id
stringlengths 40
40
| article_sents
sequence | highlights_sents
sequence | highlights_sents_cluster
sequence | article_sents_cluster
sequence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2c1e89099b04e5975d35965499f712da08d4a051 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Defending World Cup champion Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria claimed the second leg of the famous Four Hills ski-jumping tournament at Garmisch on New Year's Day.",
"Gregor Schlierenzauer could only finish ninth in the first event at Oberstdorf on Tuesday, but made no mistake with leaps of 136.5 and 137.5m and good style marks for a total of 277.7 points.",
"It gave Gregor Schlierenzauer a comfortable advantage over fellow Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl, who twice jumped 135m for 272.5 points.",
"Switzerland's double Olympic champion from 2002 in Salt Lake City, Simon Ammann, showed he is running into form for Vancouver next February, after jumping 132 and 143.5m for 272.4 points and third place.",
"Austrian Andreas Kofler, who won at Oberstdorf, maintained the overall lead in the four-event competition as he came in fourth with leaps of 136 and 137m for 271.9 points.",
"Finland's five-time Four Hills champion Janne Ahonen, second at Oberstdorf on his comeback from retirement, finished sixth after jumps of 129.5 and 137m gave him 259.2 points.",
"Kofler leads the standings with a 20-point lead over Loitzl with Ahonen third ahead of the next competition at Innsbruck on Sunday.",
"The Four Hills concludes in Austria, at Bischofshofen on January 6.",
"Ammann still leads the overall World Cup standings with Schlierenzauer closing up in second place and Kofler third.",
"In other pre-Olympic news, leading U.S. snowboarder Kevin Pearce suffered serious injuries in training for the halfpipe event in Utah.",
"Reports said leading U.S. snowboarder Kevin Pearce hit head on the halfpipe while attempting a complex move and was taken to a hospital in Salt Lake City.",
"leading U.S. snowboarder Kevin Pearce was among the favorites for gold at the 2010 Vancouver games having beaten 2006 Olympic gold medallist Shaun White in recent competitions."
] | [
"Gregor Schlierenzauer wins Garmisch round of Four Hills ski-jumping tournament .",
"Austrian Andreas Kofler, who won at Oberstdorf, maintains the overall standings lead .",
"U.S. snowboarder Kevin Pearce suffers head injuries in training accident for halfpipe event ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
0,
3,
1,
3,
1,
3,
1,
2,
2,
2
] |
c92f5b4110ae1d43a0c273909569e0995e66932a | [
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Barry Levinson's is the star of Barry Levinson's's new film.",
"Well, almost.",
"Barry Levinson's sizes up politics and media in Barry Levinson's's new film, \"PoliWood.\"",
"In the Academy Award-winning filmmaker's new documentary \"PoliWood,\" Barry Levinson's takes a look at the world of policymakers and screen actors and ends up voicing his own ideas in the process.",
"\"The fact that my voice is in it always scares me to death, because I never like to be on camera, period,\" Barry Levinson's said.",
"(The \"Rain Man\" director has appeared in a handful of films, notably the Robert Redford-directed \"Quiz Show.\")",
"In \"PoliWood,\" Barry Levinson's follows a group of politically active actors to the Democratic and Republican conventions as they take in the theater of it all.",
"The journey leads to President Obama's inauguration.",
"\"PoliWood\" also explores the idea that the media have become confusing catalysts that blur the lines of reality and myth.",
"Television, which was once a romanticized invention that brought entertainment and public service announcements into our homes, is now a portal for manipulating what we see, feel and think, in the film's presentation.",
"CNN talked to Barry Levinson's about the politics of the media, Hollywood actors supporting candidates and \"PoliWood.\"",
"CNN: Tell me about the celebrity-politician-media link.",
"Barry Levinson's:",
"Well, I think what happened is, you have this television screen, and everything has to go through this television screen -- and at a certain point, I don't think that we can tell the difference between the celebrity and the politician.",
"They both have to entertain us in some fashion.",
"That's why I think, in second half of the 20th century, you saw this kind of change where John F. Kennedy was probably the first television politician.",
"John F. Kennedy came across, John F. Kennedy was good-looking, John F. Kennedy was great in the way John F. Kennedy spoke; John F. Kennedy had a certain sense of humor.",
"Then you had Reagan.",
"Someone looked at him giving a speech for Goldwater and said, you know, he could be a politician.",
"Two years after that, he became governor of California.",
"So anyone that is pleasant enough on television suddenly gets credentials, whether anyone that is pleasant enough on television have earned it or not.",
"And there's that blurring of it between celebrity and politics and everything else.",
"CNN:",
"Do you think that most celebrities have a good understanding of the politicians most celebrities support, or do some just jump on the bandwagon?",
"Barry Levinson's:",
"I think \"PoliWood\" shows it in some ways and talks about it.",
"But basically, to be honest, there is no upside for any actor to be politically involved other than the fact that they are concerned citizens.",
"It doesn't benefit their career at all.",
"The term \"celebrity\" is sort of a bogus term, though, in a lot of ways.",
"CNN:",
"Why?",
"Barry Levinson's: Well because Paris Hilton and Susan Sarandon, Paris Hilton and Susan Sarandon're both celebrities, but Paris Hilton hasn't ever really done anything, in a way.",
"Susan Sarandon has been an actress whose done a lot of different roles, been around a long time, has been politically active, extremely smart and knowledgeable about that.",
"But there's two women, two women get exposure, but there's a huge difference between that.",
"Some have earned it; some get that attention just by the way they look or the way they have carried on in public.",
"CNN:",
"There's a scene in \"PoliWood\" where actors sit down with regular people, and actors talk about relating to one another.",
"Barry Levinson's:",
"Well, how is that so-called celebrities -- how would so-called celebrities possibly relate to the ordinary person?",
"But 90 percent of so-called celebrities come from those families -- they come out of the Midwest or the South or the Northeast.",
"They come out of working-class families primarily.",
"And because of the nature of America, that if you have certain dreams, and ultimately certain dreams can in fact come true, they benefited by the society that they live in.",
"But their roots come from all these small towns around America, so of course they can relate.",
"CNN:",
"Do you think the Democratic and Republican conventions are pure theater?",
"Barry Levinson's: Oh, absolutely.",
"There's no political content that takes place at a political convention.",
"It used to be that they would hammer out a platform.",
"You know, there's all kind of back-room meetings, so now Barry Levinson's new film's a show.",
"Barry Levinson's new film is a show both places.",
"CNN:",
"What do you think of President Obama?",
"Barry Levinson's:",
"President Obama obviously is great on TV, and President Obama is extremely smart, and so what we're gonna see as it goes down the road, what changes does President Obama actually bring about?",
"How does President Obama work with Congress?",
"All of those particular issues.",
"President Obama understands TV, and President Obama's a great communicator.",
"Now, will President Obama be good or bad?",
"We'll see what happens in a four-year period from someone who has great capabilities -- where does it all go?",
"It's too early to determine that.",
"CNN:",
"Do you watch much television, or do you have a cynical view about it?",
"Barry Levinson's:",
"I try to watch TV like anyone else.",
"I like to tune in just to see what new shows are out there.",
"And then there are certain shows that I just get infuriated over.",
"And then there are so-called political shows that I have a difficult time with.",
"And sometimes I sit, and images are flying by so fast in some of these pieces, I'm going, \"What is that about?\"",
"I've no idea.",
"It looks like a collision of images on the screen."
] | [
"Barry Levinson's new film looks at how TV has influenced politics .",
"Barry Levinson's: Hard to tell politician and entertainer apart on television .",
"\"Rain Man\" director observes celebrities, ordinary people try to relate ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
4,
5,
0,
0,
6,
2,
0,
7,
0,
0,
0,
1,
4,
1,
1,
1,
5,
5,
5,
5,
1,
1,
3,
1,
4,
0,
8,
8,
1,
3,
6,
1,
1,
1,
1,
3,
0,
4,
1,
9,
9,
9,
9,
3,
8,
4,
8,
10,
4,
4,
3,
7,
4,
7,
7,
6,
7,
7,
7,
7,
3,
11,
4,
11,
11,
11,
11,
10,
10,
10
] |
b0a4154e5134e678bafbedae71e1a174c408a113 | [
"London, England (CNN) --",
"A strike that would have crippled British Airways over Christmas and New Year's Day cannot go ahead, a judge ruled Thursday.",
"Judge Laura Cox issued an injunction blocking the planned 12-day strike, which was set to start December 22 and could have affected up to 1 million passengers.",
"Airline immediately issued a statement saying it is \"delighted for Airline's customers.",
"\"There was never any need for a strike and Airline hope that Airline will take this opportunity to reflect before deciding Airline's next steps,\" Airline said, referring to the union that planned the strike.",
"\"Airline's customers do not believe that old-style trade union militancy is relevant to Airline's efforts to move British Airways back toward profitability.\"",
"But Airline joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley called it \"a disgraceful day for democracy when a court can overrule such an overwhelming decision by employees taken in a secret ballot.",
"\"This dispute is not settled.",
"Passing the buck to the courts to do management's job for them was never going to be the answer,\" they said, warning they could vote again to strike.",
"\"Airline must accept that there can be no resolution except through negotiation, failing which there will inevitably be a further ballot for industrial action.\"",
"Airline has been engaged in a bitter dispute with British Airways management.",
"\"I'm not disappointed for the people that can get away at Christmas,\" Derek Simpson told CNN.",
"\"It was never Airline's desire to hurt those people.",
"What Airline wanted to do was force a negotiated settlement.\"",
"Derek Simpson said Derek Simpson is concerned the decision has \"hardened management's attitude\" toward negotiation.",
"Airline is unhappy with Airline's plans to change cabin crew conditions.",
"Airline says working hours will be extended and crew levels will be cut, changes that will damage customer service and hit the British Airways brand.",
"Airline says the changes will save the carrier $665 million.",
"Airline has been losing hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter this year.",
"Cabin crew staff voted overwhelmingly in favor of the strike.",
"But Airline argued in court that some of the workers who cast ballots had already taken voluntary redundancy -- or buyouts -- from Airline.",
"Some 10,288 workers voted, of about 14,000 cabin crew staff overall.",
"Airline's legal counsel, Bruce Carr, told the presiding judge that the balloting process contained \"serious and substantial irregularities.\"",
"Carr called Airline's action in choosing to strike over Christmas \"willfully disproportionate and clearly unlawful.\"",
"Carr referred several times to the serious disruption that would be felt by Airline's passengers, saying some \"ordinary people will find it very difficult to understand.\"",
"Derek Simpson said management imposed terms on the union members without agreement, and when Airline asked a court to stop it, a court did not.",
"The fact that a court has now blocked Airline from striking \"shows an imbalance in employment law,\" Derek Simpson said.",
"Travel experts have said around 1 million British Airways passengers could have been affected by the strike, finding themselves stranded and unable to rebook their tickets during the busy travel period.",
"Thursday brought disruption to thousands of passengers on another airline, one run by the small Scottish charter company Globespan.",
"the small Scottish charter company Globespan announced on the small Scottish charter company Globespan's Web site that the small Scottish charter company Globespan has gone into administration and that all flights on the small Scottish charter company Globespan's airline, Flyglobespan, have been canceled.",
"Further travel headaches are in store for passengers of other airlines at Heathrow and Aberdeen airports next week.",
"Airline said baggage handlers and check-in staff at the two airports plan a series of three separate walkouts starting next week in a dispute over pay and pensions.",
"The strike is not related to the British Airways dispute.",
"The baggage handlers and check-in staff are employed by SAS Ground Services UK Ltd.",
"The strike will affect travelers on Turkish, Emirates and Thai airlines at Heathrow and passengers on KLM, Air France, Wideroe and Atlantic at Aberdeen, Airline said.",
"The walkouts are scheduled for December 22-24, December 26-27 and January 3-4.",
"Those passengers hoping to avoid air travel in Europe and take the train instead faced uncertainty after British-based drivers of the Eurostar train announced a series of two strikes starting this weekend.",
"British-based drivers of the Eurostar train said British-based drivers of the Eurostar train will strike Friday and Saturday, and again December 26 and 27.",
"Eurostar, however, said service would not be affected, because drivers from France and Belgium would be used.",
"The train line provides service between London and both Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium.",
"The union representing the drivers, the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, said talks with Eurostar \"concerning international allowances\" broke down.",
"The dispute is over how much drivers' meal allowances should be when drivers' are in Paris and Brussels.",
"A Eurostar spokeswoman said Eurostar offered the drivers what Eurostar believes is a reasonable amount, but the drivers rejected the offer.",
"A Eurostar spokeswoman would not divulge specifics of the offer, saying only that it was \"enough for a good meal.\"",
"--CNN Business Correspondent Jim Boulden contributed to this report."
] | [
"High Court issues injunction stopping planned BA holiday strike .",
"Airline issues a statement saying it is \"delighted for our customers\"",
"Travel experts say around one million passengers would be hit by strike .",
"Twelve-day strike was due to start Monday, disrupting holiday season travel ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
0
] | [
3,
0,
0,
1,
4,
4,
5,
5,
5,
4,
4,
1,
4,
4,
5,
4,
4,
4,
4,
6,
5,
6,
5,
5,
2,
5,
5,
2,
2,
2,
2,
0,
0,
2,
2,
0,
7,
7,
7,
7,
7,
7,
7,
7,
3
] |
3f5e71a04151d56e985566d8c34149a7e2c6808a | [
"(CNN) --",
"Dozens of flights were delayed at India's New Delhi airport Monday after lizards, birds and jackals strayed on to a runway to seek refuge from the monsoon rains.",
"Kids play cricket through a downpour in New Delhi as monsoon rains came early to the area this week.",
"Animal rescuers rounded up the critters and moved the critters to habitats outside airport property.",
"But the operation delayed several flights and shut down a runway for some time, airport spokesman Arun Arora said.",
"Kartick Satyanarayan of the conservation group Wildlife SOS said the animals descended on a runway in search of dry ground.",
"Kartick Satyanarayan of the conservation group Wildlife SOS's group works with India's New Delhi airport to move wildlife from airport property to a sanctuary on the outskirts of the capital.",
"\"It's been raining cats and dogs the last two days.",
"And when it rains like this, water goes in and fills the burrows of these animals,\" Kartick Satyanarayan of the conservation group Wildlife SOS said.",
"\"a runway,\" Kartick Satyanarayan of the conservation group Wildlife SOS added, \"is the only safe area.",
"So they come out.\"",
"While monsoon rains typically sweep across the subcontinent in early June, they usually do not reach the capital city of New Delhi and other regions in northern India until early July.",
"Watch how Indians cope with monsoon waters » .",
"They came about two weeks early in the northern part of the country this year, killing at least 20 people in landslides, home collapses and floods.",
"India's New Delhi airport sits on more than 2,000 acres that, over the years, have become home to jackals, porcupines, dogs, cats and a variety of birds.",
"Arora would not say how many flights were delayed during the rescue operation.",
"India's New Delhi airport handles 13,000 domestic and 9,500 international passengers a day.",
"\"(The) numbers are speculative as it is difficult to attribute delays to bad weather, strong winds, birds or animals,\" Arora said.",
"In the past, animals on the runway have disrupted flights at India's New Delhi airport -- particularly during the monsoon season, Kartick Satyanarayan of the conservation group Wildlife SOS said.",
"\"The monitor lizards --",
"The monitor lizards look frightening but The monitor lizards are harmless animals,\" Kartick Satyanarayan of the conservation group Wildlife SOS said.",
"\"But The monitor lizards can grow about three to four feet long.",
"And at the velocity a plane lands, the [lizards] can still cause damage.\""
] | [
"Jackals, monitor lizards and birds descend on runway at New Delhi airport .",
"Animal invasion delays flights as wildlife group comes to the rescue .",
"Animals take to runway to dry off and warm up after monsoon rain ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
2,
0,
3,
0,
4,
1,
0,
0,
1,
2,
2,
1,
4,
3,
4,
3,
0,
5,
5,
5,
0
] |
18984b5575a226d1d391be2b3788a0ccb794011e | [
"(CNN) --",
"American driver Robby Gordon won the fourth stage of the Dakar Rally by just one second from Stephane Peterhansel, who extended his overall lead to more than seven minutes in South America on Tuesday.",
"American driver Robby Gordon claimed American driver Robby Gordon's first victory of this year's race, and American driver Robby Gordon's third overall, as American driver Robby Gordon snatched the quickest time on the shortened 163 kilometer stage from Fiambala in Argentina to Copiapo in Chile.",
"It was cut by 40km as some competitors arrived late following Monday's leg.",
"American driver Robby Gordon clocked one hour, 40 minutes and 21 seconds in American driver Robby Gordon's Hummer to head off BMW's Peterhansel, who has won three car titles and six on bikes.",
"The Frenchman now leads Carlos Sainz by seven minutes and 36 seconds, with the former world rally champion finishing fourth behind Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah.",
"Defending champion Giniel De Villiers gave Volkswagen with three drivers in the top five, but is still way back in 20th due to his problems on Monday.",
"American driver Robby Gordon was left eight overall, more than an hour off the pace, while American driver Robby Gordon's compatriot Mark Miller is fourth in another Volkswagen after placing sixth on Tuesday.",
"\"Today's special stage was perfect for us with a lot of camel grass.",
"It's on this type of terrain that his Hummer is doing great,\" American driver Robby Gordon told the race's official Web site.",
"\"I am glad we managed to recover from yesterday.",
"I got stuck twice yesterday and the engine overheated.",
"We lost one hour.",
"It's sad but the race is still long.",
"We've only had four days of raid so far.",
"A stage victory means nothing to us.",
"It's the final victory we are in for.\"",
"In the bikes, defending champion Marc Coma bounced back from losing moer than 40 minutes over the last two days to win the stage.",
"The Spaniard was left in sixth overall, 38 minutes and 50 seconds behind Frenchman Cyril Depres, who was third on the stage also riding a 690cc KTM machine.",
"His compatriot David Casteu, riding a smaller 450cc Sherco machine, was runner-up to retain second overall -- almost nine minutes behind with 10 stages left."
] | [
"Stephane Peterhansel extends lead in Dakar Rally cars section in Stephane Peterhansel's BMW .",
"Stephane Peterhansel is more than seven minutes ahead of second-placed Carlos Sainz .",
"American driver Robby Gordon wins the fourth stage to be eighth overall .",
"In the bikes, Frenchman Cyril Depres leads by almost nine minutes after placing third ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
2,
0,
1,
0,
0,
2,
0,
2,
0,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
1,
1,
1
] |
49d090119c623b2776dc93ce8ba8a822880f50e5 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Researchers announced this week that Researchers've found a new gene, ALS6, which is responsible for about 5 percent of hereditary Lou Gehrig's cases.",
"The discovery of a new gene mutation may allow those with ALS in their family to be tested.",
"It's being called a \"momentous discovery\" by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association.",
"Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts and Kings College in London found a new gene mutation by doing detailed sequencing of the genes in several families with an inherited form of ALS.",
"The findings are published in the February 27 issue of the journal Science and were partially funded by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association.",
"ALS impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.",
"ALS was brought to national attention in 1939, when famed Yankee baseball player Lou Gehrig's illness was diagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.",
"Today, the disease is most commonly known by his name.",
"a new gene mutation is a protein normally found inside a cell's nucleus, but in patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, a new gene mutation is found outside the nucleus and sometimes forms unusual clumps.",
"ALS researchers are unsure why this occurs but believe this finding, combined with a gene Researchers discovered last year, TDP-43, may lead Researchers to a firmer idea of what causes Lou Gehrig's disease.",
"Both genes help in building and transporting proteins and making sure they're in the right place in cell structure -- a process called RNA processing.",
"Lucie Bruijn, senior vice president of research and development at the ALS Association, likens this process to building an engine: If there are parts missing or placed in the wrong place or in the wrong way, an engine doesn't work right.",
"\"Everything has an exquisite role and has to be in the right place, and any imbalance ... can cause things to go awry,\" Bruijn said.",
"\"It's exciting because what it's starting to tell us now is that we might be starting to get an underlying theme,\" Bruijn said.",
"\"We now have two genes with similar function strengthening the idea that alterations in RNA processing is important in ALS.",
"A completely new direction and also involved in many other neurodegenerative diseases.\"",
"She believes this gives researchers \"huge\" potential to develop new therapies.",
"And new therapies are needed.",
"There is no cure and only one treatment for ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that seems to progressively attack the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.",
"These attacks can cause symptoms such as muscle weakness, twitching, cramping and thick speech, eventually leading to paralysis.",
"According to the ALS Association, the disease strikes a little more than 5,600 people every year, and about 10 percent of those cases are hereditary.",
"The discovery of this new gene mutation will also allow those with ALS in their family to be tested for another gene (this makes three genes).",
"Bruijn says a test \"will be possible; however, currently, it is not widely accessible\" and \"it would only be used in familial ALS patients.\""
] | [
"Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association calls ALS gene discovery \"momentous\"",
"Two genes discovered in last 12 months could hold key for new therapies .",
"Genetic testing useful only for those with hereditary ALS .",
"ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, strikes a little more than 5,600 people every year ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
0
] | [
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
3,
1,
0,
1,
2,
2,
2,
0,
1,
2,
2,
0,
3,
0,
0,
0
] |
11e5d72c376ff56d0ab0a317292c06828a71b39e | [
"(CNN) --",
"Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson has had Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson's breast implants removed to boost Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson's chances of winning a medal for Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson's country at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.",
"The 27-year-old Rawlinson, whose private life has often made headlines in Australia, said Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson enjoyed having larger breasts but did not want to \"short-change Australia\".",
"\"I absolutely loved having bigger boobs, but finally I've grown up enough to know myself -- to be honest about who I am when I look in the mirror,\" Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson told the Woman's Day magazine.",
"\"I don't want to short-change Australia either -- I want to feel the most athletic I can, to know that I'm standing on the track in London the fittest I can be.\"",
"The double 400 meter hurdles world champion, who reportedly plans to remarry Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson's estranged British husband and fellow-athlete Chris Rawlinson, told the Woman's Day magazine Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson had her breast implants because Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson was unhappy with Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson's athletic figure.",
"\"When I looked in the mirror I just saw muscled arms, broad shoulders and big, strong legs,\" Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson said.",
"\"These are assets I need to run well, but they didn't make me feel like an attractive woman.",
"\"There are a couple of girls -- who I won't name -- in world athletics who are Olympic champions, but a couple of girls -- who I won't name -- in world athletics who are Olympic champions look like men and I don't want to be like that.\"",
"Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson won the 400m hurdles at the 2003 Paris world championships and four years later in Osaka, Japan."
] | [
"Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson has had Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson's breast implants removed .",
"The 27-year-old hopes to boost Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson's chances of winning a medal at the 2012 Olympic Games .",
"Australian 400m hurdler Jana Rawlinson won the 400m hurdles at the 2003 Paris world championships and four years later in Osaka."
] | [
0,
1,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
0,
2,
0,
0,
2,
2,
1
] |
3ed68b828de00b44bc921db53a65a7e27ebba8f2 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Kim Clijsters defeated fellow comeback queen Justine Henin in the final of the Brisbane International on Saturday, saving two match-points and wasting three as Kim Clijsters won an epic clash.",
"Henin, playing her first tournament since May 2008, fought back from a set and 4-1 down against Kim Clijsters's fellow Belgian before losing 6-3 4-6 7-6 (8-6) in almost two and a half hours.",
"However, fellow comeback queen Justine Henin sustained an injury to fellow comeback queen Justine Henin's left leg and later confirmed on fellow comeback queen Justine Henin's Web site that fellow comeback queen Justine Henin will miss next week's Sydney Invitational, where fellow comeback queen Justine Henin faced a possible second-round clash with Serena Williams, in order to recover in time for the decade's first Grand Slam event, the Australian Open.",
"Clijsters, who made history in September as the first unseeded player to win the U.S. Open in Kim Clijsters's third event back on the WTA Tour following her own short-lived retirement, took control as Kim Clijsters won eight straight games.",
"But fellow former world No. 1 fellow comeback queen Justine Henin dug deep to level the match and then take a 3-0 lead in the deciding set.",
"Kim Clijsters battled back to tie it up at 3-3, and then both players squandered potentially match-winning break opportunities to ensure a tie-break.",
"Kim Clijsters raced to a 5-1 lead, helped by Kim Clijsters's first ace of the match -- coming off a second serve -- but then missed three match-point chances at 6-3.",
"fellow comeback queen Justine Henin again fought back to level at 6-6 but then fellow comeback queen Justine Henin's 11th double-fault gave Kim Clijsters the chance to finally close out for victory, Kim Clijsters's 11th in 23 meeting between the two players.",
"Kim Clijsters clinched Kim Clijsters 36th WTA Tour title, leaving fellow comeback queen Justine Henin stuck on 41.",
"\"What a match!\" Kim Clijsters said.",
"\"I think we set the bar pretty high for ourselves for the rest of the year.",
"Justine played at a really high level for the whole tournament, so congratulations.\"",
"Meanwhile, top seed Andy Roddick will play defending champion Radek Stepanek in Sunday's men's final at the Pat Rafter Arena.",
"top seed Andy Roddick came from behind to beat Stepanek's fellow Czech Tomas Berdych in the semifinals on Saturday, with the American winning 1-6 6-3 6-4 despite being broken for the first time in the tournament in top seed Andy Roddick's opening service game.",
"Second seed Stepanek won 6-2 6-1 against Frenchman Gael Monfils, who was struggling with a shoulder problem.",
"The world No. 13 told the tournament's Web site that he was unsure if he would take part in next week's Sydney International.",
"In New Zealand, third seed Yanina Wickmayer shrugged off Yanina Wickmayer's difficult end to 2009 by winning the ASB Classic in Auckland on Saturday.",
"The 20-year-old Belgian, who won Yanina Wickmayer's appeal against a one-year ban for failing to report her whereabouts for doping tests, defeated top seed Flavia Pennetta 6-3 6-2 to clinch Yanina Wickmayer's third WTA Tour title."
] | [
"Kim Clijsters beats fellow comeback queen Justine Henin in final of Brisbane International .",
"Kim Clijsters wins 6-3 4-6 7-6 (8-6), saving two match-points and wasting three .",
"Former world No. 1 Henin suffers a leg injury and will miss next week's Sydney event .",
"Top seed Andy Roddick faces defending champion Radek Stepanek in men's final ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
3,
3,
3,
2,
2,
2,
1,
2,
2
] |
b8dd71d1a8291af503336c91d845f34e0b5419db | [
"Suzanne Simons is an executive producer at CNN as well as author of the book \"Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War\" (Collins, June 2009).",
"Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, is pictured in Afghanistan in November 2007.",
"(CNN)",
"-- Blackwater has held classified contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency for nearly a decade, but an allegation that Blackwater was part of a secret CIA program to kill al Qaeda operatives -- if true -- would take the relationship to a whole new level.",
"CIA hired the private security firm Blackwater USA in 2004 to work on a covert program aimed at targeting and potentially killing top al Qaeda leaders, a source familiar with the program told CNN.",
"Former company executives deny knowing about the program.",
"Current leaders of Blackwater did not return calls to CNN.",
"CIA won't comment on classified contracts.",
"The classified program, canceled by CIA director Leon Panetta earlier this year, was part of a broader effort inside CIA to develop the capacity to conduct training, surveillance and possible covert operations overseas, according to the source.",
"the program was outsourced to contractors to \"put some distance\" between the effort and the U.S. government.",
"Other contractors were brought in for other parts of the program, another source said, and Blackwater's involvement ended by mid-2006.",
"But one thing is clear: The company that renamed Blackwater Xe earlier this year in an effort to escape controversy surrounding a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqis dead has had a long relationship with the world's most famous spy agency.",
"When Erik Prince first opened Erik Prince's Blackwater training facility in the late '90s, Erik Prince's clients included special forces teams and law enforcement agencies from around the country.",
"Erik Prince had expressed frustration with the training facilities Erik Prince visited during Erik Prince's time as a Navy SEAL, and a sizable inheritance allowed Erik Prince the financial freedom to retire from the military and try Erik Prince's hand at creating a better facility.",
"Erik Prince's first clients were indeed SEAL teams.",
"But His first clients also included teams from other government agencies, including the CIA.",
"Case officers and protection details, the people generally accustomed to working in the shadows, began showing up for training on the shooting range or the driving track in a rural part of North Carolina.",
"When then-CIA Executive Director Alvin \"Buzzy\" Krongard, whose own son was a Navy SEAL, visited the facility, former Blackwater President Gary Jackson suggested he meet with Prince, who worked out of an office in the Washington area.",
"The two had lunch and Krongard immediately took a liking to the man who would later lead the world's most notorious private contracting company.",
"At the time, contacts like these were essential to building the business, so when terror struck the heart of America in September 2001, Erik Prince called up Erik Prince's new friend Krongard and offered to help.",
"Sources inside CIA at the time say that Krongard in fact, was pushing hard for Blackwater to be given the first urgent and compelling, no-bid contract to protect CIA facilities in Afghanistan.",
"The military, it seems, wasn't up to the task of staffing such an effort.",
"Once awarded the initial contract, Erik Prince maintained a close relationship with Krongard, and made trips to Afghanistan to make sure things were going smoothly.",
"The idea that CIA came to Blackwater for help on any other contracts, including one with the overall goal of locating and assassinating al Qaeda operatives, wouldn't come as a huge surprise, particularly since so much of the intelligence budget is spent on private contractors.",
"But with investigations under way into just what was done and by whom at CIA under the Bush administration, people are remaining tight-lipped.",
"Especially under the threat of possible prosecution, should it go that far."
] | [
"Relationship between Blackwater and CIA goes back almost a decade .",
"Recent allegation says Blackwater was part of CIA program to kill al Qaeda operatives .",
"Blackwater was given contract to protect CIA facilities in Afghanistan after 9/11 attacks .",
"Blackwater renamed Blackwater Xe earlier this year ."
] | [
0,
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
1,
2,
0,
0,
3,
3,
3,
3,
3,
3,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
2,
1,
1,
1,
0,
3,
1,
0,
3,
2
] |
13c2cd1ad338bfb28c6a243e497d3ed2494ae44c | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"Human error and system lapses, rather than deliberate concealing of information, allowed a terror suspect with explosives to board a U.S.-bound airplane on Christmas Day, President Obama's terrorism czar said Sunday.",
"John Brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said on CNN's \"State of the Union\" that the security breakdown in the failed bombing of the Northwest Airlines flight was different from the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.",
"\"It's not like 9/11,\" John Brennan said, adding that the \"system didn't work as the \"system should have\" due to \"lapses\" and \"human error.\"",
"\"There wasn't an effort to try to conceal information,\" John Brennan said, referring to the well-chronicled competition and turf wars among security agencies prior to the 2001 attacks, which was later blamed for the failure to prevent them.",
"\"There is no smoking gun piece of intelligence out there,\" John Brennan said of the failed Christmas bombing, allegedly planned by a Nigerian man who boarded the flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, with explosives in this guy's underwear.",
"Meanwhile, the Transportation Security Administration announced Sunday new security measures to be implemented by domestic and international air carriers on flights bound for the United States, effective Monday.",
"this guy's father, a leading banker in Nigeria, warned U.S. authorities before the attack that this guy's son might be involved with Islamic extremists.",
"John Brennan said the father's information was part of \"bits and pieces\" of information that were never connected by intelligence officials to properly target this guy.",
"\"That was certainly an alert that came to our attention,\" John Brennan said of the father's warnings.",
"\"He said, 'this guy's consorting with extremists in Yemen.'\"",
"However, John Brennan rejected another potential warning sign -- that this guy purchased the airline ticket with cash in Ghana before traveling to Nigeria for the first leg of this guy's journey.",
"\"A lot of people buy A lot of people's tickets in Africa with cash.",
"That is the way, in fact, things are done, because there's so much fraud there.",
"So that wasn't a necessary [warning] bell,\" John Brennan said.",
"\"People in the Amsterdam airport didn't even know that this guy had bought the ticket for cash.",
"this guy did bring on carry-on luggage.",
"So there were a lot of things that were out there.\"",
"At the same time, John Brennan conceded \"there was information that was in the system that should have allowed us to stop it.\"",
"\"A number of pieces were out there that weren't brought together,\" John Brennan said.",
"On the same program, however, the Republican chairman of the 9/11 commission said John Brennan was \"wrong when he says this wasn't like 9/11.\"",
"Thomas Kean, a former governor of New Jersey, said both events occurred because the U.S. intelligence community failed to piece together various bits of information the U.S. intelligence community already possessed in the weeks and months prior to the attacks.",
"If the information had been properly shared and analyzed, \"then this guy would've never have gotten on a plane\" on Christmas Day, Kean said.",
"In announcing the new security measures Sunday, the TSA stressed in a statement that \"effective aviation security must begin beyond our borders.\"",
"As a result, any individual flying into the United States who is \"traveling from or through nations that are state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest will be required to go through enhanced screening,\" a statement said.",
"\"The directive also increases the use of enhanced screening technologies and mandates threat-based and random screening for passengers on U.S. bound international flights.\""
] | [
"John Brennan: \"System didn't work as System should have\" due to \"lapses\" and \"human error\"",
"Suspect's cash payment for airfare \"wasn't a necessary [warning] bell,\" says John Brennan .",
"Thomas Kean of 9/11 panel says John Brennan \"wrong when he says this wasn't like 9/11\"",
"CNN iReport: Tell us about your airport security experiences ."
] | [
0,
0,
0,
1
] | [
2,
1,
0,
0,
0,
1,
3,
2,
0,
0,
2,
4,
4,
4,
0,
4,
1,
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
3,
3,
3
] |
1ea3274b8978bc3bc97d06e8035b11c608662e58 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Major conflict could return to southern parts of Sudan unless international action bolsters a faltering peace accord, ten aid agencies said in a report released Thursday.",
"A resumption of conflict between north and south in Sudan, meanwhile, would make a sustainable peace impossible in Darfur, a region of western Sudan that has been the scene of what the U.S. calls genocide, ten aid agencies said.",
"\"It is not yet too late to avert disaster, but the next 12 months are a crossroads for Africa's largest country, \" said Maya Mailer, policy advisor for Oxfam International and a report released Thursday's co-author.",
"The warnings were underscored by news Thursday of a clash that killed scores in southern Sudan, the latest instance of tribal violence among southerners that has alarmed the United Nations.",
"Locals said fierce fighting in Warap State, one of the most remote regions of southern Sudan, killed 140 people, wounded 90, and led to the theft of tens of thousands of cattle early this month or in late December, the United Nations said.",
"\"The human toll is massive -- hundreds if not thousands displaced.",
"The death toll is massive,\" said Lisa Grande, a top the United Nations humanitarian official in southern Sudan.",
"\"These attacks are a matter of great concern.\"",
"Resurgent tribal violence in southern Sudan also concerned the 10 aid groups.",
"ten aid agencies released ten aid agencies's report, \"Rescuing the Peace in southern Sudan,\" two days before the fifth anniversary of a 2005 peace deal that ended a grinding war between the Sudanese government and southern rebels in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.",
"ten aid agencies said that peace deal is \"on the brink of collapse.\"",
"That war pitted a northern government of Arab Muslims against southern blacks who follow Christianity and traditional African religions.",
"That war killed 2 million people and forced several million others from their homes.",
"a 2005 peace deal that ended a grinding war between the Sudanese government and southern rebels in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement conferred limited autonomy on southern Sudan and ended one of Africa's longest and deadliest wars even as a separate conflict that erupted in 2003 raged in Darfur, killing roughly 200,000, the United Nations says.",
"Despite a 2005 peace deal that ended a grinding war between the Sudanese government and southern rebels in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, violence in southern Sudan increased last year, Mailer said, and it could escalate further to become one of the biggest emergencies in Africa this year.",
"About 2,500 people were killed and 350,000 fled their homes in southern Sudan last year, ten aid agencies said.",
"Many died in tribal violence between southerners.",
"Outside countries have ignored the problem and have not provided sufficient help, ten aid agencies said.",
"the United Nations says more people have been killed in southern Sudan in 2009 than in Darfur, where a separate conflict drew international attention, prompted charges of genocide and led the International Criminal Court to indict the Sudanese president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for war crimes.",
"Some southerners blame Some southerners's former enemies in the north for instigating violence in southern Sudan.",
"As the south plans to participate in national elections in April, many southerners say the north has hindered access to registration materials, logistical support and voter education, the United Nations said.",
"the north denies those charges, but those charges're among the reasons that analysts worry about an outbreak of north-south violence in a region already buckling under the weight of corruption, cattle rustling and revenge attacks.",
"Sudan needs diplomatic involvement from neighboring countries and the international community to help secure the 2005 peace agreement, said Paul Valentin, international director of Christian Aid, one of the agencies that produced the report.",
"\"A return to war is by no means inevitable, but it depends whether the world heeds the warning signs of the past year and has the political will to save the peace,\" Valentin added.",
"Other agencies that produced the report include the International Rescue Committee, Save the Children and World Vision.",
"the report urges the U.N. Security Council to ensure that protecting civilians becomes a core priority for a peacekeeping force in Sudan.",
"The agencies also called on the international community to mediate between the northern and southern parties before the national elections -- the country's first multi-party elections in 24 years -- and before a referendum on independence, which is scheduled for early next year.",
"southern Sudan is roughly the size of Texas but has only 30 miles of paved roads and few health facilities.",
"It is so underdeveloped that the U.N. says a 15-year-old girl in the south is more likely to die in childbirth than finish school.",
"\"After five years of peace, southern Sudan remains one of the poorest regions on earth.",
"People hoped the peace would bring economic benefits and development, but this has happened far too slowly and in some areas not at all,\" said Francisco Roque, country director of Save the Children in southern Sudan.",
"\"We are very worried about children who seem to be increasingly targeted in attacks on villages,\" he said.",
"\"International donors and the government must urgently improve aid to these areas.\""
] | [
"Aid groups: Peace deal signed in 2005 \"on the brink of collapse\"",
"Aid groups: About 2,500 people killed, 350,000 fled in southern Sudan last year .",
"U.N.: More people killed in southern Sudan in 2009 than in Darfur .",
"Report: Protecting civilians should be core priority for U.N. peacekeepers ."
] | [
0,
1,
1,
0
] | [
2,
3,
3,
0,
3,
3,
2,
2,
2,
3,
0,
0,
3,
2,
3,
3,
1,
3,
0,
1,
3,
4,
3,
0,
2,
0,
0,
4,
1,
1,
1,
0,
2,
0
] |
728fc29369d27a9f7bc9a7f945d16176cc288d39 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Any kid can dream up a roller coaster.",
"But those who visit a new exhibit at Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park can actually take a ride on those who visit a new exhibit at Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park's fantasy creations.",
"An artist's rendering of the \"Sum of All Thrills\" interactive ride, opening Wednesday at Walt Disney World.",
"Epcot on Wednesday opened a new attraction called \"Sum of All Thrills,\" which lets kids use computer tablets to design a virtual roller coaster, bobsled track or plane ride.",
"After inputting their designs, kids climb into a robotic carriage that uses virtual-reality technology to help them experience the ride they've created.",
"\"This is really the next generation -- where there's a lot more personalization involved\" in the amusement-park experience, said Eric Goodman, Walt Disney World's lead project manager on the ride.",
"This make-your-own-ride approach appears to be a growing trend in the world of amusement parks and museums.",
"Taking cues from the video game industry, park and ride designers have realized that people -- especially young ones -- want to interact with and even design people -- especially young ones --'s own thrill rides.",
"In addition to the new Epcot ride in Orlando, Florida, two Walt Disney World theme parks feature a ride called \"Toy Story Mania,\" which lets riders shoot at targets as they roll down the track and, in doing so, shape their own ride experience.",
"Another Walt Disney World attraction, CyberSpace Mountain, caters to adults and kids by letting them customize their own virtual ride from a menu of drops, loops and other features.",
"Universal Studios in Florida opened a roller coaster in August called the \"Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit,\" which lets people create people's own personal musical soundtrack for people's ride.",
"Interactive rides are in the \"baby stages\" so far, since roller coasters and theme-park attractions are so expensive to build, but interaction and personalization promise to be running themes in the industry, said Bob McTyre, president of Apogee Attractions, which has has helped design rides for Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and others.",
"McTyre was not involved in the new ride at Epcot.",
"McTyre said theme park designers frequently bring up ideas such as roller coasters with three possible endings, allowing riders to choose which path to take.",
"But those big ideas quickly hit a roadblock: the high costs of implementing such a project, McTyre said.",
"Shawn McCoy, vice-president of marketing and business development at Jack Rouse Associates, another amusement-park design firm, said this desire for interactivity in amusement parks takes interactivity in amusement parks's cues from video games.",
"\"There's also a definite need to compete with video games or the gaming industry -- where [players] have control over all of the elements, from the environment to the players' movement,\" he said, noting that museums and zoos also are taking notice of the trend.",
"The \"Sum of All Thrills\" ride at Epcot employs a robotic arm -- more commonly seen assembling cars at an auto plant -- to let kids experience kids's roller coaster creations.",
"Sitting in a carriage with kids's legs and arms outside the ride, kids watch a video version of kids's ride while the arm moves kids from side to side and up and down to simulate the feeling of a real roller coaster.",
"Fans blow air at the riders at various speeds to give people the sensation that people're moving forward.",
"Goodman, the Walt Disney World designer, said the robotic arm and carriage come \"pretty darn close\" to replicating the real roller coaster experience.",
"Kids design Kids's experience on touch-screen computers, using a digital ruler and pre-selected track options to construct Kids's rides.",
"If a person tries to build something physically impossible -- a hill that's too steep for the cars to climb, for example -- then a person're asked to retool a person's ideas.",
"Walt Disney World hopes the interactive nature of the Epcot ride also helps kids learn that math and science can be fun.",
"\"I think it's really empowering for the kids to realize that the math doesn't control the kids.",
"the kids get to control the math,\" Goodman said.",
"The Raytheon Company, a maker of weapons and defense systems, said The Raytheon Company, a maker of weapons and defense systems sponsored the exhibit as a way to get middle-school aged kids more interested in careers in math and engineering."
] | [
"Disney opens an exhibit where kids create roller coasters -- and ride them .",
"Theme parks are trying to make Theme parks's rides more interactive, taking cues from gaming .",
"The \"Sum of All Thrills\" ride opens Wednesday at Epcot Center in Florida .",
"Kids design Kids's rides on computers, ride them in a stationary robotic carriage ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
0,
1,
0,
1,
0,
1,
3,
1,
2,
0,
0,
1,
0,
1,
3,
0,
2,
2,
2
] |
2436eafd9ddb3c5b7b4352dcbf8555642f931df7 | [
"BALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) --",
"Dr. Carnell Cooper, a Baltimore surgeon, is saving lives inside and outside the operating room.",
"Dr. Carnell Cooper's Violence Intervention Program provides training and support to trauma victims.",
"Since becoming a trauma surgeon 16 years ago, Dr. Carnell Cooper has dedicated Dr. Carnell Cooper to treating the many young African-American men who've been shot, stabbed or beaten, only to see the many young African-American men who've been shot, stabbed or beaten return to the ER with another severe injury just months later.",
"But when one of Dr. Carnell Cooper's patients was readmitted with a fatal gunshot wound to the head in 1996, it changed Cooper's life.",
"\"The night that we pronounced that young man dead and my colleagues said there's really nothing we can do in these situations. ...",
"I just didn't believe that,\" said Cooper, 54.",
"\"From that day forward, I said, 'Let's see what we can do.' \"",
"Dr. Carnell Cooper created Cooper at the Shock Trauma Unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center, the state's busiest hospital for violent injuries.",
"It became one of the country's first hospital-based anti-violence programs.",
"\"Cooper approached this problem like any public health crisis, like heart disease or smoking,\" he said.",
"\"Cooper tried to work on the root causes.\"",
"Since 1998, VIP has provided substance abuse counseling, job skills training and other support services to nearly 500 trauma victims.",
"\"Using that scalpel blade to save their life is the first step,\" Dr. Carnell Cooper said.",
"\"The next step is to try to keep nearly 500 trauma victims from coming back.\"",
"A 2006 study by Dr. Carnell Cooper and Dr. Carnell Cooper's colleagues, published in the Journal of Trauma, showed that people in Cooper were six times less likely to be readmitted with a violent injury and three times less likely to be arrested for a violent crime.",
"The issue hits close to home for Dr. Carnell Cooper.",
"Born to unwed teenagers in Dillon, South Carolina, Dr. Carnell Cooper grew up in a neighborhood where violent crime was commonplace; Dr. Carnell Cooper had friends and relatives who ended up dead or in jail.",
"But Dr. Carnell Cooper's grandparents made sure Dr. Carnell Cooper stayed on the right path.",
"As a straight-A student, Dr. Carnell Cooper attended a prestigious high school in Massachusetts, then Yale University and Duke University School of Medicine.",
"But while Dr. Carnell Cooper rose above Dr. Carnell Cooper's circumstances, Dr. Carnell Cooper felt sympathy for the young men who rotated in and out of Dr. Carnell Cooper's operating room.",
"\"the young men who rotated in and out of his operating room could be my friends, my family,\" Dr. Carnell Cooper said.",
"Dr. Carnell Cooper's program attempts to help patients from the moment patients arrive because victims of violence face a greater risk of receiving another violent injury.",
"Everyone treated for violent wounds at the hospital is seen by a VIP case worker, often at bedside.",
"For Dr. Carnell Cooper, approaching patients at this early stage is crucial.",
"\"Cooper may get them in a moment when they are thinking, 'I just almost died,' \" Dr. Carnell Cooper said.",
"\"Cooper say, 'Cooper're going help you find a way to get out of the game.' \"",
"Watch Dr. Carnell Cooper talk to a victim of violence at Dr. Carnell Cooper's bedside » .",
"Cooper helps connect Cooper's members with additional support services, such as GED classes, conflict resolution, mentoring and parenting skills.",
"A peer support group also meets at the hospital once a week.",
"The success of Dr. Carnell Cooper's program has made Cooper a model for others around the country and inspired the doctor to develop a larger initiative, the Violence Prevention Program, which includes other hospital-based efforts targeting young people in at-risk communities.",
"Howard McCray, 29, turned Howard McCray's life around with help from Cooper.",
"Howard McCray joined Cooper in 2001 after Howard McCray was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the arm.",
"Nicknamed \"Pooh\" for Howard McCray's resemblance to Winnie the Pooh, Howard McCray's demeanor and lifestyle were once vastly different from the storybook bear's.",
"\"Before, I was into shooting people, robbing [people],\" Howard McCray recalled.",
"\"I've been in many gunbattles and been through the ER many times.\"",
"Through Cooper, Howard McCray earned Howard McCray's GED and received job training and a driver's license.",
"Cooper also helped Howard McCray learn about budgeting money and paying child support.",
"Today, Howard McCray is an outreach worker for Cooper, visiting patients at patients's bedsides and encouraging patients to join Cooper.",
"\"I'm a changed man,\" Howard McCray said proudly.",
"\"Dr. Carnell Cooper ...",
"Dr. Carnell Cooper saved me.\"",
"Watch Howard McCray describe how Dr. Carnell Cooper's program changed his life » .",
"Helping people like Howard McCray inspires Dr. Carnell Cooper to continue Dr. Carnell Cooper's work.",
"\"There are some individuals who we are not going to save, who are just immersed in the culture, but that's not the majority of folks,\" Dr. Carnell Cooper said.",
"\"The majority of folks deserve a chance.\"",
"Dr. Carnell Cooper believes it is all part of Dr. Carnell Cooper's responsibility as a doctor.",
"\"Every physician's goal is to save lives,\" Dr. Carnell Cooper said.",
"\"This is another step in that process.",
"In my mind, it's just what I should be doing.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Violence Intervention Program and see how to help."
