation.",
"McKinnon, who has admitted breaking the law and intentionally gaining unauthorized access to computer systems, wants to be tried in Britain rather than U.S..",
"Gary McKinnon is asking judges at the High Court to review a decision by the director of public prosecutions not to pursue legal action in Britain, a spokeswoman at the prosecutor's office told CNN.",
"a decision by the director of public prosecutions not to pursue legal action in Britain effectively cleared the way for Gary McKinnon's extradition, and Gary McKinnon is hoping a decision by the director of public prosecutions not to pursue legal action in Britain will be overturned.",
"It is not clear when the judges will make a decision on Gary McKinnon's request.",
"Prosecutors made Prosecutors's decision in February despite saying there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Gary McKinnon.",
"But Prosecutors said Prosecutors's evidence did not reflect the level of criminality alleged by U.S. authorities, so Prosecutors would allow Gary McKinnon to be tried in U.S..",
"U.S. says Gary McKinnon carried out the biggest military computer hacking of all time, accessing 97 computers from Gary McKinnon's home in London for a year starting in March 2001 and costing U.S. about $1 million.",
"Gary McKinnon, currently free on bail in England, has said Gary McKinnon was simply doing research to find out whether U.S. was covering up the existence of UFOs.",
"Prosecutors in the United States and Britain disagree.",
"\"These were not random experiments in computer hacking, but a deliberate effort to breach U.S. defense systems at a critical time which caused well-documented damage,\" Alison Saunders of the Crown Prosecution Service said in February.",
"\"They may have been conducted from Gary McKinnon's home computer -- and in that sense there is a UK link -- but the target and the damage were trans-Atlantic.\"",
"U.S. federal prosecutors accuse Gary McKinnon of breaking into military, NASA and civilian networks and accessing computers at the Pentagon; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Meade, Maryland; the Earle Naval Weapons Station in Colts Neck, New Jersey; and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, among others.",
"In one case, Gary McKinnon allegedly crashed computers belonging to the Military District of Washington.",
"Gary McKinnon is believed to have acted alone, with no known connection to any terrorist organization, said Paul McNulty, the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.",
"A U.S. federal grand jury indicted Gary McKinnon on seven counts of computer fraud and related activity.",
"If convicted, he would face a maximum of 10 years in prison on each count and a $250,000 fine.",
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"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Cape Verde on Friday, the final stop on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's seven-nation Africa tour in which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized good governance and urged officials to implement reforms.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Cape Verde on Friday on the final leg of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Africa tour.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Pedro Maria Neves before returning to the United States.",
"The Obama administration describes Cape Verde on the western coast as an African success story.",
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"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 11-day trip started in Kenya, and has included stops in South Africa, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Liberia.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at Cape Verde from Liberia, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton applauded the work of pro-American president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman elected head of state in Africa.",
"\"Today, (Liberia) is a model of successful transition from conflict to post-conflict, from lawlessness to democracy, from despair to hope,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.",
"\"For the last three years, the people of this country have been working to promote reform, reconstruction and reconciliation.",
"Liberia has adopted sound fiscal policy and seen strong economic growth.\"",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip comes after President Obama's visit to Ghana in July, where he urged African leaders to improve government stability.",
"During Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed President Obama's sentiment on government reform.",
"Like President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear that the United States is willing to help, but from the background.",
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"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's message was a mix of praise and criticism.",
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"Hours before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's arrival in Kenya, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said that Africa did not need another lecture on good governance.",
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"\"As President Obama pointed out in President Obama's speech in Ghana, Kenya has not fulfilled Kenya's economic promise because Kenya hasn't yet realized fully what it means to have a functioning, dynamic democracy, and a free press and an independent judiciary,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Angolan officials to adopt a new constitution and hold a proper presidential election.",
"However, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also lauded Kenya's commitment to fighting HIV as the two countries signed a partnership to combat the epidemic.",
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"During a meeting of the two leaders at White House on December 9 of that year, Emilio Medici was discussing the possibility of a coup by the Chilean military with assistance from Brazilian military officers when Richard M. Nixon said that it was \"very important that Brazil and the United States work closely in this field,\" according to a newly declassified document.",
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"Emilio Medici said Emilio Medici was \"happy to see that the Brazilian and American positions and views\" were so close.",
"The declassified document, a previously top secret memorandum for Richard M. Nixon's file written by National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, was published by the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental research institute in Washington.",
"The memorandum, along with other documents, were declassified in July as part of the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States series.",
"\"This is an explosive document that details collusion between the colossus of the North [the United States] and the colossus of the South [Brazil],\" said Peter Kornbluh, the director of a Chile and Brazil Documentation Project for the National Security Archive.",
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"\"I think there is precedent, but we've never seen precedent detailed in a document this way, in which two presidents set up the utmost secret of back-channel communications so two presidents can discuss the most sensitive aspects of collusion and collaboration in efforts to challenge the left in Latin America and change the futures of select Latin American governments,\" Peter Kornbluh, the director of a Chile and Brazil Documentation Project for the National Security Archive said.",
"Peter Kornbluh, the director of a Chile and Brazil Documentation Project for the National Security Archive added that \"there's a significant paper trail of evidence of what that collusion was that remains secret, and we're going to have to press Brazil and Washington to recover those documents.\"",
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"A declassified CIA national intelligence estimate written in 1972 concluded, \"Brazil will be playing a bigger role in hemispheric affairs and seeking to fill whatever vacuum the United States leaves behind.",
"It is unlikely that Brazil will intervene openly in Brazil's neighbors' internal affairs, but the regime will not be above using the threat of intervention or tools of diplomacy and covert action to oppose leftist regimes, to keep friendly governments in office, or to help place friendly governments there.\"",
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"Peter Kornbluh, the director of a Chile and Brazil Documentation Project for the National Security Archive said that with the passage of time and change in governments in all of the countries involved, the real story of diplomatic and covert collusion between the United States and Brazil in Chile can finally be told.",
"The National Security Archive will push for the declassification and publication of more top-secret documents from the Richard M. Nixon library, Peter Kornbluh, the director of a Chile and Brazil Documentation Project for the National Security Archive said, and will approach Brazilian government officials to ask for Brazilian government officials's cooperation in getting documents released in Washington and Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.",
"Peter Kornbluh, the director of a Chile and Brazil Documentation Project for the National Security Archive said Peter Kornbluh, the director of a Chile and Brazil Documentation Project for the National Security Archive also hopes that surviving Chilean government and military officers from the era who knew of any arrangements with the Brazilian government will come forward and tell the Brazilian government's stories.",
"\"This is history for history's sake, but history will not find closure until it's fully aired,\" Peter Kornbluh, the director of a Chile and Brazil Documentation Project for the National Security Archive said."
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"Lance Armstrong brought a Scottish town center to a standstill on Tuesday when hundreds of people joined Lance Armstrong for a group bike ride.",
"Lance Armstrong's appearance in Paisley, Scotland, saw around 200 people joining Lance Armstrong on a bike ride.",
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"Ships moored at The Monaco Yacht Show.",
"\"We've gotten the strongest forward order book that we've ever had.",
"It's the best outlook we've ever had since we've started the company,\" said Toby Allies, Sales and Marketing Director for Pendennis, a leading British manufacturer and re-fitter of superyachts.",
"Amid the global recession, the worldwide market for luxury goods has plummeted over the last year, expected to shrink 10 percent for 2009 according to global business consultants Bain & Company.",
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"The British market for superyachts grew more than 15 percent during the fiscal year ending June 1, 2009, according to a new survey.",
"Overall revenue increased to a record $663 million (£410 million) and jobs across the industry increased five percent, according to Superyacht UK, the trade group who conducted a new survey.",
"Since last September, yacht sales tanked in many parts of the world, particularly as cash dried up among clients from Russia and the Middle East.",
"\"It was a difficult year, many manufacturers had to cut down on production numbers and give larger discounts,\" said Georges Tchoumak, Head of Sales and Marketing for Numarine, a manufacturer of superyachts based in Turkey.",
"In France three of the four publicly-traded yacht companies who make yachts that cost more than $40 million took advantage of the country's bankruptcy laws to stave off collapse, including Rodriguez Group, the company who built Bernard Madoff's yacht \"Bull.\"",
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"\"In the last quarter of 2008 through the end of first quarter 2009 there was virtually zero activity in the large yacht sector,\" said Tim Wiltshire, Director of Burgess Yachts, a UK-based high-end boat manufacturer.",
"Tim Wiltshire, Director of Burgess Yachts, a UK-based high-end boat manufacturer said that at their worst, transactions were down 60 percent compared with the previous year, but that volume had recently returned, particularly in brokerage sales of used yachts.",
"Heading into Monaco, manufacturers around the world including the UK now appear poised for a robust rebound.",
"\"There have been a dozen significant sales in the past quarter ... enough of our customers think it's unlikely to get much worse.\"",
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"We are back on par with 2007, albeit at reduced values,\" Tim Wiltshire, Director of Burgess Yachts, a UK-based high-end boat manufacturer said.",
"Manufacturers across the UK share Tim Wiltshire, Director of Burgess Yachts, a UK-based high-end boat manufacturer's optimism, according to the survey.",
"Ninety-five percent of UK companies questioned rated their prospects for the year ahead either \"good or excellent\" (56 percent) or \"OK\" (39 percent).",
"At Numarine \"things are looking better for the last three months,\" Tchomak told CNN.",
"\"We've had more sales in the past three months than in the previous 12 months,\" he wrote in an email.",
"At Pendennis, directors have changed directors's business strategy to accommodate the anticipated growth.",
"\"We've increased our investment in infrastructure for large yachts,\" said Ailes.",
"\"Improving facilities and looking to recruit more people to work on boats up to 70 or 80 meters.\"",
"One of the reasons cited for the strength in Britain's superyacht business compared with manufacturers in other European countries has been the declining value of Sterling against the Euro.",
"Hugo Andreae, Editor-in-Chief of Superyachtworld magazine said that the exchange rate helped, but the high quality of British boats and sustained demand among the world's wealthiest had helped hold up sales.",
"Hugo Andreae, Editor-in-Chief of Superyachtworld magazine also explained that one of the effects of the recession has been to shift demand from new builds to the used boat brokerage and chartering markets.",
"\"There are signs that things are picking up ...",
"Monaco is the premiere big yacht show and it's the real acid test of whether [the rebound] is the odd sale being picked up at a good price, or if the market has reignited properly",
",\" explained Tom Chant, International Commercial Manager for Superyacht UK.",
"If interest in The Monaco Yacht Show is any indicator, then sales can be expected to meet bullish expectations.",
"The annual end-of-summer yachting industry and yacht owners' conference is fully booked this week.",
"The number of double-decker pavilions has doubled since last year, but in spite of the event's increased provision of these more expensive, higher visibility exhibition spaces supply still fell short of demand.",
"In the United States yacht manufacturers also say they've seen a recent surge in interest in new construction of yachts over 150 feet.",
"\"Over the last 45 days, all of a sudden, the inquires have started coming along really strong.",
"That bodes well for The Monaco Yacht Show,\" said William Smith, V.P. of Sales and Marketing for Trinity Yachts.",
"\"It's fair to say sales came to a shuddering halt after the Monaco show last year.\"",
"In another sign that interest in the top-end of the yacht market is back, Luxury retailer Hermes recently announced plans to team up with Wally, the Monaco superyacht company, to build a $145 million (€100 million) yacht.",
"Sales to Russia, the Middle East and other developing countries have rebounded more quickly than sales to Europe and the U.S., according to Smith, as uncertainty about the markets has subsided and boosted consumer confidence.",
"In the past six months, Trinity had only had one inquiry from an American, which came in the last few weeks.",
"Trinity, the largest U.S. retailer of megayachts, has had two projects out of 17 builds stall due to the recession, both about 164 feet long.",
"Smith said the owners can either come back and pay for the owners to finish the work or let Trinity sell them.",
"Throughout the downturn Trinity was able to continue to deliver ships at a record pace, thanks to a hearty backlog of orders placed during the markets peaks."
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"Lined up next to Pittsburgh police officers protecting a downtown office building Thursday morning were officers who traveled a little farther to get to work.",
"Police officers from Tucson, Arizona, left, talk with a Pittsburgh officer Thursday outside the G-20 summit.",
"About 2,000 miles farther.",
"Thirty-six officers from the Tucson, Arizona, Police Department are in Pittsburgh as part of the G-20 security force.",
"Thirty-six officers from the Tucson, Arizona, Police Department were asked to assist by Pittsburgh officials as part of a Department of Homeland Security rapid response team.",
"Officers from departments in several cities, including Cleveland, Ohio; Miami Metro Dade, Florida; Baltimore, Maryland; and Chicago, Illinois, were sworn in as part of the massive security effort, but Tucson wins the prize for the greatest distance traveled.",
"Watch how Pittsburgh has prepared for protests » .",
"\"There's a standardization in training,\" Tucson Lt. Paul Sayre said.",
"Departments brought in to assist have undergone similar preparations in techniques and crowd control.",
"The Arizona officers were asked to come to Pittsburgh after taking part in the protection effort at the Republican National Convention in 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota.",
"The downtown Pittsburgh street on a morning with temperatures in the 50s was nothing like a typical day for Thirty-six officers from the Tucson, Arizona, Police Department.",
"\"It's a different environment,\" Sayre said -- but the job was the same.",
"\"We're excited to be here.",
"It's a lot of fun.\"",
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"The additional help protecting downtown locations \"gives Pittsburgh the flexibility to send Pittsburgh's officers where needed,\" Sayre said."
