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"JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) --",
"A suspected terrorist linked to several Indonesian bombings in the past decade was killed in a protracted firefight Saturday in the Central Java town of Temanggung, two law enforcement sources told CNN.",
"A poster in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, has under \"dicari,\" or\"wanted,\" Noordin Top.",
"Another raid Saturday averted a planned assassination attempt on Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, authorities said.",
"Top was killed during a raid by the anti-terrorism unit Detachment 88 that began Friday and lasted 18 hours into Saturday, said a police source and a security analyst with close ties to the police.",
"Official confirmation of Top's identity will come next week after DNA results, said Indonesia's National Police Chief, Bambang Hendarso.",
"Indonesia's anti-terrorism forces had been hunting Top for the past six years.",
"Top is also the main suspect in last month's twin hotel bombings in Jakarta.",
"A statement attributed to Top, 40, a Malaysian-born explosives expert, claimed responsibility for the attacks that targeted Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels.",
"last month's twin hotel bombings in Jakarta killed seven people and the two suspected bombers, and wounded more than 50.",
"Watch more about Another raid » .",
"It was the first major terrorist attack in Indonesia in more than three years.",
"Top is reportedly an officer, recruiter, bomb-maker and trainer for a splinter group of the militant organization Jemaah Islamiyah, which has ties to al Qaeda.",
"He allegedly was involved in a previous attack on the Marriott in Jakarta in August 2003, as well as attacks on a Bali nightclub in 2002 and the Australian embassy in Jakarta in 2004, according to the FBI.",
"In February 2006, the FBI added Top to the FBI's list of 10 suspected terrorists who have not been charged in the United States, and are wanted only for questioning.",
"The ramifications of Top's death were not immediately clear.",
"\"This is a huge advance in Indonesia's fight against terror,\" said Sidney Jones, a senior Asia adviser for the International Crisis Group, a global nonpartisan advisory organization.",
"\"But this is not the end of it because we still don't know the extent of the network and the funding source of Noordin's network.\"",
"Three to four people were believed to be holed up in the house in Temanggung, police said.",
"Security forces had launched a raid on the house in Temanggung after two people believed to be nephews of the house in Temanggung's owner were arrested earlier in the day, according to the official Antara News Agency.",
"\"Police officers entered the house in Temanggung and fired profusely inside the house in Temanggung while other policemen surrounded the house in Temanggung and opened the house in Temanggung's windows by force,\" Antara said.",
"After the gunfire ended, local television showed police with their helmets off, shaking hands and carrying caskets into the house in Temanggung, suggesting that those inside the house in Temanggung had been killed or captured.",
"Also on Saturday, in a house on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesian police killed two militants believed to be connected with a 2004 bombing and found a cache of explosives in an early morning raid, the national police chief said.",
"Hendarso said that police found about 100 kg (220 lbs) of explosives along with bomb-making materials and a truck, which they did not immediately open for fear it might have been rigged to explode.",
"Those bomb-making materials were going to be used in an attack on the president, Hendarso said.",
"two militants believed to be connected with a 2004 bombing are believed to be connected with the 2004 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta in which 16 people were killed and more than 200 were wounded, Hendarso said.",
"Also, a man identified as Suryana, who uses the aliases Yayan and Gepeng, was arrested in north Jakarta on suspicion of terrorism charges, said Nanan Soekarna, police inspector general.",
"Nanan Soekarna, police inspector general could not say whether Suryana was connected with last month's hotel bombings or other incidents.",
"CNN's Andy Saputra contributed to this report."
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"Top was killed during Another raid, law enforcement sources say .",
"Top is the main suspect in the twin hotel bombings in Jakarta last month .",
"Also killed: Two militants allegedly linked to the 2004 Australian Embassy bombing ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Leon Panetta, chief of staff in President Bill Clinton's White House, will be President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be CIA director, two Democratic officials told CNN on Monday.",
"Leon Panetta, who has a strong background in economics, was chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.",
"two Democratic officials also said retired Adm. Dennis Blair, who formerly headed the U.S. Navy's Pacific Command, will be tapped as director of national intelligence.",
"Panetta, 70, has had a long political career, beginning in 1966 when he served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel.",
"R-California.",
"Panetta was elected to the House of Representatives in 1977, serving California's 16th (now 17th) District until President Bill Clinton appointed Panetta to head the Office of Budget and Management in 1993.",
"Panetta was chief of staff from 1994 to 1997.",
"Panetta and Panetta's wife, Sylvia, founded and co-direct the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy at California State University, which provides study opportunities for students there and at several other schools.",
"Panetta serves on several boards and committees, and lectures internationally on economics.",
"With a strong background in economics, Panetta has little hands-on experience in intelligence.",
"But Panetta is known as a strong manager with solid organizational skills.",
"Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who will be the new chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she had not been told in advance of Panetta's selection.",
"\"My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time,\" the California Democrat said.",
"But Sen. Ron Wyden, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was consulted on the pick and praised Panetta.",
"\"I believe Panetta has the skills to usher in a new era of accountability at the nation's premier intelligence agency,\" said Wyden, D-Oregon.",
"\"For too long the nation's intelligence community has operated under a policy of questionable effectiveness and legality in which consulting two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee counted as 'consulting with Congress.' \"",
"Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also questioned Panetta's lack of intelligence experience, as did outgoing committee chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia.",
"Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wouldn't comment until Obama makes an announcement, but his spokesman said that Hoekstra \"has called for a new direction and a change in the culture a the CIA for some time.\"",
"\"Whether it is Leon Panetta or someone else, it is important the agency move in a new direction,\" Jamal Ware said.",
"Blair, 61, was a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and attended Oxford University in Britain as a Rhodes scholar at the same time as Clinton.",
"Blair retired from the Navy in 2002.",
"Blair was the CIA's first associate director of military support and served on the National Security Council.",
"Blair has been sharply critical of U.S. policy in terms of strategic long-term planning.",
"iReport.com:",
"Share your thoughts on Obama's cabinet picks .",
"\"I am in awe of the sophisticated strategies that American politicians can devise and pursue over many years,\" Blair told a House panel in July.",
"\"American politicians involve very public activities -- speeches, programs, alliances -- but also backroom deals, and stratagems, tactical flexibility but strategic constancy, investment in intellectual and organizational capabilities that will not pay off for years.",
"\"I have yet to see these same brilliant politicians come up with similar strategies to advance the national interest when these same brilliant politicians come into national office.",
"Our national strategies show little of the depth, brilliance and effectiveness of the domestic political strategies this country produces.\"",
"Blair also is known in the Navy circles for once trying to water-ski behind the destroyer Blair skippered, the USS Cochrane."
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"Sen. Feinstein: CIA best served by \"an intelligence professional in charge\"",
"Panetta is Barack Obama's choice for CIA director, two Democratic officials say .",
"Officials: Retired Adm. Dennis Blair to be tapped as director of national intelligence ."
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"Havana, Cuba (CNN) --",
"Richard Waltzer has a pitch for Cuba: Miller beer and Häagen-Dazs ice cream.",
"If Richard Waltzer has Richard Waltzer's way, those products soon will be available at supermarkets and beach resorts on Cuba.",
"\"This is one of the things people are going to pay premium for,\" Richard Waltzer said, \"especially the tourists that have the dollars.",
"It's going to be a phenomenal product.\"",
"This week, dozens of Americans are in Havana, peddling dozens of Americans's wares at an international trade fair: apples, pears, grapes, raisins, nuts out of California.",
"U.S.-Cuba relations appear to be thawing.",
"In Havana, billboards depicting the U.S. president as Adolf Hitler have disappeared.",
"In Washington, President Obama has lifted restrictions on Cuban-American travel and money transfers.",
"The new political climate has prompted companies such as Chicago Foods to come to Havana's trade fair for the first time.",
"companies such as Chicago Foods're hoping to break into the little-known market and go home with a contract.",
"Despite a trade embargo imposed against Cuba in 1962, the United States is the No. 1 supplier of food to Cuba and has been for more than five years.",
"A law passed in 2000 allows the United States to export agricultural products and medicine.",
"But this year, the global economic crisis is taking the global economic crisis's toll.",
"\"Cuba has not been an exception,\" said Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz, minister of foreign trade and investment.",
"\"At the end of the third quarter in 2009, our trade fell by 36 percent.\"",
"Cuba is slashing imports of U.S. food by one-third, which means some vendors will go home empty-handed.",
"But vendors are betting U.S.-Cuba relations will only get better.",
"vendors said vendors're also hoping the next step could be bills in the U.S. Congress that would eliminate restrictions on all Americans traveling to Cuba.",
"\"We're in this for the long haul as well,\" said Paul Johnson of Chicago Foods.",
"\"Like I said before, we're thinking about today as well as tomorrow.\"",
"A tomorrow that would have U.S. tourists sipping American beer on Cuban beaches."
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"U.S. companies want to break into market and go home with a contract .",
"Cuba also reeling from global economic crisis .",
"Cuba is slashing imports of U.S. food by one-third ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Wonder has had more than 30 U.S. top ten hits and has won 22 Grammy Awards -- more than any other male artist.",
"Blind from birth, Wonder's music has always reflected Wonder's concern with humanitarian and social issues.",
"On Thursday, Wonder joined the prestigious list of U.N. Messengers of Peace and will focus on the battle for disabled rights.",
"UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment, calling Wonder a \"musical genius\" and \"great humanitarian, who has campaigned against apartheid, for children in need, and for persons with disabilities.\"",
"Speaking about Wonder's new U.N. role Wonder told CNN's Becky Anderson: \"It's about that ten percent of the world that suffers with a disability.",
"It's about sounding that alarm off that says to the 90 percent: it's time to get it together for those of us with disabilities.\"",
"Asked by CNN's Becky Anderson what phrase which would encapsulate Wonder's mission Wonder said: \"We can never let our fears put our dreams to sleep.\"",
"Wonder said the 90 percent of people who aren't disabled should learn not to fear disability, whatever form it takes and called for a stop to an \"ignorance to the highest point of ridiculousness.\"",
"Wonder hopes that politicians will listen to Wonder in Wonder's new role as a U.N. messenger.",
"\"If you love my music that much, then care about the 90 percent of people who aren't disabled as well.",
"There are 650 million disabled people in the world.",
"Lets do something about that.",
"Lets make a change,\" Wonder said.",
"The popularity of Wonder's music at the White House is well known.",
"Indeed, President Obama says President Obama owes a lot to Wonder's music.",
"When awarding Wonder the U.S.'s highest award for pop music: the Library of Congress' Gershwin prize earlier this year President Obama said: \"Michelle might not have dated me, we might not have married.",
"The fact that we agreed on Stevie was the essence of our courtship.\"",
"Wonder isn't surprised to see a black man in the White House.",
"\"That whole place of feeling that you can't have a black president or a female president, it's always been about people's inability to think out of the box that's always been backward in the first place.\"",
"The only downside from Wonder's new role is for Wonder's fans.",
"Wonder's new album \"Gospel Inspired By Lula\" wont be coming out until next May Wonder told Anderson.",
"Wonder admitted that after all these years in the business Wonder still gets nervous and still hits the odd bum note.",
"\"We did a show recently where my voice cracked and I said 'we gotta do that again!'",
"We all laughed about it.\"",
"Does Wonder have a favorite song from Wonder's own catalogue?",
"\"I always use this thing that Duke Ellington would say.",
"He used to say that 'I haven't written it yet.'",
"I guess I would say the same.",
"I would say this to you: whatever your favorite is, is my favorite too.\""
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"The multi award-winning Grammy artist is a new Messenger of Peace .",
"Wonder will fight for the rights of 650 million disabled people worldwide ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Formula 1 will continue to take place in Britain for the next 17 years after a deal was struck between Silverstone's owners and the sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone.",
"Monday's announcement by the track's owners means the oldest venue on the F1 calendar keeps Formula 1's place.",
"Silverstone's comeback took place despite rival track Donington Park being awarded the contract to host the British Grand Prix from 2010.",
"However, that circuit lost out after failing to secure the $200 million needed to fund redevelopment plans.",
"That had led to fears the sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone would look to move the race abroad.",
"Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips told the Press Association: \"Silverstone've always had five-year deals and never been able to get the investment Silverstone needed to redevelop.",
"\"But 17 years gives Silverstone the ability to invest and move forward.",
"Silverstone've always had the belief the British Grand Prix was an important cornerstone of Formula One but, with Bernie, you're never quite sure.",
"Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips described the deal as \"peace in our time\" between the circuit's owners, the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC), and the sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone.",
"\"The relationship with Formula One Management has been improving,\" added Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips.",
"\"There's a good working relationship with him now and we don't have any issues.\"",
"Applauding the negotiating team, BRDC president and 1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill told the Press Association: \"It's not easy to enter into an agreement of this magnitude.",
"It's a big commitment.",
"\"But the BRDC felt the BRDC wanted this relationship to continue, and the BRDC were prepared to back the negotiating team, with the level of risk satisfactory for the deal to go ahead.",
"\"This announcement is tremendous news.",
"This announcement really does cement Silverstone as a motor sport venue and is incredibly satisfying for the BRDC to cement the BRDC's relationship with F1.\""
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"Formula 1 will continue in Britain after deal between Silverstone and sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone .",
"Announcement by the track's owners means the oldest race on Formula 1 keeps Formula 1's place .",
"Donington was to host British Grand Prix from 2010 but failed to secure $200 million for redevelopment ."
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"Editor's note: Ifill is a professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law and a civil rights lawyer who specializes in voting rights and political participation.",
"Ifill is the author of \"On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century,\" and is a regular contributor to The Root at http://www.theroot.com/.",
"Ifill says Sotomayor's speech was an honest effort to describe how judges rule on cases.",
"(CNN)",
"-- When Don Imus denigrated in clearly racist terms the championship women's basketball team from Rutgers University; when actor Michael Richards screamed at black guests in a comedy club, calling black guests the \"n-word\" and invoking the threat of lynching; when Trent Lott said that things would have been better if a southern segregationist had been elected president a half-century earlier, responsible white people from across the ideological spectrum stepped forward to explain that these individuals were not racist.",
"The \"R\" word has become the taboo of the white world.",
"By this I mean that calling someone racist is a taboo, not racism itself.",
"So when Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich and several other conservative commentators call a sitting federal appeals court judge and Supreme Court nominee who happens to be Latina, a racist, it's time to push back.",
"Real hard",
"The evidence offered in support of Sotomayor's alleged racism is a speech she gave in Berkeley, California, in honor of Judge Mario G. Olmos, a former judge, community leader and graduate of Boalt Hall Law School who died an untimely death at the age of 43.",
"The offending section of Judge Sotomayor is this: \"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.\"",
"This passage inspired Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives and potential 2012 presidential candidate, to call Sotomayor \"a Latina racist.\"",
"To lift one statement out of Sotomayor's eight-page speech without examining the context and substance of Sotomayor's remarks, is an example of the kind of shoddy character assassination that I suspect will dominate this judicial confirmation process.",
"Sotomayor's speech is, in fact, an excellent meditation on how the experiences of judges might affect how judges approach aspects of judicial decision-making.",
"It explores the important, and too-little examined reality that judicial deliberations can be affected by a judge's background, perspective and experience.",
"In the next sentence immediately following the passage above, Sotomayor says, \"Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice [Benjamin] Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society.\"",
"Could Sotomayor have been referring to Buck v. Bell, the 1927 case in which Justice Holmes -- widely regarded as perhaps the most brilliant justice in the Supreme Court's history -- upheld the state's plan to sterilize Carrie Buck, an 18-year-old white woman, who was accused of being congenitally retarded.",
"Buck's main crime seems to have been the fact that she'd had a child out of wedlock.",
"In any case, Justice Holmes -- widely regarded as perhaps the most brilliant justice in the Supreme Court's history -- upheld the sterilization order, emphatically and coldly stating, \"three generations of imbeciles is enough.\"",
"Does anyone seriously believe that a woman, and especially a woman of color \"with the richness of her experiences\" would not have \"reach[ed] a better conclusion \" than that adopted by Justice Holmes -- widely regarded as perhaps the most brilliant justice in the Supreme Court's history -- in 1927?",
"In fact Buck v. Bell is the perfect example of how a \"wise old [white] man\" got it wrong in a way that a woman judge or a racial minority most likely would not.",
"It's worth pointing out that in that same speech Sotomayor cautioned, \"we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group.\"",
"But Sotomayor acknowledges that \"there may be some [difference in Sotomayor's judging] based on my gender and my Latina heritage.\"",
"What Gingrich and others decry in Sotomayor should be applauded.",
"Sotomayor has the humility to recognize the difficulty of achieving true and pure impartiality.",
"Instead, as Sotomayor pointed out in Sotomayor's speech, \"[t]he aspiration to impartiality is just that -- it's an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others.\"",
"Unlike so many judges who by virtue of being white and male simply assume their impartiality, Sotomayor recognizes that all judges are affected by all judges's background and all judges's life experiences.",
"Ironically, it was Justice Cardozo who recognized this when Justice Cardozo said, \"[t]he great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men, do not turn aside in men's course, and pass the judge by.\"",
"Justice Cardozo concluded that \"[n]o effort or revolution of the mind will overthrow utterly and at all times the empire of ... [a judge's] subconscious loyalties.",
"These are the realities of judicial decision-making evoked by Sotomayor's speech.",
"It's perhaps easier to say as [then-Supreme Court nominee] Clarence Thomas so famously did, that a judge can simply, \"strip down like a runner,\" and become utterly impartial simply by putting on a black robe.",
"But it is more honest to acknowledge that regardless of race, gender, ideology or professional background, impartiality is always a work-in-progress for judges.",
"Even Judge Richard Posner, a conservative stalwart on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals once observed that, \"Litigation commonly involves persons at different social distances form the judge, and the more proximate will garner the more sympathetic response regardless of actual desert.\"",
"Justice Thomas is the perfect example of how hard it can be for a judge to lay aside the personal experiences that shape Justice Thomas's worldview.",
"Justice Thomas's views about the affirmative action cases that come before Justice Thomas are shaped quite clearly by what Justice Thomas regards as the self-sufficient dignity of Justice Thomas's hard-working grandfather and the humiliation Justice Thomas says Justice Thomas felt when others believed Justice Thomas's scholarly accomplishments were the result of affirmative action.",
"White judges are also shaped by White judges's background and experiences.",
"White judges needn't ever speak of it, simply because White judges's whiteness and gender insulates White judges from the presumption of partiality and bias that is regularly attached to women judges and judges of color when it comes to matters of race and gender.",
"Only a judge who is conscious and fully engaged with the reality of how her experiences may bear on her approach to the facts of a case, or sense of social justice, or vision of constitutional interpretation, should be entrusted to sit on the most influential and powerful court in our nation.",
"Too often we have allowed ourselves to be placated and charmed by fantasies about umpire judges calling \"balls and strikes,\" without ever asking which league the game is being played in or whether the umpire was standing in the best position to see the play.",
"We forget that when deciding whether a batter checked his swing, the homeplate umpire will routinely ask for the alternative perspective from the first or third base umpire before calling a \"swing and a miss\" a strike.",
"Sotomayor rightly suggests that these things matter.",
"Sotomayor notes in Sotomayor's speech that \"personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.\"",
"Sotomayor should know this.",
"Sotomayor's been a trial judge.",
"None of the other justices who will serve with Sotomayor will have had that experience.",
"Sotomayor's speech is one of the most honest and compelling statements about judicial impartiality we're likely to hear from a judge of Sotomayor's stature.",
"Judge Sotomayor ends with this humble observation: . \"Each day on the bench I learn something new about the judicial process and about being a professional Latina woman in a world that sometimes looks at me with suspicion.",
"I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe people constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I re-evaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires.",
"I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations.",
"I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.\"",
"It's entirely appropriate to question Sotomayor about Judge Sotomayor at Sotomayor's confirmation hearings.",
"Sotomayor is evidently more than capable of explaining in compelling, clear language what precisely Sotomayor wanted to convey in Judge Sotomayor.",
"But Sotomayor is not a racist.",
"It is an insult of unimaginable proportion to unleash this charge on Sotomayor, based on one sentence from Judge Sotomayor's Berkeley, California, speech.",
"It is not just irresponsible to make this charge against a sitting federal appeals court judge based on this flimsy record; it is -- and here I'll break the taboo -- racist to do so.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sherrilyn Ifill."
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"Sherrilyn Ifill: The charge of being a racist is a taboo in much of society .",
"Critics of Sotomayor have called Sotomayor's racist for one sentence in a speech, Ifill says .",
"Ifill says judge was honestly examining how judges make judges's decisions .",
"Ifill says Impartiality is always a work-in-progress for judges ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"If the location is anything to go by, then the omens are promising.",
"Denmark's capital city, Copenhagen -- host to the U.N. climate summit which starts today -- is already one of the greenest cities in Europe.",
"With over 300 kilometers of cycle lanes it is estimated that around 40 percent of the 1.2 population travel to work on a bicycle.",
"And visitors to Copenhagen are encouraged to join in by making use of the network of city bikes for a deposit of just 20 DKK ($4).",
"The influence of two wheels has extended into Yuletide this year, as cyclists in City Hall Square are generating the electricity powering the lights on the Christmas tree.",
"It's just one of hundreds of activities and events which Copenhageners have organized to coincide with the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of Copenhagen.",
"The opening of the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city marks the end of an exhaustive planning period by Copenhagen.",
"Preparations at the Bella Center in the Orestad district began two years ago.",
"The finishing touches began eight weeks ago.",
"\"It is, by far, the largest conference we have ever held and the largest political conference in Europe,\" the Bella Center press manager, Lars Lemche told CNN.",
"\"If numbers continue to grow, it will be the biggest political meeting the U.N. has ever held,\" Lars Lemche said.",
"the Bella Center in the Orestad district has hosted big events before -- a European Union summit in 2002 and the 2006 MTV European Music Awards -- but the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city makes them look like a tea party.",
"\"A conference is 36 hours.",
"This is 11 days,\" Lars Lemche said.",
"the Bella Center in the Orestad district has had to extend the Bella Center in the Orestad district's floor space to 77,000 square meters -- the size of 11 football pitches -- to accommodate all delegates and 1000 staff will be on hand throughout.",
"Numbers are expected to peak at around 18,000 in the second week when 100 heads of state arrive for the high-level political negotiations.",
"This Herculean effort of planning is being backed up by a raft of green initiatives.",
"Outside the Bella Center in the Orestad district solar-powered streetlights are helping light the car parks.",
"A wind turbine is helping power the lights indoors.",
"Inside the conference center delegates will eat from a menu that is 65 percent organic and drink water that has come out of a tap rather than a bottle.",
"Pens provided will be made from recycled plastic, and even the carpets are biodegradable.",
"In a bid to offset the considerable carbon dioxide emissions - estimated to be 40,000 tons -- generated by the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city, organizers are funding the replacement of polluting brick factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh with 20 new efficient ones.",
"Despite the disruption, Copenhageners have gone about Copenhageners's daily business as usual.",
"Jason Heppenstall, Editor of The Copenhagen Post, a weekly English language newspaper told CNN: \"There hasn't been much of a build up until the last few days.",
"Until about two weeks ago it's not been talked about a lot in the press and maybe a month ago half the people in Denmark didn't know there was going to be a conference,\" Jason Heppenstall, Editor of The Copenhagen Post, a weekly English language newspaper told CNN.",
"People are starting to notice changes now, and the mood among Copenhageners is positive, apart from the locals living near the Bella Center in the Orestad district and whose lives have been disrupted by all the security arrangements, Heppenstall said.",
"The concrete barriers and the perimeter fence erected to protect the Bella Center in the Orestad district have been one of the more obvious signs of security in Copenhagen.",
"And now that the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city has started, 6000 officers will be on duty during the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city.",
"Niels-Otto Fisker, communications advisor to the Danish national police commissioner, told CNN: \"It is the single greatest operation that the Danish police have undertaken.",
"Police are being drafted in from all over the country, and shifts are being extended from eight to 12-16 hours.\"",
"In all, the security operations are costing the Danish government an estimated $122 million.",
"Last week, police unveiled a 22-ton vehicle armed with a water canon which will be used if trouble flares during the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city.",
"The only confrontations in the buildup to the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city have been between Copenhagen's female mayor, Ritt Bjerregaard, and Copenhagen's prostitutes.",
"A row started after city leaders requested hotels display postcards saying: \"Be sustainable: Don't buy sex.\"",
"The prostitutes -- whose are free to work under Danish law -- have responded by offering The prostitutes -- whose are free to work under Danish law --'s services free of charge.",
"\"Our office is based in the red-light district.",
"There are prostitutes here, but it's not like Amsterdam,\" Heppenstall explained.",
"\"I think some people coming to the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city think it might be.",
"So the city council have been trying to pre-empt it by sending postcards saying please refrain from going to these areas.",
"The prostitutes -- whose are free to work under Danish law -- have responded by saying that's ridiculous.",
"The prostitutes -- whose are free to work under Danish law -- see this as The prostitutes -- whose are free to work under Danish law --'s big moment.\"",
"As Copenhagen hands over to the U.N. for two weeks, the world's eyes are now turning to negotiations which precede the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama and company.",
"Earlier this year, Copenhagen announced the aim of being carbon neutral by 2025.",
"Perhaps the U.N. could take a leaf out of the U.N.'s host's book."
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"Six heat-trapping gases that contribute to air pollution pose potential health hazards, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday in a landmark announcement that could lead to regulation of the gases.",
"\"Finding confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem,\" the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said.",
"Six heat-trapping gases that contribute to air pollution have been the subject of intensive analysis by scientists around the world, the Environmental Protection Agency said.",
"The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific review in 2007.",
"\"Finding confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations,\" the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said in a release, later adding, \"The science clearly shows that concentrations of Six heat-trapping gases that contribute to air pollution are at unprecedented levels as a result of human emissions, and these high levels are very likely the cause of the increase in average temperatures and other changes in our climate.\"",
"the Environmental Protection Agency's finding now goes into a public comment period.",
"The report, titled \"Assessment of the Impacts of Global Change on Regional U.S. Air Quality: A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Ground-Level Ozone,\" is the culmination of a study started in 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency said.",
"The White House moved quickly to try to squelch any concerns that the Environmental Protection Agency would immediately issue any regulations concerning the gases.",
"\"The president has made clear The president's strong preference that Congress act to pass comprehensive legislation rather than address the climate challenge through administrative action,\" The White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said.",
"\"That's why The president has repeatedly called for a bill to provide for market-based solutions to reduce carbon pollution and transition to a clean-energy economy that creates millions of green jobs.\"",
"The the Environmental Protection Agency announcement comes amid efforts by Congress to enact a limit on global warming pollution.",
"The House Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to begin hearings next week on a comprehensive energy and climate bill, called the American Clean Energy and Security Act.",
"Committee Chairman Henry Waxman is said to want a comprehensive energy and climate bill out of committee by Memorial Day, which falls on May 25, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to bring a comprehensive energy and climate bill to the House floor for a vote this year.",
"Environmentalists hailed the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement, with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund calling The EPA announcement a \"historic step ... [that] formally determined that global warming pollution 'endangers' the nation's human health and well-being.\"",
"\"The U.S. is taking The U.S.'s first steps as a nation to confront climate change,\" said Vickie Patton, deputy general counsel at the environmental advocacy group.",
"\"Global warming threatens our health, our economy, and our children's prosperity.",
"EPA's action is a wake-up call for national policy solutions that secure our economic and environmental future.\"",
"But critics say the finding will just produce a \"glorious mess.\"",
"\"Today's action by the Environmental Protection Agency is the beginning of a regulatory barrage that will destroy jobs, raise energy prices for consumers and undermine America's global competitiveness,\" said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, the ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.",
"\"It now appears the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory reach will find EPA's regulatory reach's way into schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities and just about any activity that meets minimum thresholds in the Clean Air Act.\"",
"the Environmental Protection Agency notes in an accompanying report released Friday that global warming could make ozone pollution worse in some parts of the United States.",
"Future ozone management decisions may have to take into account the possible effects of global warming, an accompanying report released Friday says.",
"\"Climate change, along with other aspects of global change, including changes in population, land use and the technologies employed for energy production and transportation, may alter the capacity for U.S. states to successfully attain the national air quality standards in the future,\" an accompanying report released Friday concludes.",
"Ground-level ozone is formed when sunlight causes a chemical reaction in the air between nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds emitted by motor vehicles and industrial plants.",
"Ozone levels are typically higher on sunny days in areas that have many vehicles or smoke-stack industries.",
"Global warming also could increase the number of days with weather conditions conducive to forming ozone, potentially causing air quality alerts earlier in the spring and later in the fall, an accompanying report released Friday says.",
"In addition to health problems, an accompanying report released Friday says global warming could lead to increased drought, more heavy downpours and flooding, and more frequent and intense heat waves and wildfires.",
"Global warming could also cause a greater rise in sea level, more intense storms and harm to water resources, agriculture, wildlife and ecosystems, an accompanying report released Friday said.",
"CNN political correspondent Jessica Yellin contributed to an accompanying report released Friday."
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"(CNN) --",
"Women were dismissed from the military for being gay at a greater rate than men last year, according to new statistics obtained by a California research group.",
"Women were dismissed from the military for being gay at a greater rate than men last year.",
"All the services kicked out a disproportionate number of women under the \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policy, according to Department of Defense data obtained by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.",
"The center studies gender and sexuality in the military.",
"The \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policy, implemented in 1994, bans troops who are openly gay from serving in the military.",
"In the Air Force, a majority of those removed were women, the first time a service has had such a record since the implementation of the controversial law in 1994, according to Palm Center senior research fellow Nathaniel Frank.",
"Watch CNN's Randi Kaye report on Obama's promises » .",
"In fiscal year 2008, the Air Force dismissed 56 women and 34 men.",
"In addition, the Army removed more women under the \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policy at a greater rate than men when compared with the ratio of women to men in each service.",
"Of those discharged under the policy, 36 percent were women, although women make up only 14 percent of troops in the Army, the data showed."
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"(CNN) --",
"English Premier League Fulham produced a superb performance in Switzerland on Wednesday to eliminate opponents Basel from Europa League with a 3-2 victory.",
"Fulham went into the away game needing victory to leapfrog Fulham's opponents and join Group E winners AS Roma in the last 32 of Europe's second-tier club competition.",
"Fulham were led by striker Bobby Zamora, who capped a recent scoring spree with two goals just before halftime.",
"Basel hit back with a disputed penalty before Zoltan Gera put Fulham 3-1 ahead with a neat finish.",
"But a Marco Streller 87th minute strike for the home side set up a nervous finish for the visitors, who survived to reach the knockout stages.",
"AS Roma beat CSKA Sofia in the group's other match with Alessandro Cerci scornig twice.",
"In Group F, French star Djibril Cisse scored a late double as Panathinaikos booked Panathinaikos's passage with a 3-0 home win over Dinamo Bucharest.",
"Ante Rukavina set the Greek giants on their way to the last 32 with a 55th-minute strike.",
"Turkish side Galatasaray won the group but lost 1-0 to Austria's Sturm Graz, who scored through Daniel Beichler.",
"In Group D, Bundesliga Hertha Berlin beat Sporting Lisbon of Portugal 1-0 through Gojko Kacar's second half strike.",
"It meant Dutch side Heerenveen were eliminated despite a 5-0 home victory over FK Ventspils.",
"Second-half goals from Gerard Sibon, who scored twice, Mika Vayrynen, Viktor Elm and Darryl Janmaat gave Heerenveen victory, but Hertha's win spoiled Second-half goals from Gerard Sibon, who scored twice, Mika Vayrynen's celebrations.",
"Sporting were already through as group winners.",
"Last season's UEFA Cup finalists Werder Bremen beat Athletic Bilbao 3-0 to top Group L, with both guaranteed their spots in Friday's draw.",
"Bremen netted three times in the opening 36 minutes through Claudio Pizarro, Naldo and Markus Rosenberg to complete a comfortable win."
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"Greek giants Panathinaikos book place in knockout stage with 3-0 win over Dinamo Bucharest .",
"Hertha Berlin go through with 1-0 win over group winners Sporting Lisbon .",
"Fellow Bundesliga side Werder Bremen top Goup L after 3-0 win over Athletic Bilbao ."
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"MUMBAI, India (Reuters) --",
"A newborn Indian baby found abandoned with 26 stab wounds has survived, doctors said on Wednesday, despite a cracked skull and exposed intestines.",
"The baby boy, who doctors said was aged between one and two days, was discovered soaked in blood at a garbage dump in India's financial capital of Mumbai on Tuesday, they said.",
"A newborn Indian baby's intestines were hanging out from a deep wound on A newborn Indian baby's back and A newborn Indian baby had dirt and garbage stuck on A newborn Indian baby.",
"\"When A newborn Indian baby was brought in A newborn Indian baby looked pale from blood loss,\" said Ramesh Hatti, a doctor at a city hospital.",
"\"A newborn Indian baby is still in a lot of pain but is now stable.\"",
"Police have not been able to trace A newborn Indian baby's parents or establish a reason for the attack.",
"Babies are sometimes abandoned by unwed Indian mothers, who fear severe social repercussions for having a child out of wedlock.",
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"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."
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"A newborn Indian baby found abandoned with 26 stab wounds has survived .",
"A newborn Indian baby also suffered a cracked skull and exposed intestines .",
"Doctors said A newborn Indian baby was aged between one and two days .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Attorneys for 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers on Wednesday sued the largest U.S. contractor in Iraq, alleging KBR knowingly exposed 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers to a cancer-causing toxic chemical.",
"16 Indiana National Guard soldiers have sued the Houston-based company Kellogg Brown and Root, known as KBR.",
"The lawsuit against Houston-based KBR, which seeks an unspecified amount, alleges that 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers were exposed to sodium dichromate, an inorganic compound containing a highly toxic form of chromium known as hexavalent chromium.",
"16 Indiana National Guard soldiers say that 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers, along with other American civilian contractors, were exposed to a cancer-causing toxic chemical at the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq shortly after the U.S. invasion in 2003.",
"KBR was tasked with getting the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq up and running using civilian contractors.",
"16 Indiana National Guard soldiers were assigned to protect the civilian workers.",
"The Guardsmen and civilian contractors who worked there have described walking on and sitting near the bright orange powder that was widely dispersed throughout the grounds of the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq.",
"a cancer-causing toxic chemical was believed to have been left behind by forces loyal to Saddam Hussein.",
"Some of 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers already suffer from nasal tumors or respiratory system problems and other health problems, according to Suit.",
"One of 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers may have died from the exposure, though the exact cause of his death earlier this year is still not clear.",
"The odorless sodium dichromate was used at the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq as an anti-corrosive, Suit says.",
"a cancer-causing toxic chemical contained nearly pure hexavalent chromium, the toxic substance that poisoned homeowners in Hinkley, California, and was made famous by activist Erin Brockovich, according to Suit.",
"For 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers, KBR's \"knowing acts and omissions\" resulted in \"months and months of unprotected, unknowing, direct exposure to one of the most potent carcinogens and mutagenic substances known to man,\" Suit alleges.",
"A spokeswoman for KBR said KBR was still reviewing Suit, but denied responsibility for creating unsafe conditions at the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq.",
"\"We are not providing comment on Suit at this time.",
"KBR does intend to vigorously defend KBR,\" KBR spokeswoman Heather Browne said.",
"16 Indiana National Guard soldiers say KBR knew about the dangers of exposure to a cancer-causing toxic chemical as far back as 2003, but did not act to protect 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers.",
"\"KBR managers knew full well long ago that this stuff was incredibly dangerous.",
"But there was no information about it for years.",
"And now 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers are facing some pretty serious health concerns.",
"16 Indiana National Guard soldiers're going to be stuck with this the rest of 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers's lives,\" said Doyle.",
"\"The most frustrating thing is that 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers are finding out years later that 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers were exposed to something,\" said Mike Doyle, one of the Houston attorneys representing 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers.",
"KBR took issue with the allegation that KBR knowingly exposed the soldiers or anyone else and did nothing to help.",
"\"KBR's commitment to the safety and security of all employees, the troops and those we serve is KBR's top priority,\" the statement read.",
"\"KBR appropriately notified the Army Corps of Engineers upon discovery of the existence of the substance on the site and the Army Corps of Engineers concluded that KBR's efforts to remediate the situation were effective.",
"Further, the company in no way condones any action that would compromise the safety of those we serve or employ.\"",
"Mark McManaway, a father and grandfather, was an Indiana National Guard sergeant at the water plant from May through September 2003, when the worst exposures are believed to have occurred.",
"He is one of the plaintiffs in Suit.",
"\"The worst part is that the military has only just recently advised us that the stuff we were exposed to was much worse than they thought while we were out there,\" said McManaway.",
"\"It's in our bodies, but we don't know how bad it is.",
"Maybe within the next five years cancers could start showing up.",
"You've got a ticking time bomb in you -- and when's it going to go off?\"",
"the military is not named as a defendant in Suit.",
"a cancer-causing toxic chemical was a diluted form of hexavalent chromium that caused serious illnesses after being ingested by homeowners through their water.",
"The chemical the Guardsmen were exposed to in Iraq was a nearly pure form of a cancer-causing toxic chemical and could have been inhaled directly by anyone working at the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq.",
"The U.S. Senate held hearings in August on emerging concerns about the exposure to the toxic chemicals after reports of civilian contractors and their exposure to the chemicals at the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq.",
"But officials of 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers -- and most of the Guardsmen who worked at the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq -- were not even aware of the possible dangers at the time of the hearing.",
"Some heard about for the first time during the televised hearings.",
"Only then did 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers begin efforts to find the men, some of whom had already been back in the United States for four years.",
"An estimated 275 American soldiers may have been exposed to a cancer-causing toxic chemical at the Qarmat Ali water pumping plant in southern Iraq, over a period of months through mid- to late-2003."
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"Suit alleges KBR knew of contamination threat and did nothing to protect soldiers .",
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"(CNN) --",
"A Brazilian court ordered Wednesday that 9-year-old Sean Goldman be returned to the custody of 9-year-old Sean Goldman's father, David, in the United States, but 9-year-old Sean Goldman's Brazilian relatives were expected to try to block the order, a Brazilian official said.",
"Outside his home in New Jersey, David Goldman told reporters David Goldman was heartened by the news, but would not consider David Goldman's efforts successful until David Goldman and 9-year-old Sean Goldman are reunited.",
"\"I'm hopeful,\" David Goldman said.",
"\"I can't be optimistic because I've gone down there so many times, always under the guise that the rule of law will be followed and 9-year-old Sean Goldman will come home to me and 9-year-old Sean Goldman's family, and that doesn't happen.\"",
"The 3-0 ruling by the Federal Regional Tribunal in Rio de Janeiro upheld a June decision by the 16th Federal Court in Rio, which ordered 9-year-old Sean Goldman returned to 9-year-old Sean Goldman's home in New Jersey in accordance with the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abductions.",
"But a Brazilian official with knowledge of the case predicted Wednesday's order would be appealed.",
"So far, 9-year-old Sean Goldman's Brazilian family has filed 40 appeals, most of them procedural but one substantive.",
"The Brazilian high court is to take up any appeal on Thursday, said Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, who has been pressing the case for his constituent.",
"\"Frankly, every possible nuance has been appealed by the other side,\" he told CNN's \"Situation Room.\"",
"\"Remember, this is an abducting family, they're kidnappers, but they have had a great deal of sway with The Brazilian high court.\"",
"The Supreme Court could still allow 9-year-old Sean Goldman to be returned to 9-year-old Sean Goldman's father in the United States while The Supreme Court decides any appeal.",
"Goldman, a former model, said David Goldman had last spoken with David Goldman's son in June, but they did not discuss the custody battle.",
"The case began in 2004, when David Goldman's wife, Bruna Bianchi, took their 4-year-old son from their home in New Jersey to Rio de Janeiro for what was to have been a two-week vacation.",
"Goldman's wife never returned, instead remarrying there and retaining custody of their son.",
"Goldman's wife died last year in childbirth.",
"David Goldman has argued that, as the sole surviving parent, David Goldman should be granted custody.",
"But 9-year-old Sean Goldman's stepfather and 9-year-old Sean Goldman's other Brazilian relatives have argued that it would be traumatizing to 9-year-old Sean Goldman to remove 9-year-old Sean Goldman from what has been 9-year-old Sean Goldman's home for most of 9-year-old Sean Goldman's life.",
"The case has drawn high-profile input, including pressure for 9-year-old Sean Goldman's return from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said Wednesday in a statement that she was pleased to hear about the decision.",
"\"We appreciate the assistance and cooperation of the government of Brazil in upholding Brazil's obligations under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction,\" she said.",
"\"And it is my hope that this long legal process is now complete and that the David Goldman family will be reunited quickly.\"",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty contributed to this story."