] | [
"Dr. Carnell Cooper's Violence Intervention Program helps trauma victims .",
"Cooper aims to break the cycle of violence by targeting its root causes .",
"Study: Participants are three times less likely to be arrested for a violent crime .",
"Do you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes ."
] | [
0,
0,
0,
1,
1
] | [
2,
3,
0,
0,
0,
4,
5,
4,
0,
0,
5,
5,
6,
4,
4,
0,
3,
2,
3,
2,
3,
3,
0,
6,
3,
3,
5,
0,
7,
6,
0,
7,
7,
8,
8,
4,
7,
7,
7,
8,
3,
3,
7,
7,
4,
4,
3,
3,
4,
4,
4,
0
] |
0e901383a9b4beb65706cf6efdc54dcaee252725 | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"Washington police were investigating on Sunday whether an off-duty officer drew an off-duty officer's gun in the midst of a snowball fight involving a couple hundred people.",
"The Metropolitan Police Department said video from a local media outlet at the scene Saturday did not show the officer with an off-duty officer's weapon drawn.",
"However, authorities have since received \"additional images and statements that would seem to support the allegation that the off-duty member did pull a gun,\" a police statement said.",
"About 200 people from a D.C. neighborhood had gathered Saturday to brave a snowstorm for a massive snowball fight, CNN affiliate WJLA reported.",
"\"It was pretty fun,\" one unidentified participant told WJLA.",
"\"And then, you know, when the gun came out, uh, the gun just changed the tone of the thing a little bit.\"",
"The off-duty, an off-duty officer was driving in the area of a massive snowball fight when several snowballs hit an off-duty officer's vehicle, police said.",
"an off-duty officer exited his vehicle and yelled at the crowd, WJLA reported; witnesses accused an off-duty officer of drawing an off-duty officer's gun.",
"A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived was holding a gun at A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived's hip, but A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived eventually returned a gun to A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived's holster, video from WJLA shows.",
"MPD Assistant Chief Peter Newsham said A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived was responding to a 911 call that someone -- apparently the plainclothes officer -- had a gun, according to WJLA.",
"A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived holstered A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived's weapon when A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived recognized A uniformed police officer who subsequently arrived, MPD Assistant Chief Peter Newsham said, according to WJLA.",
"The police statement said \"there is no evidence that [officers] pointed any weapons in the direction of the crowd or at any individuals.\""
] | [
"Plainclothes police officer accused of drawing gun at snowball fight in Washington, D.C.",
"\"Images and statements ... would seem to support the allegation,\" police say .",
"About 200 people were in snowball fight when officer's vehicle was hit, police say .",
"Police: Separate, uniformed officer held a gun while checking report of armed person ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
1
] | [
2,
0,
1,
1,
0,
2,
2,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1
] |
10eb16b5f53366595e01cafb344f31f0d90cbf59 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Fort Hood, Texas, is -- for all intents and purposes -- a city.",
"With as many as 30,000 residents, it has all the trappings of an American metropolis: malls, softball fields, subdivisions and as many as nine schools.",
"But in other ways, Fort Hood is like no American city.",
"It is a transition point for troops who have served overseas, soldiers who have seen the worst that war has to offer and are returning to life at home.",
"At least 13 people were killed and 30 wounded in shootings on the post Thursday, officials said.",
"The alleged gunman, identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was wounded.",
"Some of those killed or wounded were at the Readiness Center, a soldier's last stop before deployment, said Army Lt. Gen. Bob Cone.",
"It is also one of the first places a soldier goes after returning from war.",
"Officials: Gunman opens fire at Fort Hood .",
"Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who served at Fort Hood in the late 1990s, said the nearly eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have created difficulties for the U.S. armed forces.",
"\"This is a very complex situation, a situation we have not dealt with in Army before.",
"We have never been at war this long before in modern history,\" he said.",
"\"And many of these soldiers have been deployed multiple times, so this has put a lot of stress on these soldiers and these soldiers's families.",
"\"One of the biggest things on re-entry that the Readiness Center does is to help these soldiers cope with being back home and dealing with the extremes of [post-traumatic stress disorder],\" Honore said.",
"It is also where soldiers \"do everything from finalizing your next of kin, inspect your immunization record, as well as make a will,\" Honore said.",
"Fort Hood is the largest U.S. military installation in the world by size, and on any given day, it is home to 25,000 to 30,000 people, according to an Army spokesman at the Pentagon.",
"The post also houses the families of service members and other civilians.",
"iReport.com:",
"Are you there?",
"Send pics, video .",
"\"Some of these soldiers have lost some of Some of these soldiers's closest friends, seen some of the horrific things associated with warfare including these roadside bombs,\" Honore said.",
"\"They've seen and experienced -- many of them -- some very horrific events.\"",
"Services and programs offered on the post range from helping troops who are leaving the armed services find employment or pursue education to helping soldiers deal with combat-related illnesses like post-traumatic stress disorder.",
"One such program, called the Warrior Stress Reset Program, is \"designed to help address those common and normal reactions to war experiences,\" says a military Web site.",
"\"It is well documented that participation in a major conflict ... has a way of leaving its mark on the psyche of our soldiers,\" a military Web site reads.",
"One such program, called the Warrior Stress Reset Program lasts three weeks and provides counseling and treatment.",
"U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said the post has a robust support system for families of deployed troops, which would help troops and civilians there handle Thursday's violence.",
"\"The people who are there will surround the families and take care of the families, the ones who have had loved ones who were killed,\" she said.",
"The Army's 1st Cavalry Division and elements of the 4th Infantry Division, as well as the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 13th Corps Support Command, are based at Fort Hood.",
"Fort Hood measures about 340 square miles across and is approximately 160 miles south of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr, Adam Levine, Mike Mount and Chris Lawrence contributed to this report."
] | [
"General says ongoing wars have put stress on troops and their families .",
"Fort Hood is largest U.S. military installation in the world by size .",
"On any given day, there can be at least 25,000 to 30,000 people .",
"It is also a transition point for troops returning to civilian life ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
1,
2,
1,
3,
5,
5,
3,
3,
5,
0,
0,
0,
0,
3,
3,
1,
3,
6,
6,
6,
0,
0,
3,
7,
0,
7,
3,
0,
1,
1,
4
] |
1e7620c8157dd9bdd83f485e065f6dddbe7af4b9 | [
"NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) --",
"Drumsticks in hand, Derrick Tabb has found a way to transform New Orleans children from troublemakers to tuba players.",
"Derrick Tabb's program provides free tutoring, instruments and music instruction to more than 100 students.",
"Derrick Tabb, wearing a gold chain and a baseball cap, doesn't look the part of a typical band teacher.",
"But every weekday evening in the French Quarter, Derrick Tabb beats out the rhythm on Derrick Tabb's music stand as students play students's chosen instruments.",
"In doing so, Derrick Tabb gives students an alternative to New Orleans' rough streets.",
"\"I tell everyone I'm competing with the drug dealers,\" said Tabb, 34.",
"Derrick Tabb's program, The Roots of Music, offers free tutoring, instruments and music education to more than 100 students.",
"Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year .",
"Reformed class clown Terrence Knockum credits Derrick Tabb with changing his life.",
"Terrence Knockum joined the band eight months ago, when Terrence Knockum was failing in school and \"heading up the wrong road,\" said Derrick Tabb.",
"Today, Terrence Knockum is the band captain.",
"Terrence Knockum hopes to make music Terrence Knockum's career and teach it Terrence Knockum one day.",
"\"Before, I was getting in trouble,\" Terrence Knockum said.",
"\"Now ... when I come here, I'm learning how to play the horn, be disciplined and, you know, just work hard.\"",
"Tabb can relate.",
"During a rebellious phase in junior high, Derrick Tabb's band teacher became Derrick Tabb's mentor and helped Derrick Tabb get back on track.",
"\"Derrick Tabb saved my life,\" recalled Tabb, a professional drummer with the Rebirth Brass Band, one of the city's most popular acts.",
"Now Tabb, a New Orleans native, strives to keep young people on the straight and narrow in the city with the nation's highest murder rate, according to FBI statistics.",
"\"When all you've seen is the drug dealers and the killing, you know, they think that's cool,\" said Derrick Tabb, adding that many young people wind up in trouble because people have nothing else to do.",
"The type of music support systems that helped Derrick Tabb years ago have been struggling since Hurricane Katrina; musicians scattered after the storm and budget cuts ended many school music programs.",
"As a result, Derrick Tabb chose to target 9- to 14-year-olds with Derrick Tabb's program.",
"\"That's just the most vulnerable time of your life,\" Derrick Tabb said.",
"\"If I catch them now, I can hold onto them for at least four or five years and guide them the way that we want to guide them.\"",
"Students meet from 4-7 p.m. every weekday, year-round.",
"Students work with tutors on schoolwork, practice Students's music and eat a hot meal before heading home.",
"Through funding from donations and sponsors, Tabb's group is able to provide bus transportation, instruments and food for free.",
"Derrick Tabb calls it Derrick Tabb's \"no excuse\" policy -- \"you don't have no excuse why you're not here,\" Derrick Tabb said.",
"With a 90 percent attendance rate, Derrick Tabb's formula seems to be working.",
"Watch Derrick Tabb and The program program in action » .",
"Derrick Tabb attributes the success in part to the nature of music.",
"\"You're constantly learning something new,\" Derrick Tabb said.",
"\"That's what keeps the kids coming back every day.\"",
"Since getting underway last year, The program has already exceeded Derrick Tabb's expectations.",
"The band marched in five Mardi Gras parades this season.",
"The program also helped students improve students's academic performances, with 85 percent having raised their grades in at least one class; some D and F students have become A students.",
"And there are more than 400 children on the waiting list.",
"Derrick Tabb said Derrick Tabb's assembled a \"dream team\" of musicians to help teach the students, and Derrick Tabb personally works with all the beginners.",
"No previous musical experience is necessary -- many students don't even know the names of the instruments when many students start -- but youngsters like 9-year-old Lauren Washington, who plays the flute, learn fast.",
"\"It's kind of hard to play, but I sound good,\" she said proudly.",
"\"It's fun!\"",
"Watch Washington and other students demonstrate Washington and other students's talents » .",
"But The program isn't only about fun.",
"\"Music is about discipline,\" said Derrick Tabb.",
"Derrick Tabb insists on good behavior and keeps kids in order with threats of sit-ups, pushups or tasks like picking up grains of rice -- but these measures aren't just punishment.",
"\"We wear these measures out so these measures don't have any time or energy to get mixed up in anything on the street,\" Derrick Tabb said.",
"Discipline aside, Derrick Tabb wants young people to realize that music can help young people build a better future.",
"\"I don't say that I'm saving lives,\" Derrick Tabb said.",
"\"I say I'm giving life -- a whole different life of music.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out The Roots of Music and see how to help."
] | [
"Derrick Tabb started The Roots of Music to help the city's young people .",
"The program provides free instruments, instruction, tutoring and food .",
"Students have marched in Mardi Gras parades, improved grades .",
"Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year at CNN.com/Heroes ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
3,
0,
0,
0,
0,
4,
4,
0,
3,
4,
5,
5,
5,
5,
6,
4,
0,
0,
4,
4,
0,
4,
4,
6,
2,
2,
1,
4,
2,
1,
0,
4,
6,
1,
2,
2,
1,
0,
7,
6,
6,
7,
1,
0,
4,
4,
0,
4,
6,
1,
7
] |
bc8a541bb14c78af985e297c1264e809a6d379f0 | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"Obama paid tribute Wednesday to those who have lost those who have lost their lives in the nation's wars's lives in the nation's wars as well as to the men and women who currently serve.",
"\"There's no tribute, no commemoration, no praise that can truly match the magnitude of your service and your sacrifice,\" Obama said in a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on a rainy, overcast Veterans Day.",
"\"We call this a holiday, but for many veterans, it's another day of memories that drive many veterans to live many veterans's lives each day as best as many veterans possibly can,\" Obama said.",
"\"For its troops, it is another day in harm's way.",
"For their families, it is another day to feel the absence of a loved one and the concern for their safety.",
"For our wounded warriors, it is another day of slow recovery.",
"And in Arlington National Cemetery, it is another day when grief remains fresh.\"",
"He vowed that \"America will do right\" by America's troops.",
"\"To all who served in every battle in every war, we say that it's never too late to say thank you.\"",
"Earlier Wednesday, the president and first lady Michelle Obama also walked through Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, CNN's Jill Dougherty reported.",
"Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery is where service members from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried.",
"There, the Obamas stopped to talked to relatives and friends of those who have died.",
"Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire were visiting the gravesite of Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire's son, Justin, who was killed in Iraq in 2007.",
"He would have turned 25 on Tuesday.",
"Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire said Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire were \"extremely surprised\" to see Obama \"take the time to speak with the families\" in Section 60.",
"Although Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire said Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire generally holds different political views from those of Obama, Skip Rollins said that supporting American soldiers, both living and dead, \"should always be a nonpartisan issue.\"",
"Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire added, \"It was extremely nice of him to take this time out to come down here and do this.\"",
"Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire said Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire make the trip to Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire's son's grave each year around this time for Skip and Rhonda Rollins of New Hampshire's son's birthday and for Veterans Day.",
"\"It's not just my son that I mourn for; when I see all the others' stones, the ages of the soldiers, and you know they've given the ultimate sacrifice for all of us.",
"And you know it's hard for me to leave, to leave my son,\" Rhonda Rollins said.",
"Earlier Wednesday, Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in the cemetery.",
"Obama then stood solemnly as a bugle played taps.",
"Some onlookers watched from under umbrellas.",
"Veterans Day comes a day after Obama addressed 15,000 people at a memorial service at Fort Hood Army Post, where 13 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a shooting last week.",
"Obama told the families of those killed that \"no words can fill the void that has been left,\" adding, \"your loved ones endure through the life of our nation.\"",
"The suspected gunman in the attack is a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who remains in intensive care at an Army hospital in San Antonio, Texas.",
"Later Wednesday, Obama discussed with Obama's war council scenarios to move forward in Afghanistan.",
"One scenario, a senior administration official and U.S. military official independently confirmed, calls for sending about 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.",
"Other nations honored those who sacrificed their lives in wars on Wednesday, in many cases for the first time without any surviving veterans of World War I.",
"Services took place around the world to mark the 91st anniversary of the armistice signed between Germany and the Allies on November 11, 1918.",
"Depending on where it is celebrated, the day is known as Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, Poppy Day or Veterans Day.",
"In Britain, Queen Elizabeth led Remembrance Day ceremonies in Westminster Abbey, a service also attended by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other senior politicians and military leaders.",
"In Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a ceremony under the Arc de Triomphe.",
"Australians observed one minute silence at 11 a.m. in memory of those who died or suffered in all of the nation's wars and armed conflicts.",
"\"Their loss is a reminder that there is nothing glorious about war.",
"Those called upon to fight know that better than anyone,\" said Gen. Peter Cosgrove, chairman of the Council of the Australian War Memorial.",
"CNN's Leslie Bentz contributed to this report."
] | [
"\"No praise ... can truly match the magnitude of your service,\" he tells veterans .",
"America will do right by America's troops, Obama promises .",
"Nations around the world take day to honor fighting men and women ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
0,
4,
4,
4,
4,
1,
0,
5,
5,
5,
6,
3,
6,
6,
6,
6,
0,
6,
5,
7,
7,
0,
0,
3,
1,
1,
2,
2,
2,
2,
7,
2,
4,
1,
3
] |
4001f382a8cbac055de3233786a15e248409eb8b | [
"Tehran, Iran (CNN) --",
"The office of a reformist Iranian member of parliament burned Tuesday night, and a reformist Web site said the act was the work of extremists.",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi, an opposition candidate in the disputed June 12 presidential election, blamed the fire at the office of Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi on plainclothes militia on Mir Hossein Moussavi's Facebook Web site, where Mir Hossein Moussavi also posted photos.",
"photos showed heavy damage, with charred furniture, peeling wallpaper and floors strewn with broken glass, debris and ashes.",
"Parleman News, a newsgathering organization for the Path of the Imam Khomeini faction of parliament, said the office was vandalized before the office was torched.",
"Khomeini was the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.",
"Torabi, who represents the southwestern province of Cahar-Mahal Bakhtiari in parliament, told Parleman News that Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi was awaiting the outcome of an investigation.",
"the office is in the city of Shahr-e Kurd.",
"Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi urged people not to react to the incident, according to Parleman News.",
"Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi said intelligence agencies and the Interior Ministry must investigate the fire and punish those responsible.",
"Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi said that after Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi gave a speech in parliament criticizing the government, Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi came under heavy criticism from government supporters, Parleman News said.",
"No date was given for a speech in parliament criticizing the government.",
"\"After a speech in parliament criticizing the government in the meeting of the Planning Council for Cahar-Mahal Bakhtiari [Province], we witnessed the anger of Cahar-Mahal Bakhtiari [Province's governor-general,\" Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi said.",
"Investigators \"must not allow some people to use force, scare tactics and oppression to bring the three principles of independence, freedom and Islamic Republic under question,\" Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi added, according to Parleman News.",
"Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi said that after Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi gave a speech in parliament criticizing the government, banners condemning Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi were distributed throughout Shahr-e Kurd, with the backing of the governor's office.",
"According to Mir Hossein Moussavi, Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi told the news organization: \"In the middle of the night some made their last pathetic attempt and set the office of a representative of the people on fire with the aim of silencing the members of the parliament.\"",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi called the fire an attempt at intimidation.",
"Opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have held sometimes-violent protests after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was swept into office for a second term despite accusations of election fraud.",
"The latest protest occurred Sunday on the Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashura, which marks the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammed, as a martyr.",
"A prosecutor said seven people died, including Mir Hossein Moussavi's nephew, in the demonstrations."
] | [
"Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi's office burned Tuesday .",
"Opposition figure Mir Hossein Moussavi says fire caused by extremists .",
"Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi says Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi was under pressure after Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi criticized government in speech .",
"Reformist lawmaker Nasrollah Torabi urges people not to react to incident, according to Parleman News ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2,
1,
2,
1,
1,
1,
2,
1,
1,
1,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2
] |
ff0e56f0be51bc47d57b7e162711eef48e43a1b3 | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"With a simple, declarative statement, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki announced VA Secretary Eric Shinseki's ambitious goal to eradicate one of the country's most shameful problems.",
"\"My name is Shinseki, and I am here to end veteran homelessness,\" VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said Tuesday in a speech to the National Summit on Homeless Veterans.",
"But VA Secretary Eric Shinseki indicated the challenge in meeting his ambitious goal to eradicate one of the country's most shameful problems by adding, \"I learned long ago there are never any absolutes in life, and a goal of zero homeless veterans sure sounds like an absolute.\"",
"The plan unveiled by VA Secretary Eric Shinseki includes trying to leverage existing education and jobs programs, boosting the ability of veteran-owned businesses to compete for federal contracts and spend an additional $3 billion on medical services and homeless programs.",
"An estimated 131,000 veterans are homeless, according to VA.",
"That is an improvement from 2003, when the number was as high as 196,000.",
"But VA Secretary Eric Shinseki warned that given the ailing economy, the number could increase by as much as 10 percent to 15 percent in the next five years.",
"VA plans to focus VA's new efforts on preventing the problem.",
"\"his ambitious goal to eradicate one of the country's most shameful problems enlarges the scope of VA's efforts to combat homelessness,\" said VA Secretary Eric Shinseki in a news release.",
"\"In the past, VA focused largely on getting homeless veterans off the streets.",
"his ambitious goal to eradicate one of the country's most shameful problems aims also at preventing them from ever ending up homeless.\"",
"The department plans to expand the recently passed educational grants program for veterans who served after September 11, 2001, to include not just college but vocational programs as well, according to VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts.",
"\"Not every veteran wants to spend four years pursuing a college degree, but every veteran might be interested in learning a trade that would get every veteran into the taxpaying work force sooner,\" VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said.",
"VA will also try to win more federal contracts for veteran-owned businesses, encouraging other agencies to exceed the minimum goal of 3 percent of contracts to veteran-owned small businesses.",
"The increase, VA believes, will also help employ more veterans since \"veterans hire veterans,\" VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said.",
"In addition, it is increasing the amount of vouchers for public-financed housing, adding 10,000 more vouchers in 2010.",
"his ambitious goal to eradicate one of the country's most shameful problems also calls for more programs to aid transition from prison and psychiatric facilities, as well as a renewed call to treat veterans' psychiatric conditions.",
"Read more about VA's ambitious goal .",
"Veterans' groups contacted after the speech were generally pleased that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki was focusing the attention but unsure how VA Secretary Eric Shinseki would achieve such an ambitious goal.",
"\"VA Secretary Eric Shinseki is a soldier and treating this like a military operation and in the military you have to have hope for your missions,\" said Justin Brown of Veterans of Foreign Wars.",
"VA Secretary Eric Shinseki was a four-star general in the Army.",
"Justin Brown of Veterans of Foreign Wars said Justin Brown of Veterans of Foreign Wars thought VA Secretary Eric Shinseki's aim to get better coordination between the VA and federal departments, including Labor and Health, was a good start.",
"But others were more pessimistic that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki could change the VA bureaucracy.",
"\"VA Secretary Eric Shinseki is going to be a good leader, but we don't think VA Secretary Eric Shinseki or the president has quite gotten a hold of how intractable the VA bureaucracy is inside VA,\" said Rick Weidman, executive director for policy and government affairs at Vietnam Veterans of America.",
"Rick Weidman, executive director for policy and government affairs at Vietnam Veterans of America said one problem not mentioned Tuesday that would help, more than many of of the other programs, is reducing the backlog in processing veterans' claims that delays much-needed medical and other benefits.",
"VA recognizes backlogs are a problem, said spokeswoman Roberts.",
"\"The backlog is a top priority at VA and at the forefront of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki's mind,\" spokeswoman Roberts said.",
"Toni Reinis at the Los Angeles organization New Directions said the announcement Tuesday showed that Shinseki had \"real leadership,\" but Toni Reinis at the Los Angeles organization New Directions worried that lack of funds and leadership at the local level would make instituting change difficult.",
"The problem, Toni Reinis at the Los Angeles organization New Directions said, is sometimes not in VA's control.",
"Toni Reinis at the Los Angeles organization New Directions said Toni Reinis at the Los Angeles organization New Directions's group's center, which helps 700 homeless veterans a year gain employment, housing and proper medical and psychiatric care in a residential setting, has lost a lot of money because of state budget cuts.",
"The county cut the center's mental health funding by 55 percent, which is a \"significant\" amount, Toni Reinis at the Los Angeles organization New Directions said.",
"Efforts to expand have been met with opposition, as in the case of a seven-year effort in California's San Fernando Valley to build a new treatment center that has been opposed by local communities.",
"\"VA was behind it, but the neighbors don't want those people in the neighbors's neighborhood,\" Reinis explained."
] | [
"VA Secretary Eric Shinseki says, \"I am here to end veteran homelessness\"",
"An estimated 131,000 veterans are homeless, according to the VA .",
"One observer worries VA Secretary Eric Shinseki doesn't realize how \"intractable\" VA bureaucracy is .",
"Backlogs in veterans claims is cited as a major problem ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
0,
0,
0,
5,
1,
4,
5,
5,
0,
5,
0,
5,
5,
5,
5,
4,
0,
5,
5,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
3,
3,
3,
6,
6,
6,
6,
6,
6
] |
d184bdaf2c5b38cd5fd5df25867f0b24791e6aee | [
"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"The Taliban in Pakistan have released a second audiotape purportedly containing the voice of Taliban's leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, who sources say was wounded in a suspected drone strike this week.",
"Taliban also released an audiotape Friday, though CNN could not confirm that the voice on either tape belongs to Hakimullah Mehsud.",
"It was unclear whether the first tape was recorded before or after Thursday's drone strike, but the voice on either tape announced the date as Saturday.",
"\"Let me say this briefly, that I, Hakimullah Mehsud, today, on the 16th of January, with central spokesman Azam Tariq and Umar Khittab, want to give this message to all mujahedeen: that by the grace of Allah, I, Hakimullah Mehsud, am alive and in good health.",
"Neither have I been martyred in a drone attack nor injured,\" the voice on either tape says on Saturday's tape.",
"Tariq, a Taliban spokesman, denied Thursday and again Friday that Hakimullah Mehsud was hurt.",
"Azam Tariq said Hakimullah Mehsud had left the site of the attack -- a converted religious school -- before the missiles struck.",
"Azam Tariq dismissed reports of an injury to Hakimullah Mehsud as propaganda.",
"However, other Taliban and intelligence sources said doctors were treating Hakimullah Mehsud for wounds he sustained in this week.",
"Azam Tariq delivered both audiotapes to local journalists.",
"On the tape released Friday, the voice on either tape says, \"The media right now is also part of the war.",
"The enemy through the media wants to demoralize Taliban.",
"At times they spread the propaganda in the media that 'We have martyred Hakimullah.'",
"At other times they say, 'Taliban have completed the operation in South Waziristan,' but this will never happen.\"",
"this week hit a madrassa, or religious school, that local officials said had been converted into a militant training camp.",
"Ten people were killed in this week, Pakistani intelligence and local officials said.",
"In the Friday tape, the speaker warns of what will happen if the drone strikes continue.",
"\"I want to inform the Pakistani people that the drone attacks that take place in the tribal areas endanger the politics, well-being and sovereignty of Pakistan,\" the speaker says.",
"\"From today onward, for any dangerous step that Taliban will take in Pakistan, those responsible will be Pakistan's rulers, not the Taliban.",
"This is because the Pakistani rulers want to spill the blood of the innocent [tribesmen] in exchange for dollars.\"",
"The U.S. military routinely offers no comment on reported attacks by drones, or unmanned aircraft.",
"The United States is the only country operating in the region known to have the ability to launch missiles from remote-controlled aircraft.",
"Last week, Taliban released a video showing Hakimullah Mehsud sitting next to Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the man who killed seven CIA employees and a Jordanian army captain at an eastern Afghan base December 30.",
"Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack.",
"It was carried out out to avenge the death of Hakimullah Mehsud's predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, who died in a suspected U.S. drone strike last year, according to al Qaeda's commander of operations in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu Yazid.",
"Baitullah Mehsud and Hakimullah Mehsud are from the same tribe, but not from the same family.",
"CNN's Pierre Bairin contributed to this report."
] | [
"NEW:",
"Taliban in Pakistan issue another tape Taliban say is by Hakimullah Mehsud .",
"NEW: Speaker declares he is \"alive and in good health\"",
"Reports conflict over whether Hakimullah Mehsud was injured in a drone strike this week .",
"Last week Taliban released video of Hakimullah Mehsud with the man who killed seven CIA employees ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
2,
1
] | [
3,
1,
1,
4,
0,
4,
2,
2,
2,
2,
4,
4,
3,
3,
3,
3,
3,
4,
3,
3,
3,
5,
5,
1,
3,
3,
2,
5
] |
fffcaffda91f80b841efaefe04704e0357e4276c | [
"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"Military divers have found body.",
"The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said the soldier was found close to where the soldier disappeared November 4.",
"Officials are continuing Officials's search for a second paratrooper lost at the same time.",
"Two U.S. soldiers disappeared in the Morghab River near Afghanistan's border with Turkmenistan.",
"Two U.S. soldiers were on a routine resupply mission, The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said.",
"Family members identified the recovered body as that of Benjamin Sherman, 21, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.",
"Family members said Plymouth, Massachusetts jumped into Afghan river when Plymouth, Massachusetts saw a fellow soldier struggling in the water.",
"\"I know that day Plymouth, Massachusetts jumped into Afghan river to try to save Plymouth, Massachusetts's comrade was because Plymouth, Massachusetts didn't just see another soldier in the water; Plymouth, Massachusetts saw Plymouth, Massachusetts's brother,\" said Sherman's sister, Meredith, in a statement to CNN affiliate WCVB in Boston, Massachusetts.",
"\"Plymouth, Massachusetts didn't jump in because Plymouth, Massachusetts was trained to but because that's what Plymouth, Massachusetts's heart told Plymouth, Massachusetts to do.\"",
"Sherman's mother, Denise, said the family called Plymouth, Massachusetts \"the unstoppable one.\"",
"\"I raised Plymouth, Massachusetts with the understanding that when you choose to do something, you do it to the best of your ability,\" she said in a statement to WCVB.",
"\"Plymouth, Massachusetts was powerful, ingenuous and determined.\"",
"CNN's Thomas Evans contributed to this report."
] | [
"Two U.S. soldiers went missing in Afghan river on November 4 .",
"Two U.S. soldiers lost in Afghan river near border with Turkmenistan .",
"Family identifies recovered body as that of Benjamin Sherman of Plymouth, Massachusetts .",
"Search continues for the other paratrooper ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
2,
2,
2,
0,
0,
1,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4,
3
] |
90a9c813505adc8e91c2941b076a08d8ced1443f | [
"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Dozens of suspected terrorists released by the United States from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are believed to have returned to terrorism activities, according to Pentagon.",
"Pentagon officials say 61 former Gitmo detainees have committed or are suspected of returning to terrorism.",
"Since 2002, 61 former detainees have committed or are suspected to have committed attacks after being released from the detention camp, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said at a briefing Tuesday.",
"The number is up since Pentagon's last report in March 2008 when officials said 37 former detainees had been suspected of returning to the battlefield since 2002.",
"Since 2007, more than 100 detainees were released, significantly more than in previous years, according to Pentagon officials.",
"According to the statistics, of the 61 former detainees that are believed to have returned to fighting, 18 have been officially confirmed while 43 are suspected, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"The 18 were confirmed through intelligence, photographs, fingerprints and other information, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"Of the 43 other detainees suspected of taking part in terrorist attacks, only \"plausible reporting\" on their activities indicated some kind of involvement, according to Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.",
"Officials would only identify one of the confirmed attackers, Adballah Salih al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti man released from U.S. custody at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 2005.",
"Pentagon officials said Salih al-Ajmi blew Salih al-Ajmi up in a suicide attack in Iraq in April 2008.",
"Since 2002, Pentagon has released about 520 detainees to 520 detainees's home countries or counties that agreed to take 520 detainees.",
"Some have been released in full by their home countries or counties that agreed to take them while others are still being held.",
"\"There, clearly, are people who are being held at Guantanamo who are still bent on doing harm to America, Americans and our allies, so there will have to be some solution for the likes of people who are being held at Guantanamo who are still bent on doing harm to America, Americans and our allies,\" Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"About 250 detainees remain held at Gitmo and about 60 of 520 detainees have been cleared for release by Pentagon, but those detainees's home countries will not take those detainees or the U.S. believes those detainees could be harmed by those detainees's governments if returned.",
"President-elect Barack Obama has said President-elect Barack Obama intends to shut down Gitmo.",
"Earlier this week, two sources close to the President-elect Barack Obama transition team said President-elect Barack Obama could issue an order to do so as early as President-elect Barack Obama's first week in office, saying that President-elect Barack Obama believes \"the legal framework at Gitmo has failed to successfully and swiftly prosecute terrorists.\""
] | [
"61 former Gitmo detainees still involved in terror acts, according to Pentagon .",
"Since 2002, nearly 520 detainees have been released from detention facility .",
"President-elect Barack Obama wants to shut down Guantanamo upon taking office ."
] | [
0,
0,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2,
2,
0,
0,
2,
0,
1,
1
] |
e7c80653a0f9250779961ee2e501cd73f5042302 | [
"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"An attack in which Taliban claimed to have infiltrated key government sites in downtown Kabul killed at least five people Monday morning, hospital and government officials said.",
"Among the five were two policemen and one national security staff member, Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said at a news conference.",
"Seventy-one others were injured, 36 of whom were police or security officers, Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said.",
"Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar's report of the death toll conflicts with those of Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi, who said 13 died, and the Taliban, which claimed even more were slain.",
"Seven attackers' bodies were recovered, with two or three of Seven attackers' bodies burned beyond recognition, Azimi said.",
"Taliban said only five were killed.",
"Four explosions and gunfire shook downtown Kabul about 9:15 a.m. Monday, with Taliban saying Taliban was conducting a militant operation.",
"The attack started as 14 members of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's Cabinet were to be sworn in, said Parliament member Fawzia Koofi.",
"About 20 Taliban insurgents entered the presidential palace; the ministries of Finance, Mines and Justice; and the Serena Hotel, said spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid.",
"NATO-led forces said \"several small explosions\" and gunfire were reported near the Feroshgah e Afghan Shopping Center and the Serena Hotel, and later added that \"numerous\" suicide bombers had attacked government buildings close to the presidential palace and the Ministry of Justice.",
"Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said that the coordinated attacks struck the city over a span of two hours and 45 minutes and that the coordinated attacks targeted civilians.",
"And the threat continued at 1 p.m., when three attackers took over Bayman Hotel, Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said.",
"More than two hours later, Afghan security forces killed the men, Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said.",
"At least two insurgents were killed at the Feroshgah e Afghan Shopping Center, NATO-led forces said in a news release, which also said that Afghan national police had secured all roads in the area.",
"A separate news release condemned the attack, which NATO-led forces said took place amid many civilians.",
"Atmar, the Minister of Defense and chief of the National Security Department also condemned the violence.",
"Taliban claimed that Taliban killed 31 officials and injured 31 people.",
"Taliban's account could not be immediately independently verified.",
"Taliban also disputed the government on the number of its militants killed.",
"Five militants had died and 13 had returned to their safe houses, Taliban's Mujahid said, adding that two were still fighting.",
"But Zmaray Bashari, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said security forces had restored Kabul to normalcy by Monday afternoon.",
"Monday's assault followed weekend violence that killed at least three international troops and 14 militants in Afghanistan, authorities said.",
"CNN's Dan Rivers and Atia Abawi contributed to this report."
] | [
"Five people killed; two insurgents dead at shopping center, NATO-led forces say .",
"Taliban insurgents enter presidential palace, ministry buildings, government says .",
"Karzai Cabinet members were to be sworn in, Parliament member says ."
] | [
0,
1,
1
] | [
2,
0,
3,
3,
0,
3,
0,
0,
1,
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
0,
2
] |
902967c907393bc17954ce40b776defe8d0a3b07 | [
"(CNN) --",
"A woman who was beheaded near Buffalo, New York -- allegedly by Woman's husband -- may have been on the phone with Woman's sister when Woman was killed.",
"her husband has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her husband's wife, Woman.",
"Asma Firfirey of suburban Cape Town, South Africa, told the Afrikaans newspaper Die Burger that Firfirey was on the phone with Firfirey's sister, Sister, last week when Firfirey heard Hassan tell Hassan's husband to calm down.",
"Firfirey said Firfirey heard her husband say the two could talk about their impending divorce the following day.",
"Then Firfirey heard something that sounded like Firfirey's sister struggling to breathe, Firfirey said.",
"\"I can only imagine how scared and emotional Sister must have been before Sister died,\" Firfirey said in the interview, reported in English by South Africa's News 24.",
"Police have charged Hassan's husband, Muzzammil Hassan, with second-degree, or intentional, murder in the death of Woman, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.",
"Sister's decapitated body was found at the offices of Bridges TV, the television network where her husband was chief executive officer and Aasiya Hassan was general manager.",
"her husband told Orchard Park police her husband's wife was dead, led officers to Her decapitated body and was arrested Thursday, said Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III.",
"He is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.",
"Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz on Tuesday contradicted a CNN report that quoted Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz as saying her husband confessed to the crime.",
"A Buffalo attorney told CNN on Tuesday that A Buffalo attorney expects to represent her husband but declined further comment, saying details had not yet been worked out.",
"her husband came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago and became a successful banker, but her husband and her husband's wife were troubled by the negative perception of Muslims, Voice of America reported in 2004.",
"Speaking in December 2004, her husband said her husband's wife, then pregnant, was worried about that perception and \"felt there should be an American Muslim media where Woman's kids could grow up feeling really strong about their identity as an American Muslim.\"",
"\"So Woman came up with the idea and turned to her husband and said, 'Why don't you do the idea?' \" her husband said.",
"\"And I was like, I have no clue about television.",
"I'm a banker. ...",
"And Woman's comment was, 'You have an MBA.",
"Why don't you write a business plan?' \"",
"Bridges TV began as a television network for Muslim-Americans, aimed at overcoming the negative stereotypes associated with the religion.",
"\"There should be a Muslim media,\" her husband told VOA, \"so that Muslim children growing up in America grow up with the self-confidence and high self-esteem about Muslim children growing up in America's identity both as Americans and as Muslims.\"",
"In the past few years, according to a former employee who asked not to be named for fear of retribution, Bridges TV transformed Bridges TV into more of a cross-cultural network seeking to bridge the gap between all cultures.",
"Most of their employees were not Muslim, a former employee who asked not to be named for fear of retribution said, and her husband was not devout.",
"Woman filed for divorce February 6, police said, and her husband was served with divorce papers at the station.",
"That night, her husband showed up at the couple's home, Woman notified authorities and her husband was served with a restraining order.",
"Police are not commenting on details of the crime, except to say the woman's body did not appear to have been moved.",
"Police also would not divulge what her husband told police or the suspected motive.",
"The law firm representing Woman refused to comment, only confirming that Woman had filed for divorce.",
"Benz told CNN on Tuesday that police had responded to several domestic violence calls at the couple's address, but no one was arrested.",
"Firfirey, as well as a Pakistani woman identifying herself as another of Woman's sisters, characterized Woman as living in fear.",
"Firfirey said the last time Firfirey saw Firfirey's sister was in May 2008, when Firfirey visited South Africa.",
"When Firfirey arrived, Firfirey was badly injured, and Firfirey's family paid the equivalent of about $3,000 for Firfirey to be treated, Firfirey said.",
"Woman returned to America, Firfirey said, because Woman wanted to complete Woman's MBA degree and \"didn't want to leave Woman's children with that monster.\"",
"Firfirey said Woman calls Muzzammil Hassan \"the fat man with evil eyes.\"",
"Woman would have graduated March 6, Firfirey said.",
"A woman in Pakistan using the name Salma Zubair posted on a blog that she is the sister of \"this brutally murdered woman.\"",
"\"Woman lived Woman's 8 years of married life with fear in heart,\" Zubair wrote.",
"\"her husband had already frightened Woman enough that Woman couldn't muster up Woman's guts and leave her husband, and when Woman finally did gather that much strength her husband killed Woman so brutally.",
"Woman lived to protect Woman's children from this man and her husband's family and Woman died doing so.\"",
"Zubair said Woman \"had always been a very loving person, not even one person in this world can say a small wrong word about Woman ...",
"Woman had always dreamed a life of a happily married family, which Woman did Woman best to achieve.\"",
"Both women said Both women were worried about the couple's children, ages 4 and 6.",
"Firfirey said they were being cared for by a colleague of the couple.",
"her husband also has two older children from a previous marriage.",
"Members of her husband's family did not return calls from CNN on Tuesday.",
"The former employee told CNN that Woman was popular at the station and was very kind.",
"her husband was known among employees for having a temper -- her husband sometimes would yell at and demean her husband's wife, but at other times appeared to be a loving husband and father, The former employee said.",
"Bridges TV released a statement Tuesday saying Bridges TV's staff was \"deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of Woman and the subsequent arrest of her husband.",
"Our deepest condolences and prayers go out to the families of the victim.\"",
"Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali, vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, said Woman's death serves \"as a wake-up call to call of us, that violence against women is real and cannot be ignored ...",
"the Muslim community is not exempt from this issue.",
"We, the Muslim community, need to take a strong stand against domestic violence.\"",
"CNN's Mary Snow contributed to this report."
] | [
"New York man charged with second-degree murder after wife found beheaded .",
"Police: Woman's decapitated body found at TV station where Woman, husband worked .",
"Report: Sister says Sister may have been on phone with victim when Woman was killed .",
"Woman had filed for divorce from Muzzammil Hassan days earlier ."
] | [
0,
1,
1,
2
] | [
3,
1,
0,
4,
2,
4,
4,
0,
1,
0,
2,
5,
2,
6,
6,
7,
3,
8,
7,
8,
3,
6,
3,
9,
2,
2,
5,
5,
2,
5,
7,
4,
4,
7,
7,
7,
1,
7,
7,
7,
7,
7,
9,
4,
9,
5,
3,
9,
1,
4,
7,
6,
6,
3
] |
a8c857c0dabbb90b5bec503f4a7a0e368a234c69 | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"Ibrahim Hooper knows the drill.",
"When news first broke Thursday that a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, killed and injured U.S. soldiers, Ibrahim Hooper wrote a statement of condemnation.",
"Ibrahim Hooper only sent a statement of condemnation out later, when reports emerged that the alleged shooter's name was Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.",
"\"As soon as we saw what appeared to be a Muslim name, we issued our statement,\" Ibrahim Hooper said.",
"\"Until that time, we were praying that no Muslim would be involved.\"",
"That's the reality of crisis management for the Muslim-American community, said Hooper, who handles communications for the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.",
"Even without confirmation that the alleged gunman was Muslim -- there was no immediate determination of any religious affiliation for Hasan -- the mere reporting of a possible Muslim name required an immediate comment, he said.",
"\"That's unfortunately the world we live in nowadays,\" Ibrahim Hooper said.",
"\"So often, Muslims are accused of not condemning these kind of acts.\"",
"a statement of condemnation said: \"No political or religious ideology could ever justify or excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence.",
"The attack was particularly heinous in that The attack targeted the all-volunteer Army that protects our nation.",
"American Muslims stand with American Muslims's fellow citizens in offering both prayers for the victims and sincere condolences to the families of those killed or injured.\"",
"In a separate statement, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, based in Los Angeles, California, condemned what the Muslim Public Affairs Council, based in Los Angeles, California called The attack.\"",
"\"We are in contact with law enforcement and U.S. federal government officials to gain more facts from The attack and work together in dealing with The attack's aftermath,\" the Muslim Public Affairs Council, based in Los Angeles, California said.",
"the Muslim Public Affairs Council, based in Los Angeles, California's statement called on \"all members of American Muslim communities to be in contact with local law enforcement for the safety and security of American Muslim communities's communities and American Muslim communities's institutions.\"",
"The Islamic Information Center also issued a statement \"in conjunction with all the major Muslim organizations nationwide\" that condemned The attack.",
"\"While several news reports have cited one of the gunmen to be Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, IIC strongly emphasizes that this attack and its perpetrator are in no way representative of the Muslim people or the peace-loving religion of Islam,\" the statement said.",
"\"The individuals who perpetrated The attack blatantly acted against the teachings of Islam and humanity,\" it added.",
"After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Muslim-Americans reported increased attacks and threats by revenge-minded non-Muslims.",
"\"We've seen this before,\" Hooper said of a possible backlash.",
"\"Whenever there's an incident of this type, there's always the possibility this will happen.\"",
"Even non-Muslims could be targeted, he said, noting that Sikhs who wear turbans or Hispanic-Americans can be mistaken as being of Middle Eastern descent.",
"On Thursday night, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad told a news conference the alleged Fort Hood attacker's motive remained unknown.",
"\"We urge all Americans to remain calm in reaction to this tragic event and to demonstrate once again what is best about America -- our nation's ability to remain unified even in times of crisis,\" CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said.",
"\"We urge national political and religious leaders and media professionals to set a tone of calm and unity.",
"\"Unfortunately, based on past experience, we also urge American Muslims, and those who may be perceived to be Muslim, to take appropriate precautions to protect themselves, their families and their religious institutions from possible backlash.\""
] | [
"Slain Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan accused in Fort Hood shootings .",
"Hasan's religion, if any, isn't known, but American Muslims condemn Hasan's actions .",
"\"American Muslims stand with our fellow citizens,\" one group says .",
"Some fear backlash against Muslims and people who are thought to be Muslim ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
1,
3,
0,
0,
0,
2,
3,
0,
3,
2,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
0,
1,
2,
3,
3,
2,
0,
1,
1,
2
] |
aface4f5f10af60100688d485f19f55cdec686d0 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Rangers kept Rangers's stranglehold on the Scottish title as a Lee McCulloch equalizer earned Rangers a 1-1 draw against closest rivals Celtic in the Old Firm derby on Sunday.",
"It leaves the defending champions seven points clear of Celtic, having played a game more, with the season at the halfway point.",
"Ranger manager Walter Smith admitted Ranger manager Walter Smith's team had been fortunate to escape with a point at Parkhead with Celtic wasting a string of chances before Scott McDonald came off the substitutes' bench to head a 79th minute opener.",
"The Australian international converted from an Aidan McGeedy cross, but two minutes later saw McCulloch rise superbly from a corner to earn McCulloch's side a valuable point.",
"Rangers have 44 points from 19 games and Celtic 37 from 18, but Celtic manager Tony Mowbray remained optimistic, saying that Celtic's city neighbors had denied Celtic the title last term after coming from seven points behind.",
"\"Undoubtedly, it's less of a task than Rangers had last year,\" Celtic manager Tony Mowbray told reporters.",
"The other game on a crucial Sunday in the championship race saw Hibernian and Hearts draw 1-1 in a bad-tempered Edinburgh derby which saw both teams end with 10 men and crowd trouble.",
"Gordon Smith gave Hearts the lead on the stroke of halftime but one of Hearts's fans was ejected after a flare was thrown as the players left the field at the interval.",
"Anthony Stokes leveled for the home side in the 54th minute, but three minutes later Ruben Palazuelos of Hearts and Hibernian's Darren McCormack were shown red for head-butting each other.",
"Hibernian stay third with 33 points and Hearts are fifth."
] | [
"Rangers and Celtic draw 1-1 in the Old Firm derby in Scotland .",
"Rangers stay seven points clear of Celtic at top of Scottish standings .",
"Hearts and Hibs draw 1-1 in bad-tempered Edinburgh derby with two men sent off ."