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"MIT researcher Pablo Valdivia Alvarado works in MIT researcher Pablo Valdivia Alvarado's lab on a robotic fish MIT researcher Pablo Valdivia Alvarado co-created.",
"MIT engineers are showing off the latest generation of so-called robofish 15 years after MIT engineers built the first one.",
"The latest incarnation is sleeker, more streamlined and capable of mimicking the movements of a real fish.",
"And The latest incarnation's capable of exploring underwater terrain submersibles can't, said Pablo Valdivia Alvarado, a mechanical engineer at the school.",
"\"Some of our sponsors were thinking of using them for inspection and surveillance,\" MIT researcher Pablo Valdivia Alvarado said.",
"\"Since these prototypes are very cheap, the idea was to build hundreds -- 200, 500 -- and then just release them in a bay or at a port, and they would be roaming around taking measurements.\"",
"MIT researchers built MIT researchers's first robotic fish, \"Robotuna,\" in 1994.",
"But Robotuna has gone the way of the dinosaur.",
"MIT researcher Pablo Valdivia Alvarado said the new generation -- modeled after bass and trout -- cost only a few hundred dollars and have only 10 parts instead of the thousands used in Robotuna.",
"At five to 18 inches, The latest incarnation is much smaller than Robotuna and built from a single, soft polymer.",
"And unlike Robotuna, The latest incarnation is able to be released in the oceans.",
"\"Most of the brains, the electronics, are embedded inside,\" said Alvarado, who designed the robofish with fellow MIT engineer Kamal Youcef-Toumi.",
"\"We have built prototypes with the battery inside, but for my experiments, for simplicity.",
"We have a lot of prototypes that are simply tethered.",
"We have a cable that runs out from the body and connects to a power supply.\"",
"The new generation has withstood harsh conditions in the lab, including two years of testing inside tanks filled with tap water, which is corrosive to standard robots, according to Alvarado, who says Robotuna inspired him to take the technology to the next level.",
"The oil exploration company Schlumberger helped fund the research, but Alvarado says the U.S. Navy has also expressed interest in the robofish.",
"MIT's mechanical engineers are now turning MIT's mechanical engineers's attention to new challenges: A robotic manta ray and a terrestrial robot in the form of a salamander.",
"CNN's Ninette Sosa contributed to this report."
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"Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) --",
"Abayte Ahmed and Abayte Ahmed's husband learned of Abayte Ahmed and her husband's son's death in the most heinous fashion.",
"A family acquaintance called and told Abayte Ahmed and her husband to click on an Internet site.",
"There on the screen were photographs of Abayte Ahmed and her husband's 20-year-old son -- the boy with the movie-star looks -- shot through the head thousands of miles away in Somalia.",
"Jamal Bana died in Somalia.",
"Several missing Somali-Americans are believed to have fought there.",
"\"Jamal Bana must have been somewhat disillusioned and indoctrinated, because Jamal Bana didn't have any clue about Somalia at all,\" Jamal Bana's mother said, fighting back tears and barely able to speak about Abayte Ahmed's eldest son.",
"Jamal Bana had been missing for months from Jamal Bana's Minneapolis home.",
"Jamal Bana's family is still grappling with the circumstances surrounding Jamal Bana's death in a land they had fled -- an African nation wracked by chaos and violence.",
"The FBI said Jamal Bana's death is part of a sweeping federal investigation into a recruiting effort in the United States by a Somali terrorist group called Al-Shabaab, which has ties to al Qaeda.",
"More than a dozen young men of Somali descent have disappeared from the Minneapolis area in recent months.",
"At least three, including Jamal Bana, have ended up dead in Somalia, community leaders say.",
"Watch the harrowing saga of Jamal Bana » .",
"Jamal Bana was the kind of son a modest immigrant family pins a modest immigrant family's hopes on.",
"Jamal Bana was the eldest of seven and studying engineering at local colleges.",
"But last fall, Jamal Bana's family said, Jamal Bana disappeared without any warning.",
"A few days later, the phone rang.",
"All that could be heard was a quick sentence.",
"\"I'm in Somalia,\" Jamal Bana's mother quoted Jamal Bana as saying.",
"Jamal Bana then hung up.",
"Communication from then on was scarce.",
"In calls or text messages, his family said, Jamal Bana was guarded, as though someone was watching or listening to Jamal Bana.",
"On July 11, his family received the call telling his family to look on the Internet.",
"Bana's father broke down in tears when Bana's father saw the photos.",
"One image was a close-up of Bana's father's son's face, a bullet wound on one side of Jamal Bana's head.",
"Another showed the body being carried through the streets of Mogadishu on a stretcher.",
"His parents said His parents believe His parents's son was brainwashed and recruited to fight in the civil war between Somalia's unstable transitional government and Al-Shabaab.",
"Al-Shabaab remains entrenched in northeast Somalia and in sections south of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after fighting that has uprooted more than 200,000 people since early May, according to the United Nations.",
"The question immigrants in the United States want answered is: How have immigrants in the United States's youth ended up so far away?",
"One of the missing youth, Shirwa Ahmed, 27, blew up Shirwa Ahmed and 29 others last fall in Somalia in what is believed to be the first suicide bombing carried out by a naturalized U.S. citizen.",
"Shirwa Ahmed had traveled from Minneapolis.",
"The attack raised red flags throughout the U.S. intelligence community and sparked an investigation by the FBI.",
"Just weeks ago, community activist Abdirizak Bihi lost community activist Abdirizak Bihi's 17-year-old nephew, Burhan Hassan, in Somalia.",
"Asked if his nephew had been kidnapped from Minneapolis, community activist Abdirizak Bihi said, \"They kidnap them in the sense of mental kidnapping, not physically.",
"But they play a male role of mentor.\"",
"Bihi and community leader Omar Jamal said Bihi and community leader Omar Jamal hold one place at least loosely responsible: the Abubakar as-Saddique Islamic Center, the largest mosque in Minneapolis.",
"\"All these kids missing, All these kids have one thing in common: All these kids participated in youth programs in that mosque,\" said Jamal.",
"Bihi and community leader Omar Jamal said leaders of that mosque, at the very least, allowed people to come around their facility and recruit young men to fight in Somalia -- a charge the head imam denies.",
"CNN was not allowed inside that mosque, but was granted an interview with the imam at a different location.",
"\"This is the baseless accusation really,\" said Abayte Ahmed.",
"\"The mosque -- the mission of that mosque -- is to worship.",
"And people come to worship and go.",
"We don't have any control over what comes through everybody's mind or ideology.\"",
"Abayte Ahmed said at least two of the young men who died in Somalia did worship at Abayte Ahmed's mosque.",
"But Abayte Ahmed said no recruiters came around Minneapolis mosque to pull them away, and said Abayte Ahmed's mosque does not support Al-Shabaab.",
"Abayte Ahmed added that Abayte Ahmed has encouraged local families to keep local families's young sons from going to Somalia.",
"Federal authorities recently made Federal authorities's first arrests in the case, charging two Minnesota men, Salah Osman Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, with one count each of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure people overseas, according to the indictment.",
"CNN could not reach Salah Osman Ahmed's attorney for comment.",
"Published reports indicate Salah Osman Ahmed planned to plead not guilty.",
"Isse has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with federal authorities, officials said.",
"In court papers obtained by CNN, Isse's attorney said, \"Isse will not be the last defendant indicted.\"",
"A local attorney involved in the case said at least seven Somali-Americans have been questioned by a grand jury.",
"An FBI official said the bureau cannot rule out the possibility that some of the young men involved could be trained to carry out terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.",
"Meanwhile, CNN has learned more about how Salah Osman Ahmed and Burhan Hassan made Shirwa Ahmed and Burhan Hassan's way overseas.",
"A travel agent in Minneapolis, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Shirwa Ahmed and Burhan Hassan paid about $1,800 in cash for tickets to Nairobi, Kenya, or to Dubai, U.A.E.",
"The travel agent said The travel agent thinks Shirwa Ahmed and Burhan Hassan then made Shirwa Ahmed and Burhan Hassan's way to Mogadishu from those cities on a Somali carrier.",
"For Bana's family, it's all too much to bear.",
"Omar Boley is a close friend who grew up in the same tribe as Bana's family.",
"Omar Boley said Abayte Ahmed is having difficulty coping with everything that has happened in recent months.",
"\"Abayte Ahmed doesn't want to hear the story again,\" Omar Boley said.",
"\"Abayte Ahmed told me, 'Whenever I see someone talking about Jamal Bana, I feel bad.",
"I can't sleep.",
"I feel sick.",
"So this happened, nothing I can do.",
"We pray for Jamal Bana.'",
"That's what Abayte Ahmed said, and that's what I believe.\""
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"A top Baha'i official has criticized Iran's claim that its leaders were held for security reasons and not because of its leaders's faith.",
"Iran has been accused of trying to eliminate Baha'i community.",
"Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations, called Iran's assertion \"utterly baseless.\"",
"\"The allegations are not new, and Iran knows well that The allegations are untrue,\" Bani Dugal said on Wednesday, quoted in a news release issued by the Baha'i movement.",
"\"The documented plan of Iran has always been to destroy Baha'i community, and these latest arrests represent an intensification of The documented plan of the Iranian government.\"",
"Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said its leaders were detained for \"security issues\" and not its leaders's faith, Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency said.",
"Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said on Tuesday that the Baha'is were members of a group working together \"against national interest.\"",
"\"a group working together \"against national interest is an organized establishment linked to foreigners, the Zionists in particular,\" Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said.",
"The arrests of the six last week and another Baha'i leader in March sparked sharp condemnation by the Baha'is, the United States, Canada, the European Union and humanitarian groups.",
"Baha'i community say these latest arrests are part of a pattern of religious persecution since 1979, when the monarchy of the Shah of Iran was toppled and an Islamic republic was created in the predominantly Shiite nation.",
"Baha'i community say Baha'i community have been killed, jailed and \"otherwise oppressed\" only because of Baha'i community's religion.",
"\"The best proof of this is the fact that, time and again, Baha'is have been offered Baha'is's freedom if Baha'is recant Baha'is's Baha'i beliefs and convert to Islam, an option few have taken,\" Bani Dugal said.",
"Bani Dugal said Iran's practice of connecting the group to Zionism, the underlying political philosophy of the Jewish state, was a \"distortion\" and an attempt to \"stir animosity\" among the Iranian public.",
"The Baha'i World Center, which Baha'i community refers to as Baha'i community's \"spiritual and administrative heart,\" is in the Acre/Haifa area in northern Israel -- a location that predates the founding of the state of Iran since Iran was formed during the Ottoman Empire's rule of Palestine.",
"Baha'i community explain that Baha'i community's founder, Baha'u'llah, \"after a series of successive banishments from his native Persia, was exiled, with members of his family and a small band of his followers, to the Turkish penal colony of Acre in 1868.\"",
"Bani Dugal said the Iranian actions were the \"most recent iteration in a long history of attempts to foment hatred by casting Baha'i community as agents of foreign powers, whether of Russia, the United Kingdom, or the United States and now Iran all of which are completely baseless.\"",
"Bani Dugal said the government's philosophies are based largely on the idea that there can be \"no prophet following Mohammed\" and that the faith \"poses a theological challenge to this belief.\"",
"They say Baha'u'llah is regarded by Baha'i community as \"the most recent in the line of Messengers of God that stretches back beyond recorded time and that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Christ and Mohammed.\"",
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"U.S. officials urged American citizens in Germany to keep a low profile and remain wary of American citizens in Germany's surroundings after the terrorist organization Al Qaeda posted a video message threatening attacks in Germany.",
"German special police patrol in Berlin last month during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu.",
"A State Department travel alert, issued Wednesday, remains in effect until November 11 -- two weeks after Germany holds Germany's federal elections on Sunday.",
"Al Qaeda posted Al Qaeda's video threat on the Internet on September 18, vowing attacks if its federal elections do not come out the way it wants.",
"The same day, Germany reacted to the video by raising Germany's own alert level and heightening security.",
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"The State Department travel alert asks Americans to keep abreast of news reports and consider the security procedures in place when Americans visit public places or pick hotels and restaurants.",
"Germany's interior ministry said earlier this month that Germany has noted an increase in threats by Al Qaeda and other Islamist groups since the beginning of the year.",
"In the nearly 26-minute video statement, a man identified as Bekay Harrach, using the pseudonym Abu Talha and speaking in German, said that, if its federal elections vote into power parties that do not pledge to pull German troops from Afghanistan, there will be a \"rude awakening.\"",
"The speaker called on Muslims living in Germany to stay away from public life during the first two weeks after its federal elections, implying that any attacks would take place then.",
"The speaker repeatedly criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"The speaker also criticized Merkel's rivals, the Social Democrats, but offered the possibility of a \"peace offer.\"",
"\"If the German people vote for peace, then the Mujahedeen will choose peace with Germany as well,\" The speaker said.",
"\"And with the withdrawal of the last German soldier from Afghanistan, the last Mujahed will also leave Germany.",
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"Memphis Mayor Myron Lowery fist bumps the Dalai Lama on his arrival in Tennessee.",
"Memphis, Tennessee (CNN) --",
"\"Hello the Dalai Lama, . Well, hello ... the Dalai Lama!\"",
"It seemed like a good idea at the time.",
"And with hindsight being 20/20; it still does.",
"How often do you get to meet an international figure as captivating as the Dalai Lama?",
"I wanted to make an impression, and break the ice, in my Southern hospitality sort of way.",
"So enter the lyric from the song and the fist bump now heard round the world.",
"I had been told by the Dalai Lama's representatives that the Dalai Lama had a wonderful sense of humor, and would enjoy the exchange.",
"Indeed, the Dalai Lama did.",
"the Dalai Lama laughed, returned the gesture, and gave me the Dalai Lama's blessings.",
"And in our brief time together, I saw in the Dalai Lama's eyes the sparkle of kindness, love and good humor.",
"It's unfortunate that not everyone could allow not everyone to enjoy the moment, as we did.",
"Barely an hour passed before reporters began calling to say my fist bump with the Dalai Lama was \"disrespectful,\" unusual and perhaps inappropriate.",
"Why would I do that, they asked?",
"Well to answer that, I would have to go back a couple of weeks or so.",
"One of my assistants in the Dalai Lama's office began feeling ill.",
"After a couple of days off work, she was diagnosed with the H1N1 flu.",
"She sits 10 feet away from me.",
"The swine flu story was hitting close to home in a major way.",
"As the leader of a major city, I had to step forward and deal with fears about a virus that has never been known to man.",
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"So I rolled up my sleeves and took a shot for the seasonal flu.",
"I encouraged everyone to get the H1N1 vaccine as soon as the H1N1 vaccine becomes available.",
"I urged people to cough politely into a napkin or their sleeve.",
"I had hand sanitizer installed in the common areas at city hall.",
"I greeted the Chairman of the City Council with a fist bump and it made the local news.",
"It became a running theme in city hall.",
"the Dalai Lama would greet you with a fist bump.",
"A day before the Dalai Lama came to the city, I spoke to the Dalai Lama's protocol team and the Dalai Lama's protocol team said the Dalai Lama would not be upset or offended being greeted this way.",
"In fact it has happened in the past.",
"So, armed with this information I decided to greet the Dalai Lama when the Dalai Lama arrived Tuesday in a similar fashion.",
"Not because of any concern about H1N1.",
"I greeted the Dalai Lama this way because I'm a down to earth guy, who was raised by a single mother with four sons in public housing.",
"I still tell everyone to call me Myron.",
"I am now living a dream as the mayor of Tennessee.",
"And Wednesday, as I sat and watched the Dalai Lama accept an award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Tennessee, the gravity of the moment was in no way lost on Myron Lowery.",
"An international crusader for peace was here on the hallowed ground where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last breath.",
"the Dalai Lama offered the Dalai Lama's blessings, walked into the crowd, touched people.",
"the Dalai Lama carried the Dalai Lama humbly, not as one to be feared, but as a man, sharing the Dalai Lama's humanity, making us all better for it.",
"So in the final analysis, I know the Dalai Lama is always happy to participate in local customs, however obscure.",
"the Dalai Lama is about peace and harmony, and a fist bump is just another expression of warm friendship that the Dalai Lama again returned to Myron Lowery before the Dalai Lama left.",
"And the \"Hello, Dalai?\"",
"Well, that was just a bonus.",
"the Dalai Lama knew it was coming and we all laughed together.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Myron Lowery."