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"A whopping 70 percent of American kids aren't getting enough vitamin D, and such youngsters tend to have higher blood pressure and lower levels of good cholesterol than their peers, according to two new studies published this week in the journal Pediatrics.",
"Low vitamin D levels also may increase a child's risk of developing heart disease later in life, experts say.",
"People who drank milk less than once a week were among those most at risk for vitamin-D deficiency, a study found.",
"\"We were astounded at how common it was,\" says study author Dr. Michal Melamed, an assistant professor of medicine, epidemiology, and population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, New York.",
"\"There is a lot of data that suggests adults with low vitamin-D levels are at risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and a lot of cancers, and if kids start out with low levels and never increase them, kids may be putting kids at risk for developing all of these diseases at a much earlier age.\"",
"vitamin D is often called the \"sunshine vitamin\" because the human body makes vitamin D only when exposed to sunlight -- although it only takes 10 to 15 minutes a day to make an adequate amount.",
"Vitamin D, which helps the bones better absorb calcium, is also added to multivitamins and milk.",
"In Melamed's study, the researchers looked at the vitamin D levels of more than 6,000 people ages 1 to 21.",
"the researchers checked for vitamin-D deficiency, which is defined as less than 15 nanograms per milliliter of blood (ng/mL), and vitamin-D insufficiency, which is defined as 15 to 29 ng/mL.",
"Overall, 7.6 million, or 9 percent, of U.S. children were vitamin-D deficient, and another 50.8 million, or 61 percent, had insufficient levels of this important vitamin in their blood.",
"Children with low levels of vitamin D were more likely to have high blood pressure and lower levels of high-density lipoprotein, also known as good cholesterol -- two factors that are considered major risk factors for heart disease later in life.",
"Health.com: How cholesterol affects your heart's health .",
"Children with low vitamin-D levels also had higher levels of parathyroid hormone than Children with low vitamin-D levels's counterparts with adequate vitamin D in Children with low vitamin-D levels's blood.",
"Parathyroid hormone is a measure of bone health.",
"When levels are high, Parathyroid hormone suggests that bones need more calcium to grow.",
"Watch more on kids in the U.S. and low levels of vitamin D » .",
"Overall, those most at risk for a vitamin-D deficiency were older, female, obese, drank milk less than once a week, and spent more than four hours a day watching TV, playing video games, or working on a computer.",
"those most at risk for a vitamin-D deficiency were also more likely to be children with darker skin, including non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican-Americans.",
"(Children with darker skin are more likely to be deficient in vitamin D because Children with darker skin have more melanin than Children with darker skin's fairer counterparts.",
"Melanin is the pigment that gives skin color, but Melanin may prevent the skin from absorbing enough sunlight to produce an adequate amount of vitamin D.)",
"Health.com: Battle aging with vitamin D .",
"In the second study, a research team led by Jared P. Reis, Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, looked at 3,577 adolescents ages 12 to 19.",
"Those with low levels of vitamin D were more likely to have high blood pressure, high levels of blood sugar, and metabolic syndrome (a cluster of factors known to increase risk of heart disease) than Those with low levels of vitamin D's counterparts with ample vitamin D in their blood, regardless of how much Those with low levels of vitamin D weighed.",
"Exactly how a lack of vitamin D increases the risk of heart disease is an evolving story.",
"In terms of blood pressure, vitamin D helps control renin, a protein that plays a role in regulating blood-pressure levels.",
"Health.com: Why belly fat increases type 2 diabetes risk .",
"The best vitamin-D boosting strategy involves a three-pronged approach, says Melamed.",
"\"You can get a little bit from food, but not as much as you need,\" she says.",
"\"Supplements are readily available, and kids like to take Flintstones or gummy-bear multivitamins, which typically contain vitamin D.\"",
"Also, parents should help parents's children get at least 10 to 15 minutes of sun exposure daily without sunscreen.",
"\"Set your watch and then apply sunscreen after 15 minutes,\" Melamed says.",
"Some children, including those in high-risk groups, may need to be screened to check for low vitamin-D levels.",
"Dr. Michael F. Holick, Ph.D., a professor of medicine, physiology, and biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine, and the author of \"The Vitamin D Solution\" (to be released in April 2010), has been sounding an alarm about the dangers of low vitamin-D levels for years.",
"Health.com: Easy food swaps cut cholesterol, not taste .",
"\"This is a recipe for serious diseases occurring in our children when our children are in our children's 20s and 30s,\" he says.",
"Holick was among the first to document the return of rickets--a disorder caused by a lack of vitamin D and other minerals--which can lead to the softening and weakening of the bones.",
"Health.com: How to get vitamin D safely .",
"\"[But] rickets is just the tip of the iceberg,\" Holick says.",
"\"Vitamin-D deficiency has insidious, serious long-term health consequences for children that could remain with children throughout children's lives,\" he explains.",
"\"[Parents should know] Parents's child is likely to be vitamin-D deficient if their child does not take a supplement of 400 IU vitamin D a day and receive some unprotected sun.",
"It is next to impossible to get enough vitamin D from diet, and the sun-phobic attitude has made the problem much worse.\"",
"Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2009 ."
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"Study: 70 percent of American kids aren't getting enough vitamin D .",
"Children with darker skin are more likely to be deficient in vitamin D .",
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"vitamin D also helps the bones better absorb calcium ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Manor GP are to be rebranded Virgin Racing ahead of Manor GP's Formula One debut next season.",
"Manor team chief John Booth and Virgin supremo Richard Branson are due to announce the long-awaited sponsorship tie-up on Tuesday.",
"The news has effectively been confirmed by motor sport's world governing body, the FIA, as motor sport's world governing body, the FIA have announced the 2010 entry list for the F1 world championship.",
"Currently there are 12 teams, with the name Virgin Racing amongst the newcomers for 2010, joining Lotus F1 Racing, Campos Meta 1 and US F1 Team.",
"The issue of the 13th entry remains unresolved, although Sauber are widely expected to be granted a place on next year's grid following a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Monaco on December 11.",
"Peter Sauber last week regained control of the team Peter Sauber sold to BMW four years ago after the German manufacturing giant's withdrawal from the sport.",
"\"I am very relieved about that development,\" the 66-year-old Swiss, who is hopeful motor sport's world governing body, the FIA will now look favorably on Peter Sauber's entry, told reporters.",
"\"It would have been a crying shame had one of the best Formula One factories closed down.",
"Regarding the slot on the grid, I am very confident we will be given a final confirmation very shortly.\"",
"The Formula One Commission are due to discuss Toyota's fate next week, again in Monaco on Wednesday.",
"Toyota pulled out of F1 at the end of last season, despite during the summer signing the new Concorde Agreement that bound Toyota to the sport for the next three years.",
"Speculation has surfaced of late regarding a potential takeover, yet it is unclear whether a buyer would automatically be granted an entry on the basis of Toyota's signature on the Concorde.",
"In a statement, motor sport's world governing body, the FIA said: \"Toyota Motorsport GmbH remains formally bound by the Concorde Agreement to put forward a team for participation, though Toyota Motorsport GmbH has indicated that Toyota Motorsport GmbH will not be in a position to do so.",
"\"An announcement will be made regarding this entry in due course.\""
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"An executive of the Chinese dairy company Sanlu Group pleaded guilty Wednesday over An executive of the Chinese dairy company Sanlu Group's role in the contaminated milk scandal that sickened nearly 300,000 infants, state-run media reported.",
"A salesgirl arranges powdered milk in China's Sichuan province in September.",
"Tian Wenhua, Sanlu's former board chairwoman and general manager, and three other executives are on trial for producing and selling fake or substandard products, according to Xinhua news agency.",
"Wenhua, 66, pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial at a court in Shijiazhuang, the capital of northern Hebei Province, Xinhua reported.",
"An executive of the Chinese dairy company Sanlu Group told a court in Shijiazhuang, the capital of northern Hebei Province that An executive of the Chinese dairy company Sanlu Group first received tainted milk complaints from consumers in mid-May -- four months before the issue became widely known -- according to the report.",
"Wenhua led a working team to investigate the claims, Xinhua reported.",
"The three other executives are former deputy general managers Wang Yuliang and Hang Zhiqi, and Wu Jusheng, a former executive heading Sanlu's milk division.",
"Chinese investigators found melamine in nearly 70 milk products from more than 20 companies, according to quality control official Li Changjiang, who was eventually forced to resign.",
"The Ministry of Health has said the contamination likely caused the deaths of at least six babies.",
"Another 294,000 infants suffered from urinary problems, such as kidney stones.",
"The tainted formula came to light in September after babies who were fed milk powder produced by the Sanlu Group, which recently filed for bankruptcy, had developed kidney stones.",
"Melamine is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.",
"Some Chinese dairy plants added the chemical to milk products so they would appear to have a higher protein level.",
"Prior to the four Sanlu executives, at least eight people stood trial over charges of producing, adding melamine-laced \"protein powder\" to milk or selling the tainted milk to Sanlu or other dairies.",
"Victims of tainted baby formula are expected to be compensated by the 22 Chinese dairy producers that made the milk.",
"\"The enterprises offered to shoulder the compensation liability,\" the country's Dairy Industry Association said Saturday, according to Xinhua.",
"\"By doing so, The enterprises hope to earn understanding and forgiveness of the families of the sickened children.\"",
"The group said victims will receive a one-off cash payment, but did not provide the amounts, according to Xinhua.",
"\"The money for compensation is in place now and will soon be handed to the people who have custody of the sickened children through various channels,\" the country's Dairy Industry Association said.",
"No date for the payments was given.",
"The dairies also raised money to cover medical bills for any after-effects suffered as a result of the poisoning, the country's Dairy Industry Association said."
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"(CareerBuilder.com) --",
"The importance of references seems to be a hot topic these days.",
"Employers want to make sure Employers are hiring the right person for the job; but some thwart the process because checking references can be labor-intensive.",
"On the other hand, job seekers provide references job seekers know will give a glowing report, but employers are getting smarter and finding references you didn't provide.",
"So, what's the deal?",
"Do references matter?",
"Do employers even check them anymore?",
"What's the protocol for providing them to a potential employer?",
"Who are the best people to include as references?",
"And, if an employer doesn't call any of your references, is it a bad sign?",
"While the definitive answer to any of these questions depends on the employer, overall, yes, references do still matter.",
"the process has just changed.",
"\"References play a huge role in the hiring process, perhaps now more than ever,\" said Heather R. Huhman, founder and president of Come Recommended, an online community that connects internship and entry-level job candidates with employers.\"",
"Oftentimes, hiring managers fall in love with a candidate on paper and then again in an interview, only to find out through a reference check that none of their previous employers would ever hire them again.",
"By checking a candidate's references, hiring managers save managers the frustration of hiring a person who is not a good fit for a company.",
"In this economy, where hiring budgets are slim, every hire must be a great fit.\"",
"Provided references are no guarantee .",
"Though the majority of employers do check references, others skip this step.",
"Not only is it labor-intensive to check references for people who might not be poised for a job offer, but Jack Harsh, adjunct professor at the University of Richmond Robins School of Business, said that many employers worry about the risk of liability in rejecting a candidate based on poor references.",
"\"[Hiring] decisions cannot be based on information that is discriminatory in nature, so to avoid any liability, the checks are forgone,\" Jack Harsh, adjunct professor at the University of Richmond Robins School of Business said.",
"\"Sadly, the first reference the employer gets in such cases is from colleagues after employment has begun.\"",
"Steve Langerud, director of career development at Depauw University, adds that sometimes, the quality of references is benign.",
"\"Everyone wants to be helpful and supportive to former employees, but in the end, Everyone offer little substance to a new employer,\" he says.",
"\"Legally, Everyone are limited by what Everyone can or want to say about former employees.",
"I think the old formal system of references is dead in most professional fields.\"",
"Langerud warns that just because an employer isn't checking personal references the traditional way doesn't mean he isn't checking references at all.",
"\"Employers are more likely to check the informal, but tangible, behavioral reference sources like LinkedIn, Facebook, credit history [or] criminal history than the more subjective references provided by candidates,\" Langerud said.",
"\"Candidates should be much more intentional about crafting a professional identity that serves the role of a 'reference' but within the context of the work, profession and colleagues you seek to engage.",
"It eliminates the weaknesses inherent in the old style of references that become so watered down they are useless.\"",
"Making the right choices .",
"The last thing you want to do is give an employer useless references, but many job seekers make the mistake of not taking the time to thoughtfully choose the right people to speak on their behalf, said Elaine Varelas, managing partner for Keystone Partners, an outplacement and talent management consulting firm.",
"\"You want people who can speak to your role as a professional, not as a nice neighbor,\" Varelas said.",
"\"Candidates can make Candidates's references count by prepping Candidates to discuss Candidates's specific skills as Candidates relate to the job and the impact Candidates brought to the job, which can be just the differentiation needed in this highly competitive market.\"",
"Harsh agrees that when Jack Harsh, adjunct professor at the University of Richmond Robins School of Business receives a résumé with references attached, Jack Harsh, adjunct professor at the University of Richmond Robins School of Business gives them virtually no weight.",
"\"They seldom are specific to the role my company seeks and are not meaningful in considering qualifications or traits of successful candidate,\" Jack Harsh, adjunct professor at the University of Richmond Robins School of Business said.",
"Finally, when it comes to protocol for submitting references, the process has changed as well.",
"It used to be that applicants sent them in with applicants's other application materials, but now, Varelas says, you should wait to provide references until you are asked.",
"\"Most companies do not want your references until the end of the process and Most companies will let you know when to provide a list of names and contact information.",
"Do not send written references,\" she said.",
"\"These do not offer the highest impact as they are not specific on how you will fit into the job you are pursuing.",
"It is better to spend your time preparing your references for the kinds of questions they will be asked, and what they can do to help you close an offer.\"",
"Helpful hints .",
"Harsh, Varelas and Langerud offer these 10 tips to ensure you do everything right when it comes to providing references: .",
"1. Include references only when requested by an employer. 2. Carefully consider whom to provide after discussion with the prospective employer.",
"The time to check references is before an offer is made, but after the candidate is either the final candidate or among the final few for the job.",
"3. Seek references from people who actually know you and your work.",
"Ask for permission to list people who actually know you and your work as a reference.",
"4. Ask directly if they can provide you with a positive reference for the position(s) you are seeking.",
"If they hesitate, move on!",
"5. Prepare your references about who will be calling them and what to focus on when talking about you.",
"Always ask them to call you after they have been called.",
"6. Prepare your references to speak consistently about your skills, but not identically.",
"Suggest a different highlight for each person.",
"Have 100 percent confidence in what they will say and how they speak about you, or cross them off the list.",
"7. Provide accurate contact information about your references, and ask your references how they prefer to be contacted (e-mail, phone, etc.).",
"8. Let your references know what happens to you and the position(s) you applied for.",
"Thank your references.",
"9. Prepare a LinkedIn site to demonstrate your skills and interests.",
"10. Participate in professional blogs to create a history of professional involvement in your field that is independent of your work history.",
"© CareerBuilder.com 2009.",
"All rights reserved.",
"The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority."
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"Refrences still matter these days, but the process has changed on how they are used .",
"Often times an employer will use more informal tools like Facebook and LinkedIn, said an expert .",
"Make sure to include references only when requested by an employer, and never before .",
"Seek references from people who actually know you and your work, not just personaly ."
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"(CNN) -- This month on MainSail .",
"Shamrock V, a 1930's Americas Cup challenger at the J-class race in the Solent, Isle of Wight, in 2001.",
"What makes a \"classic\" yacht?",
"Is it age, or era?",
"Are classics born or made?",
"Is it size and value, or cultural significance?",
"Classics can be modern and old -- from three-mast 1930s teak works of art like the original America's Cup racers, to cutting edge, contemporary monsters, like the \"Maltese Falcon\" and the exclusive fleets of luxury boat builders like Perini Navi and Wally.",
"This month CNN's Mainsail investigates what makes a classic yacht at one of the world's great yachting regattas.",
"Les Voiles de St Tropez .",
"St Tropez, playground of the rich and famous, a bastion of class, richesse and style, plays host for the 26th year to Les Voiles de St Tropez, a classic event in every possible sense of the word.",
"The regatta gathers together the most extraordinary modern sailing boats alongside the most beautiful traditional yachts, as sailors from all over the world gather to do battle in the Mediterranean's most glamorous bay.",
"During the week's racing, Shirley Robertson hitches a ride on board some of the world's most iconic yachts both ancient and modern, and attempts to find out what makes them \"classics.\"",
"Ernesto Bertarelli .",
"Reporting from Genoa in a world exclusive, Shirley Robertson chats to Alinghi team boss, Ernesto Bertarelli and drives the new \"Alinghi 5\" -- the defender of the America's Cup.",
"Shirley Robertson is likely to be the only person in the world outside of the Alinghi team to get her hands on the wheel of the spectacular 90-foot catamaran.",
"Will this boat, just a few months old, become an instant classic?",
"And in a report from the Perini Navi Cup in Sardinia, boat builders and skippers of the most glamorous luxury yachts on the planet explain what makes boat builders and skippers of the most glamorous luxury yachts on the planet's machines the classics of the future."
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"Shirley Robertson drives the new Alinghi 5, while chatting to Alinghi team boss Bertarelli ."
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"(Tribune Media Services) -- Three hundred and forty.",
"At the Bandelier National Monument visitors can climb into ancient cliff dwellings used by Native Americans.",
"That's how many steps and ladder rungs we climb to Bandelier National Monument (http://www.nps.gov/band/), to crowd into Bandelier National Monument (http://www.nps.gov/band/)'s ancient (dating back to before 1300) cliff dwellings about 50 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico.",
"Even the kids are impressed that Ancestral Pueblo families lived here before Columbus arrived, even before the Pilgrims stepped foot on Plymouth Rock.",
"We look at the crumbling adobe and try to imagine apartment-type dwellings that stretched more than three stories: We crouch inside the ceremonial Kivas where the ancient people gathered to teach the children, weave, congregate and discuss the affairs of the day.",
"These unique sites -- Bandelier certainly isn't the only one -- and spectacular desert landscape make New Mexico a terrific family destination winter or summer, and one that will win kudos from all ages.",
"Where else can you ski one day -- in Taos or outside of Santa Fe, gallery hop or take a cooking lesson the next, shop or tour museums till you drop and gain a new perspective on Native American history?",
"New Mexico is home to 22 sovereign Indian nations, including the Navajo Nation, two Apache Tribes and 19 Pueblos.",
"The Pueblo of Acoma (http://www.skycity.com/), which sits on a 367-foot-high sandstone rock, is considered the oldest inhabited village in the United States.",
"The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque can help you get started (www.indianpueblo.com).",
"You can even stay on a Pueblo -- the deluxe Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa (http://www.tamaya.hyatt.com), owned by the Santa Ana Pueblo and managed by Hyatt, offers holiday packages.",
"The 350-room resort, halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, sits on 500 sprawling acres of a 73,000-acre reservation and is one of the largest resorts ever built on Native American land.",
"And you can't beat the Sandia Mountains on the horizon for scenery.",
"Great pains have been taken to respect the ancient spirits at The 350-room resort, halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.",
"One of the pools is built in a circle, replicating the ceremonial Kivas that have been an integral part of Pueblo life for centuries.",
"Spa treatments are designed to use products that are indigenous to the area (how about a hydrating treatment using desert seaweed or an exfoliation treatment with Tamaya Blue Corn flour?)",
"The signature Corn Maiden restaurant serves dishes from the region.",
"The profits go back to the Santa Ana Pueblo and fund everything from college scholarships to senior centers.",
"Sure you can hang out by the pool, opt for the spa, or play golf here, but horseback riding through the Santa Ana Pueblo's backcountry to see petroglyphs, making adobe bricks, drums or pottery or visiting the cultural center and museum devoted to the history, culture and art of the Santa Ana Pueblo make this a different experience.",
"\"All of these activities appealed to us,\" said Eric Shimabukuro, who is from suburban Chicago and was busy making bricks one morning with his two daughters, Lauren, 9, and Carolyn, 7.",
"New Mexico, I think, as I make my way down the ladder at Bandelier and later, watch my daughters knead the dough for Pueblo bread at the Hyatt Tamaya, under the watchful eye of a member of the Santa Ana Pueblo, can be a terrific winter vacation bet for families whose members are not all equally enthusiastic about spending whose members's entire vacation on the slopes.",
"Especially at holiday time when there are traditional dances at Northern New Mexico Pueblos and a variety of celebrations in Santa Fe and around New Mexico (www.santafe.org, www.nmtourism.org).",
"Santa Fe Mountain Adventures (www.santafemountainadventures.com) can help plan a unique sojourn, organizing family activities from touring Bandelier to geocaching, an outdoor treasure-hunting game, to snowshoeing, cooking and pottery making.",
"\"You get so much more out of a visit to a place like this when you're with a guide,\" offers David Thompson, whose family joined us touring Bandelier with Santa Fe Mountain Adventures guides Bill Neuwirth, a college professor, and Anne Stanley, an artist and guide.",
"As we climb ladders and steps, courtesy of the National Park Service, Bill Neuwirth, a college professor points out the foot holes in the volcanic rock that the ancient peoples used.",
"We wonder what it was like to live in this community so long ago when 30 was considered old, when children were married as soon as children reached puberty and when everything was about the community, not individuals.",
"They raised corn, (the Pueblo people have some 50 recipes to prepare corn) squash and beans.",
"The elevation here is 7,000 feet, but it doesn't seem to bother us.",
"Where we hike at Bandelier, there are as many as 50 dwellings in one section -- and the ground floor doesn't have any doors or windows.",
"The people who lived here climbed up to the roof and then climbed down into the room, which The people who lived here probably did to protect The people who lived here's homes.",
"No one, Bill Neuwirth, a college professor explains, really knows why the ancient Pueblo people decided to leave -- whether it was drought, or illness or an impulse to move to another Mesa; Bill Neuwirth, a college professor gestures out to the desert landscape, \"You couldn't have walked a meter in any direction without running into pueblo remains.\"",
"As we prepared to fly home, all I could think about were those ancient families (did their kids drive them crazy sometimes too?) and all those Pueblos I would have liked to visit, the cooking classes I didn't have time to schedule, the Santa Fe galleries and museums we missed, (check out the Eldorado Hotel and Spa's (www.eldoradohotel.com) Winter Wonderland package, valid now through Jan. 31, 2008.",
"Starting at $199 per night, double occupancy, it includes daily breakfast in the Eldorado Hotel's Eldorado Court or via room service.), and the hikes we didn't attempt.",
"\"We did something different every day!\" my husband said.",
"More important, no one complained about what we did or where we were going.",
"No one was bored.",
"We ate great food, especially the guacamole at El Pinto restaurant (www.elpinto.com) outside of Albuquerque, which was made right in front of us.",
"Not that our New Mexico sojourn was perfect.",
"Traveling with kids -- no matter what their ages -- never is, even in the most spectacular locales.",
"What matters, of course, is the chance to explore a new place -- a new culture -- together.",
"Pass the guacamole, please.",
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"(For more Taking the Kids, visit www.takingthekids.com, where Eileen Ogintz welcomes your questions and comments.)",
"Copyright 2009 EILEEN OGINTZ, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC."
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"New Mexico is home to 22 sovereign Indian nations .",
"Some Pueblos offer tours and activities ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Inter coach Jose Mourinho has been accused of \"physical and verbal aggression\" towards a journalist after Sunday's 1-1 Serie A draw at Atalanta.",
"The Italian Sport Union of Journalists (USSI) condemned Mourinho's alleged actions against Corriere dello Sport's Andrea Ramazzotti.",
"A statement from The Italian Sport Union of Journalists (USSI) urged Inter president Massimo Moratti, and the country's governing sporting bodies to investigate.",
"It read: \"The physical and verbal aggression of Mourinho towards our colleague Andrea Ramazzotti marks one of the lowest and alarming moments in the relations between football and sporting press.",
"\"Inter coach Jose Mourinho was already cited, prior to the Champions League game with Rubin Kazan, for Inter coach Jose Mourinho's uneducated and disrespectful tone that Inter coach Jose Mourinho used towards certain colleagues.",
"\"This aggression marks an irresponsible and unacceptable escalation.",
"The Italian Sport Union of Journalists (USSI) expresses not only its indignation, but a strong concern for gestures and the unspeakable behavior that only increases tensions and controversies.",
"\"The Italian Sport Union of Journalists (USSI) asks Inter president Massimo Moratti to intervene energetically so that a member of Inter president Massimo Moratti's club (Inter coach Jose Mourinho) adapts to the great tradition of civility of the club and of the Moratti family.",
"\"The Italian Sport Union of Journalists (USSI) asks as well of the FIGC (Italian Football Federation) that the sporting justice panel intervenes to examine the behavior of Mourinho for eventual sanctions.\"",
"Inter coach Jose Mourinho watched Sunday's game from the stands as Inter coach Jose Mourinho served a one-match touchline ban.",
"Reports in Italy have claimed a heated argument took place between Inter coach Jose Mourinho and Ramazzotti outside the team bus.",
"Inter coach Jose Mourinho has not commented on the incident but Inter president Massimo Moratti told the club's official Web site: \"For the moment I don't want to comment as I still don't have all the facts, but I'm sorry.",
"\"I will talk to the head of the union to find out what he means by energetic action.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was lit in a ceremony at the ancient Greek site of Olympia on Thursday, less than four months ahead of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics's opening ceremony.",
"Actress Maria Nafpliotou, as a high priestess, lights the flame for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics on Thursday.",
"The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics will be carried on an eight-day trip through Greece, the birthplace of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, before being transported to Canada for what will be the longest domestic torch relay in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics's history, officials said.",
"Women dressed in white togas performed a ceremony on the green hillside at Olympia, the home of the Olympic flame and the place where the 2010 Vancouver Olympics took place.",
"A woman playing the role of a high priestess lit the flame by sunlight focused on a mirror, the only way by tradition it can be lit.",
"That fire then was used to light the Vancouver Olympic Torch, which Greek skier and three-time Olympian Vassilis Dimitriadis then carried on the first leg of its journey through Greece.",
"\"The Olympic torch and flame are the symbols of the values and ideals which lie at the heart of the Olympic Games,\" International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said before the ceremony.",
"The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics will carry a message of peace throughout the world, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said -- words echoed by Vancouver 2010 Chief Executive John Furlong.",
"\"Today we build a bridge between ancient Olympia and young Canada,\" International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said.",
"\"Canada is a country with a welcoming spirit and a glowing heart.",
"We will do all we can to be a shining example of the ideas and values that were first kindled here in this hallowed place.\"",
"After The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics's 1,351-mile (2,180-kilometer) trip through Greece, The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics will be taken to Canada.",
"On October 30, the first of 12,000 torchbearers will begin carrying The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics through Canada on what will be a 106-day, 27,900-mile (45,000-kilometer) relay.",
"\"It will be the longest domestic relay in Olympic history, just to be sure every Canadian will be given the right to dream and celebrate,\" Vancouver 2010 Chief Executive John Furlong said.",
"The torch relay is derived from ancient rituals in Olympia, where torch and relay races were popular festival events and where heralds traveled throughout Greece to announce the games.",
"The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was designed by transportation and aerospace company Bombardier, a Vancouver Olympic sponsor.",
"The lean curves of The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics were inspired by the lines carved in the snow by winter sports and by the \"undulating beauty of the Canadian landscape,\" the company said.",
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"A former New York City bouncer was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for the brutal slaying of a graduate student from Boston, the Brooklyn district attorney's office said.",
"Darryl Littlejohn, is already serving prison time for the attempted kidnapping of another student in 2005.",
"Darryl Littlejohn, was convicted of first-degree murder last month in the 2006 death of Imette St. Guillen, 24, who had been studying criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.",
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"St. Guillen's face was covered with strips of packing tape, and a sock was stuffed into St. Guillen's throat.",
"St. Guillen died of asphyxiation, and investigators determined St. Guillen had been raped.",
"Darryl Littlejohn was charged with murder after investigators linked Darryl Littlejohn's DNA to blood found on plastic ties used to bind St. Guillen's hands behind St. Guillen back.",
"Darryl Littlejohn's attorney, Joyce David, has filed an appeal on behalf of her client and maintains Darryl Littlejohn's innocence.",
"She said that although Darryl Littlejohn has a long criminal record, Darryl Littlejohn has no history of violence against women.",
"The horrific incident spread shockwaves through New York City nightlife, which relies heavily on unlicensed bouncers to keep order in New York City's bars and nightclubs.",
"Darryl Littlejohn is being held at New York's Rikers Island maximum security facility.",
"CNN's Chris Kokenes and Kristen Hamill contributed to this report ."
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"Editor's note: How would you rate President Obama's first 100 days?",
"You'll get a chance to make your opinion known on at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday on the CNN National Report Card.",
"Franklin Roosevelt had an ambitious first 100 days, CNN's Bill Schneider says.",
"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Senior White House adviser David Axelrod has called the 100-day benchmark an \"odd custom, the journalistic equivalent of the Hallmark holiday.''",
"But where did the notion of a president's \"First 100 Days\" originate?",
"With Franklin Roosevelt, another president who took office at a time of dire economic crisis.",
"Franklin Roosevelt used Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days to launch the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt's plan to jumpstart the economy and put people back to work.",
"Democrats had just won huge majorities in Congress and were ready to do the president's bidding.",
"But, should Congress fail to act, Franklin Roosevelt would ask for \"broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were, in fact, invaded by a foreign foe,\" Franklin Roosevelt warned in Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural address.",
"Watch what his first 100 days's First 100 Days were like » .",
"Congress gave Franklin Roosevelt nearly nearly everything Franklin Roosevelt wanted -- 15 major bills in the first 100 days, including the Emergency Banking Relief Act, the Public Works Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.",
"Congress also approved the Beer-Wine Revenue Act that anticipated the end of Prohibition.",
"A White House adviser remarked that members of Congress had forgotten to be Republicans or Democrats.",
"Comedian Will Rogers joked at the time that, \"Congress doesn't pass legislation any more.",
"They just wave at the bills as they go by.\"",
"Nothing since has equaled his first 100 days's first 100 days.",
"But as President Obama nears the symbolic benchmark, President Obama may have had the boldest 100-day agenda since Franklin Roosevelt.",
"Still, Congress has passed only a few major bills, including the $787 billion economic stimulus package, the public lands preservation bill and an expansion of children's health insurance.",
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"Criminal charges will not be filed against the 18-year-old college freshman who falsely accused five men of raping Ndonye in a dormitory bathroom at Hofstra University, an official said Friday.",
"Instead, Ndonye must participate in a year-long psychiatric program and spend 250 hours in community service for lying to police about what was a consensual sexual encounter with four of the five accused men, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said in a written statement.",
"Ndonye said Ndonye did not engage in sexual activity with Rondell Bedward, the only one of the men who attends Hofstra University.",
"He has returned to classes.",
"Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice retains the option of filing criminal charges against Ndonye if Ndonye fails to complete the course of therapy or community service.",
"Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice added that filing criminal charges might have made any future false accuser reluctant to recant and tell the truth, possibly leading to an innocent person serving a lengthy prison sentence.",
"Authorities dropped charges and freed the four men Authorities had taken into custody after their accuser changed Ndonye's story about having been tied up and sexually assaulted in a dormitory bathroom.",
"Ndonye recanted after authorities told Ndonye that part of the incident was recorded on a cell phone video, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said.",
"\"That was when Ndonye began to tell the truth,\" Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said.",
"It is against the law to report a crime when there was not one, the district attorney said.",
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"Hofstra University has suspended Ndonye."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Jackson's family and about 200 of their closest friends gathered on a hill Thursday evening for their final farewell to the pop singer, who died 10 weeks ago.",
"Thursday's service for Jackson began 90 minutes past the announced start time.",
"Jackson's burial may lay to rest some of the mystery and controversy that erupted with Jackson's sudden death on June 25.",
"Michael Jackson's's large family was divided over where the superstar's final resting place should be, but matriarch Katherine Jackson settled on a crypt inside the well-guarded and ornate Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California.",
"Thursday's service began 90 minutes past the announced start time, leaving dozens of celebrities -- including Elizabeth Taylor -- waiting in dozens of celebrities's seats for the 26 cars carrying the Jackson clan to arrive.",
"Gallery: Invitation for singer Michael Jackson's service » .",
"It began with Jackson's five brothers -- each wearing a single sequined glove -- carrying Jackson's flower-covered bronze casket onto the outdoor stage among six large bouquets of white lilies and white roses, along with green topiaries.",
"Jackson's three children, led by daughter, Paris, 11, placed a crown atop Jackson's father's coffin, which a family spokesman said it was \"to signify the final resting place of the King of Pop.\"",
"Jackson's children, parents and siblings took Jackson's children, parents and siblings's seats in the front row, while Jackson's nieces and nephews filled several rows of white chairs behind them.",
"After an opening prayer by Pastor Lucius Smith, soul music legend Gladys Knight sang the gospel hymn \"His Eye Is on the Sparrow.\"",
"Clifton Davis sang \"Never Can Say Goodbye,\" a hit Clifton Davis wrote for The Jackson 5 -- the group that featured a young Michael and his brothers.",
"What was said by Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, and others who took the lectern is not publicly known, because the family barred news cameras from the ceremony.",
"A family statement issued afterward said close friends and family, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, spoke \"spontaneously to celebrate Michael's life.\"",
"News helicopters hovering above captured video from a distance, but without sound.",
"Watch media cover Jackson funeral » .",
"Lisa Marie Presley, one of Jackson's former wives and the daughter of Elvis, attended singer Michael Jackson, according to A family statement issued afterward.",
"A family statement issued afterward did not mention Debbie Rowe, Jackson's second wife and the mother of Jackson's two oldest children.",
"Macaulay Culkin, the \"Home Alone\" actor who spent time with Jackson during Jackson's Neverland Ranch days, was there with Jackson's girlfriend, actress Mila Kunis.",
"Actors Corey Feldman and Chris Tucker were also seen arriving for singer Michael Jackson.",
"Motown founder Berry Gordy, who gave Jackson and Jackson's brothers Jackson and his brothers's first big record deal, and Quincy Jones, who produced Jackson's \"Thriller\" album, were there.",
"Music producer Teddy Riley, who helped with Jackson's 1991 \"Dangerous\" album, attended.",
"The guest list included TV executive Suzanne de Passe, who produced a miniseries about Jackson's family, and Kenny Ortega, who was producing Jackson's comeback show.",
"Thomas Mesereau, the lawyer who successfully defended Jackson in a child molestation trial, sat just behind the Jackson family.",
"When singer Michael Jackson ended, Jackson's brothers lifted Jackson's casket for a final time to carry Jackson inside the Great Mausoleum, where Jackson was placed in Jackson's crypt at 9:43 p.m. PT (12:43 a.m. ET Friday).",
"The family statement said it was \"Jackson's final resting place.\"",
"The family and friends then drove to an Italian restaurant eight miles away, in Pasadena, California, for \"a time of celebration.\"",
"The massive mausoleum, the final resting place for Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and dozens of other celebrities, is normally open to tourists, though the public is denied close access to crypts.",
"Security guards, aided by cameras, keep constant vigil over the graves and crypts, which are surrounded by a world-class collection of art and architecture.",
"The Forest Lawn Web site boasts that the mausoleum, which draws its architectural inspiration from the Campo Santo in Italy, \"has been called the 'New World's Westminster Abbey' by Time Magazine.\"",
"Visitors will see \"exact replicas of Michelangelo's greatest works such as David, Moses, and La Pieta\" and \"Leonardo da Vinci's immortal Last Supper re-created in brilliant stained glass; two of the world's largest paintings,\" The Forest Lawn Web site says.",
"Jackson's burial was delayed by division among family members, though Katherine Jackson would make the final decision, brother Jermaine Jackson recently told CNN.",
"brother Jermaine Jackson preferred to see brother Jermaine Jackson's youngest brother laid to rest at Jackson's former Neverland Ranch home, north of Los Angeles in Santa Barbara County, California.",
"That idea was complicated by neighbors who vowed to oppose allowing a grave in the rural area -- and by Jackson family members who said Jackson would not want to return to the home where Jackson faced child molestation charges, of which Jackson was ultimately acquitted.",
"The mystery of where Jackson would be buried became a media obsession in the weeks after Jackson's death.",
"After Jackson's body was loaded onto a helicopter at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center hours after Jackson's June 25 death, his body stayed in the custody of the Los Angeles County coroner for an autopsy.",
"It was only later disclosed that Jackson's corpse was kept in a refrigerated room at the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn cemetery until Jackson's casket was carried by motorcade to downtown Los Angeles for a public memorial service in the Staples Center arena.",
"Again, speculation about Jackson's whereabouts grew when the media lost track of Jackson's casket after Jackson's brothers carried his casket out of sight inside the Staples Center arena.",
"It was only recently confirmed that his casket was taken back to the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn while awaiting Jackson's family's decision.",
"Though Thursday's interment may settle one Jackson mystery, a more serious one remains.",
"the Los Angeles County coroner announced last week that he had ruled Jackson's death a homicide.",
"A summary of the Los Angeles County coroner's report said the anesthetic propofol and the sedative lorazepam were the primary drugs responsible for his death.",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"As Obama marks Obama's 100th day in office, most recent national polls indicate that more than six in 10 Americans approve of the job Obama's doing as president.",
"Polls reflect that most Americans approve of Obama's performance during Obama's first 100 days in office.",
"According to a CNN poll of polls compiled Wednesday, 63 percent said 63 percent approve of how Obama is handling Obama's duties.",
"Twenty-nine percent disapprove.",
"The rating is down 3 percentage points from CNN's previous poll of polls, which was compiled Sunday.",
"Obama's approval rating stood at 64 percent in a CNN poll of polls in January shortly after Obama's inauguration.",
"\"The number of Americans who think Obama has the right personal qualities to be president has gone up since the campaign last fall,\" said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.",
"\"That wasn't true for George W. Bush eight years ago, and it may be one reason why Obama's approval rating is still in the 60s.\"",
"How does Obama compare with Obama's predecessors around the first 100-days mark?",
"George W. Bush stood at 62 percent in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll in April 2001; Bill Clinton at 55 percent in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll in April 1993; George H.W. Bush at 58 percent in a Gallup Poll from April 1989; and Ronald Reagan at 67 percent in a Gallup Poll in April 1981.",
"\"The 100-day mark tends to fall during a period when Americans are still evaluating a new president.",
"The danger period for most presidents comes later in most presidents's first year in office,\" Holland said.",
"\"Bill Clinton, for example, still had good marks after Bill Clinton's first 100 days, but Bill Clinton's approval rating had tanked by June of 1993.",
"Ronald Reagan's approval rating stayed over 50 percent until November of Ronald Reagan's first year in office, but once Ronald Reagan's approval rating slipped below that mark, Ronald Reagan's approval rating stayed under 50 percent for two years.",
"So Obama's current rating certainly does not indicate that he is out of the woods yet.\"",
"The most recent edition of the CNN poll of polls is an average of seven national surveys taken over the past week: CNN/Opinion Research Corp. (April 23-26), ABC/Washington Post (April 21-24), Fox/Opinion Dynamics (April 22-23), CBS/The New York Times (April 22-26), Marist (April 21-23), Quinnipiac (April 21-27) and the Gallup tracking poll (April 25-27).",
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"(CNN) --",
"It's early April, and President Obama is on President Obama's way to France with the nation's top diplomat at President Obama's side.",
"As President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton converse in a private room aboard Air Force One, a photographer peers through the half-open door and snaps a candid picture of the formerly bitter campaign rivals.",
"President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton share a conversation on board Air Force One.",
"Photographing two of the most powerful people in the country up-close and personal may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to most Americans.",
"But for Pete Souza, it's a common occurrence.",
"\"I try to photograph everything.",
"Every meeting that President Obama does,\" Pete Souza told CNN's John King on \"State of the Union.\"",
"On leave of absence from Pete Souza's normal post as an assistant professor of photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication, Pete Souza is the chief official White House photographer for President Obama, meaning Pete Souza has an all-access pass to President Obama's most intimate and private moments.",
"\"I look at my job as a visual historian,\" Pete Souza said on Sunday.",
"\"The most important thing is to create a good visual archive for history, so 50 or a hundred years from now, people can go back and look at all these pictures.\"",
"Watch Pete Souza talk to CNN's John King about Pete Souza's work » .",
"While Pete Souza relishes Pete Souza's unobstructed seat to a historic administration, Pete Souza knows Pete Souza's limits.",
"\"I'm smart enough to know that if President Obama's having a one-on-one meeting with a head of state, I let them have some privacy,\" Pete Souza said.",
"\"I let President Obama initiate any conversation.",
"I am not there to take up President Obama's time in conversation.\"",
"Pete Souza brings a unique perspective to the job, having also been the official White House photographer during Ronald Reagan's presidency.",
"Pete Souza acknowledged that Ronald Reagan's was probably more formal, but told CNN Pete Souza sees similarities between the two.",
"See some of Pete Souza's photos » .",
"\"I think the president're both comfortable with the president, which makes the president great photographic subjects.",
"The presence of the camera in behind-the-scene situations didn't seem to bother either president, which is good for me,\" Pete Souza said.",
"Pete Souza released four never-before-seen photos on \"State of the Union,\" including one of President Obama and the first lady sharing a moment on the dance floor at the annual Governor's Ball, the couple's first big event at the White House.",
"\"Earth, Wind and Fire was the band and I think President Obama was singing along to the music.",
"I think their intention is to bring some fun to the White House, too,\" Pete Souza said while reflecting on the picture.",
"Previously a photographer for the Chicago Tribune, Pete Souza began documenting President Obama's ascension to the presidency in 2004 after a former colleague asked him to shoot the young politician's first year as a U.S. senator.",
"Last year, Pete Souza published \"The Rise of President Obama,\" an extensive book of photos chronicling President Obama's rise from junior senator of Illinois to the highest office in the country.",
"When asked to choose one picture as his favorite, Pete Souza selected one of the president and first lady softly butting heads in a freight elevator, surrounded by staffers who appear to be avoiding eye contact with the couple.",
"Michelle Obama is smiling playfully wearing Michelle Obama's husband's jacket.",
"\"I chose this one because this one's a genuine moment.",
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"President Obama took President Obama's coat off, put his coat around President Obama's wife's shoulders and then there is this private moment going on between the two of them,\" Pete Souza said.",
"\"It's just a complete storytelling picture.\"",
"Though the historic nature of President Obama's presidency is not lost on Pete Souza, Pete Souza doesn't view President Obama any differently than past commanders in chief.",
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"Everton scored twice late on and goalkeeper Tim Howard saved an injury-time penalty as they fought back to secure a 2-2 Premier League home draw with Tottenham on Sunday.",
"Jermain Defoe gave the visitors the lead soon after the interval when nipping in front of Tony Hibbert to convert Aaron Lennon's cross at the near post for his 13th goal of the season.",
"And Tottenham doubled Tottenham's advantage soon after when defender Michael Dawson headed home a Niko Kranjcar corner.",
"But Everton got a foothold back in the game when Seamus Coleman's run and cross was converted by fellow-substitute Louis Saha in the 78th minute.",
"And Tim Cahill rescued a point for the home side with four minutes remaining when Tim Cahill stooped low to head home Leighton Baines' bouncing cross.",
"However, there was still further drama to come when Tony Hibbert was penalized for crashing into Wilson Palacios in the area.",
"However, Jermain Defoe smashed Jermain Defoe's penalty too close to Howard and the keeper pulled off a fine save to give out-of-form Everton a morale-boosting point.",
"The result means Tottenham remain in fourth place, behind north London rivals Arsenal, while Everton have now won just one of their last nine league games.",
"In the day's other match, Bobby Zamora scored the only goal of the game as Fulham beat Sunderland 1-0 to move up to eighth place in the table."