] | [
0,
0,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1,
0
] |
9537f8cfa3989db553b054a4579db89e1166256c | [
"(CNN) --",
"A snowstorm that could last up to 18 hours was on A snowstorm that could last up to 18 hours's way to southern New England, and Boston, Massachusetts, could be snowed under with up to 15 inches, the National Weather Service said Sunday afternoon.",
"A snowstorm is threatening parts of the Northeast with as much as 15 inches of snowfall.",
"Monday's commuters in the region could face a nightmare with blowing and drifting snow, freezing temperatures, gusty winds and periods of sleet.",
"Flight delays and cancellations were likely, the National Weather Service said.",
"Boston Mayor Thomas Menino declared a snow emergency starting 10 p.m. Sunday in anticipation of the storm, CNN affiliate WCVB reported.",
"Boston public schools will be canceled on Monday.",
"At 2:15 a.m. Monday, light snow was starting to fall, CNN affiliate WCVB reported.",
"Winter storm warnings straddled Interstate 95 from Maine to the Carolinas, and they also were issued in parts of Georgia and Alabama.",
"Delta Air Lines canceled 300 flights, most of them to or from Atlanta, because of snowy weather, spokesman Brian Kruse said Sunday.",
"It was snowing in Atlanta, where Delta is based, and 2 to 4 inches was expected.",
"David Spear, a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Transportation, expected traffic chaos.",
"\"People tend to get a little animated out here at the sight of snow,\" he told CNN.",
"\"Our concern is going to be -- as we move into the evening hours and the temperature drops -- that that slush becomes ice and then we have a real situation for our morning commute tomorrow.\"",
"He said about 200 DOT trucks were deployed to help make roads safe for motorists.",
"In northern Connecticut, southern New Hampshire and most of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, a winter storm warning was to be in effect from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 p.m. Monday, the National Weather Service said.",
"Such a warning is issued when winter weather conditions are expected to make travel dangerous.",
"As A snowstorm that could last up to 18 hours continued A snowstorm that could last up to 18 hours's northward trek late Sunday, Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in South Carolina was closed at 9 p.m. for snow removal from runways, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"Farther north, Richmond International Airport in Virginia was closed at 10:45 p.m. for the same reason, the Federal Aviation Administration said.",
"Both airports were expected to reopen before midnight.",
"The heaviest snow, up to 15 inches, was forecast for the heavily populated I-95 corridor between Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, northeast Connecticut and north into the Merrimack Valley in northeast Massachusetts, the National Weather Service said.",
"As much as 3 inches per hour could fall between 10 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. Monday.",
"In Washington, Mayor Adrian Fenty declared a snow emergency Sunday afternoon, meaning any street designated as \"snow emergency route\" by signs would be cleared of any parked vehicles, towed if necessary, so snow plows could work unimpeded.",
"Watch report on the storm system » .",
"\"It is important that our crews have access to the roads from curb-to-curb in order to plow the snow,\" said Fenty, whose city was expected to get up to 8 inches of accumulation Sunday night and early Monday with accumulations up to 10 inches by Monday night.",
"\"This is one of the first plow events we have had this season, and we want to ensure we are able to maintain clear and safe roadways as we move into Monday morning,\" Mayor Adrian Fenty said.",
"Forecasters said as many as 14 inches of snow could pile up in Philadelphia and New York City, starting Sunday night.",
"Lesser amounts of snow were reported as far south as Alabama, although Charlotte, North Carolina, could see up to 8 inches.",
"Watch snowfall in Georgia » .",
"In Memphis, Tennessee, CNN iReporter George Brown said Sunday that forecasters had predicted \"Teflon snow,\" which wouldn't stick to the ground.",
"But the snow that fell was much heavier, iReporter George Brown said.",
"iReport.com: Share photos of icy, snowy weather in your town .",
"\"We were getting an inch or more an hour,\" iReporter George Brown said.",
"\"Some roads are impassable because the folks here aren't use to dealing with slick streets.",
"Many cars are off the interstate, and hotels are packed,\" iReporter George Brown said.",
"Watch winter storm cause accidents » .",
"Snow in Germantown, Tennessee, was more than 5 inches deep by Sunday afternoon, forecasters said.",
"\"I talked with our maintenance director, Bill Hazlerig, who tells me he hasn't seen snow like this in West Tennessee in many years,\" Julie Oaks from the Tennessee Department of Transportation told CNN.",
"Watch the situation in Tennessee » .",
"Tennessee called in 260 employees in the western portion of the state alone to salt and plow roadways through the night, she said.",
"By Sunday afternoon, about 45 cars and semi-trailers had pulled over on the shoulder of Interstate 40, Julie Oaks from the Tennessee Department of Transportation said.",
"Watch the snow come down in Memphis » .",
"Rebecca Horsley, an iReporter from Pelham, Alabama, near Birmingham, said snow began falling there Sunday at 6 a.m., interfering with her planned birthday celebration.",
"\"It looks like we may have to reschedule,\" she said.",
"CNN's Sean Morris, Lee Garen and Chuck Johnston contributed to this report."
] | [
"Winter storm warnings issued from New England south to Georgia, Alabama .",
"Washington declares snow emergency, could get 10 inches by Monday night .",
"Heavy snow could make for nightmarish Monday commute in parts of New England .",
"Snow falls in South; Georgia-based Delta Airlines cancels 300 flights ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
0,
2,
1,
2,
4,
0,
2,
4,
5,
4,
6,
5,
0,
0,
7,
7,
7,
0,
4,
1,
4,
1,
1,
0,
4,
4,
4,
8,
4,
8,
6,
5,
0,
4,
4,
5,
5,
5,
4,
4,
6,
3
] |
4b964621a4d0a48bfb273badbade7f6dcb066365 | [
"JACKSON, Tennessee (CNN) --",
"Tornadoes and storms in the mid-South have killed 55 people since Tuesday evening in the deadliest tornado outbreak in the United States in more than 20 years.",
"A police officer walks past destroyed cars on the Union University campus in Jackson, Tennessee, Wednesday.",
"The storms ripped apart homes and trapped residents of university dorms and a retirement home in debris.",
"The trail of death stretched across four states, with four people killed in Alabama, 13 in Arkansas, seven in Kentucky and 31 in Tennessee.",
"In some cases, there was almost no warning before the severe weather hit.",
"James Baskin of Jackson, Tennessee, was driving a car when a twister \"just picked a car up and threw a car,\" James Baskin said.",
"Everyone in a car was injured, including James Baskin's daughter's friend, who suffered a broken collarbone.",
"\"a car'll get through it.",
"Nobody's dead.",
"That's the biggest thing,\" James Baskin said.",
"The storm system was becoming less intense as The storm system moved east Wednesday, CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano said, but the National Weather Service issued tornado and severe storm warnings and said extreme weather still was possible.",
"President Bush said Wednesday President Bush had called the governors of the affected states to offer help and to tell them that \"the American people hold those who suffered up in prayer.\"",
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency was deploying teams to the area, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said Wednesday.",
"\"We're going to keep watching this,\" Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said.",
"See map of where storms hit » .",
"In Sumner County, Tennessee, two victims were found outside a house that had been blown away by the storm, said Jay Austin, the county's primary death investigator.",
"Elsewhere in the area, a mother was found dead in a creek bed about 50 yards from where a mother's house stood.",
"a mother's baby was found alive 250 yards away.",
"Her baby was taken to a local hospital, Austin said.",
"Meanwhile, the Tennessee Highway Patrol reported looting in hard-hit Macon County, CNN affiliate WSMV reported.",
"Macon County Mayor Shelvy Linville told CNN Thursday that the death toll in the county had risen to 13.",
"Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who flew over the area Wednesday, said Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who flew over the disaster area Wednesday was stunned by the storm's power.",
"Watch Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who flew over the disaster area Wednesday describe a 'nightmare' » .",
"\"I don't think that I have seen, since I've been governor, a tornado where the combination of the intensity of it and the length of the track was as large as this one,\" Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who flew over the disaster area Wednesday said.",
"\"the track had to be 25 miles long.",
"[The twister] didn't skip like a lot of them do.",
"... It's just 25 miles of a tornado sitting on the ground.\"",
"In Jackson, Tennessee, a tornado trapped Union University students and retirees in collapsed buildings, said Julie Oaks, a spokeswoman for the state's Emergency Management Agency.",
"Watch how tornado devastated the campus » .",
"\"It looks like a war zone,\" said university President David Dockery.",
"\"Cars and trucks thrown from one side of the campus to the other.\"",
"university President David Dockery said the women's dorms were destroyed, along with two academic buildings.",
"Many other school buildings received lesser damage.",
"See photos of chaos left by storm » .",
"Classes were canceled at least until February 18, university President David Dockery said.",
"Nine students were hospitalized overnight, but there were no life-threatening injuries, according to university spokesman Tim Elsworth.",
"To the west, a tornado swept through the southeastern section of Memphis in Shelby County.",
"The storms yanked the roof off a hangar at Memphis International Airport, the National Weather Service said.",
"Julie Oaks, a spokeswoman for the state's Emergency Management Agency said one person was killed at the Hickory Ridge Mall in Shelby County.",
"Company officials believe a tornado hit a compressor station for the Columbia Gulf Transmission company in Hartsville, Tennessee, about 40 miles northeast of Nashville, setting off a spectacular natural gas fire.",
"Watch flames leap hundreds of feet » .",
"The blaze could be seen in the night sky for miles around, with flames shooting \"400, 500 feet in the air,\" said Tennessee Emergency Management spokesman Donnie Smith.",
"The station was damaged significantly, but there were no reports of injuries or fatalities, said Columbia spokesman Kelly Merritt.",
"\"We would not have had any employees there [overnight].\"",
"The blaze was put out early Wednesday morning, he said.",
"The tornado cut a wide swath near the facility, flattening the home of Dara Reasonover.",
"\"It just took the house and everything and my horses and my dog,\" a shaken Reasonover said, as the glow of the fire lit the sky behind a shaken Reasonover.",
"\"I don't know if they're alive or dead, but we'll make it.\"",
"In Arkansas, the storm killed 13 people in six counties, the state Emergency Management Agency said.",
"In the city of Atkins, a man, woman and child in the same family were killed, county Judge Jim Ed Gibson told CNN.",
"The storms overturned trucks and other vehicles along Interstate 40, closing the highway briefly, county Judge Jim Ed Gibson said.",
"Storms also ripped through Kentucky, killing at least seven people.",
"A state of emergency was declared in Muhlenberg County, and Kentucky National Guard troops were deployed, state emergency spokesman Buddy Rogers said.",
"In Alabama, The storms killed four people, three in Lawrence County and one in Jackson County, officials said.",
"Resident Roger Riddle said that when Resident Roger Riddle heard the tornado siren, Resident Roger Riddle rounded up Resident Roger Riddle's children and took his children to a community storm shelter.",
"When Resident Roger Riddle emerged, Resident Roger Riddle saw the twister traveling away from his children and \"total destruction.\"",
"\"We've got things tore up, and the house across the road from us is completely gone,\" Resident Roger Riddle said.",
"In Mississippi, the director of the state's Emergency Management Agency, Mike Womack, estimated that 20 to 30 tornadoes pounded the state in areas above the state capital of Jackson.",
"\"We have no reported fatalities, and that is extremely fortunate,\" he said, given the havoc the storm caused elsewhere.",
"E",
"mail to a friend .",
"CNN's Saeed Ahmed, Mark Bixler and Ed Payne contributed to this report."
] | [
"NEW: Death toll rises to 55 with report of a 13th death in Macon County, Tennessee .",
"Tornado outbreak was deadliest in the U.S. in more than 20 years .",
"31 people killed in Tennessee, 13 in Arkansas, 7 in Kentucky, 4 in Alabama ."
] | [
0,
1,
0
] | [
2,
1,
3,
4,
0,
4,
3,
3,
5,
5,
3,
4,
2,
2,
2,
4,
4,
6,
6,
6,
3,
0,
7,
7,
7,
8,
8,
8,
4,
4,
9,
5,
9,
9,
4,
9,
9,
4,
4,
0,
4,
10,
10,
9,
5,
10,
4,
11,
5,
1,
0,
4,
1,
2,
1,
11,
11,
11,
1,
9,
8,
8,
2
] |
c38cbaa56e0652695ec6cac676366a38450cfdd0 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Clouds of black smoke from burning plastic hang over the sites of Nigeria's vast dumps, as tiny figures pick tiny figures's way through slicks of oily water, past cracked PC monitors and television screens.",
"Toxins from dumped electronics in developing countries has been seen as a growing problem.",
"But it isn't just a cut from broken glass these mainly young scavengers are risking.",
"Much of the discarded electronic kit contains tiny -- but valuable -- quantities of aluminum, copper, cadmium and other minerals, all of which can be sold on, if they can be recovered.",
"However they also contain highly toxic materials, which have been linked to reproductive problems and cancers.",
"\"People living and working on and around the dump sites, many of whom are children, are exposed to a cocktail of dangerous chemicals that can cause severe damage to health, including cancer, damage to the nervous system and to brain development in children,\" Kim Schoppink, Toxics Campaigner at Greenpeace, told CNN.",
"\"The open burning creates even more hazardous chemicals among which are cancerous dioxins.\"",
"No studies have been done on the extent of the chemical pollution of such sites in Nigeria, but in 2008 a Greenpeace report on similar dumps in nearby Ghana confirmed that high levels of lead, phthalates and dioxins were present in soils and the water of a nearby lagoon.",
"A Chinese academic report published in \"Environmental Health Perspectives\" in 2007 confirmed that children living in the same area had higher levels of toxic metals in children living in the same area's blood than other children living nearby.",
"There is increasing evidence that this new health and environment problem is arriving in shipping containers from Western countries.",
"Nigeria is one of the principal global destinations for \"e-waste\" -- the catch-all term for discarded consumer electronics.",
"Some of this may have been legitimately handed in to be recycled in an EU or U.S. city, but lax enforcement, vague legislation and a lack of political will has meant that it instead passes through a network of traders keen to profit from developing countries' hunger for hi-tech and a burgeoning second hand market.",
"According to the United Nations Environment Program around 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are generated worldwide each year.",
"In 2008 a Greenpeace study, \"Not in My Backyard\", found that in Europe only 25 percent of the e-waste was recycled safely.",
"In the U.S. it is only 20 percent and in developing countries it is less than one percent.",
"Extrapolating out from these figures the report concluded that a massive 80 percent of e-waste generated worldwide is not properly recycled.",
"Some is burnt in Western incinerators or buried in landfill sites.",
"But much is exported to developing countries including India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria and Ghana.",
"When it arrives, a further percentage may be repaired and sold on to populations desperate for affordable technology.",
"But anything beyond the skills of local traders will end up dumped.",
"It's a profitable business, and is already attracting the attention of organized crime.",
"A report issued by the United Nations in July said that the criminal gangs behind much of the drug trade in West Africa were becoming involved with e-waste trading.",
"The volume of material on the move is staggering.",
"In 2005, more than 500 containers full of e-waste entered Nigerian ports every month, according to the Basel Action Network, a U.S. NGO campaigning on issues surrounding toxic waste.",
"Each one contains 10 to 15 tons of e-waste, totaling 60,000 to 90,000 tons per year.",
"These figures are likely to have increased in recent years.",
"There seems little doubt that much of this waste is finding its way to Africa from Western countries.",
"the Basel Action Network and Dutch NGO Danwatch have traced equipment from Europe to Nigerian dumps and earlier this year Greenpeace placed a radio tracking device in a broken TV handed in for safe recycling in the UK, but followed it to a Nigerian market.",
"\"Greenpeace is disappointed especially by U.S. and EU authorities,\" said Schoppink.",
"\"It is toxic waste from the U.S. and EU countries that is causing serious environmental and health problems in Nigeria, a country without the means to deal with this problem.",
"\"The U.S. and EU must play the biggest role in stopping the spread of e-waste; U.S. and EU are most responsible for the problem and have the resources to tackle the problem.",
"The export of e-waste from EU is illegal under the Basel Convention and the Waste Shipment Directive, but the laws are not being sufficiently implemented.",
"In the U.S., there is no such law banning this practice.",
"\"In Nigeria the government is talking about stopping imports, but there has been no progress on this to date.\"",
"Signs of progress .",
"There are calls from environmental groups likes Greenpeace for electronics producers to do more to phase out electronics producers's use of hazardous substances, and there are some signs of progress.",
"Several electronics companies already make products using fewer hazardous substances, and others, including Nokia, Philips and Samsung are setting up voluntary collection and recycling systems in countries where they are not legally obliged to.",
"Apple claims Apple's products are now almost entirely free of the worst toxic chemicals.",
"\"If producers continue to use hazardous chemicals in producers's electronics and to fail to take responsibility for the safe disposal of producers's products, e-waste will continue to be dumped in developing countries,\" said Schoppink.",
"\"The pollution and related health problems in countries where e-waste is dumped will increase massively as the amount of electronics used worldwide is growing exponentially and the number of countries used as dump sites will grow.\"",
"But while the developing world needs the U.S. and EU to take responsibility for their waste, it also needs their discarded computers to train and build a 21st century workforce.",
"\"Nobody is arguing that Africa should be denied access to computers,\" said Tony Roberts, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Computer Aid International, a charity licensed by the UK Environment Agency, which provides recycled computers to developing countries to improve education and healthcare.",
"\"Technical colleges and universities are always short of resources.",
"It is, of course, essential to developing economies escaping poverty to have access to affordable modern technology.\"",
"Computer Aid works to close the digital divide between the north and southern hemispheres and offers corporations, including Coca Cola, as well as individuals, a positive way of disposing of electronics.",
"Computer Aid also believe learning about responsibility for that technology is a crucial part of the exchange.",
"\"Computer Aid argues that, in addition to the PCs, it is essential to also build the skills, knowledge and operating capacity in every country to manage responsible re-use programs and environmentally sound end-of-life recycling.\"",
"In the end, this is about everyone involved -- particularly the developed nations -- taking responsibility for everyone involved -- particularly the developed nations's waste.",
"\"It is clear that companies have a moral obligation to treat Africa in exactly the same way that companies do, say, Germany,\" said Roberts.",
"Until then, toxic black smoke will continue to cast a shadow over lives across the developing world."
] | [
"Export of electronic products for recycling creating health and environment problems .",
"Developed nations that export e-waste criticized by many for lack of responsibility .",
"Study from Greenpeace suggest only around 20 percent recycled safely .",
"Organized crime involved in e-waste trading according to UN report in July ."
] | [
0,
1,
1,
2
] | [
3,
4,
0,
4,
5,
4,
4,
4,
2,
4,
4,
2,
5,
1,
1,
6,
1,
5,
6,
5,
5,
2,
2,
3,
2,
1,
3,
2,
5,
1,
2,
1,
1,
6,
2,
3,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
7,
7,
6,
6,
7,
7,
7,
1,
6,
4
] |
517fdfc88bd790a84e7369778d4b17948b5e36ff | [
"Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a psychiatrist who worked in a hospital at the base, is blamed for the deaths of 12 soldiers and one Army civilian employee, and for wounding at least 38 others.",
"If convicted, Hasan will join an infamous list of Americans who have committed acts of mass murder.",
"Since 2005, there have been at least 11 other incidents where gunmen have opened fire on groups of victims."
] | [
"Since 2001, Hasan had been unable to leave the military, a family spokeswoman said .",
"a family spokeswoman said Hasan told Hasan's family Hasan had been taunted after the terrorist attacks in 2001 .",
"The police officer who shot Hasan, ending the massacre, was among the wounded ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
0,
0,
0
] |
151696d797697d13b50c48292af516dab88d2086 | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"Two people without invitations crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday.",
"the U.S. Secret Service confirmed a Washington Post report that the couple who crashed Tuesday night's dinner were Tareq and Michaele Salahi.",
"Washington Post described the couple who crashed Tuesday night's dinner as polo-playing socialites from northern Virginia.",
"A Secret Service checkpoint \"did not follow proper procedures\" to determine if the two were on the guest list for the dinner, said Edwin M. Donovan, a the U.S. Secret Service special agent, in a statement.",
"Playing down any security threat, Donovan's statement said: \"It is important to note that these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of security, as did all guests attending the dinner.\"",
"The incident represents a security breach for the White House at the dinner.",
"More than 300 guests, including Cabinet members, diplomats and Hollywood celebrities, attended the dinner in honor of visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.",
"\"The Secret Service has tasked our Office of Professional Responsibility with conducting a comprehensive review of The incident,\" Donovan's statement said.",
"Video footage of the dinner showed the couple who crashed Tuesday night's dinner walking past journalists into the dinner.",
"On Wednesday, Michaele Salahi's Facebook page included photos of the couple who crashed Tuesday night's dinner at the dinner, including two pictures with Vice President Joe Biden and another with Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, who was identified on the page as \"Ron\" Emanuel.",
"the couple who crashed Tuesday night's dinner's names did not appear on the guest list distributed Tuesday by the White House.",
"In an e-mail to CNN, Mahogany Jones, who identified herself as a publicist for the Salahis, said the couple who crashed Tuesday night's dinner had \"full clearance to attend the dinner.\"",
"Fran Townsend, a homeland security adviser to former President George W. Bush, said The incident likely involved a breakdown at the \"perimeter\" security for the dinner, which is the first checkpoint that guests encounter.",
"Lying to the Secret Service could bring a felony charge, Fran Townsend, a homeland security adviser to former President George W. Bush said."
] | [
"Secret Service: Tareq and Michaele Salahi attended state dinner without invitations .",
"Michaele Salahi's Facebook page shows pictures of couple with vice president .",
"Couple are polo-playing socialites from northern Virginia, Washington Post reports ."
] | [
0,
0,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
1,
2,
2,
2,
0,
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2
] |
6d25e8b485c99383341d5c3915b54c52806107a1 | [
"(CNN) --",
"The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: \"Why are our kids so messed up?\"",
"\"Why didn't these students try to stop the crime?\"",
"\"What's happening in our schools?\"",
"These are fair questions, and commentators in the media have provided familiar answers.",
"The purported rape is another sad example of today's self-absorbed and uncaring youth.",
"It was the media's glorification of violence that caused it.",
"The horrific act shows how sociopathic brains develop.",
"But it seems as if the majority of commentators have settled on the idea that the Richmond students did nothing because of the \"bystander effect\": The more people involved in a criminal incident, the less likely any one of them will intervene to do something about it.",
"Unfortunately, this \"What's wrong with our children?\" approach leads to a dead end, because it results in a sweeping moral condemnation of the schools, families and students in this community.",
"These perpetrators committed a heinous act that should be widely condemned.",
"But a discussion that focuses exclusively on the immorality of these deviant young men does not provide solutions that prevent gang rape from happening.",
"Talking only about the bystander effect wrongly suggests that the vast majority of teens would not call for help.",
"Take Richmond.",
"Claims of depraved acts by a few kids have served to demonize an entire student community.",
"Rather than demonize all teenagers in Richmond High School, we should be asking another question: \"What can we do to prevent such heinous acts from happening?\"",
"The answer to that question leads to a wholly different kind of dialogue, one that may surprise.",
"It is primarily students, the reputed problem, who can best prevent acts of violence on campus.",
"Make no mistake about it.",
"The alleged two-hour-long gang rape on October 24 was an extreme form of school violence.",
"The alleged two-hour-long gang rape on October 24 unfolded not far from the gym where the school-sponsored homecoming dance, supervised by school staff and police officers, was being held.",
"And students, police say, largely perpetrated The alleged two-hour-long gang rape on October 24.",
"Research since the massacres at Columbine High School (1999) and Virginia Tech (2007) has taught us a lot about how to prevent such school violence.",
"Chief among them is that school staff and security should patrol campuses, especially violence-prone areas, during and after school events.",
"According to a CNN report, a friend of the alleged victim saw blatant failures in safety precautions.",
"a friend of the alleged victim said, \"I looked outside of the gym, and I saw 12 to 15 guys, sitting there, with no IDs.",
"The officers -- not only did The officers not check the IDs of those students or men sitting outside of of our campus, but the security officers who are employed here did no job of checking either.\"",
"Virtually all students and teachers at a school can identify these dangerous hot spots.",
"At Richmond, one such spot is \"a dark alley near the back side of Richmond,\" the site of the purported rape.",
"As CNN reported, school officials had even requested that video cameras and more lights be installed in the area, but they were never installed.",
"The alleged rapists and student bystanders probably knew that no one would be patrolling the area.",
"As important as campus patrols are in reducing campus violence, the most powerful form of prevention is believing that students can help stop crime from happening.",
"They didn't stop the purported rape at Richmond, a skeptic might say.",
"A possible reason is that they were not educated on how to stop it. .",
"Research shows us that students often know ahead of time when and where violence will flare up on campus.",
"Strong social networks and the widespread use of cell phones and text messaging rapidly convey such information.",
"This dynamic can fuel violence, as officials say it did at Richmond High School.",
"It can also prevent violence.",
"Thousands of potential school crimes, including violent ones, have been averted on campuses across the country because students alerted school officials before the crime occurred.",
"Students and families using a hot line in Colorado were credited with preventing more than 206 incidents of school violence from 2004-06.",
"As of summer 2009, this one hot line fielded 1,687 reports that resulted in crime prevention or intervention.",
"Alert students have also helped prevent replays of the tragedies that occurred at Columbine and Virginia Tech by tipping off school officials.",
"Several years ago, student reports stopped a Columbine-style massacre plot, employing bombs, napalm and automatic weapons, at a high school in Green Bay, Wisconsin.",
"This year, tips from students and alert teachers and police disrupted a student-massacre plot, featuring pipe bombs and firearms, at Hillside High School in San Mateo, California.",
"Since Columbine, school shootings have been averted in New Bedford, New York, and Covina, California, to name some others.",
"And at Richmond, it was an 18-year-old bystander, overhearing others talking about the incident, who reported the crime.",
"Unfortunately, the public is largely unaware of these frequently heroic acts by high school students and their teachers because they don't often get national media attention.",
"That lack of information has helped obscure the important roles that students and their responsive teachers play in preventing school violence.",
"But the evidence is clear.",
"Students who know what to do when they witness school violence, or when they have a strong sense of impending violence, will become anonymous heroes.",
"But they need to be taught what to do, which phone numbers -- including hot lines -- to call and which school officials or police department can be trusted to act on their reports.",
"Students also need to feel confident that Students can report trouble without fear of retribution from Students's peers or being called a snitch.",
"It is up to the teachers and administrators who run schools to teach the teachers and administrators who run schools's students these procedures.",
"the teachers and administrators who run schools need to convince students that they will listen and respond consistently to their reports of violence or possible violence.",
"Yes, local police need to develop trusting relationships with students and the overall community, or nothing will be reported.",
"But the job of preventing violence on campus belongs primarily, if not solely, to the schools.",
"Rather than wring our hands about the so-called immorality of today's students, we should embrace today's students as full partners in the prevention of violence on campus.",
"Morality is not the issue.",
"If students are educated on what to do when the threat of violence arises and are encouraged to follow the procedures, students can be trusted to do the right thing.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ron Astor."
] | [
"Commentators focused on why students didn't report alleged rape, Astor says .",
"Studies of school violence show ways it can be prevented, he says .",
"Astor: Training can prepare students to alert police and avert violence ."
] | [
0,
1,
1
] | [
2,
3,
4,
4,
4,
3,
3,
3,
0,
3,
3,
0,
0,
5,
3,
3,
4,
1,
5,
6,
6,
6,
1,
1,
0,
0,
0,
2,
0,
0,
0,
1,
0,
3,
2,
2,
3,
1,
7,
7,
7,
7,
7,
7,
7,
0,
0,
1,
5,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
5,
1,
5
] |
adabd458fe83b7ad71935e18aa9c53863e674e6c | [
"Cleveland, Ohio (CNN) --",
"Candles in hand and singing hymns, hundreds of Cleveland residents stunned by the discovery of 11 bodies in a local home gathered outside the house Sunday night to remember the victims.",
"But Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia was among the dead, said Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia was among the dead could barely stand to look at the home.",
"\"It's hard, because I want to burn it down,\" Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia was among the dead said.",
"\"I know my baby was in there, and she got killed in there,\" Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia was among the dead added.",
"\"I know what other people feel like when other people lost a child.",
"I didn't, but I do now.",
"That was Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia was among the dead's only daughter.\"",
"Telacia Fortson, 31, had three children, ages 2, 4 and 6, Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia was among the dead's mother said.",
"She had last been seen in June.",
"Her body was among the first identified in the home of Anthony Sowell, who is now facing five counts of aggravated murder, rape, felonious assault and kidnapping in connection with the deaths.",
"All of those found dead were African-American women.",
"A Cuyahoga County judge has set bail at $5 million for Sowell, a registered sex offender who served 15 years in prison for a 1989 attempted rape case.",
"Anthony Sowell was released from jail in 2005.",
"\"Whenever I see Anthony Sowell on TV or think about Anthony Sowell, I have to pray,\" Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia was among the dead said.",
"\"Because I believe that one day, I'll have to forgive Anthony Sowell for what Anthony Sowell's done.",
"But right now, I can't, because I'm numb.\"",
"About 500 people joined the march, which followed a packed memorial service at the neighborhood's Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church.",
"The turnout \"means that people do care,\" Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia was among the dead said.",
"\"There is a little compassion in the world.\"",
"Mount Olive pastor Larry Harris Sr., who led the memorial service, called the Sowell home a house of \"horror.\"",
"\"It brings trembling to the bones to think about what all went on right here,\" he said.",
"Anthony Sowell has been placed on a suicide watch at the request of Anthony Sowell's attorney, according to Sowell's public defender Kathleen DeMetz.",
"A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered but A psychiatric evaluation's unlikely to happen until after the case goes before a grand jury, the next expected step in the case.",
"Police recovered the first bodies after Police went to the Sowell home's home to follow up on a rape accusation.",
"Last month, neighbors reported seeing a naked woman fall from the second floor, but no charges were filed.",
"Neighbors called 911 after the October 20 incident.",
"Firefighters and paramedics responded, and later notified police.",
"a naked woman told officers that a naked woman was at the home and \"partying,\" when a naked woman fell off the roof.",
"Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother, told CNN Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother last saw Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother's brother more than 20 years ago.",
"Their stepmother, who lived in the Sowell home after Anthony Sowell got out of prison, said she knew of nothing odd going on at the time, Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother said.",
"Their stepmother, who lived in the house after Anthony Sowell got out of prison tried to get Anthony Sowell evicted from the Sowell home in 2007 because Anthony Sowell wasn't paying rent, Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother said.",
"Anthony Sowell said Anthony Sowell shouldn't have to pay rent on a house that belonged to Anthony Sowell's father, who died in 2004, and remained in the Sowell home when Anthony Sowell's stepmother had to be hospitalized in 2007, his half-brother said.",
"Agents from the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit are assisting Cleveland police, Cleveland FBI spokesman Scott Wilson said.",
"Agents from the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit are preparing a profile of Anthony Sowell for police, tracing Anthony Sowell's life and habits, and Anthony Sowell's DNA will be entered into a national database to see whether it can be linked to any unsolved crimes.",
"Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother said Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother was aware of Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother's half-brother's prison record, but \"just couldn't fathom\" the accusations now facing Anthony Sowell.",
"\"I didn't think Anthony Sowell was in that bad of a mental state,\" Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother said.",
"\"You never think it would happen to your family.",
"It's a horrible feeling.\"",
"At 66, Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother is 16 years older than Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother's half-brother, and the two didn't meet until Anthony Sowell was 9.",
"Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother added, \"Anthony Sowell deserves whatever Anthony Sowell gets from the justice system.\"",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report."
] | [
"After vigil, ministers walk to Anthony Sowell home, where 11 bodies were found .",
"Anthony Sowell is on suicide watch in jail; charged with murder, rape, other felonies .",
"Seven of 11 bodies have been identified; all were African-American women ."
] | [
0,
1,
0
] | [
2,
0,
3,
3,
3,
4,
2,
3,
3,
2,
1,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
4,
0,
3,
4,
0,
4,
1,
5,
0,
6,
6,
6,
6,
7,
7,
7,
7,
5,
5,
7,
7,
4,
4,
7,
7,
2
] |
906de008adbb09633f32a82d8a77273c2769b105 | [
"(CareerBuilder.com) --",
"Baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, are nearing retirement age.",
"The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there are 78.2 million boomers, and that every hour, 330 of 78.2 million boomers turn 60.",
"That means an entire generation of workers might leave the work force in the coming years.",
"But an entire generation of workers might not.",
"Many baby boomers are choosing to postpone retirement and stay at Many baby boomers's current jobs or find new ones.",
"Some can't afford to retire, but many want to explore new avenues.",
"After decades of working in jobs that paid the bills but didn't fulfill the bills, they're moving to different industries.",
"For their book \"225 Best Jobs for Baby Boomers,\" authors Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin decided to comb through data to discover what the best jobs are for baby boomers.",
"They looked at salaries, projected job growth and the number of openings to calculate which jobs have the most promise.",
"Michael Farr and Shatkin break down Michael Farr's findings in more than 70 lists, ranging from the best-paying jobs to the best jobs for boomers age 45-54.",
"Whatever your criteria are, Michael Farr and Shatkin have the job for you.",
"Below you'll find the list for the 25 overall best jobs for all baby boomers: .",
"1. Management analysts What they make*: $67,005 Projected annual openings**: 78,000 .",
"2. Teachers, post-secondary What they make: $68,456 Projected annual openings: 216,000 .",
"3. Logisticians What they make: $44,563 Projected annual openings: 162,000 .",
"4. General and operations managers What General and operations managers make: $93,594 Projected annual openings: 260,000 .",
"Registered nurses What they make: $66,427 Projected annual openings: 215,000 .",
"6. Anesthesiologists What they make: $310,132 Projected annual openings: 38,000 .",
"General internists What they make: $351,307 Projected annual openings: 38,000 .",
"Obstetricians and gynecologists What Obstetricians make: $285,254 Projected annual openings: 38,000 .",
"Family and general practitioners What Family and general practitioners make: $198,221 Projected annual openings: 38,000 .",
"Psychiatrists",
"What they make: $191,080 Project annual openings: 38,000 .",
"Surgeons",
"What they make: $322,281 Projected annual openings: 38,000 .",
"General pediatricians What they make: $181,764 Projected annual openings: 38,000 .",
"Medical and health services managers What Medical and health services managers make: $94,269 Projected annual openings: 33,000 .",
"Financial managers, branch or department What Financial managers, branch or department make: $101,963 Projected annual openings: 71,000 .",
"15. Treasurers, controllers and chief financial officers What Treasurers, controllers and chief financial officers make: $172,946 - $240,588 Projected annual openings: 71,000 .",
"Chief executives What they make: $382,705 Projected annual openings: 63,000 .",
"Government service executives What Government service executives make: $167,766 Projected annual openings: 63,000 .",
"Private sector executives What Private sector executives make: $169,570 Projected annual openings: 63,000 .",
"Pharmacists",
"What they make: $108,499 Projected annual openings: 23,000 .",
"Lawyers What they make: $116,810 Projected annual openings: 53,000 .",
"Education administrators, elementary and secondary school What Education administrators, elementary and secondary school make: $150,467 Projected annual openings: 31,000 .",
"Administrative services managers What they make: $86,666 Projected annual openings: 40,000 .",
"Sales representatives, agricultural What Sales representatives make: $53,034 Projected annual openings: 44,000 .",
"Sales representatives, chemical and pharmaceutical What Sales representatives, chemical and pharmaceutical make: $88,049",
"Projected annual openings: 44,000 .",
"Sales representatives, electrical/electronics What Sales representatives, electrical/electronics make: $51,105",
"Projected annual openings: 44,000 .",
"*Salary figures based on data from CBsalary.com, powered by SalaryExpert.com .",
"Projected annual openings figures based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.",
"© 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."
] | [
"Census: Every hour, 330 of the 78.2 million baby boomers turn 60 years old .",
"Many will retire in the coming years, but some may continue working .",
"Authors Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin detail best jobs for boomers .",
"School administrators, doctors, teachers and sales representatives in top 25 ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
1,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
2,
3,
2,
5,
2,
3,
3,
3,
6,
7,
3,
7,
7,
7,
8,
7,
8,
7,
7,
6,
6,
6,
6,
6,
6,
8,
7,
7,
6,
6,
9,
9,
7,
9,
7,
3,
3,
4,
5,
5
] |
8053603889acb76f9b51e5ec6cb1fb106583ab38 | [
"(CNN) --",
"The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan has a unique résumé: Eikenberry served two tours in Afghanistan as a general, training Afghan police and troops, before trading Eikenberry's uniform for a diplomat's business suit.",
"Eikenberry's career history may give Eikenberry's word particular weight as President Obama struggles to come up with a way forward in Afghanistan.",
"Eikenberry sent private cables to President Obama last week, urging President Obama not to rush to send more troops to Afghanistan -- although the top U.S. military commander there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, wants 40,000 more pairs of boots on the ground.",
"Initial reports about the cables sent by Eikenberry appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.",
"All three newspapers attributed Initial reports about the cables sent by Eikenberry to senior U.S. officials, without identifying senior U.S. officials.",
"Two U.S. officials confirmed to CNN that Eikenberry sent two cables to Washington expressing reservations about troop increases amid uncertainty over President Hamid Karzai's government.",
"Neither Eikenberry nor the White House would comment on the contents of private advice between the envoy and the president, but Initial reports about the cables sent by Eikenberry alarmed the president enough that the president's office sought confirmation from the U.S. Embassy about them",
", a the president spokesman told CNN.",
"the president's office did not get the information Karzai's office sought, a Karzai spokesman said.",
"Whatever Eikenberry told the president, the ambassador is unusually well versed in the military problems facing Afghanistan.",
"Eikenberry retired from the Army after nearly 40 years of service with the rank of lieutenant general on April 28 -- one day before Eikenberry was sworn in as ambassador, according to Eikenberry's State Department biography.",
"Eikenberry's long military career included time in Kabul as U.S. security coordinator and chief of the Office of Military Cooperation.",
"\"Afghanistan has been at the center of my career since 9/11, when the terrorist-commandeered aircraft crashed into the Pentagon just below the office in which I was working,\" Eikenberry said at Eikenberry's Senate confirmation hearing in March.",
"\"There is no silver bullet and no quick, cheap or easy solutions.",
"There is no substitute for more resources and sacrifice,\" Eikenberry said then.",
"But, Eikenberry added: \"There is no exclusively military solution to the issues we and our partners confront in Afghanistan.\"",
"Eikenberry also advised the U.S. secretary of defense on China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia, and was deputy director for strategy, plans and policy on the Army staff.",
"But Eikenberry's not new to embassy life, having served as defense attache at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China.",
"Eikenberry has a master's degree in east Asian studies from Harvard, an advanced degree in Chinese history from Nanjing University in China, and is a certified translator from Mandarin Chinese.",
"Eikenberry's also clearly attached to Eikenberry's wife, Ching, insisting in Eikenberry's Senate confirmation hearing that she accompany Eikenberry to Kabul even though State Department rules barred spouses because the country is so dangerous.",
"Eikenberry prevailed.",
"Eikenberry and Eikenberry's wife are hosting a dinner Saturday night in Kabul for a visiting U.S. lawmaker."
] | [
"Eikenberry retired from the Army after nearly 40 years of service .",
"Military career included time in Kabul as chief of Office of Military Cooperation .",
"Eikenberry advised U.S. secretary of defense on China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia ."
] | [
0,
1,
1
] | [
2,
1,
1,
3,
3,
3,
3,
3,
2,
2,
1,
0,
1,
1,
4,
4,
4,
1,
1,
1,
1,
4,
1
] |
6057b1db2dcd6e1d3f8192d75ebf749f01908cc9 | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"Army Secretary John McHugh ordered a new investigation into poor record keeping and other problems at the cemetery even as a separate investigation ended without an absolute answer to who is buried in a grave marked \"Unknown.\"",
"\"As the final resting place of our nation's heroes, any questions about the integrity or accountability of its operations should be examined in a manner befitting their service and sacrifice,\" Army Secretary John McHugh said in a statement after signing the order directing Army's Inspector General to begin an investigation into allegations regarding cemetery operations.",
"The Army IG is already in the middle of an investigation ordered by the previous secretary of Army to review management of the cemetery.",
"In recent years, the cemetery -- where President Kennedy and thousands of fallen U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are buried -- has had a number of embarrassing problems.",
"In 2008, the cemetery discovered that workers inadvertently buried cremated remains at a grave site already in use.",
"Those remains were moved to another grave site.",
"In 2003, as workers were digging a grave for a new burial, workers discovered a casket already buried there.",
"There was no headstone or grave marker to indicate who.",
"Only recently, after a report by a journalist at Salon.com, did Army take action on the problem.",
"Over the summer, the cemetery put up a headstone on the mystery grave that reads \"Unknown.\"",
"As McHugh ordered the new investigation, Army released results of a separate investigation of problems at the cemetery.",
"a separate investigation of problems at the cemetery focused on the discovery of the \"Unknown\" grave.",
"A spokesman for the Military District of Washington, which conducted the review, said \"Cemetery records, the MDW investigation, and the non-invasive geophysical analysis of the grave sites strongly indicate that a husband and wife, who died years apart and should have been buried in the same grave site, were instead buried in adjacent graves.\"",
"A DNA test of the remains in the two adjacent graves could prove conclusively that is what happened, but the family of the husband and wife did not wish for their remains to be disturbed.",
"MDW said Army will abide by the family's wishes and has ordered a headstone to properly mark the wife's grave.",
"One of the problems discovered by the MDW investigation was a possible lack of adequate staffing at the cemetery.",
"Last year Arlington conducted 4,377 burials, up more than 21 percent over the past 10 years.",
"During that same period the number of civilian staff members has dropped nearly 19 percent.",
"Currently the cemetery has four employees to schedule 135 to 150 funerals a week as well as maintain all grave records.",
"Arlington, which sits on a hill across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial, has been the final resting place for America's military heroes since the Civil War, when the Union seized the estate from the family of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.",
"McHugh hopes this new investigation will \"ensure America's confidence in the operation of its most hallowed ground.\""
] | [
"Army Secretary John McHugh orders inquiry into poor record keeping .",
"Previous investigation sought to identify remains in grave marked \"Unknown\"",
"In recent years, the cemetery has had a number of embarrassing problems ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
0,
2,
1,
1,
1,
1,
3,
1,
0,
1,
1,
1,
4,
2,
4,
3,
4,
4,
0
] |
dfad0c468081e3d206c536e51f4343714c461b31 | [
"(CNN) --",
"At an auction at a gallery in New York recently, a piece of artwork sold for a higher price than had been anticipated by the auctioneers: $4,080.",
"It wasn't a very big piece of art -- just 8-by-10 inches.",
"Technically, the photograph wasn't even art.",
"the photograph was a glossy black-and-white photograph.",
"the photograph had a slight imperfection: there were staple holes in the upper left-hand corner.",
"Someone had written all over the front of the photograph.",
"The person who had scrawled on it was, in fact, the subject of the photograph.",
"The person who had scrawled on it had written: . \"To Patricia Keating, with very best wishes, The person who had scrawled on it\"",
"That is what made the photograph so valuable to someone: The person who had scrawled on it had held the photograph in The person who had scrawled on it's hands, had run The person who had scrawled on it's pen over the photograph.",
"The owners of Swann Galleries, where the photograph was auctioned, believe that The person who had scrawled on it had autographed the photograph in 1956, when The person who had scrawled on it was a United States senator.",
"the photograph wasn't worth much; but The person who had scrawled on it's signature, personalized to Patricia Keating.",
"... \"As far as we know, Patricia Keating wasn't anyone famous,\" Rebecca Weiss, a Swann Galleries employee, told me on the day after the auction.",
"\"There's no particular significance to Patricia Keating's name.\"",
"Then why would someone pay more than $4,000 for the photograph?",
"Rebecca Weiss told me that the identities of the buyers and sellers at Swann auctions are kept confidential, so Rebecca Weiss could not disclose who had consigned the photograph for sale, or who had purchased the photograph.",
"But Rebecca Weiss said there is a pretty safe rule of thumb about the sale of autographs of renowned men and women: .",
"\"What people are buying is the mystique.",
"people are taking home the autograph knowing that this person once actually touched this item, this person once actually left this imprint, this signature.\"",
"Rebecca Weiss clearly knows what Rebecca Weiss is talking about; just this weekend, it was announced that another auctioneer had sold what is purported to be perhaps the last autograph The person who had scrawled on it ever signed: a copy of the Dallas Morning News that The person who had scrawled on it reportedly signed for a woman upon The person who had scrawled on it's arrival in that city on November 22, 1963.",
"A man in California purchased it for $39,000.",
"In our digital age, in which images and data are transferred from person to person with the tap of a key, it would seem to be an anachronism: the idea of placing enormous monetary value on pieces of paper upon which prominent individuals once wrote prominent individuals's names.",
"But that personal touch seems to have remained precious; Weiss said that many, if not most, purchasers of autographed items display them as if they were rare paintings: framed and mounted in places of honor.",
"She didn't have to convince me.",
"I have only two pieces of art hanging in my home, and neither would qualify as art in the conventional sense.",
"But I wouldn't trade them for Picassos or Van Goghs.",
"The first is an original theater lobby poster for the greatest movie about newspapers ever made: 1952's \"Deadline -- U.S.A.\", starring Humphrey Bogart.",
"The other piece of art is an autograph -- actually, an entire (if brief) handwritten letter.",
"It is a thank-you note.",
"A thank-you note written to a laundry.",
"At the top of the piece of paper, embossed in the italics/script font style of 1950s suburban-housewife stationery, are the words: . \"From the home of ... Elvis Presley\"",
"And beneath it, in blue ballpoint pen: . \"I should like to commend your Laundry for doing a fantastic job on my clothes, you show esceptional care.",
"Sincerely E.P.\"",
"That's just how, while living in a house on Audubon Drive in Memphis, Tennessee, in the years before Elvis Presley moved to Graceland, Elvis Presley wrote it.",
"\"Laundry\" capitalized in the middle of the sentence; a comma instead of a period after \"clothes\"; \"esceptional\" instead of \"exceptional.\"",
"I can't imagine a more wonderful or telling artifact from Elvis Presley's life.",
"Who writes thank-you notes to their laundries?",
"The young Elvis, that's who.",
"There's such an essential sweetness to it -- to the very fact of the letter, to the formality of Elvis Presley's introduction (\"I should like to commend...\"), to the adjective Elvis Presley chose (\"a fantastic job on my clothes\").",
"I purchased the letter from a gallery two decades ago (for a price that made me bite the inside of my mouth), and I would rather own the letter than the Mona Lisa.",
"I was about to say that I would never part with the letter, but in fact I once did, for several months.",
"An exhibit called \"American Originals: Treasures from the National Archives\" was touring the country, and was scheduled to make a long stop at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.",
"Included in the exhibit were the original Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Thomas Edison's 1879 patent application for the electric lamp and the instrument of surrender of the German High Command during World War II.",
"I thought Elvis Presley belonged there, and persuaded the curators of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences to accept Elvis''s thank-you letter on loan.",
"the National Archives said the National Archives would not object, so long as Elvis Presley's note was not in the same room with the more austere documents.",
"It worked out fine; I thought Elvis Presley would like it that way.",
"Elvis Presley always was proud to be an outsider.",
"In the hallway adjacent to the entrance to the main exhibit -- visitors saw it right as visitors walked in -- was Elvis Presley's handwritten letter, in a display case, with a plaque that read: .",
"\"This note, written by Elvis Presley when Elvis Presley was on the verge of becoming a star, provides an example of how seemingly trivial documents can increase in value and cultural significance as a result of historic events.",
"It also shows that despite Elvis Presley's growing fame in the early 1950s, Elvis Presley cared about the feelings of others.\"",
"Brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it?",
"I can fully understand why someone in New York the other day would purchase the photograph that John Kennedy once signed for Patricia Keating, whoever she may have been.",
"You don't have to be Patricia Keating to comprehend the value of that picture, just as you don't have to be Elvis' laundry to comprehend the value of that thank-you note.",
"Great art, like great beauty, is where you find Great art.",
"Great art is, as they say, in the eye -- or the laundry bag -- of the beholder.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene."
