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"(CNN) --",
"Why leave home when you can send out a sexy, stylish robot version of yourself to do anything you tell it?",
"In \"Surrogates,\" lifelike robots take the place of humans in day-to-day life.",
"That's the world of \"Surrogates,\" a film starring Bruce Willis that opens Friday.",
"Bruce Willis plays an FBI agent who investigates the first murder to occur in years in a world where no one worries about crime or pain, because their robots self-heal with a quick reboot.",
"Far-fetched science fiction?",
"Sure.",
"But scientists and the movie's makers say the technology might not be as far away as most people think.",
"Armies use remote-controlled robots to attack enemies and destroy land mines.",
"Emerging technology for the disabled allows users to operate robotic limbs and control computer cursors without touching a keyboard.",
"And emerging \"telepresence\" technology is letting people see, hear and, increasingly, walk, talk and gesture using human-sized robots a world away.",
"\"There are a lot of real-world components to this,\" said robotics expert and author Daniel H. Wilson, whose books like \"Where's My Jet Pack?\" and \"How to Survive a Robot Uprising\" explore the intersections between science fiction and real science.",
"\"Clearly, there are not fully functional humanoid robots ... but there are a lot of components to telepresence that already exist.\"",
"\"Surrogates\" director Jonathan Mostow, whose film credits include 2003's \"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,\" said he was drawn to the concept of surrogate robots as an extension of current technology.",
"And, he said, as he met with scientists, he became convinced that something approaching the concept of surrogate robots as an extension of current technology could one day be a reality.",
"\"To me, it's not even a question of the technology.",
"Technology always catches up,\" he said.",
"\"The question is, is some universal human urge being met by this invention?",
"It seems to me we have a fundamental human desire to be lazy, to sort of not have to do things in person and to do it remotely.",
"\"That began with the telegraph and the telephone and has morphed into the Internet.\"",
"The first steps down the road are being taken at Anybots, a Mountain View, California, company founded in 2001 by Trevor Blackwell.",
"The company offers, for about $30,000, a 5-foot-tall, 35-pound robot that allows the user to remotely travel, see, hear and talk.",
"The company hopes to release The company's latest version of the robot at a more affordable price.",
"the robot's vaguely humanoid curves, roughly adult height and ability to move around using technology similar to that of the Segway are important steps up from current teleconferencing technology, Trevor Blackwell said.",
"Anybots in the development phase are being designed to run, jump and climb stairs, and they come equipped with fully articulated hands designed to perform increasingly human-like tasks.",
"Trevor Blackwell said Trevor Blackwell's not sure the technology will ever advance to the level imagined in \"Surrogates\" -- but that may have as much to do with desire as ability.",
"\"I don't know if we'll ever get quite to that level, of being that realistic,\" Trevor Blackwell said.",
"\"Most of the time, you're not trying to fool people; you're just trying to make something human enough so people can relate to it.\"",
"Wilson, who said he appreciates \"Surrogates\" because it avoids sci-fi's traditional \"man vs. machine\" dynamic, also imagines social reasons for not pursuing such technology.",
"\"Would humans stand in line at the grocery store behind a robot?",
"Would I let my children play outside if I knew there were robots outside walking dogs?\" he said.",
"It's more realistic, Wilson said, that a humanoid robot could be created to remotely perform tasks that would be too dangerous for the machine's operator to do.",
"although NASA employs robots in space, the highly technical work often required for space walks still requires a human touch -- at least for now.",
"Plus, Wilson said, making robots that look and act like us would help robots that look and act like us function better, Wilson said.",
"\"Another major reason to create humanoid robots is, humanoid robots can use all of our tools,\" Wilson said.",
"\"Human beings have taken large chunks of the planet and completely transformed the environment to support our embodiment.",
"Doorways are a certain width all over the world because human beings are about the same size.",
"All our tools are similar because we've all got hands and thumbs.\"",
"For Mostow, the movie also reflects technological advances that, for better or worse, exist as the world of online networking continues to grow.",
"\"You can do your shopping.",
"You can get your news.",
"You can let everyone know what you're up to,\" he said.",
"\"For those who telecommute, you don't even have to put your clothes on to go to work.",
"\"This idea basically just takes that to its logical conclusion.\""
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"Scientists say \"telepresence\" with robots is real, will improve .",
"California company Anybots developing robot that can jump, climb stairs .",
"Director:",
"Androids are \"logical conclusion\" of technology that already exists ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) --",
"Five people arrested after street disturbances erupted in Tehran during the recent Ashura holy day could face the death penalty, an Iranian semi-official news agency reported Thursday.",
"The Iran Labor News Agency reported that the five will be tried for Moharebe, or waging war against God -- a charge that could be punishable by execution.",
"ILNA attributed the information in ILNA's report to the Iranian judiciary.",
"The case will be tried \"soon\" with defense lawyers and a prosecutor-general representative present at proceedings.",
"\"Confessions of the accused and the investigations of the authorities\" will be considered, ILNA said.",
"Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, prosecutor for the Public and Revolution Courts, had stressed that people who created disturbances on the Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashura \"by setting fire to public property and other similar crimes\" were engaging in acts \"tantamount to Moharebe,\" ILNA said.",
"In-depth coverage of the protests in Iran .",
"\"the Iranian judiciary will severely confront those people based on the law,\" the report said.",
"Anti-government demonstrations began after the disputed June 12 presidential vote, which re-elected hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over main opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi.",
"But late December marked the deadliest clashes since the initial protests broke out this summer.",
"At least seven people were killed and hundreds arrested, witnesses said, as witnesses took to the streets on Ashura, which occurred on December 27.",
"The Iranian government has denied that The Iranian government's security forces killed anyone and has blamed reformists for the violence.",
"At times, video has shown protesters apparently turning on security forces."
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"ILNA reports five protesters will be tried for waging war against God .",
"The charge, called \"Moharebe\" carries possible death penalty .",
"The case will be tried \"soon,\" according to Iranian press .",
"Witnesses said at least seven people were killed and hundreds arrested during protests on December 27 ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) --",
"Nearly 90 professors at Iran's oldest and largest university signed a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticizing the government's violent handling of student protesters.",
"\"The issue that has left a bitter taste in the mouths of the devout Muslim and patriots of Iran is the violent and above the law [illegal] encounters, particularly with University students and faculty members of Iran,\" says the letter, which was posted on the reformist Web site \"Rahesabz,\" or \"Green Path.\"",
"\"In fact, the nightly attacks on the dormitories and living quarters of innocent students and daily assaults on them ... are not testaments to the power of the system, just as the violent beatings and imprisonments are not testament to its faith and piety.\"",
"The professors ask Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to order revolutionary guards, government-sanctioned militiamen and others who have engaged in campus violence to vacate the university.",
"a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also calls for official apologies for beatings of university members and the unconditional release of detained students and faculty.",
"There was no immediate government response to a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.",
"The 88 professors -- all of whom are considered employees of the Islamic republic -- who signed a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are \"risking The professors's jobs and God knows what else,\" said Ali Alfoneh, a research fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute who has researched the relationship between Iranian civilians and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.",
"\"Some of them may end up arrested,\" he added.",
"The letter, posted on a reformist Web site Monday, is a rare and significant showing of discontent among the university's academics.",
"Student unrest has only increased since thousands of protesters turned out on the streets of Iran to oppose Iran's disputed presidential election, in which hardline incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the overwhelming winner.",
"\"Unfortunately and sadly; all of this takes place under the veil of safeguarding Islam and the representation of the supreme leadership and, even more sadly, no institution or organization accepts responsibility for this savagery!\"",
"The anti-government demonstrations began following the disputed June 12 presidential vote, which re-elected hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over main opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi.",
"Last month marked the deadliest clashes since the initial protests broke out this summer.",
"At least seven people were killed and hundreds arrested as they took to the streets on Ashura, a Shiite Muslim holy day.",
"One university researcher told CNN One university researcher was one of many beaten by police, struck with a baton 11 times.",
"Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa-Mohammad Najjar warned Saturday that the government will not show leniency to protesters in the future.",
"\"It doesn't surprise me that professors wrote this letter, because universities have been one of the first victims of increased government pressure,\" Alfoneh said.",
"In the aftermath of the election, Tehran University and other institutions quickly became hotbeds of violence, with members of the government's Basij militia attacking young protesters on campus, including dormitories.",
"In August, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed a group of university professors from all over, noting that academics would be held to a higher standard of accountability -- especially after the elections.",
"\"Naturally, the expectations that we have of the professors and faculty is much greater than what we expect from the students,\" Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted by Iranian media as saying on August 30.",
"\"the students are the young officers on the front lines of this war and the professors are the commanders [against] this 'soft war' -- the professors who can fulfill this role will be worthy of the Islamic republic.\"",
"the government has denied that the government's security forces killed anyone and has blamed reformists for the violence.",
"At times, video has shown protesters apparently turning on security forces.",
"Still, the letter serves as another blow to Iran's Islamic leadership, which reformists say has lost credibility in its handling of the post-election unrest.",
"Several critics, including cleric and former presidential candidate Mehdi Karrubi have compared the tactics of the government to those of the Shah of Iran, who was overthrown by the same fervent followers of Islam more than 30 years ago.",
"Alfoneh noted that numerous petitions were drafted and published in the days leading up to the overthrow of the Shah, who was also slammed with allegations of injustice and human rights violations under his watch.",
"He said it's no surprise that academics today are taking a similar approach as it becomes increasingly harder to teach amid the violence.",
"\"The opposition and even ordinary citizen are trying to duplicate the events of 30 years ago -- The opposition and even ordinary citizen're trying to play to the memory of the public,\" Alfoneh said.",
"CNN's Samira Simone contributed to this report."