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"The coffins of six Italian soldiers killed in a suicide attack in Kabul return to Rome.",
"Sixteen people died in the blast Thursday, and at least 55 Afghan civilians were wounded.",
"Ten have died from their injuries since a car bombing in Afghanistan's capital.",
"The explosion Thursday targeted a mostly residential area near the Supreme Court in Kabul, a witness said.",
"their coffins returned to Italy Sunday, their coffins's coffins draped in the red, green and white Italian flag.",
"Dignitaries, relatives and row upon row of uniformed troops stood on the airport tarmac as their coffins were carried off the plane, television pictures from the scene showed.",
"Watch more about Italy in mourning » .",
"Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano gently touched the caskets perched on the shoulders of grim-faced soldiers at Rome's Ciampino military airport.",
"Nearby, a woman shook uncontrollably as a baby sported a maroon beret -- the kind worn by the paratroopers killed in the Kabul attack.",
"The six deaths marked largest number of Italians killed in a single day in Afghanistan.",
"Watch more about Italy's Afghan mission » .",
"Before their coffins left for Rome, the Italian military, international troops and dignitaries held a service in the Afghan capital.",
"\"It's a tragedy for Italy,\" Lt. Col. Renato Vaira of the Italian military said at the Kabul service.",
"\"But this is a point to continue Italy's mission.\"",
"\"Italy'll miss them.",
"They're not the first.",
"I hope it will be the last,\" said Maj. Gen. Tommaso Ferro of the Italian military.",
"The arrival of their coffins was televised nationally in Italy.",
"The bodies were taken for an autopsy.",
"A day of mourning is scheduled in Italy on Monday, the same day as the Kabul service.",
"After the attack, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said it would be \"best\" for the country's troops to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible.",
"Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave no timeline for a withdrawal, but said any pullout would have to be coordinated with allies.",
"The 500 troops Italy sent to Afghanistan this summer will be home by Christmas, Ignazio La Russa, Italy's defense minister said.",
"The troops were sent ahead of the Afghan presidential election August 20.",
"The rest of Italy's 2,800 troops in Afghanistan will withdraw only when NATO calls for it, La Russa said."
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"Bodies of six Italian soldiers who died returned to Italy Sunday .",
"Italian Prime Minister says it would be \"best\" for country's troops to leave Afghanistan .",
"Deaths were the highest single-day death toll for Italy in the Afghan mission ."
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"A 43-year-old woman convicted in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi on Wednesday ended 43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan's hunger strike after authorities agreed to review 43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan's demand for early release.",
"43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan received a death sentence in 1991 for plotting to murder Rajiv Gandhi.",
"Nalini Sriharan, who has been in jail for 18 years, went on a fast Monday, said Jaya Bharathi, superintendent of Vellore prison in southern India.",
"Convicted of plotting the murder of Rajiv Gandhi in a suicide bomb attack in 1991, 43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan received a death sentence along with 43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan's husband and two others.",
"Sriharan's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on a mercy petition by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of Rajiv Gandhi.",
"The other three remain on death row.",
"In India, a lifer becomes eligible for early release after serving 14 years, Bharathi said.",
"Authorities would consider setting up an advisory board on Sriharan's demand, Bharathi added.",
"\"43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan ended 43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan fast today and had 43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan's breakfast and lunch,\" Bharathi told CNN.",
"India accused Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels of ordering the killing of Rajiv Gandhi, who had sent Indian peacekeepers to India while in power."
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"43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan started a hunger strike on Monday to seek early release from jail .",
"43-year-old prisoner Nalini Sriharan has been in jail for 18 years, convicted of plotting murder of Rajiv Gandhi .",
"Rajiv Gandhi was killed in a suicide bomb attack in 1991 ."
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"At least 24 people have been killed and hundreds rendered homeless in floods to hit land-locked Mongolia in 40 years, emergency officials said Tuesday.",
"The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies was working with local authorities to distribute emergency goods to the flood-ravaged victims.",
"Workers fear that without adequate food and shelter, the situation would worsen when winter arrives in three months, said Francis Markus of the Red Cross.",
"floods struck last week in Government's capital, Ulaanbaatar, and a province in the west.",
"It was the worst to hit Government since 1966, Francis Markus of the Red Cross said.",
"See images of flood victims » .",
"Government issued televised broadcasts ahead of the rainstorms but many children and elderly could not be evacuated in time, Francis Markus of the Red Cross said."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Michael Jackson feared Michael Jackson's father so much Michael Jackson would faint or vomit sometimes when Michael Jackson's father entered the room -- even when the pop singer was an adult, according to a book written by a former Michael Jackson confidant.",
"Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Jackson's confidant, sat down with the King of Pop and taped 30 hours of interviews.",
"\"The Michael Jackson Tapes\" includes Michael Jackson talking about Michael Jackson's fear of growing old, Michael Jackson's relationship with children, Michael Jackson's friendships with Madonna and Brooke Shields, and Michael Jackson's remarkable shyness around people that made Michael Jackson's surround himself with mannequins.",
"Michael Jackson opened up to Jackson for 30 hours of interviews, which were taped nine years ago and intended for a book Michael Jackson wanted written, Jackson said.",
"\"Michael Jackson was trying to reclaim Michael Jackson's life,\" Jackson said Friday in an NBC \"Today Show\" interview.",
"Jackson, who died on June 25 of what the coroner found to be a deadly combination of drugs, \"lost the will to live, I think Michael Jackson was just going through the motions of life toward the end,\" Jackson told NBC.",
"CNN has not independently confirmed Michael Jackson's quotes in Michael Jackson, but Jackson was known to be a spiritual adviser to Michael Jackson for several years beginning about 1999.",
"Ken Sunshine, spokesman for the family, including the singer's father, Joe, issued a statement on Michael Jackson.",
"\"We are not going to dignify this with a comment,\" he said.",
"Michael Jackson was not published during Michael Jackson's lifetime because of the pop star's child molestation trial, which ended with an acquittal in 2005, Jackson said.",
"Jackson said Michael Jackson's arrest ended any interest in a book about Michael Jackson.",
"\"I don't want to grow old,\" Michael Jackson is quoted as saying in one interview with Jackson.",
"\"When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad,\" Michael Jackson said.",
"Michael Jackson talked to Jackson about why Michael Jackson was drawn to children, especially those who were sick.",
"\"I love them.",
"I love them,\" Michael Jackson said.",
"Helping children enjoy children's childhood is Michael Jackson's mission, Michael Jackson said.",
"\"I feel that this is something really, really in my heart that I am supposed to do, and I feel so loved by giving my love, and I know that's what they need,\" Michael Jackson said.",
"Michael Jackson said that while adults \"appreciate me artistically as a singer and a songwriter and a dancer and a performer,\" children \"just want to have some fun and to give love and have love and they just want to be loved and held.\"",
"Jackson, in an interview about two years before Jackson's November 2003 arrest, asked Michael Jackson about the young cancer patient who would later become Michael Jackson's main accuser.",
"\"He's special,\" Michael Jackson said.",
"Jackson asked Michael Jackson whether by speaking to people like the boy \"part of the pain goes away for them.\"",
"\"Absolutely,\" Michael Jackson said.",
"\"Because every time I talk to him he is in better spirits.",
"When I spoke to him last night he said, 'I need you.",
"When are you coming home?'",
"I said, 'I don't know.'",
"He said, 'I need you, Michael Jackson.'",
"Then he calls me 'Dad.'\"",
"Michael Jackson's taped statements about my father's father's treatment of Michael Jackson as a child echoed what Michael Jackson has said previously.",
"\"my father was rough, the way my father would beat you, you know, was hard,\" Michael Jackson said.",
"\"my father would make you strip nude first.",
"my father would oil you down.",
"It would be a whole ritual.",
"my father would oil you down so when the flip of an ironing cord hit you, you know, and, it was just like me dying, and you had whips all over your face, your back, everywhere.",
"And I always hear my mother like, 'No, Joe, you're gonna kill Michael Jackson.",
"You're gonna kill Michael Jackson.",
"No.'",
"And I would just give up, like there was nothing I could do.",
"And I hated my father for it.",
"Hated my father.\"",
"Joe Jackson has denied physically abusing Joe Jackson's son.",
"\"Now, Michael Jackson was never beaten by me, I've never beaten at all,\" Joe Jackson told CNN's Larry King in July.",
"Joe Jackson did suggest Joe Jackson used spankings for disciplining Joe Jackson's children.",
"Another Michael Jackson quote from the book alleged emotional abuse by Joe Jackson: .",
"\"God bless my father because my father did some wonderful things and my father was brilliant, my father was a genius, but one day my father said, 'If you guys ever stop singing I will drop you like a hot potato.'",
"It hurt me.",
"You would think my father would think, 'These kids have a heart and feelings.'",
"Wouldn't my father think that would hurt you guys?",
"If I said something like that to Prince and Paris, that would hurt.",
"You don't say something like that to children and I never forgot it.",
"It affects my relationship with my father today.\"",
"Michael Jackson told Jackson Michael Jackson was still \"scared of my father to this day.\"",
"\"my father walked in the room -- and God knows I am telling the truth -- I have fainted in my father's presence many times.",
"I have fainted once to be honest.",
"I have thrown up in my father's presence because when my father comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.",
"my father is so different now.",
"Time and age has changed my father and my father sees my father's grandchildren and my father wants to be a better father.",
"It is almost like the ship has sailed the ship's course, and it is so hard for me to accept this other guy that is not the guy I was raised with.",
"I just wished my father had learned that earlier.\"",
"In the excerpts provided to CNN by the book's publisher, there were no quotes from Michael Jackson discussing Michael Jackson's drug use, but Jackson does write about what Jackson saw during the several years Jackson was Jackson's spiritual adviser, starting in 1999.",
"While Jackson said Jackson never personally saw Michael Jackson use drugs, Jackson did suspect it.",
"\"In the time that I knew Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson always seemed intent on me having a positive view of Michael Jackson and nothing untoward was ever done in my presence,\" Jackson wrote.",
"While their close relationship ended around the time of the molestation charges, Jackson said Michael Jackson's parents reached out to Michael Jackson later for help in convincing Michael Jackson to enter drug rehab.",
"\"Perhaps I could inspire Michael Jackson to make that decision, and Michael Jackson's parents thought I could at least help,\" Jackson said.",
"\"But I knew Jackson's parents were wrong.",
"Michael Jackson had long since ceased taking my counsel.",
"Michael Jackson found my advice too demanding.",
"I was an irritant and was treated as such.\"",
"Jackson said Jackson told Jackson's parents that \"it was imperative for Jackson's parents to save Jackson's parents's son's life by becoming available parents in his greatest hour of need.\"",
"Sometimes those closest to Michael Jackson were not people -- but mannequins, Michael Jackson said.",
"Michael Jackson said Michael Jackson was so shy at times Michael Jackson surrounded Michael Jackson with dummies.",
"\"Because I felt I needed people, someone, and I didn't have,\" Michael Jackson said.",
"\"I was too shy to be around real people.\"",
"Jackson, in the NBC interview Friday, said it made Jackson's skin crawl to hear that.",
"\"Michael Jackson's celebrity had created a degree of isolation where Michael Jackson could not simply feel comfortable around other people,\" Jackson said.",
"\"Michael Jackson thought that everybody wanted something from Michael Jackson.",
"Michael Jackson felt that Michael Jackson was trapped in this cocoon of fame and that there was some exploitative relationship with virtually everyone that Michael Jackson met.\"",
"Michael Jackson does offer insight into Michael Jackson's dating of celebrity women, including actress Brooke Shields.",
"\"That was one of the loves of my life,\" Michael Jackson said.",
"\"I just wished she loved me as much as I loved her, you know.\"",
"Michael Jackson told Jackson one problem Michael Jackson had with women was women's jealousy of Michael Jackson's fame.",
"\"women admire you and know you're wonderful and great, but just women're jealous because women wish women were in your place, with women were in your shoes.",
"And 'M' is one of women -- Madonna.",
"Hate to say that on tape.\"",
"CNN asked Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg for a response: .",
"\"Madonna was very fond of Michael Jackson (as Madonna clearly expressed in Madonna's tribute to Michael Jackson at the VMA's) and I doubt anything in Michael Jackson will change Madonna's mind,\" Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg said.",
"CNN's Marc Balinsky contributed to this report."