] | [
"Photo signed by JFK recently sold for $4,080, Greene notes .",
"In the digital age, the idea of valuing names on paper seems odd, The person who had scrawled on it says .",
"But autographs allow an admirer to make a connection to a hero, The person who had scrawled on it says .",
"That makes some autographs more precious than fine art, The person who had scrawled on it says ."
] | [
0,
1,
1,
1
] | [
2,
0,
3,
3,
4,
4,
5,
5,
5,
5,
5,
5,
6,
6,
0,
6,
1,
2,
1,
5,
0,
1,
1,
7,
3,
0,
4,
1,
8,
8,
9,
8,
2,
9,
2,
9,
8,
9,
9,
1,
1,
4,
4,
9,
9,
7,
9,
9,
9,
9,
7,
7,
7,
3,
3,
2
] |
e0b05adc5a3f5df4b0f234c37c365ffb466e66b7 | [
"Singapore (CNN) --",
"While economists fret whether the sharp \"V\"-shaped drop of the financial crisis will turn into a double-dipped \"W\" recovery, Tan Pheng Hock is most worried about the \"P\" word: Protectionism.",
"Tan Pheng Hock's Singapore-based ST Engineering builds aerospace and transport systems and control centers.",
"Most of the group's $3 billion in revenues come from exports.",
"\"When you have protectionism it breeds like a disease whereby people become so dependent on it,\" Tan Pheng Hock said.",
"\"The moment you remove it you get lots of resistance.\"",
"As the business and government leaders gather for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Tan Pheng Hock has good reason to be concerned.",
"Few economies have borne the brunt of the financial crisis -- or the \"financial tsunami,\" as many Asian nations call it -- as has export-driven Singapore.",
"Singapore's economic output took a record fall, with its GDP dropping 9.5 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to government statistics.",
"Singapore lives and dies by the global economy.",
"With no natural resources and a small domestic market, in a generation Singapore transformed Singapore from the third world British colony into a first world economic power by building Singapore's economy on exports and business services.",
"While Singapore's economic health is quickly rebounding -- second quarter GDP was down only 3.5 percent, the best performance since the financial crisis exploded in September last year -- protectionist winds threaten to shatter any nascent recovery.",
"\"With the crisis we've been through there have obviously been some protectionist tendencies beginning to rise, particularly in the Western world,\" Tan said.",
"\"I hope we will see those quashed during the course of this week (at APEC).\"",
"Although APEC was built as an avenue to promulgate freer trade among Pacific Rim economies, the first salvos of trade disputes between China and the U.S. have many concerned.",
"In September, the U.S. placed tariffs on Chinese made automobile tires; China responded by cutting off imports of poultry parts (including chicken feet, a delicacy in China) and auto parts.",
"More recently, China has begun an investigation whether Washington bailouts of U.S. carmakers constitutes unfair government supports of U.S. cars sold in China.",
"The fact that the leaders of the two nations will be gathering here on Saturday ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's first visit to China puts implicit pressure to reduce the protectionist rhetoric, said Tan Khee Giap, chairman of the Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation Council.",
"\"At least they have to say that they will resist any form of protectionism at meetings like this,\" Tan Khee Giap, chairman of the Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation Council said.",
"Whether words will match deeds remains an open question.",
"A survey of 400 business leaders released Wednesday by the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council found a majority of those polled believe protectionism is likely to increase if the global recovery stalls.",
"CNN's Andrew Stevens and Kevin Voigt contributed to this story."
] | [
"Singapore's 2Q GDP down 3.5 percent, best performance since crisis hit .",
"Performance follows 1Q GDP drop of 9.5 percent .",
"Trade disputes between China, United States have many concerned .",
"APEC meeting may help reduce protectionist rhetoric, observer says ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
2,
3,
0,
2,
4,
2,
3,
0,
3,
3,
3,
2,
4,
1,
1,
1,
2,
2,
4,
2,
4
] |
cb0d5e14eba53ed77f4842cf5a1dc74774754839 | [
"(CNN) --",
"The New Zealand All Blacks gave their nation double reason for cheer with a 20-6 win Italy before a massive crowd at the San Siro in Milan.",
"With their football counterparts qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals with a win over Bahrain earlier on Saturday, it was left to Graham Henry's men to complete the double.",
"But they were given a tough fight by underdogs Italy, who were inspired by an 80,000 crowd in a stadium normally reserved for Serie A giants Inter and AC Milan.",
"Graham Henry's fielded a largely second-string team after last week's 19-12 defeat of Wales in Cardiff.",
"Italy briefly led as former Australian rugby league international Craig Gower kicked a penalty.",
"But New Zealand pulled ahead with two Luke McAlister penalties and Corey Flynn put them further ahead with the only try of the game after 25 minutes.",
"Luke McAlister landed another penalty before halftime to send the visitors into the break with a 14-3 lead.",
"After the interval Luke McAlister kicked two further penalties with former Australian rugby league international Craig Gower getting his second for Italy.",
"The All Blacks next play England, who saw off Argentina 16-9 at Twickenham in a poor quality match in difficult conditions.",
"A late try by Matt Banahan gave Martin Johnson's men the edge and Martin Johnson's's sixth win from 13 games in charge.",
"Fly-half star Jonny Wilkinson provided all of England's points in the first half, with a drop-goal and two penalties as the scores were tied at 9-9 at the half.",
"Center Martin Rodriguez, one of a trio of Argentina debutants, kicked three penalties from five attempts to keep them level until the late home try.",
"In other international action, former England coach Andy Robinson led former England coach Andy Robinson's new Scotland team to a 23-10 win over Fiji.",
"Johnnie Beattie and Graeme Morrison went over for tries for Scotland at Murrayfield.",
"On Friday night, France shocked world champions South Africa 20-13 in Toulouse.",
"The Tri-Nations champions paid the price for ill-discipline as Julien Dupuy kicked four penalties and Morgan Parra one.",
"Winger Vincent Clerc capped a fine performance for the home side with a try.",
"South Africa's points came from Morne Steyn with a penalty and drop-goal as well as converting a fine try by captain John Smit."
] | [
"New Zealand All Blacks beat Italy 20-6 in rugby union international .",
"A massive crowd of 80,000 watched the game in San Siro stadium .",
"England and Scotland register wins over Argentina and Fiji .",
"France score superb win over world champions South Africa ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
0
] | [
1,
0,
2,
1,
2,
3,
3,
3,
3,
2,
3,
3,
3,
2,
2,
0,
3,
3,
3
] |
6836747df99bd1dd3e23ba23836b53a61443ca5a | [
"(CNN) --",
"This Twitter thing has been coming on like gangbusters.",
"The messaging site has been around for a couple of years, but The messaging site's popularity seems to have exploded just recently.",
"A self-admitted tech geek, CNN tech columnist Chris Pirillo is president of Lockergnome.com, a blogging network.",
"Everyone from BarackObama to John Cleese to NASA to the consulate of Israel has a Twitter account.",
"Heck, even yours truly does!",
"Do you?",
"Follow me and I'll follow you back.",
"Twitter is really more of a social commons than a full-blown social network like MySpace or Facebook.",
"It pretty much does one thing: allows people to \"tweet\" what people're up to (or what people're thinking about) in 140 characters or less.",
"Call it micro-blogging, if you will, but it's about as close to the \"Keep It Simple, Stupid\" (K.I.S.S.) ideal as it gets.",
"People can follow your tweets and you can follow People -- that's pretty much it.",
"There are some third-party apps out there that can help you organize and seek out the information flying around out there in the Twittersphere, but it all pretty much stays in the nutshell.",
"With the overwhelming amount of widgets and gadgets and gizmos and doohickeys and whatnots attached to every other social network out there, isn't it nice to be able to get away with plain ol' simple every now and again?",
"Since we're sticking with the \"less is more\" aesthetic, I'm just going to give you 10 Twitter tips instead of the 20 I could have stretched this into.",
"You're welcome!",
"1. Be yourself, but beware.",
"Say whatever you feel like saying, but remember that whatever you write could exist in the digital universe forever.",
"Proceed with extreme caution.",
"2. Don't be afraid to interact with others.",
"If you like something they say, reply by clicking the little grey arrow that appears when you hover over one of their tweets.",
"You can also simply type in @username (replacing \"username\" with whatever their username happens to be on Twitter).",
"This is the formal way to address someone on Twitter.",
"iReport.com:",
"Do you agree with these tips?",
"Share some of yours .",
"3. Follow celebrities.",
"celebrities may never interact with you, but at least you can interact with celebrities.",
"It's no longer a question of who is on Twitter -- but who ISN'T on Twitter.",
"4. Use Twitter from your desktop.",
"Twitter has something called an API (Application Programming Interface), which allows programmers to create experiences around Twitter for the community.",
"Because of this, there have been an amazing array of applications released that will allow you to manage your Twitter account easily.",
"There's Twitterrific, TweetDeck, and Twhirl -- just to name a few.",
"5. Find friends fast.",
"If you're looking for new friends, a quick search for some of your favorite things on search.twitter.com will quickly reveal who you should be friending on Twitter.",
"Maybe new friends'll follow you back?",
"6. Follow government officials.",
"If your elected official isn't on http://tweetcongress.org, then your elected official're behind the times.",
"Heck, even the Library of Congress is on Twitter!",
"7. Crowdsource.",
"If you have an idea, or a question, don't hold it in -- let it be known to all!",
"Who knows -- someone just may answer your call for help.",
"8. Tweetups.",
"Keep your eye out for these things.",
"these things're meetups for people on Twitter, and there's likely one happening regularly in your neck of the woods.",
"I've taken to hosting one monthly in the Seattle area, as a matter of fact.",
"Meet Twitter people -- tweeps, tweeple -- in meatspace!",
"9. Retweet.",
"If you like something that someone else has tweeted, you can \"RT\" (retweet) it.",
"This gives the original person credit, and also lets your followers know what you like.",
"That's community!",
"10. Go with the flow.",
"If you think you know better than everybody else, you're wrong -- the same netiquette rules apply on Twitter as well as on the rest of the Internet.",
"Do you have any Twitter tips to pass along?",
"You could even share the link to this article on Twitter and this article might become the most popular story today!"
] | [
"CNN tech columnist Chris Pirillo offers 10 tips on how to be a good Twitterer .",
"Say whatever you feel, but also remember that it could exist on the Web forever .",
"Crowdsource.",
"If you have an idea, or a question, don't hold it in -- let it be known!",
"Keep your eye out for Tweetups, which are meetups for people on Twitter ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3,
4
] | [
5,
6,
6,
5,
7,
8,
8,
9,
7,
6,
6,
7,
7,
6,
0,
10,
11,
1,
10,
11,
7,
7,
7,
5,
11,
8,
11,
5,
7,
0,
7,
7,
7,
11,
7,
9,
11,
7,
7,
2,
3,
5,
0,
10,
4,
4,
4,
0,
7,
6,
5,
11,
7,
0,
6
] |
39fc21ab92ed93fcadd20da0df209ca22bfbe1fa | [
"(CNN) --",
"Suspected Somali pirates hijacked MV Filitsa Wednesday with 22 crew members aboard, according to the European Union's Naval Force for Somalia.",
"MV Filitsa was seized in the early morning about 460 miles (740 kilometers) northeast of the Seychelles as MV Filitsa headed toward Durban, South Africa, according to a news release from EU NAVFOR Somalia.",
"The Marshall Island-flagged carrier -- with three Greek and 19 Filipino crew members -- \"has now turned around and is heading north,\" it said.",
"MV Filitsa has a deadweight of more than 23,000 tons.",
"There have been more than 100 pirate attacks and at least 39 hijackings off East Africa this year, according to EU NAVFOR Somalia.",
"In late October, Somali pirates seized a private yacht in the Indian Ocean, taking Paul and Rachel Chandler hostage.",
"Somali pirates have demanded a $7 million ransom for the British couple's release, but the government has refused to pay as a matter of long-standing policy.",
"Two vessels were attacked the day after the Chandlers set sail.",
"One of Two vessels -- a cargo ship -- was successfully boarded and seized off the Seychelles, while the other fought off its attackers near the Kenyan coast.",
"Pirates are still holding a Spanish fishing boat, the Alakrana, which Pirates seized on October 2 off Somalia's coast.",
"Days later, Pirates transferred three of the fishing boat's 36 crew members to land.",
"Two pirate suspects had left a Spanish fishing boat, the Alakrana, which they seized on October 2 off Somalia's coast in a small vessel heading toward land, authorities said, and the Spanish military swooped in to stop Two pirate suspects on the high seas.",
"Two pirate suspects were later brought to Madrid, where a judge has charged Two pirate suspects with piracy and kidnapping.",
"The pirates holding the crew have demanded Spain release Two pirate suspects.",
"Spain is part of the European Union task force against piracy in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.",
"The Spanish parliament last January agreed to increase Spain's presence with up to 395 troops and assets, including a frigate and aircraft.",
"CNN's Al Goodman contributed to this report ."
] | [
"22 crew aboard Greek-owned bulk carrier MV Filitsa .",
"Ship changed directions, now heading north European Union Naval Force says .",
"More than 100 pirate attacks off East Africa this year ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
1,
0,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
3
] |
dc9dfc4a0dd29ec36f02d1a78ce421d041063012 | [
"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Snow and ice dealt a major blow to U.S. air travel Thursday, while much of the nation shivered from record low temperatures.",
"At least 400 flights at Chicago, Illinois', O'Hare International Airport were canceled.",
"Arriving flights were being delayed an average of 45 minutes and outgoing flights about 30 minutes, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"Chicago's Midway Airport and Newark International Airport in New Jersey also reported delays.",
"Those bottlenecks were affecting flights at many other international airports.",
"Meanwhile, the National Weather Service was keeping an eye on a dangerous mix of ice and snow expected in the Southeast, where temperatures have dipped between 10 to 35 degrees below normal for the past two weeks, said CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.",
"Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines offered to issue winter weather travel waivers to Delta and Northwest passengers on flights to, from or through five states.",
"Travelers can change Travelers's schedule without fees until Saturday if Travelers's routes include Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi or Tennessee.",
"The arctic blast that began last weekend has been blamed for at least seven deaths across the nation.",
"Share your photos, video of winter weather .",
"Record-breaking lows were forecast for two-thirds of the nation, for most areas east of the Rockies.",
"For some regions, even lower temperatures are on tap through the weekend, forecasters said.",
"\"But the brunt of the cold air will ride down the Mississippi River,\" said CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano, reporting from Memphis, Tennessee.",
"CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano said temperatures have been the lowest there in more than a decade.",
"\"You have people not used to this weather, and homes are not built for this weather.",
"Yesterday alone, the city [Memphis] went around to turn on the heat for homes when people have not been able to pay [people's utility bills].\"",
"Alabama issued a warning to drivers Thursday night, urging drivers to stay off icy roads as driving conditions were \"becoming dangerous\" with numerous accidents reported.",
"Trooper Curtis Summerville with the Alabama State Patrol said the biggest problem on the roads was black ice on overpasses and bridges.",
"But, Trooper Curtis Summerville with the Alabama State Patrol said football was helping keep people at home as University of Alabama fans cheered on University of Alabama fans's team in the National Championship Game against the University of Texas.",
"A wind chill advisory was in effect until Friday in Arkansas, where readings were expected to drop below zero with winds of over 30 mph.",
"A dusting of snow in Atlanta on Thursday night left roads slick after two weeks of below normal temperatures.",
"CNN meteorologist Chad Myers noted that it was warmer in Fairbanks, Alaska, than it was in Atlanta on Thursday morning, calling the cold front sweeping the nation one that \"we probably haven't seen for 15 years.\"",
"29-car pileup near Atlanta airport .",
"In the Deep South, Florida was under a state of emergency because of the threat to Florida's lucrative citrus and vegetable industries.",
"Gov. Charlie Crist issued an order Tuesday aimed at helping farmers salvage what farmers can by lifting weight limits on trucks so already-harvested crops can more easily reach markets.",
"Also suffering in the cold: sea turtles.",
"Florida Fish & Wildlife officers have rescued 120 sea turtles after water temperatures in the 40s shocked their tropically inclined systems, according to CNN affiliate WPBF.",
"\"Their bodies are shutting down because they're too cold,\" Karrie Minch of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge told WPBF.",
"\"If we don't rescue them, they'll end up expiring.\"",
"Elsewhere Thursday, the high in Bismarck, North Dakota, was around 11 degrees below zero, with a wind chill of minus 35.",
"Forecasters said the wind chill could dip to 52 degrees below zero overnight.",
"Snowfall amounts of 4 to 8 inches were forecast Thursday for the upper Plains to the Northeast and as far south as Kentucky and Tennessee.",
"Up to 7 inches fell in parts of Illinois.",
"School districts in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, called off classes Thursday and city governments reported burning through city governments's entire snow removal budgets with a full two months of winter left.",
"Jeras said the long stretch of cold weather in the South is \"extremely unusual.\"",
"Dallas, Texas, where it was 24 on Thursday, has been experiencing the longest stretch of cold weather in more than a decade, Jeras said.",
"The Southeast is expected to see lower temperatures by Saturday.",
"CNN's Jim Kavanagh, Craig Johnson and Ed Payne contributed to this report."
] | [
"About 400 flights at Chicago O'Hare International Airport canceled .",
"Expected high in Bismarck, North Dakota, minus 11, wind chill as low as minus 35 .",
"At least 7 deaths attributed to deep freeze, which is reaching record lows in some areas .",
"In Memphis, Tennessee, city officials turn on heat for those who can't pay utility bills ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
5,
0,
6,
6,
6,
1,
5,
4,
2,
2,
2,
1,
1,
2,
2,
3,
5,
5,
4,
1,
5,
5,
4,
4,
4,
7,
7,
7,
4,
1,
1,
1,
1,
0,
2,
2,
1,
4
] |
2dc19898b3efbd088bc63252e01557fa535b14df | [
"(CNN) --",
"The U.N. Council for Human Rights began debate Thursday over whether to adopt the recommendations of a controversial U.N. report examining the three-week winter war between Israel and the militant group Hamas in Gaza.",
"An Israeli soldier sits on a tank on the Israel-Gaza border just before fighting began in December 2008.",
"The report, based on a fact-finding mission led by former South African jurist Richard Goldstone, was released last month and concluded that Israel and Hamas had both committed \"actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity.\"",
"Speaking at the start of the meeting, Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar blasted the United Nations for even holding the special session.",
"Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar said it \"had nothing to do with human rights and everything to do with Palestinian politics.\"",
"Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar said adoption of the \"biased\" recommendations of the Goldstone report, which calls for further action by the General Assembly and Security Council if both sides do not conduct credible investigations, would constitute a \"reward for terror\" that \"will set back hopes for peace in the region.\"",
"Previously, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Palestinian Authority that pushing action on Report would deal \"a mortal blow\" to the peace process.",
"The council received Report September 29 but took no action, after a request by the Palestinian Authority to defer discussion for six months.",
"The Palestinian Authority government of Mahmoud Abbas came under withering domestic criticism for the move and was accused of succumbing to Israeli and American pressure to drop the issue.",
"Mahmoud Abbas reversed course Sunday and in a televised address told Palestinians that Mahmoud Abbas was seeking immediate debate within the Human Rights Council and vowed to work \"to punish everyone who was responsible for the hideous crimes committed against our children, our men and women -- especially in our dear Gaza.\"",
"Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian Authority's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, said Israel had rebuffed the Palestinian Authority's conciliatory move to defer debate on Report and instead had answered \"with even more grave violations of the rights of Palestinians\" in the form of restrictions of movement and housing demolitions in East Jerusalem.",
"the Human Rights Council is expected to vote on the resolution on Friday.",
"the resolution goes beyond the Gaza conflict.",
"the resolution \"strongly condemns\" measures taken by Israel limiting Palestinians' access to Palestinians''s properties and holy sites \"on the basis of national origin, religion, sex, age or any other discriminatory ground.\"",
"the resolution further condemns \"Israeli violations of human rights in Occupied East Jerusalem, particularly the confiscation of lands and properties, the demolishing of houses and private properties, the construction and expansion of settlements, the continuous construction of the separation wall, changing the demographic and geographic character of East Jerusalem, the restrictions on the freedom of movement of the Palestinian citizens of East Jerusalem, as well as the continuous digging and excavation works in and around Al-Aqsa mosque and Al-Aqsa's vicinity.\"",
"There is an ongoing dispute about the number of people killed in the three-week military offensive that Israel called Operation Cast Lead, which began December 27 and ended January 18.",
"The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights put the death toll at 1,419 and said 1,167 of those were non-combatants.",
"The Israeli military released The Israeli military's own figures earlier this year, saying that 1,166 people were killed, 60 percent of whom were \"terror operatives.\""
] | [
"Report says both Israel and Hamas took \"actions amounting to war crimes\"",
"Fact-finding mission looked at the three-week war last winter in Gaza .",
"Report calls for further action by U.N. unless both sides conduct investigations .",
"Israel blasts Report; Palestinians call for immediate U.N. debate ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
0
] | [
1,
2,
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
0,
0,
0,
2,
1,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1
] |
e125ec74910bf9979f938c46b51ff48eb4453b35 | [
"(CNN) --",
"A suspect has been arrested in the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found Friday decapitated, dismembered and partially burned, police said Tuesday.",
"Members of the U.S. gay community are asking authorities to investigate whether the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found was a hate crime because the victim, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, was gay, said Pedro Julio Serrano of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.",
"\"The brutality of the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found and the fact that he was openly gay leads us to believe it was very possibly a hate crime,\" Pedro Julio Serrano of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said.",
"Authorities are investigating whether the killing involved sex, Guayama police Commander Hector Agosto Rodriguez told CNN affiliate WLII TV.",
"Guayama prosecutor Jose Bermudez identified A suspect as Juan A. Martinez, 26.",
"Police had earlier described him as a 27-year-old man from the interior Puerto Rican town of Cayey.",
"Martinez was scheduled to attend a court hearing Tuesday night at which charges would be lodged, said Luis Bernier, a spokesman for the Guayama police district, which has jurisdiction in the case.",
"a court hearing Tuesday night at which charges would be lodged was postponed several times throughout the day.",
"Officials were waiting for a prosecutor from a nearby district, causing the delay, Luis Bernier, a spokesman for the Guayama police district, which has jurisdiction in the case said.",
"The FBI was not directly involved in the investigation Monday, said The FBI Agent Harry Rodriguez of the San Juan office.",
"\"The FBI is monitoring the investigation by police in Puerto Rico,\" Rodriguez said.",
"\"Any assistance that the police requests or requires, we would be more than happy to provide.\"",
"Puerto Rican authorities may ask for help with forensics or other advanced investigative tools The FBI could provide, Rodriguez said.",
"The U.S. attorney's office, in consultation with local officials and other agencies, would determine if the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found was a hate crime, which is a federal offense.",
"\"It's at a very preliminary stage,\" said Lymarie Llovet, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital.",
"Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, which means federal agencies have jurisdiction.",
"\"There's the potential for a federal investigation,\" Rodriguez said.",
"A suspect was arrested Monday around 11:30 p.m. AST (10:30 p.m. ET) at A suspect's home in the Mogote de Cayey neighborhood, said Wilson Porrata Mariani, another spokesman for the Guayama police district.",
"Police impounded two cars and also are investigating a home in another neighborhood, Huertas del Barrio Beatriz de Cidra.",
"Lopez Mercado's body was found on Puerto Rico Road 184 in another part of town, Barrio Guavate de Cayey, police said.",
"the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found has reverberated throughout the gay and lesbian community in the United States, where supporters started a Facebook page called \"Justice for Jorge Steven Lopez -- End Hate Crimes.\"",
"The group demands an investigation by Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno and prosecution of the slaying under the Federal Hate Crimes Law.",
"the Federal Hate Crimes Law was enacted in 1969 to guard the rights of U.S. citizens engaged in any of six protected activities, such as voting, going to school, applying for a job or attending a public venue.",
"Last month, President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which extends federal protection against illegal acts motivated by a person's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.",
"Gay activist Serrano said Gay activist does not believe anti-gay sentiment is any stronger in Puerto Rico's Latin culture than anywhere else.",
"\"That's a long-debunked myth, that our culture is more homophobic,\" Gay activist said.",
"Instead, Gay activist attributed any ill will toward gays to \"hate rhetoric\" by some religious and political leaders.",
"One politician, Gay activist said, recently referred to gays as \"twisted and mentally ill.\"",
"\"That's the kind of rhetoric that incites violence against gays,\" Gay activist said.",
"Equality Forum, an international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights organization, asked for a federal investigation.",
"\"Equality Forum, an international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights organization calls on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to have the FBI investigate,\" said former federal prosecutor Malcolm Lazin, the group's executive director.",
"\"The Matthew Shepard Amendment empowers and requires the federal government to prosecute this horrific murder.\"",
"Gay activist said Lopez Mercado was a \"very, very dear friend\" he had met through a mutual acquaintance.",
"\"Jorge was a person who you only needed one minute to fall in love with,\" Gay activist said.",
"Lopez Mercado often volunteered for gay causes, Gay activist said.",
"The teen's family is coping, considering the circumstances.",
"\"It has been horrible, but The teen's family are very grateful that it has come to a quick resolution,\" Gay activist said."
] | [
"NEW: Activist attributes ill will toward gays to some religious, political leaders' \"hate rhetoric\"",
"Puerto Rican gay community wants police to see if slaying was a hate crime .",
"FBI is monitoring investigation and is prepared to offer help, agent says .",
"Suspect, 27, was to attend Tuesday court hearing, which was postponed several times ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
5,
1,
1,
5,
5,
5,
3,
3,
3,
2,
2,
4,
2,
1,
2,
2,
2,
5,
5,
5,
1,
1,
6,
6,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
6,
6,
6,
7,
7,
7,
4,
4
] |
882f655052ced42c6f1d3077c74a6d6515752e61 | [
"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Gibson is far from the first singer to make the transition from music to movies.",
"However, Gibson is blazing a whole new trail with Gibson's latest crossover venture.",
"Gibson voices \"Mayhem,\" a hero described as the \"embodiment of raw justice and vengeance.\"",
"Gibson has partnered with Apple to develop Gibson's own comic book series called \"Mayhem,\" and Gibson's doing it in a very nontraditional way -- digitally.",
"\"There was an experience that I felt was pretty limiting as far as the comic book experience itself on paper,\" says Gibson, who stresses that Gibson did not grow up reading comic books and is not a comic book veteran.",
"\"[So] I set up this technology with my team and this is the first-ever digital comic book [on iTunes] in the history of comic books.\"",
"The third issue of \"Mayhem,\" which is downloadable from iTunes, is the first to go digital.",
"The third issue of \"Mayhem,\" which is downloadable from iTunes features an interactive version of a comic book with sound effects, page turns and even voiceover.",
"Gibson voices the title character, a masked, dagger-hurling hero described as the \"embodiment of raw justice and vengeance.\"",
"Gibson's new hobby is another example of Hollywood's love affair with comic books.",
"Just last month, Walt Disney Studios acquired Marvel Entertainment -- and all 5,000 of the comic book company's characters -- for $4 billion in cash and stock.",
"With the success of action films based on comic book notables, including \"Batman,\" \"Iron Man\" and \"Wolverine,\" it's not a stretch to think that Gibson might be strapping on the \"Mayhem\" costume for a summer blockbuster in the future.",
"But for now, Gibson is focused on the early stages of Gibson's new venture.",
"Although Gibson would not provide details on sales figures, Gibson did say that worldwide sales of \"Mayhem\" would \"knock your socks off.\"",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN:",
"What turned you on to comic books?",
"Gibson:",
"I went out to Comic-Con about a year or so ago to promote the film \"Death Race.\"",
"When I was out there, I really got to know some of the fans and I was just asking questions like, \"Look at you, you've got a full on Superman costume on or Batman costume,\" and they were just like, \"I just love comic books.\"",
"It was the first time I was ever exposed to that much selfless passion, to the point to where you don't care how silly you may look -- you don't even consider it silly.",
"That really did something for Gibson, because I'm motivated by passion.",
"I thought ... I want to figure a way to be a part of this world, and that's when \"Mayhem\" was born.\"",
"CNN:",
"Where did the story of \"Mayhem\" come from?",
"Gibson:",
"Me and my partner Mike Lee and Will Wilson all got together, we started brainstorming about different concepts and different directions we could send this character in and we came up with something pretty unique.",
"It's an ongoing series and so as soon as you think you've got it figured out, there's a cliffhanger that makes you want to read the second issue and the third issue.",
"CNN:",
"You're a newcomer to this genre.",
"What's been the feedback from the comic book community?",
"Gibson:",
"In everything you do, there's gonna be cynics and those folks questioning what your motivation is behind getting into anything.",
"I dealt with it when I went from one career move to the next: \"Man, stick to singing; stick to acting.\"",
"I dealt with a lot of that from certain folks in the comic book world.",
"... certain folks in the comic book world wrote these long e-mails and [started] on a smear campaign.",
"I came into this whole thing very innocent.",
"I discovered my love for comic books and I want as many people as possible to experience my comic book.",
"There's this digital revolution that's out there but the comic book world has not embraced this digital revolution on a level that it should be embraced on.",
"And so I reached out to my contacts and I set up a meeting ... and this is my baby.",
"CNN:",
"Artist Jim Lee is very big in the comic book world.",
"How did Artist Jim Lee get involved in this project?",
"Gibson:",
"I found Artist Jim Lee on Twitter ... and we just kind of took it from there.",
"CNN:",
"What did you learn from Artist Jim Lee?",
"Gibson:",
"So much, so much.",
"Artist Jim Lee basically made me aware of all of the big players in the comic world like Alan Moore and Grant Morrison.",
"Artist Jim Lee just painted this picture about who's who in the comic book world and Artist Jim Lee schooled me on that level.",
"CNN:",
"A lot of comic book characters become heroes on the big screen.",
"Does \"Mayhem\" have a future in film?",
"Gibson:",
"Right now, there is no conversation on any level about \"Mayhem\" becoming a film.",
"We've been approached a few times but my mind state is this: You can't expect to sell out the Staples Center until you sell a bunch of records.",
"So we're really trying to establish the fan base for \"Mayhem\" before we try to turn \"Mayhem\" into film.",
"There's still plenty of time for that."
] | [
"Tyrese Gibson, who starred in \"Transformers,\" has created comic book superhero .",
"Gibson's character is called Mayhem, \"embodiment of raw justice and vengeance\"",
"Gibson has no comic book background; he was impressed by passion of devotees .",
"Comic book is available digitally on iTunes as an LP ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
1,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2,
1,
0,
4,
0,
0,
0,
5,
3,
6,
7,
6,
6,
5,
5,
8,
3,
8,
7,
9,
6,
3,
5,
6,
7,
10,
10,
6,
6,
5,
6,
6,
5,
3,
9,
9,
7,
9,
3,
9,
7,
5,
9,
9,
3,
6,
8,
7,
8,
4,
8,
4
] |
86adf9d9437db54b725934d30fea1d9997fd2138 | [
"MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) --",
"Russia is planning a \"comprehensive rearmament\" of Russia's military, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.",
"A Russian T-90 tank rolls through Red Square during 2008's Victory Day parade.",
"The announcement comes amid concerns in Russia over the performance of Russia's forces during last year's invasion of Georgia, an expert on the Russian military told CNN.",
"Christopher Langton, an analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said the campaign against the former Soviet republic had revealed significant weaknesses within Russia's armed forces.",
"\"The Georgia thing was a wake-up call on a number of fronts,\" said Langton, a former British military and defense attache in Russia.",
"\"Things they expected to perform well didn't -- communications, the air force.",
"It took five days, which is quite a long time, to suppress another country's air defenses, quite a small country's.\"",
"President Dmitry Medvedev said the \"most important task is to re-equip the [Russian] Armed Forces with newest weapons system,\" in televised remarks to defense ministry officials.",
"President Dmitry Medvedev said the process had already begun and would accelerate through 2011.",
"President Dmitry Medvedev insisted that falling prices for oil and gas -- which contribute significantly to Moscow's budget -- would not force President Dmitry Medvedev to scale back on plans to modernize the military.",
"The defense budget has \"virtually remained the same as was planned,\" President Dmitry Medvedev said, \"despite our current financial problems.\"",
"Russia will aim for 70 percent of Russia's weaponry to be \"modern\" by 2020, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said, according to RIA-Novosti, the state-run news agency.",
"Russia invaded Georgia, to Russia's south, in August of last year -- the first time Russian military forces had engaged in an offensive outside Russian military forces's borders since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.",
"The conflict strengthened the hand of Medvedev, who favors reform, against generals who oppose it, Langton, the military analyst, told CNN.",
"\"It gave President Dmitry Medvedev a chance to reply to opponents in Ministry of Defense: 'We need much more mobile forces, better weaponry,'\" Langton said.",
"But Langton pointed out that Russia has been talking about modernizing Russia's army almost since the end of the Cold War nearly two decades ago.",
"Former President Boris Yeltsin announced in the early 1990s that Russia would replace Russia's conscript army with a professional force by 2010, Langton said -- a target it has come nowhere close to meeting.",
"Modernization foundered on Russia's need to bring in money by exporting arms, rather than using the products of Russia's military-industrial complex itself; opposition from entrenched interests in the Ministry of Defense, which opposed downsizing; and in the face of a national security strategy that focused on conflicts like the two Chechen wars.",
"Former President Vladimir Putin staked Former President Vladimir Putin's popularity in the late 1990s on winning the second war with the restive Chechnya, Langton observed.",
"President Dmitry Medvedev, too, wants to promote pride in Russia's military, the analyst said, but has a \"more nuanced approach\" than President Dmitry Medvedev's predecessor, who remains influential as prime minister.",
"Langton said President Dmitry Medvedev believes Russian forces should be capable of operating alongside Western forces.",
"But, he added, \"Some of the generals don't agree with President Dmitry Medvedev.\""
] | [
"Russia planning \"comprehensive rearmament\" of Russia's military, Russia announces .",
"Analyst: Last year's invasion of Georgia revealed Russian military weaknesses .",
"\"Large-scale rearmament\" to begin in 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev says .",
"Russia aiming for 70 percent of Russia's weaponry to be \"modern\" by 2020 ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
2,
2,
3,
0,
2,
2,
0,
1,
3,
3,
1,
1,
2,
1,
3,
3,
3
] |
cdea01734c85668ca98441bd0ad5d78325d77107 | [
"(CNN) --",
"A 7-year-old boy from El Paso, Texas, was gunned down across the border in the violent city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office told CNN Tuesday.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez had been visiting Raul Xazziel Ramirez's father in Ciudad Juarez on Friday evening when unknown gunmen fired on the vehicle at a roundabout, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"At least 18 rounds from a 9 mm weapon were shot at the white 2000 Geo Tracker driven by Raul Xazziel Ramirez's dad, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"The father, Raul Ramirez Alvarado, 35, died in the driver's seat.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez escaped from the vehicle, but was apparently shot in the back, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez's body fell forward in front of the vehicle.",
"The shooting happened just before 8 p.m. Friday.",
"No arrests had been made as of Tuesday, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez was a third-grader at Glen Cove Elementary School in El Paso, Ysleta Independent School District spokeswoman Patricia Ayala told CNN.",
"\"It's a senseless tragedy that we're trying to come to terms with,\" Ysleta Independent School District spokeswoman Patricia Ayala said.",
"According to El Paso County records, Raul Xazziel Ramirez was just three weeks shy of Raul Xazziel Ramirez's eighth birthday when Raul Xazziel Ramirez was killed.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez lived with Raul Xazziel Ramirez's aunt and uncle in El Paso, Ysleta Independent School District spokeswoman Patricia Ayala said.",
"It was the first semester that Raul Xazziel Ramirez was registered with the district.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez's classmates were spared the details of Raul Xazziel Ramirez's death, but the school was nonetheless shocked at Raul Xazziel Ramirez's passing.",
"Grief counselors were made available for both students and teachers, Ysleta Independent School District spokeswoman Patricia Ayala said.",
"More than 2,200 killings have been recorded this year in Ciudad Juarez, out of a population of approximately 1.5 million people.",
"A bloody turf war between warring drug cartels that started last year has made Ciudad Juarez one of the most violent in the world.",
"According to statistics from local prosecutors, Ciudad Juarez records about 10 murders a day.",
"The bloodiest month this year has been September, with 476 killings reported.",
"The violence has not spilled over significantly across the border to El Paso, but as Friday's shooting showed, the pain of one of the sister cities is shared by the other.",
"Because of the ongoing investigation, spokesman Arturo Sandoval declined to say whether drug cartel activity was suspected in the killings of Raul Xazziel Ramirez and his father, but added that at least 90 percent of Ciudad Juarez's homicides are drug-related.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez was not the youngest victim slain this year.",
"In early 2009, a 3-year-old girl was killed together with a 3-year-old girl's father inside a vehicle that was targeted, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said."
] | [
"NEW:",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez was just three weeks shy of Raul Xazziel Ramirez's eighth birthday, records show .",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez was killed Friday along with Ramirez's father in Ciudad Juarez.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez managed to escape the vehicle but was shot in the back, police say .",
"More than 2,200 slain this year in Ciudad Juarez; Raul Xazziel Ramirez was not the youngest ."
] | [
0,
1,
1,
2,
3
] | [
0,
3,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
4,
4,
1,
4,
1,
1,
1,
1,
4,
3,
3,
3,
4,
3,
3,
1,
2
] |
8d1c5dbd3ac10034b32990b8cfc5dd50e895558b | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"As thousands gathered Sunday in Washington for a march and rally focused on gay rights issues, lawmakers showed that some of the demonstrators' key goals face major obstacles ahead.",
"Obama speaks to a major gay-rights group Saturday night in Washington.",
"Even with Obama pushing Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act -- a stance Obama highlighted to one of the nation's leading gay-rights groups Saturday night, to huge applause -- members of Obama's own party told CNN members of his own party're not in lockstep.",
"\"I've said in the past I don't think that's the way to go,\" Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, told CNN's John King.",
"He added, \"We can move forward on a lot of measures, but I'm not sure there's the support yet for that.\"",
"Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, noted that her state is one of many that has a law prohibiting same-sex marriage.",
"\"So I think, for a number of us, that becomes a challenge,\" she said.",
"Stabenow would not say whether she would vote to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.",
"The law, signed by President Clinton in 1996, defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, and ensures that states do not have to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.",
"President Clinton has since changed President Clinton's mind, and said President Clinton no longer opposes same-sex marriage.",
"Obama does not support same-sex marriage and has said Obama believes marriage is between a man and a woman.",
"Obama does, however, support civil unions for same-sex couples that offer similar rights and protections.",
"The two Democratic senators on Sunday expressed support for the president's stances on several other key issues regarding gay rights, including legislation expanding the definition of hate crimes to include attacks based on sexual orientation and gender identity.",
"The bill passed the House last week.",
"Both also expressed support for Obama's efforts to end the military's \"Don't ask, don't tell\" policy.",
"On NBC's \"Meet the Press,\" Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, said he thinks Obama will succeed on that front.",
"\"I think Obama will and Obama can, but it has to be done in the right way, which is to get a buy-in from the military, which I think is now possible,\" Levin said.",
"\"Other militaries in the West -- the British and other Western armies -- have ended this discriminatory policy.",
"We can do it successfully, but it ought to be done with thoughtfulness, with care and with a buy-in from the military.\"",
"Retired Gen. Richard Myers, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, \"Gays can serve in the military; Gays just can't do so openly.",
"And Gays do, and there are lots of Gays, and we're the beneficiary of all that.\"",
"Myers did not weigh in on whether the change should happen, but said Myers agreed with Levin that the \"senior military leadership needs to be part of this, the Pentagon needs to be part of this.\"",
"But retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey disagreed.",
"\"There's no question that it's time to change this discriminatory policy.",
"The key to it isn't buy-in from the military; it's for Congress to change the law.",
"They ought to do so, and I'm confident that the military will move ahead on it,\" retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey said.",
"Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, rejected retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey's suggestion.",
"\"It's my belief that if you don't have buy-in from the military, that's a disservice to the people in the military.",
"They should be included in this.",
"I'm open-minded to what the military may suggest, but I can tell you I'm not going to make policy based on a campaign rally,\" Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina told NBC.",
"\"If this policy about 'Don't ask, don't tell' changes, it should be done based not on politics, but on reason.\"",
"In Obama's speech Saturday night to the Human Rights Campaign -- the nation's largest gay rights group -- Obama praised the gay community for making strides in equal rights and pledged to deliver on major campaign promises that critics say Obama's left on the back burner.",
"\"For nearly 30 years, you've advocated for those without a voice,\" Obama said.",
"\"Despite the progress we've made, there are still laws to change and hearts to open.\""
] | [
"Some Democrats cautious about Obama's pledge to end Defense of Marriage Act .",
"Some say they think he'll succeed in ending military's \"Don't ask, don't tell\" policy .",
"Others debate whether military \"buy-in\" is necessary to end that policy .",
"Thousands of gay and lesbian rights supporters hold rally in Washington on Sunday ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
2,
2,
3,
0,
4,
5,
0,
5,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
0,
3,
3,
5,
1,
4,
2,
4,
4,
5,
1,
1,
4,
1,
2,
4,
5,
3,
3,
5
] |
55e36521ef1cd28dcfe4119bdebc7ced67ebe0f3 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Imagine taking the best characters and elements of your favorite fictional universe and weaving the best characters and elements of your favorite fictional universe into a new story that captures the imagination of fans.",
"In the dark, cinematic \"Batman: Arkham Asylum,\" Batman must escape from a spooky psychiatric hospital.",
"That's what Emmy-winning TV writer Paul Dini did in creating \"Batman: Arkham Asylum,\" a video game coming out in late August.",
"Buzz is building online for the dark, cinematic game, which reimagines a brooding Batman and Joker's most notorious nemesis, the Joker, for an experience that's reminiscent of \"The Dark Knight\" blockbuster movie.",
"You want mayhem, insanity and brutality?",
"Get ready for all of it.",
"\"This is the Batman movie I would have liked to have written,\" said Dini, who was scheduled to discuss the game during a panel Saturday at Comic-Con International, the huge celebration of comic-book culture in San Diego, California.",
"\"This is him with all the good stuff.\"",
"Batman pits Batman against Joker in a battle of wits and brawn after the Clown Prince of Crime traps the Caped Crusader inside Arkham Asylum, Gotham's psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane.",
"After the trap is sprung, Joker releases the inmates, including some of Batman's most ferocious enemies: Bane, Harley Quinn, Mr. Zsasz, Poison Ivy and Killer Croc.",
"Batman has appeared in video games since 1986, but none as ambitious or complex as \"Arkham Asylum,\" which draws much of Batman's inspiration from the character's comic mythology.",
"Batman will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows.",
"Batman's being developed by Rocksteady Studios and will be published by Eidos Interactive in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics.",
"(Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is a division of Time Warner, which owns CNN.)",
"As the lead writer for Batman, Paul Dini said Paul Dini was given a clean slate to work from.",
"Because there was no movie, graphic novel or comic tie-in to follow, Paul Dini was able to create an original story.",
"Paul Dini's familiarity with Batman may help win the hearts and wallets of gamers.",
"Winner of five Emmy awards, Paul Dini has worked on Batman comic books and written episodes of \"Batman: The Animated Series\" and later, \"Batman Beyond.\"",
"Dini, who has also written for the ABC-TV hit \"Lost,\" said Paul Dini was influenced by Batman lore from character creator Bob Kane, the Batman comics of the 1960s and the Dark Knight graphic novels of Frank Miller.",
"In creating Paul Dini's story's look and tone, Paul Dini said Paul Dini chose Paul Dini's favorite elements from different incarnations of Batman.",
"For example, the game emphasizes Batman's intellect and use of technology by solving puzzles with the help of such tools as X-ray scanning and a pheromone tracker.",
"\"Detective work is a crucial game element,\" Paul Dini said.",
"\"There are a lot of forensics aspects to the story.\"",
"If you're expecting a Heath Ledger-like Joker in \"Batman: Arkham Asylum,\" you may be disappointed.",
"With Batman's less-smudgy makeup, spiky green hair and maniacal cackle, Paul Dini's creation looks and acts more like earlier versions of the iconic villain.",
"Kevin Conroy voices Batman in Batman, while the Joker is voiced by Mark Hamill, known to millions as Luke Skywalker in the \"Star Wars\" movies.",
"Kevin Conroy and Hamill were scheduled to join Paul Dini at Comic-Con this weekend.",
"Conroy and Hamill also did the voices in \"Batman: The Animated Series,\" making Batman feel very familiar.",
"Sterling McGarvey, a senior editor for G4TV, said Batman's developers were smart to rely heavily on the animated TV series.",
"\"An entire generation of Batman fans grew up with the animated Batman,\" he said.",
"\"It is a beloved, storied franchise with very few good games.\"",
"The Internet is full of videos showing glimpses of Batman, including movie-like trailers, demo gameplay, characters and layouts of Arkham Asylum.",
"Among Batman fans and gaming reviewers, early reviews have been strong.",
"Brian Crecente, editor-in-chief of Kotaku.com, said he likes the way the developers combined elements to create Batman from the fans' perspective.",
"\"Part dark, broody Batman, part serious crime fighter, but also part detective,\" Crecente said.",
"\"Batman has this huge universe.",
"Why not cherry-pick the best stuff and put the best stuff in Batman?\"",
"A key character in Batman is Arkham Asylum itself, with Arkham Asylum itself's spooky corridors and Gothic architecture.",
"Paul Dini loves Arkham Asylum itself's \"mix of dark, creepy, steam punk and Victorian\" and calls Arkham Asylum itself the perfect location in Gotham City for the gameplay.",
"\"It is a totally over the top mansion with gargoyles on the inside,\" added Crecente.",
"\"Very cool.\"",
"Paul Dini heaped praise on how the developers made Paul Dini's story come to life.",
"Paul Dini hopes fans who know Batman will love how familiar it feels, while gamers will love the action.",
"\"Fans of the canon will be happy,\" McGarvey agreed.",
"\"But Batman was designed more for the Batman fan than a hardcore gamer.\"",
"Crecente describes Batman's combat as fluid and quick, with a martial arts feel.",
"Acting as Batman, players will be able to hide in the shadows and stealthily take out players's enemies.",
"All the gaming mechanics in the world won't save Batman unless fans get drawn into his story.",
"Remember Lego Batman?",
"But Paul Dini seems confident that gamers will respond to Paul Dini's vision.",
"\"Nobody loves a good Batman story more than I do,\" Paul Dini said."