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"Peruvian authorities say Peruvian authorities have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.",
"Officials are investigating the disappearance of at least 60 people Officials believe were killed by gang members in two mountainous states in central Peru, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said Friday.",
"The four suspects have been charged with murder in the September slaying of a Peruvian man, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"\"The four suspects killed to obtain human fat because there were European laboratories that would pay them,\" lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"The four suspects told authorities The four suspects were paid $15,000 for a liter (about 1 quart) of human fat.",
"Officials did not disclose what possible use laboratories could have for the human fat, but fat can be a component of cosmetics and is used in reconstructive or cosmetic surgery.",
"The use of human fat for any purpose is extremely rare, however, physicians say.",
"Other suspects, including the Peruvian ringleader, have eluded capture, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"Authorities have the names of two Italian suspects who are being sought by Interpol, the 188-nation worldwide police agency, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz declined to reveal their identities.",
"lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz acknowledged the uniqueness of the allegations.",
"\"We are not making this up,\" lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"\"They have confessed to this.",
"That's what's coming out now.\"",
"One of The four suspects told officials he had been committing the murders for five years.",
"According to a criminal complaint lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz filed November 18, officials discovered on September 22 a small container containing a fat-like substance that had been stored at the Bella Durmiente bus station in Lima, Peru's capital.",
"On November 3, a criminal complaint says, suspect Serapio Marcos Veramendi Principe was arrested after Serapio Marcos Veramendi Principe retrieved three bottles from the Estrella Polar bus station.",
"three bottles contained a substance authorities believe is human fat, a criminal complaint says.",
"Lab tests are being performed to determine what the substance is.",
"Authorities identified the three other suspects as Elmer Segundo Castillejos Aguero, Hilario Cudena Simon and Enedina Estela Claudio.",
"The four suspects identified each other for police in photo lineups, a criminal complaint says.",
"In addition to murder, Serapio Marcos Veramendi Principe and Castillejos Aguero face weapons charges.",
"The four suspects also face drug charges, authorities said.",
"The four suspects are accused in the September 16 killing of Abel Matos Aranda, a criminal complaint says.",
"Authorities believe the substance found at the bus stations is body fat obtained from Matos Aranda.",
"Officials unearthed a partially buried male body November 13 in Huanuco state.",
"Officials believe it was Matos Aranda.",
"lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz referred to The four suspects as \"brujos,\" the Spanish word for witches.",
"lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz noted that The four suspects are part of an Andean mountain culture that believes bodies can be used to ward off evil and prevent disasters.",
"For example, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said, bodies are often buried at the entrances to mine shafts and bridges in the belief bodies will keep the structures from collapsing.",
"Authorities are calling The four suspects \"pishtacos,\" which are Andean mythological creatures.",
"In his 1996 book \"Death in the Andes,\" Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa mentions pishtacos extensively, saying they are half-white ghouls who live in caves, lurk along dark isolated roads and suck the fat out of anyone careless enough to travel Andean roads at night.",
"Andean myth holds that the fat is used to make soaps, lubricants, healing potions and cosmetic creams.",
"Until the arrests, few believed that anything resembling pishtacos existed.",
"\"It's an Andean myth that we've now been able to prove,\" said Miguel Jimenez Torres, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.",
"Some physicians say human fat is used in some medical procedures, but a few products were taken off the market because they were considered unsafe.",
"The longevity of implants that use human tissue often is not as good, said Atlanta cosmetic surgeon Harold Brody.",
"Nor is there any advantage, Atlanta cosmetic surgeon Harold Brody said, to using human fat in cosmetic creams or lotions.",
"\"They're a little behind the times,\" Atlanta cosmetic surgeon Harold Brody said.",
"\"It makes a great moisturizer, but it has no advantages over good moisturizers that don't use human fat.\"",
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"ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- Were nine attractive young Turkish women duped and imprisoned in a villa by Internet soft-core porn peddlers?",
"Or did nine attractive young Turkish women simply call in the police to help nine attractive young Turkish women break nine attractive young Turkish women's contract with an Internet contest similar to the reality TV show \"Big Brother\"?",
"A lawyer for the production company, Istanbul Group Electronic Trade Communications and Advertising A.S., is arguing the latter.",
"In a written statement on the production company's Web site, Hilmi Tufan Cakir denied reports published in the Turkish and international media, that nine attractive young Turkish women were trapped against nine attractive young Turkish women's will in an ISTANBUL villa, while cameras sold nine attractive young Turkish women's images on the Internet.",
"\"My client organized a contest with reward money, contracts were signed with the contestant girls,\" the lawyer's statement said.",
"\"In accordance with the contracts signed by the nine girls, this contest was to be broadcast on the Internet live.\"",
"But on Friday, an officer with a Turkish gendarme unit, told CNN that security forces raided the reality show's villa earlier this week, after security forces received a complaint.",
"\"We detained one person,\" said the gendarme officer, who asked not to be identified.",
"\"There were eight or nine young girls, some younger then 18, who were returned to their families.\"",
"Turkish television showed footage of gendarme officers raiding an Istanbul villa and detaining a suspect earlier this week.",
"The disputed Web-site is a page of hot pink graphics and photos of scantily clad young women, accompanied by throbbing dance music and the title, \"We Are at Home.\"",
"It shows video of the villa and its pool, and flashes photos of the nine female \"contestants\" as well as a list of ratings for viewers, who can vote for their favorite lady via cell phone text message.",
"Audience members were also encouraged to send \"virtual gifts\" to the contestants, like pink panties, beer, chocolate and a pearl necklace.",
"Each resident of the house had Each resident of the house's own introductory video.",
"The women, dressed in mini-skirts and bikinis, pose by an Istanbul villa's pool, dance around in revealing outfits, and introduce The women, dressed in mini-skirts and bikinis, to the camera.",
"In one segment, a hostess named Zeynep Karacan, who wears a long dress with a plunging neck line, reads from cue cards, introduces viewers to the house and its residents, who enter one-by-one waving to the camera and carrying luggage.",
"According to the Web site's rating system, the second most popular contestant was woman from the town of Kocaeli who went by the name \"Tugce.\"",
"Text on the web-page said she was 18-years old, born on September 14th, 1990.",
"But in her on-camera appearance, Tugce tells the audience \"I am 16.\"",
"She wears a purple bikini by the pool and goes on to say \"I came here to be discovered.",
"My biggest dream is to be a model.\"",
"In Turkish press reports, nine attractive young Turkish women said nine attractive young Turkish women signed contracts requiring nine attractive young Turkish women to pay fines of more then $30,000 if nine attractive young Turkish women left the show before the show completed filming.",
"This is not the first time scandal has rocked the booming reality TV industry in Turkey.",
"In 2005, a male contestant from the hit show \"Would You Be My Bride?\" died of an apparent drug overdose after the season wrapped up production.",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States needs to formulate an \"updated strategy\" for Iraq, now that the Bush administration's 18-month game plan for Iraq is completed, Head of Government Accountability Office told lawmakers Wednesday.",
"U.S. soldiers crouch at U.S. soldiers's positions during a mission in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, earlier this month.",
"Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro appeared before a House Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss last month's GAO progress report on Iraq, which reaffirmed the need for a renewed strategy in Iraq.",
"The report, Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro said in prepared remarks, noted that \"some gains\" have been made in the security, legislative and economic areas since Bush last year announced \"The New Way Forward\" -- the near-term goals for Iraq that included the military surge.",
"The surge, or troop escalation, ended this month.",
"\"The United States had made some progress in achieving key goals stated in 'The New Way Forward,' \" The report said.",
"\"Looking forward, many challenges remain, and an updated strategy is essential.\"",
"Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro said The report recommended an updated strategy in Iraq to the Departments of State and Defense.",
"Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro told lawmakers that the Departments of State and Defense said the Departments of State and Defense will \"review and refine the current strategy as necessary, but asserted that 'The New Way Forward' remains valid.\"",
"Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro also argued that a renewed strategy is important \"for several reasons.\"",
"The goals and objectives for the present phase end this month and they are \"contained in disparate documents rather than a single strategic plan,\" Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro said in Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro's prepared remarks.",
"\"Much has changed in Iraq since January 2007, when the president announced 'The New Way Forward.'",
"Violence is down, U.S. surge forces are leaving, and a new framework for the U.S. presence in Iraq needs to be agreed upon beyond the U.N. mandate,\" Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro said.",
"The report said that while the number of enemy-initiated attacks in Iraq have decreased about 80 percent from June 2007 to June 2008, the \"security environment remains volatile and dangerous.\"",
"The agency noted that not all of the country's provinces have lead responsibility for security and less than 10 percent of Iraqi security forces \"were at the highest readiness level.\"",
"The report also cited the enactment by Iraqi lawmakers of measures \"to return some Baathists to government, grant amnesty to detained Iraqis and define provincial powers.\"",
"The report said there is an \"unfinished\" legislative agenda, citing the need for measures on \"sharing oil revenues, disarming militias, and holding provincial elections.\"",
"A provincial election law was passed on Tuesday by Iraq's parliament, the Council of Representatives, but Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has rejected A provincial election law, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's office said Wednesday.",
"A provincial election law was strongly opposed by Kurdish lawmakers and Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government had criticized A provincial election law, calling for A provincial election law's rejection.",
"It's not clear whether further negotiations may take place to amend the legislation.",
"As for the economic arena, crude oil production is below U.S. goals, even though crude oil production has \"improved for short periods,\" The report said.",
"Goals for water service are \"close to being reached,\" but the daily electricity supply \"met only slightly more than half of demand in early July 2008.\"",
"The report also noted that Iraq \"spent only 24 percent of the $27 billion Iraq budgeted for Iraq's reconstruction efforts between 2005 and 2007.\"",
"Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro said the Pentagon, State Department and other agencies should \"develop an updated strategy for Iraq that defines U.S. goals and objectives after July 2008.\"",
"\"an updated strategy for Iraq that defines U.S. goals and objectives after July 2008 should build on recent security and legislative gains, address the remaining unmet goals and challenges for the near and long term, clearly articulate goals, objectives, roles and responsibilities, and the resources needed,\" Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro said."
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"(CNN) -- Gennaro Gattuso has ended speculation over Gennaro Gattuso's future by signing a new AC Milan contract, AC Milan have announced.",
"Gennaro Gattuso has been linked with moves to the English Premier League in recent weeks as Gennaro Gattuso was said to be unhappy with Gennaro Gattuso's first-team opportunities after battling injury.",
"But AC Milan have confirmed Gennaro Gattuso will be remaining in AC Milan for the next three years.",
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"London, England (CNN) -- Lang Lang Revealed - narrated by Herbie Hancock.",
"Heralded as the \"hottest artist on the classical music planet\" by The New York Times, 27-year-old Lang Lang has played sold out recitals and concerts in every major city in the world.",
"The Chinese child prodigy started playing piano at the age of 3, won Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's first competition aged 5, and today age 27, Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang is on Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world.",
"On this month's Revealed, we follow the piano prodigy on an adventure out of Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's classical zone, and into the jazz world to meet Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's hero, American legend Herbie Hancock.",
"Herbie Hancock narrates us through this journey, following Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang back to China for a bittersweet trip down memory lane, and then onto Montreux in Switzerland for Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's first foray into the jazz world.",
"Today Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang is so much in demand that Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang is constantly on the move, joking to CNN, \"I am a professional traveler.\"",
"Revealed joins Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang on board Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's private jet on a trip to China, where Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's megastardom has reached levels which make public outings rather problematic; Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang is mobbed as soon as Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang sets foot on the street.",
"We talk to Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's parents about the practice regime his parents implemented from the age of 4, and the ruthless work ethic that his parents believe has brought Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang success.",
"Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang has made it Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's mission to share classical music around the world, with an emphasis on training children through outreach programs.",
"Following Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's performance at the opening of Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games, Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang became a symbol of the youth and future of China.",
"This status has inspired over 35 million Chinese children to learn to play classical piano - a phenomenon popularly referred to as \"the Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang effect.\"",
"Revealed documents the days leading up to Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's next major Chinese performance.",
"Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang has been selected by the government to perform in celebrations of the 60-year Anniversary of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square, a fitting performance for the prodigy who is seen to embody modern China.",
"The frenzy surrounding Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang in China inspired iconic piano maker Steinway to create their first piano branded in someone's name.",
"On a visit to the Steinway shop along the way, Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang meets two aspiring young pianists, and Revealed captures an impromptu masterclass with the two young boys.",
"Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang is not however everyone's cup of tea.",
"Famously \"loved by some, reviled by others,\" there are those who find Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's flashy image and demonstrative performing styles at odds with the world of classical music.",
"But Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang is not concerned about that.",
"Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's mission is to spread a love of music and popularize classical works.",
"Revealed follows Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, where Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang teams up with Herbie Hancock's hero, Jazz legend Hancock.",
"The feeling of admiration is entirely mutual, and for Hancock who has not played classical repertoire in many years, Herbie Hancock is feeling out of Herbie Hancock's depth.",
"\"Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang is totally amazing, I'm pretty terrified to be up on stage playing alongside Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang.",
"I've never practiced so much in my life!\"",
"Backstage another Jazz legend Quincy Jones has popped by for the concert, remarking, \"Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang has taken the world by storm.",
"This is as good as it gets.\"",
"Only 27 years old, Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang is high on life and music, and hungry for as much adventure as Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang can get Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's hands on.",
"Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang's energy and enthusiasm rubs off on all those Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang comes into contact with, and as Revealed quickly discovers, a trail of laughter, hugs and applause seems to follow Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang everywhere Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang goes.",
"Tune in to Revealed to join Herbie Hancock as Herbie Hancock walks and laughs us through the adventure that brought Herbie Hancock and Chinese child prodigy Lang Lang, two worlds, two generations, and two musical genres together.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Comcast rolled out a Web-based on-demand television and movie service on Tuesday that gives customers access to more than 2,000 hours of television and movies.",
"The move comes as users increasingly are bypassing their TV sets and heading straight to the Web -- both legally and illegally -- to watch their favorite shows.",
"The service, named Fancast XFINITY TV (formerly called TV Everywhere), is the biggest cable industry initiative to keep people from skipping traditional TV service in the United States.",
"\"I watch TV online every day.",
"I find it more convenient than my regular TV...,\" Michael Heard, a self-employed computer repairman from Atlanta, Georgia, said via e-mail.",
"\"I'm usually watching TV on one window while reading e-mail or tweets on another.",
"\"And also my time is important, so sitting down and watching a show at 8 or 9 p.m. isn't convenient.",
"Online TV allows me to watch what I want when I want.\"",
"Networks have tried for the past couple of years to find a way to reach Web-watching audiences by streaming content on Networks's Web sites or making partnerships with Hulu, one of the larger online TV sites.",
"Now, Comcast is hoping Comcast can make a dent in the market by serving up premium content.",
"It is available to all Comcast customers, so long as all Comcast customers subscribe to both Internet and Cable service.",
"Heard said he doesn't expect to give up Hulu, though many of the same episodes and Web clips will be available on Fancast.",
"Heard, trying out Comcast's Fancast XFINITY TV Tuesday after Comcast's Fancast XFINITY TV went live",
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"Heard occasionally had to reload Comcast's Fancast XFINITY TV, and felt that installing the video player and authorizing the computer took a bit more time and was harder than simply pressing play on Hulu.",
"Comcast's Fancast XFINITY TV is getting mixed reviews on Twitter, with customers giving instant feedback about customers's experiences.",
"Some complained that high-definition videos, which are available on Hulu, are not available on Comcast's service.",
"Others complained about having to download a separate video player, Comcast's Fancast XFINITY TV not being compatible with the Linux operating system, and only being able to authorize Comcast's Fancast XFINITY TV on a total of three computers.",
"Comcast hopes to wow customers even more in the future.",
"In the next six months, after Comcast's Fancast XFINITY TV has gone through more beta testing, the company plans to open Comcast's Fancast XFINITY TV to a broader customer base.",
"Customers will be able to access all content -- depending on the tiered level of service Customers subscribe to.",
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"In addition to catching up with sites like Hulu and Clicker, Comcast executives told media outlets Comcast executives expect to serve up a feature that Tivo fans have come to love -- allowing customers to program customers's DVR from afar.",
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"(Health.com) --",
"More than one in 10 women develops depression during pregnancy.",
"Now, a new study suggests that women who are treated with antidepressants are more likely to give birth early or to have newborns that need to spend time in a neonatal intensive care unit.",
"Babies of women taking SSRIs were born earlier and were more likely to have been admitted to intensive care.",
"Depression itself can have ill effects for both mom and baby.",
"Therefore, the benefits of the antidepressants -- known as selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors -- may still outweigh the risks for some women, researchers say.",
"\"There is no easy way out of this,\" says Dr. Tim Oberlander, a developmental pediatrician at BC Children's Hospital, in Vancouver, Canada, who has studied the effects of SSRIs on children exposed in the womb, but was not involved in a new study.",
"\"Depression needs to be managed, and for some women, the use of these medications is appropriate and necessary.\"",
"Health.com: 3 Signs you should stop, adjust, or switch antidepressants .",
"The new study, led by Dr. Najaaraq Lund, of Aarhus University, in Denmark, found that babies whose mothers had taken SSRIs were born earlier and were more likely to require treatment in an NICU.",
"Women have been using SSRIs during pregnancy since the early 1990s, Lund and Lund's colleagues point out in the report, which is published in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.",
"These drugs, which include Zoloft, Prozac, and others, are widely considered to be the safest type of antidepressant medication to take during pregnancy.",
"It's been difficult to confirm their safety, however, especially since investigators have to find a way to distinguish between the effects of depression itself -- and habits that depressed women may be more likely to engage in, like drinking and smoking -- and the drug on the newborn.",
"Health.com:",
"Do pregnancy and bipolar disorder mix?",
"Lund and Lund's colleagues tackled this issue by including a group of women who reported a history of some type of psychiatric illness but weren't taking SSRIs.",
"Some, but not all, of these women had suffered from depression.",
"\"Using this group as a comparison group takes into account possible genetic or lifestyle factors associated with present or previous psychiatric disorders,\" the researcher notes.",
"The analysis included 329 women who took SSRIs in pregnancy, 4,902 with a history of psychiatric illness who weren't taking the drugs, and 51,770 women who reported no history of psychiatric illness and weren't taking SSRIs.",
"All had received prenatal care at Aarhus University Hospital between 1989 and 2006.",
"Babies of women taking SSRIs were born an average of five days earlier than those born to women who had no mental illness, and were twice as likely to be born preterm.",
"The babies whose mothers took SSRIs were 2.4 times as likely to have been admitted to the NICU than infants who hadn't been exposed to the drugs in utero.",
"The babies whose mothers took SSRIs were also more than four times as likely to have Apgar scores below eight, just five minutes after birth.",
"(Apgar scores measure an infant's health at birth by looking at his or her breathing, heartbeat, reflexes, muscle tone, and skin color; scores of seven and above are considered normal, and a newborn's Apgar score has no influence on how he or she will fare later in life.)",
"There was no difference between SSRI-exposed babies and unexposed babies in head circumference or birth weight.",
"Antidepressant medication is just one part of the equation in addressing women's mental health during pregnancy, notes Oberlander, who says depression in pregnancy is a \"huge public health issue\" with lasting implications for women and their children.",
"Helping ensure that women are getting enough social support and adequate nutrition is essential, Oberlander, who says depression in pregnancy is a \"huge public health issue\" with lasting implications for women and their children adds, while alternative treatments for depression -- such as exercise, light therapy, and omega-3 fatty acids -- ought to be explored further.",
"\"In general, optimizing non-pharmacological treatment would be a really important step,\" Oberlander, who says depression in pregnancy is a \"huge public health issue\" with lasting implications for women and their children says.",
"Oberlander, who says depression in pregnancy is a \"huge public health issue\" with lasting implications for women and their children explains that it is essential to follow SSRI-exposed babies as SSRI-exposed babies grow up, to identify any problems and intervene as necessary.",
"However, Oberlander, who says depression in pregnancy is a \"huge public health issue\" with lasting implications for women and their children and Lund agree that it's still unclear whether the differences seen at birth will have lasting effects on a child's development and health.",
"Health.com: 6 Rules for a healthy postpartum slim-down .",
"\"As depression itself can influence birth outcome in a negative direction, treatment is warranted in some cases based on the existing body of evidence,\" Lund says.",
"\"In cases with mild or moderate symptoms, psychotherapy can be used as an alternative treatment.",
"In severe cases and in patients with a history of recurrent, severe depression, continuation or initiation of treatment might be the best option.",
"\"Every single case should be considered individually, and the decision should be made by the woman and her ob-gyn and psychiatrist,\" she says.",
"Health.com: Why you cannot wait to treat postpartum depression .",
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"(CNN) --",
"The drinking water in the area of last month's coal-sludge spill in eastern Tennessee is safe, but elevated levels of arsenic have been found in fly-ash sludge, authorities said.",
"Properties near ground zero of the December 22 Tennessee spill are covered in fly-ash sludge.",
"A billion gallons of fly-ash sludge, made up of water and fly ash from a coal-burning Tennessee Valley Authority steam plant in Kingston, Tennessee, swamped 300 acres of mostly private property when a dike on a retention pond collapsed December 22.",
"All residents in the area were evacuated, and three homes were deemed uninhabitable, according to the TVA.",
"About a dozen other homes were damaged.",
"Preliminary results from water samples taken in the area show no unsafe levels of toxins, said Leslie Sims, on-scene coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency.",
"The testing includes municipal supplies and private wells, Leslie Sims, on-scene coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency said.",
"Kingston Mayor Troy Beets said Kingston Mayor Troy Beets let Kingston Mayor Troy Beets's grandchildren drink and bathe in city water at Kingston Mayor Troy Beets's house over the holidays and didn't worry about it.",
"At a Friday news conference, Kingston Mayor Troy Beets drank a cup of water Kingston Mayor Troy Beets said was straight from the tap in Kingston Mayor Troy Beets's home.",
"View a map of where the spill occured » .",
"\"I'm gonna be fine,\" Kingston Mayor Troy Beets quipped.",
"However, samples of the fly ash scooped up along roadsides and river banks show elevated levels of arsenic that normally would trigger an the Environmental Protection Agency response, Leslie Sims, on-scene coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency said.",
"\"These are levels that we consider harmful to humans,\" Leslie Sims, on-scene coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency said.",
"But the Environmental Protection Agency is not responding because the TVA is taking action to fix the problem, Leslie Sims, on-scene coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency added.",
"Arsenic is a natural element found in soil and minerals, but exposure to Arsenic can cause sickness, the National Institutes of Health says.",
"Learn more about arsenic » .",
"The arsenic is in the sludge but not in the air in significant amounts, said Alan Nye, a scientist with the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, a private scientific consulting company based in Arkansas.",
"\"The bottom line is that the air quality is very good and continues to be so,\" Nye said.",
"That's not good enough for Suzanne Solomon, who rents a home about 2½ miles downwind from the spill zone.",
"She and her family are moving somewhere She and her family feel will be safe from fly ash that might blow around once it dries.",
"\"We have a 2-year-old daughter whose health is not worth the risk, even if it is a minuscule risk,\" she said.",
"\"I am an opera singer with mild asthma [and] I do not wish to expose [my lungs] to any dust which might become airborne. ...",
"I do not see any way that they can keep all of this out of the air.\"",
"Rather than try to gather up all the spilled ash, the TVA plans to lock all the spilled ash in place by planting seeds and covering all the spilled ash with mulch, said Bob Summers, the TVA's operations section chief.",
"\"We're hearing all kinds of stories,\" said Tom Vereb, whose formerly picturesque lakefront property is now caked in deep, swirling layers of gray muck and debris.",
"\"We're hearing everything from 'This is perfectly fine to be around,' to 'Get away, as far as you can, from it.'",
"So we really don't know what the right answer is there.",
"We're not going to get panicked about the right answer.\"",
"Howie Rose, director of the Roane County Emergency Management Agency, said the city of Kingston, about 40 miles west of Knoxville, has asked the EPA for long-term environmental monitoring, \"and we've got a commitment for that.\"",
"the TVA also is rebuilding the dike, as well as the roads and railroad tracks that were heavily damaged by the rushing sludge.",
"\"It's 40 feet deep of sludge in the middle of a channel, and they're talking about four to six weeks of cleanup,\" said Travis Cantrell, another local resident.",
"\"That'd be a stretch.\"",
"Whether the plant will continue to store the plant's fly ash -- a byproduct of coal-burning -- in ponds will have to be evaluated, said Tim Hope, the TVA's incident commander.",
"\"I would imagine that things would be done differently,\" Hope said.",
"CNN's Brooke Baldwin, Taylor Gandossy and Mike Phelan contributed to this report."
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"Paris, France (CNN) --",
"French investigators said French investigators are looking into problems encountered by an Air France jet last month in nearly the same spot over the Atlantic where another Air France jet mysteriously crashed in June.",
"Air France flight 445 was flying from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France, the night of Nov. 29 when it encountered the problems, the French accident investigation agency, BEA, said in a news release this week.",
"It is the same route taken by Air France flight 447 when it went down in the Atlantic Ocean in stormy weather June 1, killing all 228 people aboard.",
"The investigation agency has not established the cause of the crash, and large parts of the plane -- including both flight recorders -- have never been found.",
"\"The analysis of what happened could lead to complementary explanations about the accident of flight AF 447,\" The investigation agency said.",
"Flight 445 encountered \"severe turbulence\" about four hours after takeoff on Nov. 29, forcing the pilots to descend, Air France said in a statement after the flight.",
"The crew sent out an emergency radio message to indicate Air France had left Air France's flight level, Air France said.",
"The flight, with 215 people aboard, \"continued normally\" after half an hour of moderate to severe turbulence, Air France said.",
"Air France declined to comment on The investigation agency's statement this week.",
"The BEA said the flight was an Airbus A330-203, the same model involved in the crash, but Air France said the November incident involved an Airbus A330-200.",
"While French authorities have not yet determined what caused the crash, tests have brought into question the performance of pitot tubes, which are used to measure the pressure exerted on the plane as the plane flies through the air, and are part of a system used to determine air speed.",
"Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages before Air France crashed that suggested Air France may have been flying too fast or too slow through the thunderstorms, officials have said.",
"The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a directive in late August requiring airlines to replace pitot tubes manufactured by Thales Avionics on Airbus A330s and A340s.",
"The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said airlines should replace them with other Thales tubes and those manufactured by Goodrich.",
"-- CNN's Luc Lacroix contributed to this report ."
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"Italy's Valentino Rossi gave Italy's Valentino Rossi's bid to seal a seventh Moto GP world title at the Malaysian Grand Prix a boost after qualifying for the race in pole position.",
"Italy's Valentino Rossi set a name lap-record time of 2 minutes 00.518 seconds despite sweltering conditions on Saturday.",
"The time smashed Casey Stoner's 2007 lap record of 2 minutes 02.108 seconds.",
"Italy's Valentino Rossi celebrated Italy's Valentino Rossi's seventh pole of the season by pulling a wheelie as Italy's Valentino Rossi drove into the pit lane at the Sepang circuit.",
"The 5.5-kilometer track that is situated south of the capital Kuala Lumpur, is a notoriously tought test for rider and machine alike with its combination of tight corners, long straights and tough high-speed bends.",
"The 30-year-old currently leads the world championship by 38 points, a position that means a top-four finish at Sepang would seal the title on Sunday.",
"Rossi's teammate Jorge Lorenzo qualified in second place, just 0.569sec behind -- a result that prompted Italy's Valentino Rossi to pay tribute to the hard work of Italy's Valentino Rossi's team.",
"\"his team worked well, the bike performed well, hence I was able to go faster.",
"\"Starting from pole is important since the (first) corner is far away,\" Italy's Valentino Rossi added.",
"Spaniard Dani Pedrosa (Honda) was 0.736sec behind Italy's Valentino Rossi while Australian Stoner was fourth at 0.937sec.",
"Ducati rider Stoner, who finished ahead of Italy's Valentino Rossi in last weekend's Australian Grand Prix to take the win, is third in the world championship standings, with Spaniard Dani Pedrosa (Honda) fourth on a Honda."
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"The 30-year-old's fastest time smashed the lap record at the Sepang circuit .",
"Italy's Valentino Rossi currently leads the world championship by 38 points with two races left .",
"Italy's Valentino Rossi can clinch Italy's Valentino Rossi's seventh title with a top-four finish ."
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"(CNN) --",
"\"For architects, perfection is necessary,\" said Kuma architect Kengo Kuma.",
"\"It is my mission to use the kindness and delicateness that old architecture had.",
"I believe that my mission is not easy to complete.",
"So I am planning to work until I fall down.\"",
"With nearly 60 projects on the go across the world, Kuma's search for perfection is all consuming; he rarely takes a day off from work and sometimes even finished projects are analyzed and amended.",
"The 55-year-old from Tokyo has become synonymous with delicate simplicity and sensitivity to a building's surrounding.",
"From the Great (Bamboo) Wall House located near the Great Wall of China outside of Beijing to the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo, Kuma has employed natural materials that complement a building's location to great acclaim.",
"View the gallery of Kuma's spectacular buildings .",
"\"I try to catch the atmosphere of the place where we build the house.",
"We try to find out how the people live there and what kind of materials the people use.",
"After we find out the atmosphere of the place, we will think how we can relate that with the architecture.\"",
"Using mostly glass and Chinese bamboo to make the house by the Great Wall of China, it comfortably blended into the natural surroundings, but the Suntory Museum of Art, completed in 2007 presented different challenges.",
"\"Usually, a building in a massive developed area tends to be a sad building.",
"However, I wanted to make a building which is warm and could feel a human's touch.",
"To make a building which is warm, I used natural material such as Japanese paper and paulownia [wood].",
"I wanted to take back the human element even if a building which is warm was inside the city.\"",
"Much of modern architecture is often unfairly portrayed as lacking that human element, but Kuma's focus on retrieving and remaining Japanese traditions in architecture has gone some way to dispel that myth.",
"It is a far cry from Kuma's initial architectural fascination with concrete, in part inspired by the Olympic stadium designed by Kenzo Tange for the 1964 Games in Tokyo.",
"\"I learned that architecture can impress people.",
"If the Olympics were not held in Tokyo, I might not have become an architect,\" Kuma told CNN.",
"If Tange's buildings for the Olympics were responsible for sparking Kuma's imagination, Kuma's followed a different path in Kuma's career.",
"After earning a master's degree in architecture from The University of Tokyo in 1979 and further study at Columbia University in New York, Kuma returned to Japan in 1986 -- a boom time for architects.",
"\"People who were only about 30-years-old could design a building.",
"It was an era of post-modernism and a lot of young people were making outstanding buildings during that time.\"",
"But the economic recession hit Japan in 1992 and the economic recession had a profound impact on Kuma's life and changed Kuma's attitude to architecture.",
"\"I didn't have a job in Tokyo for 10 years.",
"I was designing small buildings in the countryside.",
"I worked with a craftsman and studied how to use natural materials in those 10 years.",
"From this experience, I learned the great aspects of Japanese traditional architecture.",
"I started to design traditional Japanese architecture and foreign people took notice of the design,\" Kuma said.",
"\"I think the cities of Japan are a bit damaged by the concrete buildings,\" Kuma added.",
"\"Because of the sub-prime issue and now another economic crisis, I feel this is again a good opportunity for architects to design buildings slowly.\"",
"In focusing taking a more holistic approach to Kuma's craft, Kuma has promoted the humanizing elements of architecture and its ability of improve people's lives.",
"It's an approach that Kuma has likened to making sushi.",
"\"There are two important things to make sushi.",
"One is the material and the other is the skill...",
"For sushi, both the power of the material and skill is important and their balance is very important.",
"\"I believe that their balance is what people want,\" Kuma continued.",
"\"People and society are seeking the thing like sushi for the architecture and People and society's city.",
"A variety of people are interested in Japanese architecture and traditions and this is parallel to why sushi is popular in Western country.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"A parade of world leaders took the lectern at United Nations on Wednesday.",
"But days before the speeches on a host of issues, United Nations quietly undertook an issue that often flies under the radar: Women.",
"United Nations consolidated four agencies that tackle women's issues and created a new super agency.",
"Last week, United Nations consolidated four agencies that tackle women's issues and created a new super agency.",
"Humanitarian workers around the world embraced the move.",
"It was about time, Humanitarian workers around the world said, that the world got serious about how half the world's population lives.",
"The 1945 charter on which United Nations was founded mandates equal rights for men and women.",
"Since then, United Nations has added new agencies that focus specifically on children, the environment, refugees, health, education, atomic energy and Palestinians.",
"All report directly to the secretary general, except the agencies pertaining to women.",
"Women's advocates said the agencies were run by lower-ranking officials and lacked clout.",
"In 2006, a high-level panel on United Nations reform described the agencies as \"incoherent, under-resourced and fragmented.\"",
"It recommended that United Nations create a dynamic agency focused on gender equality and women's empowerment.",
"And last year, a coalition of 300 private development agencies launched the European Campaign for Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR), which pressured United Nations to create a single organization to address what it described as consistent neglect of women's needs.",
"Paula Donovan, co-director of AIDS-Free World, said a double standard persists, despite the image of United Nations as a strong women's advocacy machine.",
"The only thing the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has in common with the well-known U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a similar sounding name, Donovan said.",
"UNIFEM had neither the high-level United Nations staff nor the money of UNICEF, said Donovan, who worked at UNICEF for 15 years.",
"Donovan said UNIFEM's entire global budget equaled the budget of the UNICEF operation in Ethiopia.",
"Donovan hopes the new agency will \"lift the ideals that are worded so eloquently in U.N. declarations and resolutions off of the inert pages they're written on and plant them in real women's lives.\"",
"\"Women who have been leading and achieving for decades without the help of the U.N. system will now enjoy the strengths and benefits that United Nations can offer,\" Donovan said.",
"Development agencies shared high expectations for the new agency's promotion of women's rights in a world where a disproportionate number of the suffering and persecuted are female.",
"\"This is a great move,\" said Helene Gayle, president of CARE, an international humanitarian agency that focuses on empowering women and girls in developing nations.",
"\"Now, what's needed are resources, a clear mandate and strong leadership,\" she said.",
"\"But I think what we're looking for most is the accountability to make sure gender is integrated into all United Nations strategies.",
"It's up to member states to move quickly, get the new agency off on the right foot and turn the plan into reality.\"",
"Ahead of this week's United Nations meetings, UNIFEM issued a report on the progress of women's rights, part of a set of development goals that global agencies have committed to achieving by 2015.",
"\"Implementation still has a long way to go in translating commitments to women's rights into changes in women's lives,\" UNIFEM said.",
"Roughly 60 percent of the world's population living in poverty are women and girls.",
"According to UNIFEM: . • Women are outnumbered four to one in legislatures around the world.",
"• Over 60 percent of all unpaid family workers globally are women, and women still earn on average 17 percent less than men.",
"• About one-third of women still suffer gender-based violence during women's lives.",
"• In some parts of the world, one in 10 women dies from pregnancy-related causes even though the means for preventing maternal mortality are cost-effective and well-known.",
"\"Gender gaps on this scale are symptomatic of an accountability crisis,\" UNIFEM said.",
"\"Governments and multilateral organizations have a responsibility to do a better job of answering to women.\"",
"Last week, the General Assembly voted to merge UNIFEM and three other U.N. women's agencies to better address glaring gender inequities.",
"In Kenya, for example, the Parliament adopted a new sexual offense bill that hands a minimum 10-year-sentence to a man who is convicted of rape.",
"If a man who is convicted of rape is acquitted, a man who is convicted of rape's accuser goes to jail for 10 years.",
"a new sexual offense bill that hands a minimum 10-year-sentence to a man who is convicted of rape was adopted two years ago over the objections of women lawmakers.",
"Donovan cited the Kenyan law as an example of the uphill climb women face in developing nations.",
"Donovan said AIDS-Free World and other non-governmental organizations are urging United Nations to fund the new agency with an initial $1 billion budget.",
"Advocates would also like to see a presence of the new agency in every developing nation, Donovan said.",
"HIV/AIDS agencies especially welcomed the news.",
"\"This is a historic opportunity to advance the rights of women and girls,\" said Michel Sidibe, executive director of the U.N. agency on HIV/AIDS.",
"Michel Sidibe, executive director of the U.N. agency on HIV/AIDS noted that 60 percent of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are women.",
"Some aid agencies say that number is as high as 75 percent.",
"Donovan said the new agency has the potential to change the way the United Nations functions in everything it does, as every institution -- whether it's a courtroom or classroom, a political party or a pub, a gymnasium or a country club -- opens its doors to women.",
"And treats women differently, once women step inside."