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"Letter criticizes government's violent handling of student protesters .",
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"(Real Simple) --",
"Visit a bathroom in a home in the Netherlands and you might find a good idea staring you in the face: a list of birthdays important to your host posted opposite the toilet.",
"Why in that spot?",
"To assure that it's viewed regularly.",
"While you may not want to sacrifice your bathroom aesthetics for the sake of remembering key birthdays, the more often you see the dates, the more likely it is you'll remember them.",
"As founder and \"Exalted Queen Mother\" of the Red Hat Society, an international network of women over 50, Sue Ellen Cooper chooses to keep Sue Ellen Cooper's long list of reminders in the kitchen.",
"\"I have a list of every significant birthday taped to the inside of my pantry door,\" Sue Ellen Cooper says.",
"\"It's impossible not to see the dates every time I open the pantry.\"",
"Whether it's inside a cabinet, on the refrigerator, or bookmarking a page in the novel you're reading, place your list in a spot where you are likely to view your list every day and you'll always be aware of an impending birthday.",
"Real Simple: How to handle a milestone birthday .",
"Use a perpetual calendar to remember birthdays .",
"Traditional calendars are less than ideal for keeping track of birthdays, as Traditional calendars require you to pencil in all your important dates each year.",
"A perpetual calendar solves that problem by charting the months without naming the day of the week for each date.",
"Find 5-by-14-inch calendars for $10 at www.galison.com.",
"You can also download a printable perpetual birthday-reminder calendar (for free) at Hallmark.com, or use the Real Simple: Birthday reminder worksheet.",
"Similar to a perpetual calendar but used exclusively for birthdays, a birthday book allows you to jot down birthdays without having to rewrite each date yearly.",
"Keep a birthday book somewhere visible, though, such as on top of a coffee table or on your desk, as opposed to placing a birthday book on a bookshelf, where a birthday book may get lost amid your Steinbecks and Angelous.",
"The 2 3/4-by-4 1/4-inch pocket birthday organizer from Fred Flare ($8) will fit in your handbag, so you can commit dates to memory as you wait for your latte.",
"Track birthdays in your day planner .",
"For some, a day planner or a Filofax is preferable to a wall calendar because it's portable.",
"Erica Ecker, a.k.a. \"The Specialist,\" is a New York City-based organizational specialist who recommends writing birthdays in a day planner with a colored marker.",
"\"Pick a unique color,\" she says, \"so that when you go to rewrite the dates for the next year, the birthdays stand out.\"",
"Ecker also inserts mini Post-it notes as \"birthday alarms.\"",
"Insert one in the planner a few days ahead of the first birthday for which you would like to send a card.",
"This way, you'll get the card in the mail on time.",
"Once you've done that, move the Post-it ahead in the book to a few days before the next important birthday.",
"If rewriting birthdays feels like too much of a chore, jot down birthdays on the tabbed section dividers before each month in your day planner.",
"Then you can simply pull out the tabbed section dividers the following year and place the tabbed section dividers before each month in your new planner.",
"Real Simple: Look great in your birthday photos .",
"Remember birthdays with computer reminders .",
"With a free membership at Yahoo!, you can take advantage of the site's calendar feature, which allows you to schedule all kinds of appointments with alarms sent to your Yahoo! Messenger account, mobile device, or e-mail address.",
"If you choose to share your calendar with friends and family, friends and family can view your dates and add friends and family's own.",
"Cost: Free.",
"BirthdayAlarm.com .",
"This service features an easy interface, e-mail or text-message reminders, a selection of e-cards, and an option to send flowers.",
"BigDates.com .",
"BigDates will remind you of a birthday via a cell-phone text message or an e-mail with suggestions for cards and gifts.",
"You can even sign up for a service that will send a paper card to someone through the U.S. Postal Service ($3, plus postage).",
"The downside is that it's slightly impersonal; you don't get to compose the message in your own handwriting.",
"HappyBirthday.com .",
"Boasting a tasteful, simple, and thoughtful interface, this site assigns each member her own Web page so she can direct friends and family there to input friends and family's birthdays, rather than having to collect the information herself.",
"BirthdayPal.com .",
"Birthday Pal keeps track of as many birthdays as you like and will send up to four different reminders per birthday.",
"It also automates the process of birthday collection by sending an e-mail to friends requesting their dates.",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"The more often you see the dates, the more likely it is you'll remember them .",
"A specialist recommends writing birthdays in a day planner in bright colors .",
"BirthdayAlarm.com, BigDates.com and BirthdayPal.com are other helpful sites .",
"Remember birthdays on your computer calendar for easy changes ."
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"MUMBAI, India (CNN) --",
"Shweta Gupta knows exactly what kind of groom Shweta Gupta wants: he should be educated, well settled and live in a good location --- one that must be in India.",
"Indian brides and grooms from the Adivasi tribe take part in a mass marriage ceremony.",
"Love may be recession proof in India, but arranged marriages are not.",
"One of the casualties of the global economic slowdown is the Non Resident Indian (NRI) groom.",
"the Non Resident Indian (NRI) groom were once considered premium marriage material.",
"After all, the Non Resident Indian (NRI) groom were the men who had typically studied hard, gotten top jobs in the West, earned big bucks and could whisk the Non Resident Indian (NRI) groom's wives away to better opportunities in the West.",
"Not anymore.",
"\"Yeah, I hate to say it but the NRI man seems to be out of favor with the Indian woman,\" said Gaurav Rakshit of Shaadi.com, a matrimonial search engine used by 14 million people globally.",
"He has seen demand for NRI grooms drop by around 20 to 30 percent since the recession hit.",
"Why?",
"Shweta Gupta, a 23-year-old student, has an answer.",
"\"Many Indians working abroad have come back due to recession hitting foreign countries and I don't think recession has affected India that much,\" said said.",
"Shweta Gupta believes there is greater job security in India, so would prefer Shweta Gupta's husband to be based here.",
"Shweta Gupta's mother, who is involved in finding a suitable man for Shweta Gupta's daughter, agreed.",
"\"Suppose there is no job security, then again he would have to come to India, then again he would have to find a job for himself, so I would prefer both of them to be here.",
"Plus, I want Shweta Gupta to be close to me,\" said Shweta Gupta.",
"Arranged marriages are still the norm in India and parents play an active role in choosing a life partner for their children.",
"Traditionally, parents will let friends know that parents are on the lookout for a partner for parents's child.",
"Sometimes, parents go to a marriage broker -- a middleman who keeps a stash of resumes and photos of eligible men and women whose families have registered with parents.",
"As Indians get more tech savvy, more people are taking more people's search for partners online.",
"Matrimonial Web sites are popular since Matrimonial Web sites offer a much bigger pool of potential life partners.",
"Shweta Gupta is currently pursuing an MBA in Mumbai and is confident of getting good job offers in India --- another reason Shweta Gupta would not want to risk that by going abroad.",
"\"As the woman finds the woman's voice in Indian society, a part of the trend is defined by the woman's unwillingness to compromise on where the woman grew up, the kind of person the woman wants to be with, the value system the woman wants to associate with,\" Rakshit said.",
"Women in India are comfortable with the opportunities Women in India have at home and don't feel Women in India need to go abroad to have a better life.",
"As a result, NRI men are out.",
"So, who is in?",
"Well, government employees, who are typically thought to hold more stable jobs.",
"Shaadi.com said demand was up around 45 percent since last year for men with these jobs.",
"Also in favor now: working wives --- a departure from the tradition of Indian men choosing only homemakers.",
"Anish Sapra, 27, has been looking for a bride for around ten months --- and he wants a working woman.",
"\"It will be a help -- more than a help -- to have a working partner,\" he said.",
"\"Not just for financial reasons,\" he added noting that he believes he would have more in common with such a wife.",
"A wife with a job could help pay off some of the wedding bills, too.",
"Indian marriages are typically large and flamboyant affairs, though the slowdown means Indian marriages are somewhat subdued these days.",
"That is one tradition Shweta Gupta won't give up.",
"Shweta Gupta is holding out for a grand wedding with lots of singing and dancing -- Shweta Gupta just has to find Mr. Right.",
"\"My marriage should be fun, it should be remembered by all people,\" she said."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Inauguration revelry began Sunday afternoon as thousands of people packed the National Mall in WASHINGTON for a free concert featuring big stars.",
"Thousands gather Sunday afternoon on the National Mall in WASHINGTON.",
"President-elect Barack Obama addressed a roaring crowd after 90 minutes of high-energy acts such as U2, Mary J. Blige, Usher and Beyonce.",
"\"Welcome to this celebration of American renewal,\" President-elect Barack Obama said.",
"\"In the course of America's history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones America face right now.\"",
"\"I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure,\" President-elect Barack Obama said.",
"\"That it will prevail; that the dream of America's founders will live on in our time.\"",
"Watch Obama address the crowd » .",
"President-elect Barack Obama spent the morning visiting Arlington National Cemetery and attending church before heading to the \"We are One: Opening Inaugural Celebration\" at the Lincoln Memorial.",
"It was nothing but good vibes -- a brief respite for an incoming president who will face huge problems after he takes office Tuesday.",
"Bruce Springsteen opened inaugural concert with Bruce Springsteen's song \"The Rising,\" singing, \"How far I've gone/How high I've climbed/On my back's a 60 pound stone/On my shoulder a half mile line.\"",
"Along the National Mall, between the Capitol and the Washington Monument, people watched inaugural concert on massive screens and sang along with \"America the Beautiful\" and \"This Land is Your Land.\"",
"During U2's performance of \"Pride (In the Name of Love),\" a tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., frontman Bono referenced the civil rights leader's \"I Have a Dream\" speech, saying that it was also, \"an Irish dream, a European dream, and African dream, an Israeli dream, and a Palestinian dream.\"",
"Watch performances from inaugural concert » .",
"President-elect Barack Obama mentioned the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and also referred to King's \"I Have a Dream\" speech, which took place in the same spot where President-elect Barack Obama was standing.",
"\"Directly in front of us is a pool that still reflects the dream of a King and the glory of a people who marched and bled so that their children might be judged by their character's content,\" President-elect Barack Obama said.",
"President-elect Barack Obama said what gives President-elect Barack Obama \"the greatest hope of all is not the stone and marble that surrounds us, but what fills the spaces in between.",
"It is you -- Americans of every race and region and station who came here because you believe in what this country can be and because you want to help us get there.\"",