] | [
"Online buzz is strong for upcoming \"Batman: Arkham Asylum\" video game .",
"Lead writer Paul Dini and others discuss Batman at Comic-Con this weekend .",
"Batman reunites a brooding Batman and Joker's most notorious nemesis, the Joker .",
"There's no movie or comic tie-in to follow, so Paul Dini could create an original story ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
3,
2,
0,
0,
5,
5,
1,
6,
2,
2,
0,
0,
0,
4,
1,
3,
1,
1,
1,
1,
0,
6,
6,
2,
1,
7,
7,
7,
8,
8,
6,
0,
0,
8,
8,
8,
8,
2,
2,
5,
6,
3,
1,
3,
8,
8,
0,
0,
8,
3,
1
] |
fe9caf5f15f2b13fa402978b36e548635114168c | [
"Alexandria, Virginia (CNN) --",
"Jefferson was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for Jefferson's conviction on 11 counts of corruption.",
"Jefferson was also ordered to forfeit more than $470,000 after Jefferson's conviction for using Jefferson's office to solicit bribes.",
"Jefferson will also have to pay $1,100 in special assessments.",
"The case against the former nine-term Louisiana Democrat included allegations of influence-peddling and the discovery of $90,000 in cash in Jefferson's freezer.",
"Judge T.S. Ellis will determine at a hearing next Wednesday whether Jefferson will remain free pending appeal.",
"Until then, Jefferson is free.",
"\"The court's sentence today reaffirms the principle that all people -- no matter what their title or position -- are equal before the law,\" said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman in a statement.",
"\"In a stunning betrayal of the public's trust, Jefferson repeatedly used Jefferson's public office for private gain.",
"The lengthy prison sentence imposed on Jefferson today is a stark reminder to all public officials that the consequences of accepting bribes can and will be severe.\"",
"Jefferson's family was in the courtroom when Judge T.S. Ellis handed down The lengthy prison sentence imposed on Mr. Jefferson today.",
"Jefferson had faced up to 150 years in prison.",
"\"The lengthy prison sentence imposed on Mr. Jefferson today should be a clear signal that our society will not tolerate bribery,\" U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride said in a written statement.",
"\"It's not just another cost of doing business in government.",
"\"Jefferson's repeated attempts to sell Jefferson's office caused significant damage to the public's's trust in our elected leaders.",
"The lengthy prison sentence imposed on Mr. Jefferson today will begin to repair that damage and to restore that trust.",
"\"Jefferson is well-known for the $90,000 found in Jefferson's freezer.",
"It is our hope that Jefferson will now be well-known for the tough sentence handed down today, showing that no one -- including our elected officials -- are above the law.\"",
"Jefferson, of New Orleans, still faces the forfeiture of nearly $500,000 -- money a jury said is linked to criminal activity for which Jefferson has been convicted.",
"On August 5, a jury found Jefferson guilty on four bribery counts, three counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud and one count of racketeering.",
"Jefferson was acquitted on five other counts, including wire fraud and obstruction of justice.",
"Jefferson had remained free prior to Friday's sentencing.",
"Jefferson was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 4, 2007, about two years after federal agents said federal agents found the money in Jefferson's freezer.",
"Authorities said the cash was part of a payment in marked bills from an FBI informant in a transaction captured on video.",
"The trial was delayed while it was resolved whether an FBI search of Jefferson's congressional office was constitutional.",
"Defense attorney Robert Trout had asked the judge for leniency, citing Jefferson's personal history of humble beginnings and long-standing public service.",
"Prosecutors, in turn, filed a response saying Jefferson deserved no preferential treatment since Jefferson \"still chose to cheat, steal and lie.\"",
"\"Jefferson has still not accepted responsibility for Jefferson's own criminal conduct,\" prosecutors wrote.",
"Jefferson \"still rationalizes Jefferson's own unethical, illegal and immoral conduct.\"",
"CNN's Paul Courson contributed to this report."
] | [
"NEW: Jefferson remains free at least until Wednesday hearing .",
"Ex-Rep. William Jefferson gets 13 years in prison, 3 years' supervised release .",
"The former Louisiana Democratic congressman faced up to a 150-year sentence .",
"In August, Jefferson found guilty of bribery, money laundering, wire fraud, racketeering ."
] | [
0,
1,
1,
2
] | [
3,
1,
4,
4,
4,
0,
0,
3,
2,
1,
0,
1,
1,
3,
2,
1,
4,
1,
4,
2,
2,
0,
4,
4,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2,
3
] |
08e1e07152fba05aa789a5f36664d6531ffb284b | [
"(CNN) --",
"A newborn infant, who was abducted Tuesday from his home in Tennessee, has been found alive in Alabama, according to authorities.",
"Yair Anthony Carillo is reported to be in good health since being recovered.",
"Yair Anthony Carillo was found Friday night in a home in Ardmore after an intensive three-day search, said Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.",
"Tammy Renee Silas, 39, was taken into custody for allegedly stabbing Child's mother at Child's mother's Nashville home and then stealing Yair Anthony Carillo just four days after Yair Anthony Carillo was born.",
"Child's mother told police a woman posing as an immigration worker attacked her and took Yair Anthony Carillo.",
"A break in the case came when investigators were able to track down a Kia Spectra that was photographed in a Wal-Mart parking lot shortly before the attack.",
"Authorities determined that Silas rented the vehicle from the Nashville airport, Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.",
"My Harrison, of the FBI's Memphis office, praised all of the investigators who worked on the case.",
"\"We reunited a family,\" she said.",
"\"It doesn't always turn out this way.\"",
"There is no word on a possible motive or what charges Silas will face.",
"Carillo, who is reported in good health, will be reunited with his family after a routine medical examination, My Harrison, of the FBI's Memphis office said."
] | [
"Yair Anthony Carillo found safe after being abducted days after birth, authorities say .",
"Child's mother says woman posing as immigration worker stabbed Child's mother, took boy .",
"Tammy Renee Silas taken into custody; no word on possible motive ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
3,
0,
0,
2,
1,
3,
3,
3,
4,
4,
2,
0
] |
79cb11709ab82460f0fa90c9f1d3c9113d38d55a | [
"(CNN) --",
"Arsenal have confirmed that striker Robin van Persie will be out of action for \"approximately six weeks\" after suffering ankle ligament damage during the Netherlands' international friendly against Italy on Saturday.",
"Initially it had been feared the Dutch forward -- who has scored eight goals in 15 games in all competitions this season and emerged as one of the Gunners' key figures -- could be set for a much-longer spell on the sidelines.",
"Van Persie, 26, will return to London later this week to continue striker Robin van Persie's rehabilitation but is set to miss key clashes with Premier League leaders Chelsea at the end of the month, the trip to Liverpool on December 13 as well as the rest of the hectic Christmas schedule.",
"An official Arsenal club statement read: \"Following the care given to van striker Robin van Persie by the Dutch FA, striker Robin van Persie will travel back to London this week and continue striker Robin van Persie's treatment with the Arsenal medical team.",
"\"striker Robin van Persie will be out of action for approximately six weeks.\"",
"Although striker Robin van Persie could be back for what is likely to be a season-defining few weeks when Arsenal host Manchester United on January 31 before games against Premier League leaders Chelsea and then Liverpool, the loss of the player could not have come at a worse time for Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.",
"Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner (groin) and England forward Theo Walcott (knee) are already out until early December, so Croatian international Eduardo da Silva is likely to take van Persie's place in the Gunners side.",
"striker Robin van Persie suffered the injury to striker Robin van Persie's right leg in the 10th minute of Saturday's goalless draw against Italy in Pescara.",
"striker Robin van Persie was carried off on a stretcher following a heavy challenge from Azzurri defender Giorgio Chiellini and tests showed partially torn ligaments in striker Robin van Persie's right ankle.",
"Meanwhile, France defender Eric Abidal will miss the second leg of the World Cup playoff against the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday night due to a thigh injury.",
"The Barcelona full-back played the full 90 minutes of Saturday's 1-0 win in Dublin but sustained the problem in his left leg and will not be available for the return at the Stade de France.",
"Lyon midfielder Jeremy Toulalan has also been ruled out, as he has not yet recovered from a hamstring injury."
] | [
"Arsenal reveal that striker Robin van Persie will be out of actionfor six weeks .",
"The striker Robin van Persie suffered ankle ligament damage against Italy at the weekend .",
"Croatian striker Eduardo da Silva is expected to replace striker Robin van Persie in the Arsenal line-up ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2
] |
12a7479e8400c475d0ec89927072be1f8a51d2f6 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Ten-man Ghana overcame Brazil 4-3 on penalties in the Under-20 World Cup final in Cairo to become the first African side to win the tournament.",
"Daniel Addo (left) is sent off but Ghana still became the first African side to win the U-20 World Cup.",
"Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu scored the winning penalty after Brazil's Maicon had fired over the bar when a successful spot-kick would have handed Brazil the title for a record fifth time.",
"In a match of few chances, Ghana, who are also African champions, defied the odds to take the trophy out of Europe and South America for the first time ever after Daniel Addo (left) was sent off in the 37th minute for a late tackle on Alex Teixeira.",
"Goalkeeper Daniel Aygei kept Ghana in the game earlier in extra-time with a point-blank save from Maicon, who had been teed-up 10 yards out by Alex Teixeira's cut-back.",
"Douglas Costa twice went close in the additional 30 minutes, while Goalkeeper Daniel Aygei was also called into action to save from Wellington Junior.",
"Meanwhile, penalties were also needed to separate Hungary and Costa Rica in the third place playoff earlier in the day, but it was the European nation who eventually triumphed after the match ended 1-1 in 90 minutes.",
"Despite being outplayed for the majority of the game, Costa Rica went ahead with nine minutes remaining when Marcos Urena was allowed to run at the Hungarian defence before cutting inside and firing a right-footed shot which left goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi with no chance.",
"However, with the match entering injury time, Hungary were awarded a penalty when Jose Mena fouled Krisztian Nemeth in the box.",
"Vladimir Koman made no mistake from the spot to take the match into a shoot-out.",
"Liverpool's Gulacsi was the hero of the hour -- keeping out efforts from Cristian Gamboa, Esteban Luna and Adam Simon while Nemeth and Roland Varga both scored to hand Hungary a 2-0 victory on penalties."
] | [
"Ghana become the first African country in history to win the U-20 World Cup .",
"They beat Brazil 4-3 in a dramatic penalty shoot-out after the match ends 0-0 .",
"Hungary take third place after defeating Costa Rica also in a penalty shoot-out ."
] | [
0,
1,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
1,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1
] |
5cb2e161b5492ed25cc2fffd3534aa7fb818c4d8 | [
"(CNN) --",
"In staging their Fourth of July fireworks show, authorities in Ocean City, Maryland, have faced challenges in recent years from Mother Nature.",
"Fireworks light up the sky over Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the city's 2008 Fourth of July festivities.",
"In 2005, thick fog veiled the celebration.",
"Spectators couldn't see the detailed patterns and colors of the fiery blasts -- Spectators only saw the clouds and haze get brighter.",
"Thunderstorms erupted the next two years, delaying the show in 2006 and then forcing the show's cancellation in 2007.",
"That year, storms brought winds that were just too strong.",
"\"We start taking a hard look at the direction and speed of the wind when it gets to 15 or more knots [about 17 mph],\" said Ocean City Fire Marshal Sam Villani.",
"\"At 20 knots, we consult the shooters ... to see if our perimeter is safe for the crowds.",
"Twenty-knot [23 mph] sustained winds would probably be our cutoff.\"",
"As millions gather across the United States on Saturday to celebrate America's birthday with fireworks displays, fire officials will be watching weather forecasts and preparing to make sure revelers are as safe as possible.",
"They often start by banning spectators from a safety zone, or perimeter, around the launch site to protect them from drifting embers that can get as hot as 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit.",
"For that reason, fireworks launches over harbors, rivers and other bodies of water can often be larger in scale.",
"\"For a venue like New York Harbor, it is common for [launch] barges to be located on the water, well away from land,\" said Guy Colonna, division manager with the National Fire Protection Agency.",
"\"Even if the winds increase, it's possible...[for] the safety of the display not to be compromised.\"",
"Fireworks shows originating on land have stricter standards for the size of the perimeter, depending on wind speed, because spectators are generally closer to the explosives, Guy Colonna, division manager with the National Fire Protection Agency said.",
"Strong winds can make safety trickier.",
"According to the Boston Globe, hundreds of people at a 2005 Fourth of July fireworks show in Canton, Massachusetts were accidentally showered with glowing embers when winds shifted about 10 minutes after the event began.",
"High winds can even cancel a fireworks celebration.",
"Rain, however, will not necessarily stop a show, said Philip Butler of Fireworks by Grucci, a Long Island, New York-based fireworks production company that has choreographed shows for presidential inaugurations and the Olympics.",
"Fireworks don't extinguish in the rain, and as long as operators \"keep the powder dry,\" Fireworks will explode, Philip Butler said.",
"Moisture can cause Fireworks to change colors, though.",
"\"A brilliant blue may appear as a royal blue,\" Philip Butler said.",
"Weather challenges are nothing new for Grucci.",
"In preparing for a large show in Dubai, the production company once faced 105-degree heat and a sandstorm.",
"\"They told us to simply kneel down and cover our heads with our capes and ride it out,\" Philip Butler said.",
"Ideal conditions for fireworks are calm winds, comfortable temperatures and clear night skies, Philip Butler said.",
"\"When the sky is black and clear, it's like a painter's canvas for us.\"",
"Some commonly asked questions about fireworks: .",
"Do fireworks still work when it snows?",
"Yes.",
"For many New Year's Eve celebrations in cold-weather states, it's often snowing during fireworks shows.",
"Fireworks production companies say the snow acts as a prism, reflecting and shifting the colors.",
"What's the biggest danger that spectators face from fireworks?",
"Statistics show the vast majority of fireworks-related injuries are caused by over-the-counter fireworks instead of burning debris from public fireworks celebrations.",
"The risk of fireworks injury is 2½ times higher for children than for the general population, according to the National Fire Protection Agency.",
"The biggest culprit?",
"Sparklers.",
"the National Fire Protection Agency advises against using your own fireworks.",
"\"Leave it to the professionals.\"",
"For a Fourth of July weather forecast for your area, visit CNN.com/weather."
] | [
"High winds and rainstorms can pose serious challenges to fireworks shows .",
"Severe weather affected fireworks three of past four years in Ocean City, Maryland .",
"Winds can cancel a fireworks celebration, although light rain often will not .",
"One fireworks company weathered a sandstorm before a show in Dubai ."
] | [
0,
0,
0,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1,
3,
3,
4,
3,
0,
5,
5,
5,
4,
5,
3,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
4,
3,
1,
4,
0,
4,
5,
0,
2,
0,
0,
5,
5,
5,
2,
2,
5,
4,
0
] |
e607c86308738751bbc1358e31e743b9c4377d31 | [
"Orlando, Florida (CNN)",
"-- A former astronaut who was accused of assaulting a romantic rival in the parking lot of the Orlando airport will avoid prison after pleading guilty to lesser charges as part of a plea agreement.",
"Citing Lisa Marie Nowak's lack of a criminal history, Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet sentenced Lisa Marie Nowak's to a year of probation.",
"Lisa Marie Nowak's was given credit for the two days Lisa Marie Nowak's served in the county jail after Lisa Marie Nowak's's arrest.",
"Nowak, 46, must also perform 50 hours of community service and have no contact with the victim in the case, former Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman.",
"Lisa Marie Nowak's must also send Shipman a letter of apology within 10 days, \"a sincere letter of apology, not one of these vanilla things that I see from other defendants,\" Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet told Lisa Marie Nowak's.",
"\"It's been almost three years since the events took place that caused this nightmare for Shipman, and you are 100 percent responsible.\"",
"In addition, Lisa Marie Nowak's must complete an eight-hour anger management course within Lisa Marie Nowak's's first 30 days of probation, Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet said.",
"Lisa Marie Nowak's told Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet Lisa Marie Nowak's had undergone counseling for 1½ years and the counseling is complete, so Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet said Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet would not order more.",
"Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet said Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet was treating Lisa Marie Nowak's as any defendant would be treated, saying Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet doubts any judge would send a defendant to prison on a first offense.",
"Shipman delivered an emotional victim statement before Lisa Marie Nowak's's sentencing, telling the court Shipman remains convinced Lisa Marie Nowak's planned to kill Shipman.",
"\"Shortly after I turned 30 years old, Lisa Marie Nowak's hunted me down and attacked me in a dark parking lot,\" Shipman said, adding that Shipman is \"still reeling from Lisa Marie Nowak's's vicious attack\" and attempting to piece Shipman's life back together.",
"\"The world as I knew it before Lisa Marie Nowak's is gone,\" Shipman said.",
"\"Every stranger I see is a potential attacker.",
"Going out in public is exhausting.\"",
"Shipman said Shipman has undergone nearly three years of counseling, but suffers from nightmares, anxiety and health problems such as high blood pressure and chest pains because of the incident.",
"Nowak initially was charged with attempted kidnapping with intent to inflict bodily harm, battery and burglary of a vehicle using a weapon.",
"If convicted, Lisa Marie Nowak's could have faced a sentence of up to life in prison.",
"Prosecutors accused Lisa Marie Nowak's of driving nearly 900 miles from Houston, Texas, to Orlando -- wearing NASA diapers to cut down on the number of stops Lisa Marie Nowak's needed to make -- and donning a disguise before following Shipman from the airport's baggage claim to the parking lot in February 2007.",
"Nowak's attorney, Don Lykkebak, has denied that Lisa Marie Nowak's wore NASA diapers.",
"Lisa Marie Nowak's has said Lisa Marie Nowak's went to the airport to talk to Shipman, who had begun dating Nowak's former love interest, Navy Cmdr. Bill Oefelein.",
"But Shipman, in Shipman's comments Tuesday, called that claim \"at best, ridiculous,\" saying that Nowak, whom Shipman did not know, had ample opportunity to talk to Shipman, as Lisa Marie Nowak's \"stealthily followed me for hours.\"",
"\"I'm a very friendly person, your honor,\" Shipman said, adding that Shipman would have welcomed Nowak's company \"over some hot chocolate, while I was waiting for my suitcase to arrive.\"",
"Shipman recounted the incident and Shipman's terror as Shipman realized Lisa Marie Nowak's was following Shipman in the dark parking lot, as Shipman could hear the swishing of Lisa Marie Nowak's's pants as Shipman walked.",
"Shipman said Shipman sprinted to Shipman's car, and Lisa Marie Nowak's attempted to open the car door and beat on Shipman's window, then spun a tale of being a helpless traveler who was afraid of being in a dark parking lot.",
"Shipman said Shipman cracked Shipman's window, and Lisa Marie Nowak's sprayed Shipman in the face with pepper spray.",
"\"Lisa Marie Nowak's blasted me with what felt like acid,\" Shipman said.",
"\"... I stomped on the gas and wondered if there was a gun pointed at my head.\"",
"At a hearing in November 2007, Orlando Police Detective William Becton testified that in a search of Lisa Marie Nowak's's car, Orlando Police Detective William Becton found maps showing how to reach the airport and its layout, a buck knife and papers, including a letter Lisa Marie Nowak's appeared to have written to Oefelein's mother.",
"Orlando Police Detective William Becton testified Orlando Police Detective William Becton found used and clean diapers in Nowak's car.",
"Police previously had said Police also found a BB gun, a steel mallet, a 4-inch knife and rubber tubing in the vehicle.",
"Shipman said Tuesday Shipman thought Shipman had escaped a carjacking.",
"\"I had no idea that a highly paid, high-ranking military officer had just attacked me.\"",
"When Shipman found out Shipman had been attacked by a \"sister in arms,\" Shipman said, Shipman was heartbroken.",
"Shipman said the resulting media attention and scrutiny has placed additional stress on Shipman and Shipman's family.",
"Before sentencing, Lisa Marie Nowak's turned to Shipman and apologized.",
"\"I am sincerely sorry for causing fear and misunderstanding and all of the intense public exposure that you have suffered,\" Lisa Marie Nowak's said.",
"\"I hope very much that we can all move forward from this with privacy and peace.\"",
"Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet said Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet accepted her apology as sincere, but in sentencing Shipman Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet noted that Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet was certain Shipman's conviction would affect Shipman's Navy career and retirement.",
"Still, the judge told Lisa Marie Nowak's, \"you brought this on Lisa Marie Nowak's, and I don't have any sympathy for Lisa Marie Nowak's in that respect.\"",
"Shipman has left the military and Oefelein has left the astronaut corps, and the two live in Anchorage, Alaska, where they run a company called Adventure Write as freelance writers and photographers.",
"People.com reported in July the two were engaged.",
"Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet also ordered Lisa Marie Nowak's to stay away from Oefelein after Shipman alleged in Shipman's remarks Shipman found a book with suggestive notes inside that Lisa Marie Nowak's had sent Oefelein after the incident despite a no-contact order.",
"\"No books, no messages, no poems, nothing,\" Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet said.",
"\"It's not a problem,\" Lisa Marie Nowak's responded.",
"CNN's John Couwels contributed to this report."
] | [
"Lisa Marie Nowak, a former astronaut, accused of assaulting a romantic rival .",
"Florida judge sentences Nowak to year on probation, community service .",
"Prosecutors say she drove 900 miles in diapers, wore disguise, followed woman through airport ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
4,
1,
1,
1,
4,
4,
4,
5,
5,
4,
1,
1,
2,
0,
0,
0,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4,
5,
2,
2,
2,
4,
5,
4,
4,
1,
0,
5,
1,
1,
3,
3,
1,
1,
0,
3
] |
8a3d652f12aa174bb79c1105db75c187860ab379 | [
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Dry skies greeted Georgia for a second day Wednesday, giving residents a chance to mourn, recover and repair after devastating floods killed nine people earlier this week.",
"Douglas County, Georgia, emergency managers provide water Wednesday to residents without treated water.",
"Water was beginning to recede in many areas, and some roads, including Interstate 285 and Interstate 20, were reopening.",
"Several others remained closed, state authorities said.",
"As of Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of people were still in shelters, with more than 250 people in the Cobb County Civic Center, according to the Red Cross.",
"There are cases where people have lost everything, spokeswoman Lisa Matheson said Tuesday.",
"Before they were evacuated, Cordell Albert and her husband, Christopher, moved Cordell Albert and her husband, Christopher's valuables to the second floor of Cordell Albert and her husband, Christopher's Powder Springs home, CNN affiliate WGCL reported.",
"\"I feel lost,\" she said, according to CNN affiliate WGCL.",
"\"I feel homeless.\" Watch more about the flooding aftermath and cleanup » .",
"Gov. Sonny Perdue has declared a state of emergency in 17 flood-stricken counties, and State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine estimated that the flooding has caused an estimated $250 million in losses.",
"Watch where the flooding hit hardest » .",
"\"Many of the homeowners afflicted by this event don't have flood insurance,\" he said in a written statement.",
"Georgia's flood-related death toll has reached nine, authorities said, with six deaths alone in Douglas County, west of Atlanta.",
"To the north, one person was missing and presumed dead in Chattanooga, Tennessee.",
"See photos of the flooding » .",
"Gov. Sonny Perdue spoke to President Obama on Tuesday night about the flooding, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said.",
"Gov. Sonny Perdue \"expressed Gov. Sonny Perdue's condolences for the loss of life and Gov. Sonny Perdue's concern for the citizens of Georgia amidst the flooding,\" Shapiro said.",
"Gov. Sonny Perdue updated President Obama on the situation, and the two discussed the response to the crisis, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro added.",
"Gov. Sonny Perdue also assured Gov. Sonny Perdue that Gov. Sonny Perdue's request for federal aid would receive prompt attention, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro added.",
"Parts of northwest and south-central Georgia, as well as the metro Atlanta area, were still under flood warnings Wednesday.",
"Also on Wednesday, students from three of metro Atlanta's four largest school districts were returning to classes after flooding caused school closings the day before.",
"Watch what caused such torrential rain » .",
"But CNN meteorologists said rain was not likely for much of Georgia Wednesday, although isolated thunderstorms in north Georgia were possible.",
"Georgia may also see rain this weekend, CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said.",
"\"Of course, we're not expecting another foot of rain,\" CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said, \"but we could pick up an inch or two.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Horses pulled to safety from flooded creek .",
"On Tuesday, Perdue pleaded with residents to stay off flooded roads, noting that nearly all the fatalities in Georgia were drivers and passengers swept away by floodwaters.",
"CNN's Carolina Sanchez, Shawn Nottingham and Samuel Gardner contributed to this report."
] | [
"NEW: Georgia insurance commissioner estimates $250 million in losses .",
"President, Georgia governor discuss aid; Obama expresses condolences .",
"Death toll from floods: at least nine in Georgia; one person missing in Tennessee .",
"As of Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of people were still in shelters in Georgia ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
2
] | [
3,
4,
0,
5,
5,
2,
6,
6,
6,
7,
0,
7,
0,
0,
6,
7,
1,
0,
1,
1,
0,
5,
7,
4,
4,
4,
3,
5,
0,
3
] |
bf1895b4fe2806fa6b8ae68347c6b84e4667ca12 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Authorities plan to ask new questions of the family at the center of the balloon drama that captured the world's attention Thursday, as a comment in a CNN interview and other concerns raised speculation that the incident may have been staged.",
"the family discuss the upheaval in the family's lives Friday on CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"\"We feel it's incumbent on us as an agency to attempt to re-interview the family and establish whether this is in fact a hoax or actual event,\" Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said at a news conference Friday.",
"\"We believe at this time that it's a real event.\"",
"Investigators with expertise in spotting deceptive behavior interviewed the family Thursday and believe the family were not lying, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said.",
"Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden's office is being flooded with calls and messages from people insisting it must be, and putting \"a lot of pressure\" on authorities to charge Richard and Mayumi Heene, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said.",
"His office said His office was conducting background checks on the family.",
"A giant Mylar balloon took off from the backyard of the family's northern Colorado home Thursday.",
"the family said the family were terrified the family's 6-year-old son Falcon may have been on it.",
"the family couldn't find boy.",
"In audio from 911 calls released Friday, the family sounded emotional and desperate.",
"When A giant Mylar balloon finally landed, boy was not on board.",
"Later, boy came out from hiding in an attic over the home's garage.",
"\"I'm feeling very, very grateful that boy is among the family,\" Richard Heene told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Friday.",
"\"the family went through so many emotions yesterday.\"",
"On CNN's \"Larry King Live\" Thursday night, the family asked boy why boy had not come out from hiding when the family were calling for boy.",
"\"You guys said we did this for the show,\" boy said.",
"Watch the boy's remarks » .",
"The family chases storms and takes videos of some.",
"the family also were featured in March on the ABC program \"Wife Swap.\"",
"After the Hollywood gossip Web site TMZ.com reported that the family had been \"pitching a reality show about the wacky family,\" one of the networks mentioned, TLC, which produces \"Jon and Kate plus 8,\" said \"they approached us months ago, and we passed.\"",
"Two other production companies, Reality Real and RDF, which produces \"Wife Swap,\" did not immediately respond to CNN's queries.",
"the family had a video camera recording as A giant Mylar balloon took off Thursday.",
"Alderden said that was because the family planned an experiment in which A giant Mylar balloon was to rise 20 feet off the ground.",
"Richard Heene said Richard Heene's son was confused when he made the show remark.",
"There were media assembled on the front lawn, asking all sorts of questions, and that's what boy was referring to, Richard Heene said Friday morning.",
"Heene, a meteorologist who takes Richard Heene's family along to chase storms, said Richard Heene was concerned when A giant Mylar balloon took off because \"the project was pretty much down the tubes.\"",
"Then their son Bradford said their son Bradford thought boy was inside, sparking the family's terror -- and the world's response, as people tuned in to live TV coverage of the balloon, which looked like a cross between a mushroom and a flying saucer.",
"Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday that, based on reports that the parents \"took these children into potentially dangerous situations\" with tornado chases, the experimental balloons and other activities, it would be \"appropriate to involve child protection [services] to at least see what the family situation is and whether the children are in a safe condition.\"",
"Earlier, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden told reporters that Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden's department has contacted the child protection officials but asked the child protection officials not to contact the family until investigators have had a chance to re-interview the family.",
"Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden, at Friday's news conference, said Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden did not believe boy could have been following instructions by going into hiding.",
"\"I just can't see boy being told go sit up there for five hours and be quiet.",
"I just don't see that, as hyperactive as boy is,\" Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said.",
"Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden also called it unlikely that the other two brothers, ages 8 and 10, would have pulled off such a hoax.",
"If it were determined that the incident was a hoax, \"the only thing we have is them making a false report to authorities, which is a Class 3 misdemeanor,\" Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said.",
"But, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said, authorities could seek to recoup the money spent.",
"\"If there is criminal conduct, we certainly would seek restitution,\" Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said.",
"A giant Mylar balloon landed in a plowed wheat field, and the owner could seek compensation from the family, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden added.",
"Asked whether the family would not have checked the whereabouts of the family's three children before allowing A giant Mylar balloon to take off and why the system to tether A giant Mylar balloon was not stronger, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden responded, \"You raise some very valid points that we are considering.\" Watch as home video shows A giant Mylar balloon take off » .",
"Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden also said Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden's office had contacted an expert at Colorado State University during the incident to make sure that the dimensions of A giant Mylar balloon were adequate to handle a child of boy's weight, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said.",
"The sheriff also sought to defend Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden's department.",
"Authorities had been at the house and had conducted searches for boy three times during the incident.",
"\"Obviously it wasn't as thorough as we would have liked it to be,\" Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said, \"because boy was hiding in the attic in the garage.\"",
"Investigators had seen the rafters in the garage, but there was no ladder to get up there.",
"\"Our personnel just didn't think it possible that a 6-year-old boy would be able to get up into that space, so Our personnel didn't look there,\" he said.",
"boy was not in a box as Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden had originally reported.",
"Instead, he had apparently crawled on a box in order to enter the attic area, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said.",
"Watch how the events played out » .",
"Despite numerous conspiracy theories flying around on the Internet, Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden emphasized that authorities have not seen suspicious behavior by the family.",
"\"the family appropriately expressed statements, nonverbal communication, body language and emotions during this event that were entirely consistent with the events that were taking place,\" Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said.",
"\"Certainly, people are free to speculate, people're free to be skeptical about it,\" Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden added.",
"\"But those of us in the law enforcement profession have to operate on facts and what we can prove.\""
] | [
"Boy's remark on CNN, \"We did this for the show,\" sparks speculation about stunt .",
"Sheriff: \"We believe at this time that it's a real event\"",
"Father says boy was confused about scores of reporters outside house .",
"Millions feared boy was inside balloon as it floated over Colorado countryside ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
2
] | [
3,
4,
3,
4,
1,
4,
4,
2,
5,
2,
2,
3,
6,
6,
7,
3,
2,
0,
0,
3,
8,
8,
8,
5,
5,
7,
2,
7,
2,
4,
4,
4,
0,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4,
5,
5,
5,
4,
2,
6,
6,
6,
4,
6,
3,
4,
4,
4,
1
] |
db55c4380f73423764589a4c0d8612bbc107b3b6 | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"When Sen. Robert Byrd came to Congress from West Virginia, a postage stamp cost 3 cents and kids were clamoring for a new toy called Mr. Potato Head.",
"On Wednesday, almost 57 years later, Sen. Robert Byrd became the longest-serving member of Congress in history.",
"Two days before Sen. Robert Byrd turns 92, the eloquent legislator known for Sen. Robert Byrd's encyclopedic knowledge of Senate rules and history surpasses Carl T. Hayden, the Arizona Democrat who served a total of 20,773 days in the U.S. House and Senate.",
"With Sen. Robert Byrd's 20,774th day representing West Virginia -- six years in House and then nearly 51 years and counting in Senate -- Sen. Robert Byrd sets a record for longevity unlikely to be broken as the political climate turns toward term limits and growing public dissatisfaction with Congress.",
"In a statement issued by his office, Sen. Robert Byrd expressed Sen. Robert Byrd's gratitude to \"the people of the great State of West Virginia\" for their long-standing confidence in Sen. Robert Byrd.",
"Sen. Robert Byrd's only regret, Sen. Robert Byrd said, was that Sen. Robert Byrd's wife, Erma, who died in 2006, would not be with Sen. Robert Byrd.",
"\"I know that she is looking down from the heavens smiling at Sen. Robert Byrd and saying congratulations my dear Robert -- but don't let it go to your head,\" Sen. Robert Byrd's statement said.",
"In a career representing the West Virginia coal-mining country from which he emerged, Sen. Robert Byrd has cast more Senate votes (18,000-plus) and held more leadership positions (including two stints as majority leader) than any other senator.",
"Sen. Robert Byrd has never lost an election.",
"Sen. Robert Byrd was raised by an aunt and uncle after Sen. Robert Byrd's mother died when Sen. Robert Byrd was a year old, and Sen. Robert Byrd did not graduate college until Sen. Robert Byrd received a degree in 1994 from Marshall University.",
"In a sign of Sen. Robert Byrd's Appalachian roots, Sen. Robert Byrd was an avid fiddle player and appeared twice on the television program \"Hee Haw.\"",
"Sen. Robert Byrd gave up playing in the 1980s because of a tremor in Sen. Robert Byrd's hands.",
"Sen. Robert Byrd's early political years displayed some of the deeply rooted racism of the American South.",
"Sen. Robert Byrd was a member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan in the early 1940s, and later called it \"the most egregious mistake I've ever made.\"",
"In 1964, he voted against the Civil Rights Act pushed by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson.",
"But Sen. Robert Byrd later followed a more traditional Democratic path.",
"An ardent foe of President George W. Bush's policies in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Sen. Robert Byrd opposed creating the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 and called Bush \"dangerous, reckless and arrogant\" in February 2003, six weeks before the Iraq war started.",
"Three months later, Sen. Robert Byrd criticized President George W. Bush's landing a jet on the USS Abraham Lincoln to signal the end of the Iraq war as \"flamboyant showmanship.\"",
"On June 12, 2006, Sen. Robert Byrd became the longest serving senator in history, and was re-elected to Sen. Robert Byrd's ninth consecutive Senate term five months later.",
"Things have changed since Sen. Robert Byrd arrived in Washington as a new congressman in 1953, along with the first Eisenhower administration.",
"Gas cost 20 cents a gallon then, and the average annual salary was less than $4,000.",
"Ten presidents later, Sen. Robert Byrd is known for Sen. Robert Byrd's devotion to Sen. Robert Byrd's state and constituents.",
"\"Sen. Robert Byrd's number one priority has always been the people of West Virginia,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, says in a statement on Sen. Robert Byrd's Senate Web site.",
"\"It has been a great example for all of us to never lose sight of the fact that you are elected by the people from your state and the people in your state should have first priority.\"",
"Sen. Robert Byrd's statement marking Wednesday's achievement reflected that thinking.",
"\"Although we are marking a longevity milestone, it has been the quality and dedication of service that has guided me over the years,\" Sen. Robert Byrd said in Sen. Robert Byrd's statement.",
"\"I have strived to provide the people of West Virginia the best representation possible each of the 20,774 days which I have served in the Congress of the United States.\"",
"Sen. Robert Byrd thanked Sen. Robert Byrd's constituents for his constituents's support and for \"putting his constituents's trust and faith in Sen. Robert Byrd.\"",
"Slowed by illness in recent years, including a six-week hospital stay this year because of a staph infection, Sen. Robert Byrd concluded Byrd's statement with typical bravado.",
"\"The only way for me to close on this historic day is to say that I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 days,\" Sen. Robert Byrd said.",
"\"Thank you and may God bless you.\""
] | [
"Sen. Robert Byrd logs Sen. Robert Byrd's 20,774th day -- almost 57 years -- in Congress .",
"Sen. Robert Byrd is known for Sen. Robert Byrd's encyclopedic knowledge of Senate rules and history .",
"West Virginian says joining Ku Klux Klan in 1940s was Sen. Robert Byrd's \"most egregious mistake\"",
"When Sen. Robert Byrd arrived in D.C. in 1953, gasoline costs 20 cents a gallon, a stamp was 3 cents ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
2,
3,
0,
0,
0,
4,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
2,
2,
2,
1,
2,
2,
0,
1,
3,
1,
1,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4
] |
6963971357560d82656287eed9969d91fdcc4d4d | [
"Washington (CNN) --",
"Increased fighting in Afghanistan has caused a drop in morale among U.S. soldiers while the reduction in combat in Iraq has bolstered morale, according to a new Army report released Friday.",
"a new U.S. Army report released Friday summarizes two surveys of U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan taken earlier this year.",
"New statistics from Army also show suicides are up in the entire service.",
"Produced every two years by Army's Mental Health Advisory Team, a new U.S. Army report released Friday comes just over a week after a U.S. soldier went on a shooting rampage at a Army base in Texas and possibly just days or weeks from an announcement from the Obama administration to send more troops to Afghanistan, where fighting has gotten more intense in recent months.",
"Authorities have not determined a motive for the shooting.",
"The suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan but had told his family that he wanted to get out of the military.",
"\"Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to face stress from multiple deployments into combat but report being more prepared for the stresses of deployments,\" Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, the Army Surgeon General told reporters Friday.",
"Not surprisingly, a new U.S. Army report released Friday showed that soldiers with multiple deployments, three or four tours of duty to Iraq or Afghanistan, had much lower morale and more mental health problems than those soldiers who have one or two combat deployments.",
"Increased time at home, however, resulted in improved morale among troops sent back to the field.",
"The updated survey of soldiers in Afghanistan found post-traumatic stress syndrome and depression in soldiers at the same levels of the survey in 2007, but still about double that of the 2005 survey results: 21.4 percent in 2009, 23.4 percent for 2007 and 10.4 percent in 2005, according to a new U.S. Army report released Friday.",
"In Iraq, where the survey has been done every year, lower numbers were attributed to the decrease in combat action there.",
"The 2009 numbers showed 13.3 percent of soldiers suffering from mental health problems, compared to 18.8 percent in 2007 and 22 percent in 2006.",
"Army officials said that with the push of more than 20,000 additional troops into the Afghan theater of battle over the last few months, there have been fewer mental health professionals in the field to help.",
"Army officials said the ration was about one mental health professional for every 1,120 soldiers.",
"To combat the falling morale and lack of mental health professionals in the field, Army officials said the service needs to more than double the number of mental health providers and hopes to have at least 65 more of those providers in the field by December, making the ratio one for every 700 soldiers.",
"The mental health assessment teams also conducted interviews with soldiers and found a drop in unit morale in Afghanistan to about half of what it was in 2007 and 2005, when about 10 percent surveyed gave top ratings to unit morale.",
"In 2009, that number was 5.7 percent.",
"a new U.S. Army report released Friday also showed soldiers are seeing more difficulty at home with an increasing number reporting they are getting or considering getting divorced, according to a new U.S. Army report released Friday.",
"a new U.S. Army report released Friday was based on almost 4,000 soldiers who filled out anonymous surveys in Iraq and Afghanistan between December 2008 and June 2009.",
"In Iraq, 2,400 soldiers were randomly selected and the results were studied by a mental health assessment team in the combat zone.",
"About 1,500 troops in Afghanistan took the survey, Army officials said.",
"the survey was different from previous years when all types of soldiers were surveyed together.",
"The 2009 survey questioned combat troops and support troops separately, though Army officials said there were few differences in the results.",
"On Friday, Army also released Army's latest suicide statistics.",
"They show an increase in the number over this time last year.",
"Army reported 133 suspected suicides as of October; there were 115 as of October 2008.",
"Of the 133, 90 have been confirmed, and 43 are pending confirmation, according to an Army press release.",
"last year Army totaled 140 suicides in Army's ranks, the highest the service has recorded.",
"\"Stigma continues to be one of the most difficult challenges we confront,\" said Brig. Gen. Colleen McGuire, the director of the Suicide Prevention Task Force for Army.",
"\"The more we educate our Army community about the need to get help, the need to get it early, and that a full recovery is often possible, the less stigma we'll see.\"",
"Army has implemented a number of suicide prevention programs over the past year, including training, a suicide prevention task force and a day off official duties to focus on suicide prevention."
] | [
"Report summarizes 2 surveys of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan taken this year .",
"Results attributed to increased fighting in Afghanistan, less in Iraq .",
"Army hopes to increase number of mental health providers in the field ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
2,
0,
4,
2,
3,
3,
2,
2,
2,
2,
1,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
1,
2,
0,
2,
0,
0,
0,
4,
1,
4,
4,
4,
2,
2,
4
] |
2c704e69206042e3d4c69bb5f2c23f72315de481 | [
"(CNN) --",
"For Morris Murenzi, a visit to Morris Murenzi's native Rwanda always includes attending a gacaca court -- a local tribunal of villagers set up to try suspects in a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000.",
"The gacaca courts, as seen here in 2003, are inspired by old village tribunals used to settle disputes.",
"At the proceedings, Morris Murenzi sits with Morris Murenzi's countrymen.",
"Some tearfully confront their attackers and testify against their attackers, their scars from a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 still visible.",
"Others -- like Morris Murenzi -- quietly listen, their emotional scars invisible.",
"They wait and hope for answers about how their relatives died as a nine-member panel questions suspects.",
"\"Some of the witnesses who ask questions are disfigured, others are disabled,\" said the Dallas, Texas, resident whose last gacaca trial was in Kigali two years ago.",
"\"The attackers have no place to hide.",
"The attackers are forced to address what The attackers have done to the victims.\"",
"Morris Murenzi is one of thousands of people who attend gacaca courts all across Rwanda on any given day.",
"Hearings are held in open fields in neighborhoods where the attacks occurred.",
"There are no lawyers and no judges in robes.",
"A panel of local villagers with no legal experience conducts the proceedings.",
"\"For me, gacacas help me find closure and healing,\" Morris Murenzi said.",
"\"I am able to see up close how remorseful The attackers are.",
"... You never see that in real court.\"",
"Gacaca courts were introduced in the central African nation after the April 1994 genocide, which raged for 100 days.",
"The victims were mostly from the Tutsi ethnic minority, who were targeted by Hutus over a rivalry that dates to colonial days.",
"Some moderates from the Hutu majority who support Tutsis were also killed.",
"Morris Murenzi, a Tutsi from the capital, Kigali, lost most of Morris Murenzi's extended family in a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000.",
"During the attacks, Morris Murenzi was in neighboring Uganda with Morris Murenzi's parents, where Morris Murenzi attended school at the time, the 37-year-old said.",
"\"My mom's sisters, brothers, my uncles, My mom's sisters, brothers, my uncles were all killed and buried in mass graves,\" Morris Murenzi said.",
"The gacacas were originally formed to resolve minor disputes among villagers but were reinvented to hand out justice to the perpetrators of a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 and help fast-track reconciliation efforts in the central African nation.",
"\"You had about 130,000 people in jail.",
"And there were many more outside,\" Rwandan President Paul Kagame said recently on CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS.\"",
"the central African nation's justice system and the International Criminal Tribunal set up to try genocide suspects were overwhelmed, and handling all the cases in those courts would have taken hundreds of years, according to Rwandan President Paul Kagame.",
"Watch Rwandan President Paul Kagame justify gacacas » .",
"\"If you went technically to try each one of them, as the law may suggest, then you would lose out on rebuilding a nation, on bringing people back together,\" Rwandan President Paul Kagame said.",
"\"That's why we had to say, let's categorize responsibilities.\"",
"The leaders and masterminds of the genocide are tried in ordinary courts, and civilians who contributed to attacks or loss of life directly or indirectly go to gacacas, Rwandan President Paul Kagame said.",
"The tribunals are lacking and fraught with problems, critics say.",
"\"We've had serious concerns about the gacaca process and whether the gacaca process meets international fair trial standards,\" said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director for Human Rights Watch, which has offices in Rwanda.",
"Some witnesses have been targeted for revenge after testifying, and due process falls short, Georgette Gagnon, Africa director for Human Rights Watch, which has offices in Rwanda said, adding that the organization has suggested changes to the system to ensure basic human rights are met, but they have not been enforced.",
"\"It is time for the process to end.",
"And there needs to be a frank announcement on whether it has led to reconciliation,\" Georgette Gagnon, Africa director for Human Rights Watch, which has offices in Rwanda said.",
"Paul Rusesabagina, whose effort to save hundreds of Tutsis was featured in the 2004 movie \"Hotel Rwanda,\" calls gacacas \"the worst idea ever.\"",
"\"Gacaca traditionally means justice on the grass.",
"Elders sitting on the grass, handing justice to someone who stole a neighbor's goat,\" Rusesabagina said.",
"\"Judges are people who never went to school ... who do not know anything about law.\"",
"Today, justice is dealing with people who have committed a genocide, which is a much bigger issue, he said.",
"There have been calls to abolish the tribunals, which have tried about 1.5 million cases since 1.5 million cases started in 2001, according to the Integrated Regional Information Networks, a U.N. agency.",
"The government in June postponed plans to close gacacas.",
"Some analysts say the gacaca process has the gacaca process's advantages, by reducing congestion in prisons and allowing survivors to hear first-hand what happened to survivors's loved ones.",
"Morris Murenzi said Morris Murenzi does not have all the answers about Morris Murenzi's relatives' deaths, and Morris Murenzi plans to attend more gacacas -- including during a trip to Rwanda at the end of the year.",
"Despite the lack of information, Morris Murenzi said, watching suspects struggle to come to terms with the attacks has brought an unusual form of comfort.",
"\"They will never know peace.",
"They have to live with the fact that they killed their neighbors for the rest of their lives,\" Morris Murenzi said.",
"\"While the survivors can move on, they (attackers) probably never will.\""
] | [
"Hearings held in open fields in neighborhoods where the attacks occurred.",
"Hearings have tried about 1.5 million cases since they started .",
"Victims of 1994 genocide were mostly from the Tutsi ethnic minority .",
"Gacacas originally formed to resolve minor disputes among villagers ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
5,
3,
5,
6,
7,
1,
1,
6,
6,
5,
0,
8,
1,
3,
6,
8,
3,
2,
2,
5,
5,
4,
3,
4,
9,
9,
9,
9,
4,
9,
1,
9,
9,
4,
9,
9,
3,
4,
8,
6,
1,
3,
3,
5,
7,
6,
4,
6
] |
d017b37d1cffb494a581e45c5fc19ac0b41f8242 | [
"SICHUAN, China (CNN) --",
"Li Yunxia wipes away tears as rescue crews dig through the ruins of a kindergarten class that has buried Li Yunxia only child -- a 5-year-old boy.",
"Other parents wail as soldiers in blue masks trudge through the mud, hauling bodies from the rubble on stretchers.",
"\"Children were screaming, but I couldn't hear my son's voice,\" Li Yunxia says, sobbing.",
"This grim ritual repeated This grim ritual Thursday across southwestern China, as thousands of mothers and fathers await news about fathers's sons and daughters.",
"Watch parents' anguished vigil » .",
"The death toll from Monday's massive earthquake could be as high as 50,000, according to state-run media.",
"Map » .",
"The grief is compounded in many cases by a Chinese policy that limits most couples to one child, a measure meant to control explosive population growth.",
"As a result of the one-child policy, the quake -- already responsible for at least 15,000 deaths -- is producing another tragic aftershock: .",
"Not only must thousands of parents suddenly cope with the loss of a child, but many must cope with the loss of their only child.",
"China's population minister recently praised the one-child rule, which dates to 1979, saying it has prevented 400 million children from being born.",
"Some wealthy families ignore the order, have more children and pay a $1,000 fine.",
"In rural areas -- like earthquake-devastated Sichuan province -- families can petition for an additional child, but there's no guarantee the authorities will approve the request -- the authorities usually don't.",
"That reality has cast parents like Li into an agonizing limbo -- waiting to discover whether parents like Li's only child is alive or dead.",
"Thousands of children were in class when the temblor hit Monday afternoon.",
"Many of Thousands of children's schools collapsed on top of Thousands of children.",
"In Dujiangyan City, more than 300 students were feared dead when Juyuan Middle School collapsed with 900 students inside.",
"A similar number died at Dujiangyan City's Xiang'e Middle School.",
"See images and video from the quake zone » .",
"Now parents cluster outside collapsed school buildings, held back by soldiers in some cases as rescue crews search for signs of life.",
"\"Which grade are you in?\" a rescuer asks a trapped child in Beichuan County.",
"\"Grade 2,\" comes the answer.",
"\"Hang on for a while,\" a rescuer says.",
"\"We are figuring out ways to rescue you.\"",
"Watch children rescued from the rubble » .",
"a trapped child in Beichuan County is pulled from the rubble a short time later.",
"For every child saved, though, many more are lost.",
"Many are missing at a middle school in Dujiangyan City.",
"The scene is devastating at Juyuan Middle School, where sorrow seems endless.",
"See photos of rescue efforts » .",
"\"There were screaming parents, and as the bodies would come out parents were trying to identify whether it was parents's child or not,\" said Jamil Anderlini of London's Financial Times.",
"\"And once parents -- the parents -- realized it was parents's child, obviously parents collapsed in grief.\""
] | [
"NEW: Death toll could reach 50,000, according to state-run media .",
"China's one-child policy, implemented in 1979, has blocked 400 million births .",
"Many parents in limbo as they wait to learn whether their sole child is dead or alive .",
"Schools collapsed on thousands of children Monday when the quake hit ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
5,
6,
5,
2,
2,
0,
4,
1,
1,
2,
1,
1,
1,
2,
3,
3,
3,
3,
6,
6,
5,
5,
6,
6,
6,
5,
1,
3,
3,
6,
2,
2
] |
f3f934ef7f19642d44da7678c06a859f103363b1 | [
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Kandi Burruss, the newest cast member of the reality show \"The Real Housewives of Atlanta,\" was mourning the death Saturday of her fiancé, who died after a fistfight the night before.",
"Kandi Burruss, at right with co-star NeNe Leakes, appeared at the BET Awards in June.",
"The fiancé, 34-year-old Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell, also appeared on the reality show \"The Real Housewives of Atlanta.",
"A spokeswoman for Burruss said Burruss was \"devastated\" by the news.",
"\"Burruss has no statement to make at this time and asks for privacy,\" Tresa Sanders said.",
"Burruss said the two planned to marry, even though the relationship had ups and downs.",
"In late August, Burruss told WVEE Radio in Atlanta, \"We're on hiatus,\" and Burruss told Essence.com last month that the two were taking a break from each other.",
"Police said Police contacted Burruss after Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell's death.",
"Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell and another man fought Friday night in the parking lot of the Atlanta strip club Body Tap, police spokesman Officer James Polite said.",
"Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell was taken to a hospital, where Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell died of blunt force trauma to the head, police spokesman Officer James Polite said.",
"Fredrick Richardson was arrested on a charge of voluntary manslaughter after witnesses identified Fredrick Richardson and Fredrick Richardson was interviewed by police.",
"Fredrick Richardson was treated at a hospital.",
"Police tentatively described the men as club managers, although Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell claimed on Twitter that Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell owned the establishment.",
"police spokesman Officer James Polite said police don't know why the fight started.",
"Sanders said Burruss was doubly saddened because Burruss is mourning the death of Burruss's uncle, Ralph Leslie, whose funeral is Saturday.",
"The reality performer posted messages about Jewell's death on Twitter.",
"\"i",
"m just in one of those moods where i dont wanna talk, i dont wanna b held & told its gonna b ok.",
"i just wanna cry Burruss 2 sleep, alone,\" Burruss says.",
"\"i could never n a million years imagine this happening.",
"please pray for AJ's children.",
"that's who im the most concerned 4.\"",
"\"im bout 2 giv my swollen eyes sum rest now.",
"i just wanted to say thanks 2 every1 for their prayers.\"",
"Burruss is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and former member of the 1990s R&B group Xscape."