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"Michael Jackson told Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Michael Jackson was still \"scared of my father to this day\"",
"Michael Jackson said Brooke Shields \"was one of the loves of my life\"",
"Michael Jackson said father would strip Michael Jackson naked and beat Michael Jackson, according to book ."
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"(CNN Student News) --",
"Students will investigate the contributions of Hispanic Americans to U.S. culture, and what it means to be an Hispanic in America today.",
"Procedure .",
"Point out to students that Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15) celebrates the culture and traditions of those who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean.",
"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, \"September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the celebration because it is the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.",
"In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate Mexico and Chile's independence days on September 16 and September 18, respectively.\"",
"In observance of Hispanic Heritage Month, send student groups on a multimedia scavenger hunt to investigate how Hispanic Americans have contributed to U.S. culture, and the opportunities and challenges that exist for Hispanics in America today.",
"Pose the following questions to guide students' research: . 1. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, what is the estimated Hispanic population of the United States?",
"What percent of the total U.S. population does this number represent?",
"2. What aspects of Hispanic culture can be found in the U.S?",
"3. Who are some Hispanic Americans who have had an impact in U.S. politics and government?",
"Who are some famous Hispanic-American musicians, artists, writers and actors?",
"How have artists, writers and actors impacted U.S. culture?",
"5. What Hispanic businesses exist in your community and other parts of the U.S.?",
"How have Hispanic businesses contributed to the U.S. economy?",
"6. What issues have you seen or heard about in recent news that are of interest to the Hispanic community?",
"Have groups share and discuss groups's findings with the class.",
"Extension .",
"Instruct each student to interview several Hispanic-American teens and adults to get several Hispanic-American teens and adults's responses to the following question: What would you like other Americans to know about what it means to be Hispanic in America today?",
"Have students summarize the interviewees' responses and share them with the class.",
"Correlated Standards .",
"Social Studies .",
"I. Culture .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of culture and cultural diversity.",
"V. Individuals, Groups and Institutions .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.",
"The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/ are published by the National Council for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org)."
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"Students will identify opportunities and challenges that exist for Hispanics in America ."
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"(CNN) --",
"For Dr. Lisa Newman, a 16-hour trip over two days from Michigan to Ghana in Africa is just part of the journey in uncovering clues about a rare form of breast cancer.",
"Dr. Lisa Newman hopes to uncover clues in Ghana about an aggressive and rare form of breast cancer.",
"Newman, a surgical oncologist specializing in breast cancer at Dr. Lisa Newman, collaborates with doctors in Kumasi, Ghana, in hopes of discovering the origins of an aggressive and difficult to treat form of breast cancer that disproportionately affects black women.",
"It is called triple negative breast cancer or TNBC.",
"\"The women that are most likely to be afflicted with the triple negative breast cancers are younger aged women, women in the pre-menopausal age range, and women with African ancestry,\" says Dr. Lisa Newman.",
"According to the American Cancer Society, 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women in the United States in 2009.",
"Triple negative breast cancer represents approximately 15 percent of breast cancer cases in the United States.",
"As an African-American female surgeon, Dr. Lisa Newman is a rarity in the United States.",
"African-Americans make up less than 5 percent of physicians in the United States, according to the American Medical Association.",
"Newman, who is also the director of the Breast Care Center for the University of Michigan, recalls Dr. Lisa Newman's early days during the '90's as a general surgeon in Brooklyn, New York.",
"\"It was just heartbreaking every day in the clinic to continuously be seeing African-American women that seemed to be disproportionately afflicted with breast cancers at younger ages, and more advanced stages of disease.\"",
"Little is known about what causes TNBC.",
"But statistics show that black women are twice as likely as white women to get it.",
"When diagnosing breast cancer, doctors look for three markers: estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and the HER2/neu receptor.",
"three markers: estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and the HER2/neu receptor show where breast cancer is most vulnerable and help determine how best to treat breast cancer.",
"The most successful treatments for breast cancer are drugs that specifically target three markers: estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and the HER2/neu receptor.",
"Doctor travels to Ghana for cancer clues » .",
"However, triple negative breast cancer is negative for all three markers, hence the name, making triple negative breast cancer very difficult to treat and more likely to recur.",
"With the devastating statistics and grim reality of this disease, Dr. Lisa Newman began Dr. Lisa Newman's journey about five years ago to learn more about it.",
"Triple negative breast cancer survivor finds life's purpose .",
"\"We are very interested in looking at whether or not African ancestry in and of itself might actually predispose women to a biologically more aggressive form of breast cancer, such as the triple negative breast cancer.\"",
"Sixty percent of Ghanaian women who have breast cancer have triple negative breast cancer, according to Dr. Lisa Newman.",
"\"Western sub-Saharan Africa is an important geographic location to focus on because that's where many of the slave colonies were located several hundred years ago,\" says Dr. Lisa Newman.",
"To test Dr. Lisa Newman's theory, Dr. Lisa Newman sets off for Ghana.",
"Three flights and two days later, Dr. Lisa Newman arrives at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in the city of Kumasi.",
"Dr. Lisa Newman is convinced there's a profound link between Ghanaian women and African-American women afflicted with TNBC.",
"Dr. Lisa Newman hopes Dr. Lisa Newman's trips each year to Ghana could lead to clues about the origins of TNBC or perhaps pave the way to finding a cure.",
"On each trip Dr. Lisa Newman gathers genetic evidence and tissue samples for Dr. Lisa Newman's study.",
"But Dr. Lisa Newman also believes there's a cultural and educational benefit for Dr. Lisa Newman and Dr. Lisa Newman's colleagues through this exchange.",
"\"We bring medical students and trainees with us to Ghana and they get to see what the health care system is like in a medically underserved part of the world,\" Dr. Lisa Newman says.",
"\"And our colleagues from Ghana have opportunities to visit with us at the University of Michigan, and to learn more about westernized practices in terms of multidisciplinary care of breast cancer patients.",
"So, it allows trainees and cancer specialists on both sides of the ocean to learn more about each other and about what's available in different parts of the world.\"",
"Working with Dr. Lisa Newman's Ghanaian colleagues, Dr. Lisa Newman sees a wide range of patients.",
"Some women need biopsies on undiagnosed breast abnormalities, while others have diagnosed tumors that have gone untreated for some time.",
"In addition, Dr. Lisa Newman and Dr. Lisa Newman's Ghanaian counterparts discuss the day's cases, a critical step to establishing individualized courses of treatment.",
"Dr. Lisa Newman has Dr. Lisa Newman's own scare with breast cancer » .",
"\"It's heartbreaking that we see many advanced stage of cancers in the women of Ghana, but it's a tremendous opportunity to make a difference and to be able to share what we have in the United States with the women here, with our family, our extended family,",
"\" says Dr. Lisa Newman.",
"Back in the United States, Dr. Lisa Newman gathers samples at a local Detroit, Michigan, hospital and at events held by the Sisters Network, an organization for black breast cancer survivors.",
"Dr. Lisa Newman runs DNA comparisons to the samples gathered in Ghana and one day hopes to correlate African ancestry with the risk of being diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in African-Americans.",
"If this happens, according to Dr. Lisa Newman, it will open doors to new treatments."
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"Dr. Lisa Newman collaborates with doctors to find origins of triple negative breast cancer .",
"Dr. Lisa Newman: Women most affected are younger, pre-menopausal with African ancestry .",
"Dr. Lisa Newman believes there's a link between Ghanaian, African-American women with TNBC ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sodden and crumbling, the Pin Oak levee was the only thing standing between Winfield, Missouri, and the flood-swollen Mississippi River on Wednesday.",
"James Burt sits on an embankment near a neighborhood inundated with floodwaters in Winfield, Missouri.",
"\"The currents are already doing enough to our levees, but a 2-inch wake can cause an entire levee to break,\" said Andy Binder, public information officer for Lincoln County Emergency Operations Command.",
"\"Right now, we are using the Missouri State Water Patrol to keep people from using people's boats around our levees.\"",
"On Tuesday, the Pin Oak levee was hit by a \"down slide\" along a 160-foot section of the Pin Oak levee's northern wall.",
"The Army Corps of Engineers rushed in with sandbags and extra dirt for the base to keep the soil from slipping further.",
"The Army Corps of Engineers and Army National Guard announced Wednesday that the troubled section had been fixed, but a 100-foot-long slide west of the original was starting to crumble.",
"Watch the Mississippi's waters rise » .",
"For the 5,000 residents of Lincoln County, it is now a matter of waiting and hoping the Pin Oak levee holds until the Mississippi crests and begins to fall.",
"The river level stood just above 37 feet Wednesday on its secondary crest, 11 feet above flood stage, and is expected to crest again Saturday afternoon at 37.5 feet, The Associated Press reported.",
"At Winfield, halls normally dominated by teens are being shared with volunteer workers and evacuated families in Winfield's gymnasium, which has served as an American Red Cross rescue shelter since June 16.",
"Floodwaters have damaged 692 homes.",
"\"Right now, I'm feeling pretty desperate and in need,\" said Sam Payne, who is staying at the high school with his wife and two children.",
"Payne, who left his home June 17, watched as water rose to the roof after one of the first levee breaches.",
"\"It's positive that my family is still together,\" he said.",
"\"We're trying to hold back [our emotions].",
"The hard part -- the working part -- is going to be after the water finally recedes.\"",
"About 20 Lincoln County residents are completely dependent on the emergency center at Winfield, according to the American Red Cross.",
"\"What we have been doing is feeding people three times a day, even those who aren't sleeping in the gym, and giving others food and snacks to take home with them,\" said Dan Flippen, the shelter's manager.",
"\"Luckily, the turnout of the businesses have been outstanding up here, and Winfield's principal and staff have been gems for us.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Take a flood tour of Lincoln County, MO .",
"The administration and staff memberse have been cleaning, cooking and making space inside Winfield for people who have been displaced by the flooding.",
"Students have also been taking time to help.",
"\"The students here are constantly trying to help out in the gym,\" Flippen said.",
"\"We have to turn anyone who isn't 18 away, but most of those kids just go outside and sandbag.\"",
"While the gym has been turned into a makeshift headquarters for the American Red Cross and Salvation Army, the Army Corps of Engineers has created a loading depot for levee sandbags behind Winfield.",
"Rescue officials were rushing to fill to 50,000 sandbags to fortify the Pin Oak levee.",
"Rescue officials brought in 200 tons of sand and called on anyone who wants to volunteer in the sandbagging effort to report to Winfield.",
"Rescue officials's efforts have been vital to keeping the Pin Oak levee intact and protecting the southern end of Winfield.",
"But with the river approaching the river's cresting level, sandbagging activities at Winfield will stop Sunday afternoon, according to Binder.",
"While they wait, officials watch the water levels and keep boats away from the Pin Oak levee.",
"The Missouri State Water Patrol is also looking out for potential looters and people breaking into unattended cars.",
"Only a few incidents have been reported, and law enforcement released a statement saying those caught looting flood victims would be prosecuted \"with the utmost prejudice.\"",
"Evacuations are still being scheduled for people in areas close to the rising water, and the Red Cross and Salvation Army are stocking up on supplies from individual donors, local businesses and the St. Louis Red Cross chapter.",
"Pending the rains, the weather service said the river wouldn't begin to recede at St. Louis -- where there is flooding, but it is not significant -- until Thursday night.",
"Forecasters said the last point on the river to finish cresting would be near Chester, Illinois, about 80 miles south of St. Louis, on Friday.",
"On Wednesday, the weather service issued flash flood warnings for Lincoln County.",
"Early Tuesday, water broke through one of the main levees in neighboring St. Charles County.",
"Officials working around the levee are required to wear life jackets, with the levee now able to \"go at any time,\" according to Binder.",
"Meanwhile, President Bush declared 22 Missouri counties to be disaster areas on Wednesday.",
"The declaration makes federal funding available to state and local governments for disaster-related damages.",
"Even with the approaching water, residents are trying to remain optimistic.",
"\"There have certainly been some tears shed here,\" Flippen said.",
"\"But people here are used to getting flooded, and people here'll try to do the best people here can.",
"\"Just the other day, we had a a couple of guys who were driving from Oklahoma just to sandbag.",
"It shows the type of effort people are putting in to help us out.\""
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"The Yes Men activist group says everything in the bogus edition of the tabloid is \"100 percent\" true.",
"But the Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., wasn't impressed, calling the effort by perennial pranksters the Yes Men a \"Witless Spoof in Flawless Format\" in a statement released Tuesday, a day after the faux Post hit the streets.",
"The overall endeavor, New York Post said, was a \"limp effort,\" and the fraudulent newspaper \"has none of the wit and insight New Yorkers expect from New Yorkers's favorite paper.",
"New York Post will not be hiring any of New Yorkers's headline writers.\"",
"A phony \"Early City Special\" edition of the popular tabloid greeted millions of New York City commuters early Monday with a blaring \"WE'RE SCREWED\" headline.",
"The headline and everything else in the 32-page publication, including some bogus advertisements and comics, revolved around climate change.",
"Even New York Post's notorious \"Page Six\" gossip and \"Best Sports in Town\" sections were spoofed with various true celebrity and sports articles connected to the green movement and climate change awareness.",
"A statement released by the Yes Men, an activist group whose members have posed as officials and spokesmen of various organizations, companies and agencies, said that although the Yes Men, an activist group whose members have posed as officials and spokesmen of various organizations, companies and agencies's version of the New York Post is a fake, \"everything in it is 100 percent true, with all facts carefully checked by a team of editors and climate change experts.\"",
"Watch protesters don \"SurvivaBalls\" near U.N. » .",
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"The United Nations said that 54 presidents, 35 prime ministers and one prince were attending Tuesday's events.",