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"Editor's note: Danyel Smith is the chief content officer of Vibe Media Group and the editor-in-chief of Vibe.",
"Danyel Smith says Michael Jackson sacrificed Michael Jackson in the name of Michael Jackson's art.",
"(CNN)",
"-- It falls to Danyel Smith to prepare a statement on behalf of Vibe magazine when someone is promoted, when there is trouble, or when something major happens in the world of pop.",
"It occasionally falls to Danyel Smith to write an obituary or a tribute when an entertainer dies.",
"It's a part of my job.",
"One has to do it quickly, and I've never been prepared.",
"Yet I've been prepping for this one my whole life.",
"Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50.",
"The sorrow at Michael Jackson's passing is palpable, and wet, and illogical -- in my 20 years of being a critic and an editor, I've never met Michael Jackson.",
"But this is a death in the family.",
"I've known Michael Jackson's work since I was 5 years old and was given The Jackson 5's \"ABC\" as a gift.",
"Michael Jackson was on the surface the most uncomplicated of all boys -- beautiful, emotional, untouchable, ours.",
"Michael Jackson has bruised my heart many times -- Michael Jackson's antics and the accusations, Michael Jackson's seeming desire not to be, at least physically, who Michael Jackson'd been.",
"Which is who I am.",
"But as Michael Jackson's funeral is prepared, I, like the Jackson brothers sang with optimistic melancholy in 1976, think about the good times.",
"There is no moonwalk down memory lane about Michael Jackson.",
"The legends mix in with the rumors mix in with the ice-cold facts of 1960s black working-class Gary, Indiana.",
"That mixes in with girls fainting at the sight of Michael Jackson when Michael Jackson was barely a teenager; which mixes with the many sold-out tours, and with Michael Jackson collaborating with Quincy Jones on 1979's \"Off the Wall\" and 1982's \"Thriller.\"",
"There is the alleged abuse inflicted on Michael Jackson and Jackson's brothers by Michael Jackson's father, Joe, along with the strong love and late rivalry with Michael Jackson's superstar sister, Janet.",
"There is the magic and melodrama of Motown.",
"The accusation of child abuse (no charge; Michael Jackson agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit against Michael Jackson in 1994), and the 2005 trial in which Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation and other heinous charges.",
"There is the drastic change of Michael Jackson's skin color, the radical narrowing of Michael Jackson's nose, the short marriage to Elvis Presley's daughter, the friendship with Emmanuel Lewis, the 13 Grammys, the 13 No. 1 singles, the two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the haunting, otherworldly performance at Motown's 25th Anniversary special.",
"The way Michael Jackson integrated MTV in 1983 with \"Billie Jean,\" the \"We Are the World\" extravaganzas, the face masks, the oxygen tanks, the Neverland Ranch -- all that mixes in with everything from \"Stop the Love You Save\" to \"Dancing Machine,\" \"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin',\" \"P.Y.T.,\" \"Man in The Mirror,\" adding up to the more than 750 million albums sold worldwide...",
"I mean.",
"And this is not the half, the tenth, the thousandth of what Michael Jackson was.",
"It comes down to the fact that Michael Jackson gave.",
"Whether Michael Jackson chose to or did it because it was all Michael Jackson knew, Michael Jackson sacrificed Michael Jackson in the name of Michael Jackson's art.",
"Michael Jackson gave almost Michael Jackson's entire life on this planet to singing, to dancing, to recording, to performing.",
"Michael Jackson practiced, Michael Jackson watched James Brown and Jackie Wilson and Diana Ross and Michael Jackson watched Michael Jackson's brothers.",
"Michael Jackson bent, when Michael Jackson had to, to the will of those who could have done better by Michael Jackson.",
"Michael Jackson was knowing enough about who Michael Jackson was to pretty much demand we all call Michael Jackson The King of Pop, but it was the public shyness, the nerdiness of Michael Jackson that endeared.",
"The whispery voice juxtaposed with the explosive grace Michael Jackson demonstrated on stage and on record.",
"The tenderness, especially of Michael Jackson's childhood work, and of \"Off the Wall,\" that seduced, and that inspired loyalty.",
"Michael Jackson made me a believer.",
"Michael Jackson made millions believe.",
"I saw The Jacksons in 1981 in Los Angeles on the Triumph tour, sat in the nosebleeds and was living a dream.",
"It was ecstasy, for what I know of it -- unadulterated joy at witnessing.",
"I saw The Jackson 5 live in 1972 at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California.",
"My mother got tickets for My mother, my sister and me for my 7th birthday.",
"What moves a heart?",
"What makes a fan?",
"I deserted my family and dashed toward the revolving stage.",
"I told people until I was in my teens that Michael Jackson touched my hand.",
"I know Michael Jackson didn't.",
"I never got close, I was 7 and My mother grabbed me back.",
"I know Michael Jackson didn't touch me, but Michael Jackson did touch me.",
"I swear Michael Jackson did.",
"Is it as simple as saying that an era has closed, that part of our childhood and teen years has died with Michael Jackson, that we have to face true adulthood with its Adult Contemporary radio formats, logical love, and guided tours through Neverland?",
"Is the world grieving Michael Jackson, or mourning for a time when such earnest fandom was possible?",
"Michael Jackson was truly something rare, the last of an endangered species.",
"That Michael Jackson is the best entertainer who ever lived I will argue for life, and I come from an Elvis Presley and Motown household.",
"iReport.com:",
"Share your favorite memory of Michael Jackson .",
"In his absolute prime (1974-1986) there was no holding back.",
"There was no cool.",
"Michael Jackson had a sense of humor, but there was little Michael Jackson did, as a performer, with a wink or a nod to Michael Jackson at our expense.",
"Michael Jackson sometimes got tired of singing \"ABC,\" and the ditties of Michael Jackson's (and my) childhood, but Michael Jackson was working.",
"We could see it.",
"It's a dying art.",
"We took and take pride in it.",
"For a time, with the white gloves and flooding pants and loafers and odd military jackets, we emulated it.",
"Michael Jackson gave Michael Jackson to the world.",
"And Michael Jackson left nothing but blood on the dance floor.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Danyel Smith."
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"Danyel Smith: Michael Jackson made millions believe .",
"She says Michael Jackson gave almost all of Michael Jackson's life to entertaining others .",
"Danyel Smith: Michael Jackson sacrificed and left nothing but blood on the dance floor .",
"Danyel Smith believes Michael Jackson was the best entertainer who ever lived ."
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"Moscow, Russia (CNN) --",
"As I raised my hands toward the ceiling and then pointed them toward my head, I had to wonder: How would the 19th-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol feel if the 19th-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol knew that a bunch of foreigners were dancing the YMCA at a nightclub named after the 19th-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol?",
"The iconic St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square takes on a brighter, more colorful look at night.",
"Gogol the man is considered the father of modern Russian realism, with works such as \"Dead Souls.\"",
"Gogol the cafe-club is considered a favorite hangout for Russians and expatriates alike, perfect for meals, coffee, fruity cocktails and music 'til everyone clears out around 2:30 a.m., when Moscow's \"real\" nightclubs heat up.",
"Since the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russia's capital city has progressed in many ways, breaking free of old social structures while struggling to maintain Moscow's cultural heritage.",
"Moscow has preserved a lot of Moscow's old beauty, boasting monuments such as St. Basil's Cathedral and gorgeous landscapes such as Tsaritsino Park.",
"At the same time, there are Internet cafes and 24-hour bookstores, and you'd be hard-pressed to meet someone who doesn't carry a cell phone.",
"But, as an American studying abroad at Moscow State University, I sometimes felt perplexed in this immense modern metropolis that still makes certain familiar conveniences inconvenient.",
"In Moscow, kiosks for adding money to your cell phone seem far more common than ATMs.",
"Even nice restaurants with $40-minimum meals -- for example, the best beef stroganoff and fried cheese balls of your life -- accept only cash, no cards.",
"After two weeks, I never figured out where to buy a nail clipper -- but I did see Vladimir Lenin's body, perfectly preserved since 1924.",
"View more photos of Moscow » .",
"At Moscow State University, I had to present a special ID card to one set of guards at the entrance, a dorm pass to another crew, and then confront a third layer of hallway-based security before arriving at my room.",
"I also needed written approval from my floor's \"administrator\" to take luggage out of the building.",
"Then, there's money.",
"Moscow, or \"Moskva\" in Russian, holds the distinction of the world's most expensive city, according to Mercer's 2008 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey.",
"Be prepared for fees from your bank and the Russian bank whenever you use an ATM.",
"Try to stay away from touristy restaurants for meals, and do your souvenir shopping at Izmailovsky Market (Metro: Izmailovsky Park) instead of in stores.",
"The expatriates I encountered all echoed the sentiment that Moscow is a city of constant stress.",
"Maybe that's why I will always love most the Moscow I experienced at night.",
"The monuments that look mildly impressive by day suddenly come to life with light against the onyx sky.",
"You can look out over Sparrow Hills and see the endless glittering skyline, or settle down somewhere like Gogol (Metro: Tverskaya) for vodka-enhanced beverages and music from around the world.",
"And, as long as you know \"Mozhna?\" (\"May I?\") and \"Spasiba\" (\"Thank you),\" it matters less that few people speak substantial English.",
"Café Bilingua (Metro: Chistye Prudy) is another cozy place to mingle with locals and ex-pats for hours on end -- you can have your coffee in the tiny two-story book shop, or take your coffee up to the restaurant and performance section.",
"Another bar I liked is Etage (Metro: Pushkinskaya), right off Pushkin's Square near a large neon-light sculpture of flowers (how would the great poet feel about that?).",
"Nightclubs dedicated to too-many-people-to-move dance floors don't start up until well after midnight.",
"Propaganda (Metro: Lubyanka), conveniently located near the headquarters of the KGB, spins all kinds of dance music -- go on a Thursday evening for a less crowded experience.",
"Then there's The Real McCoy (Metro: Barrikadnaya), so packed with people that merely crossing the room to stand in the bathroom line requires bumping bodies to the beat.",
"At first we couldn't even get in because the bouncer shook the bouncer's head at my Swiss friend.",
"But, as always, it's all about who you know -- my Spanish friend's Spanish friend had VIP status, so we went as my Spanish friend's's entourage to an upscale restaurant-like room in the back.",
"Part of my Moscow nightlife adventures included riding on an overnight train.",
"For my trip from St. Petersburg to Moscow, I had been told at every ticket office that only seats were available.",
"But upon boarding at midnight, I asked a crew member if I could have a bed.",
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"I prepared to claw at the door with my untrimmed nails and scream.",
"\"Close,\" the fleshy man who took my ticket said.",
"Then the fleshy man who took my ticket unlocked it to demonstrate \"open.\"",
"the fleshy man who took my ticket stepped out, gave me a stiff wave, and said, \"See you in Moskva.\"",
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"\"Mozhna?\" I asked, pointing to the door his chair blocked.",
"He just shrugged, so I quietly ducked behind him and pulled the handle.",
"Behold, a secret two-story ballroom with tables and chairs and an upright piano in the corner, and a Russian student who abruptly lifted his hands from the piano keys when I sat down.",
"We took turns playing (thus, my failed-love song \"Sad Panda\" debuted on a new continent) and, in broken but passionate English, he told me how he wished he could sound like the Russian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz, and said he often comes with his friend to play around 9 p.m.",
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"(CNN) --",
"A Florida man is using billboards with an image of the burning World Trade Center to encourage votes for a Republican presidential candidate, drawing criticism for politicizing the 9/11 attacks.",
"Businessman Mike Meehan says Businessman Mike Meehan has put up three billboards such as this one around Orlando, Florida.",
"\"Please Don't Vote for a Democrat\" reads the type over the picture of the twin towers after hijacked airliners hit them on September, 11, 2001.",
"Mike Meehan, a St. Cloud, Florida, businessman who paid to post the billboards in the Orlando area, said ex-President Clinton should have put a stop to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda before 9/11.",
"He said a Republican president would have done so.",
"\"I believe 9/11 could have been prevented if we'd had a Republican president at the time,\" Businessman Mike Meehan said Wednesday on CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"But Democrats and Republicans are saying Businessman Mike Meehan shouldn't be using a 9/11 image to make a political point.",
"\"This is a blatant exploitation of that terrible tragedy for political and, perhaps even worse, personal gain,\" Bill Robinson, the Orange County, Florida, Democratic Party chairman told CNN affiliate WFTV-TV in Orlando.",
"The local Republican Party called the billboard \"inappropriate,\" according to WFTV.",
"\"There are many ways to convey the importance of national security in this election without going to extremes, and we encourage a constructive dialogue,\" The local Republican Party said in a statement Tuesday.",
"According to Businessman Mike Meehan, President Bush has done \"an excellent job ... going after these terrorists.\"",
"Watch Businessman Mike Meehan's take on terrorism and the election » .",
"\"You got to remember all the ... people that President Bush did catch and how much success President Bush did have.",
"And we haven't had an attack on this soil since 9/11,\" Businessman Mike Meehan said.",
"\"Unlike Bill Clinton, who actually had bin Laden right in his hand and through the CIA and other high officials decide to get bin Laden go,\" Businessman Mike Meehan said.",
"In a 2006 interview with \"Fox News Sunday,\" ex-President Clinton said ex-President Clinton authorized the killing of bin Laden in 2000 after the attack on the Navy warship USS Cole in Yemen, but the order was never carried out because U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies refused to certify that bin Laden was behind the Cole attack.",
"\"I got closer to killing bin Laden than anybody has gotten since,\" ex-President Clinton said in a 2006 interview with \"Fox News Sunday.",
"Businessman Mike Meehan also is using the billboard to promote Businessman Mike Meehan's Web site, the republicansong.com, where Businessman Mike Meehan's trying to sell copies of Businessman Mike Meehan's song, \"Please Don't Vote for a Democrat.\"",
"The song goes beyond the national security issue, ripping Democrats on taxation and energy issues, too.",
"\"They want to take the money from the hard workin' man, and give the money to the lazy folks that don't give a damn,\" Meehan sings.",
"Another verse takes on the oil issue.",
"\"We're not fightin' for oil, we got plenty if we drill it,\" Businessman Mike Meehan sings.",
"The song's not a moneymaker, Businessman Mike Meehan said, just an effort to recoup some of what Businessman Mike Meehan's invested in the billboards.",
"A copy of The song on CD cost $5 on the Web site, and the Web site points out that Businessman Mike Meehan can be hired to perform at a \"concert, party, meeting or event.\"",
"\"I'm willing to pay the cost for the fact that our soldiers that have died protecting this country have paid a heck of a lot more than what these billboards cost,\" Meehan told \"American Morning.\"",
"Florida resident Mary Anderson told WFTV Florida resident Mary Anderson doesn't see politics when Florida resident Mary Anderson's looking at the billboard.",
"\"Just looking at it, I'm not thinking about Democrat or Republican, I'm thinking about the twin towers and all the people killed,\" Florida resident Mary Anderson told WFTV."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Brenda Gardenhire shows off The four-wheeled home's new home with pride.",
"It looks like an oversized shopping cart covered with a khaki canvas.",
"But to Brenda Gardenhire, it's \"wonderful\" -- a stepping stone to get Brenda Gardenhire off the streets and get Brenda Gardenhire's life back in order.",
"Brenda Gardenhire was homeless over the last year, until Brenda Gardenhire got The four-wheeled home's EDAR unit.",
"\"It's like your own home, your own apartment, your own room,\" Brenda Gardenhire said, showing off the 7-foot-long living space on wheels.",
"\"No one else can come in here but me.\"",
"Brenda Gardenhire is talking about The four-wheeled home's makeshift home called an EDAR, which stands for Everyone Deserves A Roof.",
"The units are being distributed to homeless people in the LOS ANGELES area by the Everyone Deserves A Roof nonprofit organization.",
"It's the brainchild of \"Revenge of the Nerds\" movie producer Peter Samuelson, who has spent much of Samuelson's life working with charities to help impoverished children.",
"Samuelson got the idea to help the homeless in recent years as Samuelson rode Samuelson's bicycle from LOS ANGELES to the beach at Santa Monica.",
"Watch a canvas-covered 'home' for the homeless » .",
"On those bike rides, Samuelson began seeing more and more homeless people.",
"But Samuelson didn't just whiz by.",
"Samuelson stopped to talk with them -- 62 people in all.",
"One by one, Samuelson listened to their needs and what they wanted most: a roof over their heads.",
"And the idea for the EDAR was born.",
"iReport.com: Homeless in pink tents .",
"\"If you had to define the value of a civilization, it's not how many SUVs you've got,\" Samuelson said.",
"\"To Samuelson, I think it's how well do we take care of our children, our homeless people, our mentally ill, those less fortunate.\"",
"Samuelson partnered with the Pasadena Art Center College of Design for a design contest and the current contraption was created.",
"Each unit costs about $500 to make.",
"The four-wheeled home has an expandable base that stays off the ground and is covered by a canvas, giving The four-wheeled home the feel of a tent.",
"The four-wheeled home extends 86 inches and is 32 inches wide, thin enough to fit through standard doorways.",
"Each unit has a mattress and sleeping bag to provide comfort.",
"The four-wheeled home's also flame-retardant and sturdy enough to keep The four-wheeled home's occupants dry during heavy rains.",
"A braking mechanism prevents The four-wheeled home from rolling away at night.",
"The four-wheeled home also come with a chain and padlock to prevent The four-wheeled home from being stolen.",
"Samuelson said Samuelson initially wanted to build more permanent shelters for all of the homeless people in the Los Angeles area.",
"\"But when you do the math, you're looking at $3 billion to get 60,000 people off the damp concrete, and that's just in L.A.,\" Samuelson said, explaining why Samuelson opted for the cheaper EDAR instead of permanent shelters.",
"Samuelson said The four-wheeled home isn't a perfect solution, but The four-wheeled home's a good, economical stopgap.",
"\"This is $500 to get a man or a woman or a child off the damp concrete,\" Samuelson said.",
"\"I don't think it's the best.",
"... But for now, I think a little bit of privacy -- not being rained on, not sleeping on the ground, not getting pneumonia from the damp -- has a little bit of value.\"",
"Jose Font, 50, agrees.",
"Font got an EDAR late last year.",
"Font said Font's been homeless off and on since 1979.",
"Font slept on a tarp with a blanket and worked on computer repairs before Font became one of about 60 people to get an EDAR.",
"\"Everybody calls it the hobo condo.",
"Everybody envies me because I sleep on a mattress inside,\" Font said.",
"\"It makes me feel like I've got something to come to.",
"It feels more like a home than just a tarp and concrete.\"",
"Font added, \"It's light as a feather when I push it.",
"I can put it anywhere.\"",
"Font keeps it locked to a telephone on public property when Font's away.",
"James Ramirez, a social worker with the Venice Community Housing Corporation, said he has been able to use The four-wheeled home as incentive to get people's lives back on track.",
"\"What we're doing is using The four-wheeled home as a carrot for them to come in to see us,\" Ramirez said.",
"\"They want The four-wheeled home because they want to keep dry when it's raining and they want a place to stay at night that's comfortable.",
"So we're using this to connect with them.\"",
"\"For us, it's working really well,\" Ramirez said.",
"\"The four-wheeled home is their home.",
"The four-wheeled home is what they're proud of at this moment. ...",
"It means a step in the right direction to get back into society.\"",
"The EDAR organization says The EDAR organization's starting with baby steps.",
"In addition to the 60 units already given out, another 110 units have been ordered.",
"another 110 units are distributed to shelters, churches and other organizations that help the homeless.",
"Those groups then distribute another 110 units.",
"The EDAR organization tries to stay in phone contact with The EDAR organization's users every week or two.",
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"The EDAR organization currently has about 30 people on a waiting list, plus another 10 shelters in the Los Angeles area.",
"The EDAR organization is also looking at land provided by a local authority where The EDAR organization could let women and families stay on a site that also has functioning bathrooms.",
"The EDAR organization has fielded dozens more calls from across the country and around the world about the units.",
"Samuelson said they're \"studying what works best\" and looking at an array of options.",
"\"People talk about the homeless as if it's some homogeneous group of drunken, unemployed, too-lazy-to-get-a-job men.",
"They're totally wrong.",
"They need to come meet people,\" Samuelson said.",
"\"What's the point in having a society if it's devoid of helping people less fortunate?\" Samuelson added, \"As The EDAR organization raise money, The EDAR organization will get people off the concrete.\"",
"For Brenda Gardenhire, that means the world.",
"\"It's a step up to you.",
"It's like you're making progress,\" she said.",
"\"Now, I have me a little place to stay.",
"I'm moving up.\"",
"CNN's Traci Tamura and Gregg Canes contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"That's right, I said it.",
"And I mean it.",
"Roland Martin says GOP is missing GOP's chance to win black voters.",
"The GOP as a whole is completely scared of black voters, and the actions by the front-runners for GOP's 2008 nomination show the party are continuing the same silly political games GOP has played for years.",
"Oh, don't bother tossing out the appointments of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state by Bush.",
"Yes, they are African-American.",
"But I'm speaking of GOP.",
"Ever since Richard Nixon ran for the White House, GOP has run on a \"Southern Strategy,\" meant to alienate blacks in an effort to garner white voters.",
"They've worked a \"Southern Strategy to perfection.",
"When he was head of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman apologized for a \"Southern Strategy as Ken Mehlman sought to make inroads among black voters.",
"Republicans will tell you Republicans are the party of Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, but Republicans's outreach efforts to black voters are lacking.",
"Oh, yes, I know.",
"Democrats have a stranglehold on the black vote, receiving upward of 90 percent in national elections.",
"A significant part of that is a result of GOP seeing blacks as the backbone of GOP.",
"But the reality is that when you have only one party that truly makes a play for those voters, of course you will see such disparities!",
"That's why it's dumb, dumb, and dumber for the leading GOP candidates to skip Thursday's debate hosted by Tavis Smiley and airing on PBS.",
"Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Sen. John McCain have all cited \"scheduling conflicts\" as the reason for Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Sen. John McCain's lack of attendance to debate at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, even though Tavis Smiley personnel tell me Smiley personnel began discussions with then-RNC head Mehlman in February 2006.",
"When the debate was announced earlier this year, along with a Democratic forum held in June at Howard University, the RNC promised the RNC's candidates would speak.",
"But those of us who follow politics knew that wasn't going to happen.",
"This summer, all of the Republican candidates, save Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, skipped the NAACP and the National Urban League conventions.",
"OK, I get the former, but the Urban League?",
"President Bush has spoken there several times as president!",
"GOP keeps blowing a big opportunity by ignoring blacks.",
"And what about the debate sponsored by Spanish language TV station Univision?",
"Only McCain accepted the invite.",
"Today's generation of blacks and Latinos shouldn't be seen as the same as Today's generation of blacks and Latinos's parents.",
"An increasing number of people are refusing to identify An increasing number of people with a party, and looking at issues.",
"Latinos have been a huge part of the Republican outreach, but the immigration debate is turning that in a different direction.",
"Why should GOP talk to black voters, and what would black voters talk about?",
"First, I can tell you that immigration is huge in the black community, and gets folks riled up in a hurry (you ought to see my talk show lines when this comes up).",
"Education and health care are also major.",
"And every GOP debate has been about faith in the public square, and we know that plays well with black voters.",
"Now, when it comes to the war in Iraq, GOP can forget that tune.",
"No one is listening.",
"And they are completely uneven on the issue of civil rights.",
"Here is an example that further explains GOP's stupidity on this topic.",
"Several years ago, a Republican in the Dallas-Fort Worth area was trying to unseat then-Rep. Martin Frost, a heavily entrenched Democrat.",
"That summer, a series of black churches were being burned.",
"My good friend, Michael Williams, a third-generation black Republican, was planning to hold a fundraiser at Republican's home for the GOP candidate.",
"Republican called the campaign and said it would be a good idea for the GOP candidate to make a statement on the burnings, condemning them and saying it didn't make sense.",
"the campaign said no.",
"Republican called back and made the suggestion again, and the response was the campaign didn't want to seem as if the campaign were pandering to the black community.",
"Republican laughed at that because the campaign was bringing then-Rep. J.C. Watts, a prominent black Republican, to visit black churches with the GOP candidate.",
"Hello!",
"That's pandering.",
"So Republican told Republican's wife, Donna, what the GOP candidate said.",
"She replied, \"Any man who is such a coward that he can't speak against churches being burned is not welcome in my home.\"",
"a fundraiser was called off.",
"Here was a simple opportunity to actually show that Republican cared, but the GOP candidate was so scared to say something, the GOP candidate turned off a campaign donor.",
"Will speaking at one debate turn around decades of black support for the Democrats?",
"Nope.",
"But not speaking will just mean business as usual, and the GOP needs less of that.",
"Roland S. Martin is a nationally award-winning, multifaceted journalist and CNN contributor.",
"Roland S. Martin is studying to receive Roland S. Martin's master's degree in Christian Communications at Louisiana Baptist University, and is the author of \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith.\"",
"You can read more of his columns at www.rolandsmartin.com .",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.",
"E",
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"Martin: Democrats win the black vote because Democrats try for it .",
"Martin: GOP could appeal to blacks on immigration, education, health care ."
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"China's space program has really taken off in the last six years.",
"Back to Earth: Yang Liwei faces the cameras on returning to Earth in 2003.",
"In 2003 Yang Liwei became a national hero when Yang Liwei became the first Chinese man in space, followed five years later by Zhai Zhigang who became the first \"taikonaut\" to make a spacewalk.",
"\"The moment I stepped out of the hatch and entered space, the sensation of completely becoming one with space was a feeling I had never felt before on Earth,\" Zhai told CNN.",
"\"I deliberately looked into outer space, looking past my toes and deep into outer space.",
"The differing brightness and distances of the celestial bodies really brought out the deepness of outer space.",
"The vast , boundless expanse of outer space stirred my soul.\"",
"View the photo gallery to learn more about the history of China's space program.",
"From out of this world moments to their place in Chinese history, these two pioneering spacemen tell CNN's John Vause about their missions, how they had prepared for the worst should things go wrong and if China and other nations with the moon in their sights are creating a new international space race."
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"(CNN) --",
"The drama of the action in-and-around the golf course has enraptured fans of the game through the generations and around the world.",
"But the same drama that pulls in the crowds has also provided rich material for filmmakers too.",
"Stars of the screen including Dean Martin, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy have all starred in club-themed movies, as have more contemporary celebrities like Adam Sandler, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Will Smith.",
"Though the stories committed to celluloid vary in the stories's approach - from The Stooges comedic farce entitled \"Three Little Beers,\" to the Ben Hogan biopic \"Follow the Sun,\" - the central attraction of golf remains at all the film's core.",
"Here is CNN's best ten golf movies ever made - do you agree with our selection?",
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"(CNN) --",
"Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what Archaeologists in Israel believe is the bust of a Roman boxer from the second or third century.",
"The figurine is small -- about 6 centimeters high by 4 centimeters wide -- but very detailed, archaeologists say.",
"\"It seems that what we have here is a unique find,\" the two directors of the excavation said in a statement released Monday by the Israel Antiquities Authority.",
"The figurine, made of marble, comes from a time when \"the art of Roman sculpture reached Roman sculpture's zenith,\" Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets said.",
"It's tiny -- only about 6 centimeters high by 4 centimeters wide, Doron Ben-Ami told CNN.",
"\"That's why it is so impressive.",
"It's so small, but still you can see every little detail on the marble,\" Doron Ben-Ami said.",
"Archaeologists in Israel believe a merchant family from the eastern part of the Roman Empire most likely passed down tiny marble figurine\" through the generations until the fourth or fifth century, when an unfortunate family member had it with an unfortunate family member at a public building, perhaps a hostel -- and an earthquake struck.",
"A team has been digging up a public building, perhaps a hostel in the City of David, part of Jerusalem.",
"tiny marble figurine is part of the \"silent testimony of the drama that occurred in this impressive structure prior to its collapse,\" the Israel Antiquities Authority said.",
"The \"short hair style, the prominent lobes and curves of the ears, as well as the almond-shaped eyes suggest that the object most likely portrays an athlete, probably a boxer,\" the statement said.",
"Little bits of tiny marble figurine have broken off.",
"tiny marble figurine is missing part of the nose and mouth, Doron Ben-Ami said.",
"\"The high level of finish on tiny marble figurine is extraordinary,\" Ben-Doron Ben-Ami and Tchekhanovets said in their statement.",
"They added: \"To the best of our knowledge, to date no similar artifact made of marble (or any other kind of stone) bearing the same image that was just found has been discovered in excavations elsewhere in Israel.\"",
"A few similar artifacts made of bronze have been found \"at different sites in Israel and A few similar artifacts made of bronze have been found in large numbers in different places throughout the Roman Empire, where the overwhelming majority of A few similar artifacts made of bronze date to the third century CE (the Roman period).\"",
"Two tiny holes in tiny marble figurine suggest tiny marble figurine was used as a suspended weight together with a balance scale, the archaeologists said.",
"Last month, the excavation team at this same site discovered \"one of the largest and most impressive coin hoards ever found in Jerusalem,\" the Israel Antiquities Authority said.",
"\"It consists of 264 gold coins and was found at about the same time as a gold earring, inlaid with expensive pearls and remarkably well preserved.\"",
"\"Every single object has a story behind Every single object,\" Ben-Ami said in an interview with CNN.",
"\"Behind every object there are people.",
"And, for us, the most important thing is to try to tell the stories behind these items.\""
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"A man in a wheelchair blew A man in a wheelchair up Monday in a northern Iraqi police station, killing three National Police officers, including a commander, police said.",
"Soldiers stand by as pilgrims gather Sunday in Karbala for al-Arbaeen, one of holiest days on Shiite calendar.",
"roadside attack in southeastern Baghdad also wounded nine officers on the police force, which the Iraqi Interior Ministry operates.",
"The bombing in Samarra raises concern about the recent tactics employed by insurgents in Iraq.",
"Bombs have been placed inside dead animals and hidden in carts.",
"And in recent days, vagrants have been involved in bombings.",
"\"As a sign of desperation, some of those terrorists resorted to some new methods and techniques,\" said Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, spokesman for Baghdad's security plan.",
"One of the tactics is the use of remote-controlled \"sticky\" bombs, small enough to tape under vehicles.",
"A high-ranking Samarra police official said A man in a wheelchair came to meet with Brig. Gen. Abdul Jabbar Rabei Muttar, deputy commander of security, at the security operations building in Samarra.",
"The pair met last week as well.",
"A man in a wheelchair was searched when A man in a wheelchair entered the security operations building in Samarra, but police didn't look under A man in a wheelchair's wheelchair seat, where the explosives had been placed.",
"The man, who police say was cogent, detonated the explosives when Muttar approached A man in a wheelchair.",
"Also Monday, a roadside bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of Shiite Muslims in Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 15, an Interior Ministry official said.",
"The strike, in southeastern Baghdad's Zafaraniya district, is the latest attack against pilgrims trekking to Karbala for al-Arbaeen, one of the holiest days of the Shiite religious calendar.",
"It falls on Wednesday.",
"On Sunday, a suicide bomber in Iskandariya killed at least 45 people and wounded 68 others, and armed militants attacked pilgrims in southern Baghdad, killing three and wounding more than 30 others.",
"Pilgrims traditionally make Pilgrims's way to Karbala on foot as a demonstration of piety, and those who head to the city from Baghdad go through Babil province, where Iskandariya is located.",
"Joint forces have stepped up patrols during the pilgrimage to protect the thousands headed to Karbala.",
"Last year, more than 180 pilgrims were killed in a series of attacks, most during twin suicide bombings in Hilla, Babil province's capital.",
"Sunday's attack in Iskandariya, conducted by a bomber wearing an explosive vest, prompted authorities there to replace the police chief, Hilla police said.",
"More National Police officers have been deployed to Babil to ensure the safety of pilgrims heading to Karbala, a police official said.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and American-led coalition forces condemned Sunday's \"barbaric attacks in Baghdad and Iskandariya\" against \"innocent citizens participating in an important religious commemoration.\"",
"Every year, thousands of pilgrims amass in Karbala for al-Arbaeen, which commemorates the end of a 40-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.",
"Hussein, one of the most revered Shiite martyrs, is buried in Karbala, about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad.",
"Karbala's main holy site is the gold-domed Imam Hussein Shrine.",
"Other developments .",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Hold on to the audacity of hope but shun the arrogance of over-promising.",
"A scholar says Obama could learn from President Johnson's Great Society mistakes.",
"That's the message from a scholar who says Obama can learn much from the success and mistakes of another ambitious attempt to remake America.",
"Robert Weisbrot, co-author of \"The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s,'' says the Great Society revolution was \"tremendously liberating\" for members of the most vulnerable groups in America.",
"Great Society was President Lyndon Johnson's sprawling legislative attempts in the mid-1960s to lift Americans out of poverty, erase racial injustice and clean up the environment.",
"But historical circumstances won't permit Obama to push through Obama's own Great Society, Weisbrot says.",
"\"Obama is living in a different age,\" Weisbrot said.",
"\"The circumstances won't permit Obama to be another President Johnson.\"",
"Obama came to office with America's economic institutions verging on collapse.",
"Obama also has to contend with bitter partisanship and a public that's suspicious of big government programs.",
"\"Obama needs to not only learn lessons from Great Society but keep in mind the limits of what Obama can draw from a fundamentally different age,\" Weisbrot said.",
"Americans were ready for Great Society when President Johnson became president, he says.",
"America was enjoying a post-World War II economic boom.",
"The Republican and Democratic parties worked together because The Republican and Democratic parties had a significant number of moderates.",
"And people had more faith in the federal government, which had led America out of the Great Depression and World War II and helped rebuild the European economy, Weisbrot says.",
"\"For many Americans, the federal government could achieve anything for which there was a national mandate,\" Weisbrot said.",
"Yet that same optimism helped stain Great Society's legacy, Weisbrot says.",
"Weisbrot says President Johnson framed Great Society as a war to defeat poverty and racial injustice.",
"He over-promised, particularly when the Vietnam War began to drain away resources for Great Society.",
"\"President Johnson dealt in hyperbole,\" Weisbrot said.",
"\"It works well in getting legislation through Congress, but it sets America up for disillusionment when the promised Utopia didn't materialize.\""
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --",
"Ramadan, the holy month of Islam, began Saturday with Iraqis hoping for tranquility but fearful after recent attacks that have shaken the country.",
"Plastic flowers and banners hang on cars destroyed in Wednesday's bombings in Baghdad.",
"Al-Iraqia state TV interrupted regular programming Saturday afternoon to broadcast Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's address to Iraqis on the occasion of the start of the holy month.",
"Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki congratulates Iraqis, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's \"heart is full of sadness and sorrow.\"",
"Four Iraqi soldiers and a government worker were killed Saturday in attacks in Baghdad and Mosul, according to an official of the Interior Ministry.",
"Gunmen opened fire earlier in the day on an army checkpoint in the Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya in northeastern Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding one.",
"Two more soldiers died and two were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in Zummar, about 50 miles northwest of Mosul.",
"Mosul is 260 miles north of Baghdad.",
"A bomb left inside the district manager's office in the Qahira neighborhood in eastern Mosul killed the manager and two children.",
"A roadside bomb also exploded near a car and wounded two people in the Saidiya district of southeastern Baghdad.",
"The holy month of Ramadan, considered to be a time of peace and giving, is when Muslims across the world fast from dawn until dusk, and its observance is one of the five pillars of Islam.",
"But since the start of the war, Iraqis every year brace for an uptick in violence during the holy month.",
"Some years have seen a rise in suicide attacks.",
"Extremist attacks during Ramadan are sometimes \"fueled by a belief that to carry out violence -- 'jihad,' a suicide bombing -- during a holy month such as this one will gain them more credibility with the Lord,\" said CNN Correspondent Arwa Damon in Baghdad.",
"Ramadan \"is meant to be a time to show one's devotion to God, a time of sacrifice,\" said CNN Correspondent Arwa Damon in Baghdad, \"Unfortunately, even though it is very much intended to be a time of peace ... it has proven over the last few years in places like here in Iraq to be a time of increased violence.\"",
"On Wednesday, more than 100 people were killed and more than 500 were wounded in a series of truck bombings in Baghdad.",
"It was the deadliest day since the United States pulled the United States's combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns nearly two months ago and left security in the hands of the Iraqis.",
"Watch report on bombings of Iraqi ministries » .",
"At least four people were killed and 76 were wounded Thursday in a string of bombings in Babil province, according to the Iraqi government.",
"It is not just Iraq where extremists see Ramadan as a time of opportunity.",
"Kuwait's state-run news agency reported earlier in August that security forces had arrested six Kuwaitis linked to al Qaeda who had planned to attack a U.S. military installation.",
"six Kuwaitis linked to al Qaeda who had planned to attack a U.S. military installation had planned to bomb Camp Arifjan in Kuwait during Ramadan, Kuwaiti security sources told CNN.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report."
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"Editor's note: Gloria Borger is a senior political analyst for CNN, appearing regularly on CNN's \"The Situation Room,\" \"Campbell Brown,\" \"AC360°\" and \"State of the Union With John King,\" as well as special event coverage.",
"Gloria Borger says we could be in for a month of venting sessions aimed at members of Congress.",
"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Ah, the summer.",
"Time for all those members of Congress to go home, meet with all those members of Congress's constituents, get all those members of Congress's input on health care reform and take back what all those members of Congress have learned from the voters.",
"Not exactly.",
"In some town hall meetings around the country, anger and fear are trumping any constructive argument -- at least so far.",
"Recently, for instance, Sen. Arlen Specter held a town hall meeting with Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary.",
"In attempting to answer questions, they were shouted down by folks more interested in venting than discussing.",
"On the conservative FreedomWorks Web site, the display was headlined \"Sen. Arlen Specter Gets Schooled.\"",
"Above the video of the event, the conservative FreedomWorks Web site says \"... this is a must watch and a must emulate at town halls across the country over the next month.\"",
"Really?",
"What about those folks who are actually interested in debating and discussing a very complex issue they're trying to digest?",
"There are some who may actually want to figure out the best way to solve the health care problem.",
"What ever happened to asking questions about the quality of care, the cost of insurance, the impact of any public plan on the health care system?",
"After all, this has been a turbulent economic time for the country, and another huge shock to the health care system is naturally worrisome.",
"Especially when it comes to an issue as complex as health care.",
"But it's not just the folks at these town halls who have learned how to heckle.",
"these town halls who have learned how to heckle's bad behavior is a derivative of the questionable quality of the political debate these town halls who have learned how to heckle listen to every day.",
"Indeed, if there's one thing we've gotten really good at over the years, it's this: reducing complicated problems to bite-sized slogans.",
"It seems to work, so we keep doing it.",
"Ipso facto, Obama's reform ideas become \"socialism\" to Obama's Republican critics.",
"And the administration is not above creating a handy bogeyman of the administration's own: the insurance companies.",
"At least according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who accuses them of \"full-force carpet-bombing and shock and awe against the public option.\"",
"Too bad they actually support the rest of reform, and are still running positive ads about the effort.",
"They weren't at the table at all 16 years ago when Hillary Clinton's effort at reform failed.",
"The world has changed since then, and the congressional plans for reforming health care have changed, too.",
"But the invective of the debate, sad to say, has not.",
"The effort on Capitol Hill has been serious.",
"I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but members of Congress are actually doing some real work.",
"Some policy differences may never get resolved because",
"Some policy differences are too ideological; others are regional, and that's tough, too.",
"But they're working at it, for hours on end, behind closed doors.",
"No cameras, no grandstanding.",
"One of those working the hardest, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, was derided at a town hall recently on the matter of Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa's own health insurance.",
"So here's the fellow who is spending every waking hour trying to get a bipartisan measure that can pass the Senate -- and be fair to Iowans -- and Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa goes home and gets an earful.",
"Maybe the discourse will become more productive as the summer progresses.",
"And maybe not.",
"But the health care dilemma remains, no matter how loud the discussion.",
"As John F. Kennedy told us, \"To govern is to choose.\"",
"Especially when the choices are not easy.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gloria Borger."
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"House passed a $3.55 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010 Thursday night, capping off weeks of acrimonious partisan debate and a long day of voting marked by the defeat of several alternative plans.",
"House passed a $3.55 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010 Thursday night.",
"The House version of the budget passed by a margin of 233-196 in a virtual party-line vote.",
"All but 20 House Democrats supported The House version of the budget; no House Republican voted in favor.",
"In London, England, where President Obama has been attending the Group of 20 summit, President Obama lauded the House vote.",
"\"Tonight, House took another step toward rebuilding our struggling economy,\" President Obama said in a statement.",
"\"And by making hard choices and challenging the old ways of doing business, we will cut in half the budget deficit we inherited within four years.",
"With the House vote comes an obligation to pursue our efforts to go through the budget line-by-line, searching for additional savings.",
"Like the families we serve, we must cut the things we don't need to invest in those we do.\"",
"Senate plans a vote on Senate's $3.53 trillion version of the budget later Thursday night.",
"a vote on its $3.53 trillion version of the budget later Thursday night, too, is expected to fall on party lines.",
"Moderate GOP Sens. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, who voted in favor of President Obama's stimulus bill last month, intend to vote against what is essentially the blueprint of President Obama's economic policies going forward.",
"The House budget largely tracks President Obama's initial proposed spending plan, with the exception of a decision to drop his $250 billion request for potential future bailouts of struggling financial institutions.",
"Watch more on President Obama's budget details » .",
"Fiscally conservative House Democrats, known as Blue Dogs, also negotiated with House Democratic leaders to cut $7 billion from the president's $540 billion request for nondefense discretionary spending.",
"Under the House Democrats' plan, the federal government will run an anticipated deficit of $1.2 trillion in the next fiscal year.",
"the House Democrats' plan promises to cut an anticipated deficit of $1.2 trillion by more than half by 2013.",
"House Democrats agreed to extend the middle class tax cut that was included in the recently passed economic stimulus plan, but failed to specify how the middle class tax cut that was included in the recently passed economic stimulus plan would be paid for after 2010.",
"the House Democrats' also included language that allows for the controversial procedure called \"budget reconciliation\" for health care, a tool that would limit debate on major policy legislation.",
"Senate Democrats did not include reconciliation in Senate Democrats's version of the budget.",
"The matter is guaranteed to be a major partisan sticking point when the two chambers meet to hammer out a final version of next year's spending plan.",
"If it passes, it would allow Senate to pass President Obama's proposed health-care reform without the threat of a Republican-led Senate filibuster.",
"Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, speaking for most of his GOP Senate colleagues, warned Tuesday that if a health-care \"reconciliation winds up in the budget bill, it'll be like a declaration of war.",
"I hope that that wedge doesn't get thrown in there.\"",
"Both the House and the Senate version of the budget allow former President George W. Bush's tax cuts for couples who make more than $250,000 to expire in 2010, and both plans let President Obama's signature tax cuts -- $400 for individuals and $800 for couples -- expire as well, unless the White House finds a way to pay for them.",
"Under the House plan, the cuts would expire in 2010; in the Senate plan, the cuts would expire in 2012.",
"Key differences between House and Senate include deficits and nonmilitary discretionary spending.",
"The House budget would reduce an anticipated deficit of $1.2 trillion from $1.7 trillion in 2009 to $598 billion in 2014, House Democrats said, while the Senate Democrats say Senate Democrats's plan would bring an anticipated deficit of $1.2 trillion down an additional $80 billion.",
"The House rejected an alternative proposal put forward by the GOP leadership, which called for $4.8 trillion less in overall spending over the next decade, in part through a five-year freeze in most non-defense discretionary spending.",
"\"House Republicans were united in the desire to find reasonable solutions for middle-class families, focused directly on creating jobs, tax relief and empowering small businesses to survive and grow,\" said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor.",
"\"The Republican budget was crafted to help those Americans worried about their jobs, their health care, their financial security, and their real fears that Washington is spending and borrowing money that America does not have.",
"Republicans offered a comprehensive budget that provides the American people with the ideas, energy and common-sense solutions they are looking for.\"",
"Among other things, the House GOP's version of the budget would have repealed the entire $787 billion economic stimulus package except for an extension of unemployment insurance benefits.",
"It also would have rolled back a recently passed 8 percent spending boost in the budget for the remainder of the current fiscal year.",
"Watch more on the GOP budget alternative » .",
"Thirty-eight Republicans voted against Thirty-eight Republicans's own leadership's bill in that vote, while two Democrats voted in favor of it.",
"The final vote was 293-137 against the GOP proposal.",
"Overall, the Republican version of the budget called for $3.6 trillion less in borrowing over the next 10 years.",
"CNN's Dana Bash and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report ."