] | [
"NEW: Both men said to be managers of strip club where fight occurred .",
"Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell dies after fistfight outside Atlanta club, police say .",
"Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell was fiancé of Kandi Burruss of TV show \"Real Housewives of Atlanta\"",
"Suspect charged with involuntary manslaughter after questioning by police ."
] | [
0,
1,
1,
2
] | [
0,
3,
3,
1,
3,
3,
3,
3,
1,
1,
1,
2,
2,
0,
0,
3,
1,
4,
5,
3,
4,
5,
5,
4,
5,
3
] |
e9c97928fcfe64844f31ed7d403826a1c65b9f86 | [
"London (CNN) --",
"Debate is rife in Australian political circles about whether carbon trading is the way forward for climate change abatement.",
"Carbon trading is said to be one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.",
"There, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is looking to introduce a mandatory carbon trading system by 2010 which will cap the amount of pollution industry can release.",
"a mandatory carbon trading system will be similar to the European Union emission trading system which was established in 2005.",
"With Phase 1 of the European system complete, there are a few lessons about carbon trading that Australia -- and other countries looking to go down this path -- could benefit from.",
"So what is carbon trading?",
"Carbon trading -- also known as \"cap and trade\" -- is a system designed to cut the carbon emissions which contribute to global warming.",
"Generally in a market-based cap and trade system, a central authority -- such as a government or international body -- sets a limit on the amount of carbon which can be emitted and then divides this amount into units which are allocated to different groups.",
"units which are allocated to different groups can then be traded as any commodity would.",
"Carbon trading can occur both between countries and amongst industries within countries.",
"A second approach to carbon trading involves a country or business generating carbon credits by investing in \"green\" projects -- usually in developing countries -- that are said to reduce emissions.",
"Why is it necessary?",
"According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) there is unequivocal evidence that human activities have contributed to a gradual warming of the planet which has resulted in a change in climate.",
"the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides scientific evidence of change including to the duration of seasons, rainfall patterns and an increased frequency of extreme weather events.",
"Industrialization is recognized as a key factor in the increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere and according to the IPCC the world has warmed by an average of 0.74°C in the past 100 years.",
"the IPCC predicts that if GHG emissions continue to rise at GHG emissions's current rate, this century will see a further 3°C rise in the average world temperature.",
"While the consensus of the scientific community (via the IPCC) is that action must be taken to avert the worst impacts of climate change, economic arguments about the cost of climate change abatement -- advanced by countries like the U.S. and at one time Australia -- have in the past proved an impediment to action.",
"A carbon trading system is said to be one way that countries can look to make greenhouse gas emissions cuts with minimal economic impact.",
"Do you think carbon trading is the way to reduce greenhouse emissions?",
"What trading systems exist?",
"Established in 2005, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the largest multi-national, multi-sector CO2 trading system in the world.",
"The ultimate aim of the system is to ensure that EU Member States are compliant with EU Member States's Kyoto Protocol commitments and to do this the most energy-intensive industries are allocated carbon permits by Member States which allow the most energy-intensive industries to emit a certain amount of CO2.",
"If the most energy-intensive industries want to emit more CO2 than the most energy-intensive industries's permits allow for, the most energy-intensive industries are able to buy them from more efficient companies with spare permits.",
"EU takes in around 12,000 installations which account for around 50 percent of EU greenhouse gas emissions from industries such as power, steel and cement manufacture.",
"According the World Bank, EU contributed $50 billion of the $64 billion traded in the carbon market in 2007.",
"The second largest carbon trading system exists under the United Nations Kyoto Protocol.",
"the United Nations Kyoto Protocol permits emissions trading in order to help countries meet countries's agreed upon targets.",
"Countries have agreed to an average 5 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 1990 levels, by 2012 and carbon trading is one way to meet this quota.",
"By December 2008, EU will link up with The second largest carbon trading system to create a more global scheme.",
"The Clean Development Mechanism is a further carbon trading mechanism of the Protocol which allows industrialized nations to claim emission credits from investment in clean technologies which will \"offset\" carbon in developing countries.",
"Developed nations can also finance emission reduction projects in developing countries through Joint Implementation in exchange for emission credits.",
"New Zealand has established a mandatory carbon trading system this year and Australia has also committed to expanding the pioneering New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme to a national market by 2010.",
"New mandatory systems are being considered for Japan and Canada.",
"Voluntary carbon markets also exist, with the Chicago Climate Exchange one of the more established ones.",
"What do permits cost?",
"The cost of a carbon permit is dictated by the market forces of supply and demand.",
"In 2007, one European Union Allocation (for one ton of carbon) was trading at $30 to $35.",
"What industries are subject to trading?",
"Under mandatory schemes like the EU ETS, it's the most energy-intensive industries within Member States which are subject to carbon trading.",
"This includes industries like power installations, steel and cement manufacture and the construction industry.",
"The commercial aviation industry -- which accounts for 3 percent of EU emissions -- could be brought into EU by 2011.",
"Currently personal or household emissions and the public sector and transport industry emissions are not included in any carbon trading system.",
"Has emissions trading been successful?",
"Yes and no.",
"The introduction of mandatory systems which cap emissions like EU is a step in the right direction for trying to cut emissions without a major cost to business.",
"However, critics such as Carbon Trade Watch argue that the current carbon trade systems are flawed because there is a tendency for the biggest polluters to be over-allocated permits.",
"This was clearly evident with Phase 1 of EU when the market virtually collapsed in 2006 because too many allowances were allocated.",
"Market analyst Franck Schuttellaar estimated that the United Kingdom's most polluting companies made windfall profits of around $1.7 billion as a direct result of generous carbon credit allocation under EU.",
"Questions have also been raised about whether carbon trading systems actually reduce GHG emissions.",
"Independent UK think-tank Open Europe reported that between 2005 and 2006 emissions from industries covered by EU actually rose in UK by 3.6 percent and by 0.8 percent across the whole of Europe.",
"Auctioning off carbon credits at the outset -- rather that simply allocating credits to business for free -- is one way that has been proposed to help the system make a real impact on emissions.",
"Certainly, increasing the scarcity of carbon credits would help ensure that businesses commit to genuine low-carbon alternatives.",
"While carbon emissions account for around 70 percent of greenhouse gases, carbon emissions are not the sole cause of climate change and it would seem a safer bet to reinforce a carbon trading system with other legislative measures aimed at reducing emissions."
] | [
"Carbon trading is said to be one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions .",
"Existing carbon trading systems have had limited impact on emissions to date .",
"The European experience serves as a good lesson for new trading systems ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1,
0,
0,
0,
2,
0,
0,
3,
4,
4,
4,
4,
0,
0,
0,
2,
1,
1,
1,
5,
5,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
3,
0,
3,
1,
5,
2,
1,
5,
5,
1,
1,
3,
1,
0,
5,
1,
0,
5,
0,
1,
0
] |
62e20598b119ab8ee075363a42bd3f7c230870a7 | [
"(CNN) --",
"One hundred twenty African refugees -- most of them fleeing war-torn Somalia -- were forced overboard at gunpoint off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 26 dead and 20 missing, the United Nations' refugee agency said Wednesday.",
"A Somali refugee walks past the United Nations-donated tents at a refugee camp west of Aden.",
"Seventy-four survivors made it to the beach Tuesday and were taken to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees center in Ahwar, Yemen, according to UNHCR.",
"Some told the United Nations' that they were waiting on their boat for a smaller vessel to take them ashore when the smugglers operating their boat forced them overboard.",
"Some were pushed and beaten, and others were shot and killed, for not complying, they said.",
"The smaller boat never arrived, they said.",
"Heavy fighting in Somalia's capital and a widespread drought has led to a dramatic increase in Somalis making the sometimes deadly journey by sea to Yemen, according to UNHCR.",
"Nearly 26,000 refugees have arrived on Yemen's shores this year from the Horn of Africa -- almost three times the number of refugees to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden last year, according to UNHCR.",
"Yemen is a common destination for Somalis fleeing economic hardship and war because of Yemen's proximity.",
"Yemen is also an attractive location because Somalis receive automatic refugee status in Yemen.",
"New smuggling routes, including some based out of Djibouti -- which lies north of Somalia and is much closer to Yemen -- have also led to the increase in refugees, according to UNHCR.",
"Refugees pay as much as $150 to get to Yemen on small fastboats, while others pay between $50 and $70 for a ride on larger and much slower vessels, the agency said.",
"Earlier this year, Yemen's coast guard stepped up patrols of Yemen's coastline in an attempt to deter the smugglers.",
"Some of the smuggling boats are seized by Yemen's coast guard and given to Somali fishermen who suffered losses in the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.",
"As part of a $19 million operation, UNHCR operates shelters and reception centers for the refugees in Yemen and has increased UNHCR's efforts to discourage people from making the illegal crossing to Yemen.",
"UNHCR has also sponsored training programs for coast guard personnel and other officials."
] | [
"74 survivors made it to the beach and were taken to Ahwar, Yemen .",
"Some told U.N. smugglers operating the boat forced them overboard .",
"Fighting in Somalia's capital led to increase in Somalis making journey to Yemen .",
"UNHCR:",
"Nearly 26,000 refugees arrived in Yemen this year from Horn of Africa ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3,
2
] | [
4,
2,
2,
0,
1,
1,
1,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
3
] |
edf22a8baae25301968593b064a4c3787b661f31 | [
"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Four senators pushed for a bill Wednesday to ban texting while driving, a day after a study found that drivers who text while on the road are much more likely to have an accident than undistracted drivers.",
"A law that went into effect January 1 in California makes it illegal to send text messages while driving.",
"Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-New York; Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey; Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana; and Kay Hagan, D-North Carolina, unveiled the ALERT Act, which would ban truck and car drivers and operators of mass transit from texting while driving.",
"a bill would prohibit any driver from sending text or e-mail messages while driving a vehicle, said an earlier news release from the senators.",
"If a bill passes, the Department of Transportation would set the minimum standards for compliance.",
"States that do not enact text-banning laws within two years of a bill's passage could lose 25 percent of States that do not enact text-banning laws within two years of the bill's passage's federal highway funds, Schumer said in a news conference announcing a bill.",
"States that do not enact text-banning laws within two years of the bill's passage could recuperate that money once States that do not enact text-banning laws within two years of the bill's passage meet the text-banning standards, Schumer said.",
"CTIA, a cellular phone industry group, said that CTIA supports legislation that addresses text messaging while driving.",
"\"CTIA and our member companies continue to believe text messaging while driving is incompatible with safe driving,\" said a statement on CTIA's Web site.",
"Fourteen states, including the home states of three of a bill's sponsors, and the District of Columbia already have laws barring texting while driving: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Washington.",
"Interactive map: See state-by-state policies on distracted driving » .",
"New York does not ban texting while driving but has barred the use of handheld phones while driving, according to the Governor's Highway Safety Association.",
"Schumer said New York's legislature has sent Gov. David Paterson a bill to ban texting as well.",
"\"The legislation will send an important message to drivers across the country: Get your hands off the cell phone and back on the wheel,\" Schumer said.",
"The senators cited a Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study that found that truck drivers who texted while driving were 23 times more likely to crash or get into a near-accident than undistracted drivers.",
"Watch more on the dangers of driving and texting .",
"When compared with dialing, talking, listening or reaching for an electronic device, texting posed the greatest accident risk, the study found.",
"the study attributed the increased risk to the almost five seconds the study found that the driver's eyes were off the roadway while texting, said Rich Hanowski, the director of the Center for Truck and Bus Safety at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.",
"\"Not having [a cell phone] in your hand while driving could be the difference between life and death,\" Menendez said.",
"In September, a commuter train engineer missed a stop signal while trading text messages with a friend, leading to a collision with a freight train that killed 25 people in California, according to federal investigators.",
"The accident also injured 101 people.",
"In May, 62 people were injured when one trolley struck another in Boston, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said.",
"In July, the operator of one trolley was charged with gross negligence after he admitted to texting seconds before the accident with the other trolley, according to the Suffolk County district attorney and a National Transportation Safety Board official.",
"CNN Radio's John Lisk contributed to this report."
] | [
"14 states and the District of Columbia have banned texting while driving .",
"Four senators push for a bill that bans the practice nationwide .",
"New study finds drivers who text while driving more likely to have an accident .",
"\"Get your hands off the cell phone and back on the wheel,\" one senator says ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
2
] | [
3,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1,
0,
0,
0,
1,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
4,
4,
4,
4,
3
] |
d590f2cc413ea3745c11e08ae0ae1afed58bc094 | [
"(OPRAH.com) --",
"Don't confuse Katey Sagal for Peg Bundy -- it's a common mistake.",
"Katey Sagal's says being a mother has been Katey Sagal's's greatest teacher -- for all Katey Sagal's's roles.",
"While Katey Sagal's's infamous alter ego was uneducated, Katey Sagal's is thoughtful and well-spoken; Peg's fashion is time-warped (hello, bouffant!), Katey Sagal's's is earthy; for every ounce of laziness in Peg's body, Katey Sagal's has a multitasking one to match.",
"It may have taken years for Katey Sagal's to shake Katey Sagal's's TV counterpart, but watch Katey Sagal's as fierce matriarch Gemma Morrow on FX's motorcycle drama \"Sons of Anarchy\" (which was released on DVD Tuesday), and you'll start to wonder, \"Peg who?\"",
"Rachel Bertsche: You're known for playing three very different mothers -- \"Married with Children's\" Peg Bundy, Kate from \"8 Simple Rules\" and now Gemma.",
"Plus, you have three kids of your own, two teenagers and a 2 1/2-year-old.",
"Given all that on- and off-screen mothering experience, is there any universal quality that you would say all moms have?",
"Katey Sagal: Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.",
"I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.",
"It's an experience I was surprised by.",
"You have your boyfriend, your husband, your friends, but it's a different thing.",
"It's deeper, and it's a fantastic -- and risky -- commitment to love that deeply.",
"I think the characters I've played all have that quality, even Peg Bundy.",
"Peg Bundy was devoted and loyal to Peg Bundy's children in Peg Bundy's own wacky way.",
"But Gemma is intensely dedicated to Gemma's family and would do anything to protect Gemma's son and Gemma's extended family, which is the club.",
"In my personal life, I don't know that I would go to the lengths for my kids that Gemma does, but close.",
"Bertsche:",
"You were Peg Bundy before you were actually a mom.",
"Once you had your first child, id having firsthand experience change the way you played Peg Bundy?",
"Sagal:",
"Well, I've always been a maternal type, but yes, everything was different once I had kids.",
"Your whole perspective on the world changes -- I love how I wasn't so self-obsessed anymore!",
"I can't say my characterizations of Peggy necessarily changed much.",
"I just understood more what I was doing.",
"Bertsche:",
"You mentioned your husband, Kurt Sutter, who is also the creator of your show.",
"What's it like to mix family with business?",
"Sagal:",
"Most of the time it's super great.",
"There are moments when it's not, of course, but most of the time it's nice because we actually get to see each other.",
"His job is intense, so he doesn't get a day like I have today where he can stay home from work.",
"When I'm there, we can sometimes have lunch together, stuff like that.",
"The hard part gets to be like \"OK, maybe we should talk about something else.\"",
"It becomes the constant topic of conversation, the show and the kids, and we have to make a conscious effort to say, \"Let's not talk about it tonight.\"",
"Bertsche:",
"People used to say that women of \"a certain age\" -- over 40 -- couldn't find any roles in Hollywood.",
"That's certainly not true anymore, especially on cable, and you might be playing one of the toughest women out there.",
"Why do think that has changed?",
"Sagal:",
"I don't know why it's changed, but I'm really grateful it has.",
"Maybe it has to do with the fact that we're all living longer and suddenly it's okay to get older.",
"Maybe there's a broader audience for these characters.",
"The stories you can tell about older women are deeper.",
"Plus, cable has opened up enormous possibilities.",
"In feature films, you're still lucky if you're not the girlfriend or the wife.",
"But I just read yesterday that Dianne Keaton is going to be on television now, Gemma's doing a series with HBO, so TV is where our stories are being told.",
"Bertsche:",
"Gemma's a pretty controversial character.",
"How do you feel about Gemma?",
"Sagal:",
"I really like Gemma.",
"I like that Gemma's flawed but Gemma doesn't think that Gemma is.",
"Gemma's survived a lot, and people like that tend to live in a lot of denial.",
"Gemma knows how to get through life in Gemma's way, and Gemma doesn't question it.",
"It's just, \"This is how it is.\"",
"For instance, I don't think Gemma's ever been to therapy.",
"Gemma's not that girl.",
"What you see is what you get.",
"Bertsche:",
"What's on tap for Gemma this season?",
"Sagal: Something very dark happens.",
"The club is going to go through some turmoil -- when you live an outlaw lifestyle, that's the risk you take.",
"As my husband says, this season is all about loyalties.",
"Henry Rollins and Adam Arkin are on the show this year, and Henry Rollins and Adam Arkin ... well, I don't want to say too much, but",
"Henry Rollins and Adam Arkin're not really good guys.",
"Bertsche:",
"I promised a co-worker I'd ask you about \"Lost.\"",
"a co-worker's dying to know if your character, Helen, is really dead.",
"Even though we saw the grave, a co-worker doesn't believe it's the full story.",
"Got anything on that?",
"Sagal:",
"I was just reading an article this morning at the gym about how they were going to bring back people who were dead on \"Lost,\" and they didn't mention me!",
"Nobody tells me anything.",
"I'm always thinking that Helen should come back and show up on the island, but as of today, no one's sent me a plane ticket to Hawaii.",
"So I don't think it's going to happen, but I don't know.",
"They're very close to the chest with all that stuff.",
"Oprah.com: Get up close with all the hottest celebrities!",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now!",
"TM & © 2009",
"Harpo",
"Productions",
", Inc.",
"All Rights Reserved."
] | [
"Katey Sagal's series about cyclists, \"Sons of Anarchy,\" is out on DVD .",
"Katey Sagal's says being a mother has given Katey Sagal's's insight into Katey Sagal's's major roles .",
"Katey Sagal's hears rumors about \"Lost,\" but nobody's told Katey Sagal's's anything personally ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
4,
1,
4,
4,
4,
5,
6,
1,
7,
7,
8,
7,
4,
4,
9,
9,
10,
6,
6,
11,
6,
7,
6,
7,
10,
2,
5,
11,
8,
8,
5,
5,
8,
12,
10,
13,
0,
13,
11,
13,
13,
12,
7,
0,
8,
0,
10,
9,
9,
11,
9,
9,
9,
9,
7,
9,
9,
7,
10,
9,
11,
12,
12,
12,
12,
10,
2,
2,
2,
14,
11,
2,
14,
2,
14,
12,
3,
3,
14,
14,
15,
15,
15,
15,
15
] |
5d9da47786a84347e34f0de90ddce3179ae85663 | [
"KAMPALA, Uganda (CNN) --",
"Gunshots rang out in Uganda's capital Saturday in a fresh burst of unrest after loyalists of a traditional kingdom battled with government forces for a third day",
"Residents of the Kasubi suburb, west of Kampala, try to flee from violence as a soldier takes photos.",
"Local media reports put death toll at 13 since the rioting started, but attempts by CNN to confirm with local authorities were unsuccessful.",
"An uneasy calm had swept over Kampala early in the day as police and the army patrolled the city in military convoys.",
"By midafternoon, witnesses reported gunshots and isolated cases of riots.",
"The unrest Saturday started after rumors circulated by text messages that the king of the Buganda kingdom had been detained, said Judith Nabakooba, a police spokeswoman.",
"But a Buganda kingdom official refuted the rumor.",
"\"It is not true -- the king of the Buganda kingdom has not been arrested, \" David Mpanga said.",
"Tensions between the Buganda kingdom -- headed by King Ronald Mutebi II -- and President Yoweri Museveni have intensified in recent years.",
"The two sides spar over land, sovereignty and political power.",
"Kings in Uganda are limited to a ceremonial role overseeing traditional and cultural affairs.",
"President Yoweri Museveni has accused the Buganda kingdom, which is made of of Bagandans, of receiving foreign funding to carry out a hate campaign against the government.",
"Bagandans are the dominant ethnicity and one of four ancient kingdoms in Uganda.",
"Violence flared Thursday when the government said the government would not allow the king of the Buganda kingdom to travel to an area inhabited by a renegade rival group.",
"President Yoweri Museveni said President Yoweri Museveni tried to contact the king of the Buganda kingdom to discuss the issue as \"mature people,\" but President Yoweri Museveni could not reach him by phone.",
"After the travel ban, young Bagandans took the streets, stealing ammunition from a police station and confronting officers, whom they accused of harassment.",
"Police and army officers were injured, and at least four people were killed, Uganda's police chief, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura said Friday.",
"Rioters also burned tires and cars, set buildings on fire and looted stores, according to witnesses.",
"The streets in the capital were strewn with debris Saturday, including torched cars and burned tires.",
"\"Soldiers are walking in a single file, waiting for rioters and ready to confront rioters,\" said Allan Mugabi, a resident of Kampala.",
"Journalist Samson Ntale contributed to this report ."
] | [
"Local media put death toll from riots at 13, CNN unable to confirm figure .",
"Violence flared Thursday after government imposed travel ban on Buganda king .",
"Witnesses say young Bagandans burned tires, cars and looted stores .",
"Tension between splintered kingdom and Uganda's president has been on rise ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
4,
4,
0,
4,
4,
3,
3,
3,
3,
1,
3,
3,
3,
1,
3,
2,
4,
2,
2,
4,
4
] |
3277672574a7fd311dee0c1482b9faa8c0d36941 | [
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"A man brutally beaten in New York City was targeted because A man brutally beaten in New York City is openly gay, the New York Police Department said Monday.",
"Two men shouting \"anti-gay remarks\" viciously beat Jack Price, 49, as A man brutally beaten in New York City left a 24-hour deli on College Point Boulevard in Queens early Friday morning, police said.",
"No further details where available about the attack.",
"Price is being treated at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens, where \"A man brutally beaten in New York City is in fair condition and A man brutally beaten in New York City's vital signs are stable,\" said hospital spokeswoman Camela Morrissey.",
"Police arrested Daniel Aleman, 26, and charged Daniel Aleman, 26 with assault and aggravated assault as a hate crime.",
"\"When someone is attacked for being who they are, and for being proud of who they are, there is no other explanation for that attack than hatred and bigotry,\" said New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the first openly gay speaker of the city council.",
"\"I know the Queens community is outraged that hate has tainted their streets, and I know they will join with us in helping the local authorities find the second suspect.\"",
"The police department's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident.",
"No court date has been set for Daniel Aleman, 26."
] | [
"Jack Price, 49, who is being treated at New York Hospital, \"is in fair condition\"",
"Daniel Aleman, 26, is charged with aggravated assault as a hate crime .",
"Second assailant sought; Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
2,
3,
3,
2,
0,
1,
3,
2,
2,
1
] |
4c76b655f645eb856a691e48befd44277c16b4f5 | [
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Cool suit?",
"Check.",
"Edgy spectacles?",
"Check.",
"Warm vocal chords?",
"Check.",
"British singer Gary Go uses iPhone apps to help British singer Gary Go compose new material -- and provide instant accompaniment.",
"Instrument?",
"Powering up iPhone ...",
"These days, British singer Gary Go might reach for British singer Gary Go's iPhone before British singer Gary Go's keyboard when hammering out a tune.",
"British singer Gary Go says applications such as Chordica and Beatmaker allow British singer Gary Go to compose material and provide instant accompaniment for those spontaneous moments when British singer Gary Go feels the need for a good sing (during the interview, Go broke into song every five minutes).",
"Go's gadget of choice even doubled as a \"fifth member of the band\" during British singer Gary Go's July performance in front of 70,000 at London's Wembley Stadium.",
"British singer Gary Go hooked it up to an amplifier and tapped out drum beats on the little screen.",
"Watch Go in action with British singer Gary Go's iPhone » .",
"Luckily, British singer Gary Go said, British singer Gary Go's \"mum'\"didn't call British singer Gary Go mid-show to tell British singer Gary Go British singer Gary Go's dinner was ready.",
"(\"That would be a bit embarrassing.",
"Thank goodness for airplane mode.\")",
"While the iPhone might be a handy tool for musicians (a couple of months ago, I watched as rock 'n' roller Rhett Miller tuned Rhett Miller's guitar using an app called Power Tuner), British singer Gary Go says British singer Gary Go's still a fan of old-school methods.",
"British singer Gary Go used real instruments when making British singer Gary Go's self-titled debut album, out this week in the U.S. (Decca).",
"Lead single is \"wonderful\"",
"That's actually the song title: \"Wonderful.\"",
"It dips and soars in all the right spots like any good Coldplay-esque pop song should.",
"It had a good run on iTunes as the service's single of the week and is worth checking out if you like a good chorus that sticks in your noggin for a few days.",
"Twitter-lyrical ...",
"Go was intrigued by a heart-shaped balloon British singer Gary Go saw entangled in a tree outside British singer Gary Go's home, so British singer Gary Go posted a picture of it on the social networking site Twitter.",
"British singer Gary Go then enlisted British singer Gary Go's followers to suggest lyrics based on the pic, and wrote and recorded a song incorporating his followers's comments: \"Love, I'm caught by the wind, I've lost all control, 'cause you caught my heart string ...\"",
"So his followers are entitled to royalties?",
"Not so fast!",
"Because the piece was offered up as a charity song to aid the British Heart Foundation last month, there won't be royalties.",
"Gaga and Go-Go .",
"A fan of singer Lady Gaga, Go likes to perform a cover of the flamboyant star's hit \"Let's Dance.\"",
"British singer Gary Go was also Gaga's supporting act during the European leg of her tour earlier this year.",
"It's time to get things started ...",
"Creativity runs in Go's family.",
"British singer Gary Go's father worked as a producer for Jim Henson's \"The Muppet Show.\""
] | [
"British singer Gary Go uses British singer Gary Go's iPhone for musical accompaniment .",
"On British singer Gary Go's self-titled album, British singer Gary Go stuck with old school, playing real instruments .",
"Go used Twitter to send a photo to fans; British singer Gary Go used comments to write a song ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
2,
3,
2,
3,
2,
3,
0,
2,
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
4,
1,
1,
0,
0,
5,
5,
5,
5,
4,
4,
4,
6,
1,
6,
4,
4,
0,
1,
4,
4
] |
04c1b8300f95b6cbf192df4eb5c893b9090b6394 | [
"(CNN) -- Nanci Griffith wanted to look on the bright side.",
"Nanci Griffith, who says Nanci Griffith's \"fed up with negativity,\" was revitalized by the election of Obama.",
"And who could blame Nanci Griffith?",
"In the past decade, Nanci Griffith -- perhaps best known for Nanci Griffith's Grammy-winning 1993 album, \"Other Voices, Other Rooms\" -- had faced a political climate Nanci Griffith didn't agree with, as well as recovery from thyroid and breast cancer, which Nanci Griffith was diagnosed with in the late '90s.",
"Songwriting had become a struggle for Nanci Griffith with the gentle, crystalline voice.",
"\"It was ... horrific,\" Nanci Griffith said simply.",
"However, with Nanci Griffith's latest album, \"The Loving Kind\" (Rounder), Nanci Griffith is as focused and passionate as Nanci Griffith has been in years.",
"Sparked by the changes in Nanci Griffith's life and American politics, Nanci Griffith said, music has been vital to Nanci Griffith's personal resurgence.",
"\"It was nice to focus on things outside of my body.",
"Music has always done that for Nanci Griffith,\" Nanci Griffith said.",
"Describing Nanci Griffith as someone who was \"fed up with negativity,\" Nanci Griffith was equally inspired by Nanci Griffith's fellow countrymen.",
"\"[The] American people will not let this country collapse,\" Nanci Griffith said.",
"The idea motivated Nanci Griffith to look at Nanci Griffith's country's dark path of injustice not so long ago, stories that worked their way into Nanci Griffith's songwriting.",
"\"In some ways, I'm just a journalist.",
"I [want] my audience to hear these stories,\" Nanci Griffith said.",
"CNN spoke with Nanci Griffith from Nanci Griffith's home in Nashville, Tennessee.",
"CNN:",
"Being a folk singer and your views being what they are, was it tougher or maybe easier to write songs from 2000 to 2008?",
"Nanci Griffith:",
"It was very difficult for Nanci Griffith.",
"I was hurt by the direction this country was going in.",
"And then, after [the 2008 election], everything came spilling out.",
"Things came along like the Mildred and Richard Loving case (\"The Loving Kind\"), where Mildred died, and I read Mildred obituary.",
"[The Lovings were a couple whose interracial marriage was against the law in Virginia at the time.]",
"That was such an inspiration.",
"... Just wondering why I never knew about this and how important that case is currently with equality in marriage.",
"Little things.",
"Bit by bit, my heart started to open up again, and I could write!",
"CNN:",
"Had you ever gone through that before?",
"Nanci Griffith:",
"No, never in my life.",
"I've always been a very prolific writer.",
"CNN:",
"Now, what about writing in the age of Obama?",
"Griffith:",
"(laughs) It feels great!",
"People may be down on People's luck, financially.",
"But I see so much optimism about the direction of this country and [general] openness.",
"CNN:",
"Now, in addition to \"The Loving Kind,\" there are other songs based on actual events on this record.",
"Tell me about \"Not Innocent Enough.\"",
"Nanci Griffith:",
"That's based on Philip Workman's case in Memphis [Tennessee].",
"He was robbing a Wendy's -- was a heroin addict -- and police came in, and an officer was killed.",
"Now, Philip Workman's didn't kill an officer; it was friendly fire.",
"Philip Workman's was convicted anyway and executed.",
"I'm a total abolitionist when it comes to the death penalty, but this case really stunned me, because I feel like this country has evolved enough to where we shouldn't have to live with the death penalty.",
"CNN:",
"Is it hard as a writer/musician to inhabit those songs, knowing that those songs are actual events?",
"Nanci Griffith: Not really.",
"I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.",
"I don't express my opinion [in the songs], necessarily.",
"But it's important to me that my audience hear these stories.",
"I want as many people to know about Loving v. Virginia as possible.",
"CNN:",
"Do you feel like it's a more palatable way to become aware of a story like that when a song is attached to it?",
"Nanci Griffith: I do.",
"I've been informed many times through music.",
"Pete Seeger, Odetta, Dave Van Ronk, Bruce Springsteen ... so many folk songwriters.",
"It's all around you.",
"CNN:",
"The song \"Still Life\" -- I suspect that's about President George W. Bush?",
"Griffith:",
"It's about people like President George W. Bush.",
"This country is full of people like him, and especially my home state of Texas.",
"It's a [perspective on] people who go through life getting away with everything.",
"CNN:",
"Do you feel a sense of vindication with President Obama's election, or at least a sense that things are moving in a direction you're in favor of?",
"Nanci Griffith: I hope so.",
"Right now, Obama is my hero.",
"So is Obama's wife.",
"CNN:",
"What in your past steered you into a topical songwriter?",
"Nanci Griffith: I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view ... and things that informed me.",
"CNN:",
"Is there a different process of writing those topical songs versus a song like \"Up Against the Rain,\" which is clearly more personal?",
"Nanci Griffith:",
"There is a burden to writing [those topical songs]: You better have your facts straight.",
"When you're writing a personal song like \"Rain,\" it's straight from your heart and seems to just flow.",
"CNN: \"Sing\" seems like it would fit that description.",
"Does that song sum up your life in a way?",
"Nanci Griffith:",
"Many have asked that, but I was actually inspired to write that by watching an interview with Shania Twain where she said it would not have mattered if she remained a lounge act for her whole career.",
"It's not something you choose.",
"It's just what you do."
] | [
"Nanci Griffith's new album is \"The Loving Kind\"",
"Nanci Griffith had long dry stretch in '00s .",
"Election of Obama, better health has her in upbeat mood ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
1,
0,
1,
0,
1,
1,
0,
0,
3,
0,
0,
1,
0,
4,
4,
1,
5,
6,
7,
1,
8,
8,
9,
9,
10,
9,
11,
3,
5,
12,
7,
12,
6,
5,
6,
7,
3,
13,
8,
5,
14,
13,
7,
9,
9,
9,
9,
9,
5,
14,
7,
4,
14,
4,
9,
5,
14,
7,
14,
6,
11,
5,
10,
7,
13,
8,
13,
5,
8,
7,
2,
2,
5,
6,
0,
5,
14,
7,
14,
14,
10,
10,
7,
6,
11,
11
] |
62eb143f67342570cf7a971d4cf821600cd5998c | [
"ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) --",
"Country's military said Friday Country's military is weighing bids from American, Russian and Chinese defense contractors as Country's military seeks to buy at least $1 billion worth of long-range missile defense systems.",
"Country's military says a missile defense deal could include U.S. Patriot missile systems.",
"Among the missile systems Turkey is considering are U.S. Patriot missile systems, Country's military said.",
"\"We will purchase four batteries,\" Turkish armed forces spokesman Metin Gurak announced at a weekly press briefing in the Turkish capital, according to the state news agency, Anatolian.",
"\"The actual figure will be determined during the bidding process, but the cost is expected to be around $1 billion.\"",
"The news contradicts earlier reports in the Turkish and American media that Country's military was considering purchasing as much as $7.8 billion worth of Patriot missiles from the United States.",
"Turkish diplomats and military commanders have denied speculation that the Patriots could be used as part of U.S.-backed missile defense shield against its eastern neighbor, Iran.",
"\"It is wrong to draw links between the Patriot and Iran,\" Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told CNN's sister network, CNN Turk, Friday morning.",
"\"We neither have a perception of threat from any of the neighboring countries, nor have any military or security related preparation against the neighboring countries.\"",
"Thursday, the Obama administration announced the Obama administration was scrapping a missile defense program for Eastern Europe, after years of angry objections from Russia.",
"The White House has said a missile defense program for Eastern Europe was aimed at protecting allies from Iran, not from Russia.",
"Read the story .",
"Russia is Turkey's largest trading partner.",
"Meanwhile, relations have warmed considerably between the Iranians and the Turks in recent years.",
"The Turkish government is putting The Turkish government forward as a neutral party, offering to host talks between Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China on Iran's controversial nuclear program.",
"But Turkey is also a member of the NATO military alliance, and Turkey has long had close military ties with Washington.",
"During the first Gulf War, Patriot missile batteries were temporarily stationed on Turkish territory.",
"Turkish officials say the missile defense batteries it wants to buy would be part of a larger, long-term program to modernize Turkey's military.",
"Prominent Turkish intellectuals have questioned the purchase.",
"\"Does Turkey really need these missiles?\" asked Lale Kemal, a columnist who writes about military affairs for Turkey's Zaman newspaper.",
"\"Turkish military acquisition projects are not going through parliamentary or government scrutiny.",
"We don't have a transparent military procurement system.",
"So how can I or anyone say that Turkey needs them?\"",
"Defense contractors have until Oct. 13 to submit bids for the missile defense package."
] | [
"Turkey considering bids to supply at least $1 billion worth of defense systems .",
"Country's military says potential deal includes U.S. patriot missiles .",
"Some question whether Turkey really needs to purchase extra missiles .",
"Obama scrapped U.S. plans for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
2
] | [
3,
1,
1,
0,
0,
1,
0,
0,
0,
1,
2,
2,
4,
3,
3,
3,
3,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
0,
1
] |
229bb833713171315264427ba986cf2992ca031c | [
"(CNN) --",
"Elmo and Gordon want you to wash your hands so you don't catch the flu.",
"Smokey Bear, the Ad Council's most famous icon, has moved from 1940s posters to Smokey Bear's own Facebook page.",
"The \"Sesame Street\" stalwarts star in a series of public service announcements to teach children healthy habits in the face of the H1N1 flu virus.",
"The Muppet and the man (actor Roscoe Orman) are the latest in a long line of characters -- human and not -- to star in public service announcements co-sponsored by the Advertising Council.",
"The Ad Council, the charitable arm of the advertising industry, employs the same top-flight talent that creates ads for Budweiser, Coca-Cola and other familiar brands.",
"Watch Elmo and Gordon give the pitch » .",
"Growing beyond its early \"Buy War Bonds\" posters and Smokey TV spots, today's Advertising Council is moving into social media \"in a very big way,\" said Peggy Conlon, the organization's CEO.",
"\"There's all kinds of ways the Advertising Council finds the Advertising Council's target audience on the web,\" she said, noting that the Advertising Council has the Advertising Council's own YouTube channel.",
"A marketing executive endorses the approach.",
"\"If your target is young people, television really doesn't make a lot of sense now if young people're spending hours on the Internet, hours in social media,\" said Ben Kunz, director of strategic planning for Mediassociates, a media planning and Internet strategy firm.",
"\"You need to find a way to reach young people in the media that young people consume.\"",
"The \"holy grail\" is to go viral, as people pass the message around because people like the message or think it's important, Ben Kunz, director of strategic planning for Mediassociates, a media planning and Internet strategy firm said.",
"A gory, four-minute British PSA on the dangers of texting while driving has received nearly 600,000 views on YouTube in less than two weeks, fueled in part by Facebook and Twitter links.",
"Watch how the PSA has changed minds » .",
"\"If you can leverage these new human networks using mobile and Facebook and Twitter and blogs to disseminate your message, that's the real home run,\" Ben Kunz, director of strategic planning for Mediassociates, a media planning and Internet strategy firm said.",
"\"But the only way to do that is to give people a real reason to become engaged.\"",
"One campaign that tries to do that is called Boost Up, aimed at encouraging students to complete high school.",
"Louis Caldera, who at the time was secretary of the Army, initiated the project with a call to the Advertising Council because of a lack of qualified recruits.",
"\"There was a disconnect between the societal message that said, 'Go to college,' and [the Army's] message, which said, 'Don't go to college, join the military,'\" Caldera, a West Point alumnus, told CNN.",
"Caldera wanted people to think of the Army as a leader in education issues, not an alternative to schooling, and he sought the Advertising Council's help.",
"\"We absolutely did not want people to think this was about recruiting,\" he said.",
"the Advertising Council put together a campaign intended for all students, with a particular goal of reaching Latinos, for whom dropout rates are higher than for other groups.",
"\"It really encourages people -- both adults and their peers -- to give these kids the encouragement that these kids need to really reach within these kids and find the personal resolve that these kids need to overcome life's difficulties and graduate from high school,\" Conlon said.",
"\"It's a really smart campaign.",
"I think it's very genuine, and it resonates really well with kids.\"",
"Although dropout rates generally and among Latinos remain high, \"I think this is making a contribution to creating the environment in which more students can be successful,\" said Caldera, now a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank.",
"President Obama will appear in the latest series of Boost Up PSAs, to begin airing next week.",
"the Advertising Council and the Advertising Council's partners measure a campaign's success by how much donated media a campaign attracts.",
"Media outlets will run an ad more if an ad helps Media outlets retain audiences, Conlon said.",
"the Advertising Council receives $1.8 billion a year in donated media, Conlon said.",
"Watch some notable the Advertising Council PSAs » .",
"the Advertising Council also measures response to phone numbers or Web sites promoted in the ads and tracks awareness through before-and-after surveys, Conlon said.",
"\"We can watch the needle move over time,\" Conlon said.",
"\"It's very scientific; it's very empirical.\"",
"But not every campaign is a home run, Conlon admitted.",
"\"We kind of laugh about the Gerald Ford 'Whip Inflation Now' with his big WIN buttons,\" Conlon said.",
"\"the Advertising Council did that campaign, and for many reasons that were mostly cultural, it completely bombed.\"",
"And then there are those campaigns that get mixed reviews.",
"\"The 'Just Say No' campaign was probably the biggest success,\" Kunz said.",
"\"I think it led to something like the creation of 5,000 clubs around the country, and there was a definite decline in drug use.\"",
"Conlon laughed.",
"\"It was a terrible campaign,\" Conlon said.",
"\"And the reason was not because we shouldn't be telling young people not to use drugs, but it's just not as simple as that.",
"It stripped it down to such a simplistic message that it had terrible reaction on the part of kids.\"",
"Campaigns are about educating the public on the facts of an issue, Conlon said.",
"\"You have to get their attention, and that's where the creativity comes in,\" Conlon said.",
"\"It can't be just lecturing or just exposing the message to people.",
"In this cluttered media environment, you really have to have something that breaks through.\"",
"One creative spot that has broken through on an emotional level depicts a grown man practicing cheerleading moves on a sidewalk.",
"The humorous ad promotes fathers' involvement in fathers''s children's lives.",
"\"Being a good dad sometimes requires shamelessness,\" said Bill Ludwig, creative director at the Campbell Ewald ad agency in Detroit, Michigan, which created the spot.",
"\"The idea is that the smallest moments can have the biggest impact on a child's life.",
"Just spend a little time with your kid.\"",
"The father-daughter message touched Facebook user Jessica Gonzales, a graduate student in San Diego, California.",
"\"There's plenty of ads telling us what to buy, how to look, etc., but few remind us how to just be ... and how to be good to one another,\" Facebook user Jessica Gonzales, a graduate student in San Diego, California said.",
"\"The ad's tagline is 'Take time to be a dad,' but The father-daughter message could be easily translated to so many other roles: Take time to be a friend, a mentor, a positive influence.\"",
"That's the kind of response the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is hoping to get from co-sponsoring the \"Sesame Street\" flu campaign.",
"\"Health and Human Services are doing everything Health and Human Services can to protect public health and teach children how children can stay healthy and safe,\" said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.",
"\"Elmo, Gordon, Sesame Workshop and the Ad Council are delivering an important message to our kids.\""
] | [
"Elmo and Gordon of \"Sesame Street\" join long line of public service spot stars .",
"Charitable arm of advertising industry adapts to changing times, tech .",
"Media evolve from WWII posters to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube .",
"Creative minds that make best commercials also create service spots ."