"Vice President-elect Joe Biden also spoke, pointing to those \"marble domes\" and towers of Washington surrounding the crowd which represent the \"majesty of a great nation -- all built stone by stone by American men and women.\"",
"Work is about \"dignity\" and \"respect,\" Vice President-elect Joe Biden said, praising the ethic of hard-working Americans.",
"\"We owe them the chance to go to work each day knowing they have the thanks of a grateful nation.\"",
"Comedians and actors such as Steve Carell and Jamie Foxx brought some comic levity to the inauguration of a president who will face some serious problems in just a few days.",
"Foxx, always the showman, urged \"Chi-town\" to \"stand up!\"",
"Joined by his wife Michelle and their children, the President-elect stood up, laughing and clapping.",
"Jamie Foxx did an impression of President-elect Barack Obama's speech election night, as President-elect Barack Obama laughed.",
"Stevie Wonder belted out \"Higher Ground\" with Shakira and Usher.",
"Herbie Hancock backed Sheryl Crow and will i. am. as they sang Bob Marley's \"One Love.\"",
"Garth Brooks sang the 1971 folk rock classic \"American Pie\" followed by a choir-backed version of \"We shall be free.\"",
"Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Jack Black and Rosario Dawson also addressed the crowd.",
"The celebration caps President-elect Barack Obama's shortened version of President Abraham Lincoln's 1861 rail trip to WASHINGTON.",
"President-elect Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th president in WASHINGTON on Tuesday.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Sunday morning suggests most Americans see President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration as a chance for a divided America to unify.",
"\"You know America is in the middle of a honeymoon when 6 in 10 Republicans have a positive view of President-elect Barack Obama,\" said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.",
"CNN's John King interviewed President-elect Barack Obama this week in Ohio.",
"CNN's John King noted that President-elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office on the steps of a Capitol built on the backs of slaves and live in a house built on the backs of slaves.",
"\"This has to be incredibly overwhelming,\" CNN's John King said.",
"Watch President-elect Barack Obama's interview with King » .",
"President-elect Barack Obama replied, \"The notion that I will be standing there and sworn in as the 44th president, I think, is something that hopefully our children take for granted.",
"But our grandparents are still stung by it and it's a remarkable moment.\""
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"President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden visit Tomb of Unknowns .",
"inaugural concert is being streamed live for free on HBO.com ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The Wisconsin man accused of poisoning Mark Jensen's wife with antifreeze and convicted of murdering his wife was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with no chance of parole.",
"Mark Jensen's chin quivers as a letter from Mark Jensen's sons is read in court Wednesday before Mark Jensen's sentencing.",
"Mark Jensen, 48, was found guilty Thursday in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, of killing Mark Jensen's wife, Julie Jensen, in 1998.",
"The prosecution said the murder culminated years of torment.",
"\"Your crime is so enormous, so monstrous, so unspeakably cruel that it overcomes all other considerations,\" Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder said before pronouncing the sentence.",
"Watch Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder lower the boom » .",
"Prosecutors contended that Mark Jensen poisoned Mark Jensen's 40-year-old wife with antifreeze and then suffocated his wife in 1998, but the defense argued that his wife was a depressed woman who killed his wife and framed his wife's husband.",
"his wife had given a neighbor a letter pointing an accusing finger at his wife's husband should anything happen to his wife.",
"his wife also made foreboding comments to police and to his wife's son's teacher, saying his wife suspected his wife's husband was trying to kill his wife.",
"his wife's letter, read aloud in court, said in part: \"I pray I'm wrong + nothing happens ... but I am suspicious of Mark's suspicious behaviors + fear for my early demise.\"",
"Read the letter » .",
"The case turned on the admissibility of the letter, which would have been considered unusable \"hearsay\" evidence if Schroeder had not ruled that it was a \"dying declaration.\"",
"In such cases, the defendant has no opportunity to face the defendant's accuser.",
"After the verdict, jurors told reporters that the letter gave jurors \"a clear road map\" to conviction, as one female juror phrased it.",
"Another female juror said Another female juror believed Mark Jensen was trying to push Mark Jensen's wife over the edge.",
"\"Mark Jensen tortured his wife hoping his wife could be classically diagnosed as a nutcase,\" she said.",
"Several of jurors were in the court gallery for the sentencing hearing Wednesday.",
"Mark Jensen, dressed in blue jail fatigues, sat stoically while Mark Jensen's four brothers asked for the harshest possible sentence.",
"\"I hope the court shows the same mercy and compassion that the defendant showed our sister,\" Patrick Griffin, the victim's youngest brother, said. Watch brothers demand justice » .",
"But Mark Jensen's chin quivered and Mark Jensen's eyes watered when Mark Jensen's attorney read a letter from Mark Jensen's two sons, David and Douglas.",
"\"Mark Jensen never failed to support Jensen's two sons, David and Douglas throughout this ordeal,\" Jensen's two sons, David and Douglas wrote in requesting mercy for Jensen's two sons, David and Douglas's father.",
"\"... If anyone in this world is the epitome of loyalty, it is Jensen's two sons, David and Douglas's dad.\"",
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"BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) --",
"When Argentine woman was 23, Argentine woman vanished from their hometown in Argentina, a suspected victim of a human trafficking and prostitution ring with links throughout Latin America and Europe.",
"Argentine woman, hugs Argentine woman's daughter Micaela.",
"Police believe Argentine woman was forced into sexual slavery.",
"Trimarco, 54, has spent the past 6½ years searching for Trimarco's daughter, often putting Trimarco at risk.",
"While chasing down leads on Argentine woman's whereabouts, Trimarco's entered dark and dangerous brothels and confronted pimps and politicians who, Trimarco says, are complicit in Trimarco's daughter's disappearance.",
"Trimarco has won accolades throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States for Trimarco's work.",
"But Argentine woman is nowhere to be found.",
"\"Argentine woman is a wonderful and caring girl.",
"My life will be completely absorbed with this fight until Argentine woman is back and safe,\" Trimarco said.",
"On April 3, 2002, Argentine woman left Argentine woman's house in the northern Argentine province of Tucuman early for a doctor's appointment.",
"Argentine woman was wearing a turquoise shirt, blue jeans and old white sneakers.",
"As Argentine woman left the house, Argentine woman told Trimarco's mother, \"Don't worry.",
"I'll be back soon.\"",
"Those were the last words the two exchanged.",
"The investigation that has followed has led police and Trimarco to believe that Argentine woman was kidnapped and forced into prostitution, either in rural Argentina or Spain.",
"So far, a series of random clues has failed to provide any concrete information on Marita's whereabouts.",
"Now, art is imitating life on Argentina's airwaves.",
"Trimarco's story has become the basis of one of Argentina's most popular nighttime soap operas, \"Vidas Robadas,\" or \"Stolen Lives.\"",
"Watch art imitate activism » .",
"The program premiered in March on Telefe, one of Argentina's largest television networks, to a lukewarm response.",
"But as the storyline and characters evolved and word started to spread, the audience grew, and it became water-cooler television.",
"\"Stolen Lives\" attracts more than 2 million viewers nightly, a considerable feat considering Argentina's population is only 40 million.",
"The show's plot centers on widowed anthropologist Bautista Amaya (played by Facundo Arana) and Rosario Soler (Soledad Silveyra) -- the mother of a young kidnapped girl, based on Trimarco -- who team up to unravel an underground prostitution ring.",
"\"With every performance, I try to display the inner feelings of Argentine woman, to transmit Argentine woman's grief,\" Silveyra said.",
"\"As an actress, I feel an enormous responsibility.\"",
"The usual telenovela themes of love, passion and revenge are ever present in \"Stolen Lives,\" but The show strives to expose an issue that has remained in the dark in Argentina until recently.",
"Human rights groups in Argentina estimate that 800 women have gone missing at the hands of human traffickers since 2007.",
"Worldwide, about 800,000 people are trafficked across borders annually, according to the U.S. State Department.",
"\"I am delighted that The show has been able to bring this topic to light, because no one ever talked about human trafficking in Argentina before,\" Trimarco said.",
"\"Stolen Lives\" is the latest in a series of recent Argentine telenovelas that dissect important social issues while also aiming to entertain.",
"One of the most important was the 2006 hit \"Montecristo,\" which examined crimes against humanity committed by Argentina's military during the 1970s and 1980s.",
"Local versions of \"Montecristo\" are produced in nine countries around the globe, including Turkey, Portugal, Mexico and Russia.",
"\"With these types of telenovelas, we are able to bring something entirely new to the public debate.",
"And because we take a fictional and not a journalistic approach, we are able to attract and keep more viewers,\" Telefe programming director Claudio Villarruel said.",
"\"Montecristo\" helped reunite children of Argentina's Dirty War who \"disappeared\" with lost family members.",
"The Dirty War happened from 1976-83, when the government carried out a secret campaign to purge the country of those it considered to be dissidents.",
"\"Stolen Lives\" is making a similarly strong impact.",
"Trimarco established a foundation in Trimarco's daughter's honor, Fundacion Maria de los Angeles, last year in Tucuman.",
"It counts U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Earl Wayne and Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner among its supporters.",
"According to Trimarco, the foundation has rescued 360 women and children from trafficking networks, and leads on missing people continue to pour in.",
"Argentina passed Argentina's first national law against human trafficking this year, a law that Trimarco lobbied hard to get passed.",
"Meanwhile, praise rings from home and abroad.",
"In May, \"Stolen Lives\" was declared a show of \"social interest\" by the Buenos Aires City legislature.",
"In 2007, Trimarco received the U.S. State Department's \"International Women of Courage Award\" from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a ceremony in Washington.",
"Later this year, Trimarco will travel to Spain to speak about human trafficking with lawmakers from the European Union.",
"\"It's just like Condoleezza Rice told me: My screams are being heard all over the world,\" Trimarco said.",
"Trimarco travels around Argentina constantly, educating people about human trafficking, and following up on clues about Marita.",
"Trimarco is also raising Marita's daughter, Micaela, 9.",
"With all the publicity surrounding the case and the success of \"Stolen Lives,\" Trimarco has Trimarco become a target.",
"Trimarco's accusations of political and police involvement have led to death threats, Trimarco says.",
"Still, Trimarco remains committed to the cause and says that collaborating with the producers of \"Stolen Lives\" to tell Trimarco's story has helped give Trimarco the strength to continue searching for Trimarco's daughter.",
"\"I'm content, because my pain is now serving a purpose,\" Trimarco said."