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"Miami, Florida (CNN) --",
"Brewer wanted to sit outside for a while and enjoy the night air, then took a shower and curled up on the couch to watch a cartoon movie.",
"A boring night by many teenagers' standards.",
"But 15-year-old Michael Brewer, who suffered burns over 65 percent of Brewer's body in October -- allegedly at the hands of a group of youths Three teens -- Denver Jarvis and Matthew Bent, both 15, and Jesus Mendez, 16 -- knew -- reveled in it, Brewer's mother told reporters Wednesday.",
"Being out of a hospital burn unit, Valerie Brewer said, was \"the only thing Brewer wanted for Christmas.\"",
"\"Brewer's really looking forward to spending Christmas with Brewer's family,\" Valerie Brewer said of Valerie Brewer's son, who was released from the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center on Tuesday.",
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"Three teens -- Denver Jarvis and Matthew Bent, both 15, and Jesus Mendez, 16 -- are charged as adults with one count of attempted murder.",
"Each has pleaded not guilty.",
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"Brewer family did not return to Brewer family's Deerfield Beach, Florida, home, and does not plan to, Valerie Brewer said.",
"Instead, Brewer family went to \"a safe place\" -- both so Brewer family can have privacy and so Brewer can feel secure.",
"\"Brewer doesn't feel safe going back to the neighborhood,\" Valerie Brewer said.",
"\"The families of the boys live within five blocks of Brewer family.",
"Brewer does fear for Brewer's life going back there.",
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"Brewer family're looking forward to moving on and having some peace.\"",
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"Brewer, who suffered second- and third-degree burns over about two-thirds of Brewer's body, has \"a long road ahead of Brewer,\" Dr. Louis Pizano, associate director of the burn center, said Wednesday.",
"Brewer faces hours of physical therapy five days a week, Pizano said -- a painful process both because of the burns and because of muscle atrophy resulting from the recovery process.",
"Therapists are working to help Brewer walk more easily and regain a range of motion in Brewer's arms and legs, Pizano said.",
"Doctors are hopeful Brewer will not require any more skin grafts, he said.",
"Valerie Brewer told CNN in a later interview Wednesday that Valerie Brewer's son managed to shower \"all by Brewer\" Tuesday night.",
"Showers can be excruciating for Brewer, Valerie Brewer said, as it hurts when the soap and water hit Brewer's open wounds.",
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"\"Brewer really doesn't talk about it with me or with Brewer's father,\" Valerie Brewer said.",
"\"Brewer talks to the therapists about it because Brewer doesn't want to upset us.\"",
"Brewer takes medication to help with night terrors, Valerie Brewer told CNN, but \"Brewer wakes up every night with nightmares.\"",
"Valerie Brewer said Valerie Brewer sleeps about three or four hours a night, depending on how many times Valerie Brewer's son wakes up in pain or with a nightmare.",
"Detectives say eyewitnesses told Detectives that the boy used a lighter to set fire to Brewer after Jarvis poured alcohol over him.",
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"Brewer will be home-schooled for the rest of this year and possibly next to allow Brewer's recovery to progress, Valerie Brewer said.",
"\"Brewer never gave up on anything,\" Valerie Brewer said.",
"\"Brewer got a little depressed once in a while -- anybody would, going through this kind of situation -- but Brewer's will to live is just unbelievable, and to move on and live a happy, normal life.\"",
"Valerie Brewer told CNN, \"Brewer's such inspiration to Valerie Brewer.",
"Seeing Brewer go through this -- I know the rest of Brewer's life, Brewer's going to have challenges, but nothing is going to ever amount to what Brewer has gone through now, and what Brewer's going to go through for the next several months.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"The new seven wonders of the world were named Saturday following an online vote that generated server-crushing traffic in its final hours.",
"The Great Wall of China was among the top vote-getters of the \"New 7 Wonders of the world\" project.",
"The final tally produced this list of the world's top human-built wonders: . • The Great Wall of China . • Petra in Jordan . • Brazil's statue of Christ the Redeemer . • Peru's Machu Picchu . • Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid . •",
"The Colosseum in Rome .",
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"Before the vote ended Friday, organizers said more than 90 million votes had been cast for 21 sites.",
"Watch the contenders and controversy surrounding the 'new' seven wonders » .",
"Voting at the Web site, www.new7wonders.com, ended at 6 p.m. ET Friday.",
"Traffic was so heavy Friday that the Web site was crashing at times.",
"One message urged voters to use text messages as an alternative form of voting.",
"\"Keep on voting, as it is your votes that decide the New 7 Wonders of the world,\" One message said.",
"\"We have traffic that is simply off the scale,\" Tia Vering, spokeswoman for the \"New 7 Wonders of the world\" campaign, told CNN.com.",
"\"Things are just going ballistic.\"",
"The new wonders were announced at a star-studded event Saturday in Lisbon, Portugal, that featured performances by Jennifer Lopez and Chaka Khan.",
"a star-studded event Saturday in Lisbon, Portugal, that featured performances by Jennifer Lopez and Chaka Khan was hosted by Oscar winners Hilary Swank and Ben Kingsley as well as Bollywood star Bipasha Basu.",
"Send CNN.com photos and video of your favorite \"wonder\"",
"The top contenders for the seven wonders were last made public in early June.",
"The oldest candidate was Britain's Stonehenge; the newest was Australia's Sydney Opera House.",
"The U.S. Statue of Liberty also was among the choices.",
"Voting nearly doubled after the June results, when organizers said about 50 million votes had been cast.",
"A single user can cast multiple votes.",
"To be considered for the competition, all structures had to be built or discovered before 2000.",
"All are among top tourist attractions around the world.",
"Of the seven ancient wonders of the world, only one remains standing today, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.",
"Some nations have enthusiastically endorsed the new wonders campaign.",
"Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Jordan's Queen Rania actively promoted their countries' hopefuls.",
"But the new wonders campaign hasn't been universally recognized.",
"The United Nations' cultural organization, UNESCO, issued a statement saying it has \"no link whatsoever\" to the vote.",
"Egypt's top antiquities expert also objected to the list.",
"Egypt's top antiquities expert said Egypt's pyramids are a \"symbol of the genius of the ancient people\" -- and are above any sort of online poll.",
"As a result, the organizers struck up a compromise.",
"the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt have been assured honorary status, in addition to the new seven wonders.",
"The new wonders project was the brainchild of Swiss businessman Bernard Weber.",
"Swiss businessman Bernard Weber said Swiss businessman Bernard Weber wanted to invite the people of the world to take part in selecting the world's greatest wonders.",
"\"So that everybody can decide what the new seven wonders should be and not some government, not some individuals, not some institutions,\" Swiss businessman Bernard Weber said.",
"Vering said Vering believes the vote has accomplished that goal.",
"\"We've managed to bring culture out of the museum -- out of the dusty, dry academic corners -- and have people talk about it,\" Vering said.",
"\"That, we feel, is the greatest achievement of this campaign.\"",
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"(CNN) -- What do Elvis, Kim Kardashian, the Jonas Brothers, Dilbert and teen vampires have in common?",
"Calendars like this one featuring the movie \"Twilight\" are big sellers.",
"They are all subjects of hot calendars.",
"Be it pinned to the wall, tucked in a pocket or lounging on a desk, calendars have maintained popularity even as calendars face stiff competition from technology.",
"While just about every cell phone or PDA allows users to keep track of those ever important events and appointments, calendars still seem to hold an allure for users day by day.",
"\"We do not see technology-based calendars as the competition,\" said Robert Gilbreath, director of marketing for Calendars.com, one of the largest e-commerce sites for calendars on the Web.",
"\"They do not evoke memories of past occurrences, experiences, and pleasures.\"",
"A cell phone calendar also can't give fans the opportunity to gaze upon 12 images of fans's favorite celebrity or object of desire in the comfort of fans's own home or office.",
"Some of Calendars.com's most popular sellers include classic movie stars like Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne as well as today's hottest fan favorites like the cast of the movie \"Twilight.\"",
"Calendars featuring beautiful women who also happen to be celebrities are also always in demand such as those featuring \"Transformers\" actress Megan Fox, Hugh Hefner's former girlfriends, known as The Girls Next Door, and a perennial favorite -- the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Calendar.",
"If sales are any indication, print calendars are still holding print calendars's own.",
"\"We've seen double-digit annual growth in our e-commerce channel every year until the last one,\" said Paul Hoffman, chief operating officer of Calendar Holdings LLC, parent company of Calendars.com and Calendar Club retail stores.",
"\"We are very optimistic about the future growth online.\"",
"Calendars have a long history as a part of American culture.",
"Larry Krug, one of the founders of the Calendar Collectors Society, said calendars used to be must have collectors items when they were produced using the works of famous photographers and artists such as Norman Rockwell.",
"Calendars still have Calendars's enthusiasts, Krug said, especially among those who are able to tie in calendars to an already existing passion, such as collecting Coca-Cola memorabilia.",
"\"People collect different kinds of calendars,\" Krug said.",
"\"There are wall calendars, desk calendars, pocket calendars, towel calendars and calendar plates.",
"It's really a very broad and interesting area.\"",
"And while there are a multitude of calendars that can be found -- often in a kiosk at the mall where a savvy shopper knows the prices will drop after the first of the year -- there are some that start out as collectors' items even before collectors' are produced.",
"The Pirelli calendar, with The Pirelli calendar's limited availability and artistic nude photos of some of the world's most beautiful models, has become a sought-after item known for The Pirelli calendar's exclusivity.",
"Gruppo Campari, the makers of spirits, wines and soft drinks, also produces a limited-edition calendar every year which is not for sale and has featured various starlets including Eva Mendes, Jessica Alba and Salma Hayek.",
"Since 2000, the company has employed world-famous and emerging photographers to capture the images, which are designed to tell a story within the calendar.",
"Chiara Bressani, head of Gruppo Campari's Communication, said the calendars are marketing works of art.",
"\"The calendar is always trying to convey seduction and passion,\" Bressani said.",
"\"It's a creative way of showing what Campari is.\"",
"She said the women chosen to appear in the calendars are selected because the women convey the Campari values.",
"the calendars have become very popular in Europe and the United States, Bressani said, despite the fact --or maybe because -- they are not easy to obtain.",
"\"[The popularity] is growing every year,\" said Bressani, whose company has chosen Bond girl Olga Kurylenko to appear in the upcoming 2010 calendar.",
"\"You can enjoy the pictures on the Web, but it's a different feeling when you have the calendar in your hands.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad has named Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad acting head of the Pakistani Taliban, a close relative of Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad and local Taliban spokesmen in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas told CNN Wednesday.",
"Baitullah Mehsud, right, and a bodyguard arrive at a meeting in South Waziristan, Pakistan, in 2004.",
"Pakistani and U.S. officials believe that Taliban's leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in an August 5 drone attack in Waziristan.",
"Through his relative, however, Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad said that Baitullah Mehsud is alive but ill and temporarily unable to perform his duties.",
"Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad believes that Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad is in line to lead Taliban because Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad is a deputy of Baitullah Mehsud's, his relative said.",
"A year ago, Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad was falsely believed killed in a Pakistani airstrike, according to media reports at the time.",
"his relative also said that Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad appointed Haji Muslim Khan as Taliban's spokesman.",
"Khan is a former provincial Taliban spokesman in Swat.",
"Pakistani officials announced Tuesday that two top figures in Taliban had been arrested.",
"Saif Ullah is believed to have been Baitullah Mehsud's right-hand man, and Maulvi Umar is the well-known spokesman for Taliban.",
"Maulvi Umar recently declared that Baitullah Mehsud had not been killed in the drone strike on Baitullah Mehsud's father-in-law's house, but a senior Pakistani official said Maulvi Umar had admitted under questioning that Baitullah Mehsud was dead.",
"The top U.S. envoy to the region, Richard Holbrooke, said Taliban have not confirmed Baitullah Mehsud's death because of an ongoing power struggle over Baitullah Mehsud's successor.",
"Journalist Janummah Hashaimzada contributed to this report."
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"Parkersburg, West Virginia (CNN) --",
"At nearly $12.1 trillion, the public debt has reached a size that is incomprehensible to most people and as intangible as the '\"Big Bang\" or bipartisanship.",
"But it is real in West Virginia, where a small, nearly anonymous group of government accountants calculate the public debt to the penny each day, living a mathematic nightmare and number cruncher's dream.",
"At a large desk in Parkersburg, Jaime Saling watches over roughly 6,500 pieces of data and trillions of dollars each day.",
"Jaime Saling's title takes up a few characters itself: Saling is the debt accounting branch manager for the Bureau of Public Debt.",
"Jaime Saling and a division of just 15 people quietly and relentlessly work to account for every penny of the national debt.",
"It is tedious and potentially overwhelming work, but Jaime Saling acts as if Jaime Saling flies jet fighters.",
"\"I get very excited,\" the petite and energetic Jaime Saling says, \"They call me a nerd, several times; I think it's because I get very excited about all the work we do.\"",
"all the work we do happens in a simple one-story, brick building in Parkersburg, some 300 miles from Washington.",
"The public debt offices landed there thanks to heavyweight home-state Sen. Robert Byrd.",
"The public debt offices are tucked into a corner of town that's easy to miss.",
"A brown hill and train track sit on one side, parking lots for county offices on the other.",
"The locale is still a surprise to some.",
"\"Every now and then we get a comment, 'Where are you? Parkersburg?'\" Jaime Saling says.",
"The public debt building has become a number nerds' paradise.",
"Employees say Employees balance Employees's checkbooks at least weekly, some daily.",
"A big happy-face sign marks progress on a recent audit.",
"A written goal is taped to a Nerf-sized football.",
"And the security guards brag that someone brings in a cake about every other day.",
"Inside, Jaime Saling's office is pin-neat, but her computer screen is cramped.",
"A full-screen photo of Saling's 4- and 5-year-old children is covered by dozens of icons for spreadsheets and documents, so that glimpses of bright blonde hair poke out from under a field of white data squares.",
"\"I need to clean it out right now,\" Jaime Saling says with a shrug, then laughs.",
"Jaime Saling then calls up the brain of the debt-management system, a software program called PARS, or Public debt Accounting and Reporting System.",
"The acronym is a pun only an accountant would love.",
"\"Par value\" means \"stated value\" in the field.",
"PARS is a custom program, designed in the early '90s to check and double-check the constant buying and selling of U.S. debt.",
"Thanks in part to the debt software, what used to take 100 people a month to compute now is done by 15 people in a day.",
"Even so, the program looks like the program's from another time, with a black screen and neon-colored letters that recall computer monitors of the \"War Games\" era.",
"\"It is outdated,\" Saling says of the font.",
"But Jaime Saling insists the program still operates well.",
"Annual government reviews of PARS back that up.",
"And the division overall has a remarkable record of 13 straight years of unqualified audits, the accounting gold standard of accuracy.",
"That brings a massive smile to Saling's face; you see how someone so enthusiastic can be called a nerd.",
"\"Things like that make me very excited.\"",
"(Jaime Saling's favorite report, by the way, is the \"schedules of public debt\".)",
"Each day, to check the funds flowing in and out of the public debt, Saling types in five-digit codes into PARS and checks a slew of accounts.",
"Jaime Saling knows about 50 of those codes by heart.",
"In general, there is a scale to this work that would disrupt most minds.",
"\"Most people don't have a sense of it until Most people come here and see it,\" said accounting director Mike Linder, who is Saling's boss.",
"\"Most calculators don't handle what we do.\"",
"And almost no one sees the public debt as they do.",
"\"A lot of people, I don't think realize what the public debt's made of,\" Saling put forth.",
"\"In that $12 trillion you have both debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings.\"",
"In other words, the debt held by those outside the government and debt the government owes to the government, such as money borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund.",
"At the end of November, $7.7 trillion was debt held by the public and $4.4 trillion was intragovernmental holdings.",
"Saling sees a heartbeat in the numbers.",
"\"It's actually helping us operate government.\"",
"And never has government been larger.",
"But Saling and these accountants of the people are careful on that note.",
"\"It's not that we're saying this is the right thing to do,\" Jaime Saling states matter-of-factly.",
"\"A lot of times we're saying, 'If they pass this, how are we going to account for it?'",
"A lot of times that takes a lot of meetings.\"",
"Saling is right, in the age of deficits and debt, all of that literally keeps government operating.",
"Yet those trillions of dollars are overseen by a small division that works without contractors and is content with a software system that may look clunky, but which they insist works more than well.",
"There is an irony here.",
"These self-proclaimed nerds oversee the very symbol of big government but exude sobriety and restraint.",
"Saling and Jaime Saling's staff are nearly anonymous but deeply significant.",
"And they are more than happy that way."
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"The public debt building has become a number nerds' paradise ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A man described as a former employee shot and killed two people and seriously wounded another at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, construction company before workers wrestled him to the ground, sheriff's officials said.",
"Dianna Tullier, 44, of Walker, Louisiana, and Cheryl D. Boykin, 55, of Denham Springs, Louisiana were pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.",
"They were both clerical workers in the construction office.",
"The suspect, identified as Richard Matthews, 53, of Slaughter, Louisiana, parked outside Grady Crawford Construction Co. shortly before 2 p.m. and entered a building, where he shot a female dispatcher, said Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks.",
"Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks said Richard Matthews then went into a second company building and killed two people inside.",
"Richard Matthews left a second company building to reload Richard Matthews's weapon, Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks said.",
"He re-entered that building, shot at and missed a fourth person, Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks said.",
"Four people then wrestled Richard Matthews to the ground.",
"One of Four people, a foreman at the construction company, put his finger between Richard Matthews's finger and the trigger guard of Richard Matthews's gun, stopping the gunman from shooting, Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks said.",
"Four people held Richard Matthews down until police arrived.",
"Richard Matthews was transported to the sheriff's office in downtown Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks said, and was being questioned.",
"Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks said police are uncertain if Richard Matthews has prior arrests, mental health or substance abuse issues.",
"Richard Matthews will be booked on two counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks said.",
"As Richard Matthews was escorted in for questioning, in response to a reporter's question about the shooting, Richard Matthews replied numerous times: \"I couldn't get my unemployment, they wouldn't give me my unemployment.\"",
"CNN's Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report."
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"Official: Worker put finger between trigger guard of gun to stop suspect from shooting more .",
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Tony Marshall was a cold, calculating, \"morally depraved\" man who spent the last years of Tony Marshall's socialite and megaphilanthropist mother's life bilking her fortune to line Tony Marshall's pockets.",
"That's one way to see Tony Marshall -- and it's the only way, according to the prosecutors who secured a conviction against Tony Marshall for grand larceny and scheming to defraud Tony Marshall's mother, Brooke Astor.",
"Now as Tony Marshall prepares to be sentenced Monday for Tony Marshall's crimes, another portrait of Tony Marshall has emerged -- thanks to close friends and celebrity acquaintances (including Al Roker and Whoopi Goldberg) who sent letters to the court in hopes of saving Tony Marshall from a lengthy prison sentence.",
"Tony Marshall is apparently unrecognizable to many of Tony Marshall's friends and acquaintances.",
"Tony Marshall was a loyal, churchgoing man, a Purple Heart recipient wounded in Iwo Jima during World War II and a son who tried mightily but could never live up to the high ideals of Tony Marshall's socialite mother, according to letters friends submitted to the court.",
"And now, they say Tony Marshall is a frail and sickly man who has faced extreme humiliation and would essentially be given a death sentence if a judge hands down the maximum sentence allowed.",
"It will be up to Judge A. Kirke Bartley Jr. to decide how to reconcile the two portraits of Tony Marshall.",
"Tony Marshall faces a minimum one to three years, or as much as eight to 25 years in state prison.",
"The drastically differing views have only further heightened interest in the case, which during the trial stage was a tabloid feeding frenzy, fostering headlines such as \"Bad heir day,\" \"Mrs. Astor's disaster\" and \"DA's kick in Brooke Astor.\"",
"The witness list was a virtual \"Who's Who\" of New York's social elite -- including Henry Kissinger, Graydon Carter, Barbara Walters, Vartan Gregorian and Annette de la Renta.",
"During the case, prosecutors and witnesses portrayed Tony Marshall as an only son preying on his physically and mentally ill 101-year-old mother.",
"Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann called the case \"disturbing,\" and said the trial told the story of \"how a son, an only son, would stoop so low to steal from his own mother in the sunset years of Brooke Astor's life in order to line his own pockets and the pockets of his wife.\"",
"His only goal, they said, was to selfishly tap Brooke Astor's fortune -- money that prosecutors said Brooke Astor intended to donate to ordinary New Yorkers who needed help after Brooke Astor died.",
"He was convicted of the most serious charges against him -- first-degree grand larceny and scheming to defraud.",
"One of the most serious convictions involved Tony Marshall giving Tony Marshall a $1 million-a-year raise for handling Tony Marshall's mother's affairs, Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann said.",
"During trial testimony, Tony Marshall's lawyers called no character witnesses to come to Tony Marshall's defense.",
"So the new letters from friends are the first attempts by those who know Tony Marshall to share what they believe is Tony Marshall's true character.",
"Whoopi Goldberg told a judge in Whoopi Goldberg's letter that Whoopi Goldberg met Tony Marshall and Tony Marshall's wife, Charlene, 10 years ago when Whoopi Goldberg moved into a building on the Upper East Side with Frank Langella.",
"Unlike other residents who turned their nose up at Whoopi Goldberg, Whoopi Goldberg said Whoopi Goldberg became quick friends with the Marshalls.",
"Whoopi Goldberg's interactions with Tony Marshall, Whoopi Goldberg wrote, gave Whoopi Goldberg an insight into Tony Marshall's relationship with Tony Marshall's mother, and in turn taught Whoopi Goldberg about how fame can affect family dynamics.",
"\"I also understand what it must be like for my own daughter to be around my fame,\" she wrote.",
"\"I am not comparing Whoopi Goldberg to Mrs. Astor, but I've seen how you can be dismissed as not being good enough, or hip enough, and seeing it happen to Tony Marshall made me make sure that it didn't happen to my own daughter.\"",
"The humiliation and ugliness of the case was punishment enough and a prison sentence would be unjust, friends argued in the letters.",
"Tony Marshall's cardiologist, Kenneth W. Franklin, also wrote to urge the judge to consider Tony Marshall's age and health in sentencing.",
"A prison sentence \"will accelerate Tony Marshall's deterioration from cardiac and neurologic disease and would result in Tony Marshall's premature death due to medical complications,\" he wrote.",
"NBC's \"Today\" show weatherman Al Roker came to Tony Marshall's defense too, having met Tony Marshall at Tony Marshall's church 10 years ago.",
"Al Roker argued Tony Marshall had suffered enough, paying a price greater than any sentence a judge could hand down -- seeing Tony Marshall's son turn on Tony Marshall during the case and being portrayed in a negative light each day.",
"\"Given Tony Marshall's advanced age and deteriorating health, justice may be better served by turning a compassionate eye towards this good son, father and patriot and finding it in your heart not to add 'prisoner' to Tony Marshall's otherwise unblemished resume,\" Al Roker wrote in Al Roker's letter to the court.",
"Goldberg too, believed \"breaking Tony Marshall\" by putting Tony Marshall in prison, was not the right punishment.",
"\"Please don't put Tony Marshall in jail,\" Whoopi Goldberg writes at the end of Whoopi Goldberg's letter.",
"\"It would only amount to an unnecessary cruelty that would serve no real purpose.",
"Hasn't Tony Marshall been through enough?\"",
"CNN's Beth Karas and Jessica Ravitz contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"An anti-abortion activist charged with gunning down a Wichita, Kansas, doctor cannot use the \"necessity defense\" at trial, a judge ruled Tuesday.",
"Scott Roeder, 51, is set to stand trial January 11 on one count of first-degree murder in the death of Dr. George Tiller, who was shot to death at his church May 31.",
"Dr. George Tiller ran a women's clinic in which Dr. George Tiller performed abortions.",
"Tiller, 67, was one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortions.",
"Dr. George Tiller had already survived one attempt on Dr. George Tiller's life before Dr. George Tiller was slain.",
"Under a necessity defense, a defendant argues an action was justified because breaking the law was more advantageous to society than following the law.",
"Several anti-abortion activists facing criminal charges have attempted to use the defense but none has been successful.",
"In an Associated Press interview last month, Scott Roeder admitted killing Dr. George Tiller and said Scott Roeder plans to argue at this trial that the shooting was justified.",
"\"Because of the fact preborn children's lives were in imminent danger, this was the action I chose,\" Scott Roeder said.",
"I want to make sure that the focus is, of course, obviously on the preborn children and the necessity to defend them.\"",
"Scott Roeder's comments prompted prosecutors to file a motion asking Sedgwick County Judge Warren Wilbert to bar Scott Roeder's attorneys from using the defense.",
"Warren Wilbert noted that the Kansas Supreme Court, in a previous case regarding blocking entrance to an abortion clinic, ruled the defense cannot be used when the harm the defendant claims to be avoiding through the defendant's or her actions is a constitutional and legal activity, and the defendant broke the law.",
"That precedent, Warren Wilbert said, required Warren Wilbert to rule that the defense is not a viable defense in Kansas or in the Scott Roeder case.",
"Defense attorney Mark Rudy pointed out to Warren Wilbert that the defense team has not yet acknowledged what the defense team's tactic might be.",
"Scott Roeder, however, filed a 100-page motion on Scott Roeder's own behalf, Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston said Tuesday, on the defense, acknowledging the defense previously has been unsuccessful.",
"Prosecutors also asked Warren Wilbert to bar Roeder's attorneys from claiming Scott Roeder's alleged actions were justified because Scott Roeder used force in the defense of another -- the unborn.",
"Warren Wilbert said that would require further argument -- particularly an offering from defense attorneys regarding the evidence defense attorneys plan to present in support of that premise at trial.",
"\"I will leave the door open on the issues surrounding use of force in defense of another,\" Warren Wilbert said, adding Warren Wilbert does not mean it's \"wide open.\"",
"Under the law, such a defense can only be used if a defendant was preventing unlawful conduct.",
"Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston argued that Dr. George Tiller posed no threat that would justify Dr. George Tiller's shooting.",
"\"Dr. George Tiller was not an aggressor,\" she said.",
"Scott Roeder is also charged with two counts of aggravated assault for threatening two church members.",
"Dressed in a coat and tie, Scott Roeder conferred with Roeder's attorneys and listened intently to the arguments on Tuesday.",
"In a June interview with CNN's Ted Rowlands, Scott Roeder would not admit that Scott Roeder killed Tiller, but said that if Scott Roeder is convicted, \"the entire motive was the defense of the unborn.\"",
"Roeder's attorneys also argued Tuesday that the trial should be moved outside Wichita because extensive pretrial publicity in the case could have tainted the jury pool.",
"Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston, meanwhile, noted that Roeder, who has talked often to the media, brought some of that publicity on himself.",
"Warren Wilbert said 300 jury summonses have gone out in the case, and Warren Wilbert was optimistic that some impartial jurors could be found.",
"However, Warren Wilbert said Warren Wilbert would revisit the issue later if the court experienced difficulty in picking jurors.",
"Rudy also asked that Warren Wilbert prohibit prosecutors from excluding potential jurors because potential jurors have anti-abortion beliefs.",
"Warren Wilbert said Warren Wilbert was confident that some individuals who are anti-abortion would still be able to make an impartial decision, but suggested the issue be examined on a juror-by-juror basis if the court recognizes a pattern of exclusion during jury selection.",
"\"I can't make a pretrial ruling and just make a broad-brush approach,\" Warren Wilbert said."
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"Formula 1 will continue to take place in Britain for the next 17 years after a deal was struck between Silverstone's owners and the sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone.",
"Monday's announcement by the track's owners means the oldest venue on the F1 calendar keeps Formula 1's place.",
"Silverstone's comeback took place despite rival track Donington Park being awarded the contract to host the British Grand Prix from 2010.",
"However, that circuit lost out after failing to secure the $200 million needed to fund redevelopment plans.",
"That had led to fears the sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone would look to move the race abroad.",
"Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips told the Press Association: \"Silverstone've always had five-year deals and never been able to get the investment Silverstone needed to redevelop.",
"\"But 17 years gives Silverstone the ability to invest and move forward.",
"Silverstone've always had the belief the British Grand Prix was an important cornerstone of Formula One but, with Bernie, you're never quite sure.",
"Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips described the deal as \"peace in our time\" between the circuit's owners, the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC), and the sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone.",
"\"The relationship with Formula One Management has been improving,\" added Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips.",
"\"There's a good working relationship with him now and we don't have any issues.\"",
"Applauding the negotiating team, BRDC president and 1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill told the Press Association: \"It's not easy to enter into an agreement of this magnitude.",
"It's a big commitment.",
"\"But the BRDC felt the BRDC wanted this relationship to continue, and the BRDC were prepared to back the negotiating team, with the level of risk satisfactory for the deal to go ahead.",
"\"This announcement is tremendous news.",
"This announcement really does cement Silverstone as a motor sport venue and is incredibly satisfying for the BRDC to cement the BRDC's relationship with F1.\""
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"A man died after being gored in the neck during the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, Spain, the Navarra regional government said Friday on the Navarra regional government's Web site.",
"Runners take part in the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain on July 9.",
"The death would be the first in the running of the bulls since a 22-year-old American was gored to death in 1995.",
"The latest victim was a Spanish man, Daniel Jimeno Romero, age 27, from the Madrid area who was vacationing in Pamplona, Spain with",
"The latest victim's family, CNN partner station CNN+ reported from the hospital, where authorities identified The latest victim.",
"The latest victim was rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest and underwent surgery but died soon after, said the statement from the regional government, whose capital is Pamplona.",
"Watch man try to scramble away from bull » .",
"Amateur video footage showed The latest victim falling to the ground toward the end of race, just before the entrance to the bullring, and apparently being gored in the neck.",
"Three other runners were gored and suffered less serious injuries on Friday, and six others went to the hospital with bruises or other injuries, the Navarra government said.",
"Emergency workers and ambulances line the route to quickly attend those who fall.",
"Do you think this tradition should be banned?",
"The run in Pamplona, Spain started 400 years ago and became popular worldwide after author Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in the 1920s in author Ernest Hemingway's book \"The Sun Also Rises,\" also published under the title \"Fiesta.\"",
"The event is held July 7-14.",
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"Including the recent death, 14 people have been killed in the runs since 1924, when record-keeping began."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"A new witness in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann has told investigators A new witness in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann talked with a \"Victoria Beckham look-a-like\" who may have revealed clues about the girl's fate, a family spokesman said Thursday.",
"Sketch shows woman who may hold new clues to disappearance of Madeleine McCann.",
"Investigators would not release what was said in the conversation but the clues have led police to try to find The suspicious woman.",
"Madeleine McCann vanished from the family's holiday villa at the Portuguese beach resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007 as Madeleine McCann's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, dined in a nearby restaurant.",
"Madeleine McCann was 3 years old at the time.",
"The suspicious woman was seen outside a bar in Barcelona, Spain, by partygoers on May 7, 2007, and A new witness in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann had a conversation with The suspicious woman, said McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell.",
"Watch McCann spokesman describe new lead » .",
"Authorities released a sketch of the person, described as a woman who spoke with an Australian accent and who could also speak fluent Spanish.",
"Former detective inspector Dave Edgar, who was hired by the family, called A new witness in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann a significant movement in the case.",
"Edgar would not say why the witness waited so long to come forward, stating only it was personal reasons.",
"McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell described the woman they are looking for as similar in appearance to the former Spice Girl singer and wife of soccer star David Beckham.",
"The suspicious woman was described as in The suspicious woman's 30s and about 5 feet 2 inches tall.",
"Madeleine's parents have garnered international support in an effort to find Madeleine's parents's daughter, enlisting the aid of celebrities and even Pope Benedict XVI.",
"At one point, authorities in Portugal had named the girl's parents as suspects, along with a British man living in Portugal, Robert Murat.",
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"Dabashi is the author of \"Iran: A People Interrupted.\"",
"Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.",
"Dabashi's Web site is http://www.hamiddabashi.com/ .",
"Dabashi says it's wrong to view the conflict in Iran as a battle of the middle class vs. the poor.",
"(CNN)",
"In a short essay that Abbas Amanat, a scholar of 19th-century Iran at Yale University, was asked to write for The New York Times on the current crisis in Iran, he asserted that what we are witnessing is \"the rise of a new middle class whose demands stand in contrast to the radicalism of the incumbent President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and the core conservative values of the clerical elite, which no doubt has the backing of a religiously conservative sector of the population.\"",
"This learned position of a leading scholar very much sums up the common wisdom that Iranian expatriate academics are offering an excited public mesmerized by the massive demonstrations Iranian expatriate academics witness on Iranian expatriate academics's television sets or computer screens and eager to have someone make sense of them.",
"In part because of these hurried interpretations, the movement that is unfolding in front of our eyes is seen as basically a middle-class uprising against a retrograde theocracy that is banking on backward, conservative and uneducated masses who do not know any better.",
"While the illiterate and \"uncouth\" masses provide the populist basis of Ahmadinejad's support, the middle class is demanding an open-market civil society.",
"Highly educated, pro-Western and progressive Iranians are thus placed on Mir Hossein Moussavi's side, while backward villagers and urban poor are on Ahmadinejad's.",
"The fact that in North America and Western Europe, usually unveiled and fluently English-speaking women are brought to speak on behalf of the women demonstrators further intensifies the impression that if women are veiled or do not speak English fluently then women must be Ahmadinejad supporters.",
"This is a deeply false dichotomy that projects a flawed picture to the outside world.",
"It is predicated on the spin that a very limited pool of expatriate academics are putting on a movement that is quite extraordinary in Iranian political culture, one whose full dimensions have yet to be unpacked.",
"The fact is that given the structural limitations of a nascent democracy that is being crushed and buried in Iran under a particular interpretation of a Shiite juridical citadel, opposition to Ahmadinejad is fractured into the followers of three candidates with deeply divided economic programs and political positions.",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi is universally known as a hard-core socialist in Mir Hossein Moussavi's economic platform and a social reformist in Mir Hossein Moussavi's politics.",
"Mehdi Karrubi is far to Mir Hossein Moussavi's right in Mehdi Karrubi's economic neo-liberalism and social conservatism.",
"Mohsen Rezaie, meanwhile, is even more to the right of Mehdi Karrubi in Mohsen Rezaie's social conservatism but to his left in Mohsen Rezaie's economic platform.",
"What above all challenges the reading of this event as a middle-class revolt against \"uncouth radicalism\" is a crucial statistic that professor Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, one of the most reliable Iranian economists in the U.S., provides in the same set of responses that The New York Times solicited from experts.",
"\"Young people ages 15-29,\" Salehi-Isfahani reports, \"make up 35 percent of the population but account for 70 percent of the unemployed.\"",
"The overwhelming majority of the people pouring into streets of Tehran and other major cities in support of Mir Hossein Moussavi are precisely these 15- to 29-year-olds.",
"How could this uprising then be a middle-class uprising if the overwhelming majority of those who are supporting this uprising and putting those who are supporting it and putting their lives on the line's lives on the line are in fact jobless 15- to 29-year-olds who still live with their parents -- who cannot even afford to rent an apartment, let alone marry and raise a family and join the middle class in a principally oil-based economy that is not labor-intensive to begin with?",
"Another crucial statistic that Salehi-Isfahani does not cite is the fact that more than 63 percent of university entrants in Iran are women, but only 12 percent are part of the labor force.",
"That means that the remaining 51 percent are out of a job, and yet the most visible aspect of these anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrations is that women visibly outnumber men.",
"How could jobless men and women be participating in a massive middle-class uprising against jobless men and women's \"uncouth\" leaders?",
"If we were to look closely at Mir Hossein Moussavi's campaign commercials, Mir Hossein Moussavi's social and economic platforms since Mir Hossein Moussavi entered the race, and the presidential debates with all the other candidates, we see that a sizable component of Mir Hossein Moussavi's supporters are indeed university students, young faculty and the urban intellectual elite --such as filmmakers, artists and the literati.",
"But the fact is that a major constituency of Mir Hossein Moussavi is also the urban poor and particularly the war veterans who have no respect for Ahmadinejad, believing Ahmadinejad had an inglorious war record, but are full of unsurpassed admiration for Mir Hossein Moussavi because of Mir Hossein Moussavi's role as a fiercely dedicated prime minister during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988)",
"Conversely, there is a significant segment of the traditional middle class, the bazaaris, that is in fact the beneficiaries of Ahmadinejad's economic policies of governmentally subsidized commodities and services, and thus supports Ahmadinejad.",
"As for the \"uncouth\" among the Iranian peasantry, Eric Hooglund, a senior scholar of Iran with decades of experience in rural areas, has recently said that when he hears reports that Ahmadinejad's support base is rural, he is left quite baffled.",
"\"Is it possible that rural Iran,\" he asks pointedly, \"where less than 35 percent of the country's population lives, provided Ahmadinejad the 63 percent of the vote Ahmadinejad claims to have won?",
"That would contradict my own research in Iran's villages over the past 30 years, including just recently.\"",
"The fact is that we really don't know how this uprising is going to pan out, and yet we seem to be in too much of a rush to assimilate this uprising backward to inherited assumptions that may have lost their validity in face of this new reality.",
"I am convinced that we are witness to something quite extraordinary, perhaps even a social revolution that is overriding its economic roots.",
"Although there are many similarities, this is a much different event than the 1977-1979 Islamic Revolution.",
"I am not sure that this movement either sees this movement as a revolution or will actually transmute into one.",
"Given the brutality this movement faces, this movement has no choice but opt for a nonviolent civil disobedience route.",
"The age of ideological warfare is over in Iran.",
"If anything, this momentum is the closest event in Iran to the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the United States, and precisely like that movement, its economic dimensions are couched in social demands.",
"We need to adjust our lenses and languages in order to see better, and there is no better adjustment than just cautiously, hopefully and responsibly watching what is unfolding in front of us and reading it accordingly.",
"This movement is ahead of our inherited politics, floating ideologies or mismatched theories.",
"We need to sit back, hope for the best and let this inspirational movement of a whole new generation of hope teach us courage and humility.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Hamid Dabashi."
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"Dabashi: Mir Hossein Moussavi draws support from wider group than middle class .",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi says it's wrong to say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporters are poor, rural Iranians .",
"Dabashi says best parallel may be to the U.S. civil rights movement of 1960s ."