"Former Vice President Al Gore and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also were involved.",
"Yes Men spokeswoman Natalie Johns said the aim of the stunt was to \"report really important and relevant issues that have not been in the press a day before a U.N. climate meeting.\"",
"Men spokeswoman Natalie Johns said the fake New York Post printing cost between $30,000 and $40,000, and was funded by numerous private donations of various amounts.",
"On November 12, 2008, New Yorkers awoke to the organization's first prank-in-print, finding strategically located \"special editions\" of The New York Times around the city.",
"The counterfeit Times, dated July 4, 2009, centered on the fictitious conclusion of the Iraq war, as well as other matters connected with the end of the Bush administration.",
"the Yes Men, an activist group whose members have posed as officials and spokesmen of various organizations, companies and agencies also have posed as spokesmen for organizations including the World Trade Organization and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.",
"the Yes Men, an activist group whose members have posed as officials and spokesmen of various organizations, companies and agencies's activities were documented in the 2003 film \"The Yes Men.\""
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"Just as there are many choices of drivers, putters, balls, and other equipment, there are just as many choices of golf instructors.",
"The process of how you choose your golf instructor is as unique as your finger prints.",
"However, just like there are certain things you want to know before choosing your doctor, there are certain items you should inquire of your instructor.",
"Compatibility -",
"It is your responsibility to insure that there is a fit between you and your instructor on all levels, personality type, mutual goals, similar outlooks on the game, and your instructor's ability to relate to your individual needs.",
"Before throwing a dart in the phone book under \"golf instruction\", research the professionals in your area.",
"One way is to ask friends and playing partners for referrals of good instructors in your area.",
"Ask them about pricing, reputation, location, and their improvement under the instructor's tutelage.",
"If you get along with your playing partners and the instructor does too, odds are you have found a fit.",
"Then, call the instructor and ask if they have time to talk to you about your game and improvement goals.",
"A good instructor will be happy to talk to you about your game, and get to know you as an individual, prior to helping you with your golf game.",
"Accreditation and Experience -",
"Does your golf instructor have the education and experience to take your game to any level you desire?",
"Many individuals claim to be golf instructors.",
"Many of Many individuals are self-proclaimed \"experts,\" or had enough money to take a one to two week course on how to teach golf and make more money.",
"In seeking a golf professional to help you with your game, insure that the individual has an active accreditation with the the PGA or LPGA or LPGA, or, has demonstrated an inarguable ability to help players of many levels improve through many years of practice.",
"Other associations claim Other associations produce golf instructors.",
"However, Other associations have one focus, to make money, not to produce solid golf instructors.",
"Inquire of your instructor their accreditation, as well as their education both on and off the golf course.",
"Check with the LPGA or the PGA or LPGA websites to confirm your potential golf instructor's accreditation with that organization, and, how much experience the instructor possesses.",
"Inquire of the instructor's philosophy and past success stories.",
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"Video, when used correctly, is a third pair of eyes (you and your instructor are first and second).",
"This is similar to a doctor using an X-Ray or M.R.I, to diagnosis a health issue.",
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"Others utilize the internet for follow-up and communication purposes.",
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"Doctors gave Smith a long list of dangerous drugs over the three years before Smith's death, including while Smith was pregnant, according to sworn statements by investigators from state agencies.",
"Dosages prescribed to Smith were \"dangerously high,\" a drug expert says in an affidavit.",
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"Smith died in a Hollywood, Florida, hotel on February 8, 2007, of what was later ruled to be \"acute combined drug intoxication.\"",
"One affidavit quoted a pharmacist who refused to fill a prescription written for Smith as saying Smith warned one doctor Smith would not give Smith the drug \"unless you want your picture on the front page of the National Enquirer.\"",
"One investigator described the former Playboy model and reality show TV star as a \"drug seeker.\"",
"Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two doctors -- Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor -- were charged with several felonies, including conspiring to furnish controlled substances, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining fraudulent prescriptions from June 2004 through January 2007.",
"Her boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two doctors -- Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor -- entered not-guilty pleas in May.",
"A preliminary hearing is set for next month in the case.",
"Smith, whose real name was Vickie Lynn Marshall, \"was given drugs in excessive amounts,\" according to a medical expert consulted and quoted by a state medical board investigator.",
"Dr. Jill Klessig also told an investigator that \"in addition to the prescribing issues, there appears to have been a personal relationship\" between Smith and the two doctors that crossed the boundaries of professionalism.",
"The affidavit references a video clip of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor \"kissing and snuggling\" with Smith \"in a reclined position in a nightclub setting.\"",
"Eroshevich traveled to the Bahamas to visit Smith and was with Smith for four days in Hollywood, Florida, four days before Smith's death, an investigator said in an affidavit.",
"The doctor personally visited a Burbank, California, pharmacy in September 2006 to get a sleep aid -- chloral hydrate -- for Smith to use in the Bahamas.",
"It was just four days after Smith gave birth to a daughter in Nassau.",
"\"I wouldn't give Smith's chloral hydrate unless you want your picture on the front page of the National Enquirer,\" pharmacist Steve Mazlin told Eroshevich, according to an affidavit.",
"The affidavit from Jon Genens, a senior investigator with the California medical board, detailed dozens of prescriptions written for Smith -- under several aliases -- for a long list of narcotics and sleep aids.",
"Jon Genens, a senior investigator with the California medical board said even during the time Smith was pregnant -- starting in January 2006 -- Dr. Sandeep Kapoor prescribed an average of 10 tablets of Methadone per day for Smith.",
"Jon Genens, a senior investigator with the California medical board noted that Dr. Sandeep Kapoor lowered the dosage in the last three months of Smith's pregnancy.",
"The volume of dangerous drugs being ordered by doctors spurred the chief pharmacist at the store where most of the prescriptions were filled to call a drug expert for advice in late 2006, according to a sworn statement by California Department of Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss.",
"Dr. Greg Thompson told Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss Dr. Greg Thompson recalled the dosages were \"dangerously high.\"",
"\"Dr. Greg Thompson stated the dosages might work for a drug addict under supervised care, or with a dying cancer patient in a hospital, or 'if you were going to kill someone,' \" Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss said.",
"Dr. Greg Thompson told Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss Dr. Greg Thompson later \"admonished Eroshevich\" about the drugs Eroshevich was requesting for Smith.",
"\"Dr. Greg Thompson stated Eroshevich was obviously not familiar with a lot of medications Eroshevich was prescribing for ... Smith,\" Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss said in Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss's affidavit.",
"The Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss affidavit said the doctor used Smith's boyfriend as a cover to get the prescriptions filled.",
"\"Of the 12 medications found in Smith's hotel room at the time of Smith's death, seven medications were prescribed the name of Howard K. Stearn [believed to be Howard K. Stern] by Dr. Eroshevich,\" Agent Doss said.",
"The drugs were apparently personally delivered to Smith in the Bahamas and Florida by Smith's doctor, Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss said.",
"\"It is reasonable to believe that Dr. Eroshevich provided Smith prescription medications and controlled substances by transporting prescription medications and controlled substances from California to Nassau, Bahamas with the doctor on the doctor's travels to visit Smith,\" Justice Special Agent Jennifer Doss said."
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"At 13 Jay-Z was selling crack.",
"By 30 Jay-Z was a hip-hop legend -- having gone, in Jay-Z's words, \"from grams to Grammys.\"",
"Jay-Z tells Oprah Winfrey a conversation with Jay-Z's father freed Jay-Z \"one hundred percent.\"",
"Now Jay-Z charts Jay-Z's escape from the hard-knock life, describes the reunion that healed the wounds of Jay-Z's childhood -- and even reveals Jay-Z's personal creed.",
"The rapper, now 39, was born Shawn Carter in Brooklyn, New York.",
"Jay-Z's albums include \"Reasonable Doubt,\" \"The Black Album\" and the just-released \"The Blueprint 3.\"",
"Jay-Z also owns a portion of the NBA's New Jersey Nets and founded, with Damon Dash, the clothing line Rocawear.",
"Jay-Z spoke with Oprah Winfrey about his estranged father's father, Jay-Z's anger and Jay-Z's old life.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"Oprah Winfrey: When you were 5, your family moved to the Marcy projects -- and then his estranged father left when you were 11.",
"When you look back at that, what did your 11-year-old self feel?",
"Jay-Z: Anger.",
"At the whole situation.",
"Because when you're growing up, your dad is your superhero.",
"Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put someone on such a high pedestal and someone lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.",
"So I remember just being really quiet and really cold.",
"Never wanting to let myself get close to someone like that again.",
"I carried that feeling throughout my life, until his estranged father and I met up before his estranged father died.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"Wow.",
"I've never heard a man phrase it that way.",
"You know, I've done many shows about divorce, and the real crime is when the kids aren't told.",
"the kids just wake up one day and the kids's dad is gone.",
"Did that happen to you?",
"Jay-Z:",
"We were told our parents would separate, but the reasons weren't explained.",
"My mom prepared us more than his estranged father did.",
"I don't think his estranged father was ready for that level of discussion and emotion.",
"his estranged father was a guy who was pretty detached from his estranged father's feelings.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"Did you wonder why his estranged father left?",
"Jay-Z:",
"I summed it up that they weren't getting along.",
"There was a lot of arguing.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"And did you know you were angry?",
"Jay-Z:",
"Yeah.",
"I also felt protective of My mom.",
"I remember telling My mom, \"Don't worry, when I get big, I'm going to take care of this.\"",
"I felt like I had to step up.",
"I was 11 years old, right?",
"But I felt I had to make the situation better.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"How did that change you?",
"Jay-Z:",
"It made me not express my feelings as much.",
"I was already a shy kid, and it made me a little reclusive.",
"But it also made me independent.",
"And stronger.",
"It was a weird juxtaposition.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"I've read that when you were 12, you shot your brother in the shoulder.",
"Did your father's leaving have anything to do with that?",
"Did it turn you into the kind of angry kid who would end up shooting your brother?",
"Jay-Z:",
"Yes -- and your brother was dealing with a lot of demons.",
"Oprah:",
"How old was your brother?",
"Jay-",
"Z: About 16.",
"your brother was doing a lot of drugs.",
"your brother was taking stuff from our family.",
"I was the youngest, but I felt like I needed to protect everybody.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"So how did you get back in touch with his estranged father?",
"Jay-Z:",
"My mom set up a meeting.",
"And now I realize why -- it makes all the sense in the world.",
"I remember very distinctly that I had a conversation with My mom in my kitchen.",
"I was saying, \"You know, My mom, I've really been trying to look inward, and maybe I'm just not meant to fall in love like other people do.\"",
"My mom just looked at Jay-Z like, \"Hush up, boy.\"",
"Oprah:",
"Wow.",
"Jay-Z:",
"And I guess from that point, My mom figured out what was wrong with Jay-Z, and My mom planned a meeting between me and his estranged father.",
"I was like, \"My mom, I'm a grown man.",
"I don't need a dad now.\"",
"Oprah:",
"You didn't feel a hole in your soul?",
"Jay-Z:",
"I never looked at that.",
"I guess I didn't want to deal with it.",
"Because, you know, once I looked, I'd have to do something about it.",
"And I guess I still had too much resentment and anger.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"In one of your songs, you wrote that you weren't sure if his estranged father even remembered your birthday is in December.",
"Jay-Z:",
"I believed that.",
"When I was a kid, I once waited for his estranged father on a bench.",
"his estranged father never showed up.",
"Even as an adult, that affected me.",
"So when My mom set up this meeting, I told My mom his estranged father wouldn't come -- and the first time, his estranged father didn't.",
"At that point, I was really done, but My mom pushed for another meeting, because My mom's just a beautiful soul.",
"Oprah: The second time, his estranged father showed up.",
"Jay-Z: his estranged father showed up.",
"And I gave his estranged father the real conversation.",
"I told his estranged father how I felt the day his estranged father left.",
"his estranged father was saying stuff like \"Man, you knew where I was.\"",
"I'm like, \"I was a kid!",
"Do you realize how wrong you were?",
"It was your responsibility to see me.\"",
"his estranged father finally accepted that.",
"Oprah Winfrey: Where had his estranged father been?",
"Jay-Z: At his estranged father's mom's house 10 minutes away from Jay-Z.",
"That was the sad part.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"Was there any explanation his estranged father could have offered that would have satisfied you?",
"Jay-Z:",
"Yes -- and that's why we were able to mend our relationship.",
"Oprah Winfrey: What was his estranged father's reason?",
"Jay-Z:",
"When I was 9, my dad's brother got stabbed, and his estranged father went looking for the guy who did it.",
"People would call in the middle of the night and tell his estranged father, \"So-and-so is out here.\"",
"So his estranged father would get up, get his estranged father's gun, and go outside to look for the guy who did it.",
"After a while, My mom was like, \"Hey, this is your family now.",
"You can't do that.\"",
"But this was my dad's baby brother.",
"And his estranged father was in so much pain that his estranged father started using drugs and became a different person.",
"So I understand that the trauma of the event, coupled with drugs, caused his estranged father to lose his estranged father's soul.",
"Oprah:",
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"Jay-Z:",
"his estranged father was broken.",
"his estranged father had a bad liver, and his estranged father knew that if his estranged father continued drinking, it would kill his estranged father.",
"But his estranged father didn't stop.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"How soon after you saw his estranged father did his estranged father die?",
"Jay-Z:",
"A couple of months.",
"I got his estranged father an apartment, I was buying furniture.",
"And his estranged father passed away.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"Did you instantly make peace with his estranged father during that conversation?",
"Jay-Z: Pretty much.",
"I felt lighter.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"The conversation freed you in ways that you hadn't been free before?",