] | [
0,
1,
1,
2
] | [
1,
0,
3,
0,
0,
2,
0,
1,
2,
2,
4,
4,
1,
3,
3,
1,
4,
5,
6,
6,
6,
4,
5,
5,
7,
8,
5,
3,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
9,
4,
7,
9,
7,
7,
7,
4,
9,
7,
4,
8,
2,
9,
4,
1,
8,
8,
8,
8,
8,
8,
4,
8,
0,
3,
0
] |
fe8e8217bf73d73de39897aafd0ce700ad8bf405 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Ford is the only major U.S. carmaker that is getting by without U.S. taxpayer money.",
"Mark Fields of Ford says consumer confidence is key to getting the auto industry back on track.",
"GM and Chrysler, on the other hand, have been told the Obama administration GM and Chrysler will receive operating funds for several weeks in return for undergoing significant restructuring.",
"Mark Fields, executive vice president of Ford, spoke to CNN's Kiran Chetry Tuesday on \"American Morning\" about Ford's plans and whether it will be able to continue without financial aid from the government.",
"CNN's Kiran Chetry:",
"So, Mark, Ford is the one that's gotten by without federal money.",
"Will you be able to continue that?",
"Ford:",
"Well, Ford's position hasn't changed.",
"Ford're in a different position than some of Ford's competitors, and Ford're not seeking emergency taxpayer assistance.",
"Chetry:",
"Right, but I'm saying in the future, how are you guys guaranteeing that you won't need to go to the government like your two competitors have and ask for some help?",
"Fields:",
"Well, Ford're going to continue executing Ford's plan, which really involves decisive actions around transforming the business, but also bringing great high-quality, fuel-efficient vehicles into the marketplace.",
"And Ford've been working this plan over the last three years, and Ford've been making progress.",
"Clearly it's a tough time in the economy, but Ford are really focused on bringing these great cars and trucks to customers, getting Ford's cost structure right.",
"Ford've come to new agreements with Ford's UAW partners.",
"Ford're working through reducing Ford's debt.",
"So Ford're going to continue working through that, and Ford don't expect to take taxpayer assistance from the emergency funds.",
"Watch Fields discuss Ford's future » .",
"Chetry:",
"You say it's been tough times, and certainly for you guys, it has -- 2008 the worst annual loss in Ford's 105-year history.",
"You guys can restructure.",
"You can work out new deals with the unions.",
"But in the end, if people aren't buying cars or people can't get credit, how do you remain viable?",
"Fields:",
"Well, consumer confidence is the biggest issue in the marketplace right now.",
"The good news is, Ford's new cars and trucks that are coming into the marketplace are being well-received.",
"Ford's retail market share has been up three of the last four months.",
"Ford expect the month of March Ford's retail share to be up again.",
"But getting that consumer confidence is really important.",
"And that's why today Ford're announcing Ford's Ford advantage plan, and it's for any customer who buys a Ford, Lincoln or Mercury product, when Lincoln or Mercury come into the showroom and buy Lincoln or Mercury's product, if Lincoln or Mercury loses Lincoln or Mercury's position, Ford will pay Lincoln or Mercury's car payments up to 12 months while Lincoln or Mercury're unemployed, to give Lincoln or Mercury that peace of mind.",
"Post your comments on AMfix .",
"Chetry:",
"You're also offering some zero percent financing.",
"I'm sure that you're trying to do that as well because of the frozen credit in a lot of instances.",
"I want to get your take on this, though.",
"President Obama announced yesterday President Obama's giving ... Chrysler a month, basically, to submit a reorganization plan that the administration finds acceptable.",
"The President Obama administration also of course forced General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner out.",
"Was that the right move, in your opinion?",
"Fields:",
"Well, what Ford are supportive of is that President Obama is committed to a vibrant U.S. auto industry.",
"As we mentioned, Ford is in a different position.",
"Ford're not asking for the emergency taxpayer assistance.",
"But what Ford are focusing on is taking decisive action to streamline Ford's business, but more importantly win new customers with the great set of products Ford're going -- Ford're coming out with over the next couple of months.",
"Chetry:",
"You know, there is some unprecedented government intervention going on right now in the U.S. auto industry at your competitors.",
"They're getting billions of dollars in taxpayer money.",
"They're being forced to restructure, as we talked about.",
"They actually were forced to fire their CEO.",
"And right now, it seems that, you know, they're on a different level than you guys are.",
"Is there some sense that perhaps there's an unfair advantage, that they're getting a lot of government help, whereas you guys are sort of on your own.",
"Does that concern you?",
"Fields:",
"Well, Ford don't feel Ford're being disadvantaged, because Ford have been restructuring Ford's company over the past three years.",
"Ford have been investing in high-quality, fuel-efficient vehicles over the last couple of years, which are just starting to come to the marketplace.",
"So Ford's approach is continue to work this plan, continue to make sure that Ford remains competitive both today and in the future and continue to work with Ford's stakeholders to make sure that happens."
] | [
"Ford exec says company has been restructuring over last three years .",
"We're in different position that competitors, says Ford executive vice president .",
"Retail market share has increased in last few months, says Ford .",
"Consumer confidence is biggest issue in marketplace, Ford says ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
4,
2,
5,
0,
3,
4,
6,
0,
0,
4,
7,
8,
9,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
4,
0,
7,
0,
10,
10,
8,
9,
2,
0,
1,
1,
2,
0,
6,
7,
8,
8,
6,
5,
5,
6,
9,
0,
0,
4,
0,
7,
0,
11,
10,
5,
11,
11,
6,
9,
0,
0,
0
] |
9b03baf23c4d5e31e229c9582062295796900ac3 | [
"(CNN) --",
"California legislators plan to keep trying to find consensus on plan to release at least 27,000 inmates.",
"California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and officials tour a prison last week in Chino after a riot there.",
"California Assembly on Monday delayed a possible vote on plan to release at least 27,000 inmates.",
"Lawmakers likely will take up plan to release at least 27,000 inmates Wednesday or Thursday, said Shannon Murphy, a spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Karen Bass.",
"\"When we arrive at a responsible plan that can earn the support of the majority of California Assembly and make sense to the people of California, we will take plan to release at least 27,000 inmates up on the Assembly floor,\" Bass, a Los Angeles Democrat, said in a statement.",
"Bass said legislators continue to meet with each other and law enforcement authorities to try to craft a plan that increases public safety, improves the state corrections department and reduces costs.",
"As part of the negotiations, a provision that would set up a 16-member sentencing commission -- which would put new sentencing guidelines in place by 2012 -- was stripped from plan to release at least 27,000 inmates, Murphy said.",
"But \"it's not as if we're giving up on that notion,\" Murphy said.",
"The sentencing commission is a priority for Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, Murphy said, but the speaker believes Assembly Speaker Karen Bass will have more success if Assembly Speaker Karen Bass introduces a separate bill to create it.",
"A panel of three federal judges has ordered California to reduce its prison population by about 40,000 by mid-September.",
"The judges acted on the grounds that overcrowded prisons violate inmates' constitutional rights.",
"The state Senate voted 21-19 Friday to release several thousand inmates early.",
"That vote came after Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Sacramento Democrat, assured senators the public would be protected from the most violent offenders.",
"\"Of course, we want to keep violent criminals off our streets and out of our communities, and plan to release at least 27,000 inmates is a necessary step to do that because plan to release at least 27,000 inmates concentrates our incarceration efforts on the violent criminals and ensures that nonviolent offenders have more contact with parole officers,\" Steinberg said Friday.",
"All 15 Senate Republicans voted against plan to release at least 27,000 inmates, arguing that plan to release at least 27,000 inmates undermines public safety.",
"Democrats control both houses of the California Legislature.",
"\"California's prison system is in a state of crisis,\" Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said last week while touring the California Institution for Men in Chino.",
"Some 250 inmates were injured this month at the facility in a riot that officials said was ignited by racial tension.",
"Fifty-five inmates were taken to hospitals with serious injuries, including stab wounds and head trauma.",
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said a riot that officials said was ignited by racial tension was \"a terrible symptom of a much larger problem.",
"... Our prisons are overcrowded and endangering the staff and the inmates.\"",
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger noted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had signed a budget that mandates $1.2 billion in cuts to the state corrections system.",
"\"California must be measured and smart about how California go about and create those reductions,\" said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.",
"\"We must find a way to cut costs and relieve overcrowding but without sacrificing public safety.\"",
"Steinberg said plan to release at least 27,000 inmates would save California some $524.5 million.",
"Coupled with budget revisions made in July, the savings would total the entire $1.2 billion, Steinberg said.",
"Republicans said plan to release at least 27,000 inmates would lead to the release of about 27,000 prisoners, while Democrats estimated plan to release at least 27,000 inmates would reduce the prison population by 27,300 in the 2009-10 fiscal year and 37,000 during fiscal year 2010-11.",
"But Steinberg said plan to release at least 27,000 inmates also would reduce the ratio of parolees to parole officers to 45-to-1.",
"Currently, one parole officer is responsible for about 70 parolees, many of whom commit new crimes and return to custody; California has a 70 percent recidivism rate."
] | [
"California Assembly delays vote on plan to release at least 27,000 inmates .",
"Provision setting up sentencing panel stripped from bill, spokeswoman says .",
"State Senate voted last week to release several thousand inmates early .",
"Judges order state to reduce prison population by about 40,000 by mid-September ."
] | [
0,
1,
0,
0
] | [
2,
0,
3,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
2,
1,
0,
0,
0,
2,
0,
0,
2,
3,
3,
3,
3,
3,
2,
2,
3,
0,
2,
0,
0,
0
] |
88bb44df3e8d17d1754b84ce4ac5520ed2c8e5a1 | [
"(CNN) --",
"An extradition hearing is expected in Spain this week for one of two pilots arrested recently on charges they participated in \"death flights\" in which more than 1,000 prisoners were thrown out of planes during Argentina's \"dirty war\" in the 1970s and 1980s, officials said.",
"Hebe de Bonafini, left, and members of Madres de Plaza de Mayo hold a demonstration in 2006.",
"Former Navy Lt. Julio Alberto Poch, who has been held in Spain without bail since his arrest in Valencia in late September, will have a hearing before a high court in Madrid, a judge in Valencia ruled.",
"An Argentine judge has asked that Poch be sent back to face long-standing charges from the 1976-83 right-wing dictatorship.",
"In Argentina, police arrested former Navy Capt. Emir Sisul Hess last week in the town of Bariloche, near the border with Chile.",
"An initial hearing for Sisul Hess was held Friday, federal court official Cecilia Brizzio told CNN.",
"Poch and Sisul Hess are accused of piloting aircraft from which drugged and blindfolded prisoners were hurled to their deaths in the Atlantic Ocean or the Rio Plata.",
"The prisoners included students, labor leaders, intellectuals and leftists who had run afoul of the 1976-83 right-wing dictatorship because of their political views.",
"Most were dragged off the street or otherwise summarily arrested and held without trial in secret prisons where many were tortured.",
"Sisul Hess, accused in more than 900 deaths, has denied the allegations, said Argentina's government-run Telam news agency.",
"According to Telam, both men were arrested after both men told colleagues or friends about both men's alleged involvement.",
"Up to 30,000 people disappeared or were held in secret jails and torture centers during the 1976-83 right-wing dictatorship.",
"Argentine human rights activist Hebe de Bonafini, who lost two sons and a daughter-in-law in the \"dirty war,\" said Monday she found no joy in the arrests.",
"\"You can never take back the horror,\" she said.",
"\"In no way am I happy.\"",
"Bonafini is president of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of mothers whose children disappeared during the war.",
"She urged the government to continue looking for war crime suspects.",
"Speaking of the pilots, she said, \"There are several.",
"the pilots are not the only ones.\"",
"Poch, a commercial pilot for the Dutch airline Transavia.com, was arrested September 23 when his flight made a stopover in Valencia, Telam said.",
"Poch was wanted on an international arrest warrant.",
"Poch had been a navy pilot from 1976 until late 1980, Telam said.",
"Upon leaving the navy, Poch moved to Holland and had been living there ever since.",
"Argentine federal Judge Sergio Gabriel Torres is pursuing the extradition of Poch and handling the arrest of Sisul Hess.",
"Argentine federal Judge Sergio Gabriel Torres traveled to Holland to question Poch's colleagues and others, Telam said.",
"An aviator told Argentine federal Judge Sergio Gabriel Torres that Poch had said at a restaurant in Indonesia in December 2003 that there were occasions in which people were thrown out of helicopters and airplanes because the armed forces were dealing with \"terrorists,\" Telam said.",
"The aviator, identified as Tim Eisso Weert, told Argentine federal Judge Sergio Gabriel Torres that Poch said it was a humane way to execute people because people were drugged, the government news agency reported.",
"A co-pilot told Argentine federal Judge Sergio Gabriel Torres that Poch had said they \"should have killed all\" the subversives, Telam reported, and that Poch admitted \"some responsibility\" because \"when you fly persons on board the responsibility lies with the pilot.\"",
"Sisul Hess is similarly said to have implicated Sisul Hess, telling friends that the prisoners \"did not suffer because the prisoners were drugged, falling like little ants,\" Telam said.",
"Sisul Hess served as a helicopter pilot in 1976-77 and retired as a captain in 1991, the government news agency said.",
"Sisul Hess was arrested September 29 and transferred to Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital.",
"Argentine federal Judge Sergio Gabriel Torres was not available Monday to take three phone calls from CNN, aides said.",
"Nor were any documents on the cases available, aides said.",
"CNN's Arthur Brice contributed to this report ."
] | [
"Former Navy Lt. Julio Alberto Poch faces charges from the 1976-83 dictatorship .",
"In Argentina, police arrested former Navy Capt. Emir Sisul Hess last week .",
"Pair accused of piloting aircraft from which prisoners were thrown to prisoners's deaths .",
"Prisoners include those who had run afoul of the dictatorship over political views ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
2,
5,
0,
0,
1,
1,
2,
3,
3,
1,
6,
3,
5,
7,
7,
5,
6,
2,
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2,
1,
1,
1,
0,
6,
4
] |
0a64e134f8f636a8309af1e9049983a38c4a18bb | [
"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"President Obama will place tariffs on imports of some Chinese tires for three years in an effort to curb a surge in exports that has rocked the U.S. tire industry.",
"The White House announced plans to impose tariffs on some tires entering the United States from China.",
"The new tariffs will be on passenger car and light truck tires, The White House said in a statement Friday night.",
"\"President Obama decided to remedy the clear disruption to the U.S. tire industry based on the facts and the law in this case,\" a statement said.",
"The new tariffs will start at 35 percent in the first year, then would decline to 30 percent in the second year and 25 percent in the third.",
"Chinese leaders have in the past expressed displeasure about a possible tire tariff.",
"\"We hope the U.S. government will refrain from taking action, for the long-term healthy and stable development of U.S.-Chinese relations,\" Fu Ziying, China's vice commerce minister, told local media in August.",
"\"this case is neither supported by facts nor does this case have valid legal grounds,\" he added."
] | [
"U.S. to impose tariffs on some passenger car and light truck tires from China .",
"Surge in exports has hurt the U.S. tire industry .",
"Chinese leaders have strongly opposed possible tire tariffs ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
0,
1,
1
] |
99aeca9898a935a2c206271ae10012a3a71c4d97 | [
"JERUSALEM (CNN) --",
"An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say.",
"the 3,700-year-old wall is built of enormous boulders, confounding archaeologists as to how ancient peoples built the 3,700-year-old wall.",
"Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the 3,700-year-old wall is a marvel to archaeologists.",
"\"To build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment,\" said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich.",
"\"I don't think that any engineer today without electrical power [could] do it.\"",
"Archaeologist Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority added, \"You see all the big boulders -- all the boulders are 4 to 5 tons.\"",
"The discovered section is 24 meters (79 feet) long.",
"\"However, it is thought the 3,700-year-old wall is much longer because the 3,700-year-old wall continues west beyond the part that was exposed,\" the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a news release.",
"It was found inside the City of David, an archaeological excavation site outside the Old City of East Jerusalem on a slope of the Silwan Valley.",
"the 3,700-year-old wall is believed to have been built by the Canaanites, an ancient pagan people who the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism.",
"Watch report on the discovery of the ancient wall » .",
"\"This is the most massive wall that has ever been uncovered in the City of David,\" Reich and Shukron said in a joint statement about the find.",
"It marks the first time \"that such massive construction that predates the Herodian period has been discovered in Jerusalem.\"",
"It appears to be part of a \"protected, well-fortified passage that descends to the spring tower from some sort of fortress that stood at the top of the hill,\" according to a joint statement about the find.",
"The spring \"is located in the weakest and most vulnerable place in the area.",
"The construction of a protected passage, even though it involves tremendous effort, is a solution for which there are several parallels in antiquity, albeit from periods that are later than the remains described here.\"",
"Such walls were used primarily to defend against marauding desert nomads looking to rob the city, said Reich, a professor at the University of Haifa.",
"\"We are dealing with a gigantic fortification, from the standpoint of the structure's dimensions, the thickness of a gigantic fortification's walls and the size of the stones that were incorporated in a gigantic fortification's construction,\" a joint statement about the find said.",
"Water from The spring is used by modern inhabitants of Jerusalem.",
"\"The new discovery shows that the picture regarding Jerusalem's eastern defenses and the ancient water system in the Middle Bronze Age 2 is still far from clear,\" Reich, a professor at the University of Haifa said.",
"\"Despite the fact that so many have excavated on this hill, there is a very good chance that extremely large and well-preserved architectural elements are still hidden in it and waiting to be uncovered.\"",
"CNN's Kevin Flower contributed to this report ."
] | [
"Made of boulders weighing 4 to 5 tons, the 3,700-year-old wall is 26 feet high .",
"Archaeologist: \"I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment\"",
"the 3,700-year-old wall appears to have been used to defend path that led to spring .",
"the 3,700-year-old wall is believed to have been built by Canaanites ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
0
] | [
3,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
0,
2,
0,
2,
0,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
3,
2,
2,
3
] |
117cceead5468de681b370e596c9317dec601daa | [
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"President Obama mixed policy discussion with personal reflections on President Obama's daughters and, yes, a few jokes in an appearance on CBS' \"Late Show With David Letterman.\"",
"President Obama jokes with David Letterman in NEW YORK in an interview taped Monday afternoon.",
"It was the first time a sitting president has been a guest on the popular late-night entertainment show, according to the CBS Web site.",
"It was taped Monday afternoon.",
"After taking the stage to a huge ovation, President Obama teased David Letterman about being surprised to see the event on his daily schedule, saying: \"That's one of those where you ask your advisers, 'Who's responsible for this?' \"",
"Later, when talking about summer activities of daughters Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, President Obama said that they \"goofed off,\" which President Obama added was something President Obama couldn't do.",
"David Letterman quickly quipped: \"Well, others have,\" prompting a big laugh from both the audience and President Obama.",
"On topical issues, President Obama promised to ask \"tough questions\" before deciding whether to send additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, saying it was necessary to have a clear strategy in place before deploying resources.",
"Watch President Obama talk with Letterman » .",
"President Obama said President Obama's \"No. 1 job\" is to make sure the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks can never harm the United States again.",
"Asked about the economy, President Obama called the $787 billion economic stimulus package passed in President Obama's first month in office a \"tourniquet\" that prevented the recession from getting worse.",
"Complete economic recovery will take time, President Obama warned, but added that the situation appeared to be getting better.",
"On the hostile debate over President Obama's push to overhaul the nation's health care system, President Obama disagreed with the analysis by some that the public anger against President Obama is fueled by racism.",
"President Obama drew a big laugh by pointing out President Obama was black before President Obama became president, then noted that President Obama's election by the American public \"tells you ... a lot about where the United States is at.\"",
"\"I think that what's happened is that whenever a president tries to bring about significant changes, particularly during times of economic unease, then there is a certain segment of the population that gets very riled up,\" President Obama said.",
"Previous presidents including Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan also generated emotional opposition, President Obama said.",
"\"This is not untypical,\" President Obama said.",
"\"One of the things you sign up for in politics is, folks yell at you.\""
] | [
"President Obama's visit first time a sitting president has been \"Letterman\" guest .",
"President Obama says President Obama'll ask \"tough questions\" before sending more troops to Afghanistan .",
"President Obama says President Obama doesn't think racism fuels opposition to health care overhaul .",
"What did daughters Malia and Sasha do this summer?",
"daughters Malia and Sasha \"goofed off,\" President Obama says ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3,
3
] | [
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
3,
2,
1,
0,
1,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2
] |
14f42d116b19157349d07a9bc31e30eec28a56e7 | [
"ATHENS, Greece (CNN) --",
"Greece's opposition Socialist party on Sunday defeated the incumbent center-right government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, as Socialist leader George Papandreou promised to chart a new course for an economic comeback.",
"Socialist leader George Papandreou is set to become Greece's next prime minister.",
"\"On this course, nothing is going to be easy -- it will take work, hard work,\" Socialist leader George Papandreou said in Socialist leader George Papandreou's victory address.",
"\"And I will always be honest with the Greek people so that we may better solve the problems of the state.\"",
"Sunday's national elections were held two years before originally scheduled.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis called Sunday's national elections in response to pressure from Socialist leader George Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece, which threatened to block the election of a president in February if no general election was held.",
"The Greek constitution requires the two major parties to agree on the election of a president, giving either party an effective veto.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis's term was not due to expire until September 2011.",
"But Socialist leader George Papandreou insisted on new elections before the end of President Karolos Papoulias' term as president.",
"The country's ailing economy was the focus in the run up to Sunday's national elections, as both candidates offered conflicting prescriptions to revive The country's ailing economy.",
"While Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis called for cuts in spending, Socialist leader George Papandreou proposed a massive stimulus.",
"Karamanlis, of the New Democracy party, congratulated Socialist leader George Papandreou in a nationally televised concession speech.",
"\"And like every Greek, I hope that Socialist leader George Papandreou succeeds at the big challenge of facing up to the economic situation,\" Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said.",
"\"Because this challenge, I have said many times, is a national issue.\"",
"It was unclear whether Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis would step down as New Democracy party leader, as Sunday's national elections marked the worst defeat the New Democracy party has seen in more than 20 years.",
"According to figures posted on the Interior Ministry's Web site, the Socialist party received 44 percent of the vote, compared wotj the New Democracy party's 34 percent, with 87 percent of votes counted.",
"The margin is the largest seen in a Greek vote in decades.",
"the Socialist party will receive an estimated 160 seats in Greece's 300-seat Parliament, officials said, compared with the New Democracy party's 93 seats.",
"Greek state television ERT showed cheering, flag-waving crowds surrounding Socialist leader George Papandreou as Socialist leader George Papandreou made Socialist leader George Papandreou's way to party headquarters.",
"\"All of the opinion polls are suggesting that Greek voters are becoming more frustrated with (Karamanlis') governance, more frustrated that after two parliamentary terms some of the objectives which he'd set have not been achieved,\" Kevin Featherstone, director of the London School of Economics' Hellenic Observatory, told CNN.",
"However, Socialist leader George Papandreou's stimulus plan is also under scrutiny, with critics wanting to know more details, such as how it would be funded.",
"In addition, problems such as corruption have long plagued the Greek government, Kevin Featherstone, director of the London School of Economics' Hellenic Observatory noted.",
"\"These are systemic problems.",
"These are problems which have been in Greece for generations.",
"Over the last 20 years, we've had a succession of governments coming into power promising to clean up, promising to tackle waste, promising to reform the public administration, promising to be more transparent and clean,\" Kevin Featherstone, director of the London School of Economics' Hellenic Observatory said.",
"\"By and large, voters have been disappointed or there has been some fair degree of frustration and disappointment.\"",
"\"Tackling the problem, these endemic problems, really requires major efforts to reform public administration to tackle corruption and to change the culture of expectations,\" Kevin Featherstone, director of the London School of Economics' Hellenic Observatory said.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis's conservative New Democracy party suffered a sharp setback in European elections in June, when the Socialists matched New Democracy's tally of eight seats, with 36 percent of the vote.",
"That election was seen as a litmus test for Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis at a time of political and economic uncertainty with the economy shrinking and the country staring at a recession after nearly 15 years of high-profile growth.",
"Nearly 10 million Greeks are registered to vote.",
"CNN's Christine Theodorou and Journalist Anthee Carrasava contributed to this report."
] | [
"87% of votes counted; Socialists to get about 160 seats in 300-seat Parliament .",
"Socialist leader George Papandreou to Greeks: \"I will always be honest\"",
"During campaign, Socialist leader George Papandreou proposed massive stimulus for weak economy .",
"Sunday's national elections were held two years before originally scheduled ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
1,
1,
1,
1,
3,
5,
4,
5,
5,
2,
2,
5,
1,
6,
5,
0,
4,
0,
1,
5,
2,
6,
6,
6,
6,
6,
6,
5,
5,
4,
4
] |
c0b66ef9bc81c93a04833b03154fd0352c3f0406 | [
"(CNN) --",
"A soldier who had been slated to begin serving at Fort Campbell in Tennessee was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing Jonathan Downing's wife, police said.",
"Jonathan Downing was found in a wooded area 20 miles from the home where Jonathan Downing's wife was found slain, police say.",
"Jonathan Clyde Downing, 31, was being held without bond and will be tried in civilian court in the killing of 25-year-old Sena Marie Downing, said Jim Knoll, public information officer for police in Clarksville, Tennessee.",
"Police officers went to the couple's Clarksville home shortly after 3 a.m. after receiving notice of a possible shooting, Jim Knoll, public information officer for police in Clarksville, Tennessee said.",
"\"When Police officers responded, the door was ajar; Police officers went in and found his wife inside of the garage, and his wife had been shot,\" Jim Knoll, public information officer for police in Clarksville, Tennessee told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"A few hours later, officers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Robertson County Sheriff's Office located Jonathan Downing's vehicle about 20 miles away in Robertson County and found Jonathan Downing in woods nearby, Jim Knoll, public information officer for police in Clarksville, Tennessee said.",
"\"That's where Jonathan Downing finally gave up,\" Jim Knoll, public information officer for police in Clarksville, Tennessee said.",
"\"It took them almost two hours to convince Jonathan Downing.\"",
"Downing, who had recently served at Fort Knox in Kentucky, was taken into custody shortly before noon and was charged with criminal homicide."
] | [
"Jonathan Downing arrested hours after police found Jonathan Downing's wife slain at home .",
"Downing, 31, was found in woods about 20 miles from the home, police say .",
"Downing to be tried in civilian court, police say ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2,
0,
0,
0,
0
] |
37c9d33d6eb34c7accdb01fe4357a593766a1f55 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Spongy red balls wait in a queue, separating two teams wired to smack their opponent.",
"Within seconds, the players dip and dive like dolphins until one player stands alone, relishing in victory.",
"An adult plays in a dodge ball league organized by the . City of Sparks Parks and Recreation in Nevada.",
"It's the classic game of dodge ball, but these aren't fifth-graders during PE class in Sparks, Nevada.",
"The childhood sport of dodge ball made a comeback four years ago in this bedroom community among adults in their 20s and 30s -- and even a few players who reached retirement.",
"Now, hundreds of working professionals, doctors, lawyers and teachers congregate at the local recreation center for a dose of dodge ball on Sunday nights.",
"\"I think a lot of it goes back to trying to stay young,\" said Tony Pehle, recreation supervisor in Sparks, who started the dodge ball program after being inspired by the 2004 Ben Stiller movie \"Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.\"",
"\"They might be adults, but they still like to play and have fun.\"",
"Has Peter Pan syndrome come to stay?",
"From playing dodge ball to jumping double Dutch and competing in rock-paper-scissors, adult men and women, from urban nests to rural towns, are reveling in games and activities once thought to be child's play.",
"The 2009 World Yo-Yo Contest in Orlando, Florida, this weekend (August 13) is all grown up, attracting more than 150 adult competitors, who can showcase dizzying tricks with the flick of a finger.",
"Later in the month, hundreds of adults outfitted in pirate and animal costumes will race hundreds of adults outfitted in pirate and animal costumes's homebuilt vehicles for Oregon's annual Portland Adult Soapbox Derby, a crafty activity that began for youths in the 1930s.",
"\"Once a year, I get to build something for the kid in me,\" says Jason Hogue, a 41-year-old carpenter, who has participated in the race for eight years.",
"Last year, he constructed a car shaped like a hammerhead shark.",
"\"We get to use our creativity and get excited with our friends.\"",
"Whether they're done to seek refuge from the daily grind or to provide nostalgia for youthful days -- or they're a product of what some experts say is a generation that can't grow up -- these juvenile pastimes are getting more popular.",
"For example, adult viewership of the Nickelodeon show \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" swelled by 51 percent from 1999 to 2009, officials say.",
"The World Adult Kickball Association, one of the largest kickball organizations, has spread The World Adult Kickball Association, one of the largest kickball organizations's tentacles to 33 states as well a soldier division in Iraq.",
"WAKA Kickball began as a casual game between a few young single friends in their 20s in Washington, D.C.",
"Now, the games appeal to tens of thousands of adults, many of tens of thousands of adults yuppies wanting a quick escape from the stresses of their first 401(k), mortgage and job.",
"\"I played soccer growing up, and I like competition,\" says avid kickball player Marlon LeWinter, 28, of New York City.",
"LeWinter, a public relations executive, usually plays the position of center with a bunch of producers, writers and analysts in their late 20s.",
"They named their team Chipwich Nation after they scarfed down the cookies-and-ice cream treat at a bar after a game one night.",
"\"Sometimes when it's [the score] two to one in a kickball came, I get the jitters,\" he says.",
"The economic bind also creates a favorable environment for adults to latch onto simple children's games and sports.",
"With players who are trapped in a world of layoffs and job freezes, these adult leagues, contests and tournaments are the equivalent of sandbox time for children.",
"They can make new friends and go for a beer after the game.",
"these adult leagues are also budget-friendly, costing less than $100 to join for several months of play -- much less than a golf club membership.",
"Since the recession, Duncan Toys, one of the biggest yo-yo manufacturers in the United States, has seen sales spike.",
"A company official noticed many of the adults who purchased yo-yos tried to get the same models the adults who purchased yo-yos owned as kids.",
"\"Nowadays, everything is taken so seriously that people revert to something like playing with a yo-yo,\" says Mike McBride, a 34-year-old multimedia designer who picked up the activity shortly after college.",
"McBride, who will compete in the Orlando World Yo-Yo contest, says the activity helps him relieve stress.",
"\"There's no pressure.\"",
"In 2006, Christopher Noxon, in Christopher Noxon's book \"Rejuvenile,\" explored why adults fancy childhood pursuits like kickball, cartoons and cupcakes.",
"Beginning with Generation X adults in the 1990s, the group began to shift from the norms of the hierarchal corporate ladder, and the age of marriage began to steadily climb.",
"Soon, juvenile activities that had been regarded as silly became hip.",
"Quirky became cool, and more organized teams, groups and competitions for playground sports and childlike hobbies emerged.",
"\"Our whole idea of adulthood has changed,\" says Noxon.",
"\"We value flexibility and creativity, and these are things kids are good at.",
"It's brought us back to what we had as children.\"",
"But it isn't just the younger generations that clutch leftovers from their youth or become interested in child-like activities.",
"Grandparents in their 70s and 80s still collect roomfuls of model train sets, romanticizing the days when the only way to travel was by choo-choo.",
"Women in their 40s acquire American Girl dolls that stir fond memories of reading the novels during childhood.",
"Psychology experts say it shouldn't be a surprise that the affinity for childhood hobbies and activities extends across generations.",
"After all, Americans have long had an obsession with youth.",
"To be young is associated with being fun, vibrant and active.",
"In the Internet age, finding one's inner child has never been easier, with the proliferation of social networks such as Facebook or Web sites like Meetup.com, where users can create groups and meeting times for activities.",
"On the site, groups of adults organize scavenger hunts in Atlanta, Georgia, and action figure discussions in New York City.",
"\"This is a generation of people who are far less homogenous and more niche-oriented,\" says Judith Sills, a clinical psychologist who works with young adults.",
"\"They can bond around their quirky differences.",
"Ten years ago, you couldn't have easily found another kickball player, even if you wanted to play.\""
] | [
"WAKA Kickball started more than a decade ago by a few friends is now in 33 states .",
"The 2009 World Yo-Yo Contest will attract more than 150 adults this year .",
"Hundreds of adult soapbox racers will wear costumes to race in Portland, Oregon .",
"\"Rejuvenile\" author Noxon says childhood pastimes are becoming more acceptable ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
5,
5,
6,
6,
6,
6,
6,
7,
4,
8,
1,
2,
4,
4,
7,
8,
4,
0,
0,
8,
0,
9,
5,
0,
8,
8,
5,
8,
1,
1,
1,
1,
7,
3,
9,
8,
8,
9,
7,
3,
3,
3,
3,
3,
3,
3,
8,
8,
9,
7,
0
] |
566497ebde2a52c86eb8846cb371130e570b34c7 | [
"(CNN) --",
"It's a familiar scenario: A major crime is committed.",
"Police investigate possible leads while the media asks for information.",
"Soon, authorities say authorities have a \"person of interest.\"",
"Raymond Clark was named a person of interest, and then charged with murdering Yale grad student Annie Le.",
"But what does this term mean?",
"\"The 'person of interest' tells you nothing,\" says Cynthia Hujar Orr, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.",
"\"They are suspicious of The 'person of interest', but the police don't have the evidence they need.\"",
"Investigators named Raymond Clark a \"person of interest\" after 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Le was found dead in the basement of an off-campus lab.",
"Officer Joe Avery, of the New Haven Police Department, said Raymond Clark was a \"person of interest\" because Raymond Clark worked in the same highly-secured lab where 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Le was last seen.",
"Authorities detained Raymond Clark, 24, on Tuesday, took Raymond Clark's DNA and searched Raymond Clark's home.",
"They released Raymond Clark, and Raymond Clark's lawyer said Raymond Clark was fully cooperating with authorities.",
"Then, on Thursday, Raymond Clark was arrested and charged with 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Le's murder.",
"Watch police announce the arrest » .",
"But not everyone who is called a person of interest becomes a suspect.",
"In the last decade, law enforcement authorities have increasingly used The 'person of interest' -- but the label didn't necessarily mean the person would be charged.",
"According to one analysis of 40 cases, half of the \"persons of interest\" were released without charges.",
"The exact origin of the phrase \"person of interest\" is unknown.",
"But several criminology professors and attorneys who spoke with CNN said several criminology professors and attorneys who spoke with CNN believe The 'person of interest' became widely used after the 1996 Olympic Park bombings in Atlanta, Georgia, when media outlets called security guard Richard Jewell a suspect.",
"Richard Jewell was never charged, and was eventually cleared.",
"Several years later, Eric Rudolph was arrested and convicted for the crime.",
"Richard Jewell died in August 2007.",
"Richard Jewell sued the FBI and several media organizations -- including CNN, NBC and the Atlanta Journal Constitution -- for libel and slander.",
"The CNN and NBC suits were settled.",
"The U.S. Attorney's Office gave him an unprecedented government acknowledgment of wrongful accusation.",
"Law enforcement officers and the media began using the term \"person of interest\" as a shield against civil litigation.",
"But some attorneys, criminologists and media experts say using the loose term \"person of interest\" can tarnish the person's reputation, mislead the public, and possibly hurt the investigation.",
"Using the phrase is a way for authorities to draw attention to the person without formally accusing them, they say.",
"Watch a discussion of the phrase 'person of interest' » .",
"\"It's a really bad term to use, because the public reads 'suspect,' \" said Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, a national journalism training institute in St. Petersburg, Florida.",
"Donna Shaw, a journalism professor at The College of New Jersey, said Donna Shaw, a journalism professor at The College of New Jersey believes federal law enforcement officials invented The 'person of interest' in the mid-1990s to satiate journalists hounding federal law enforcement officials for information.",
"Soon, local law enforcement officers began to pick up on The 'person of interest'.",
"Donna Shaw, a journalism professor at The College of New Jersey studied a year's worth of stories with the term \"person of interest\" in 2006, interviewing representatives from local police departments on why the term was utilized.",
"\"Some of the police told me, ' Some of the police don't know what The 'person of interest' means but The 'person of interest' makes reporters happy,' \" Donna Shaw, a journalism professor at The College of New Jersey said.",
"Donna Shaw, a journalism professor at The College of New Jersey's research found that fewer than half of the people identified as \"persons of interest\" were ever charged with the crimes, yet fewer than half of the people identified as \"persons of interest\"'s stories remained ingrained on the Internet after fewer than half of the people identified as \"persons of interest\"'s exoneration.",
"In the U.S. Attorney's Manual, a guidebook used by federal criminal prosecutors, the phrase \"person of interest\" doesn't exist.",
"It is not a legal term used by attorneys.",
"Police are trained to use lingo like \"suspect,\" \"subject\" and \"target.\"",
"James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said the expression \"person of interest\" is closest in meaning to the word \"subject\" but doesn't necessarily mean that person is a \"suspect.\"",
"A subject is a police term used to describe someone who appears suspicious for circumstantial reasons.",
"Common \"subjects\" could be a victim's husband or boyfriend, Fox said.",
"In the case of graduate student Annie Le, Raymond Clark worked in the same lab.",
"In contrast, a suspect is someone against whom police have specific evidence leading investigators to believe the person committed the crime and will likely be charged, he said.",
"In some instances, as in Raymond Clark's case, a \"person of interest\" can eventually become a suspect, who is then arrested and charged.",
"\"Any particular crime will have several 'people of interest,' \" Fox said.",
"\"But much of the time a person of interest is just that, once the police investigate and find out the police have an alibi.\"",
"Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army bio-weapons scientist, found Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army bio-weapons scientist's reputation destroyed after Attorney General John Ashcroft named him a \"person of interest\" in the 2001 anthrax attacks.",
"In the investigation that followed, Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army bio-weapons scientist was never charged.",
"Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army bio-weapons scientist was never named a suspect.",
"\"The government failed us, not only by failing to catch the anthrax mailers but by seeking to conceal that failure,\" a lawyer for Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army bio-weapons scientist said in 2008 after winning a $2.8 million settlement of an invasion of privacy lawsuit against the Justice Department.",
"\"The government did this by leaking gossip, speculation and misinformation to a handful of credulous reporters,\" the lawyer added.",
"The man whom authorities eventually blamed for the anthrax attacks, Bruce Ivins, committed suicide in 2008 as federal agents were closing in on him, police said.",
"Officials at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Washington, D.C., said authorities who use the phrase \"person of interest\" can confuse the person who is in custody.",
"A person who is labeled a \"person of interest\" might not seek out an attorney under the mistaken belief he or she is simply a witness, and the vague term can make it easier for police to get a confession, Officials at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Washington, D.C. said.",
"Clark, the technician labeled a \"person of interest\" in the Yale student's slaying, answered some questions and then obtained an attorney, police said.",
"Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys Association, said the imprecise phrase can help law enforcement to establish credibility among the public by suggesting that they are making progress in a case.",
"By saying you have a suspect, he explained, \"You are putting your nickel down and saying we think we have the guy.\""
] | [
"Police began widely using \"person of interest\" after 1996 Olympic Park bombing .",
"The 'person of interest' does not mean the same thing as \"suspect\"",
"Experts say the phrase came into use to reduce media pressure .",
"The 'person of interest' can deceive the subject of an investigation, expert says ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
0
] | [
2,
3,
3,
3,
4,
1,
0,
3,
4,
4,
4,
4,
4,
3,
3,
0,
4,
0,
0,
5,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
0,
0,
1,
0,
1,
0,
3,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
0,
3,
3,
4,
3,
3,
3,
3,
6,
5,
5,
6,
2,
6,
0,
0,
4,
1,
1
] |
56be56c87c3c93960b1db37a1850e1d193ed0a6e | [
"Editor's note: Nancy Grace's is the host of \"Nancy Grace\" on HLN nightly at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.",
"Read an excerpt from Nancy Grace's's new novel \"The Eleventh Victim\" published by Hyperion.",
"Nancy Grace's found it challenging to complete Nancy Grace's's first novel, \"The Eleventh Victim.\"",
"(CNN)",
"-- Readers of Nancy Grace's's debut novel, \"The Eleventh Victim,\" would be forgiven if they assumed the main character is based on Nancy Grace's.",
"After all, the heroine of the novel becomes an Atlanta, Georgia, district attorney after her fiancé is murdered and later relocates to New York for a fresh start.",
"But Nancy Grace's said there are some differences between Nancy Grace's and Hailey's protagonist.",
"\"Hailey is a much better person than I am,\" Nancy Grace's said.",
"The tough-as-nails anchor of the HLN show that bears Nancy Grace's's name was driven to complete Nancy Grace's's first book of fiction, which Nancy Grace's said has been in the works for almost a decade.",
"The novel centers on the character of Hailey Dean, a psychology student who becomes a prosecutor after the tragic murder of Hailey's fiancé just weeks before their wedding.",
"The mystery takes flight when Hailey, having relocated to Manhattan and trained as a therapist, discovers that Hailey's patients are being murdered in a copycat style of an Atlanta serial killer from Hailey's past.",
"Grace -- who is also the author of the nonfiction book \"Objection!\" -- recently spoke to CNN about the challenges of giving birth to both twins and a thriller, who might die in Nancy Grace's's next novel and what Nancy Grace's thinks about television shows like \"Saturday Night Live\" parodying Nancy Grace's.",
"CNN:",
"You are a working mother of two year-old twins.",
"How in the world did you find time to write a book?",
"Nancy Grace:",
"It was hard work.",
"I had done \"Objection\" and I had an idea for a second nonfiction.",
"I went back to my editor and I said \"Here's an idea for another nonfiction.\"",
"She said \"Yeah, it's OK, you got anything else?\"",
"I said \"No, but I do have an old manuscript I've been working on for a long time, a murder mystery.\"",
"I told her it's not finished yet, I have about 300 pages.",
"I took it over that day and the next day they told me they wanted a two-book series on Hailey Dean.",
"Then I thought \"Oh Lord, now I've got to finish it.\"",
"That happened around the time I got pregnant.",
"Watch Nancy Grace's discuss Nancy Grace's's new book » .",
"I had a difficult pregnancy.",
"I was in a wheelchair, I threw up every day, I broke my foot during a difficult pregnancy, so a lot of crazy things happened.",
"Finally, after the twins came, the deadline came.",
"I literally had to sit in the bed with the computer and force Nancy Grace's to finish it.",
"I knew what was going to happen in each of the four storylines, but I had to get there.",
"I would be up sometimes until 3 or 4 in the morning.",
"the twins, one would wake up, by the time I would get that one fed and down, the other one would wake up and then it was time to get up at 5:30.",
"CNN:",
"You said you knew who did it in terms of the mystery early on in the writing.",
"So how did the book change during its development?",
"Nancy Grace's:",
"The characters really developed.",
"It's like getting to know a person.",
"Read an excerpt from the novel .",
"There are certain things Hailey simply would not do.",
"You get to know your characters and your characters become richer and more intricate because you get to know the character.",
"I would not do anything that was out of character for your characters.",
"CNN:",
"The plot and the settings sound very familiar to your own life.",
"How much of you is in Hailey?",
"Nancy Grace's:",
"Hailey is a much better person than I am, I can tell you that much.",
"Hailey's very brave.",
"Hailey thinks Hailey's way out of difficult and almost impossible situations, Hailey's courageous and Hailey's witty.",
"I would say it's loosely based, but Hailey's a much better heroine than I could ever be.",
"CNN:",
"What is more difficult, writing nonfiction or fiction?",
"Nancy Grace's:",
"It is definitely harder to write fiction.",
"With nonfiction you deal with facts already in existence, but with fiction you have to create everything.",
"Details like what color somebody's hair was to how hot it was that day.",
"A lot of ideas for the book would come to Nancy Grace's in the middle of the night and I forgot some of them so often that I now sleep with my two BlackBerrys near the bed.",
"I've learned my lesson the hard way, so I will now write Nancy Grace's my book notes in the middle of the night.",
"CNN:",
"Is there anything that didn't make it into this book that you wished had?",
"Grace:",
"Yes, but don't worry because I saved it for the next book, which will be set in the television industry.",
"There's going to be a lot of dead TV executives (laughing).",
"CNN:",
"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so what are your thoughts on having been parodied?",
"Grace:",
"It's funny to Nancy Grace's.",
"Everything from YouTube to \"Boston Legal\" and \"Saturday Night Live.\"",
"It's very flattering that they would think enough to make fun of Nancy Grace's.",
"I want [rapper] Eminem to make fun of Nancy Grace's, but I don't think it would be very nice (laughing)."
] | [
"Nancy Grace's debut novel, \"The Eleventh Victim\" has a story similar to hers .",
"Nancy Grace's says main character \"is a much better person than I am\"",
"The thriller was almost a decade in the making .",
"Book first of two planned about prosecutor-turned-therapist Hailey Dean ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
0,
0,
5,
0,
3,
1,
1,
0,
3,
3,
0,
5,
6,
7,
4,
6,
7,
7,
8,
8,
8,
3,
6,
9,
0,
9,
9,
6,
6,
2,
6,
6,
5,
7,
7,
4,
2,
2,
7,
1,
2,
2,
5,
2,
1,
4,
1,
1,
1,
1,
5,
10,
4,
10,
10,
2,
7,
7,
5,
7,
11,
7,
12,
5,
13,
11,
13,
12,
13,
13
] |
0a1ad82d161d90d758240407cb8c8fcebff4a212 | [
"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"Soon after I first came to visit China in the autumn of 1971, I saw a contingent of militia soldiers doing marching drills in Tiananmen Square.",
"I was told a contingent of militia soldiers were rehearsing for the annual National Day parade on October 1, which people eagerly awaited.",
"Mao Zedong proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 1949.",
"Weeks later, however, I was informed that the civilian and military parade had been cancelled in the spirit of \"simple-living and hard struggle,\" as Mao decreed.",
"The real reason: Lin Biao, then defense minister and Mao's anointed successor, had reportedly died in a plane crash while attempting to flee the country after a failed coup attempt.",
"China's achievements in the last 60 years have come in zigs and zags.",
"The best place to look back at what China went through in the past six decades is Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace.",
"Behind it lies the Imperial Palace, or Forbidden City, where China's Emperors used to live.",
"The emperor is now history, but Tiananmen remains Beijing's political center.",
"It was on the Tiananmen rostrum where Mao formally proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic.",
"\"The Chinese people have stood up!\" he declared in a shrill Hunanese accent.",
"For decades, China followed Mao loyally.",
"Mao emphasized political mobilization of the common man, especially the peasantry.",
"In Mao's ideology, The Chinese people found hope in a New China, wherein citizens would always have a bowl of rice to eat and clothes to wear.",
"Mao proved to be good at fighting but poor at governing.",
"Mao pushed sweeping socio-economic initiatives and strident ideological campaigns, often with disastrous results.",
"During two political campaigns in the late 1950s, over 550,000 \"rightist\" intellectuals were persecuted and imprisoned.",
"The Great Leap Forward led to widespread famine and the deaths of an estimated 30 million Chinese.",
"In the late 1960s, Mao would again stand in the Tiananmen rostrum to launch the Cultural Revolution.",
"There, Mao rallied hundreds of thousands of young Chinese -- the radical Red Guards -- who lionized Mao like a demi-god.",
"\"To rebel is justified!\" they proclaimed.",
"They rebelled against everything and wreaked havoc everywhere.",
"For ten years, China was condemned to political turmoil and economic malaise.",
"Perhaps the only factor that kept China from total collapse was The Chinese people's incomparable resilience and The Chinese people's ability to \"chi ku\" (eat bitterness, or bear hardship).",
"Mao's reign is also credited for positive changes.",
"Mao banned child brides and polygamy, built Beijing's first subway line and started a space program with China's first satellite launch.",
"In 1972, the People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the United Nations.",
"Still, for three decades under Mao, China tried to break out of China's backwardness and isolation but only met modest success.",
"Mao died in 1976 and Mao's remains are kept in a mausoleum in Tiananmen Square.",
"Take an audiovisual tour of Mao's hometown » .",
"Soon enough, Deng Xiaoping emerged as the new paramount leader.",
"Deng Xiaoping overturned most of Mao's policies and embarked upon reforming the economy and opening up China to the outside world.",
"Deng Xiaoping's quest for stability and prosperity took off in the early 1990s, propelled by Deng Xiaoping's pragmatic policies to entice foreign investments and build China's private sector.",
"Just south of Tiananmen, one landmark stands as a symbol of Deng Xiaoping's bold open-door policy.",
"In the early 1980s, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet opened in Beijing, just a stone's throw away from Mao's mausoleum.",
"Today, the fast food chain still does brisk business, with a large portrait of founder Colonel Sanders hanging on the three-story building.",
"Not every Chinese embraced Deng Xiaoping's reform and open-door policy.",
"Old Guards and conservatives in and outside the communist party accepted Deng's reform policies, but with a great deal of misgiving.",
"The backlash came to a boil in 1989, when Tiananmen witnessed an outpouring of support for the students who called for freedom and democracy, and more reform.",
"After six weeks of heady demonstrations, the Tiananmen movement was brutally suppressed.",
"See landmark moments in China's 60 years » .",
"China has returned to world prominence through a 20-year economic boom, the speed and breadth of which is unparalleled in the history of mankind.",
"China went from global economic irrelevance to the third largest economy in the world.",
"The People's Liberation Army, no longer a \"junkyard army,\" has emerged as a formidable military power capable of launching a human being into space and shooting down satellites.",
"Take a look inside China's space program » .",
"China marks China's 60th anniversary on Thursday with 300,000 participants and 60 floats to highlight China's achievements in various sectors of the society and economy.",
"See anniversary preparations in photos » .",
"A military parade will feature goose-stepping troops marching down the Avenue of Eternal Peace.",
"Modern military hardware -- tanks, armed personnel carriers, missiles, helicopters and fighter jets, all made in China -- will be on display.",
"Fireworks will cap the festivities.",
"See how China has changed over 60 years » .",
"But pomp and pageantry aside, China's phenomenal economic growth over the decades has triggered unintended consequences: rising unemployment, growing income gaps, endemic corruption, rising criminality, environmental degradation and social malaise.",
"Millions of Chinese live on less than $1 a day, and social tension sometimes boil over into violent clashes.",
"Chinese president Hu Jintao is pushing to promote democracy in the party, curb corruption and seek a harmonious society.",
"\"To build a well-off society for 1.3 billion people and a democratic, civilized, harmonious and modernized country,\" Chinese president Hu Jintao recently told a communist party meeting, \"China must firmly push reform and opening up and stick to China's own path.\"",
"Meet some of China's young communists » .",
"Like the cutting-edge CCTV tower intended to formally open this year but didn't after a celebratory fireworks display went awry and caused a fire, China's great achievements stand side by side with daunting challenges."