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"(CNN) --",
"When Barack Obama is sworn in as president January 20, there will be music -- by, among others, Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and the U.S. Marine Band.",
"There will be prayers and speeches -- including Barack Obama's inaugural address.",
"And for the fourth time in the nation's 56 inauguration ceremonies, there will be poetry -- by someone far less well-known.",
"Elizabeth Alexander says poetry can help solve problems by looking at problems from a fresh angle.",
"After the president's speech, Elizabeth Alexander will read a poem Elizabeth Alexander is writing for the occasion.",
"Elizabeth Alexander is a 46-year-old Yale University professor and a friend and former faculty colleague of Barack Obama's.",
"Elizabeth Alexander joins three other poets who have read at inaugural ceremonies -- Robert Frost in 1961 for John F. Kennedy's inauguration and Maya Angelou and Miller Williams, who read at Bill Clinton's 1993 and 1997 inaugurations.",
"Elizabeth Alexander has written five books of poetry, including \"American Sublime,\" a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005.",
"Elizabeth Alexander's father is Clifford Alexander, secretary of the Army in the Carter administration, and Elizabeth Alexander's mother teaches history at George Washington University.",
"Elizabeth Alexander's brother is an adviser to Barack Obama's transition team.",
"Elizabeth Alexander's view of poetry is captured in a few lines from \"American Sublime\" (Graywolf Press): .",
"Poetry is what you find / in the dirt in the corner, .",
"overhear on the bus, God / in the details, the only way . to get from here to there.",
"/ Poetry (and now my voice is rising) is not all love, love, love, / and I'm sorry the dog died.",
"Poetry (here I hear myself loudest) / is the human voice, .",
"and are we not of interest to each other?",
"Elizabeth Alexander spoke Friday to CNN.com.",
"CNN:",
"What do you think is the role of a poet in a ceremony like this ceremony?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"I think that the fact that Barack Obama has decided to have a poem in this ceremony is a wonderful affirmation to the power of language, the way in which poetry gives us distilled and mindful and careful language that can both give us a moment of pause, a moment of contemplation and that can also ... look at the world from a slightly different angle.",
"CNN:",
"You met Barack Obama when you were both teaching at the University of Chicago?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"In the community in Hyde Park, Barack Obama and Barack Obama were just people I'd heard about for a long time and heard wonderful things about, and he and Mrs. Obama were of a generation. ...",
"Barack Obama was in the law school, and I was in the Department of English so he and Mrs. Obama's day-to-day work didn't really cross so much. ...",
"[he and Mrs. Obama were in] the community of people who were at that time in he and Mrs. Obama's early 30s, thinking about the different ways that he and Mrs. Obama could contribute to improving things with whatever skills he and Mrs. Obama had -- political skills, intellectual skills, skills in the discipline of law, in literature, artistic skills.",
"That was the common ground, thinking about how he and Mrs. Obama could contribute to bettering he and Mrs. Obama's community.",
"CNN:",
"And you did it by writing?",
"Elizabeth Alexander: By writing and teaching.",
"I've been a professor for many years now, and I now teach in the African-American studies department and the English Department at Yale. ...",
"My teaching is incredibly important to Elizabeth Alexander ... helping people see that the study of African-American history and culture is fundamental to understanding this country that we live in.",
"It's been wonderful to be able to share those riches of the culture over the years.",
"CNN:",
"We have this historical moment, the 80th birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, the inauguration of the first African-American president.",
"How does that resonate with you?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"It's amazing, isn't it?",
"I just shake my head and say, \"Isn't that something?\"",
"The civil rights struggle in this country and in the world is not over because we have an African-American president.",
"At the same time, this must be recognized as a tremendous moment in our nation's history.",
"I can't tell you how many older people have said to Elizabeth Alexander, \"I never thought I'd live to see this day.\"",
"The fact that this country has -- with a multiracial coalition -- elected an extraordinary president who is African-American really does feel like just an exquisite moment for us to savor even as we recognize there's still a tremendous amount of work ahead of us.",
"CNN:",
"What's ahead of us?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"Oh my goodness, so much.",
"There are wars or conflicts in many different places, there are potentially incipient conflicts in different places, there's the tremendous challenge of the economy.",
"The larger metaphysical challenge is to think about how to work together in new ways that are, if not post-partisan -- because I don't think there's anything wrong with partisanship per se -- borne of new coalitions.",
"Within our communities large and small, making new coalitions and finding common ground is absolutely what we're going to have to do in order to make things better.",
"CNN:",
"Can poetry help in that regard?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"I do believe that it can.",
"The way in which poetry models precise and mindful language is useful, because after all if we can't be precise with language, how can we share ideas?",
"Also the felicity of art ... the way in which it makes you draw a breath and look at the world in a different way is very useful to the process of thinking through new solutions.",
"You can look straight in front of you and never get any yield to a problem, but if you can look around the back of it or step to the side of it, those are the ways that we experience some movement with calcified problems.",
"CNN:",
"So you're going to write a poem about health care?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"That would be fun.",
"Of course, this [poem for the inauguration] is an occasional poem, the inauguration has to serve the moment, the inauguration has to serve the day, right?",
"So those are the challenges of writing something that makes sense at this moment on this particular day.",
"But of course, what I hope to do, rather than the laundry list poem, is to find language that will hopefully have a little resonance after the day is done.",
"CNN:",
"Will you show the inauguration to anybody before you read the inauguration?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"I show the inauguration to my husband [artist Ficre Ghebreyesus] , and my husband [artist Ficre Ghebreyesus] is my first, last and best critic.",
"CNN:",
"You wrote an essay about Gwendolyn Brooks [the Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American poet] in which you said that \"the pressure on creative work can be intense for artists who belong to groups still struggling for artists who belong to groups still struggling for their fair shake in society's fair shake in society.\"",
"And then later on you said you've seen your work \"overpraised by narrow-minded white critics\" and \"criticized small-mindedly by more than one black woman elder poet -- the same poets I imagined would be pleased by it.\"",
"Your work is read very differently depending on who's reading Your work?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"I think what I was trying to say is that at the end of the day, demographics doesn't really tell you about how your work is going to be received.",
"... On the one hand, I have devoted much of my work to African-American culture.",
"That's my group, that's who I am, [I'm] proud and unambiguous about that -- but at the same time, one of the really great discoveries of a life in poetry has been that poetry is quirky.",
"It reaches people unexpectedly.",
"You really, really can't predict who is going to connect with various aspects of your work.",
"That's been a real gift to Elizabeth Alexander; it's made me try not to assume too much about who thinks what and who is able to gain something from work.",
"CNN:",
"You have two children?",
"Elizabeth Alexander: Two sons, 9 and 10.",
"CNN:",
"How do two children feel about the poem?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"two children are so excited, and that's of course a lovely thing.",
"And in the excitement, we still live in our every day, so mommy is still mommy, and all the mommy things are expected of Elizabeth Alexander, and that's the way I like it.",
"CNN:",
"What are your tastes in music?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"Jazz is the music that I know deepest and love the most, and I mean jazz across the board because that's an incredibly diverse art, and also I must say, R&B, funk and soul speak very powerfully to Elizabeth Alexander.",
"CNN:",
"Favorite artists?",
"Elizabeth Alexander: Thelonious Monk is quite a favorite artist.",
"Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane, and also the breadth and accomplishment over a career of Duke Ellington.",
"CNN: And Aretha Franklin?",
"Elizabeth Alexander:",
"Can you imagine?",
"I get to hear Aretha Franklin at close range.",
"Boy, that's going to be my gift for the year."
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"(CNN) --",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was once a student revolutionary himself, perhaps not much different from the thousands of protesters who this week have taken to the streets in Iran.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei became a political activist while a religious scholar studying under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini .",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei became a political activist while a religious scholar studying under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, among others, according to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's biography on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's official Web site.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was part of a circle of clerics who opposed the rule of the shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and was jailed by the shah's secret police, the Savak, at least six times in the 1960s and 1970s.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was tortured in prison before being exiled in 1976, three years before the revolution that deposed the shah.",
"Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was in exile in Paris, France, when the shah fled Iran in 1979.",
"Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini appointed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to represent Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on an Islamic Revolutionary Council, alongside other key figures such as Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.",
"The appointment may have been a career-making moment for Khamenei, who was a fairly low-level scholar at the time, said Iran analyst Shireen Hunter, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in Washington.",
"Learn more about Iran's recent history .",
"\"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not qualified to be an ayatollah,\" or top-ranking Islamic scholar, she said, saying Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had picked up the title by dint of succeeding Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as supreme leader, \"like an honorary doctorate.\"",
"Khamenei, now 70, was briefly minister of defense and head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the early 1980s before becoming president, a post Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held from 1982 to 1990.",
"In power, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei clashed ideologically with Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, favoring a more left-wing politics than Rafsanjani, who came from a more bourgeois background than the poor Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also locked horns with the man who was prime minister when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was president -- Mir Hossein Moussavi, now the most prominent opposition leader.",
"The two had similar anti-American, left-wing politics but struggled over power in what Hunter called \"the two-headed monster\" that was then the Iranian political structure.",
"\"There were turf battles between the president and the prime minister,\" Hunter said.",
"Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died in 1989, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was appointed the next supreme leader.",
"The post of prime minister was abolished.",
"Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani seems to have been a \"kingmaker\" in the elevation of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the top job, Hunter said, perhaps thinking Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani would be the power behind the throne.",
"But with time, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has become Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's own man, Hunter said.",
"Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was president in the 1990s, but lost a comeback attempt in 2005 -- defeated by current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"As supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the ultimate arbiter of policy in Iran.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appoints the Guardian Council, Iran's election authority.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also appoints key posts in the intelligence services and the armed forces, including the powerful Revolutionary Guard.",
"Additionally, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirms the president's election.",
"In theory, the supreme leader is appointed by a body of clerics whom voters elect.",
"But in practice, a body of clerics whom voters elect has answered to the supreme leader.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's authority has been challenged at times.",
"Nearly half the members of Iran's parliament criticized him openly in 2004 for ordering general elections to go ahead despite a widespread belief that they would not be free or fair.",
"general elections took place as scheduled.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supports Iran's controversial nuclear program, and when President Obama reached out directly to the people of Iran with a video message, it was Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who responded.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in March Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saw no change in U.S. policy toward Iran despite President Obama's promise of a \"new beginning.\"",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a change in rhetoric was not enough, and Washington must practice what it preaches, according to the English-language Press TV channel in Iran.",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed general elections as \"a miracle\" for the record turnout, but that very public enthusiasm for general elections may signal a shift that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei failed to anticipate.",
"\"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has now very much become Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's own man, but Iran has changed,\" Hunter said.",
"\"Look at the women's situation.",
"the women make a big deal out of saying how many women the women have educated.",
"That is true, but then you cannot expect the women to keep doing things the same way.\""
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"DIR VALLEY, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"The rugged beauty of the expansive Dir Valley can mask the detail of what is happening on the ground.",
"Pakistani soldiers look on from a mountain during a patrol in the troubled area of Maidan.",
"In June, the Pakistani military organized a media tour to areas of the Lower Dir in North West Frontier Province that were under the Pakistani military's control.",
"Town of Maidan had been at the center of fierce fighting between Pakistan's military forces and militants.",
"Tension was visible on the faces of those escorting us.",
"The IED (improvised explosive device) craters in the road and the bullet holes in our unarmed pickup trucks explained why.",
"The direct fighting had stopped some days before, after opposition forces were reported killed or they disappeared into the surrounding hills and among the population.",
"Under the watchful eye of government forces, anxious local residents were starting to return.",
"A Pakistani army spokesperson now tells us that all of those who fled Town of Maidan due to The direct fighting have returned home.",
"They have a lot of rebuilding to do.",
"Most of the structures we saw had some kind of damage to them from bullets or direct hits from artillery fire.",
"One person who will likely not be returning anytime soon is the pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad, who brokered a short-lived deal between the Taliban and the government that allowed the Taliban to enforce Sharia law in the Swat Valley.",
"But a short-lived deal between the Taliban and the government that allowed the Taliban to enforce Sharia law in the Swat Valley collapsed and the government set off this offensive.",
"Sufi Muhammad was arrested in Peshawar in late July, accused of encouraging violence.",
"Sufi Muhammad's ransacked house was the last stop on our tour."
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"(CNN) --",
"For almost a week, tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in daily protests -- handkerchiefs shielding tens of thousands of Iranians's faces from the pungency of tear gas, fists punching the air, and chants of \"Down with the dictator\" echoing against buildings.",
"Moussovi supporters rally Wednesday in Tehran, Iran.",
"Released by Fars News Agency of Iran.",
"The massive outpouring is a result of a disputed presidential election that Protesters think coronated the incumbent hard-liner, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over Protesters's candidate, Mir Hossain Moussavi.",
"Context can help put Protesters's grievances into perspective: .",
"Q. The Iran that we know today is the result of the Islamic Revolution.",
"What is it?",
"A. the Islamic Revolution is the name given to the Iranian revolution of 1979, when the ruling U.S.-supported monarchy was overthrown and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was forced into exile.",
"See timeline of recent Iranian history » .",
"Iran held a national referendum to become an Islamic republic and approve a new constitution.",
"a new constitution was a hybrid of democracy and unelected religious leadership.",
"a new constitution appointed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini -- the leader of the Islamic Revolution -- the supreme leader of Iran.",
"Before he died in 1989, he made it known that he wanted The supreme leader to succeed him.",
"Q.",
"Is it true that the ultimate power in Iran lies with The supreme leader?",
"A.",
"Yes.",
"The supreme leader has the final say in all important matters of Iran, such as ties with foreign nations or Iran's nuclear aspirations.",
"The supreme leader appoints the Guardian Council -- Iran's election authority.",
"The supreme leader also appoints key posts in the intelligence services and the armed forces, including the powerful Revolutionary Guard.",
"Additionally, The supreme leader confirms the president's election.",
"In theory, The supreme leader is appointed by a body of clerics whom voters elect.",
"But in practice, a body of clerics whom voters elect has answered to The supreme leader.",
"Khamenei, 70, was appointed supreme leader for life in 1989.",
"Q. What is the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority, saying the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority will recount some of the votes in the disputed election?",
"A.",
"the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority is the second-most influential body in Iran politics.",
"the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority consists of six theologians whom the supreme leader picks and six jurists nominated by the judiciary and approved by parliament.",
"the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority approves all candidates running for office in Iran, and verifies election results.",
"the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority vetoes bills passed by parliament if the parliament do not conform to the constitution and Islamic law.",
"In the present crisis, opposition leader Moussavi has had to take opposition leader Moussavi's grievance to the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority.",
"the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority has agreed to some vote recounts.",
"See galleries of protests in Iran » . Q.",
"So, how much power does the president wield?",
"A.",
"It depends on how nicely the president plays with the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority.",
"The president is elected by direct vote to a four-year term, for a maximum of two terms.",
"The president is responsible for economic policy and social programs, but most of the larger decisions are made by The supreme leader.",
"In theory, The president's powers are second to The supreme leader's.",
"But in practice, The president is often hamstrung by the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority.",
"the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority has worked with hard-liner Ahmadinejad, a 53-year-old former mayor of Tehran who was elected in 2005.",
"But the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority thwarted reform attempts by his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami.",
"Q.",
"What is the Revolutionary Guard, who said they will take legal action against pro-Moussavi Web sites?",
"A.",
"The guard was initially created to protect the leaders of the revolution.",
"But over the years, The guard has broadened The guard's scope.",
"Today, The guard is directly under the control of The supreme leader and enforces the governments' Islamic codes and morality .",
"With more than 200,000 members, The guard is tasked with overseeing the country's crucial interests, including guarding its oil fields and missile arsenals.",
"Q. What is the Basij, who are said to be behind most of the violence against opposition supporters?",
"A.",
"The Basij is a volunteer paramilitary force that takes orders from The guard.",
"It plays the role of de facto morality police and is often summoned to crack down on protests.",
"It is unknown how large the force is, though estimates are in the millions.",
"Q.",
"What evidence is there of ballot fraud?",
"A. There are no concrete examples of fraud, because independent monitors did not oversee polling in Iran, but the circumstantial evidence is persuasive.",
"Iran had initially said it would take three days to verify the ballots after Election Day on June 12.",
"But the election authority proclaimed Ahmadinejad the winner two hours after the polls closed.",
"At the same time, the interior ministry said that 85 percent of Iran's 46 million eligible voters had cast ballots -- a record turnout.",
"To many, so many ballots could not have been hand-counted in such a short time.",
"Also, the published results showed that opposition leader Moussavi won even in opposition leader Moussavi's opponents' strongholds, including opposition leader Moussavi's hometown of ethnic Azeri Turks.",
"\"This is the equivalent of Barack Obama losing the African-American vote to John McCain in 2008,\" said Karim Sajadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"Furthermore, opposition leader Moussavi went into the election with massive support from Iran's youth, who were unhappy with the faltering economy and an unemployment rate that tops 30 percent by some accounts.",
"The youth make up 60 percent of Iran's population of 70 million.",
"Q.",
"Is it true that opposition leader Moussavi still enjoys widespread support?",
"A.",
"Yes.",
"opposition leader Moussavi is popular across Iran's rural areas and among the Basij militia.",
"opposition leader Moussavi presents opposition leader Moussavi as a populist and a fighter.",
"opposition leader Moussavi has paid attention to the families of the bloody Iran-Iraq war, offering special preferences to veterans' children in university admissions.",
"As president, opposition leader Moussavi's hardline approach has won opposition leader Moussavi support among the Guardian Council.",
"opposition leader Moussavi has earned a reputation internationally as a fundamentalist for opposition leader Moussavi's Holocaust denials, calls to annihilate Israel, and cat-and-mouse games with the United States and the United Nations over Iran's nuclear activities.",
"Many in the establishment view opposition leader Moussavi as someone who does not cower to big-footing by the West.",
"Q.",
"Why, then, do some analysts think the vote was manipulated?",
"A.",
"Some experts say that even if it is likely that opposition leader Moussavi won the election, it is unlikely opposition leader Moussavi could have won by the margin Iran is claiming -- 62.63 percent of the vote.",
"Time magazine's Joe Klein explains it this way: \"It is entirely possible that opposition leader Moussavi would have won anyway, but narrowly, perhaps with less than 50 percent of the vote, setting up a runoff election opposition leader Moussavi might have lost as the other candidates united against opposition leader Moussavi.",
"It is possible that opposition leader Moussavi's government, perhaps acting in concert with supreme leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, decided to take no chances.\" Q.",
"Why is Iran's population so young?",
"A.",
"After the Islamic Revolution, the leaders encouraged early marriage and large families, rewarding families with cars and television sets for each additional child.",
"During the country's devastating eight-year war with Iraq, which began in 1980, Iran continued encouraging population growth, because more children meant more future soldiers.",
"It is those children who are now coming of age.",
"Q. Why did Iran summon Switzerland's ambassador to complain about perceived U.S. involvement in Iran's election process?",
"A. The United States cut diplomatic ties with Iran following the hostage crisis in 1979, when students in support of the Islamic Revolution took 52 Americans hostage and held them for 444 days.",
"Q.",
"Is this movement a challenge to the Islamic republic?",
"A.",
"The demonstrators say The demonstrators's demand is simple: Hold fresh elections.",
"The demonstrators say The demonstrators are not out to challenge the Islamic regime.",
"Watch protests Wednesday in Tehran » .",
"Furthermore, opposition leader Moussavi is an unlikely man for the job.",
"Though opposition leader Moussavi is credited for successfully navigating the Iranian economy as prime minister during the Iran-Iraq war, opposition leader Moussavi also was a hard-liner whom the Economist described as a \"firm radical.\"",
"opposition leader Moussavi, like most Iranians in power, does not believe in the existence of Israel.",
"opposition leader Moussavi defended the taking of the American hostages in 1979.",
"opposition leader Moussavi was part of a regime that regularly executed dissidents.",
"And as late as April, opposition leader Moussavi opposed suspending Iran's nuclear-enrichment program but said the country's nuclear-enrichment program would not be diverted to weapons use.",
"The protests have exposed a fissure in Iran, however, with tens of thousands of opposition leader Moussavi backers taking to the streets in a show of force of their own.",
"Q.",
"Are the current protests likely to continue?",
"A.",
"For now, Iran seems to be allowing the populace to vent pent-up frustrations.",
"But Iran also is gradually cracking down, such as blocking Web sites and banning international journalists from filming the rallies.",
"The demonstrations have so far been focused on urban areas.",
"Should the populace in rural areas take up the call for reform, Iran might step in quickly to quash The protests, analysts say.",
"See map of demonstration sites in Tehran » .",
"Q.",
"Is this the first time Iranians have risen up in mass protests against Iran?",
"A.",
"No.",
"Iran has twice seen public calls for reform in recent years: in 1999, after the closing of a reformist newspaper, and after parliamentary elections in 2000.",
"On both occasions, The guard descended on the streets after a few days and crushed the movements.",
"Q.",
"So, can true reform come to Iran?",
"A.",
"It is possible.",
"opposition leader Moussavi's predecessor, Khatami, was elected president in 1997 by a landslide, despite being a reformer.",
"During his two terms, he championed freedom of expression, tried to mend diplomatic relations, and supported a free market.",
"He was, however, hamstrung at every step by stiff resistance from the supreme leader and the Guardian Council -- the country's election authority.",
"This report includes information from various sources, including the U.S. State Department, the CIA Factbook, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, previous CNN reports and guest commentaries."
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"President Ahmadinejad is popular across Iran's rural areas, among Basij militia .",
"Protesters say not out to challenge the Islamic regime, just want fresh vote .",
"Iran previously saw protests, public calls for reform in 1999 and 2000 ."
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) --",
"A former Iranian presidential candidate is calling on one of the Islamic republic's most powerful clerics to approve a special committee to investigate alleged mistreatment of detainees arrested in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections.",
"Mehdi Karrubi says an \"impartial committee\" is needed to investigate alleged mistreatment of detainees.",
"In an open letter to Rafsanjani posted Saturday on Mehdi Karrubi's party's Web site, Mehdi Karrubi says an \"impartial committee\" is needed to \"investigate these tragedies with transparency until these tragedies are resolved.\"",
"Mehdi Karrubi said Mehdi Karrubi is willing to lead the investigation in a \"truthful, unbiased fashion.\"",
"The letter is dated July 29 and was posted on Mehdi Karrubi's Eetemade-Melli (National Trust) party's Web site, called Saham News.",
"The Web site said The letter was posted after Rafsanjani failed to respond.",
"The treatment of detainees at Iran's prisons has increasingly become a high profile issue, with human-rights groups accusing guards of conducting harsh interrogations, beatings, sleep deprivation, and threats of torture to coerce false confessions.",
"Iranian media reported that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, 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.",
"A special parliamentary committee has made rounds at Tehran's Evin prison, but did not find any signs of abuse, according to recent media reports.",
"Hundreds of detainees have since been reportedly released from Evin, though \"political figures\" were held and put on trial.",
"In his plea for an investigation, Mehdi Karrubi says Mehdi Karrubi has heard descriptions of torture and violence that make Mehdi Karrubi's \"body shake,\" though Mehdi Karrubi doesn't specify a prison.",
"\"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 their reproductive systems,\" Mehdi Karrubi says in the letter.",
"\"Others have raped our detained young men with such brutality that our detained young men [the victims] have been afflicted by depression and are no longer speaking with anyone and refuse to leave the dark corners of their houses.\"",
"Mehdi Karrubi adds that an investigation will \"teach a lesson to the thugs and criminals in the future and prevent the smearing of the reputation of the Islamic Republic.\"",
"Rafsanjani -- a former president and head of the Assembly of Experts, the council responsible for appointing or removing the supreme leader -- called for the release of the former detainees during a highly anticipated July 17 sermon at Friday prayers.",
"Rafsanjani backed Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi in the presidential election, in which hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the overwhelming winner.",
"Karrubi and Moussavi unsuccessfully challenged the results for weeks, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for his second term last week.",
"Rafsanjani has been accused of helping fuel the post-election unrest as part of recent mass trials of the former detainees over the past week."
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"Mehdi Karrubi said Mehdi Karrubi is willing to lead the investigation in a \"truthful, unbiased fashion\"",
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"Mehdi Karrubi was one of the candidates in June's disputed presidential election ."
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"Editor's note: Feehery worked as a staffer for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans in Congress.",
"Feehery is president of Feehery Group, a Washington-based advocacy firm that has represented clients including the News Corp., Ford Motor Co. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.",
"Feehery formerly was a government relations executive vice president for the Motion Picture Association of America.",
"Feehery says Al Franken's victory gives liberal Democrats a dominant position in Washington .",
"(CNN)",
"-- The metric system is the kind of thing that you can expect from the 60-vote filibuster-proof majority Democrats now have in the United States Senate.",
"After the Watergate scandal in 1974, Democrats trounced Republicans in the mid-term elections, getting 61 seats in the United States Senate and 291 in the House.",
"In the United States Senate, Democrats adjusted the rules to make it harder for Republicans to filibuster (reducing the magic number from 67 to 60 to invoke cloture, which ends debate).",
"In the House, Democrats passed all kinds of reforms to take power away from senior members and give it to junior members.",
"And Congress mandated that the American people embrace The metric system.",
"The metric system idea never really caught on, and although the pain of Watergate afflicted Republicans for another two elections, Republicans eventually pulled Republicans out of Republicans's deep hole, with some good ideas and a charismatic leader, who promised to restore America to greatness.",
"Democrats have once again reached the magic number of 60, as Norm Coleman finally threw in the towel against the one-time joke writer for Saturday Night Live, Al Franken.",
"Republicans have little reason to laugh, though, as Republicans look at Republicans's diminished ranks and wonder how Republicans have put Republicans in such a weakened position.",
"It was only four-and-a-half years ago that the GOP was on the top of the world, and some of their more smug strategists were confidently predicting a permanent Republican majority.",
"This is a good time for such self-reflection.",
"Republicans lost three top-notch senators in the last election -- Norm Coleman, Gordon Smith and John Sununu -- who lost not because they were bad senators, or because they had scandals, or because they had lost touch with constituents.",
"All three lost because they were Republicans.",
"In other words, the brand killed them.",
"And if you look at the latest polls, the the GOP brand hasn't gotten any better in the last six months.",
"In fact, according to Gallup, even 38 percent of Republicans have a negative view of the Republican Party.",
"But let's not throw in the towel yet, my Republican friends.",
"Just as in the mid-1970s, when Democratic overreach led to a Republican resurgence, the House will inevitably collapse on the House's own leftward-self.",
"A new Gallup poll shows that the American people are starting to catch on that Democrats are pushing the country to a place that it doesn't want to go.",
"A new Gallup poll \"finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe the Democratic Party's views as being \"too liberal,\" from 39 percent to 46 percent.",
"This is the largest percentage saying so since November 1994, after the Democratic Party's's losses in that year's midterm elections.\"",
"It is no surprise that Americans would have that impression of Democrats in the White House and in Congress.",
"When they passed a so-called stimulus bill that Republicans branded as pork-filled, they lost their credibility on fiscal responsibility.",
"When the president assumed control over General Motors, dictated terms to Chrysler, and then refused to allow some banks to pay back some banks's TARP loans, independent voters grew nervous about the government's stepped-up intervention in the private sector.",
"And last week, when Democrats passed a climate change bill that Republicans insist will sharply raise energy prices for middle-class families, moderate Democrats started to jump ship.",
"In fact, 44 Democrats defied intense pressure from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and voted no.",
"Democrats are now making plans to intervene in the health care marketplace, with some liberals insisting on a government-run \"public option\" health insurer.",
"In any event, many won't be satisfied until the government basically sets prices for health insurance and prescription drugs.",
"The arrival of the man from Minnesota will make the Democrats move even more to the left.",
"the man from Minnesota will not only be one more vote for the left, but one more loud voice for liberal policies.",
"Because of the man from Minnesota's celebrity status, the man from Minnesota will attract media attention, and because of the man from Minnesota's philosophy, the man from Minnesota will use media attention to move Democrats further left.",
"When the man from Minnesota first started in politics, the man from Minnesota did so as the liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh.",
"Imagine if Rush were the 60th vote for Republicans, with George Bush as president.",
"Now, think how the man from Minnesota will act as the 60th vote for President Obama.",
"Yes, Democrats will move left by more than a few kilometers, but Democrats will do so at Democrats's own peril.",
"Another poll showed that while 40 percent of Americans identify themselves as conservative, only 21 percent think of themselves as liberal.",
"The American people voted for change.",
"The American people didn't vote for a liberal orthodoxy that promises more government, higher taxes, slower growth, more pork and a liberal social agenda.",
"In 1975, the newly dominant Democratic Congress sent President Gerald Ford a bill that declared that the government was going to be metric, which President Gerald Ford signed.",
"When Jimmy Carter became president two years later, Jimmy Carter signed a law that told Americans that Americans couldn't drive faster than 55 mph.",
"These measures made perfect sense to the liberal sensibilities of the time.",
"But they didn't make sense to The American people, and are symbols of a philosophy that was out of touch with the people in the 1970s and is still out of touch with the lives of most Americans today.",
"Most Americans still don't use the metric system, and most certainly don't stick to the 55 mile an hour speed limit on the highways of the government.",
"And while Most Americans may still like Barack Obama and still laugh at jokes written by Al Franken, Most Americans will eventually grow weary of the newly dominant liberals who now run Washington.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Feehery."
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"He says liberal control in 1970s led to bill to convert U.S. to metric system .",
"Feehery says Democrats are overreaching and will lose public's support .",
"Feehery says voters wanted change but not bigger government ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Officials warned Wednesday that the bridge linking the California cities of San Francisco and Oakland will likely remain closed Thursday morning, promising more delays for Bay Area commuters.",
"That work is intended to dampen vibration on the structure.",
"Vibration may have played a role in causing pieces of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to fall Tuesday night from the span onto the roadway, resulting in San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's closure.",
"San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge spans the San Francisco Bay and carries an average 280,000 vehicles daily, according to the state's Transportation Department.",
"\"Right now, we do not have a time when San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will potentially open,\" said Bart Ney, a spokesman for the state's Transportation Department.",
"\"The work has to be completed first.\"",
"Once the new steel is in place and the rods have been made tense, at least three hours of testing will be carried out before San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will reopen to vehicular traffic, Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said, refusing to speculate on when that might occur.",
"\"The first thing that I would say to motorists is that you need to be at this point planning other routes over the next day or so,\" Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said.",
"The Federal Highway Administration and the Seismic Peer Review Board are scrutinizing the repair plans, Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said.",
"Wednesday's commute was a horror show for many.",
"\"My wife actually drives over to the peninsula; My wife says it's taken My wife two hours to get to work so far and My wife's not there yet,\" commuter Seth Carp told CNN affiliate KTVU as Seth Carp prepared to board a Bay Area Rapid Transit train.",
"\"I tried to take the Golden Gate Bridge,\" said a woman who identified herself only as Yemi.",
"\"It was a big mistake.\"",
"She gave up and wound up taking BART.",
"\"It was back-to-back bumper, there were rows of cars everywhere,\" said Christina Chou, who lives in Foster City near the San Mateo Bridge, which served as an alternate route for many.",
"\"It was just horrible.\"",
"Ridership increased on ferries, too, with some people finding a silver lining to the snafu.",
"\"I have been looking for an opportunity to go across the bay in the ferry,\" said Jack Pierce of Oakland.",
"\"I'm sorry the cable parted, but I am glad to get an opportunity to go across the bay in the ferry.\"",
"Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said wind gusts of up to 50 mph slowed repair efforts on Tuesday, but the winds had diminished by Wednesday evening.",
"Winds increased vibration by the rods that were fatigued and ultimately failed, Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said.",
"\"It was a contributing factor, but not necessarily the only factor, and we are analyzing what the factors are right now,\" Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said.",
"Travelers flocked to BART, which ran longer trains and extra trains.",
"The rail line was on track to exceed The rail line's peak ridership of 405,000 in a single day, said The rail line spokesman Linton Johnson.",
"Were you there?",
"Send photos and video .",
"\"The rail line have called in extra personnel to help The rail line make sure The rail line operate with every available train car The rail line have in order to provide as much capacity as possible,\" said The rail line's assistant general manager of operations, Paul Oversier.",
"Amtrak was running a shuttle between the San Francisco and Martinez stations for Coast Starlight and California Zephyr passengers.",
"The pieces that fell -- a cross beam and tie rods -- came from the same section that was repaired in September over Labor Day weekend, when crews worked almost around the clock to fix a crack in the span.",
"A 50-foot section of the bridge collapsed in 1989 during the Loma Prieta earthquake, killing one person and prompting efforts to make it quake-tolerant.",
"San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is slated to be replaced in 2013, said Patrick Siegman, a transportation planner at Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates, a national transportation planning firm based in San Francisco.",
"San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is \"really showing San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's age,\" Patrick Siegman, a transportation planner at Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates, a national transportation planning firm based in San Francisco said.",
"\"It's kind of a race against time to finish the new bridge before the next quake hits.\""
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"Travelers flock to public transit, including trains and ferries .",
"Repairs aim to stop vibration, which may have caused the problem ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Karzai said Sunday the United States and the United States's allies must have patience if Karzai's country is not ready to assume control of Afghanistan's own security by July 2011, when U.S. troops would begin leaving under President Obama's plan.",
"Karzai spoke to CNN's \"Amanpour\" program in Karzai's first television interview since President Obama's announcement last week that he will deploy an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.",
"President Obama also said the U.S. forces would begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011.",
"The date was not \"an exit announcement,\" but instead a goal for Afghan forces to be able to start assuming security control from U.S.-led allied forces, Karzai said in the interview.",
"\"We will try our best as the Afghan people to do it the soonest possible,\" Karzai said.",
"\"But the international community must have also the patience with us and the realization of the realities in Afghanistan.",
"If it takes longer, then they must be with us.\"",
"Karzai also offered Karzai's own timeline goal, saying Afghanistan wants to be able to assume security control in some parts of Afghanistan in two years, and to lead security for Afghanistan by the end of Karzai's five-year term, which just started after Karzai's recent re-election.",
"\"We as Afghans will try our very best to reach that goal, and we hope our allies will back us to reach that goal,\" Karzai said.",
"Later Sunday, President Obama's national security adviser, retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones, told CNN's \"State of the Union\" that the July 2011 date was \"not a cliff\" for U.S. withdrawal, but instead the start of a gradual slope for turning over security responsibility to Afghanistan.",
"President Obama \"has also said that President Obama're not leaving Afghanistan,\" Jones noted, adding: \"President Obama are here to make sure that Afghanistan succeeds.\"",
"To prepare Afghanistan, Karzai said, Karzai would do all Karzai can to root out corruption and improve governance.",
"Karzai has fired corrupt officials already, Karzai said, adding Karzai is prepared to act against anyone proven to be breaking the law.",
"However, Karzai warned against other nations using the corruption as a political tool in making decisions about Afghanistan.",
"And Karzai said the United States and the United States's allies also must halt practices that contribute to corruption from outside Afghanistan or create what Karzai called \"parallel\" governance issues.",
"The main objective for Afghanistan and Afghanistan's allies is to defeat terrorism and return peace to the nation, neighboring Pakistan and the region, Karzai said.",
"That means training Afghan security forces, rebuilding the economy and other nation-building efforts, Karzai said.",
"\"I have fired people and I will be firing people,\" Karzai said.",
"Karzai seemed to laugh when Karzai was played a video clip of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs saying the United States would bypass corrupt government officials if necessary.",
"\"Afghanistan is a sovereign country, Afghanistan has a sovereign government, Afghanistan's not an occupied country,\" Karzai said, adding that a foreign power can't undermine or go around a sovereign government to deal with whomever it chooses.",
"Top priorities on a \"long list\" of reforms include improving the rule of law, improving the judiciary, reducing bureaucracy that forces people to visit dozens of offices to get licenses, and other steps to make a sovereign government more transparent and simpler, Karzai said.",
"However, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in interviews broadcast Sunday that Karzai still must prove Karzai means what he says.",
"\"The proof is in the pudding,\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on the ABC program \"This Week.\"",
"\"We're going to have to wait to see how it unfolds.\"",
"U.S. assistance will be \"based on a certification of accountability and transparency,\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on the CBS program \"Face the Nation,\" adding that \"certain ministries ... American money will not be going to.\"",
"In his CNN interview, Karzai said Karzai's government would welcome Taliban supporters who had no ties to al Qaeda or other terrorist networks, renounced violence and pledged to support the constitution.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told ABC's \"This Week\" that such reintegration might be possible with lower-level Taliban members, but not the hard-core leadership.",
"\"We have no firm information whether any of those leaders would be at all interested in following that kind of a path,\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.",
"\"In fact, I'm highly skeptical that any of those leaders would.\"",
"Eradicating terrorist networks and helping Karzai's government defeat the Taliban insurgency are main goals of the U.S.-led mission.",
"Approximately 1,000 U.S. Marines are expected to deploy this month as the first wave of the new deployment, military officials say.",
"The Army may not deploy the first soldiers until at least March.",
"Testifying before a congressional committee last week, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a \"significant\" number of troops will arrive in the spring and summer, with the final troops moving to Afghanistan by late summer or early fall.",
"Meanwhile, the White House said Obama would meet with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, on Monday.",
"Both are expected to testify before Congress this week.",
"Clinton and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday that Britain, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and non-NATO member Georgia are among at least 25 countries offering to send a total of 7,000 additional troops.",
"At present, there are 68,000 U.S. troops operating under both NATO and U.S. commands in Afghanistan, and around 42,000 non-U.S. forces under NATO."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"A Georgia man who spent a year in jail for nonpayment of child support -- despite the fact Frank Hatley has no children -- has been cleared of his debt, Frank Hatley's attorney said Tuesday.",
"Frank Hatley was ordered to make back payments even after Frank Hatley learned a teenager wasn't a son's son.",
"Frank Hatley, 50, spent 13 months in jail for being a deadbeat dad before Frank Hatley's release last month.",
"A judge ordered Frank Hatley jailed in June 2008 for failing to support a son's \"son\" -- a child who DNA tests proved was not fathered by Frank Hatley.",
"Last week, Cook County Superior Court Judge Dane Perkins signed an order stating, \"defendant is no longer responsible for paying any amount of child support.\"",
"an order stating permits the state's Office of Child Support Services to close the state's Office of Child Support Services's file on Frank Hatley.",
"\"We're satisfied with the result for Frank Hatley, but still troubled by the state's monumental lapse of judgment in this case,\" attorney Sarah Geraghty with the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights told CNN in a written statement.",
"Frank Hatley did not immediately return a call from CNN Tuesday.",
"Frank Hatley's story dates back to 1986, when Frank Hatley had a relationship with Essie Lee Morrison, who gave birth to a son.",
"According to court documents, Morrison told Frank Hatley a son was Frank Hatley's, but the two ended their relationship shortly after a son was born.",
"The couple never married and never lived together, court documents said.",
"When a son turned 2, Morrison applied for public support for a son.",
"Under Georgia law, the state, can recoup the cost of the assistance from a child's non-custodial parent.",
"For 13 years, Frank Hatley made payments to the state until learning in 2000 that the boy might not be his.",
"A DNA test that year confirmed a son was not fathered by Frank Hatley, court documents said.",
"Frank Hatley returned to court and was relieved of any future child support payments, but was ordered to pay more than $16,000 Frank Hatley owed the state before the ruling.",
"Since 2000, Frank Hatley paid that debt down to about $10,000, Geraghty said.",
"Court documents showed Frank Hatley was jailed for six months in 2006 for falling behind on payments during a period of unemployment, but afterward Frank Hatley resumed making payments, continuing to do so even after Frank Hatley lost another job and became homeless in 2008.",
"But last year Frank Hatley became unable to make the payments and was jailed.",
"The argument for keeping Frank Hatley liable for the payments, according to the attorney who represented Frank Hatley in 2000, was that Frank Hatley signed a consent agreement with the state's Office of Child Support Services.",
"The court agreed that Frank Hatley had to comply with the consent agreement for the period Frank Hatley believed a son was Frank Hatley's son, said attorney Latesha Bradley.",
"But many, including Cook County Sheriff Johnny Daughtrey, didn't think Hatley's incarceration was fair, given that a son was not Frank Hatley's.",
"\"I knew Frank Hatley's plight and didn't know how to help Frank Hatley,\" Cook County Sheriff Johnny Daughtrey told CNN last month.",
"When the Southern Center for Human Rights visited the jail earlier this year, Cook County Sheriff Johnny Daughtrey told them about Hatley's case.",
"Frank Hatley was released from jail last month after Perkins ruled he was indigent and should not be jailed for failing to make the payments.",
"The Georgia Department of Human Services, which includes the state's Office of Child Support Services, plans to propose legislation in the next session of the state Legislature that would prevent similar situations in the future, said agency spokeswoman Dena Smith.",
"Two things still remain to be cleared up for Frank Hatley, Geraghty said -- lifting the child-support holds on Frank Hatley's driver's license and Frank Hatley's income tax.",
"It remains unclear whether Frank Hatley will be reimbursed for the $6,000 in payments Frank Hatley made since 2000, she said -- so far, Frank Hatley has not been.",
"Cook County, Georgia, is in the south-central part of the state, about 200 miles south of Atlanta."