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"MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) --",
"A team of experts gathered Friday on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to decide how to deal with marauding bears that reportedly have killed two people recently.",
"As many as 12,000 bears live on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.",
"As many as 12,000 bears are blamed for the deaths of two guards at a geological station near a platinum mine on the peninsula in far eastern Russia.",
"Russian media reports cite local law enforcement officials as saying the remains of the two men had been \"gnawed on.\"",
"Groups of bears have been reported in the region since the deaths of two guards at a geological station near a platinum mine on the peninsula in far eastern Russia, and many people have refused to work at a platinum mine on the peninsula in far eastern Russia, saying many people are afraid.",
"Three hunters and a representative of Koryakgeoldobycha, employer of around 400 people at a platinum mine on the peninsula in far eastern Russia, will evaluate the danger and decide whether killing a few animals is necessary, said Vladimir Rudeyev of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in Kamchatka.",
"\"All decisions are made locally,\" Vladimir Rudeyev of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in Kamchatka told CNN.",
"\"No licenses [for shooting bears] have been issued yet.",
"Reports came out that they were, but that's incorrect.\"",
"Hunters might need to kill only the most aggressive bears, Vladimir Rudeyev of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in Kamchatka said.",
"Generally, bears are timid animals and need only to be scared off.",
"Exterminating wild bears that are not afraid of humans is relatively common in Canada and the United States.",
"Trouble in northeastern Kamchatka began when the two unarmed geological station guards were found dead July 17.",
"More than 93 miles (150 kilometers) away, about 20 bears came into another station several days later.",
"Then, dozens more wild bears were seen 25 to 50 miles (40 to 80 kilometers) away, around various stations and villages in the area.",
"\"Bears came out to where they used to live before,\" Vladimir Rudeyev of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in Kamchatka said.",
"\"It constantly happens on the Kamchatka Peninsula, on various rivers, places where people work.\"",
"Humans are to blame because Humans attract the animals by leaving out trash or Humans frighten bear cubs, turning them into aggressive grown-ups, he said.",
"Laura Williams, senior adviser for the World Wildlife Fund in Russia, also said it's the search for food that probably drives bears close to human camps.",
"Kamchatka bears are used to feeding on salmon in the summer, but there have been fewer of the fish in local rivers this year because of overfishing, contamination or natural causes.",
"\"When [bears] don't have salmon, they go into some of the settlements, creating bad situations both for themselves and people,\" Williams said.",
"\"When you're in bear country, it's important to know how to act when you meet a bear.\"",
"Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has long been known for Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula's brown bear population, estimated at 8,000 to 12,000.",
"In some areas of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the population density is the greatest in the world.",
"Human deaths from bears are rare, and Williams said it would be an overstatement to say the situation this year is out of hand.",
"CNN's Mike Sefanov contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"The 2009 presidential inauguration is looking to be historic and, frankly, headache-inducing for the throngs of people descending on the nation's capital to watch Barack Obama sworn in as the 44th president.",
"Workers are putting the finishing touches on the innaugural stage on the steps of U.S. Capitol.",
"CNN has compiled a list of frequently asked questions and answers.",
"Q: How crowded will Washington be, and how will I get around?",
"A: Think Times Square on New Year's Eve.",
"Throw in tight security, then multiply that by 12.",
"At least, that's how it will most likely feel.",
"Nearly 2 million people are expected to hit the streets of the nation's capital January 20.",
"Police will be shutting bridges across the Potomac River into Washington, along with a huge chunk of the downtown area.",
"Two of the major routes coming into the city -- Interstates 395 and 66 -- will be closed to inbound traffic, at least for private vehicles.",
"And for those coming from Virginia, all of the bridges between the state and Washington are going to be shut.",
"In order to get in: walk or take public transport, such as the metro area's subway system.",
"Amtrak says that Amtrak has increased the number -- and length -- of trains running to Washington on Inauguration Day and that tickets are still available but are going fast.",
"iReport.com:",
"Are you going to the inauguration?",
"Security officials also say charter buses, taxis and car services will be another option for those attending.",
"Q: What can't I bring?",
"A: There are several obvious items that are prohibited, according to the U.S. Secret Service, including: . \"Firearms, ammunition, explosives, weapons of any kind, aerosols, supports for signs and placards, packages, coolers, thermal or glass containers, backpacks, bags exceeding size restrictions, laser pointers, animals other than helper/guide dogs, structures, bicycles and any other items determined to be a potential safety hazard.\"",
"Items surrendered to security officials will not be returned.",
"Other items that are being banned include baby strollers and umbrellas.",
"Read more about Secret Service traffic, security plans (PDF)",
"Q: When do the festivities start?",
"A: Saturday, January 17.",
"Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden will begin Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden's whistlestop-like train tour, stopping in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; and then making a stop for an event in Baltimore, Maryland, before pulling into Washington.",
"That evening, Barack Obama, Vice President-elect Joe Biden and their families will hold a free \"Kids' Inaugural\" concert to honor military families.",
"Sunday, January 18 .",
"Barack Obama will kick off the schedule of official inaugural activities in Washington, D.C., with a welcome event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.",
"a welcome event will be free and open to the public.",
"HBO will exclusively broadcast a welcome event from 7 to 9 p.m. ET.",
"a welcome event will be televised by HBO on an open signal accessible to all U.S. viewers with access to cable, telcos or satellite television.",
"a welcome event will also be a star-studded affair, with Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher Raymond IV, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, will.i.am and Stevie Wonder -- among many others.",
"The Rev. Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopal bishop, will deliver the invocation.",
"Monday, January 19 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) Obama and Biden will honor King's legacy by urging supporters to participate in activities dedicated to serving others in communities across Washington, according to the Obama transition Web site, Change.gov.",
"On Monday night, Jazz at Lincoln Center and The Rockefeller Foundation will present \"A Celebration of America\" at the Kennedy Center in Washington.",
"The event -- marking King's legacy and the 56th inauguration -- will be broadcast live on CNN.",
"Special guest stars will be announced shortly.",
"Tuesday, January 20: Inauguration Day .",
"The order of events, according to the Presidential Inauguration Committee, include: .",
"• Musical selections: The United States Marine Band, followed by the San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus .",
"• Call to order and welcoming remarks: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California .",
"• Invocation: Dr. Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback megachurch in Orange County, California .",
"• Musical selection: Aretha Franklin .",
"• Vice President-elect Biden will be sworn into office by John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the Supreme Court .",
"• Musical selection: John Williams, composer/arranger, with Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero and Anthony McGill .",
"• Barack Obama will then take the oath of office, using President Abraham Lincoln's inaugural Bible, administered by John G. Roberts Jr., chief justice of the United States .",
"• Inaugural address .",
"• Poem: Elizabeth Alexander .",
"• Benediction: The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery .",
"• The national anthem: The United States Navy Band \"Sea Chanters\"",
"According to Change.gov, after Barack Obama gives the inaugural address, Barack Obama will escort outgoing President George Bush to a departure ceremony before attending a luncheon in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.",
"The 56th Inaugural Parade will then make The 56th Inaugural Parade's way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, with groups traveling from all over the country to participate.",
"iReport.com:",
"Sneak peek of inauguration parade stand .",
"Wednesday, January 21 .",
"Obama -- as the new president -- will take part in a prayer at the National Cathedral in northwest Washington.",
"The Rev. Sharon Watkins, the general minister and president of the 700,000-member Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), will be the first woman to deliver the sermon at the traditional inaugural event.",
"Q:",
"What's the dish on the inaugural balls?",
"A: There will be 10 balls throughout Washington on Tuesday night.",
"They include: . • Commander-in-Chief Ball, which is dedicated to military personnel and their families. • Five regional balls dedicated to each section of the United States.",
"Only those invited may attend. • Neighborhood Ball, which will be open for Washington, D.C., residents who paid for tickets in advance.",
"Both Obamas will attend the ball, which will be broadcast live on ABC and over the Internet.",
"• Youth Inaugural Ball at the Washington Hilton.",
"Youth Inaugural Ball at the Washington Hilton is reserved for those between the ages of 18 and 35.",
"Tickets are relatively cheap: $75 a pop.",
"MTV will broadcast the event live.",
"• Obama Home States Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center, includes invited guests from Illinois and Hawaii. • Biden Home States Inaugural Ball also at the Washington Convention Center, includes invited guests from Delaware and Pennsylvania.",
"For a full listing of the balls, log on to Pic2009.org.",
"CNN's Mike M. Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) --",
"Omar became a major Category 3 storm Wednesday night as Omar barreled toward the Virgin and Leeward Islands in the West Indies, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"A man watches waves crash into the shore Tuesday at Club Nautico in Falcon state, Venezuela.",
"Omar is expected to continue gathering strength as Omar passes east of the Virgin Islands in the next few hours and makes Omar's way to the northern Leeward Islands Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"At 11 p.m., Omar was moving northeast at about 20 mph with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph.",
"The hurricane's center was about 30 miles (45 km) southwest of St. Croix and about 105 miles (165 km) southwest of St. Martin.",
"A hurricane warning --meaning winds of 74 mph and higher are expected within a day -- is in effect for the Virgin Islands, the islands of Vieques, Culebra, St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Barthelemy, the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla.",
"See where Omar is headed » .",
"Puerto Rico is under a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch, as are St. Kitts and Nevis, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"As Omar approached, Hovensa, a 500,000-barrel-a-day oil refinery on St. Croix, began shutting down all processing and auxiliary equipment \"except those necessary to maintain power supply in the complex,\" refinery spokesman Alex Moorhead said in a statement.",
"Watch Venezuelans try to save homes, dogs » .",
"The move was to ensure the safety of employees and the operation of the refinery, which is jointly owned by Hess Corp. and Venezuela's state oil company.",
"The U.S. Coast Guard closed the Christiansted Harbor, where the refinery is located, on Tuesday, and the refinery will remain closed until the order is lifted, refinery spokesman Alex Moorhead said.",
"\"Once Omar has passed, the refinery will conduct an inspection of the refinery's facilities as soon as it is safe to do so.",
"If no damage is found that would impact safe operation of the refinery, the start-up of processing units will begin in sequential order,\" refinery spokesman Alex Moorhead said.",
"Puerto Rico and some portions of the northern Leeward Islands, which includes the Virgin Islands, could get up to 20 inches of rain, according to the forecast.",
"\"These rains could produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides,\" the National Hurricane Center warned.",
"Also, Omar could produce large swells affecting the western and southern coasts of the Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean islands that stretch from the Virgin Islands southward to the islands off Venezuela's coast.",
"large swells affecting the western and southern coasts of the Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean islands that stretch from the Virgin Islands southward to the islands off Venezuela's coast could cause beach erosion and damage coastal structures, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Antigua, Barbuda and Montserrat are under a tropical storm warning, meaning Antigua, Barbuda and Montserrat could experience tropical storm conditions over the coming 24 hours.",
"A tropical storm watch is in effect for Guadeloupe.",
"Omar's forecast track shows Omar heading into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean after crossing over the Virgin Islands and sweeping past Puerto Rico, but hurricane tracks are subject to variation, and such long-range predictions can change.",
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"A long line of hospital staff wraps around the corridor outside a small conference room in NEW YORK to catch a glimpse of the precious cargo.",
"A worker looks at the mummified skull of King Tut in November 2007.",
"Inside are the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion.",
"Another body -- a prince no less -- is a few rooms down in a computer tomography scanner.",
"the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion are part of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 11 Egyptian mummies, transported to the North Shore University Hospital to be scanned.",