"Jay-Z: One hundred percent.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"Did it open the door for you to have a life with love in it?",
"Jay-Z: Absolutely.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"So what's your personal creed?",
"Jay-",
"Z: Be true to yourself -- and keep things simple.",
"People complicate things.",
"Oprah Winfrey: your personal creed is that intention creates reality.",
"Jay-Z: Now I'm having an aha moment!",
"That's true.",
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"I believe in karma: What you do to others comes back to you.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
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"Otherwise, you'd be facing karma for every person you sold drugs to.",
"Jay-",
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"As a kid, I didn't know any better.",
"But now, if I were to act as if what I did wasn't bad, that would be irresponsible.",
"And I'd have to bear the weight of that.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"Maya Angelou always says, \"When you know better, you do better.\"",
"Do you still think back on that time in your life?",
"Jay-Z: All the time.",
"When you make music, you're constantly on the psychiatrist's couch, so to speak.",
"That's an outlet for Jay-Z. Because I'm not normally a talkative person.",
"I don't have conversations like this for no reason.",
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"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now!",
"TM & © 2009",
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"measure would tax individuals on any bonuses received in 2009 from companies getting $5 billion or more in money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.",
"Bonuses for people with incomes over $250,000 would be taxed at a 90 percent rate.",
"\"Today's vote rightly reflects the outrage that so many feel over the lavish bonuses that AIG provided AIG's employees at the expense of the taxpayers who have kept AIG afloat,\" President Obama said.",
"\"I look forward to receiving a final product that will serve as a strong signal to the executives who run these firms that such compensation will not be tolerated.\"",
"measure now moves to the Senate, which is considering a bill to tax retention bonuses paid to executives of companies that received federal bailout money.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday failed to get that bill passed by unanimous consent when Republican Whip Jon Kyl objected.",
"Republican Whip Jon Kyl wants \"to understand the root and cause of what happened here before we haphazardly rush and approve what we think is the remedy,\" Republican Whip Jon Kyl's spokesman Ryan Patmintra said.",
"House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, D-New York, told reporters Wednesday, \"We can't have any concept of we're getting even, but we must have a concept that we're trying to show that Congress ... cannot tolerate that.\"",
"The vote comes one day after AIG chief executive Edward Liddy testified before Congress that AIG chief executive Edward Liddy has asked employees of the bailed-out insurer who took home more than $100,000 in bonuses to return at least half.",
"AIG chief executive Edward Liddy, saying AIG chief executive Edward Liddy knew that the public's patience is \"wearing thin,\" said some employees have decided on some employees's own to return some employees's entire bonuses to AIG.",
"More than $165 million has been slated for bonuses to AIG's senior executives; the federal government rescued AIG from financial ruin with more than $170 billion in taxpayer assistance.",
"Referring to the AIG executives who received bonuses, Rangel said, \"I don't think AIG are the type of people to [whom you can] make an appeal to equity and justice.",
"I don't think AIG really know the difference.",
"I don't really think AIG've had life experience to allow AIG to believe the pain that AIG've caused for millions of Americans.\"",
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said the bill was necessitated by the poor judgment shown by firms receiving bailout money.",
"\"We must stabilize the financial system in order to strengthen our economy and create jobs,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California said.",
"\"We must also protect the American taxpayer from executives who would use their companies' second chances as opportunities for private gain.",
"\"Because they could not use sound judgment in the use of taxpayer funds, these AIG executives will pay the Treasury in the form of this tax.\"",
"A similar proposal in the Senate would attempt to recoup bonuses by taxing both individuals and companies, but Rangel said House leaders decided against penalizing companies because they could simply ask for more taxpayer money.",
"Earlier Wednesday, President Obama also lashed out at the bonuses given to AIG executives, calling the bonuses given to AIG executives \"outrageous.\"",
"\"People are right to be angry.",
"I am angry.",
"... People are rightly outraged about the bonuses given to AIG executives,\" President Obama said.",
"\"But just as outrageous is the culture that the bonuses given to AIG executives are a symptom of, that [has] existed for far too long; a situation where excess greed, excess compensation, excess risk-taking have all made us vulnerable and left us holding the bag.\"",
"CNN's Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report."
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"As Democrats continue to splinter over Obama's proposed health care reform plan, Republicans are taking the opportunity to home in on a key argument: A good bill deserves more time and deliberation.",
"Sen. James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, says his party may have enough votes to stall Democratic health care reform.",
"Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Georgia, said Friday that Obama's rush to put a bill together is \"totally irresponsible.\"",
"\"Most of us believe that the decision as to major reform of how Americans get Americans's health care in this country deserves at least as much time and deliberation as it would take to select a puppy to live in the White House,\" he said.",
"\"It took Obama six months to decide how long and which puppy Obama was going to have.",
"... To expect Congress to do something on major health care reform in six days is totally irresponsible.\"",
"Sen. James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, speaking on conservative Hugh Hewitt's radio show recently, was asked about whether his party had enough votes to block health care from going forward.",
"His answer: \"I think so.",
"I really do.\"",
"\"If Obama is unsuccessful, which I anticipate and will predict Obama is, on getting a vote prior to the August recess, then I would say there's no way in the world they're going to get this done this year,\" he added.",
"Obama's fight to get health care reform through Congress hit a major snag this week -- facing opposition from Republicans and fiscally conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats worried over the costs -- estimated to be around $1 trillion.",
"On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, announced that the Senate would not take up a vote before August recess -- a deadline that Obama had originally wanted.",
"Watch a GOP senator lash out at Obama's plan » .",
"Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas responded to Democratic criticism that GOP has failed to present a viable plan.",
"\"When GOP say GOP don't have a plan ... where's GOP's plan?",
"If GOP can't get a bill out of committee, where's GOP's plan?\" he said.",
"Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, said it's hard to combat GOP's proposed legislation when it changes \"by 100 pages every time you walk into the room.\"",
"GOP's fight is also getting political, namely looking ahead to the upcoming midterm election.",
"\"I just hope the president keeps talking about it, keeps trying to rush it through.",
"We can stall it.",
"And that's going to be a huge gain for those of us who want to turn this thing over in the upcoming midterm election,\" Inhofe said.",
"Last week, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, was quoted as telling the group Conservatives for Patients' Rights, which opposes Obama's health care plan, that \"if we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be Obama's Waterloo.",
"It will break Obama.\"",
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"Another Republican senator said that defeating health reform is about 'breaking' me,\" Another Republican senator said.",
"\"Let me be clear: This isn't about Obama,\" Obama said, noting that Obama and every member of Congress -- including those trying to scuttle health care reform legislation -- \"have great health insurance.\"",
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"Politically, I actually appreciate what GOP said.\""
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"Editor's note: Rich Roll, one of Men's Fitness magazine's \"25 Fittest Guys in the World\" in 2009, was the first athlete to compete in the Ultraman World Championships on an entirely plant-based diet.",
"Rich Roll's sharing insights today as part of Dr. Sanjay Gupta's \"Four Months to Fitness\" effort.",
"Before:",
"At 40 years old, Rich Roll called Rich Roll \"fat, unhappy and fed up.\"",
"(CNN)",
"-- I can still remember it, vivid as yesterday.",
"It was the eve of my 40th birthday, and I walked upstairs to take a shower.",
"And I was winded.",
"I mean very winded.",
"As I was trying to catch my breath, I took off my shirt, looked in the mirror and tried to convince Rich Roll that I was still that fit guy I had always thought I was.",
"Somehow, I had been able to skate by on this delusion for all too many years.",
"But the denial had finally caught up to Rich Roll.",
"I saw my true reflection, and I couldn't lie to Rich Roll anymore.",
"I was in the worst shape of my life.",
"I was fat, unhappy and fed up.",
"It's the typical story.",
"First it's the career.",
"Then comes marriage, followed by kids.",
"Your time is no longer your own, and you resign yourself to \"maturity,\" \"filling out\" or whatever euphemism for middle age that soothes that idea that you are simply overweight, unfit and unhealthy.",
"I'm here to say that it doesn't have to be that way.",
"I don't care how busy you are.",
"I don't care how old you are, how many kids you have or how little time you think you have.",
"The power rests within yourself to enact any change in your life you desire.",
"And I can say this because I have seen it happen in myself and countless others.",
"After that fateful day of clarity, I made a decision to change my life.",
"Not a vague, wishy-washy notion that I should \"get in shape,\" maybe \"eat better\" or possibly \"go on a diet,\" but rather a specific long-term plan to enhance my wellness in a way that would not only stick, but fit within the parameters of my busy life as a full-time lawyer, husband and father of four small children.",
"In my case, it began with a well-researched and supervised seven-day fruit and vegetable juice cleanse (during which time I weaned Rich Roll off caffeine), followed by an entirely plant-based nutrition program -- an animal-product-free regimen I have adhered to ever since.",
"The immediate result was a rather surprising and unexpected increase in my energy levels, leading to a very gradual return to exercise, building up slowly over an extended period of time.",
"The results were hardly overnight.",
"But two years later, I had lost well over 30 pounds.",
"And not only did I keep the weight off, I was the most fit I had ever been in my life.",
"At 42 years old, I competed in the Ultraman World Championships, a grueling three-day uber-endurance triathlon circumnavigating the Big Island of Hawaii that involves 6.2 miles of swimming, 260 miles of cycling and culminates with a 52.4-mile double marathon run.",
"I placed 11th overall and was the third-fastest American.",
"To top it off, Men's Fitness magazine recently named me one of the \"25 Fittest Guys in the World.\"",
"(Not that I actually believe I deserve such an honor!)",
"Quite an extreme contrast from that day I looked in the mirror.",
"I'm not advocating that everyone should test himself or herself so severely.",
"But my point is that change starts with a decision followed by baby steps along a new, consistent trajectory that, over time, can lead to dramatic results.",
"I'm nothing special.",
"I'm not a professional athlete.",
"I'm just a normal family guy.",
"But if I could experience such a vast transformation in my own life, I know with certainty that everybody has within everybody the power to enact everybody's own well-balanced transformation.",
"Change is never easy.",
"And despite what you may see advertised, I'm sorry to say there is no secret diet, mystery pill or overnight miracle that will do it for you.",
"But there is a solution.",
"Here are some helpful tools I employed along the way that can help you get started: .",
"Set a goal: Vague, nonspecific notions of \"getting fit,\" \"going to the gym,\" or \"eating better\" are all fine, but they are not true \"goals\" and all too typically devolve, paving the way for relapse to old habits.",
"Instead, establish something very concrete you would like to achieve on a future date.",
"The more specific, the better.",
"Then create a solid plan with reasonable interim \"steppingstone\" milestones along the way to achieving the larger goal.",
"Chart your progress, as meeting interim milestones will boost your confidence and invest you more deeply in the ultimate goal.",
"Create community and accountability: If you go public with your quest, then you are on the hook.",
"A good support network is a key to success.",
"But beware of the negative dream crushers.",
"Be selective, surrounding yourself with people who encourage your success.",
"Do what you love: When it comes to exercise, it shouldn't be too painful.",
"Ideally, it should be fun.",
"If you absolutely hate running, find something else you enjoy.",
"Otherwise, you set yourself up to fail.",
"And don't be too rigid -- mix it up with a variety of activities you like to keep it interesting and fresh.",
"Don't diet: Instead, get honest about your habits and embark on implementing healthy, lasting changes in your nutrition.",
"I feel quite strongly that a nutrition program built entirely around plant-based foods and completely devoid of animal products is optimal.",
"Conventional wisdom would say that an athlete cannot perform on plants alone.",
"But I am living proof that this is false, and I have ample research to support this position.",
"Personally, I cannot overemphasize the difference this has made in my own life, a secret weapon for enhanced athletic performance and overall long-term wellness.",
"(In the last two years, I have not gotten sick or even suffered a cold.)",
"I realize, of course, that not everyone is ready to go 100 percent vegan, but a program built on a strong foundation of fresh organic vegetables, fruits and grains should be the focus.",
"Don't skip meals, but reduce your portions slightly.",
"Read the labels and educate yourself.",
"Avoid saturated fats, processed foods and soft drinks, all of which are entirely devoid of nutritional value.",
"Eating whole fresh foods high in nutritional content will also stave off those unhealthy urges to binge.",
"One day at a time: Large goals can seem insurmountable.",
"The idea that you can never eat a cupcake or sleep in again is daunting at best.",
"Instead, just focus on what is happening today, even if it's hour to hour, and don't worry about tomorrow.",
"\"Today, I'm not going to eat that cupcake.",
"Maybe I'll eat that cupcake tomorrow, just not today.\"",
"And if you miss a beat, don't flog yourself; it only leads to discouragement and quitting altogether.",
"The important thing is to make sure you get right back on it the next day -- don't let another day go by.",
"Prioritize: Take an honest look at your average week, identify your inefficient uses of time and eliminate the things that don't serve your goals.",
"No matter how busy you are, if you are truly honest about this inquiry, I guarantee you can make some cuts and carve out some time.",
"Remember: Nothing changes if nothing changes.",
"Be consistent: It's not about how much you do in a given workout or how hard it is.",
"Ten minutes of core exercises four to five times per week is far better than one long run a week.",
"Establishing a consistent rhythm of repetition is key, and another reason that your choice of exercise should be something you truly enjoy.",
"Let's join together to shift the world's perspective on long-term health and wellness.",
"No matter how old, overweight or out of shape you are, you have the power to make a decision, set a goal and create a plan.",
"Positive change is always within your grasp, and today still remains the first day of the rest of your life.",
"Make it count!",
"The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of Rich Roll."