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"COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) --",
"South Carolina Republican Party Chairwoman Karen Floyd seemed to suggest Wednesday that the time had come for GOP Gov. Mark Sanford to consider resigning from office.",
"Sanford has said it's better for Sanford to keep Sanford's governorship to \"learn lessons.\"",
"\"For the past two days, I have been speaking with Republican leaders across South Carolina,\" she said in a statement.",
"\"There is clearly a growing view that the time may have come for Sanford to remove Sanford and Sanford's family from the limelight, so that Sanford can devote Sanford's efforts full-time to repairing the damage in Sanford's personal life.\"",
"a statement comes on the same day as a growing number of GOP state senators called for Sanford to step down.",
"CNN has learned that GOP Sens. Daniel Verdin, Shane Martin, Ronnie Cromer and Wes Hayes joined the anti-Sanford chorus Wednesday morning, bringing the total number of Republican senators calling for Sanford's resignation to 13.",
"There are 27 Republicans in the state Senate.",
"Another state senator stopped just short of calling for Sanford to step down Wednesday.",
"Glenn McConnell, the state Senate president pro tempore, didn't explicitly ask Sanford to resign, but he did ask Sanford \"to do the right thing for Sanford, Sanford's family and our state.\"",
"Sanford and Sanford's staff have said repeatedly this week that Sanford will not resign.",
"Sanford wrote in a message to Sanford's political action committee e-mail list Monday that while Sanford considered resigning, \"I would ultimately be a better person and of more service in whatever doors God opened next in life if I stuck around to learn lessons rather than running and hiding down at the farm.\"",
"After returning last week from a secret trip to Argentina that Sanford's staff and wife didn't know about, Sanford admitted to an extramarital affair with a woman identified as Maria Belen Chapur.",
"Sanford also told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Sanford's \"crossed lines\" with other women, although Chapur was the only one Sanford had sex with.",
"Watch a report on Sanford's situation » .",
"Sanford's support among legislators and grassroots leaders in the state eroded considerably Tuesday after Sanford told The Associated Press Sanford had met with Sanford's mistress more times than Sanford had previously disclosed.",
"Sanford also admitted to dalliances with other women.",
"At least four county GOP chairmen have also called for Sanford to go.",
"Glenn McCall, the York County Republican Party chairman who has been leading a grassroots effort against Sanford, said Tuesday that the governor and other conservative activists are postponing a rally at the State House next week because legislators are starting to come out strongly against Sanford.",
"a rally at the State House had been scheduled to pressure Senate and House leaders to call for Sanford's resignation and start an investigation into Sanford's activities.",
"But now that officials are publicly coming out against the governor and Attorney General Henry McMaster has begun investigating Sanford's travel records, the governor said a rally at the State House may not be necessary.",
"\"We are hoping that legislators can quietly, in private talks with Sanford, ask Sanford if Sanford would please step down,\" the governor said.",
"A top South Carolina Democrat also called for the governor's resignation Tuesday.",
"\"While I believe an investigation should still be done to determine the full extent of Sanford's abuse of power, [through] Sanford's long stream of confessions Sanford has already revealed enough immoral and reprehensible behavior to justify asking Sanford to step [down],\" state Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler said in a statement.",
"\"State officials seem unable to do anything except worry and talk about Sanford's extramarital affair, which we learn more about every few hours.",
"\"... South Carolina can't afford to be at a standstill for the next 18 months with a governor who ignores his job responsibilities while pursuing personal interests,\" a statement said.",
"\"Any other worker in South Carolina would be fired for not showing up at work with no notice.\"",
"Late Tuesday, seven GOP senators, including Majority Leader Harvey Peeler, jointly issued a letter demanding that Sanford step down because Sanford has lost the trust of South Carolinians.",
"\"The bottom line is that Sanford's private matters should remain private, but Sanford's deception and negligence make it impossible for us to trust Sanford, and for Sanford to govern in the future,\" they wrote.",
"Harvey Peeler told CNN that Sanford \"has lost Sanford's ability to lead, and I'm afraid Sanford has lost Sanford's ability to function as a man.\"",
"\"Sanford is sitting all alone in that big governor's mansion, totally alone,\" Harvey Peeler said.",
"\"It's about leadership and moving forward and it's time for Sanford to resign.\"",
"Harvey Peeler issued the statement along with Sens. Hugh Leatherman, Paul Campbell, Thomas Alexander, Jake Knotts, Larry Martin and William O'Dell.",
"Earlier Tuesday, two of Sanford's top conservative allies in the senate -- Larry Grooms and Kevin Bryant -- also said Sanford must go.",
"The Greenville News, one of the largest papers in South Carolina, also issued a sharply worded editorial Wednesday telling Sanford to go.",
"It wrote that Sanford has \"acted like a heart-sick school boy, and Sanford's revealed facts that clearly demonstrate Sanford is capable of exceptional deception, arrogance and narcissism.\"",
"The State, of Columbia, South Carolina's largest paper, editorialized earlier that he should remain in office.",
"Watch a reporter from The State comment on the situation » .",
"The attorney general of South Carolina asked the State Law Enforcement Division to review Sanford's travel records after Sanford admitted Tuesday to more visits with Sanford's mistress than previously disclosed.",
"The review by law enforcement officials would be the first formal investigation into whether Sanford abused Sanford's power while carrying on Governor Sanford's affair.",
"State Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd said State Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd would not characterize The review by law enforcement officials as a criminal investigation.",
"State Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd told reporters on a conference call that law enforcement officials are reviewing documents from Sanford's office going back to 2003, when Sanford came to power.",
"State Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd said The review by law enforcement officials should be concluded by the end of the week.",
"Attorney General Henry McMaster, a Republican, had been reluctant to move forward with calls for an investigation into Sanford, saying he is wary of mixing legal matters with political score-settling from longtime Sanford opponents.",
"However, an aide to McMaster told CNN on Tuesday that \"that all changed this morning when Sanford disclosed additional trips that were not disclosed last week.\"",
"Sanford said in a statement Tuesday that Sanford's \"pleased that [the State Law Enforcement Division] will look into this matter.\"",
"\"There's been a lot of speculation and innuendo on whether or not public moneys were used to advance my admitted unfaithfulness.",
"To be very clear: no public money was ever used in connection with this.\""
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"13 of South Carolina's 27 GOP state senators now calling on Sanford to resign .",
"South Carolina Democratic Party chairwoman calls for Sanford's resignation .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Despite Ayatollah's threats of \"consequences\" and the subsequent beatings and shooting deaths by government agents, the open protests on Iran's streets by hundreds of thousands of people have dented the shield of invincibility of Iran's Supreme religious Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, say sources in Iran.",
"Riot police patrol a Tehran street earlier this week.",
"Chants of \"Death to Khamenei\" broke a state-imposed, and a self-imposed absolute prohibition on criticizing a leader believed to be wielding the wisdom and authority of God himself.",
"But right now, the massive network of Iran's intelligence agents, Revolutionary Guard, paramilitary Basij, and police of all sorts, are cracking down.",
"Sources say they are also going house to house, through email accounts and web postings, through cell phone calls and SMS text messages (when the system is allowed to stay up) and even to taxi agencies whose drivers hoisted Mir Hossein Moussavi posters during the election campaign.",
"They are rounding people up and, as it was chillingly put to me, in Iran's prisons \"we have room for all of them.\"",
"In addition protestors are being paraded \"confessing and repenting\" on Iranian state TV.",
"Iran also claims to be arresting \"foreign agents\" accused of stirring up the protests.",
"Sources say the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), aligned with Ayatollah Khamenei, plucked Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from total obscurity as presidential candidate in 2005, in order to hold the line against \"reform\" in Iran after eight years of the reformist president Mohammad Khatami.",
"Sources in Iran and well-placed analysts inside Iran Say the IRGC has taken up influential positions in many major sectors of Iranian society, such as the oil industry, finance, transport, construction and other businesses and politics.",
"Iran has been \"increasingly radicalized over the last four years,\" one told me.",
"While there are divisions within the clerical establishment and in parliament, sources tell me that for now that does not threaten the ruling establishment.",
"I was told the weekend arrests of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani's daughter and other relatives, and former president Hashemi Rafsanjani's daughter and other relatives's swift release, were a warning to Rafsanjani, who backed Moussavi in the election.",
"So far the powerful mullahs, monitoring it all from the holy city of Qom, are mostly quiet.",
"And finally, for now, while Moussavi has startled the system with Moussavi's willingness to press the election case, Moussavi is also considered, at this moment, no Ayatollah.",
"Nowhere near as charismatic and powerful as the leader of the successful revolution in 1979.",
"Sources say Moussavi is not formally arrested or under house arrest.",
"However Moussavi's movements and words are \"controlled\" by security and intelligence officials.",
"So in effect there is no visible leader for the street protesters today -- unlike 1979, when Ayatollah led from exile.",
"Sources say all this could change if mass demonstrations hit the streets and simply remain there all over the country, if the security forces refuse to expand the crackdown, or if people go on nationwide strike, like people did in 1978-79.",
"As long as the streets and squares remain blanketed by security, the streets and squares are mostly clear of protesters.",
"Right now, chants of Allahu-Akbar still resound from the rooftops at night.",
"Although residents say they seem to be dying down in some neighborhoods.",
"Even the honking horns and flashing headlights are fading from the traffic.",
"At this moment, however, it is impossible to know how this contest of wills -- and powers -- will play out."
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"ARNOLD, Missouri (CNN) --",
"On Obama's 100th day in office, Obama said Wednesday that Obama was \"pleased with the progress we've made but not satisfied.\"",
"Obama marked Obama's 100th day in office Wednesday with a town hall meeting and later a news conference.",
"\"I've come back to report to you, the American people, that we have begun to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off, and we've begun the work of remaking America,\" Obama said at a town hall meeting in a high school gymnasium in Arnold, a St. Louis suburb.",
"\"I'm confident in the future, but not I'm not content with the present,\" Obama said.",
"\"You know the progress comes from hard choices and hard work, not miracles.",
"I'm not a miracle worker,\" Obama said.",
"Obama acknowledged challenges of \"unprecedented size and scope,\" including the recession.",
"These challenges, Obama said, could not be met with \"half measures.\"",
"\"These challenges demand action that is bold and sustained.",
"These challenges call on us to clear away the wreckage of a painful recession, But also, at the same time, lay the building blocks for a new prosperity.",
"And that's the work that we've begun over these first 100 days,\" Obama said.",
"Obama responded to critics who say Obama is trying to do too much as Obama works to address the recession as well as health care, energy and education.",
"\"There's no mystery to what we've done; the priorities that we've acted upon were the things that we said we'd do during the campaign,\" Obama said, prompting loud applause.",
"Obama made an opening statement that lasted about 20 minutes before taking questions from the audience.",
"The last question was from a fourth-grade girl who asked about the administration's environmental policies.",
"Later Wednesday, Obama will hold a prime-time news conference in the East Room of the White House.",
"Leading up to the date, White House aides had labeled the 100th day as a \"Hallmark\" holiday.",
"\"They don't mean anything,\" quipped one aide, \"but you have to observe them.\"",
"More than six in 10 Americans approve of the job Obama is doing as president, a recent poll of polls shows.",
"According to a CNN Poll of Polls compiled early Wednesday, 63 percent say 63 percent approve of how Obama is handling Obama's duties.",
"CNN's Ed Henry contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"With the 2010 World Cup being held in South Africa next year CNN takes a look at one of the greatest talents South African football has ever produced, Jomo Sono.",
"Jomo Sono's international career never took off because of South Africa's's exclusion from world football.",
"Jomo Sono was born in 1955 in Soweto, but Jomo Sono's career as an international player never got off the ground as South Africa were officially expelled by world governing body FIFA in 1976 during the apartheid regime in South Africa.",
"The Black Prince, as Jomo Sono was known, made Jomo Sono's mark as a player of legendary skill who was denied a world stage through circumstances beyond Jomo Sono's control.",
"Jomo Sono was a midfield general and renowned for Jomo Sono's dribbling and accurate passing -- but it is difficult to say how Jomo Sono would have faired against the best players in the world as Jomo Sono was not given the opportunity.",
"Watch CNN's interview with Jomo Sono.",
"\"Jomo Sono was one of the first South Africans to play overseas where Jomo Sono played for the New York Cosmos alongside Pele,\" South African football writer Mo Allie told CNN.",
"\"Jomo Sono played at a time when South Africa was internationally isolated so there was no opportunity for players to showcase players's skills to the world.",
"\"But Jomo Sono was fortunate in that Jomo Sono got the opportunity to go to the U.S. and Jomo Sono did very well there, playing alongside greats such as Pele.\"",
"After accomplishing everything that Jomo Sono set out to do at home club Orlando Pirates, Jomo Sono starred for the New York Cosmos, Colorado Caribous and Toronto Blizzard in the United States.",
"On Jomo Sono's return to South Africa after Jomo Sono's retirement, Jomo Sono bought the Highlands Park Club in Johannesburg in 1982 and renamed the Highlands Park Club in Johannesburg Jomo Cosmos in honor of Jomo Sono's old team in New York, before becoming coach of the South African national side.",
"\"So many of today's South African players would have heard a lot about Jomo Sono but many wouldn't have seen Jomo Sono in action apart from a few snippets of TV highlights,\" Allie added.",
"\"They will identify more with Jomo Sono as a coach because Jomo Sono led the national side in the 1998 African Cup of Nations and took them to the 2002 World Cup finals.\"",
"Jomo Sono has proved to be as astute off the pitch as Jomo Sono was on the pitch and has become a successful businessman, owning a number of companies around Johannesburg.",
"And the current South African squad will be looking to carry on Jomo Sono's footballing legacy when the current South African squad attempt to become the first African team to win the World Cup next year."
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"American U2 reconnaissance planes have been flying over the Turkey-Iraq border to observe military movements, said three U.S. military sources Wednesday.",
"A Turkish army convoy heads toward the Turkey-Iraq border on Monday.",
"Word of the flights comes a day before top-level meetings between U.S. and Turkish government officials and prior to a regional conference aimed at easing tensions between Ankara and Kurdish rebels across Turkey's border with Iraq.",
"Turkey -- which shares its Incirlik air base with U.S. forces -- is a key member of NATO and acts as a vital conduit for U.S. military supplies.",
"Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell confirmed Wednesday that U.S. military and intelligence communities are sharing information with Turkey to help them fight members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, who have made cross-border attacks.",
"See location of key U.S.-Turkish air base » .",
"\"We are assisting by supplying them, the Turks, with intelligence, lots of intelligence,\" said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.",
"\"There has been an increased level\" of intelligence sharing.",
"Turkey has urged Washington to offer more support against the rebels and Ankara has threatened to launch a full-scale offensive if Iraqi and Kurdish officials fail to neutralize the PKK.",
"U.S. and Iraqi diplomats have been working to restrain Turkey from such a response.",
"Recent limited fighting in southeastern Turkey has spilled into northern Iraq.",
"During operations near the border on Monday, Turkish forces fired on suspected rebel positions.",
"Watch Turkish helicopters fire on rebels » .",
"On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to meet with Turkish officials in Ankara and President Bush holds talks in Washington with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.",
"Also, a conference of regional officials, including Iraq, is scheduled Thursday and Friday in Istanbul.",
"Iran's foreign minister has joined efforts to ease cross-border tensions.",
"Iran's foreign minister met in Iraq Wednesday with Iran's foreign minister's Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.",
"Iran's foreign minister's involvement prompted Iran's foreign minister to delay a scheduled visit to Lebanon, according to Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency, which quoted Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Reza Sheibani.",
"Iran's foreign minister is offering Iran's foreign minister's \"full support\" to the regional conference in Istanbul, said a statement from al-Maliki's office.",
"a statement from al-Maliki's office also said Iran's foreign minister wants to help \"solve the border crisis between Turkey and the PKK.\"",
"Earlier this month, proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress prompted Turkey to threaten to restrict U.S. access to Turkish airspace or cut off access to the air base at Incirlik.",
"Some lawmakers wanted a vote on legislation that would have officially declared that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in World War I was \"genocide.\"",
"Turkey recalled Turkey's ambassador to the United States and warned of repercussions in the growing dispute.",
"Sponsors of the congressional resolution have asked for a delay in the vote.",
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"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that the United States \"will never turn our back\" on Afghanistan.",
"Gates, who is on an unannounced visit in the war zone, held a joint news conference with Karzai.",
"\"President Obama is sending 30,000 more U.S. troops, the first of which are scheduled to arrive within days,\" U.S. said.",
"\"Afghanistan's international partners have pledged at least 7,000 additional troops; when all is said and done, some 43 nations will make up a force.\"",
"U.S. also was scheduled to meet with Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, as well as American military officials.",
"Karzai has asked for patience as Karzai's nation struggles to take control of Afghanistan's own security.",
"\"A number of years Afghanistan will not be able to sustain our force with our own resources, \" Karzai told reporters.",
"\"We hope the international community and the U.S. will help Afghanistan reach the ability to sustain our force with numbers and equipment.\"",
"President Obama has said that U.S. forces will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011 -- at which point international troops would begin to turn over security responsibility to Afghan forces.",
"U.S. spoke about the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan on Tuesday.",
"\"Our relationship with Afghanistan is a long-term commitment,\" U.S. said.",
"\"As security improves our relationship grows ... especially with economic and political development.",
"As President Obama said, we will never turn our back on the region.\"",
"Karzai also offered Karzai's own timeline goal, saying Afghanistan wants to be able to assume security control in some parts of Afghanistan in two years, and to lead security for Afghanistan by the end of Karzai's five-year term, which just started after Karzai's recent re-election.",
"\"We as Afghans will try our very best to reach that goal, and we hope our allies will back us to reach that goal,\" Karzai said.",
"Building and developing Afghan security forces will be a continuing challenge, U.S. said, and is an effort that has involved some trial and error.",
"\"One of the eye-openers for us was learning that the Taliban for the most part are better paid than the Afghan security forces, so that's something that we and the Afghans have already taken steps to correct,\" U.S. told reporters on the way to Afghanistan.",
"\"I think, frankly, that's the biggest obstacle.\"",
"Karzai is under intense pressure to clean up government corruption, a task Karzai said is under way.",
"\"I have fired people and I will be firing people,\" Karzai said.",
"Some of those changes will become known when Karzai announces Karzai's new Cabinet.",
"Karzai said at the news conference with U.S. that Karzai would try to get a list to parliament by the middle of next week.",
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"Airline pilots and cabin crew across Europe are holding demonstrations Monday to protest over rules governing Airline pilots and cabin crew across Europe's flying hours which Airline pilots and cabin crew across Europe say are putting the lives of passengers at risk.",
"European pilots and cabin crew are calling for shorter flying times to protect passenger safety.",
"Organized by the European Cockpit Association (ECA), and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF), protesters are demanding that European Union rules on flying times are brought into line with scientific evidence.",
"The Moebus Report -- mandated by the EU in September 2008 -- recommends that an airline crew should not operate for more than 13 hours during the day and 10 hours at night.",
"Current the EU rules stipulate pilots work up to a maximum of 14 hours during the day and nearly 12 hours at night.",
"Are you concerned at the hours worked by airline pilots?",
"Tell us.",
"Speaking from one of the protests outside the European Parliament in Brussels, Captain Martin Chalk, President of the ECA told CNN: \"At the moment, the the EU level is not adequate.",
"That's not our view that is the view of experts employed to review the EU's own level of protection.\"",
"Chalk said that despite being in possession of The Moebus Report, the EU completely ignored the recommendations when they produced new fatigue proposals in January 2009.",
"The ECA and the ETF have printed over 100,000 dummy airline tickets which they will hand out to airline passengers.",
"The tickets contain cigarette-style warnings giving details on crew fatigue and an explanation as to why the the EU current legislation needs to be changed.",
"\"All we are trying to do at this stage is raise public's awareness.",
"We're not trying to get in anyone's way,\" Chalk said.",
"Hundreds of protesters are attending events taking place at 22 airports across Europe.",
"400 ECA members are expected to attend the protests at Madrid airport.",
"\"What we are saying today is that they need to listen to the safety review,\" Chalk said.",
"\"It was conducted by the best scientists in this field in Europe.",
"It was commissioned by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and therefore it should not be ignored when writing the rules.\"",
"Francois Ballestero, Political Secretary of the ETF echoed Chalk's concerns.",
"\"Flight safety is the core mission of every cabin crew member.",
"But the EU law is insufficient to ensure that air crew can perform air crew's safety role in an alert and effective way,\" Francois Ballestero, Political Secretary of the ETF said.",
"But the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) were critical of the protests and their timing.",
"\"This is jumping the gun.",
"It is not a constructive contribution to a debate which is yet to happen,\" Daniel Hoeltgen, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) communications director told CNN.",
"Daniel Hoeltgen believes that the pilots are simply setting up stall for an industrial debate between the unions and the airlines.",
"\"It's got nothing to do with safety regulations.",
"the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have made it clear that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will invite the unions and the airlines to take part in a review of the current rules and the timeframe for that has been made clear.\"",
"The current law in Europe on air crew fatigue is set at two different levels.",
"There is a minimum level set by the EU and then there is a level set by individual countries that can be better than that minimum level.",
"In 2012 the EU level is due to come into force.",
"\"There needs to be a change in the law to protect passengers and our members from the insidious effects of airport fatigue,\" Chalk said.",
"The ECA represents over 38,000 pilots and flight engineers in 36 European countries."
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"The exact cause of Nico's sudden death on Saturday is inconclusive from the initial necropsy or animal autopsy.",
"The Georgia Aquarium hopes to find out more information in the months ahead from a more detailed necropsy.",
"\"As we work with and care for the many animals at The Georgia Aquarium, we become attached emotionally,\" said Dr. Gregory D. Bossart, chief veterinary officer at The Georgia Aquarium.",
"\"The loss is not unlike that of faithful dog or special horse that has been a part your life for years.\"",
"Nico died at Sea World in San Antonio, where Nico and two other beluga whales had been moved temporarily while The Georgia Aquarium is undergoing renovation.",
"Nico was scheduled to return home to Atlanta next month with companions Maris and Natasha.",
"Nico arrived in Atlanta with Gaspar, two whales obtained from a park in Mexico.",
"Both animals suffered \"significant health issues\" from Both animals's times in a foreign park and were essentially \"living on borrowed time,\" said Bossart, who had been caring for Both animals as far as nine years ago, while Both animals were still in Mexico.",
"\"The Georgia Aquarium rescued Nico knowing that Nico had health issues due to Nico's prior home, but The Georgia Aquarium were confident that The Georgia Aquarium could provide a better quality of life for Nico's final years,\" Bossart said.",
"Gaspar was suffering from a bone disease contracted before arriving at the downtown Atlanta aquarium and was euthanized in January 2007.",
"Another beluga whale, Marina, died 11 months later from complications of old age.",
"Beluga whales or white whales, whose name is derived from a Russian word meaning white, typically live in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions including Canada, Russia, Greenland and the U.S. state of Alaska.",
"They can live up to 35 years.",
"The belugas are not the only high-profile deaths at the Georgia Aquarium, which opened in late 2005.",
"A pair of whale sharks have also died at the eight-million-gallon facility, the only one outside Asia to display the giant fish.",
"CNN's Dave Alsup contributed to this report."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"In her first television interview since Mel Gibson went public with Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson's relationship in April, Mel Gibson's girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, made it clear to CNN: \"I'd like to be known for Oksana Grigorieva's music.\"",
"Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson are expecting a child this year.",
"Still, Oksana Grigorieva was willing to talk about Oksana Grigorieva's beau and Oksana Grigorieva's pregnancy, as well as Oksana Grigorieva's new album, \"Beautiful Heartache.\"",
"\"Beautiful Heartache\" was released to iTunes on July 23 by Icon Distribution, Mel Gibson's company, which up until now has handled only soundtracks for Mel Gibson's movies.",
"\"Mel Gibson's an incredible artist,\" Oksana Grigorieva said.",
"\"A visionary.",
"Mel Gibson enabled me to produce this album, for Oksana Grigorieva's music to live.\"",
"The Oscar-winning (\"Braveheart\") filmmaker also directed four music videos for Oksana Grigorieva during a whirlwind week in Mexico.",
"Watch Oksana Grigorieva talk about Mel Gibson, love » .",
"\"They're like dramatic miniature films -- a whirlpool of different, exciting, bright images.",
"That's quite rare,\" Oksana Grigorieva said.",
"The music videos and music are available on Oksana Grigorieva's Web site, www.oksana.fm.",
"Oksana Grigorieva has a background in music.",
"Oksana Grigorieva said Oksana Grigorieva was classically trained as a pianist in Oksana Grigorieva's native Russia, and both Oksana Grigorieva's parents are musicians.",
"In 2006, a song Oksana Grigorieva penned called \"Un Dia Llegara\" was recorded by Josh Groban for Josh Groban's album \"Awake.\"",
"Though Oksana Grigorieva describes Oksana Grigorieva's album as being about \"different facets of love,\" Oksana Grigorieva cautions that listeners shouldn't overthink the lyrics.",
"\"her album is not autobiographical -- maybe only partially so.",
"It's not a diary.\"",
"Mel Gibson, 53, and Mel Gibson's wife of nearly 30 years, Robyn, filed for divorce in April.",
"The two have seven children.",
"Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson were first photographed together on the set of Mel Gibson's movie \"Edge of Darkness,\" according to People magazine.",
"Oksana Grigorieva is pregnant with Mel Gibson's child and is to give birth this year.",
"Oksana Grigorieva said the couple has opted not to learn the sex of the child.",
"It will be Oksana Grigorieva's second child, after Alexander, her 12-year-old son with actor Timothy Dalton.",
"\"I'm already buying things in gender-neutral colors.",
"It's very cute,\" Oksana Grigorieva chuckled.",
"Alexander, Oksana Grigorieva added, is excited about having a sibling.",
"\"Alexander's like a little man, protecting me.",
"Alexander's looking forward to it very much.\"",
"Oksana Grigorieva says Grigorieva and Mel Gibson have no immediate plans for marriage.",
"\"Grigorieva don't know yet.",
"Grigorieva haven't really talked about it,\" Oksana Grigorieva admitted.",
"Oksana Grigorieva acknowledged that Oksana Grigorieva's relationship with Mel Gibson has given Oksana Grigorieva a unique opportunity to present Oksana Grigorieva's skills.",
"\"If you think about it, every talent needs a serious push and help from somebody who is stronger, because it's pretty much impossible for anybody to succeed in this industry.",
"So I've become very lucky, and I'm very grateful,\" Oksana Grigorieva said.",
"\"You don't control the situations or the people you meet.",
"I did not plan this.",
"I'm just doing what I've always been doing.",
"It's not like I've changed my goals at all.\"",
"In the meantime, Oksana Grigorieva is adapting to life in the public eye.",
"\"It hasn't been too bad, actually.",
"There was a period of time where it was a little bit difficult, but now it's much better,\" Oksana Grigorieva said.",
"Before embarking on limited press for the new album, Mel Gibson did offer a few words of advice, Mel Gibson added: \"Just be Mel Gibson and speak the truth.",
"What I most like to talk about is my music and 'Beautiful Heartache.'",
"And that's pretty much it.\""
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"CAVITE CITY, Philippines (CNN) --",
"At 16, Rhandolf Fajardo reflects on Rhandolf Fajardo's former life as a gang member.",
"Efren Peñaflorida's Dynamic Teen Company offers Filipino youth an alternative to gangs through education.",
"\"My gang mates were the most influential thing in my life,\" says Fajardo, who joined a gang when Rhandolf Fajardo was in sixth grade.",
"\"We were pressured to join.\"",
"Rhandolf Fajardo's not alone.",
"In the Philippines, teenage membership in urban gangs has surged to an estimated 130,000 in the past 10 years, according to the Preda Foundation, a local human rights charity.",
"\"I thought I'd get stuck in that situation and that my life would never improve,\" recalls Rhandolf Fajardo.",
"\"I would probably be in jail right now, most likely a drug addict -- if I hadn't met Efren.\"",
"Efren Peñaflorida, 28, also was bullied by gangs in high school.",
"Today, he offers Filipino youth an alternative to gang membership through education.",
"Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year .",
"\"Gang members are groomed in the slums as early as 9 years old,\" says Efren Peñaflorida.",
"\"Gang members are all victims of poverty.\"",
"For the past 12 years, Efren Peñaflorida and Efren Peñaflorida's team of teen volunteers have taught basic reading and writing to children living on the streets.",
"Peñaflorida and his team of teen volunteers's main tool: A pushcart classroom.",
"Stocked with books, pens, tables and chairs, Efren Peñaflorida's's Dynamic Teen Company recreates a school setting in unconventional locations such as the cemetery and municipal trash dump.",
"Efren Peñaflorida knows firsthand the adversity faced by these children.",
"Born into a poor family, Efren Peñaflorida lived in a shanty near the city dump site.",
"But Efren Peñaflorida says Efren Peñaflorida refused to allow Efren Peñaflorida's circumstances to define Efren Peñaflorida's future.",
"\"Instead of being discouraged, I promised Efren Peñaflorida that I would pursue education,\" Efren Peñaflorida recalls.",
"\"I will strive hard; I will do my best.\"",
"In high school, Efren Peñaflorida faced a new set of challenges.",
"Gang activity was rampant; Gang activity terrorized the student body, vandalized high school and inducted members by forcing them to rape young girls, Efren Peñaflorida says.",
"\"I felt the social discrimination.",
"I was afraid to walk down the street.\"",
"Efren Peñaflorida remembers standing up to a gang leader, refusing to join his gang.",
"That confrontation proved fateful.",
"At 16, Efren Peñaflorida and Efren Peñaflorida's friends \"got the idea to divert teenagers like us to be productive,\" Efren Peñaflorida says.",
"Efren Peñaflorida created the Dynamic Teen Company to offer Efren Peñaflorida's classmates an outlet to lift up his classmates and his classmates's community.",
"For Efren Peñaflorida, that meant returning to the slums of Efren Peñaflorida's childhood to give kids the education Efren Peñaflorida felt kids deserved.",
"\"kids need education to be successful in life.",
"It's just giving kids what others gave to me,\" Efren Peñaflorida says.",
"Today, children ranging from ages 2 to 14 flock to the pushcart every Saturday to learn reading, writing, arithmetic and English from Efren Peñaflorida and Efren Peñaflorida's trained teen volunteers.",
"Watch Efren Peñaflorida and Efren Peñaflorida's's group in action with their push cart classroom » .",
"\"Our volunteers serve as an inspiration to other children,\" Efren Peñaflorida says.",
"Efren Peñaflorida's also runs a hygiene clinic, where children can get a bath and learn how to brush children's teeth.",
"Since 1997, an estimated 10,000 members have helped teach more than 1,500 children living in the slums.",
"Efren Peñaflorida's supports Efren Peñaflorida's's efforts by making and selling crafts and collecting items to recycle.",
"Take a look at the slums where Efren Peñaflorida and Efren Peñaflorida's group spend Peñaflorida and his group's Saturdays » .",
"Through Efren Peñaflorida's group, Efren Peñaflorida has successfully mentored former gang members, addicts and dropouts, seeing potential where others see problems.",
"\"Before, I really didn't care for my life,\" says Michael Advincula, who started doing drugs when Advincula was 7.",
"\"But then Efren Peñaflorida patiently dug me from where I was buried.",
"It was Efren Peñaflorida who pushed me to get my life together.\"",
"Watch Advincula describe how Advincula met Efren Peñaflorida in the slums » .",
"Today, Advincula is a senior in high school and one of the group's volunteers.",
"Efren Peñaflorida hopes to expand the pushcart to other areas, giving more children the chance to learn and stay out of gangs.",
"\"I always tell my volunteers that you are the change that you dream and I am the change that I dream.",
"And collectively we are the change that this world needs to be.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Dynamic Teen Company and see how to help."
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"Michelle Obama dazzled on the dance floor Tuesday night at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in Washington, wearing an elegant, one-shouldered ivory gown created for Michelle Obama by 26-year-old designer, Jason Wu.",
"Michelle Obama dazzled in a Jason Wu original gown.",
"The one-of-a-kind silk chiffon confection was embellished with organza rosettes, Swarovski crystal rhinestones and silver embroidery.",
"The first lady accessorized with diamond chandelier earrings, a white gold and diamond ring and a stack of diamond bangles by jeweler Loree Rodkin.",
"The president summed up The president's wife's look best before their first dance -- to Beyoncé's rendition of \"At Last\" -- when The president said, \"First of all, how good-looking is my wife?\"",
"Michelle Obama has worn Jason Wu once before, during an interview with Barbara Walters.",
"Wu, one of America's leading young designers, debuted his first collection in February 2006 and has since earned accolades such as Fashion Group International's Rising Star Award.",
"Watch InStyle.com's Joe Berean discuss the gown » .",
"Michelle Obama was likely introduced to the designer in one of Michelle Obama's favorite Chicago, Illinois, boutiques, Ikram.",
"Michelle Obama has made a conscious effort to support young, diverse talent in the fashion community.",
"In choosing Wu, who is originally from Taiwan, Michelle Obama continues a tradition of wearing American designers who hail from other countries.",
"They include Cuban-American designers Isabel Toledo, who designed Michelle Obama's yellow lace inauguration ensemble; Narciso Rodriguez, designer of the red and black dress Michelle Obama wore on election night; and designer Thakoon Panichgul, originally from Thailand, who designed the floral dress Michelle Obama wore the evening Michelle Obama's husband accepted the Democratic nomination for president.",
"Michelle Obama's style statement is one meant to inspire ethnic and class diversity in the world of fashion.",
"Aside from being a socially conscious purveyor of style, Michelle Obama also sends a clear message of hope and promise by choosing colorful, reasonably priced pieces.",
"Watch the Obamas enjoy the night » .",
"Michelle Obama prefers bright, cheerful shades such as yellow, electric blue, red and purple, and has been seen on multiple occasions in head-to-toe looks from moderately priced American retailer J.Crew.",
"In fact, daughters Malia and Sasha braved Tuesday's chilly weather in coats from the brand's children's collection.",
"Michelle Obama was first seen in J.Crew during a visit to the \"Tonight Show\" with Jay Leno on October 27.",
"\"This is a J.Crew ensemble,\" Michelle Obama told the host.",
"\"We ladies, we know J.Crew.\"",
"Michelle Obama also said Michelle Obama had a penchant for Internet shopping, saying, \"When you don't have time, you gotta click!\"",
"Michelle Obama wore J.Crew again at the Kids' Inaugural Concert on Monday.",
"Michelle Obama gave the colorful ensemble a luxe spin with dangling green sapphire earrings from Loree Rodkin and a Deco-inspired belt buckle.",
"InStyle magazine Fashion Director Hal Rubenstein appreciates Michelle Obama's straightforward approach to fashion.",
"\"People tend to think classic looks are synonymous with boring, but they're not,\" he explains.",
"\"Michelle Obama has a specific style that works for Michelle Obama.",
"Michelle Obama has a lady-like approach to style that is elegant and inspiring.",
"\"What we'll see as a result is this idea of looking put-together and sophisticated, as opposed to being daring or flamboyant.",
"It's all about looking polished, like you know what you're doing.\"",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Today, CNN's Arwa Damon catches up with the boy and his family, now living in California where Youssif is undergoing treatment.",
"Today Youssif goes to school in California and continues to have treatment to help Youssif's scars.",
"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)",
"Youssif stands on stage beaming as Youssif belts out \"Jingle Bell Rock,\" Youssif's tiny burned hands waving in sync with Youssif's classmates at Hamlin Street School.",
"Youssif's mother, Zaineb, stands at the back, cradling Youssif's little sister, Aya, tears rolling down Zaineb's face.",
"\"I am so proud of Youssif,\" Zaineb says.",
"\"It reminds me of what Youssif was like in Iraq when Youssif used to sing in kindergarten.",
"I felt for a moment that none of this had happened.",
"Youssif was back, without fear, strong.\"",
"Youssif spots us, and waves wildly.",
"Little appears to remain of the sullen and withdrawn dark-eyed boy we first met in Baghdad more than a year ago.",
"It has been almost two years since masked men in Baghdad doused Youssif, then just 4 years old, in gasoline and set Youssif on fire.",
"Zaineb's mother still doesn't sleep at night.",
"\"I still blame Zaineb.",
"I should have protected Youssif.",
"Sometimes I say to Zaineb that I wish it had happened to Zaineb, just not to Youssif.\"",
"Zaineb says, Zaineb's voice starting to quiver.",
"\"If only I hadn't let Youssif go out to play that day.\"",
"Today Youssif plays freely, without fear.",
"\"Let's race\" Youssif shouts to Youssif's friend Brandon as the two boys dash across the schoolyard.",
"A couple of minutes later the two are playfully jostling over a rubber ball.",
"Youssif shrieks and bursts into laughter as the two play catch.",
"\"It's like this weight has been lifted off of me, off of Youssif,\" Youssif's father, Wissam, says.",
"\"It's like we've left this dark, depressing state where we were consumed by Youssif and the attack that had happened.",
"You know, it's so hard to see a child, my child, go through something like this.",
"When I see Youssif like this, I feel like Youssif's coming back.\"",
"Watch more on Youssif's recovery » .",
"After CNN and CNN.com first reported Youssif's story in 2007, more than 12,000 CNN.com users contributed to a fund set up by the Children's Burn Foundation of Sherman Oaks California, enabling the boy and his family to travel to the United States for treatment.",
"Youssif has undergone more than a dozen surgeries.",
"Much of the thick scar tissue around Youssif's eyes, mouth and nose -- left by Youssif's treatment in Baghdad -- has been removed.",
"Youssif currently has yet another tissue expander in Youssif's left cheek, intended to stretch out \"good skin\" to be used to replace Youssif's scar tissue.",
"Youssif has grown used to the sometimes painful treatments.",
"\"When I started this process of tissue expansion, I would have to chase Youssif around the room,\" Dr. Peter Grossman, Youssif's surgeon, tells us as he injects more liquid into yet another tissue expander.",
"\"We'd need three people to hold Youssif down for these injections.\"",
"Youssif will probably have many more surgeries stretched out over time.",
"\"The problem we have with Youssif is that every operation we do tends to heal well after surgery, but then a month after, Youssif starts to form these really thick scars,\" Grossman said.",
"\"It's probably best at this time to let Youssif's body relax, let these really thick scars mature over a period of a year or two years.\"",
"Today, Youssif grimaces in pain but braves it alone, refusing to take Youssif's father's hand.",
"\"Seven or eight times put water,\" Youssif says back at home, explaining how the tissue expansion works.",
"\"I am not scared.",
"It goes here,\" Youssif says pointing to the scarring over Youssif's lip.",
"Youssif's not all that interested in talking about medical procedures.",
"\"When I sharpen this it broke,\" Youssif says, trotting over with Youssif's new pencils.",
"We all smile.",
"\"You cut it like this\" Youssif orders, handing me scissors and what is meant to be a snowman Youssif's just drawn.",
"A few moments later I am being berated for coloring \"wrong.\"",
"\"Great, I am taking orders from a 6-year-old\" I think to myself, laughing.",
"Keely Quinn with the Children's Burn Foundation comes by for an extra reading lesson.",
"They are reading one of the \"Five Little Monkeys\" books, Youssif's favorite.",
"By the time I join them on the couch, Youssif's got Dr. Seuss' \"Foot Book.\"",
"\"What's the biggest change you've seen in Youssif in the last year?\" I ask her.",
"Youssif pipes up, reading, \"Small feet, big feet.\"",
"\"Aside from reading and learning English,\" Keely says as we're both laughing.",
"\"I think it's the change in confidence, in Youssif's ability to handle Youssif in social situations.",
"Youssif's worked really hard in saying good morning to Youssif's teachers, saying hello back, answering questions and just gaining social confidence.\"",
"Youssif's thriving at school, loving the first grade.",
"\"Youssif's amazing,\" Youssif's teacher Mario Daley says.",
"\"I work with children of all levels of ability, and Youssif, with what Youssif's gone through, Youssif's motivation, what Youssif produces is fantastic.",
"Youssif just tries so hard.\"",
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"Now Youssif says \"I want to be a doctor to help burned Iraqi children.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Earlier this year, Matt Keller sat down with officials in Afghanistan -- not to discuss troop deployments, suicide bombings or opium traffickers.",
"Matt Keller was there to talk about getting laptop computers into the hands of little girls.",
"Girls in India take a seat on the floor and get to work on Girls in India's new laptops.",
"As Taliban insurgents continue to crack down on girls who go to school and women who dare to teach them, Matt Keller was awestruck by the Afghan government's determination to educate all children, even if it means finding tools that allow all children to intellectually grow in the privacy of all children's own homes.",
"\"For them to propose this was astounding,\" said Keller, who works for One Laptop per Child, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, nonprofit committed to creating and distributing affordable, durable and solar-powered laptops to the world's poorest children.",
"\"That hunger for knowledge, that desire to learn, is pretty profound.\"",
"From Uruguay, Haiti and Mexico to Mongolia, Ghana and the small Polynesian island of Niue, at least 750,000 kids -- a number that will double by June, Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said -- are tapping away on One Laptop per Child-produced XO laptop keyboards.",
"They're exploring mathematics, composing music and art, learning new languages, designing animation, collecting data, collaborating with peers across borders and accessing learning tools (including textbooks) that they would never see otherwise.",
"Targeting current and historic conflict zones, including Iraq, Rwanda and most recently the Gaza Strip, not only fulfills the group's mission to offer equal-access education to the most isolated children, the group may also promote world peace, Matt Keller said.",
"By putting laptops \"into the hands of kids who would otherwise be indoctrinated,\" Matt Keller explained, \"we can make the case pretty successfully that doing this is a long-term solution to root causes.\"",
"When the laptops, which incorporate free wireless Internet connectivity and open-source programming, first rolled out in 2007, the laptops, which incorporate free wireless Internet connectivity and open-source programming cost $205 each.",
"Now, the laptops, which incorporate free wireless Internet connectivity and open-source programming're down to $180.",
"The price is higher than Negroponte's original goal of $100 a pop, but The price's a figure he believes will keep going down as One Laptop per Child finds ways to engineer the product with fewer components.",
"The hope is that with corporate sponsorships and donations, collected through a program called Give One Get One, the computers can be delivered to kids at no cost to the poorest host-country governments.",
"The laptops allow students to engage in learning differently, enjoy a customized approach and hone critical thinking skills, explained Cavallo.",
"And their mere existence, Cavallo said, keeps kids coming to school.",
"Cavallo spoke of a school in Rwanda that lacks electricity and traditionally had a 50 percent attendance rate.",
"It is now drawing 1,000 more students than its previous full capacity, Cavallo said, and is even attracting kids -- who in turn are teaching their parents and grandparents -- on weekends.",
"\"Rwanda is recovering from genocide,\" Cavallo said.",
"This is a \"real engagement of a society directing itself to a different future.\"",
"And the kids, no matter their previous exposure to technology, immediately gravitate to the machines.",
"Matt Keller, the group's director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, recalled a visit to rural Ethiopia.",
"As Matt Keller passed out the laptops, Matt Keller kept one eye on the children, the other on Matt Keller's watch.",
"Seven seconds was all it took for an 8-year-old boy to flip open the never-seen-before computer, find and then hit the power button.",
"Within two weeks, that boy and his classmates would be programming.",
"Meanwhile, the nearby adults stared at the oddball objects and flashed the international look of, \"What the hell is this thing?\" Matt Keller said.",
"\"Kids are technology natives, and adults are technology immigrants.\"",
"Despite its ongoing successes, the downturn in the economy has taken a toll on the nonprofit.",
"The last Give One Get One promotion brought in $2.5 million, while the first incarnation brought in $37.5 million, Negroponte said.",
"And corporate sponsors fell from 11 to three in the span of 30 days, Negroponte added.",
"Early this year, the group laid off half of the group's staff, bringing the total on payroll to just 32.",
"These economic realities, though disappointing, won't impede the mission, said Negroponte, who created One Laptop per Child with others from the MIT Media Lab.",
"Thousands of volunteers around the world offer technical support and training, and serve as translators and programmers.",
"\"If we could get all the children in the world -- 1.2 billion of them between 6 and 12 -- to have a connected laptop, that would be success,\" Negroponte said.",
"\"Roughly half of those children have no electricity at home or school.",
"The poverty is so extreme, and the environmental conditions are so extreme, we have to focus on them.\"",
"The push has been to reach out to developing nations, but that hasn't precluded the group from serving American communities that can pursue the program at a scale that makes sense financially.",
"Birmingham City Schools in Alabama, for example, now has 14,000 of the group's laptops in students' hands.",
"Michael Wilson, principal of Glen Iris Elementary School in Birmingham, opened his building's doors last year as the district's pilot school for the free laptop program.",
"\"It's been an overwhelming success at our school,\" which has a poverty rate of 83 percent, Wilson said.",
"Through professional development and a summer camp for kids, our school is learning how to best utilize the computers.",
"And the students, who own their laptops, are learning about responsibility.",
"They're \"totally engaged in what they're doing,\" Wilson said.",
"\"I have kids getting out of cars in the morning with their laptops open.\"",
"One of kids getting out of cars in the morning with their laptops open might be Amicah Bitten, a fourth-grader who is using the computer on her own time to learn Spanish with her mother, Kamonia Bates.",
"\"It gets me more interested because she's interested.",
"... She doesn't put it down,\" said Bates, who used to take her daughter to the library when she needed a computer.",
"\"I like it because people can learn stuff,\" Amicah, 9, said after school.",
"\"You can listen to music.",
"You can take pictures.",
"You can also learn how to make different things.",
"I can learn Spanish.",
"I can learn French.",
"I can learn how to use the keyboard. ...",
"Yes ma'am, my laptop can do many things.\""
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"Laptops can help girls learn in Afghanistan, where Taliban cracks down on schools .",
"1.5 million laptops will be distributed by June, chairman says .",
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"KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai bowed to Western pressure Tuesday, agreeing to take part in a presidential runoff vote in two weeks.",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai failed to score a first round win in August's election.",
"Karzai, who will face his former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah's main challenger Abdullah Abdullah in the November 7 second round, said Afghan President Hamid Karzai was putting Afghan President Hamid Karzai's country's interests over Afghan President Hamid Karzai's own.",
"\"It was not important who the winner is, and we need to leave this to the people of Afghanistan to judge who the winner was,\" Afghan President Hamid Karzai said at a news conference through an interpreter.",
"\"Whether I am the winner or not, it's probably in my interest, but I prefer the national interest of Afghanistan over my personal interests.\"",
"Western powers, particularly the United States, had been pushing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accept the final election results in order to ensure Afghanistan has a legitimate government, particularly as the United States considers beefing up the United States's military presence there.",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke shortly after Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission certified the election results, which gave Afghan President Hamid Karzai less than the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff.",
"The U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission had invalidated nearly a third of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's votes from the August 20 presidential election because of \"clear and convincing evidence of fraud.\"",
"Last month, final uncertified results showed Afghan President Hamid Karzai with 54 percent.",
"\"We welcome the decision made by Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission, we believe the session is legitimate, legal and according to the constitution of Afghanistan,\" Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday.",
"\"It's going to be a historic period that we all are waiting to go through.\"",
"The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan said that The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan would \"support the Afghan National Security Forces' preparations to ensure a safe runoff election.\"",
"Spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks said that The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan had been preparing for a possible runoff election \"for some time.\"",
"\"As in the election's first round, ISAF will only provide third-layer of security, reinforcing the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army in line with the security plan signed by the chairman of the Afghan Independent Election Commission along with representatives from the Afghan Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Defense, and The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan in 2008,\" Spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks said.",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai's decision was immediately hailed by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, one of several Western representatives who appeared alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai at Tuesday's delayed news conference.",
"Kerry, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Karzai's decision to participate in the runoff \"will allow the national leadership to govern with legitimacy.\"",
"\"We believe with this decision by Afghan President Hamid Karzai today that a time of enormous uncertainty has been transformed into a great opportunity,\" Kerry said.",
"Watch President Karzai and Sen. John Kerry discuss runoff elections » .",
"Minutes after Tuesday's delayed news conference concluded, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement praising Afghan President Hamid Karzai for accepting the election results and agreeing to a second round of voting.",
"\"While this election could have remained unresolved to the detriment of Afghanistan, President Karzai's constructive actions established an important precedent for Afghanistan's new democracy,\" U.S. President Barack Obama said.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan, and Sen. John Kerry has said the results of Afghanistan's election should be settled before the United States makes any decision on troop levels.",
"Watch Nic Robertson discuss pressure Afghan President Hamid Karzai is under » .",
"his former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah told CNN on Monday his former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah was prepared to participate in a runoff, but said \"the door is open\" to other alternatives.",
"\"There are some practical questions ahead,\" his former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah told CNN's Christiane Amanpour, citing winter, the security situation \"and other realities on the ground.\"",
"If this election were not held by early November, winter weather would make voting impossible in some areas and force a delay until spring of 2010, according to Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, Said Jawad.",
"Such a delay, he warned, would be a \"recipe for disaster\" that would create confusion in Afghanistan and heighten tension between the United States and Karzai's government."