"The goal: Find out who the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion are, how the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion might have died and establish a chronology of advances in ancient Egypt's mummification techniques.",
"The process is not necessarily new.",
"Egyptian mummies have been exposed to radiographic study since 1896 and CT scans, which conducts imaging by sections, for more than two decades.",
"Perhaps the most famous of Egyptian mummies, King Tutankhamun (c. 1355-346 B.C.), was scanned in 2005 right outside the vault that holds his sarcophagus.",
"The scan resulted in more than 17,000 images that were analyzed by an international team of radiologists, pathologists and anatomists, led by the world-renowned Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.",
"The scope and ability of CT scan technology are proving invaluable in learning more about the funeral rituals of ancient Egyptians and the mummies themselves.",
"Whereas conventional X-rays cannot clearly distinguish soft tissue from bone and can see only two planes, CT scanning can differentiate among the various types of bone and soft tissue, and reconstruct three-dimensional images that \"show fine detail inside coronary arteries down to 0.6 millimeters\" said Amgad Makaryus, director of cardiac CT and magnetic resonance imaging at North Shore, providing a better chance at diagnosis and differentiation among diseases.",
"\"CT has proved to be exceptionally well-suited for studying the fragile, wrapped figures of Egyptian mummies, especially those still contained within their decorated plasterlike shells, or cartonnages,\" according to an article by a team of eight researchers, led by Derek N.H. Notman, published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.",
"CT scanning is fast and non-invasive, Makaryus agrees.",
"A scan of one of the four bodies brought to North Shore quickly revealed that the mummy named Lady Hor was actually a man.",
"The body never had to leave The body's cartonnage for the procedure.",
"In the case of King Tut, initial X-rays of King Tut's mummy decades ago showed fragments of bone inside King Tut's skull, causing speculation that King Tut might have been killed by a blow to the back of the head.",
"A scan of one of the four bodies brought to North Shore immediately revealed that King Tut's skull was intact; and the team found no other indication of foul play, according to the team's report.",
"\"King Tut is the icon of Egyptian history, but King Tut is only one of thousands of mummies we can study.",
"Through CT scans, we can, in a way, bring the dead back to life,\" Hawass told National Geographic magazine.",
"In another famous case, a CT scan helped identify the mummy of the Pharaoh Ramses I (1293-1291 B.C.) in 2000.",
"It had been bought from a Canadian museum by the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Dr. Heidi Hoffman, a former radiology resident at Emory now practicing in Chicago, Illinois, and part of the team of scientists who analyzed the pharaoh's body, was able to observe a type of bone erosion, and \"coalescence of air cells can be seen in cases of chronic mastoiditis,\" an inflammatory condition usually due to chronic ear infections.",
"Though easily treatable with antibiotics today, the pharaoh's untreated ear infection could have spread and caused the pharaoh's death.",
"At North Shore, Jesse Chusid, director of Imaging Informatics at the Department of Radiology, said the 64-slice CT scanner takes 0.6 mm-thick sectional scans and combines and magnifies them to provide extraordinary detail.",
"Curators of the Brooklyn Museum reached out to North Shore for the first time in 2007, to scan Demetrios, a 2,000-year-old mummy, before he was to join a traveling exhibit called \"To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From the Brooklyn Museum,\" opening at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, in October.",
"Demetrios is called a \"red shroud mummy\" because of unusual red pigment in Demetrios's linen shroud.",
"Another red shroud mummy is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.",
"There, CT scans revealed the remains of a mummified ibis, a bird sacred to Egyptians, wrapped inside.",
"Curators of the Brooklyn Museum wanted to find out whether Demetrios had Demetrios's own ibis, thought to be a sacrifice to the god Toth, whose head was an ibis.",
"Demetrios did not have one.",
"Still, Dr. Lawrence Boxt of North Shore University Hospital told The New York Times in 2007 that Demetrios either \"had an easy life or was carried around a lot.",
"Demetrios certainly didn't do much heavy lifting during Demetrios's lifetime.\"",
"The same was true for the mummy of the royal prince Count of Thebes, Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet.",
"Edward Bleiberg, curator of Egyptian, classical and ancient Middle Eastern art at the Brooklyn Museum, said initial findings of his scan reaffirmed his high status: A small incision to the side of the abdomen to remove the organs, while carefully leaving the heart in place, then filling the body with embalming liquids -- all indicated a high-quality mummification process.",
"Why the heart?",
"In ancient Egypt, the heart was considered the thinking organ -- the center of the soul and the source of knowledge, Bleiberg said.",
"\"The heart knows what a person thinks and feels,\" he said.",
"\"It is supposed to be left in place during mummification so that it could be weighed against the feather of truth in the final judgment.\"",
"The images produced on the latest mummies at North Shore will have to be studied for months before researchers gain new insight into ancient Egyptian funeral practices.",
"In the meantime, some revelations brought to light by the scans beg more questions yet: Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet seems to have a tube lodged inside him, running from his mouth through his esophagus and into the top of his chest.",
"Bleiberg said Bleiberg and Makaryus are pretty certain that was not the cause of death, and that it was inserted post-mortem.",
"Purpose?",
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Authorities on Sunday released the name of a woman who turned up in New York this month saying Woman had no memory of Woman's name or family.",
"Woman is Kacie Aleece Peterson, 18, of Hansville, Washington, according to Paul Browne, deputy commissioner of the New York Police Department.",
"Police a day earlier said a CNN viewer in Maryland identified the woman, who was found in Midtown Manhattan on October 9 outside a youth shelter.",
"A photo of Peterson, who had been referred to as Jane Doe, was circulated by police and aired on CNN this week.",
"Authorities didn't release Woman's name until Sunday.",
"Paul Browne, deputy commissioner of the New York Police Department said Woman's mother is dead and that Woman's father is heading to New York.",
"CNN affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington, reported that Woman's father went to New York on Sunday to bring Woman's home.",
"The family said it's not the first time Woman disappeared and then later was found with apparent memory loss, the station reported.",
"Woman is from Colville in eastern Washington, the station reported.",
"Woman had been living with a friend in Hansville and attending Kingston High School.",
"her father said Woman had gone to live temporarily with a friend of Peterson's mother's late mother, the station reported.",
"Scott Wilson, spokesman for the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, said Woman was reported missing by Woman's father on October 1, the station reported.",
"Detectives later discovered bank activity and other evidence that Woman was alive, he said.",
"Woman was found outside Manhattan's Covenant House youth shelter around 12:30 a.m. October 9.",
"The organization said that Woman was not a resident at the time and did not appear as if Woman intended to seek refuge at the facility.",
"A security guard for the shelter noticed Woman walking on the sidewalk near Covenant House and approached Woman.",
"Finding Woman's unresponsive, A security guard for the shelter called the New York City Police Department.",
"Police officers interviewed Woman, but it became clear that Woman couldn't provide authorities with any information about Woman.",
"Police said Woman was wearing military green camouflage pants, a black shirt and a pair of black sneakers when Woman was discovered.",
"The CNN viewer who identified Woman was familiar with Woman's situation and knew Woman had been missing this month, police said.",
"Police said Police do not know how Woman lost Woman's memory.",
"\"I just want to know who I am and what happened to me,\" Woman said in a statement previously released by the New York City Administration of Children's Services.",
"Evan Buxbaum, Susan Candiotti and Vanessa Juarez contributed to the report."
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"(LifeWire) --",
"Nancy Dunetz, who teaches English as a second language in New York City, sat down in the school staff room to check Dunetz's e-mail.",
"One of the messages in Dunetz's inbox was from an acquaintance Dunetz'd been corresponding with since their 50th high school reunion last year.",
"In a survey of 4,000 people, about a third said they had accidentally sent an e-mail to the wrong person.",
"But an e-mail didn't contain chummy banter or reminiscences.",
"an e-mail simply included a lewd photo of a partly unclothed young man.",
"The file name of the picture was \"Mid East Hottie.\"",
"\"I was shocked!\"",
"says Dunetz, 68.",
"Dunetz hastily closed an e-mail and tried to erase the image from Dunetz's mind.",
"Later that day, the sender e-mailed an apology to Dunetz and two dozen others who had received an e-mail.",
"He explained he'd been experimenting with his new computer and was trying to figure out how to add attachments to an e-mail, Dunetz says.",
"In doing so, he attached an image from his desktop and tried to send it to himself.",
"Instead, the e-mail program automatically filled in an entire group from his address book -- something he apparently didn't realize until after he hit the \"send\" button.",
"\"I felt terrible for him,\" Dunetz says.",
"\"I could imagine just how mortified he must have been.\"",
"With some 55 billion e-mails being sent daily (not including spam), according to e-mail archiving company The Radicati Group, misdirected e-mails have become the online equivalent of a wrong number.",
"e-mails're unavoidable, annoying -- and often embarrassing.",
"The 'uh-oh' e-mail .",
"In a recent online survey conducted by AOL, 32 percent of the 4,000 respondents have at one time or another mistakenly forwarded an e-mail to an unintended recipient.",
"And often, it's something not so nice.",
"Karla Comer, an account executive at an ad agency in Greensboro, North Carolina, knows just how embarrassing that can be.",
"In 2004, Comer met a guy at a concert and went out with him a few times, but ultimately realized Comer wasn't interested.",
"\"He was just awkward and clumsy.",
"And sometimes I'd catch him staring at Comer, which really creeped me out,\" Comer says.",
"Comer tried to end the relationship by simply not returning his phone calls.",
"\"But then he e-mailed and casually said that he had not heard from Comer in a while and he hoped everything was fine but just assumed I was busy,\" says Comer, 31.",
"\"Before I returned his e-mail, I sent the message to a close girlfriend with a blurb about what an idiot I thought he was and that dating him was a bad idea because he had no understanding of social cues.\"",
"Comer thought Comer sent the \"he's an idiot\" e-mail only to Comer's girlfriend.",
"To Comer's horror, Comer says, the spurned beau replied a few minutes later, calling Comer some not-so-sweet names and suggesting that Comer \"share an e-mail with your friends.\"",
"\"I was speechless,\" says Comer, who chose to not respond.",
"\"But eventually I was able to laugh at an e-mail.\"",
"When errant e-mails are sent at work, however, there's often much more at stake than personal embarrassment.",
"Three years ago, Jamie Diamond, 33, e-mailed Diamond's then-boss to ask about a client at the public relations firm where Diamond was working.",
"Diamond's boss wrote back, criticizing a client at the public relations firm where he was working as incompetent and urging Diamond to \"go around him if you want to get anything done.\"",
"Unfortunately, Diamond says, she also sent the e-mail to a client at the public relations firm where he was working -- oops, make that ex-client.",
"\"One click, and suddenly we'd lost a $5 million account,\"",
"says Diamond, who is now self-employed as a publicist in Williams, Oregon.",
"Can you turn back time?",
"Short of erasing someone's memory, there is no surefire way to retrieve a missent e-mail.",
"Microsoft Outlook has a \"recall\" function that can erase unread e-mails from the in-box of the recipient -- as long as the recipient is using the same mail client or server as the sender -- as does AOL, but only for messages between AOL users.",
"(Both AOL and CNN are divisions of Time Warner.)",
"Then there's BigString.com, an e-mail service which lets you tinker with (or even erase) messages that have already been sent by having the sender write e-mails that are created, stored and viewed on a remote server, where e-mails that are created can be edited or revoked at any time; recipients are actually accessing the e-mail on the remote server when recipients read the message, even though the message looks like a regular e-mail.",
"But old-fashioned vigilance is probably the best way to avert these snafus in the first place.",
"Roger Matus, CEO of e-mail archiving company InBoxer Inc. and keeper of the blog Death By Email, believes the easiest way to avoid these mistakes is to forget that the \"reply all\" button even exists.",
"\"Simply put, there is rarely a real reason to use it,\" he says.",
"\"Often, when you hit it, you end up e-mailing people who were blind carbon copied without realizing.\"",
"Matus offers the following tips on avoiding e-mail embarrassment: . • Type out the person's full name when addressing your e-mail.",
"If you type just the first few letters and let your e-mail program fill out the rest based on your address book, it could easily misroute your message without your realizing it.",
"• Double-check the addresses of your intended recipients before you hit \"send.\"",
"Do you really want all the people to get this particular message?",
"• Be sure to notify your company's legal department if there is any chance that governance, compliance or privacy regulations were violated as a result of something you sent by mistake.",
"• Immediately notify the person who received the e-mail that it was a mistake and, if possible, ask them not to read the message -- or at least to delete the message right away.",
"LifeWire provides original and syndicated content to Web publishers.",
"Anna Jane Grossman is a freelance writer in New York City."
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"Expert's advice: Type recipient's full name and never use reply-all ."