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"This year, Men's Fitness named Roll one of the \"25 Fittest Guys in the World\"",
"To become fit, set a specific goal, be consistent and take it one day at a time, Rich Roll says ."
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"BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- As voting was taking place in the German general election Sunday, attention was already turning to what coalition will rule the country.",
"Social Democrats handing out flowers hope Social Democrats handing out flowers's party will stay in the ruling coalition.",
"Few doubt that Angela Merkel's's Christian Democratic Union, CDU, will win most votes.",
"So, will Angela Merkel's continue the current center right-center left \"grand coalition\" with the Social Democrats or will the votes suffice for a coalition with the business liberal but centrist Liberal Democrats or the FDP, a constellation Germans refer to as \"Black-Yellow.\"",
"At a press conference ostensibly to outline Germany's position at this week's G-20 summit Angela Merkel's apparently let the cat out of the bag.",
"\"Germany are in a time of crisis,\" Angela Merkel's said, \"and I believe Germany can pull out of crisis faster with a Black-Yellow government.\"",
"But some political analysts believe Angela Merkel's would prefer to keep the Social Democrats as the junior coalition partner.",
"Polls indicate the CDU and FDP could gain a razor thin majority to form a governing coalition.",
"Recent polls put their combined tally at around 48 percent.",
"That is not exactly a large majority, but it's two percent more than the left of center parties, the Social Democrats, the Green Party, and the left wing \"Die Linke,\" who would reach about 46 percent if polls are accurate.",
"The Liberal Democrats have been in opposition since 1998 and at a rally in Berlin, The Liberal Democrats's leader Guido Westerwelle was sure their leader Guido Westerwelle's time has come.",
"\"I think the voters won't allow a coalition of the left to be in power.",
"I think the voters want a conservative government and the voters will vote to put us in power,\" their leader Guido Westerwelle said.",
"their leader Guido Westerwelle is eyeing the post of foreign minister under a future Merkel government.",
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"A government of CDU and FDP, conservatives and liberal would probably be more business friendly than the current grand coalition.",
"Both the CDU and FDP want to cut taxes to further jumpstart Europe's largest economy which emerged from its deepest recession only a few months ago.",
"But even optimistic economists believe cutting taxes will be all but impossible for a government which will inherit the largest public deficit in German history after the current government was forced to ruin in the current government's public finances to bail out banks and industrial companies in the wake of the international financial crisis.",
"And it appears more trouble lies ahead.",
"\"After the economic crisis we will see a social crisis,\" says Henrik Enderlein an economics professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.",
"Henrik Enderlein an economics professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin believes a coalition with the liberals would put Angela Merkel's under pressure to implement wider ranging tax breaks than Angela Merkel's feels are sustainable.",
"That is why some believe Angela Merkel's would not mind continuing Angela Merkel's's coalition with the Social Democrats who oppose tax cuts and call them irresponsible in a time of disastrous public deficits.",
"The Social Democratic contender running against Merkel, Frank Walter Steinmeier, however, has all but given up any hopes of winning.",
"\"We want to prevent a \"black--yellow\" coalition,\" he keeps repeating at rallies.",
"Confidence sounds different.",
"Polls currently have The Liberal Democrats at around 26 percent of the vote, a disastrous figure for a party that in 1998 gained more than 40 percent.",
"But the Social Democrat ranks were decimated in the seven years they ruled the country under Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.",
"Many traditional left wing The Liberal Democrats voters felt Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder betrayed the powerful labor wing of the party by cutting social benefits while making it easier for companies to fire employees in times of crisis.",
"The Liberal Democrats was further hit when many loyal members splintered off and joined the left wing party die Linke which also incorporates remnants of the former communist party that rules East Germany.",
"Now Steinmeier is trying to lead The Liberal Democrats out of the impasse and Steinmeier realizes Steinmeier's real chance to stay in power would be as the junior partner to Angela Merkel's.",
"Steinmeier would keep Steinmeier's post as foreign minister and many political experts in Berlin think this might be what both Angela Merkel's and Steinmeier are really striving for.",
"\"Merkel and Steinmeier worked very well together,\" said Gero Neugebauer of the Freie Universitat Berlin.",
"\"The atmosphere was very good and that is very important for such a coalition.\"",
"For Germans it seems like the two choices are realistic: A coalition of Angela Merkel's and FDP, or a grand coalition of Angela Merkel's and SPD, like the one that is currently governing Germany.",
"Those options haven't exactly fired up the election campaigns.",
"Both Angela Merkel's and Steinmeier were loath to attacking each other and both of Merkel and Steinmeier cancelled several scheduled TV appearances which would have seen Merkel and Steinmeier go head to head.",
"\"This election seems kind of lame,\" one young summed This election up when I asked him near Berlin's technical university.",
"International experts have a similar opinion.",
"One issue International experts feel has gotten short shrift was the war in Afghanistan.",
"Germans have the third largest troop contingent in Germany with about 4,200 soldiers stationed in the north.",
"But Afghanistan played only a minor role in the election campaigns and in their only televised debate, Angela Merkel's and Steinmeier devoted less than three minutes to the issue, less than a week after a German ground commander had called an air strike that killed almost 100 Afghans and possibly also civilians.",
"\"It is simply not high on the political agenda,\" says Jan Techau of the German Council on Foreign Relations., \"Most Germans are against the war in Afghanistan and having German troops there, but they don't care about the war in Afghanistan enough for the war in Afghanistan to influence the way they vote.\"",
"So Angela Merkel's and Steinmeier were careful to keep Afghanistan off the campaign agenda as best Merkel and Steinmeier could because Merkel and Steinmeier agree German troops need to stay in Afghanistan like they agree on so many topics.",
"That did not make for an exciting campaign, but it could make for a good continuation of the grand coalition."
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"Pakistan's parliament building was one target of a planned attack, an official says.",
"In the last four weeks, authorities arrested three men with suicide vests who were plotting to carry out attacks, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik.",
"Interior Minister Rehman Malik would not say exactly when the men were caught.",
"Pakistan is in the midst of an intense military offensive against Taliban militants.",
"Taliban militants are suspected of launching attacks inside Pakistan and in neighboring Afghanistan from Taliban militants's haven in the mountainous tribal region along the northwestern border.",
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"The bombing rocked the Pakistani city of Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province.",
"The bombing took place when police approached Suspect.",
"Suspect ran away, police chased Suspect and a gunfight ensued.",
"Suspect ran out of bullets and blew Suspect up.",
"Two women and seven children were among the injured.",
"Remains of the alleged attacker were found, police said.",
"Five houses were destroyed.",
"The bombing follows a car bombing on Saturday in Peshawar that killed two people, including the spokesman for an extremist group called Ansar ul Islam.",
"Two suspects are in custody.",
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"Militants in North Waziristan, part of the tribal region, have said Militants in North Waziristan, part of the tribal region will observe a unilateral ceasefire throughout the month.",
"\"There will not be a ceasefire during Ramadan.",
"Pakistan are not interested in a ceasefire,\" Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.",
"\"Militants in North Waziristan, part of the tribal region haven't kept Militants in North Waziristan, part of the tribal region's commitment in the past.",
"Pakistan will continue targeted actions against the Taliban.\"",
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"Anti-riot policemen patrol the streets in Jos, Nigeria, following riots between Christians and Muslims.",
"Most of the victims of violence by security forces were young Muslim men, often unarmed, the group charged in testimony before a state commission examining the riots and in a separate report.",
"More than 700 people died in the violence last November, the group said, citing local religious authorities on both sides of the divide.",
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"\"I saw them enter one house just across the street from us,\" the unnamed witness said.",
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"Anyone they found hiding in the garage, they shot them.",
"They combed the garage hunting for people.",
"This went on for about 10 minutes or so.",
"Then they returned to their truck and left.\"",
"Another witness described police units going from house to house, summarily executing unarmed men and boys.",
"A third said the witness saw an unarmed shopkeeper plead for The shopkeeper's life.",
"Police ordered The shopkeeper to lie down on the ground, the witness said.",
"\"The shopkeeper kept saying, 'Please God, allow me to live.'...",
"One of Police said, 'Today you go die,' and then he shot The shopkeeper in the side.",
"Then the same MOPOL shot The shopkeeper again.",
"As he was going to shoot The shopkeeper a third time, the other MOPOL said ... 'Leave it, The shopkeeper's already dead.'\"",
"The shopkeeper managed to drag The shopkeeper to a neighbor's house, where a neighbor tried to stop the bleeding from wounds to the back and abdomen.",
"Police then returned and shot tear gas into a neighbor's house, he testified.",
"The shopkeeper \"died a short time later,\" a neighbor said.",
"In the report, released Monday, Human Rights Watch says it \"documented 133 of these killings but believes that the actual number of arbitrary killings by security forces may be substantially higher than these figures.\"",
"James Manook, a spokesman for Plateau State where the violence occurred, said the Human Rights Watch claims are \"one of the issues that the commission has under inquiry, and given that - I do not want to comment while the commission's under investigation.\"",
"However, he added, \" I assure you that we remain respectful of the rule of law.\"",
"The clashes followed a dispute over an election that pitted a Christian candidate against a Muslim one in late November 2008.",
"Police and soldiers responded to the riots with deadly force, on the same day the governor of Plateau State issued a \"shoot-on-sight\" order, Human Rights Watch said.",
"Human Rights Watch based Human Rights Watch's allegations on 151 interviews in the city of Jos in Nigeria's Plateau State, Human Rights Watch says in the report.",
"Human Rights Watch withheld the names of many of the people Human Rights Watch interviewed over the course of 18 days in December 2008 and February 2009.",
"the report includes photographs of burned-out mosques, Christian boarding schools, and homes and businesses.",
"Human Rights Watch said the state commission examining the riots should investigate and call for the prosecution of security forces involved.",
"\"At least 130 men were killed by members of the very institutions charged with protecting At least 130 men,\" said Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.",
"\"These investigative bodies owe it to the victims and their families to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into these extremely serious allegations.\"",
"Eric Guttschuss, a Human Rights Watch researcher, testified before the state commission examining the riots Monday.",
"There is a history of religious violence in central Nigeria, where majority-Muslim north Africa meets largely Christian sub-Saharan Africa.",
"Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 1,000 people were killed in riots in 2001.",
"Local religious leaders in Jos have been trying to bridge the differences, including setting up a soccer league with teams on which Christians and Muslims play side-by-side.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"The train derailed on the outskirts of Split, Croatia, about noon on Friday.",
"The train was on The train's way from the Croatian capital, Zagreb, when The train derailed about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from The train's destination of Split about noon, said Marina Kraljevic-Gudelj, a spokeswoman for police in Split.",
"\"This is a huge tragedy, so there is no place for speculation,\" she said.",
"Police had launched an investigation into the cause of the crash.",
"CNN's Per Nyberg contributed to this report."
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"A passenger plane skidded off an airport runway and burst into flames in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad on Friday, killing at least 17 people and injuring about 20, according to government-backed Press TV.",
"Aryan Airlines Flight 1625 skidded off an airport runway and burst into flames Friday in Mashhad, Iran.",
"There were 150 passengers on board Aryan Airlines Flight 1625, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, or IRNA.",
"There was no immediate information on the number of crew.",
"An Iranian official said those aboard had been evacuated.",
"Ghahraman Rashid, deputy governor-general of Khorasan province, said the plane had flown from Tehran, IRNA reported.",
"\"All those killed and injured and the rest of the passengers had been evacuated from the plane and the fire on board had been brought under control,\" IRNA quoted An Iranian official as saying.",
"He said the plane was a Russian-made Ilyushin.",
"Watch video of the plane » .",
"This is the second deadly plane crash in Iran this month.",
"On July 15, a Caspian Airlines passenger plane carrying 168 people crashed in northwestern Iran, killing everyone on board, including 10 members of the country's youth judo team: eight athletes and two coaches."