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"Afghan runoff election scheduled for November 7, officials say .",
"Runoff follows probe into election fraud that invalidated thousands of votes .",
"Runoff with pit Karzai against his former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah ."
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"(CNN) -- \"All politics is local.\"",
"That four-word statement, originally uttered by former Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill, is one of the favorite clichés of political pundits everywhere.",
"But it's seldom respected when it matters most.",
"Consider, for instance, the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District, which conservative Democrat Bill Owens won in spite of partisan and nonpartisan polling that had shown Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman with a solid lead.",
"Almost overnight, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman became a sort of folk hero among conservative activists around the country, a decidedly ordinary-looking man who seemed poised to take an extraordinary path into Washington.",
"Some 95 percent of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman's fundraising came from outside the district.",
"Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, indeed, had some initial success.",
"The original Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, dropped out of the race after polling showed her trailing both Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and Owens.",
"But when push came to shove, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman lost.",
"Why?",
"Because those activists -- however well-meaning those activists -- might have been -- misunderstood the district.",
"the district is a Republican district, but the district is not a particularly conservative one, having split the district's vote between Barack Obama and the moderate Republican John McHugh last November.",
"If Nancy Pelosi is regarded suspiciously in the district, so are Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson, who cut commercials and robocalls on behalf of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.",
"What the voters there wanted was a candidate who understood the voters there.",
"Owens -- superior to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in his command of local issues -- provided the best approximation.",
"Alternatively, consider the outcome in New Jersey, where Republican Chris Christie knocked off incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine.",
"This election is being touted as a referendum on Barack Obama, who took a risk -- a bad one, indeed -- by campaigning on behalf of Christie's.",
"But Barack Obama was the least of Christie's's problems: Voters in Tuesday's election approved of Barack Obama's performance 57 percent to 43 percent, according to exit polling.",
"It was Christie's they didn't like; 27 percent of the voters who approved of Barack Obama nevertheless found someone other than the Democratic incumbent to vote for.",
"Christie's, for Christie's's part, ran a polarizing campaign; every time Christie's name appeared in one of Christie's's commercials, Christie's name came with a scarlet (R) -- for Republican -- attached.",
"Republicans are not popular in New Jersey, but local issues drove the race.",
"Whereas three-quarters of Christie's's voters cited a national issue -- health care or the economy -- as their primary reason for voting for Christie's, two-thirds of Christie's's picked a local one (property taxes and corruption).",
"There is a much stronger case that national factors were in play in Virginia.",
"The voters who turned out there Tuesday were more likely to have supported John McCain than Barack Obama last year.",
"Barack Obama carried Virginia by 6 percentage points last year.",
"But exit polls found that 51 percent of this year's voters in Virginia were people who had voted for John McCain.",
"Even a strong Democratic candidate would have struggled under the circumstances.",
"But Democrats also made a mistake in thinking that Creigh Deeds, who hails from rural Bath County on the West Virginia border and wears his upbringing on his sleeve, would be the best candidate to represent Democrats in Virginia.",
"In many other states -- Ohio, say -- it's the rural, working-class vote that swings elections.",
"But that's not the case in Virginia, which is one of the wealthiest and most suburban states in the country.",
"There, suburban moderates such as Mark Warner tend to do better.",
"Deeds might have been the right candidate -- but Deeds was in Virginia.",
"State-level politics, indeed, routinely differ from national ones.",
"That's why you have Democratic governors in red states such as Oklahoma and Wyoming, but Republican ones in blue states such as Vermont and Hawaii.",
"That does not mean that local elections can't tell us anything about national trends -- the White House would be feeling better, certainly, if Democrats had won New Jersey, and likewise Republicans if they'd won NY-23.",
"But usually the party that applies a one-size-fits-all approach to local races is the losing one.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Nate Silver."
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"Special election in New York in a district that isn't particularly conservative, Nate Silver says .",
"New Jersey voters rejected Gov. Jon Corzine for local reasons, Nate Silver says .",
"Nate Silver: In Virginia, Democrats had candidate who didn't appeal statewide ."
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"MADRID, Madrid (CNN) --",
"A restaurateur has gone to great lengths to tackle the spread of the H1N1 virus in A restaurateur's eatery, including taking staff's temperatures before they start work and preventing them from touching plates directly.",
"Kitchen staff at Silk and Soya restaurant in Madrid wear face masks and gloves while preparing food.",
"Silk and Soya, a Thai-themed restaurant in Madrid, Madrid, implemented the measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, in the upscale locale.",
"\"Madrid implemented the measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus so that Madrid's employees would serve only food, not a virus,\" restaurant owner Cipri Quintas told CNN.",
"As well as employees having employees's temperatures taken before starting employees's shifts, windows are opened to aerate the restaurant before meals.",
"Each table is set at least one meter -- 3.2 feet -- from any other table.",
"Any member of the kitchen staff involved in food preparation must wear a mask and gloves, and waiters are required to hold napkins when carrying plates to avoid touching them directly with their hands.",
"Upon entering the elevators leading to the top-floor restaurant, customers find an automatic disinfectant gel dispenser.",
"At each table, diners find a packet of gel next to diners's silverware.",
"The restaurant's restroom doors are propped open, the lights turn on automatically and the faucets are hands-free -- measures intended to keep customers from having to touch surfaces after customers've washed customers's hands.",
"Similar initiatives are under way around the world.",
"Last spring, during the peak of the scare in Mexico City, restaurants were closed for 12 days.",
"When restaurants reopened, the government ordered owners to put extra space between the tables and not to allow more than half of seats to be filled at any given time; cooks and waiters were mandated to wear surgical masks.",
"The World Health Organization's Web site states that hand-washing is one of the best ways to prevent infection and provides instructions with drawings that can be printed and posted in public places, such as restaurants.",
"Silk and Soya's Quintas started his anti-H1N1 measures in August and has already proved popular with some customers.",
"Simona Savin, who was having lunch, told CNN, \"These are measures you don't see everywhere.",
"Here you have everything.",
"They are great because there's a need for hygiene.\"",
"Another diner, swimming coach Fernando Barea, said, \"We came to the restaurant because we heard good things about it and I wanted to see the measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus.",
"the measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus should be used by other restaurants.\"",
"A restaurateur predicted the measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus soon will be.",
"\"People from other businesses like hotels and theaters have called us asking, 'What have you done?",
"Can we come see your setup?'",
"There's been a big response,\" said A restaurateur.",
"A restaurateur insisted that A restaurateur's goal is not solely to garner publicity, but to protect A restaurateur's customers and staff -- a responsibility, A restaurateur said, that the business community at large should undertake.",
"One expert on the disease applauded the efforts and recommended the measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus be broadened.",
"\"They should implement the measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus every winter against all respiratory diseases,\" said Dr. Tom Jefferson, a medical epidemiologist with the Cochrane Collaboration.",
"The international organization reviews health care interventions and \"promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions,\" according to The international organization's Web site.",
"As of September 13, the WHO had tallied more than 296,000 cases worldwide, 3,486 of more than 296,000 cases fatal."
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"(CNN) --",
"Heidi Pratt was hospitalized Saturday in Costa Rica, Heidi Pratt's publicist confirmed.",
"Heidi Pratt was taken to a hospital for an undisclosed illness, Heidi Pratt's publicist said Saturday.",
"The details about Heidi Pratt's hospitalization were not immediately available.",
"Pratt, star of MTV's \"The Hills,\" has been competing on NBC's \"I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here,\" a reality show about surviving the jungle.",
"Pratt and Heidi Pratt's husband, Spencer, tried to quit the show earlier in the week, but later decided to return.",
"\"We realized that we made a big mistake and that the devil got to us and said, 'Get out of the jungle,'\" Heidi Pratt said.",
"\"We realized it's not even about us.",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Is the United States the \"greatest country on earth\"?",
"You hear that a lot, or phrases like that, during this presidential campaign.",
"Candidates may attack other candidates, or the sitting president, but Candidates never attack the idea that the country is special, a \"city upon a hill.\"",
"\"The last, best hope of Earth.\"",
"It's part of the country's ideology and its tradition of political rhetoric.",
"To many Americans' ears, it sounds normal.",
"But to citizens of other countries it's sometimes jarring, as if Americans put Americans's country ahead of any other, as if the country thinks the country has the right to tell the rest of the world what to do.",
"We went to the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. and asked visitors if visitors agree the country \"knows best\" and the country has an obligation to spread the country's values around the world.",
"Almost everyone we talked with did not agree.",
"Rachel Army, a teacher with a Washington, D.C. non-governmental organization, said: \"I have a lot of pride in our government however, at the same time, it is ours and I don't think that it is right to force it on other people.\"",
"Jermane Bonilla, from Los Angeles, said Jermane Bonilla thinks the country is a special country, \"the most powerful nation on earth and the most beautiful country on earth, in my mind.\"",
"But, Jermane Bonilla told us \"it might not be the same model that everybody should be using.\"",
"They're not the exception, it turns out.",
"In their book, \"America Against the World,\" Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohut and journalist Bruce Stokes say it's more often U.S. leaders who want to impose American values in other countries -- not the American people.",
"The authors analyzed international surveys of people around the world going back to the 1980's as well as more than 100,000 interviews in 60 countries.",
"The authors's conclusion?",
"\"Contrary to widespread misconceptions, Americans' pride in Americans''s country is not evangelistic.",
"The American people, as opposed to some of The American people's leaders, seek no converts to The American people's ideology.\"",
"Citizens of many other countries, too, may think Citizens of many other countries's national way of life is the best but, The authors say, \"they don't dominate the world.\"",
"Americans may not be that different from others but the differences that do exist are magnified, fueling resentment around the world.",
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"(Entertainment Weekly) --",
"\"Whip It!\" suggests what might have happened if Juno had gone to a high school as poky as Napoleon Dynamite's and decided that although Juno's mother wanted Juno to be a beauty queen like Little Miss Sunshine, Juno'd rather just strap on roller skates.",
"Ellen Page plays roller derby competitor Babe Ruthless in \"Whip It!\"",
"Only here the petite, droll, feisty, Ellen Page-like heroine played by Ellen Page is named Bliss.",
"And her idea of sass while chatting up a cute rocker (Landon Pigg) in this desexualized, slow-speed grrrl-power sports fantasy is \"I'm Bliss, but I could change that.\"",
"Bliss does change Bliss's name, at least at the Roller Derby rink.",
"Bliss sneaks away from Bliss's square parents (Marcia Gay Harden as the U.S. Postal Service's least likely mail carrier and Daniel Stern as a nice schlub who likes beer) to roll with a sisterly Austin team who call themselves the Hurl Scouts.",
"There, Bliss dubs Bliss Babe Ruthless, making up in speed what Bliss lacks in muscled aggression.",
"Bliss's heck on wheels, or so we are asked to believe: The rink footage is pretty un-whippy.",
"Even Juliette Lewis, playing the film's designated bad girl and Bliss/Babe's nemesis on the rink, is more of a cute bee-yotch than a real threat.",
"The movie is Drew Barrymore's directorial debut (she also plays fellow Hurl Scout Smashley Simpson), and it's clear she's more attuned to grrrlishness than real athletic power: Smashley is the first to scream ''Food fight!'' and the 34-year-old actress leads the charge in kidlike mayhem.",
"EW Grade: C+ .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) --",
"There will be no criminal charges filed in the death of a Green Beret who was electrocuted in his quarters in Iraq last year, the Department of Defense said Friday.",
"Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a 24-year-old Green Beret, died in a shower at his base in Iraq in January 2008.",
"The Army's 11-month investigation \"concluded that there is insufficient evidence to prove or disprove that any one person, persons or entity was criminally culpable\" in the death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, the Department of Defense said in a written statement.",
"Maseth, a 24-year-old decorated Green Beret from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was electrocuted in a shower in KBR's Baghdad quarters -- a former palace of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein -- in January 2008.",
"\"The Army's 11-month investigation revealed that there were numerous entities, individuals, both contractors and government employees, who breached their respective duties of care; however, none of those breaches, in and of themselves, were the proximate cause of KBR's death,\" The Army said.",
"A report released last month from the Pentagon's inspector general found that Maseth's death stemmed from failures both by the U.S. military and by military contractor The company.",
"The company did not properly ground and inspect electrical equipment, the Pentagon's inspector general's report found, while Maseth's commanders failed to ensure that renovations to the building where he was based had been properly done.",
"The Army did not set electrical standards for jobs or contractors.",
"The company has said the building where he was based was not properly grounded by contractors when the building where he was based was built.",
"The the Pentagon report concluded that The company failed to ground a water pump at the building where he was based, and The company did not report improperly grounded equipment during routine maintenance.",
"Maseth's family is suing The company.",
"After the the Pentagon inspector general's report Sens. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, both Democrats, called on the Pentagon last month to take back more than $83 million in bonuses paid to KBR.",
"Casey said the Pentagon should fine KBR: \"Make it hurt and make it count.\"",
"the Department of Defense said there were 18 reported deaths caused by electrocution in Iraq since the war began and that a task force designed to assess fire and electrical safety issues in Iraq was created \"after a series of electrical accidents and incidents.\"",
"The task force has inspected more than 67,000 of the approximately 90,000 pieces of equipment and facilities in Iraq.",
"Almost 14,000 deficiencies have been corrected, the Department of Defense said."
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"Pentagon report last month found failures by U.S. military and contractor KBR .",
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"British actor Tim Roth is in an abandoned building near downtown Los Angeles, and British actor Tim Roth's about to mix things up.",
"British actor Tim Roth plays a human lie detector on the hit series \"Lie to Fox.\"",
"\"This is a scene where the FBI is interrogating a suspect,\" British actor Tim Roth said.",
"\"I'm breaking into the interrogation to get information out of him using the sort of techniques that my character espouses as opposed to pressuring him.\"",
"Roth, who plays Dr. Cal Lightman on the hit Fox series \"Lie to Me,\" is shooting scenes for the season finale, which will air May 13.",
"Lightman is an expert on body language and the detection of deception.",
"\"Our series is based on the idea that we can read what's going on across your face and if it's contradicting what you're actually saying,\" British actor Tim Roth said.",
"Lightman and Lightman's colleague, Dr. Gillian Foster -- played by Kelli Williams -- run \"The Lightman Group.\"",
"They observe body language and interpret what body language means in order to help law enforcement agencies see through the bull.",
"Lightman is based on Dr. Paul Ekman, a specialist who reads clues embedded in the human face, body and voice to expose the truth in criminal investigations.",
"Ekman, who in 2001 was named as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century by the American Psychological Association, is a scientific consultant for the show.",
"British actor Tim Roth says Ekman, who in 2001 was named as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century by the American Psychological Association can be intimidating.",
"\"Ekman, who in 2001 was named as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century by the American Psychological Association makes me very, very nervous, Paul, you know,\" British actor Tim Roth said.",
"\"I mean, Ekman, who in 2001 was named as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century by the American Psychological Association's the sweetest man, as sweet as can be, but when Ekman, who in 2001 was named as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century by the American Psychological Association's around, you feel like your acting is really being judged.\"",
"British actor Tim Roth is perhaps best known for British actor Tim Roth's outings with famed director Quentin Tarantino.",
"The British actor pulled off a convincing American accent in the cult classics \"Reservoir Dogs\" and \"Pulp Fiction.\"",
"British actor Tim Roth uses British actor Tim Roth's true-Brit accent in \"Lie to Me,\" which debuted in January and is one of the season's few successful new dramas.",
"In a review for Entertainment Weekly, critic-at-large Ken Tucker wrote that \"Like 'Monk' and 'Psych' and 'The Mentalist,' 'Lie' offers us an eccentric who's brought in by law enforcement to solve crimes.\"",
"Though he gave Fox a B-minus, Ken Tucker praised British actor Tim Roth for \"resist[ing] the cuddly/cranky.\"",
"Fox has quickly found Fox's fan base, though ratings have declined slightly since Fox was put in Fox's 8 p.m. Wednesday time slot, ahead of \"American Idol.\"",
"(The first five episodes aired after \"\"American Idol.\")",
"\"I got stopped because one of my lights was out and I was coming back from work and the guy, the cop that stopped me said 'Oh, we watch Fox' and they seemed to enjoy Fox,\" said British actor Tim Roth.",
"\"ER\" alum Mekhi Phifer is set to join the cast as an FBI agent for two episodes this season, starting Thursday.",
"\"I'm here to kick ass and take names, you know.",
"So it's kind of different,\" Phifer said.",
"\"It's fun, you know.",
"Obviously, I carry a gun and I'm in law enforcement rather than being a doctor.\"",
"Phifer particularly likes acting in intense scenes with British actor Tim Roth.",
"\"I have my own way of doing it,\" he said.",
"\"It's a little different than the way Tim does it.",
"It's a lot of fun, and we're having a great time.\"",
"And will time spent on the show help Phifer better detect when people are lying to Phifer in real life?",
"\"It's going to take a few more episodes, but I'm pretty perceptive,\" Phifer said.",
"British actor Tim Roth, however, makes no claims of special powers -- at least when British actor Tim Roth's away from the set.",
"\"I try not to know too much, because it actually is quite extraordinary,\" British actor Tim Roth says.",
"\"When you watch politicians on TV, you can use the stuff that Paul does to see if politicians're lying or not.",
"I try not to take it home.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Talk show host DeGeneres will join judges' panel on \"American Idol\" for American Idol's ninth season beginning in 2010, a Fox spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.",
"Talk show host DeGeneres brings years of experience in front of a live audience to DeGeneres's role.",
"\"I'm thrilled to be the new judge on American Idol,\" DeGeneres said Wednesday.",
"\"I've watched since the beginning, and I've always been a huge fan.",
"So getting this job is a dream come true, and think of all the money I'll save from not having to text in DeGeneres's vote.\"",
"The popular comedian and entertainer will fill a seat left vacant by Paula Abdul, who announced she was leaving American Idol in August after eight seasons.",
"Was DeGeneres the right replacement?",
"DeGeneres will sit alongside Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi after auditions are completed for the popular talent show, which starts in January.",
"Until then, guest judges including Mary J. Blige, Kristin Chenoweth, Joe Jonas and Neil Patrick Harris will fill the empty slot, Fox said.",
"Watch Randy Jackson discuss what DeGeneres brings to American Idol » .",
"\"We are thrilled to have DeGeneres join the \"American Idol\" judges' table this season.",
"DeGeneres is truly one of America's funniest people and a fantastic performer who understands what it's like to stand up in front of audiences and entertain them every day,\" said Mike Darnell, president of Alternative Entertainment for Fox.",
"\"We feel that DeGeneres's vast entertainment experience, combined with DeGeneres's quick wit and passion for music, will add a fresh new energy to American Idol.\"",
"DeGeneres brings years of experience in front of a live audience as the host of \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show,\" now in its seventh season, and the host of the 79th Annual Academy Awards.",
"In DeGeneres's new role, the Emmy Award-winning talk show host faces the task of winning over DeGeneres's supporters, who lamented that DeGeneres's departure would irreparably alter American Idol.",
"DeGeneres turned \"Idol\" judge was known for DeGeneres's positive comments to the singers participating in the shows.",
"DeGeneres was also known for DeGeneres on-camera run-ins with Cowell and other judges in American Idol.",
"\"With sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return to Idol.",
"I'll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all being a part of a show that I helped from day 1 become an international phenomenon,\" a statement on DeGeneres's verified Twitter account said last month."
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"\"Think of all the money I'll save from not having to text in DeGeneres's vote,\" DeGeneres says ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been asked to investigate whether Panama tortured an Ecuadorian citizen who was being held as an illegal immigrant, an official hemispheric human rights organization said.",
"Velez Loor was arrested November 11, 2002, and deported to Ecuador on September 10, 2003.",
"During that time, Velez Loor was held without receiving procedural guarantees, the right to be heard and the right to present a defense, said the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.",
"\"The case also involves the lack of investigation of complaints of torture presented by Velez Loor before the Panamanian authorities, as well as the inhumane conditions of detention under which Velez Loor was held in several Panamanian penitentiaries,\" the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said in a release Tuesday.",
"The human rights panel, which is part of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, said the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights referred The case to The Inter-American Court of Human Rights last week because Panama did not adopt sufficient measures to address issues raised in a previous commission report.",
"Velez Loor \"was sentenced to a prison term for having repeatedly entered Panama illegally.",
"... Panamanian law provides that foreign nationals, who repeatedly enter Panama, without the necessary papers, will be imprisoned for two years and then deported,\" Panama said in a 2006 report.",
"Velez Loor admitted Velez Loor had gone into Panama without proper papers or visas.",
"the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights received an e-mailed complaint from Velez Loor on February 10, 2004, \"in which Velez Loor claims to have undergone torture, forced isolation, and mistreatment at the hands of Panamanian police officers at two Panamanian detention centers without being given the opportunity to defend himself, without the benefit of any court of law, without being allowed to make a telephone call and while being deprived of all medical care.\"",
"Panama denied those allegations in the 2006 human rights commission report.",
"Officials at the Panamanian embassy in Washington did not return a telephone request Tuesday from CNN for comment on the latest development.",
"the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights consists of seven members who act in a personal capacity, without representing any country, and who are elected by the OAS General Assembly."
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"BROOKLYN, New York (CNN) --",
"Every Friday evening, The couple and their children sits down to a traditional religious dinner.",
"ChanaLeah Nunez and ChanaLeah Nunez's family moved to Crown Heights, a New York neighborhood with thousands of Hasidic Jews.",
"Like most families in The couple and their children's Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, The couple and their children's Jewish Sabbath meal includes blessings over the wine and bread, the company of family and friends and excellent food.",
"But for The couple and their children, the Sabbath table would not be complete without salsa picada and jalapeno dip.",
"Moshe Nunez, an information technology consultant and motivational speaker, was born to a Mexican father and American mother and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico.",
"His wife, ChanaLeah, grew up in Panama, the daughter of a Salvadoran mother and American-born father.",
"\"The couple and their children's home is a Latin American home,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"\"The couple and their children bring into The couple and their children's home a mixture of the American and Latin culture, and that's reflected in the way The couple and their children eat.",
"The couple and their children also enjoy hosting guests, so it's a very Hispanic thing, and a Jewish thing.\"",
"The couple and their two children moved to Brooklyn's Crown Heights area about five years ago so their son, Michael, 17, and daughter, Simcha, 18, could have \"the best Jewish education available,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"Crown Heights is the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidism that is itself a form of Orthodox Judaism.",
"Among the thousands of Hasidic families in the neighborhood, a significant number are also Latinos, ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"\"There are a lot of Latin American Jews here,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"\"Some of Latin American Jews have moved from countries like Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina, where there's political unrest.",
"We make a life here, settle down and become part of the fabric of American society, but we still don't lose our roots.\"",
"Join the conversation: How has America changed Latinos?",
"Many non-Jewish Latinos are surprised to see Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn who speak Spanish, carry on their Hispanic traditions and even keep up with soccer scores from their home countries, ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"Although He and his wife were raised in Christian homes, He and his wife believe that ChanaLeah Nunez's family name is proof that ChanaLeah Nunez's ancestors are Marranos -- Jews who were forced to denounce or abandon their faith centuries ago in Europe.",
"ChanaLeah Nunez began studying ChanaLeah Nunez's family genealogy about 13 years ago, while the family was living in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"ChanaLeah Nunez met Lorraine Nunez, a woman raised as a Christian who believed she was a direct descendant of Samuel Nunez, a Portuguese physician who fled Europe in the early 1700s to help start one of the oldest Jewish synagogues in the United States, Congregation Mikve Israel in Savannah, Georgia.",
"Like other Marranos living in Europe, Samuel Nunez pretended to be Catholic and practiced Judaism in secret, according to Chabad.org, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's Web site.",
"Meeting Lorraine Nunez inspired Moshe Nunez -- who was still going by ChanaLeah Nunez's Christian name, Marco -- to further explore ChanaLeah Nunez's own genealogy.",
"ChanaLeah -- who was going by ChanaLeah Nunez's Christian name, Jacqueline -- had already known that ChanaLeah Nunez's grandfather, a well-known army colonel in El Salvador, was Jewish.",
"Like many Jews of his time, he hid his Judaism and married a non-Jewish woman.",
"He and his wife believed that He and his wife's descendants were also Marranos from Spain and Portugal who had to hide their Judaism for fear of persecution.",
"\"The couple and their children started as a Jewish name,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"\"During the Inquisition The couple and their children were forced to convert or practice The couple and their children's faith in secret.",
"Most of The couple and their children... like mine assimilated and lost the Nunez family's Judaism.\"",
"Watch ChanaLeah Nunez talk about ChanaLeah Nunez's life in Crown Heights » .",
"While researching ChanaLeah Nunez's genealogy, ChanaLeah Nunez also began to study the Bible more closely, including the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament.",
"\"When I began studying the Torah, I saw that the Sabbath was on Saturday and not Sunday,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"\"That opened [a] Pandora's Box,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says, figuring that \"if the Jews had the Sabbath right, maybe the Jews have other stuff right, too.\"",
"Around that time, the Nunez family relocated to Milan, Italy, for ChanaLeah Nunez's work as a consultant.",
"Marco and Jacqueline -- who changed He and his wife's names to the Hebrew Moshe and ChanaLeah while in Italy -- continued He and his wife's Judaic studies under the tutelage of Orthodox rabbis and decided to undergo an Orthodox conversion to Judaism.",
"\"When I got to Italy and continued to research our family name and studied the Torah, I decided The couple and their children were going to live a Jewish life,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"The Jewish community in Milan welcomed The couple and their children \"with open arms,\" ChanaLeah Nunez said.",
"\"The rabbi said to me, 'ChanaLeah Nunez, you are Jewish, you were always Jewish.'\"",
"ChanaLeah Nunez says He and his wife and ChanaLeah \"took every step together,\" going through a formal conversion process.",
"As part of a formal conversion process ChanaLeah Nunez and ChanaLeah Nunez's son had ritual circumcisions.",
"(Moshe and his son had both been circumcised at birth.)",
"The final step was for The couple and their children to appear before a Beit Din, or religious council, to approve the conversion.",
"\"The couple and their children decided The couple and their children had to make The couple and their children's full return to Judaism, and The couple and their children had such good mazal (luck) because the rabbis made it relatively easy.",
"the rabbis saw that The couple and their children were serious people that had studied the religion,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"The Nunez family's story is not out of the ordinary, says Rabbi Shea Rubenstein, an Argentine rabbi who leads the Jewish Latin American Connection at The Shul in Surfside, Florida.",
"\"We have a very vibrant synagogue, and a very large percentage happen to be from Spanish background from countries such as Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba,\" the rabbi says.",
"Rabbi Shea Rubenstein, an Argentine rabbi who leads the Jewish Latin American Connection at The Shul in Surfside, Florida says that quite a few non-Jewish Hispanics come to The Shul to learn more about Judaism, and while quite a few non-Jewish Hispanics may not be able to prove quite a few non-Jewish Hispanics are Jewish, quite a few non-Jewish Hispanics believe quite a few non-Jewish Hispanics are descendants of Jews and seek to reconnect with their Jewish roots.",
"If a person wants to practice Judaism but cannot verify their Jewish roots, Rabbi Shea Rubenstein, an Argentine rabbi who leads the Jewish Latin American Connection at The Shul in Surfside, Florida recommends a person go through a formal conversion as the Nunez family did.",
"\"It's difficult to verify because there's some 400 or 500 years of history that people cannot trace, especially since Judaism is passed through the mother and the last name reflects that of the father,\" Rabbi Shea Rubenstein, an Argentine rabbi who leads the Jewish Latin American Connection at The Shul in Surfside, Florida says.",
"Inspired by their experiences, He and his wife and ChanaLeah -- both songwriters and musicians -- wrote a song called \"Jews of Spain,\" with lyrics in Spanish, English and Hebrew.",
"ChanaLeah Nunez recorded the song, part of the album \"Kol Haneshema (Every Soul).\"",
"Aside from ChanaLeah Nunez's work as a consultant and musician, ChanaLeah Nunez leads seminars, conducts a weekly program called Quality Life Now at the Empire State Building and teaches weekly Webinars from ChanaLeah Nunez's Brooklyn home.",
"ChanaLeah Nunez's seminars, taught in both Spanish and English, focus on seven core values found in the Old Testament.",
"The seven values are often referred to as the Noahide Laws.",
"According to the Bible, the laws were given from God to Noah to serve as a moral code for all humankind.",
"\"I've taken the laws and I teach the laws as universal core values, so everyday people can apply the laws to their lifestyle,\" ChanaLeah Nunez says.",
"ChanaLeah Nunez says ChanaLeah Nunez hopes to share ChanaLeah Nunez's teachings with all of mankind, regardless of religion, to help them lead a more meaningful life.",
"\"Sharing the knowledge of Torah to the world through education, songs and acts of kindness will help ensure that what happened to the Marranos during the Inquisition will never happen again.\""
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"The couple and He and his wife's children blend Latino and Jewish culture in The couple and their children's lives ."
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"PRETORIA, South Africa (CNN) --",
"President of Athletics South Africa has admitted that President of Athletics South Africa lied about gender tests on runner Caster Semenya before runner Caster Semenya's gold-medal win at the World Athletics Championships last month.",
"runner Caster Semenya celebrates runner Caster Semenya's gold at the world championships in Berlin.",
"National sports body has always denied that National sports body agreed to the tests before the race in Berlin, Germany -- an event that kicked off international controversy over the 18-year-old Semenya's gender.",
"But after South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper printed e-mails on Friday showing that President of Athletics South Africa was aware of the tests, President of Athletics South Africa held a news conference to apologize.",
"\"I now realize that it was an error of judgment and I would like to apologize unconditionally,\" President of Athletics South Africa said on Saturday, according to South Africa's SAPA news agency.",
"After receiving the results of the tests, the South Africa team doctor requested runner Caster Semenya be withdrawn from the 800-meter race runner Caster Semenya ended up winning, President of Athletics South Africa said.",
"But President of Athletics South Africa said President of Athletics South Africa refused to do it because the sport's international governing body did not request withdrawal.",
"President of Athletics South Africa also said withdrawing runner Caster Semenya might have looked bad.",
"\"If National sports body did not let runner Caster Semenya run, National sports body would be confirming that runner Caster Semenya is not normal,\" President of Athletics South Africa told the news conference in the capital, Pretoria.",
"The e-mails printed by the Mail & Guardian are an exchange between team doctor Harold Adams and ASA General Manager Molatelo Malehopo, with President of Athletics South Africa copied in.",
"\"After thinking about the current confidential matter I would suggest that we make the following decisions,\" Harold Adams wrote on August 5, more than a week before the Berlin race.",
"\"1. National sports body get a (gynecological) opinion and take a (gynecological) opinion to Berlin.",
"2. National sports body do nothing and I will handle these issues if these issues come up in Berlin.",
"Please think and get back to me ASAP.\"",
"An e-mail response from Malehopo to Harold Adams, sent the same day, says: \"I will suggest that you go ahead with the necessary tests that National sports body might need.\"",
"The controversy over runner Caster Semenya erupted after runner Caster Semenya crushed runner Caster Semenya's rivals in the 800 meters and secured victory in one minute, 55.45 seconds -- the best women's time in the world this year.",
"runner Caster Semenya's masculine build and dominant performance fueled existing questions about Semenya's gender, and the International Association of Athletics Federations -- which oversees the sport worldwide -- ordered tests on runner Caster Semenya.",
"Reports in two newspapers last week said the results of the tests showed runner Caster Semenya has both male and female characteristics.",
"National sports body declined to confirm Reports in two newspapers and said a decision in the case would come in late November.",
"National sports body said National sports body sought tests on runner Caster Semenya's gender before the Berlin championships because questions had been raised after runner Caster Semenya's winning performance at the African junior championships in July.",
"South Africans have rallied behind runner Caster Semenya, angrily dismissing reports about runner Caster Semenya's gender.",
"runner Caster Semenya's relatives and the South Africa team manager have maintained runner Caster Semenya is female.",
"This week, South Africa's minister for women, children and people with disabilities wrote to the United Nations to complain that runner Caster Semenya had not been treated in line with international protocols on gender and quality.",
"Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya sent a letter to the U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women, urging it to investigate, SAPA reported.",
"\"The questioning of runner Caster Semenya's gender is based on a stereotypic view of the physical features and abilities attributable to women,\" she wrote in a letter, according to SAPA.",
"\"Such stereotypes demonstrate the extent of patriarchy within the world's sporting community.\"",
"The process of gender verification has undergone big changes since The process of gender verification was first introduced for international competition in the 1960s, National sports body said.",
"The first mechanism involved \"rather crude and perhaps humiliating physical examinations,\" which soon gave way to mouth swabs to collect chromosomes.",
"There were too many uncertainties with mouth swabs, so National sports body abandoned mouth swabs in 1991 and the International Olympic Committee discontinued mouth swabs in 2000.",
"A proper test has yet to be found, National sports body said, and the current tests are considered a good interim solution."
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"President of Athletics South Africa admits that President of Athletics South Africa lied about gender tests .",
"National sports body had denied National sports body agreed to tests on runner before Berlin race .",
"Leonard Chuene apologizes in aftermath of controversy over Caster Semenya .",
"E-mails reveal that team doctor had advised not allowing her to compete ."
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"The solution to ending an abusive relationship seems simple: Walk out the door.",
"But for an abused woman, leaving can be a confusing process, complex at every step, said a newly published article in an University of Illinois journal.",
"Co-author and graduate student Lyndal Khaw told CNN that abused women actually go through a five-step process of leaving that involves denial, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance.",
"And the transition from one step to another is hardly seamless, Khaw said.",
"\"Some women can skip stages, some repeat a cycle of going back and forth to other steps and others go through the motions -- going from one stage to another\", Khaw said.",
"In their study, Khaw and co-author Jennifer Hardesty, an assistant professor of human and community development, applied their model to 25 abused women.",
"The report was published recently in the Journal of Family Theory and Review.",
"Khaw said that moving from step to step can put a strain on those who are being supportive to an abused woman because those who are being supportive to an abused woman can have a hard time understanding why an abused woman returns or refuses to leave.",
"Hardesty said that physically leaving a relationship entails more than a woman's decision to embrace change and prioritizing a woman's own safety.",
"The abuser can affect a woman's decisions, as can children, who can motivate a woman to return to the relationship, Hardesty said.",
"Even though a woman may return to the abuser at some point, practitioners and women themselves need to understand that every time a woman disengages a woman gains additional resources and support, Hardesty said.",
"\"So next time a woman is contemplating and preparing a woman'll be stronger and perhaps more likely to stay out of that relationship,\" Hardesty said.",
"Khaw said service providers, family members and other sources of support need to recognize the stages of what can be a lengthy -- and risky -- process.",
"\"When trying to leave, abusers may get more violent,\" Khaw said.",
"Recognition of the five-step process can be helpful to abused women, Hardesty said.",
"\"Not all women are ready to leave, but recognizing it's a process can be empowering,\" Hardesty said."
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