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"(Entertainment Weekly) --",
"\"Amelia\" is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about aviator Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen.",
"Hilary Swank plays aviator Amelia Earhart and Richard Gere plays husband George Putnam in \"Amelia.\"",
"The mystery we ought to be paying attention to is: What really happened on the legendary American aviator's final, fatal flight in 1937?",
"But the question audiences are left with is this: How could so tradition-busting a role model have resulted in so square, stiff, and earthbound a movie?",
"Why present such a modern woman in such a fusty format?",
"Dressed for the title role in a wardrobe of jumpsuits, leather jackets, scarves, and slinky evening wear dashing enough to stop air traffic, Hilary Swank's Earhart doesn't so much talk as make stump speeches -- even when aviator Amelia Earhart's at aviator Amelia Earhart's own breakfast table.",
"And director Mira Nair (\"The Namesake\"), working from an overexplanatory script by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan (based on dual biographies by Susan Butler and Mary S. Lovell), overloads the picture with a cargo of messages, so much so that she deadens aviator Amelia Earhart's subject's spirit.",
"Some of these talking points are aimed at today's teenage girls who might admire the subject's highly personal fashion sense; others go out to older women who cherish aviator Amelia Earhart's feminist cred.",
"All of them add up to banners that might as well be flown from an aircraft tail over a beach: aviator Amelia Earhart lived free in life and love!",
"And Fly! aviator Amelia Earhart!",
"Must!",
"Of course, aviator Amelia Earhart did, setting records as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928 (aviator Amelia Earhart was a passenger, but still, ladies of the day generally didn't wear leather helmets and zoom through the air).",
"aviator Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932.",
"aviator Amelia Earhart went on to launch aviator Amelia Earhart's own brand-name fashion line.",
"In 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart became the first pilot to fly solo from Hawaii to California.",
"Sometimes the press dubbed aviator Amelia Earhart's Lady Lindy, linking aviator Amelia Earhart's fame to that of pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh.",
"Most famously, aviator Amelia Earhart vanished (along with aviator Amelia Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan) in the middle of the Pacific while on an around-the-world flight in 1937; aviator Amelia Earhart's plane was never found, and aviator Amelia Earhart was declared legally dead in 1939.",
"Along the way, aviator Amelia Earhart married George Putnam, the publisher and tireless promoter who shaped aviator Amelia Earhart's public image.",
"(Richard Gere does the honors as Putnam with all the dated, silver-head-in-hands poses required of Richard Gere as a worried businessman/spouse whose wife is also Richard Gere's client.)",
"For a time, aviator Amelia Earhart also conducted a love affair with aeronautics pioneer Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), now best known as the father of writer Gore Vidal.",
"Swank delivers long, carefully composed explications of aviator Amelia Earhart's unorthodox attitude toward marriage and feminine autonomy, taken from aviator Amelia Earhart's journal entries, in studied accents somewhere between those of the Kansas plains of aviator Amelia Earhart's birth and those of Katharine Hepburn in Katharine Hepburn's most famous trouser-wearing, gumption-gal roles.",
"iReport.com:",
"Share your movie reviews .",
"\"Amelia\" dutifully conveys the salient biographical info with a trusty cinematic device: As aviator Amelia Earhart and Noonan embark on Earhart and Noonan's doomed flight, flashbacks catch the audience up on the events that got aviator Amelia Earhart there.",
"(Christopher Eccleston, as Noonan, is the one understated player in this endeavor.)",
"Those last 10 minutes or so of radio-communications loss, concurrent instrument failure, and dawning awareness of disaster are honestly gripping.",
"But just in case the point isn't clear enough (aviator Amelia Earhart! Must! Fly!), throughout the drama composer Gabriel Yared lays on blasts of musical exclamations that are as distracting as sirens.",
"Sometimes that music says, \"It's great to be in the sky and surfing the clouds!\"",
"Sometimes it says, \"Look how pretty the landscape looks below -- kind of makes you miss the music in 'Out of Africa,' right?\"",
"Sometimes the rumble of violins and horns hints, \"Uh-oh, we're getting to the tragic part of the story!\"",
"Mostly, the busy orchestra backs up the starry cinematography to remind us, \"This slim, androgynous beauty, with aviator Amelia Earhart's unusual love life and aviator Amelia Earhart's driving need to take to the skies, sure was something, huh?!\"",
"Whatever the message, there's no navigating around such intrusive messengers.",
"EW Grade: C+ .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Film stars Hilary Swank as aviator Amelia Earhart .",
"\"Amelia\" is flat and dull when it should be exciting .",
"Some of the dialogue is delivered as speeches: yawn ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Friends and strangers across the country gathered on the streets and in schools, churches, bars and auditoriums to celebrate the inauguration of Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.",
"A diverse crowd in Los Angeles, California, cheers as Obama takes the oath of office Tuesday.",
"\"It's a great day to be an American,\" iReporter Roger Germann said at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, where revelers watched the inauguration on television monitors among exhibits of sharks and otters.",
"Tuesday's inauguration brought together Americans from different walks of life, united in their hope that Obama will deliver on Obama's promise to change the nation's course.",
"Click the links to read views on Barack Obama's inauguration from people across the country.",
"Reaction to speech What Obama means to Americans Hopes for Obama .",
"Reaction to speech .",
"Public inauguration-viewing parties were held in auditoriums, schools and arenas across the country, where the atmosphere mirrored the excitement in Washington.",
"Watch people react at viewing parties » .",
"\"People are cheering here as if People were there,\" Irene Koehler of Fremont, California, said of the atmosphere in Oakland's Oracle Arena.",
"More than 200 parishioners from the First AME Church, the largest African-American Church in Los Angeles, gathered in the recreation hall to pray together and share in the excitement of an historic moment .",
"Dressed in Obama shirts and hats, the level of audience participation had the effect of transporting the crowd to Washington.",
"the crowd stood when Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked the crowd to \"please stand\" and bowed the crowd's heads in prayer.",
"the crowd sang along with Aretha Franklin and even took pictures of the screen when Obama appeared.",
"A handful of viewers had tears in A handful of viewers's eyes, but most were filled with \"pure joy.\"",
"\"On Election Night, I was full of tears.",
"I am all cried out -- it is all about joy now,\" said 72-year-old Shirley Turner-Haymer, the granddaughter of a former slave.",
"Even young parishioners derived some significance from the event.",
"\"It's really inspirational that we have a black president now ... because now I could see I can do whatever I want,\" said David Colvin, 10.",
"Lynn Gabriel Thomas, far right, says Lynn Gabriel Thomas, far right is watching Barack Obama in honor of Lynn Gabriel Thomas, far right's father.",
"Lynn Gabriel Thomas, daughter of Tuskegee Airman Daniel Moore, was one of about 300 people who crammed into the Jackie Robinson Center in Pasadena, California, to watch Barack Obama.",
"\"her father would be so thrilled to see this, Obama being sworn in.\"",
"Thomas said.",
"\"her father loved parades, and her father hated crowds.",
"I'm here for her father.\"",
"Across the country in New York's Bronx borough, students huddled in the halls of a school to watch Barack Obama on a projection screen.",
"\"They were cheering; they were clapping; they were in awe because everything we had talked about they were able to see,\" teacher Marta Rendon said.",
"\"When they heard Obama's speech, they were right there clapping and screaming with the rest of us.",
"Obama's speech was really something.",
"Obama's speech was really amazing.",
"Watch Obama promise hope over fear » .",
"More than 100 people gathered at the central library in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, to watch Barack Obama.",
"\"It was really exciting to see people being excited about the country and really happy about there being a new president.",
"And it was great to see such a collective sense of community ... hope and happiness,\" said Jessica Namakkal, a 29-year-old graduate student from Minneapolis.",
"\"I think Obama's speech was great and that Obama really addressed the past eight years in a diplomatic and fair way, while also sort of pushing forward in a good way.\"",
"The unusually bitter cold affected the turnout at Daytona Beach, Florida's, outdoor inauguration celebration, forcing people to take shelter at a local bar.",
"Sean Mingo and Sean Mingo's mother, Joan, watched Barack Obama in Daytona Beach, Florida.",
"More than 50 people packed into Mai Tai to watch Barack Obama on television.",
"Among More than 50 people were Joan Mingo and Joan Mingo's 13-year-old son, Sean, who stayed home from school to watch Obama take the oath of office.",
"\"This is very historical,\" said Sean, who followed Obama's campaign and watched every debate.",
"\"Obama is inspiring.",
"I want to work in politics.\"",
"Obama said Obama's favorite line of Obama's speech was \"we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.\"",
"As Obama was sworn in, the coffee-drinking bar patrons laughed, applauded and wiped tears from the coffee-drinking bar patrons's eyes.",
"\"Obama gives us hope, son, that you can be whatever you want,\" Joan Mingo said to Joan Mingo's son.",
"What Obama means to Americans .",
"Obama's rise holds special meaning for Solas B. Lalgee, who was in New York's Times Square for Barack Obama.",
"View images from Barack Obama » .",
"\"I'm ecstatic,\" said Lalgee, 30, whose father is from the West Indies.",
"\"It's the first time in my life I've ever had someone to look up to.",
"I'm a mixed, multi-ethnic, multinational person, and I've never had someone I could look up to politically and say, 'That's somebody who can represent me.",
"That's somebody who I can relate to.",
"That's somebody that my family can relate to,' and the fact that he actually made it into office is just ... it gives me hope that I can do whatever I want to do in my life and not have a glass ceiling above me.\"",
"\"To me, as an immigrant, it really means a lot to see a son of immigrants -- not only an African American but a son of immigrants -- come to the highest office in the land,\" she added.",
"\"There's hope.",
"And I hope to transmit that to my children.\"",
"Chinoise Noble and Chinoise Noble's mother, Yolanda Lee-Singleton, watched the inauguration in Los Angeles' Nokia Plaza.",
"In California at downtown Los Angeles''s Nokia Plaza, 23-year-old Chinoise Noble clutched a photograph of Chinoise Noble's grandmother as tears streamed down Chinoise Noble's face.",
"Chinoise Noble said Chinoise Noble brought the photo so Chinoise Noble's late grandmother could be with Chinoise Noble on a day though that Chinoise Noble's grandmother never believed would come.",
"her grandmother \"would never in a million years have thought there'd be a black president!\"",
"Chinoise Noble said.",
"In Birmingham, Alabama, the site of racial turmoil during the Civil Rights era, Fred Jemison had high hopes for the Obama administration.",
"\"The biggest thing that I look forward to, that I anticipate from this, is unity throughout the country, racially and politically,\" Fred Jemison told CNN affiliate WBMA at Birmingham's Boutwell Auditorium.",
"At the Jewish Home, a senior living facility in Los Angeles''s San Fernando Valley, about 70 residents and staff members watched the inauguration.",
"\"This is wonderful and exciting,\" said 92-year-old Sylvia Segal, wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.",
"\"There's never been an inauguration like this one, with so many millions giving respect to the United States and an extraordinary man.\"",
"Shelly Balzac, 81, said that Balzac, a World War II veteran who said he witnessed the \"dehumanizing of blacks\" during those years and fought against it within the U.S. military voted for Obama and that when Balzac, a World War II veteran who said he witnessed the \"dehumanizing of blacks\" during those years and fought against it within the U.S. military was a teenager, Balzac, a World War II veteran who said he witnessed the \"dehumanizing of blacks\" during those years and fought against it within the U.S. military's father took Balzac, a World War II veteran who said he witnessed the \"dehumanizing of blacks\" during those years and fought against it within the U.S. military to Chicago's Soldier Field to witness Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigning.",
"\"It's momentous when you look at the conglomeration of all citizens of all colors and all creeds,\" said Balzac, a World War II veteran who said Balzac, a World War II veteran who said he witnessed the \"dehumanizing of blacks\" during those years and fought against it within the U.S. military witnessed the \"dehumanizing of blacks\" during those years and fought against it within the U.S. military.",
"\"It is an emotional day for Balzac, a World War II veteran who said he witnessed the \"dehumanizing of blacks\" during those years and fought against it within the U.S. military,\" Balzac, a World War II veteran who said he witnessed the \"dehumanizing of blacks\" during those years and fought against it within the U.S. military said.",
"\"I realize the tremendous stride in making this a more unified country.\"",
"Stan Keller and Stan Keller's daughter, Nancy, watch the inauguration at the Jewish Home in Los Angeles.",
"\"I was crying inside all day,\" said Stan Keller, 88.",
"Stan Keller said Obama has inspired Stan Keller to try to make a difference in the world.",
"\"I came on Earth to make it a better place to live.",
"I get that inspiration from this man,\" Stan Keller said.",
"iReporter Lee Ann Schmidt of Danbury, Connecticut, watched at home with her husband and two dogs.",
"\"Just to be alive in this time to witness this, it means more to me than anything,\" she said.",
"\"I'm 35.",
"My generation has never really seen the country come together in a positive way like Barack Obama.",
"Barack Obama really does give me hope for the country.\"",
"In Raleigh, North Carolina, iReporter Sam Shaber watched the events with Sam Shaber's parents at his parents's house.",
"\"We are all snowed in and have a bottle of champagne ready,\" Sam Shaber said.",
"\"I am gay, and to have just any minority be elected is such a milestone in so many ways.\"",
"Hopes for Obama .",
"Jeff Teasley, a 49 year-old Navy veteran from Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been disabled since Teasley hurt Teasley's back in 1990.",
"Jeff Teasley, in Teasley's home in Cheyenne, Wyoming, hopes Obama is \"the best thing since running water.\"",
"Teasley, a Republican who did not vote for Obama, was less enthusiastic over Obama's inauguration.",
"Like many here in Wyoming, Teasley fears that Obama will expand the government and pass the cost onto people like Teasley.",
"\"With bigger government comes bigger taxes and with bigger taxes comes more strain on everybody's households.\"",
"But Teasley said Teasley is still rooting for Obama.",
"\"I hope Obama pulls it off.",
"I hope Obama's the best thing since running water because we need a leader, we need someone to direct these people in Washington.\"",
"Others were more optimistic.",
"In downtown Atlanta, Georgia, hundreds of people huddled together in freezing weather in Centennial Olympic Park to watch on two screens.",
"Watch kids from Atlanta sing for Obama » .",
"\"There's hope for a change,\" said Sonita Horn, a homemaker whose husband lost his job as an electrician in Atlanta and now travels three weeks out of four to Virginia for work.",
"She said she hoped not only that Republicans and Democrats would find a way to work together but that the races would, too.",
"\"Everyone will be treated equally,\" she predicted.",
"\"We're now a United States of America, not a black America or a white America.\"",
"CNN's Chris Welch, Michael Cary, Paul Vercammen, Lindy Hall and Jim Spellman contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Republican hopes Obama turns out to be \"best thing since running water\"",
"Teen who took off school to watch speech with mom calls Obama inspiring .",
"\"It's a brand new day for the country,\" man in New York says ."