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"Boris Kodjoe owns a mansion in ATLANTA.",
"But when Boris Kodjoe goes to answer Boris Kodjoe's door, Boris Kodjoe knows what it's like to be an outcast.",
"Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct.",
"\"When I'm opening the door of his house, someone will ask me where the man of his house is, implying that I'm staff,\" said Boris Kodjoe, best known for starring in Showtime's \"Soul Food.\"",
"It's a feeling some African-Americans say is all too common, even to this day in America: No matter your status or prominence in society, you're still typecast.",
"That's why the recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's most prominent African-American scholars, has stirred outrage and debate.",
"Jelani Cobb, an author and professor at Spelman College in ATLANTA, says it's troubling on many levels when \"one of the most recognizable African-Americans in the country can be arrested in Ivy League professor who walks with a cane's own home and have to justify being in Ivy League professor who walks with a cane's own home.\"",
"Watch arrest of a Harvard scholar » .",
"\"It's really kind of unfathomable,\" Cobb said.",
"\"If it can happen to him, yeah, it can happen to any of us.\"",
"That's a sentiment echoed by Jimi Izrael.",
"\"If a mild-mannered, bespectacled Ivy League professor who walks with a cane can be pulled from Ivy League professor who walks with a cane's own home and arrested on a minor charge, the rest of us don't stand a chance,\" Izrael wrote Tuesday on The Root, an online magazine with commentary from a variety of black perspectives that's co-founded by Gates.",
"\"We all fit a description.",
"We are all suspects.\"",
"In an interview with The Root, Gates said Gates was outraged by the incident and hopes to use the experience as a teaching tool, including a possible PBS special on racial profiling.",
"\"I can't believe that an individual policeman on the Cambridge police force would treat any African-American male this way, and I am astonished that the incident happened to Gates; and more importantly I'm astonished that the incident could happen to any citizen of the United States, no matter what any citizen of the United States's race,\" Gates said.",
"\"And I'm deeply resolved to do and say the right things so that this cannot happen again.\"",
"Voices of black America: What it's like being black in America .",
"Gates was arrested last Thursday in broad daylight at Gates's Cambridge, Massachusetts, home for disorderly conduct -- what the arresting officer described as \"loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space.\"",
"The charge was dropped Tuesday on the recommendation of police, and the city of Cambridge issued a statement calling the incident \"regrettable and unfortunate.\"",
"Gates had just returned from a trip to China when a police officer responded to a call about a potential break-in at Gates's home that was phoned in by a white woman.",
"According to the police report, Gates was in the foyer when a police officer arrived.",
"a police officer asked Gates to \"step out onto the porch and speak with a police officer,\" the police report says.",
"\"[Gates] replied, 'No, I will not.'",
"a police officer then demanded to know who I was.",
"I told a police officer that I was 'Sgt. Crowley from the Cambridge Police' and that I was 'investigating a report of a break in progress' at the residence.",
"\"While I was making this statement, Gates opened the front door and exclaimed, 'Why, because I'm a black man in America?' \"",
"Have race relations improved since the election of President Barack Obama?",
"According to the police report, Gates initially refused to show a police officer Gates's identification, instead asking for a police officer's ID.",
"But Gates eventually did show a police officer Gates's identification that included Gates's home address.",
"\"the police report says I was engaged in loud and tumultuous behavior.",
"That's a joke,\" Gates told The Root.",
"\"It escalated as follows: I kept saying to a police officer, 'What is your name, and what is your badge number?' and a police officer refused to respond.",
"I asked a police officer three times, and a police officer refused to respond.",
"And then I said, 'You're not responding because I'm a black man, and you're a white officer.'\"",
"Known as Skip by friends and colleagues, Gates is the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, and an acclaimed PBS documentarian.",
"While Gates's arrest lit up talk radio and blogs, it prompted others to defend the police against charges of racial profiling.",
"\"I'd be glad if somebody called the police if somebody was breaking into my house,\" neighbor Michael Schaffer told CNN affiliate WHDH.",
"For others, the incident symbolized something more.",
"Seeing the police mugshot of Gates brought some African-Americans to near tears.",
"Kim Coleman, a Washington radio host, cultural commentator and blogger, said blogger grew numb when blogger saw the police mugshot of Gates.",
"\"I was not prepared for that,\" blogger said.",
"\"To see one of my heroes in a mugshot was not something that I was expecting.",
"... It just tells me we're not in a post-racial society.\"",
"blogger said there's a reason why you don't hear about prominent white people arrested in their homes: \"because it doesn't happen.\"",
"It's time for America to have a long overdue national conversation about race, blogger said.",
"\"When are we going to have that,\" blogger said.",
"\"When are we really going to sit down and strip down and say, 'This is what I feel about you and this is what you feel about blogger.",
"Now, how are we going to get over that?' \"",
"Rebecca Walker, an award-winning author, said the arrest was devastating to scholars, writers, and artists \"who work so hard to keep a free flow of information.\"",
"\"It seems eerily ironic Mr. Gates was returning from China, where surveillance is so high and freedom of speech and ideas so curtailed,\" Walker said.",
"\"To see the mugshot of Skip was a blow to all of us who feel some sense of safety based on our work to try to mend all of these broken fences in America -- to make ourselves into people who refuse to be limited by race and class and gender and everything else.\"",
"\"To end up, at the end of the day, treated like a criminal, unjustly stripped of our accomplishments and contributions even if only for a moment, is profoundly disturbing.",
"We must ask ourselves what it means, and to allow ourselves to face various scenarios regarding power and freedom and how these will intersect in the coming years.\"",
"Last week, President Obama spoke at the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, saying that while minorities have made great strides \"the pain of discrimination is still felt in America.\"",
"\"Even as we inherit extraordinary progress that cannot be denied; even as we marvel at the courage and determination of so many plain folks -- we know that too many barriers still remain,\" President Obama said.",
"Boris Kodjoe, the actor, said President Obama \"has affected a change in people's consciousness regarding such issues as racism and prejudice.\"",
"But he said the arrest of Gates underscores that there's more work ahead.",
"\"I think we're moving in the right direction.",
"But no doubt, there still is a lot of work to be done,\" Boris Kodjoe said.",
"\"It's not just a problem here.",
"It's a problem worldwide.",
"Racism is universal.\"",
"Gates said Gates has a newfound understanding of exactly what that means.",
"\"There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of President Obama,\" Gates told The Root.",
"\"But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.\""
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"SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) --",
"Some families long separated by the Korean War saw Some families long separated by the Korean War's loved ones Saturday for the first time in years near the border between North and South Korea.",
"South Korean Yoon Ki-Dal, right, meets the children South Korean Yoon Ki-Dal left behind as babies during the Korean War.",
"Yoon Ki-Dal, 88, of South Korea thought such a moment would never come.",
"After leaving South Korean Yoon Ki-Dal's son and daughters when his son and daughters were babies during the Korean War, South Korean Yoon Ki-Dal was able to hold the hands of South Korean Yoon Ki-Dal's North Korean children on Saturday.",
"\"South Korean Yoon Ki-Dal, we thought you were dead,\" South Korean Yoon Ki-Dal's daughter, now in her 60s, told South Korean Yoon Ki-Dal, her face trembling.",
"Their family was one of 97 reunited Saturday on Mount Keumgang, a North Korean resort near the eastern part of the border, after decades of separation by war and ideology.",
"And soon these families will be separated again.",
"these families are allowed to be together for a few days.",
"Then the South Koreans must return home.",
"The reunions -- the first in nearly two years -- are taking place through October 1.",
"Millions of families were separated by the Korean War, which ended in 1953 with a cease-fire and no formal peace treaty.",
"No mail, telephone or e-mail exchanges exist between ordinary citizens across the Korean border.",
"The agreement to hold The reunions -- the first in nearly two years -- came after North and South Korea held three days of talks, mediated by the International Committee of the Red Cross, last month, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported at the time.",
"About 10,000 people applied to take part in the reunion, but fewer than 200 families were allowed to participate.",
"In addition to the 97 families who met Saturday, another 99 families are expected to meet next week, authorities said.",
"Watch families share hugs, tears » .",
"Participants are selected randomly, and there is no date set for a further reunion, which means the tens of thousands of others who were separated by the Korean War have no idea when the tens of thousands of others who were separated by the Korean War may get a chance to see the tens of thousands of others who were separated by the Korean War's loved ones -- if ever.",
"For the many separated family members who are elderly, a reunion may never be possible.",
"Reunions between North and South have been taking place off and on since 2000 after an inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang, Yonhap says.",
"The last reunion took place in October 2007.",
"Rapprochement talks between the two Koreas have hit a wall since conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office in early 2008 with a tougher stance toward the North than conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's liberal predecessor, Roh Moo-Hyun.",
"the two Koreas have remained in conflict since the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.",
"Last month, officials from both sides had the first high-level, cross-border contact in nearly two years when South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In Taek met with North Korean unity leader Kim Yang Gon.",
"The meetings and reunions are in stark contrast to the tense public statements each side made about each other earlier this year.",
"Tensions between the two were heightened in July when South Korea launched seven short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan, also referred to as the East Sea.",
"The launches came after South Korea conducted a nuclear test on May 25 and threatened U.S. and South Korean ships near its territorial waters.",
"South Korea condemned the action, calling The launches \"unwise.\"",
"Journalist Sohn Jie-Ae contributed to this report."
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"The South Koreans must return home in a few days .",
"Millions of Koreans were separated following Korean War cease-fire in 1953 .",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Images of a blazing car at the entrance of the terminal building at Glasgow airport were splashed across the front pages of Britain's Sunday papers, with many warning that Britain is under attack from a new wave of terrorism.",
"How the British press reported the Glasgow attack.",
"The Sunday Mirror published dramatic pictures of a burning man trying to ignite explosives in the vehicle while being sprayed with water by an off-duty policeman.",
"The News of the World had a picture of a \"hero\" police officer pinning down a smoldering bomber.",
"The Sunday Telegraph newspaper said Britain was feared to be under terrorist attack for the third time in 36 hours after the Glasgow attack, and following the discovery of two cars packed with explosive material and nails in London.",
"In an editorial, The Sunday Times newspaper says London and Glasgow appeared to have had a lucky escape.",
"\"The people behind these attempted atrocities clearly have twisted minds.",
"How else to explain an attack directed at \"ladies night\" at the Tiger Tiger nightclub?",
"\"For Islamists -- and there seems little doubt that Muslim extremists were behind the plot -- young women drinking, dancing and enjoying themselves embodies everything they find repulsive about western society.",
"\"There will be other weekends when we fear we will be commenting not on close shaves but on completed terrorist attacks.\"",
"The Observer newspaper said Friday's aborted London bomb attack was \"al Qaeda inspired\" and may have been linked to five terrorism suspects who have escaped Home Office control orders and are on the run.",
"The Observer newspaper also reports that former British prime minister Tony Blair had launched a powerful attack on \"absurd\" British Islamists who have nurtured a false \"sense of grievance\" that they are being oppressed by Britain and the United States.",
"former British prime minister Tony Blair warns that Britain is in danger of losing the battle against terrorists unless mainstream society confronts the threat.",
"\"The idea that as a Muslim in Britain that you don't have the freedom to express your religion ... I mean you've got far more freedom in Britain than you do in most Muslim countries,\" former British prime minister Tony Blair told Observer columnist Will Hutton.",
"In an editorial, The Observer newspaper says: \"Some believe that the solution to terrorism is to resolve the myriad grievances the terrorists broadcast so violently.",
"This is a mistake.",
"Many such grievances are imagined -- the West does not want to 'dominate the lands of Islam,' for example.",
"\"Many more are simply not Britain's fault; we are not to blame for the parlous economic state of many Islamic countries.",
"Instead, we should remember that it is our way of life, and the attraction it holds, that remains our best weapon.",
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"(CNN) --",
"A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute is a \"smear campaign\" meant to discredit the man, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.",
"State Department has said A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute allegedly showing an employee having sex with a prostitute is a fake.",
"The employee, Brendan Kyle Hatcher, denied any encounter with a prostitute to his superiors at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, another State Department official said.",
"State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Beyrle, \"supports\" Hatcher, who remains at his job at the U.S. Embassy.",
"State Department had previously worked in the sensitive area of religious and human rights in Russia, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"\"State Department ... enjoys the full confidence of Ambassador Beyrle and fully intends to serve out the rest of State Department's tour in Moscow,\" State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said at an afternoon briefing at State Department.",
"The United States \"deplores this type of campaign and use of the Internet to smear a foreign service officer of good standing,\" he added.",
"Watch why the U.S. says A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute is doctored » .",
"Ambassador Beyrle was unequivocal in expressing Ambassador Beyrle's support in an interview with ABC News.",
"\"State Department has done nothing wrong,\" he said.",
"\"Clearly, A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute was a montage of lot of different clips, some of them which are clearly fabricated.\"",
"A senior State Department official said, \"It's a doctored tape and a set-up designed to implicate someone working as a liaison with religious and human rights groups in Russia.\"",
"A senior State Department official said Hatcher, who is married, \"was approached by Russians; Russians tried to blackmail State Department, but State Department did everything correctly,\" reporting the incident to State Department's supervisors at the Embassy.",
"A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute then appeared on the tabloid newspaper Web site Compromat.ru and was picked up by other outlets.",
"Diplomatic sources who declined to be named said Compromat.ru has a history of ties to Russia's security services.",
"Russia's Foreign Ministry had no comment when asked about A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute.",
"Another senior State Department official, who has seen A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute, said \"it's clear to me that it's him,\" referring to portions showing State Department alone in the hotel room.",
"\"But then the lights go down,\" and the footage from there on is faked, that official said.",
"The video of Hatcher in the hotel room was taken last year, \"somewhere in Siberia,\" said the senior State Department official who watched A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute.",
"A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute was shot in a hotel that State Department visited, the senior State Department official who watched the video said.",
"When questioned about the possible motivation for creating A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute, the senior State Department official who watched the video said it's presumed \"it was done because of his human rights work,\" in Russia.",
"the senior State Department official who watched the video doubted the incident will have any effect on U.S.-Russian relations and noted that the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry have both been \"very cooperative\" in the months since the footage came to light.",
"\"The vast majority of people there are working toward better relations,\" the senior State Department official who watched the video said.",
"Another official said State Department is a \"great officer\" who, until last summer, was a political reporting officer focusing on religious freedom issues in Russia.",
"The assignment lasts two years: one year in that specialty and a year on the visa-issuing line at the embassy.",
"Last year, Another official said, State Department was the lead officer compiling State Department's Religious Freedom report and was given an award for State Department's work by the ambassador.",
"Another official confirmed that State Department received a meritorious honor award in 2009 and a group award in 2008.",
"State Department, one official said, worked with religious groups that are considered \"outside the mainstream\" in Russia, such as Protestants and non-Christians.",
"Such faiths often face official and unofficial discrimination in the largely Russian-Orthodox society.",
"Another senior State Department official said, \"there is a lot of inertia\" among some special security services in Russia.",
"\"They are pretty much unreconstructed,\" Another senior State Department official said.",
"The security services may have wanted to compromise State Department's ability to work with religious groups, Another senior State Department official says, \"or they may have wanted to throw a stick into the spokes\" of the U.S.-Russia relationship.",
"\"Some in Moscow,\" Another senior State Department official said, \"are looking to integrate with the West, and others are trying to stop that.\"",
"The officials asked not to be identified because The officials were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.",
"CNN's Matthew Chance in Moscow and Paul Courson in Washington contributed to this report."
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