] | [
"Mao proved to be good at fighting but poor at governing .",
"Mao pushed sweeping socio-economic initiatives, strident ideological campaigns .",
"Mao's successor Deng Xiaoping embarks upon reforming the economy, opening China .",
"China gains world prominence via 20-year economic boom, but has consequences ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
4,
4,
3,
5,
5,
2,
6,
6,
6,
3,
3,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
5,
2,
0,
0,
5,
5,
2,
0,
0,
0,
3,
0,
6,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
6,
6,
1,
1,
5,
5,
2,
2,
2,
3,
3,
3,
4,
4,
3,
4,
2,
2,
2,
1,
1,
0,
2
] |
baf3b7aa98133daba661c8bfa0414dea84654b9b | [
"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Ryanair on Monday rejected strong criticism from Britain's top business regulator, who accused Europe's largest airline of \"puerile\" tactics in the way Ryanair adds credit card fees on to advertised fares.",
"John Fingleton, head of the UK's Office of Fair Trading watchdog, said the no-frills carrier was playing a \"funny game\" by imposing fees for anyone not using an obscure credit card.",
"Fingleton, speaking to the UK's Independent newspaper, expressed dismay that Ryanair was able to advertise credit card fees as \"optional\" through Ryanair's acceptance of a pre-paid MasterCard.",
"\"Ryanair has this funny game where Ryanair have found some low frequency payment mechanism and say: 'Well, because you can pay with that [the charge is optional]',\" he said.",
"\"It's almost like taunting consumers and pointing out: 'Oh well, Ryanair know this is completely outside the spirit of the law, but Ryanair think it's within the narrow letter of the law'.\"",
"Ryanair, which outlines its credit chard charges on its Web site, rejected Fingleton's comments, accusing Fingleton of trying to detract from Fingleton's failure to tackle other issues facing the country's aviation industry.",
"\"Ryanair fails to understand why Ryanair was singled out for these inaccurate criticisms by Fingleton, when Ryanair's charges policies are copied by high fare UK airlines,\" Ryanair said in a statement."
] | [
"UK business regulator says Ryanair playing a \"funny game\" over booking fees .",
"Office of Fair Trading head John Fingleton says Ryanair is \"almost taunting\" customers .",
"Ryanair says Ryanair is being unfairly singled out for \"inaccurate\" criticism ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0
] |
d2266b125f2c689f47a47d8ecad546e00b6ba48b | [
"London, England (CNN) --",
"Kraft's fresh bid for suffered a double blow Tuesday as the improved offer was dismissed by Kraft and criticized by Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett.",
"Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett said Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett had voted against Kraft's plan to issue new shares as part of a cash and stock offer worth approximately $16 billion, warning new shares would hurt shareholders, Fortune reported.",
"Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company owns 138 million Kraft shares, making Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company the largest shareholder in the foodmaker with a 9.4 percent stake.",
"But in a statement, Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett warned Kraft's move for Cadbury risked undervaluing Kraft stock.",
"\"Kraft stock, at Kraft stock's current price of $27, is a very expensive 'currency' to be used in an acquisition,\" Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett said.",
"\"In 2007, in fact, Kraft spent $3.6 billion to repurchase shares at about $33 per share, presumably because the directors and management thought the shares to be worth more.\"",
"Earlier, Kraft said Kraft would use the proceeds from the sale of Kraft's U.S. pizza business to Nestle to increase the cash element of its Cadbury offer.",
"Under Kraft's offer of a partial cash alternative, Cadbury shareholders could receive cash as well as Kraft shares if Cadbury shareholders accept Kraft's deal.",
"\"Kraft Foods is doing this because of the desire expressed by some Cadbury security holders to have a greater proportion of Kraft in cash,\" Kraft said in a statement.",
"The maker of Jell-O, Cool Whip, Oreo cookies and Kraft Macaroni & Cheese also extended the Cadbury offer to February 2.",
"The original bid had expired Tuesday.",
"Cadbury, which rejected Kraft's previous two deals, rejected Kraft Tuesday.",
"\"Kraft has once again missed the point,\" a Cadbury spokesman told CNN.",
"\"Despite this tinkering, the Kraft offer remains unchanged and derisory, with less than half the consideration in cash.\"",
"There had been rumors that Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit, would step in and make Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit's own offer for Cadbury.",
"But Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit put an end to those rumors Tuesday by issuing a statement saying Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit had no intention to make an offer for the British company.",
"Instead, Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit said Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit had bought Kraft's frozen pizza business in the United States and Canada for $3.7 billion.",
"The unit includes brands like DiGiorno, Tombstone, and California Pizza Kitchen.",
"\"The acquisition brings leadership in the frozen pizza category, where Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit only had a minor presence until now, and builds on Nestle's existing pizza know-how and operations in Europe,\" Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit said in a statement Tuesday.",
"\"It is a natural fit with Nestle's focus on delivering convenient, premium, wholesome and nutritious frozen food for consumers around the world.\"",
"Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit already had a presence in American frozen food aisles with ready-meal brands like Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine, and Hot Pockets.",
"The proceeds from the sale allow Kraft to offer more cash to Cadbury shareholders -- an additional 60 pence (96 cents) per share, Kraft said.",
"Kraft originally offered Cadbury shareholders 300 pence ($4.81) and 0.26 Kraft shares for each share of Cadbury they own.",
"Kraft said Kraft will announce more detailed terms by January 19."
] | [
"Kraft raises offer, extends deadline in takeover bid for Kraft .",
"Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett says Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett voted against Kraft offer .",
"Kraft sells U.S. pizza business to Nestle to fund revised offer .",
"UK candy maker Cadbury rejects offer, says terms remain \"unchanged, derisory\""
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
2,
3,
3,
3,
0,
3,
3,
0,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
3,
3,
0
] |
8f8a77911f7b5274425b9faad89c7cf3f0c953c9 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas remains in a critical condition in hospital as doctors admit doctors are having difficulty treating the Paraguay international due to increased swelling on Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas's brain.",
"Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas was shot in the head in Mexico City during the early hours of Monday morning after an incident in a city bar.",
"Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas was transported to an intensive care unit at a local hospital and was rushed into theatre where doctors made an attempt to remove the bullet lodged in Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas's skull before deciding it would be too dangerous.",
"Doctors revealed Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas showed favorable signs when Doctors attempted to bring Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas out of an induced coma but have now been forced to increase the sedation as the swelling on Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas's brain worsens.",
"\"Salvador remains clinically stable, nevertheless we have had certain problems because the excess accumulation of water on Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas's brain has grown,\" Ernesto Martinez Duhart, who operated on Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas, told reporters.",
"\"We will have to keep Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas sedated a bit more to protect and improve cerebral function.",
"It could get worse, Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas continues to be in the same serious condition.",
"The risk of death has not yet passed.\"",
"Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas is one of Paraguay's top players and was part of their World Cup squad in Germany four years ago.",
"The 29-year-old is a prolific goalscorer and was expected to lead Paraguay's attack in South Africa this summer.",
"Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas has scored over 100 times in the Mexican top flight and has netted 18 goals in 24 matches this season.",
"Around 10,000 Paraguayan fans gathered at the the Estadio Defensores del Chaco, the country's national stadium in Asuncion, to hold a vigil for Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas on Tuesday evening."
] | [
"Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas remains in a critical condition in hospital .",
"Doctors admit Doctors are having difficulty treating Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas because of swelling in Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas's brain .",
"Paraguay international striker Salvador Cabanas was shot in the head in Mexico City during the early hours of Monday morning ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
2,
2,
2,
2
] |
e25212f027aab549fb961726008c0d632504461f | [
"Japan has long been the world leader in robotics research, but in recent years Japan's also been leading the way when it comes to cutting-edge medical technology.",
"A prototype \"Finger Rehabilitation Glove,\" designed to aid recovery from paralysis.",
"From robot nurses that can lift hospital patients in and out of their beds, to intelligent toilets that can dispense medical advice, Japanese researchers are developing radical new approaches to health care.",
"While many of these technologies are still at the prototype stage, it may not be long before they turn up in a hospital near you."
] | [
"Japan is leading the way with advances in cutting-edge medical technology .",
"Researchers have developed nurse robots that can assist in hospitals .",
"The \"Intelligent Toilet\" can test blood pressure and give health advice ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
0,
0,
0,
0
] |
5daa60b042064cbf85c889785daf8b4ceb3c3ec3 | [
"(CNN) --",
"David Waller has some simple advice for anyone looking to improve morale at morale's organization -- even if it's not the easiest advice to follow.",
"David Waller calls Nobel \"a bolt of lightning\" for David Waller's staff .",
"\"I say to them, jokingly, 'Why don't you try winning the Nobel Peace Prize?' \" David Waller said.",
"David Waller, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, knows what David Waller's talking about.",
"The organization, based in Vienna, Austria, and dedicated to the safe and peaceful use of nuclear power, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.",
"President Barack Obama was the surprise winner Friday of this year's peace prize.",
"But for most of this week's other winners, the honor marks a leap from relative obscurity to a spot in the international limelight.",
"David Waller said the scientists, authors, activists and others receiving Nobel honors this week should be prepared for an experience that will change the scientists, authors, activists and others's lives in the months and years that follow.",
"\"The day that it was announced that we were winning the Nobel Peace Prize, I can assure you that it was like a bolt of lightning that went through this place in terms of energizing staff and giving people a sense of self-worth,\" he said.",
"\"It was absolutely remarkable.\"",
"In all, 172 people and 33 organizations were nominated for the peace prize-- although the Oslo, Norway-based Nobel committee had not announced who its finalists were.",
"the Nobel Peace Prize is one of five awards handed out annually by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.",
"The other four prizes are for physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and literature.",
"Starting in 1969, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel also has been awarded.",
"the Nobel Peace Prize is the last of the awards to be announced this week and the Riksbank prize will be awarded Monday.",
"Even for an organization like the IAEA, a United Nations affiliate that traces United Nations's roots back to 1957, things were never the same after receiving the revered award, David Waller said.",
"\"Many, many things changed,\" David Waller said.",
"\"The number of applications we had for positions here, which was already high, skyrocketed.",
"People returned phone calls very quickly.",
"The whole spectrum of things of that nature changed.\"",
"Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with United Nations, remembers the day",
"United Nations received the Nobel -- Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency was on vacation and asleep on Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency's sister's floor in Canada when it was announced.",
"\"For three years running, we had been sitting on the edges of our chairs hoping that we won,\" Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency said.",
"\"That year, for some reason, we thought, 'Oh, forget it.",
"We're not going to get it.' \"",
"The trip back to Vienna would have taken Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency too long to handle the initial rush of attention, so Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency finished Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency's vacation, with family members introducing Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency as \"the Nobel Peace Prize winner\" for the rest of the week.",
"Months later, Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency said, Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency was still working to keep up with a flood of media interest in United Nations spurred by the Nobel Peace Prize.",
"Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency said that, four years later, the Nobel Peace Prize still contributes to a feeling of unity among United Nations's more-than 2,000 employees who come from over 100 different countries.",
"\"That flush of excitement, unfortunately, That flush of excitement goes away with time,\" Elizabeth Dobie-Sarsam, a media specialist with the agency said.",
"\"[But] you do get reminded.",
"You walk through the corridor and you see that certificate hanging -- that certificate's acknowledgement that what we do is incredibly important.\"",
"The Nobel recipient receives a prize of 10 million Swedish crowns, or about $1.4 million, another life-changer for many recipients.",
"But David Waller said it's the recognition of what the Nobel panel called the \"incalculable value\" of David Waller's agency's work that helps when employees are having a hard time with employees's sometimes slow, frustrating work.",
"\"I think it's a continuing energizer for our staff,\" David Waller said."
] | [
"Deputy director says Nobel was \"bolt of lightning\" for staff .",
"Nobel foundation named Obama the 2009 peace prize winner Friday .",
"Recognition, applications will rise with announcement, winners say .",
"International Atomic Energy Agency won in 2005 for work in nuclear field ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
1
] | [
3,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
2,
0,
0,
3,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
4,
5,
2,
3,
5,
4,
4,
3,
3,
3,
4,
4,
4,
3,
3,
3,
1,
0,
0
] |
6c95679d894b387823aee98881d307d7fced1931 | [
"(CNN) --",
"The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert says The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert helped The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert's daughter choose an outfit for the show that same morning.",
"Harrington, disappeared at a Metallica concert Saturday night.",
"Harrington, went to a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia's John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville with several girlfriends but disappeared from their sight around 8:40 p.m., according to police, who are calling it a missing person case.",
"\"Harrington was excited about a Metallica concert and Harrington brought home three outfits that Harrington tried on for me,\" Harrington, said Tuesday on HLN's \"Nancy Grace.\"",
"\"We chose one and The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert said, 'Harrington, it is a rock concert so it is probably not what you would choose, but is this one OK?'\"",
"The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert said The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert told The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert's daughter, 'That will do fine.'",
"\"You know you have to give your kid wings,\" The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert said.",
"Watch mom describe daughter's excitement » .",
"Harrington had been so excited about a Metallica concert, according to The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert's mother, that Harrington posted the tickets on the refrigerator six months ahead of time.",
"Metallica posted a message about Harrington's disappearance on Metallica's Web site under the heading \"One of Metallica's fans is missing.\"",
"\"Metallica are deeply concerned about the disappearance of 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington, who was last seen while attending Metallica's concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday night,\" the message said.",
"the message described Harrington and asked that anyone with information contact Virginia State Police or University of Virginia police.",
"\"Metallica's thoughts are with Harrington and Harrington's family for Harrington's safe return,\" the message concluded.\"",
"Harrington, who lives off-campus, was reported missing Sunday afternoon when Harrington did not show up at Harrington's parents' home to study for a math exam with Harrington's father.",
"\"It's important to us as police officers to realize that people do come up missing,\" said Lieutenant Joe Rader of the Virginia State Police in a news conference on Monday.",
"\"However, it's very, very unusual that we have not heard anything, either, from Harrington's friends or from Harrington's family regarding Harrington's whereabouts.",
"That is the biggest concern currently -- Harrington's whereabouts and Harrington's welfare.\"",
"Harrington is 5'6\", 120 pounds, has blond hair, blue eyes and was wearing a black Pantera T-shirt, black mini skirt, black tights and black boots."
] | [
"Student was last seen at Metallica concert Saturday night .",
"Harrington is 5'6\", 120 pounds, and was wearing a black Pantera T-shirt .",
"Metallica posted a message about Harrington's disappearance on Metallica's Web site ."
] | [
0,
1,
1
] | [
2,
0,
1,
0,
1,
0,
0,
0,
2,
0,
1,
0,
3,
1,
3,
3,
3,
3,
1
] |
d19b7bdcdf66e53183741517ad7c16a9b1727622 | [
"Port-au-Prince, the Haitian government (CNN) --",
"Thousands of people were pushing for rescue efforts in the Haitian government to continue Sunday, after a 24-year-old man was pulled alive from the ruins on Saturday, 11 days after the nation's devastating earthquake.",
"the Haitian government says the Haitian government will be switching from a search and rescue operation to a search and recovery mission.",
"But families of Americans who were staying at the leveled Hotel Montana are fighting that, and started an online petition Saturday in an effort to continue search efforts there \"until all the survivors are accounted for.\"",
"As of Sunday morning, 2,395 people had signed an online petition and sent 6,216 messages to the Senate, Congress and the White House, said Sue Keller, a friend of a family whose relatives are among the missing.",
"families of Americans who were staying at the leveled Hotel Montana hope to have at least 5,000 signatures by Monday, Sue Keller, a friend of a family whose relatives are among the missing said.",
"the Haitian government has said more than 111,000 people died in the January 12 quake, which registered 7.0 in magnitude.",
"But on Saturday, a French rescue team was able to save one life as a French rescue team pulled Wismond Jean-Pierre from the rubble of the Hotel Napoli Inn in Port-au-Prince.",
"According to Wismond Jean-Pierre's brother, Wismond Jean-Pierre worked in the hotel's grocery store and survived Wismond Jean-Pierre's week and a half in the rubble of the Hotel Napoli Inn in Port-au-Prince by consuming cookies and beer.",
"Dehydrated but apparently without injury, Wismond Jean-Pierre was even talkative as Wismond Jean-Pierre was placed in an ambulance and driven to a hospital.",
"Lt. Col. Christophe Renou, a French rescuer briefly overcome with emotion, called the three-hour effort \"a miracle.\"",
"Other members of the team -- assisted by American and Greek workers -- were seen weeping after Wismond Jean-Pierre was freed.",
"Rescues like Jean-Pierre's, and others that have happened in the week following the disaster, sparked hope among families of the missing.",
"But the emotional rescue came on a day when much of the Haitian government was mourning as operations largely shifted from rescue to recovery, and the country's president attended the funeral of an archbishop who was one of the victims.",
"A Mexican rescue team had pulled the body of 63-year-old Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot from ruins near the national cathedral, which he oversaw as archbishop of Port-au-Prince.",
"The cathedral was destroyed.",
"At the funeral of an archbishop who was one of the victims, President René Préval was asked to respond to criticism that President René Préval has not shown strong public leadership and has been largely unseen in the aftermath.",
"\"This is not about politics today,\" President René Préval said.",
"CNN iReport: Looking for loved ones in the Haitian government .",
"The most recent death toll is the worst caused by an earthquake since the 2004 Asian tsunami that resulted from a temblor, and the second-highest death toll from an earthquake in more than three decades, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"\"Rescue teams continue to work in Port-au-Prince, U.N. continue to hope that Rescue teams will be able to find people still alive, but as time passes, U.N. must gradually shift U.N.'s resources from rescue to recovery,\" Nick Birnback, spokesman for U.N. peacekeeping operations, said Saturday.",
"International search teams have rescued at least 132 people since the quake struck, U.N. said.",
"Birnback said the priority now is to remove bodies and clean up affected areas to avoid health hazards and the spread of disease.",
"Birnback said the United Nations will start bringing in heavier equipment, which will allow teams to move concrete and damaged homes.",
"More than 600,000 people have also been left homeless in and around the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.",
"Interactive map of where to find aid, hospitals in the Haitian government .",
"Meanwhile, up to 140 flights a day are regularly arriving at the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport, compared with 25 in the immediate aftermath of the quake, OCHA said Saturday.",
"To relieve congestion at the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport, humanitarian cargo is being moved to a forward dispatch area at one end of the runway.",
"The Las Americas airport in Santo Domingo, in neighboring Dominican Republic, is starting to report congestion as The Las Americas airport in Santo Domingo, in neighboring Dominican Republic becomes increasingly used as an alternative airport, OCHA said.",
"The Las Americas airport in Santo Domingo, in neighboring Dominican Republic will now be open overnight to accommodate the extra traffic.",
"Those managing the land transport of supplies from Santo Domingo will need fuel, and OCHA said there is enough in the Haitian government to last an additional 18 to 19 days.",
"But OCHA said OCHA expects no shortage of fuel because supplies of fuel will be able to enter the port during that time.",
"One concern with cross-border traffic is the unauthorized departure of Haitian children, OCHA said.",
"Charities and aid groups have said in recent days that Charities and aid groups are concerned about the danger of child trafficking after the earthquake.",
"Groups including Save the Children and World Vision have called for a halt to adoptions, saying many children may appear to be orphaned but have simply been separated from many children's families.",
"\"If children must be evacuated from the Haitian government because children's protection needs cannot be met in country, the evacuation must be carefully documented, children must be registered with the proper authorities and all efforts must be made to reunify children with family before any adoption proceedings are considered,\" the U.S.-based Women's Refugee Commission said.",
"The number of unaccompanied children needing support is greater than the capacity to respond, OCHA said.",
"Authorities are working with unaccompanied children who are being released from hospitals, it said."
] | [
"24-year-old pulled from hotel ruins 11 days after quake offers hope more are alive .",
"More than 111,000 have died since the January 12 quake, the Haitian government says .",
"Families are protesting the switch from search/rescue to rescue/recovery ."
] | [
0,
1,
0
] | [
2,
0,
0,
3,
3,
3,
1,
0,
4,
4,
4,
4,
0,
5,
0,
1,
5,
5,
2,
1,
0,
0,
6,
6,
2,
2,
7,
7,
7,
7,
8,
8,
9,
9,
9,
9,
9,
9
] |
a693f402cf9db47461adfffedcd8c63e84552a37 | [
"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"Troops with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan have seized more than 6,000 pounds of illegal drugs, the NATO-led force in Afghanistan said.",
"Troops found more than 5,300 pounds of processed opium, more than 1,000 pounds of wet opium paste, approximately 50 pounds of heroin, and multiple firearms with ammunition were found in the truck, the NATO-led force in Afghanistan said.",
"Authorities arrested two people and destroyed most of the drugs, though Authorities kept some narcotics to analyze.",
"The confiscation took place Wednesday in southern Afghanistan -- in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province -- after troops stopped a \"suspicious\" truck.",
"Afghan opium kills 100,000 people a year worldwide -- more than any other drug -- and the opiate heroin kills five times as many people in NATO countries each year than the total number of NATO troops killed in combat in Afghanistan, a recent U.N. report said.",
"About 15 million people around the world use heroin, opium or morphine, fueling a $65 billion market for the drug and also fueling terrorism and insurgencies.",
"The Taliban raised $450 million to $600 million over the past four years by \"taxing\" opium farmers and traffickers, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said in a report last autumn.",
"Not all the money is going into the pockets of rebels or drug dealers, though.",
"Some Afghan officials are making money off the trade as well, he said."
] | [
"NATO-led troops in Afghanistan seized more than 6,000 pounds of illegal drugs .",
"Haul included more than 5,300 pounds of processed opium .",
"Troops stopped a \"suspicious\" truck in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province .",
"Afghan opium kills 100,000 people a year worldwide -- more than any other drug ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
1,
0,
0,
0,
1,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2
] |
ed679c7265f5dfa878be19369ea236267e2edec5 | [
"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"More than 3,000 U.S. troops scheduled to deploy to Iraq won't go after all, as the military tries to draw down troop levels in the war-torn country, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday.",
"U.S. troops speak to an Iraqi child in Baghdad on Monday.",
"The 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division will not replace a North Carolina National Guard unit already in Iraq, Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh told CNN.",
"The 3,500-troop combat team, based in Fort Drum, New York, was to leave in January, Butterbaugh said.",
"\"[The cancellation] reflects a thorough assessment of the security environment in Iraq and continued improvement in the ability of the Iraqi security forces to safeguard Iraqi citizens and institutions,\" Butterbaugh said.",
"a North Carolina National Guard unit already in Iraq is still on schedule to return home, which will speed up the drawdown of forces, Butterbaugh said.",
"The troop withdrawal in Iraq coincides with a debate in the Obama administration on whether to send as many as 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.",
"As of Friday, 250 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of the year, according to a CNN tally based on Pentagon numbers.",
"The United States plans to withdraw all The United States's combat troops from Iraq by August, leaving 50,000 in advisory roles.",
"Those advisers are to leave by the end of 2011.",
"Concerns that a delay in the upcoming Iraqi elections could put a dent in scheduled withdrawals was rejected Friday by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Chris Hill.",
"\"As for The United States's schedule of troop withdrawal, The United States've been pretty clear about when the troops would be withdrawn,\" he told CNN.",
"\"So The United States's plan is to draw down the troops as The United States've said The United States're going [to] do.\"",
"The polls are scheduled to open January 16, but both The United States and the United Nations are worried because Iraq still has no election law.",
"If a new law isn't adopted, Iraq may have to change the election date or rely on the law used in the 2005 elections, some officials say.",
"A vote on the new law is expected Monday.",
"Pentagon officials also must weigh the impact of continuing violence in Iraq.",
"Ambassador Chris Hill said continuing violence in the country is a concern, as are insurgent efforts to undermine attempts at reconciliation in Iraq.",
"\"Reconciliation is a tough business.",
"I mean I've been in some of these meetings with people, you know, people don't like each other, you have to get people to work together, get people to understand people's futures are together, and then you get a bombing, which makes it even tougher,\" Ambassador Chris Hill said.",
"\"Again, I think the Iraqi people have really signaled that the Iraqi people are really sick and tired of this stuff.\"",
"Meanwhile, violence continued in Iraq on Saturday.",
"Four soldiers were killed and 10 people, including civilians and security forces, were wounded when a bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint exploded in Falluja, an Anbar province town, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.",
"Elsewhere in Anbar, a suicide truck bomb hit a police checkpoint on a bridge west of Ramadi, wounding a police officer.",
"The blast badly damaged the bridge, which carries a highway linking Iraq with Jordan and Syria, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.",
"Traffic had to be rerouted to an another road.",
"Anbar province, a massive region populated mostly by Sunni Arabs, had been a major front in the Iraqi war.",
"The al Qaeda in Iraq militant group once held great sway in Anbar, but The al Qaeda in Iraq militant group's influence lessened with the advent of U.S.-backed groups called Awakening Councils.",
"CNN's Scott Spoerry and Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report."
] | [
"Cancellation reflects improved conditions in Iraq, official said .",
"Iraqi elections won't delay scheduled withdrawals U.S. says, Ambassador Chris Hill .",
"\"The United States's plan is to draw down the troops as The United States've said The United States're going [to] do,\" says Ambassador Chris Hill .",
"The United States plans to withdraw all The United States's combat troops from Iraq by August ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
3
] | [
4,
3,
5,
3,
3,
0,
3,
5,
5,
3,
3,
1,
2,
2,
1,
1,
1,
5,
5,
4,
4,
2,
5,
6,
6,
6,
0,
5,
5,
4
] |
9fc0b9ca7138272093f4c03354685970a9c38dc2 | [
"(CNN) --",
"More than 200 people were discharged from a Maoist camp Thursday in line with the Nepal's ongoing peace process, officials said.",
"More than 200 people were part of a group deemed \"disqualified\" by United Nations findings in 2007, which identified at least 4,008 such combatants -- including 2,973 minors.",
"The \"disqualified\" status applied to anyone under the age of 18 who was serving in the Maoist People's Liberation Army, and those who joined the Maoist People's Liberation Army after the Maoist People's Liberation Army's 10-year insurgency to abolish the country's monarchy ended in 2006.",
"More than 15,000 died in the fighting and more than 100,000 people were displaced, according to the United Nations Web site.",
"Nepal became a republic in 2008 following elections in which the people voted to abolish the country's monarchy.",
"\"Those who left a Maoist camp today are no more members of the [Maoist] People's Liberation Army,\" Nanda Kishore Pun, commander of the Maoist People's Liberation Army, told CNN in a phone interview from Sindhuli, about 150 km (93 miles) southeast of Kathmandu.",
"The discharge process is expected to end in about a month.",
"As part of the rehabilitation package for the disqualified combatants, United Nations has offered to provide vocational skills training and education up to high school to those who want such opportunities, but Pun said that these offers are still being discussed.",
"The process of the discharge is seen as in important part of Nepal's ongoing peace process.",
"The Maoists and other political parties in Nepal are discussing ways to integrate the 19,602 verified Maoist combatants into Nepal's security forces -- a move that made up part of the peace deal signed in 2006 to bring the Nepal to a conclusion.",
"Once the minors remain out of the command and control of the Maoist military structure for six months to a year, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) can be considered for removal from the list of parties that recruit and use children, which is included in the annual United Nations Secretary-General's report on Children and Armed Conflict.",
"As the discharge and rehabilitation process began, about a dozen of the disqualified combatants were listed as being under the age of 16 and about 500 were under the age of 18.",
"Though called combatants, the United Nations said the minors were used as messengers, cooks and porters during the fighting."
] | [
"More than 200 people were discharged from Maoist camp in Nepal .",
"More than 200 people are former fighters and other members of the Maoist People's Liberation Army .",
"Part of a group deemed \"disqualified\" by United Nations findings in 2007 .",
"More than 200 people's discharge is seen as in important part of Nepal's ongoing peace process ."
] | [
0,
0,
1,
2
] | [
3,
0,
1,
1,
1,
2,
0,
2,
1,
2,
0,
0,
1,
1
] |
7a03dec49c4dedcf9e968d83aefde3eeca51780f | [
"Editor's note: Watch the full interview with Tennis star on \"Your $$$$$\" Saturday at 1 p.m. ET and Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on CNN.",
"Tennis star says Tennis star believes Tennis star apologized for Tennis star's actions promptly and completely.",
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Tennis star just wants to move on.",
"But the controversy around Tennis star's obscenity-laced tirade at a line judge at the U.S. Open continues.",
"Williams, 27, said Tennis star was \"in the moment\" and doesn't really remember the U.S. Open's now-famous outburst at a line judge who had called a foot fault.",
"It was a 12-second verbal attack that has played over and over for three days.",
"\"It was a really tough point in the match and it was really close and got a really tough call that wasn't the correct call, and, you know, things got a little heated and I had a conversation with the line judge that didn't go so well,\" Tennis star said.",
"Tennis star, ranked No. 2 in the world by the Women's Tennis Association, said Tennis star does not recall moments of Saturday's incident but believes Tennis star apologized for Tennis star's actions promptly and completely.",
"Watch Tennis star talk about call » .",
"\"I couldn't apologize any sooner, and then also I learned from my mistakes ...",
"I was talking to [former Giants defensive end] Michael Strahan earlier today and he said how, when he's out there you're so intense.",
"Obviously, when you get a bad call, it's like 'What's going on?'",
"So when you're in the moment, you are just there.",
"You don't really quite remember exactly what's going on,\" Tennis star said.",
"Tennis star found Tennis star explaining the U.S. Open's outburst while promoting Tennis star recently published memoir, \"On the Line,\" in which Tennis star details growing up the youngest of five sisters, Tennis star's struggles on the court and off, and Tennis star's positive messages of inspiration, especially to Tennis star's younger fans.",
"\"Those kids probably just need to know it's great to be a competitor, how passionate someone is, and just making the right decisions at the right time -- realizing that, hey, everyone falls, 'Wow, Tennis star's human, Tennis star made a bad decision, a bad choice.' \"",
"Tennis star added, \"I am not a robot.",
"I have a heart and I bleed.\"",
"In the aftermath of Saturday's match, tournament officials fined Tennis star $10,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct and $500 for smashing a racket during the same event.",
"So far, no suspensions have been served, but the United States Tennis Association has said that the United States Tennis Association has launched an investigation into the incident."
] | [
"Tennis star's obscenity-laced tirade at the U.S. Open stays in the spotlight .",
"Tennis star's fielding questions about it as Tennis star promotes new book .",
"Williams says Tennis star was \"in the moment\" and doesn't remember all that was said .",
"Tennis star's young fans can now see \"Tennis star's human, Tennis star made a bad decision,\" Tennis star says ."
] | [
0,
0,
0,
0
] | [
0,
0,
1,
0,
0,
0,
1,
0,
0,
0,
1,
1,
1,
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
0,
0
] |
9b70778d74a19bdb2f2a6feceb7024b0790482c7 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Afghanistan last month that killed seven CIA employees and contractors and a Jordanian military officer, according to a statement posted on Islamist Web sites.",
"Mustafa Abu Yazid, Al Qaeda's commander of operations in Afghanistan and its No. 3 man, said Afghanistan avenged the death of Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Taliban in Pakistan who was killed in a missile strike last August, and Al Qaeda operatives Saleh al-Somali and Abdullah al-Libi.",
"The December 30 blast at a U.S. base in Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan, killed seven CIA operatives including two from private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater.",
"The eighth victim was Jordanian Army Capt. Sharif Ali bin Zeid, a cousin of Jordan's King Abdullah II.",
"A former U.S. intelligence official identified the suicide bomber as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian doctor who acted as a double agent.",
"He was recruited as a counterterrorism intelligence source, according to a senior Jordanian official.",
"U.S. sources said bin Zeid was the Jordanian operative working closely with al-Balawi, who was from the same hometown as the onetime leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.",
"Jordanian and U.S. intelligence agencies apparently believed that al-Balawi had been rehabilitated from al-Balawi's extremist views and were using al-Balawi to hunt Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's No. 2 figure, A former U.S. intelligence official said.",
"The Al Qaeda statement posted Wednesday identified al-Balawi as Hamam Khalil Mohammed Abu Malal, who used the name Abu Dujana Khorasani.",
"The al Qaeda statement posted Wednesday said Abu Dujana was a well-known Islamist author and a preacher on jihadi Web sites, an immigrant for Abu Dujana's faith and a fighter who sacrificed Abu Dujana and Abu Dujana's money for Abu Dujana's God and belief.",
"\"May God accept Abu Dujana as a martyr who was able to infiltrate the Americans' forts,\" The al Qaeda statement posted Wednesday said.",
"\"We ask God to bless the people who follow your path, Abu Dujana,\" The al Qaeda statement posted Wednesday said.",
"\"Let the people who follow your path know that your brothers are following your path and they will not have peace of mind until they slaughter the Americans and let the Islamic nation be proud for having men like you among the Islamic nation's sons.\"",
"Several groups have claimed responsibility for the attack, one of the worst blows ever to America's intelligence community.",
"Some analysts said that militant groups may be competing for credit to spread the word and attract fresh donations and recruits.",
"In a posting on its Web site last week, the Taliban in Afghanistan claimed that the bomber was an Afghan National Army soldier.",
"On Sunday, however, Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud said in an e-mail that Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud's arm of the Islamic movement carried out the attack, also citing the reason as revenge for Baitullah Mehsud's killing."
] | [
"Al Qaeda claims responsibility for last month's Afghanistan bombing, say Islamist Web sites .",
"Suicide bombing killed seven CIA employees and contractors and a Jordanian military officer .",
"Al Qaeda says Afghanistan avenged deaths of leader of the Taliban in Pakistan and operatives .",
"Several groups have claimed responsibility for Afghanistan ."
] | [
0,
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
2,
3,
3,
3,
3,
0,
1,
0,
0
] |
6b00aa99b90f8676a50e6742b9e6874d4aa33064 | [
"(CNN) --",
"French police were searching Friday for a Degas painting stolen from a Marseilles museum a day earlier.",
"\"Les Choristes,\" or \"The Chorus,\" is worth about €800,000, or $1.15 million, Marseilles Police Commissioner Xavier Claudel told CNN.",
"The 1877 pastel was on loan to Musee Cantini from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris for an exhibition, Marseilles Police Commissioner Xavier Claudel said.",
"It was discovered missing when staff opened a Marseilles museum Thursday, Marseilles Police Commissioner Xavier Claudel said.",
"Investigators were going through surveillance camera footage for clues, but Marseilles Police Commissioner Xavier Claudel said Marseilles Police Commissioner Xavier Claudel could not offer any more information about the case.",
"Degas was a prominent member of the the Impressionists and produced a vast amount of artwork before Degas's death in 1917 at age 83.",
"Degas's style, subject matter and artistic sensibility set Degas apart from Degas's contemporaries, according to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art."
] | [
"The 1877 pastel was on loan to Musee Cantini from Musee d'Orsay in Paris .",
"Investigators going through surveillance camera footage for clues .",
"\"The Chorus,\" is worth about €800,000, or $1.15 million ."
] | [
0,
1,
2
] | [
1,
3,
2,
0,
3,
1,
3,
3
] |
cc1ea9b242db216f09516e0eb183af4fe173127f | [
"London, England (CNN) --",
"Snow and freezing temperatures hit large parts of Britain Wednesday, forcing airports and railway lines to close down, and forecasters warned that more bad weather was on the way.",
"Most of Britain was covered in snow, with 20 to 30 centimeters (nearly 8 to nearly 12 inches) of snow in the southern parts, and up to 15 feet in the Pennines, the mountain range that runs from northern England north to Scotland.",
"Four airports, including London's Gatwick, were shut down because of snow and ice.",
"Gatwick said 84 flights were canceled, mainly on British Airways and EasyJet.",
"Bristol, Blackpool, and Exeter airports were also closed.",
"iReport: A snowy day in Chertsey, Surrey .",
"British Airways was forced to cancel \"dozens\" of flights in and out of London's Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 due to snow and ice, a spokesman told CNN Wednesday.",
"Both incoming and outbound flights were experiencing significant delays, a spokesman said.",
"BA operates about 400 flights a day in and out of Terminal 5, the airport's newest wing.",
"According to BAA Limited, the company that operates the British airports, Heathrow \"overall is fine,\" as the facility was alternating runways to keep cancellations to a minimum.",
"Stansted Airport in north London was briefly closed but reopened at midday.",
"Still, it reported 27 flight cancellations.",
"Manchester Airport, which was shut Tuesday, was reopened.",
"Officials said snow was unlikely to affect flights, but warned travelers to expect delays because of Tuesday's flight cancelations.",
"All major train lines were open, but some train operators were running restricted services because of the weather.",
"They included South West Trains, which runs services between London and some of the hardest-hit areas, such as Hampshire, Surrey and Wiltshire, and Chiltern Railways, which runs between London and Birmingham.",
"Virgin Trains said Virgin Trains planned a regular service, but Virgin Trains warned of the risk of delays and cancelations on routes between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland.",
"Trains in northern England and Scotland were suffering because of the snow.",
"There were no services between the Scottish cities of Inverness and Perth, National Rail said, and no trains between the English cities of Sheffield and Leeds.",
"Frigid temperatures batter the U.S. south .",
"Britain's Highways Agency warned of difficult driving conditions in central southern England and the north of Britain.",
"Britain's Highways Agency urged drivers to delay non-essential trips.",
"Dozens of cars were left sitting on the side of the road in Southampton, near England's southern coast, after drivers became stuck in snow.",
"Britain's Highways Agency warned drivers to avoid the nearby A3 highway, which runs between London and Portsmouth, because of weather conditions.",
"Britain's Highways Agency said Britain's Highways Agency was doing continuous salt treatment and snow plowing on major roadways in England.",
"Schools were closed across Britain because of the heavy snowfall.",
"Officials said 176 schools were shut in Buckinghamshire and 164 were closed in Oxfordshire just to the northwest of London.",
"About 330 schools in Gloucestershire, 200 in Somerset, and 143 in Wiltshire were closed because of snow, officials said.",
"Hundreds of schools were also closed in Kent, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Coventry, Bath, Windsor, Maidenhead, Liverpool, and Brighton, officials said.",
"Let us know how you are coping with the cold weather?",
"The Met Office, Britain's weather service, said more snow was expected Wednesday for southern and northeast England.",
"It warned of \"very heavy snowfall\" in southwest and southeast England and London, with up to a foot of snow possible.",
"CNN's Laura Perez Maestro and Phil Han contributed to this report."
] | [
"Severe weather brought parts of the UK to a virtual standstill because of heavy snow .",
"Four airports are shut and others are warning of delays and cancellations .",
"Hundreds of schools across the UK have closed Hundreds of schools across the the UK's doors .",
"Forecasters are warning of more snow ."
] | [
0,
1,
2,
0
] | [
3,
0,
0,
1,
4,
1,
0,
4,
4,
4,
4,
1,
4,
1,
4,
5,
5,
5,
0,
5,
0,
6,
6,
6,
6,
6,
2,
2,
2,
2,
0,
0,
0,
3
] |
6213103cf14a2c8778a9f3e8e7e209bf5301a005 | [
"In Fad-Free Nutrition, exclusively on CNN.com, the editors of Cooking Light help you digest the latest diet and food news and trends.",
"The recent recall of industrial peanut butter and products that contain it sparked nationwide concern about the safety of eating many popular snack products.",
"That's understandable, considering the average American consumes 3.3 pounds of peanut butter each year, according to USDA data.",
"Pistachios, pecans, hazelnuts, almonds, and others can be made into tasty spreads and put in recipes.",
"While consuming with caution is always prudent, it's important not to give up on nuts and peanuts (which are actually legumes) entirely.",
"They offer numerous health benefits and can even help dieters stay on track.",
"Consuming just one ounce of nuts -- of any variety -- up to five times a week in place of other calories consumed is likely to help reduce the risk of heart disease.",
"Although nuts are high in calories, nuts contain heart-healthy mono- and polyunsaturated fats, and nuts're jam-packed with nutrients such as vitamin E, folate, niacin, copper, magnesium, and potassium.",
"Plus, nuts have some protein and fiber to help keep you feeling satisfied.",
"Learn more about the health benefits of nuts (plus recipes that use them) at CookingLight.com.",
"Tips on smart snacking .",
"If you are worried about buying peanut butter based on the recent salmonella scare, try these tasty and nutritious alternative ways to snack safely: .",
"1. Make your own spread.",
"Although major national brands of jarred peanut butter have not been recalled, it's a fun and nutritious option to make your own.",
"At certain grocery stores, such as some locations of Whole Foods Market, you can grind peanuts to make fresh peanut butter.",
"In less than one minute, you have a fresh, peanutty spread without preservatives or added sugar.",
"You can also make fresh peanut butter at home; all you need are plain roasted peanuts and a food processor.",
"Put ¾ cup plain roasted peanuts in a food processor; process two minutes or until smooth.",
"See our staff's tips on making homemade nut butters on our blog, Test Kitchen Secrets.",
"2. Get creative.",
"Use fresh peanut butter to upgrade homemade versions of snacks that may have been recalled.",
"For example, spread a teaspoon of peanut butter on a whole-grain cracker instead of purchasing ready-made peanut butter crackers.",
"You might surprise yourself by creating a better-for-you treat, such as our lightened peanut buttery Swag Bars.",
"3. Branch out beyond peanut butter.",
"Almond, cashew, macadamia, walnut, and hazelnut butters are unaffected by the recall.",
"Almond, cashew, macadamia, walnut offer a strong nutrition profile.",
"For example, 2 tablespoons of almond butter (one serving) provide the following: . • Almost half your daily needs of the antioxidant vitamin E with 6.5 milligrams . • About one-third of a day's worth of magnesium (97 milligrams), a mineral that supports muscle function and bone tissue . • 243 milligrams of potassium (about five percent of one day's allotment), which helps keep your blood pressure levels steady .",
"Visit CookingLight.com to learn more about other nutritious nut butters made from cashews, almonds, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts, pecans, pistachios, and walnuts -- including how to make them, and healthful recipes that put them to delicious use.",
"For more tips on making healthy taste great, try Cooking Light - CLICK HERE .",
"Copyright 2009 Cooking Light magazine.",
"All rights reserved."
] | [
"Peanut product recall putting a damper on American snacking habits .",
"USDA: Average American consumes 3.3 pounds of peanut butter each year .",
"Alternatives include snacks made with almond, cashew, macadamia, walnut butters ."
] | [
0,
0,
1
] | [
2,
0,
0,
1,
3,
2,
3,
3,
3,
3,
2,
0,
4,
0,
5,
5,
5,
5,
1,
4,
0,
5,
5,
4,
1,
1,
1,
1,
2,
6,
6
] |
ced8a51ab6878e9c1a551b8898129bf14b256008 | [
"(CNN) --",
"Four people died and another three were missing Monday after two avalanches in the Swiss Alps, Bern police said.",
"two avalanches in the Swiss Alps occurred at 11:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. ET) and about noon Sunday in the Diemtigen Valley, 34 miles (55 km) south of Bern, said Thomas Jauch, a spokesman for police in Bern County.",
"In first incident an avalanche buried one person who was with a party of eight cross-country skiers, Thomas Jauch, a spokesman for police in Bern County said.",
"A nearby party of 25 skiers joined in the search and a physician, who was a member of a ski rescue team, was dropped into the area by one of two helicopters called in to help.",
"As they were searching for the missing skier, a second avalanche buried 10 to 12 of them, Thomas Jauch, a spokesman for police in Bern County said.",
"Nine were found alive, one was dead, Thomas Jauch, a spokesman for police in Bern County said.",
"Three of victims died later in hospital, Thomas Jauch, a spokesman for police in Bern County added.",
"The doctor was among the dead, he said.",
"It was not clear whether the original skier who was buried was among victims.",
"\"It was not a high-risk day; not a high-risk situation,\" Thomas Jauch, a spokesman for police in Bern County said.",
"Search efforts were suspended Monday because of the weather in the mountains.",
"\"There could be another avalanche,\" the police spokesman said."
] | [
"Avalanches occurred Sunday in the Diemtigen Valley, 34 miles (55 km) south of Bern .",
"In first incident an avalanche buried one person who was with a party of eight cross-country skiers .",
"Second avalanche hit as rescuers searched for victims, burying 10 to 12 of victims ."
] | [
0,
0,
0
] | [
1,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
2,
2,
2,
0,
1,
1,
0
] |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.