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"(WIRED) --",
"With rumors piling up about a forthcoming Apple tablet, it appears more and more likely that such a device will emerge soon.",
"This illustration imagines what an Apple tablet device might look like.",
"But what's still unclear is how this gadget will set this gadget apart from Apple's multimedia-savvy product line, including the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the scores of failed tablet PCs that have come and gone.",
"Judging from the company's past moves, we're betting that Apple's tablet will be a media-centric device, focused -- at least in part -- on shaking up the publishing industry.",
"Apple is already prepared to blow Amazon and other e-book makers out of the water with one key weapon: iTunes.",
"Having served more than 6 billion songs to date, the iTunes Store has flipped the music industry on its head.",
"the iTunes Store also turned mobile software into a lucrative industry, as proven by the booming success of the iPhone's App Store, which recently surpassed 1.5 billion downloads.",
"Apple has yet to enter the e-book market, and making books as easy to download as music and iPhone apps is the logical next step.",
"What can Apple do better with e-books?",
"For textbooks or anthologies, Apple can give iTunes users the ability to download individual chapters, priced between a few cents to a few bucks each.",
"It would be similar to how you can currently download individual song tracks from an album.",
"It might even have the same earthshaking potential to transform an entire industry by refocusing it on the content people actually want instead of the bundles that publishers want people to buy.",
"(Of course, Apple would likely offer the à-la-carte purchase model in addition to the option to purchase the entire book as one download -- a more attractive option for shorter works such as novels.)",
"College students would love this: Teachers rarely assign an entire textbook, so Teachers would save hundreds of dollars by downloading only a few chapters of each textbook.",
"Apple is already popular in the education sector, so here's even more money to milk from students, with the textbook industry worth an estimated $9.8 billion.",
"Sci-fi fans might only want one story from an anthology, or a historical researcher might target certain subjects.",
"All Apple has to do to secure the book publishers' enthusiastic cooperation is to offer the book publishers' a generous cut of the revenues, like the 70 percent Apple currently offers app developers.",
"Other than having the upper hand with digital distribution, an Apple tablet can compensate for other e-book readers' shortcomings.",
"In a previous story, Wired.com polled students on their interest in Amazon's large-format Kindle DX reader.",
"Several of them said they couldn't imagine ditching textbooks for a Kindle DX, foreseeing challenges with tasks such as notetaking, highlighting and switching between books while writing essays.",
"Assuming its computing powers and interface design are anything like the iPhone's, a touchscreen tablet would make these student-oriented tasks as easy as a few swipes and taps -- far more pleasant than clunking around with the Kindle's cheap buttons and sluggish interface.",
"Plus, we would imagine students would be able to type students's papers on a touchscreen tablet.",
"Then there's the obvious: An Apple tablet would have color, making An Apple tablet better for displaying magazine pages, which could also be purchased through the iTunes Store.",
"An Apple tablet wouldn't be saddled with a slow e-ink screen, so An Apple tablet could display video and browse the web with aplomb.",
"Let's not forget to mention the multitude of other tasks an Apple tablet will likely be able to perform if developers decide to code applications for an Apple tablet.",
"Think along the lines of an interactive remote control to enhance the movie-viewing experience on your TV, or a music video player to accompany the tunes blasting from your stereo.",
"Or, heck, even an album-cover display screen for you to gaze at while listening to music.",
"(For more on an Apple tablet's advantages versus current e-book readers, see Dylan Tweney's story \"Large-Screen Kindle Won't Mean Squat if Apple Tablet Arrives.\")",
"There's huge potential in a tablet if Apple can pull this off.",
"The challenge lies in establishing the right partnerships.",
"If Apple weaves e-books into the iTunes Store, will book publishers hop on board?",
"Given Apple's success in numbers, we think so.",
"As for a data provider, it would be even better if Apple could work with a carrier such as Verizon to subsidize a touchscreen tablet, bringing a touchscreen tablet closer to $500 -- a more attractive price point for students.",
"Because the device presumably would not feature a phone, the monthly plans could be priced significantly lower than an iPhone -- $30 to $40, perhaps, for an unlimited 3-G Internet connection.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here!",
"Copyright 2009 Wired.com."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"It is not often that football players are actively encouraged to play dirty -- unless of course football players are taking part in a unique variant of the game called \"Swamp Soccer\" when it is virtually unavoidable.",
"The competition is fierce in the 2009 Swamp Soccer World Championship held in Scotland .",
"Originating from the bogs of Finland, the game was started by cross-country skiers who used the football matches in knee-deep mud to strengthen the football matches in knee-deep mud's leg muscles.",
"The first tournament took place in 1997 with 13 teams, but now annual events take place in Sweden, Iceland, Russia and Brazil which can often feature over 200 teams.",
"What do you think of Swamp Soccer?",
"Do you prefer Beach Football of another form of the game?",
"Let us know your thoughts on the 'Sound off' box below.",
"Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller imported the concept to the United Kingdom after a chance meeting with founder Jyrki Vaananen while on a business trip to Iceland.",
"Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller launched the first UK tournament in 2005 and now teams travel from all over the globe to the Scottish village of Strachur to try and become the annual Swamp Soccer World Champions.",
"Watch the action from the bog ».",
"\"We had teams coming from as far afield as Australia and New Zealand to take part in the tournament this year so there is an international flavor to the event,\" Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller told CNN.",
"\"There is a huge appetite to try out new things and I think that's why Swamp Soccer is able to capture the imagination of people.",
"\"The basic rules of football also apply to Swamp Soccer with the exception that matches are played in thick mud with six players on an oversized five-a-side pitch.",
"\"It's probably one of the only sports in the world where the worse the conditions are the better the sporting spectacle!\"",
"There is no offside in Swamp Soccer while kick-offs, throw-ins, corner kicks, free kicks and penalties are taken by using the hands to drop the ball onto a chosen foot.",
"Teams are also allowed to make unlimited substitutions although no shoe changing is allowed for the match duration.",
"Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller believes that the oft-used quote that the state of a pitch can bridge the gap between two unevenly match teams is even more applicable with Swamp Soccer.",
"\"You could put the Brazilian national side up against an amateur team and you wouldn't know who would come out on top -- the pitch really does prove to be a leveler in this instance,\" Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller said.",
"\"Although professional footballers are precious commodities these days -- I'm not sure we'll see any stars getting caked in mud too soon, most of them are far to pampered for that.",
"\"Nobody's ever been injured seriously playing in the swamp, sometimes somebody's got a cut or two but nothing big -- so maybe when they retire from Swamp Soccer they might be prepared to give Swamp Soccer a go.\"",
"The imaginatively titled Real Mudrid, Mudchesthair United and Cowdungbeath were unable to make it past the group stages in the 44-team event which was won by FC Full Gunge from Poole in England who retained their title with a 1-0 victory over The Chocolate Men.",
"This year's Swamp Soccer tournament was held in a village in the Scottish countryside but Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller revealed that Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller intends to bring the mud game to metropolitan areas.",
"Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller added: \"The future for Swamp Soccer is in the city and of course I'm certain we'll bring all the mud with us.",
"It will certainly make a great spectacle if set up a swamp in the middle of Glasgow or Edinburgh, so watch this space.\"",
"If you are interested in taking part in the 2010 Swamp Soccer World Championships visit the official Web site of the tournament."
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"Ana threatened the Caribbean on Saturday, but it was too early to know how much trouble the first named storm of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season might cause.",
"Forecasters expect Ana to hit Leeward Islands on Monday.",
"Ana formed overnight and was expected to gain strength as Ana moved west toward Leeward Islands, where forecasters expect Ana to hit on Monday.",
"The Dutch Antilles issued a storm watch for St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius, meaning tropical storm conditions are expected in the islands within 36 hours, according to the Miami, Florida-based National Hurricane Center.",
"For now, hurricane center has advised the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to monitor Ana's progress.",
"As of 8 p.m. ET, Ana was about 730 miles (1,180 km) east-southeast of Leeward Islands, according to hurricane center.",
"Ana, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), was moving west at about 17 mph (28 kph), hurricane center reported.",
"Ana is expected to turn west-northwest over the next few days, hurricane center said.",
"Ana may eventually hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but forecasters can't say whether Ana will strike the continental U.S.",
"Further east in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bill has developed and is expected to become a hurricane Wednesday.",
"Forecasters say Tropical Storm Bill could evolve into a Category 3 hurricane as it approaches Leeward Islands by Wednesday or Thursday.",
"Tropical Storm Bill was about 820 miles (1,320 km) west-southwest of the Cape Verde islands at 5 p.m. ET."
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"(CNN) --",
"Months after her father's prolonged campaign against Obama's national security policies, Cheney is spearheading a new organization aimed at organizing conservative opposition to the new administration's foreign policy approach.",
"Cheney formed Keep America Safe with William Kristol and Debra Burlingame.",
"The new group, Keep America Safe, says Keep America's aim is to provide a cogent and organized rebuttal to a series of recent moves that expressly divert from the more muscular policies of the Bush administration.",
"Keep America plans to tackle hot-button issues like the way forward in Iraq and Afghanistan, defense spending, CIA interrogation techniques, and the planned closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.",
"\"We have watched with concern and dismay as the Obama administration has cut defense spending, wavered on the war in Afghanistan, and launched investigations into Americans serving on the front lines of the war on terror, while at the same time expanding legal protections for the terrorists that plot to attack this country,\" Cheney, along with William Kristol and Debra Burlingame's two other founders, wrote on Keep America's Web site.",
"\"These policies, along with Obama's abandonment of America's allies and attempts to appease our adversaries are weakening America.\"",
"Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol and Debra Burlingame, the sister of the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 -- the flight that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 -- are also heading up the new effort.",
"Keep America says Keep America's goal is to focus media attention on continuing and emerging national security threats, and marshal grassroots opposition to the president's policies.",
"\"Too often, significant events and thoughtful analysis in the war on terror are glossed over or ignored on nightly national newscasts,\" Keep America writes.",
"\"Keep Keep America Safe will highlight this information on Keep America's website and encourage dialogue between American citizens and their elected representatives in order to produce the legislative and executive action that will keep America safe and strong.",
"A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee responded forcefully to the creation of Keep America, saying the Cheneys' foreign policy approach \"was deemed a failure.\"",
"\"Last fall, the American people overwhelmingly rejected a radical foreign policy authored by Dick Cheney that alienated the American people's allies, emboldened the American people's enemies, depleted the American people's resources, distracted the American people's focus and made America less secure,\" DNC Press Secretary Hari Sevugan said.",
"\"the Cheneys' can continue to focus on securing the Cheneys''s sullied legacy if the Cheneys' want to.",
"But, the president will continue to focus on securing America.\"",
"Incorporated as a non-profit 501(c) 4, Keep America is not subject to contribution limits, and is not required to disclose a list of Keep America's contributors to the Federal Elections Commission.",
"However, Keep America cannot engage in efforts directly aimed at influencing the outcome of an election.",
"Kicking off a fund-raising drive Tuesday, Keep America Safe",
"launched a one-minute, 30-second Web video that portrays Obama as a wavering politician whose ambitious foreign policy promises as a candidate have not matched his actions.",
"\"Not enough time for a decision, but plenty of time for Letterman, golf, a beer summit, more golf, vacation, and a visit to Copenhagen,\" the video states.",
"Cheney has been no stranger to the media spotlight since the Bush administration left office nine months ago.",
"Regularly appearing on a series of cable news shows, the eldest daughter of Cheney has criticized Obama on a host of moves, once concluding that Obama has \"sid[ed] with the terrorists.\"",
"Cheney has also been a vocal critic of Obama, declaring earlier this year that Obama's decision to cease the CIA's practice of aggressive interrogation practices has left the country more vulnerable to a terrorist attack."
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"MADRID, Spain (CNN) --",
"Chess legends Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov faced off again in Spain on Tuesday, 25 years after Garry Kasparov's epic first world championship battle in Moscow, in what organizers are calling a \"historic revenge match.\"",
"Garry Kasparov, right, and Anatoli Karpov play chess at the Arts Palau in Valencia, on Tuesday.",
"Revenge or not, the past chess champs will receive undisclosed sums for playing the three-day, 12-game match in the eastern port city of Valencia.",
"There will be no additional cash prize for the winner of the exhibition event, which the regional Valencia government is organizing under the title \"Valencia, cradle of modern chess,\" event spokesman Rafa Carretero told CNN.",
"But bragging rights, yes, and perhaps with more on the line for Kasparov, who dominated the chess world for 20 years.",
"Garry Kasparov carried on that legacy on Tuesday, winning the first two games in this rematch, Spain's state new agency EFE reported.",
"Anatoli Karpov was world champion when Garry Kasparov began Garry Kasparov's initial five-month match in 1984 in Moscow.",
"their initial five-month match was controversially stopped by chess authorities, citing concerns about the health of the contestants after 48 grueling games.",
"But the next year in Moscow, Garry Kasparov beat Anatoli Karpov in a rematch and went on to hold the number-one world chess ranking almost without interruption until Garry Kasparov's retirement in 2005.",
"The two last met, in their fifth match, in 1990, with games played in New York and Lyon, France.",
"Garry Kasparov won.",
"In a total of five world championship matches, Garry Kasparov has the edge with 21 wins, 19 losses and 104 ties in a total of 144 games.",
"Karpov, now 58, and Garry Kasparov, 46, told Spanish newspaper El Pais they hoped the rematch in Valencia would put chess in the spotlight again.",
"Anatoli Karpov came from Russia to Valencia more than a week ago, with a team of elite trainers, organizers said.",
"Garry Kasparov arrived last Sunday from Garry Kasparov's home in Croatia, where Garry Kasparov had been training.",
"The match, at Valencia's Palace of Arts, has attracted interest from ticket buyers on five continents, organizers said.",
"One of the highest-profile fans on hand is Sulaiman Al-Fahim, president of the chess federation of the United Arab Emirates and owner of England's Portsmouth football team.",
"Dutchman Geurt Gijssen, who was referee for the last two matches between Anatoli Karpov and Garry Kasparov, will referee this match as well, organizers said.",
"Garry Kasparov is now an opposition politician in Russia, running unsuccessfully against then-President Vladimir Putin in 2007.",
"During their first match, in 1984, Garry Kasparov was just 21 and Anatoli Karpov was 33."
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"Garry Kasparov wins first two games in the 12-game rematch .",
"Garry Kasparov's 48-game Moscow match was controversially stopped citing health concerns ."
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"Typhoon Melor roared into central Japan on Thursday, leaving two people dead and lashing the region with heavy rain and gusty winds.",
"Utility poles lie buckled in the wake of Typhoon Melor.",
"Typhoon Melor stayed west of Tokyo, but still caused enough trouble to shut down trains for a time and snarl commuter traffic.",
"Numerous flights were canceled and delayed at the city's two major airports.",
"In western and northern Japan, Typhoon Melor tore roofs off homes, downed power lines and flooded roads.",
"Typhoon Melor contributed to the deaths of a 54-year-old newspaper delivery man in Wakayama, who ran into a fallen tree, and a 69-year-old man from Saitama, who was crushed by a tree.",
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Police in Connecticut say Police in Connecticut have arrested a woman suspected of robbing at least six banks in the past week.",
"Police released photos of a suspect in the robberies of six New England banks.",
"Detectives from the Major Crimes division of the Connecticut State Police took Heather Brown into custody at about 3:15 p.m.",
"The 34-year-old resident of Norwich, Connecticut, will be formally charged with robbery in the first degree, police said.",
"Investigators believe Heather Brown robbed six New England banks, often while claiming to have a bomb.",
"\"When Heather Brown goes into six New England banks, Heather Brown gives the teller information through a note or verbally that Heather Brown has a bomb,\" said Sgt. Jim Keeney of the Connecticut State Police.",
"\"However, there haven't been any reports of an actual bomb.\"",
"Authorities say Authorities believe Heather Brown has held up banks in the Connecticut towns of Middletown, Montville, East Hartford and Windsor, as well as banks in West Springfield, Massachusetts and Westerly, Rhode Island.",
"Women commit 6.2 percent of bank robberies nationwide, up from 4.9 percent in 2002, according to recent FBI figures.",
"The one-woman crime wave in New England apparently began September 21 at the Citizens Bank in Montville, Connecticut.",
"State police said \"Heather Brown ... entered the Citizens Bank with a bag in Heather Brown's possession.",
"The suspect approached the teller indicated Heather Brown was in possession of a bomb and demanded cash.\"",
"Heather Brown left a bag in her possession on a counter and bolted, police said.",
"Four days later, Heather Brown entered a branch of the New Alliance Bank in East Hartford, Connecticut.",
"Investigators with the East Hartford Police Department said Heather Brown \"left a note indicating that Heather Brown had a bomb and demanded $1,000.",
"Heather Brown fled the bank with an undisclosed amount of money.\"",
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"Police: Suspect lives in Norwich, Connecticut, has served time for bank robbery ."
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"Muslims around the world woke up Sunday and welcomed the end of a long month of fasting with hearty greetings of \"Eid Mubarak,\" or happy festivities.",
"Egyptian women perform the Eid al-Fitr dawn prayer at a stadium in Mansura, 120 km north of Cairo.",
"The faithful were ushering in Eid al-Fitr -- three days of celebrations that Muslims mark with joyous community prayers, acts of charity, visits from far-flung relatives, gift-giving and elaborate feasts.",
"\"Think Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's -- all rolled into one.",
"It's that huge for us,\" said Sajjad Aziz of Hoboken, New Jersey.",
"Islam follows a lunar calendar, and the timing of Eid al-Fitr varies around the world depending on when the crescent of a new moon is sighted.",
"So, while most countries -- including the United States -- observed Eid on Sunday, some will begin their celebrations on Monday.",
"The night before Eid, entire communities gather on rooftops, scanning the sky with giddy anticipation.",
"\"It only needs one sighting of the moon in the whole country, and the whole nation erupts in cheers,\" said Qazi Arif, 35, of Sirajgong, Bangladesh.",
"\"It's a divine feeling, hard to describe.\"",
"Eid al-Fitr bids goodbye to Ramadan -- a month of dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks and other sensual pleasures.",
"Muslims believe the Quran, the religion's holy book, was revealed to Prophet Muhammad during Ramadan more than 1,400 years ago.",
"The Eid is one of two major holidays in Islam, alongside another called Eid al-Adha.",
"The latter commemorates the prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Abraham's son, Ishmael, for God.",
"On the morning of Eid, Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers that are often held in open fields to accommodate crowds too big to contain in mosques.",
"Those who can afford it donate a small percentage of their possession or its equivalent to the poor and needy so they too can avail themselves for the celebrations.",
"Feasts await at every house.",
"\"It's a festival principally about community.",
"We're even asked to take a different route when we walk back from prayers so that we can meet different sets of people to greet and celebrate with,\" said Wasim Iqbal of Karachi, Pakistan.",
"For Muslims in North America -- and countries where they are the minority -- Eid is a more subdued affair.",
"\"If you have family close by, then you can kind of capture the mood that you remember from back home,\" said Abdallah Gamal, a native of Egypt who lives in St. Louis, Missouri.",
"\"But it's not the same.\"",
"Because the U.S. Census does not ask about religious affiliation, it is difficult to gauge the Muslim population in the United States.",
"The Pew Muslim American study conducted two years ago estimated it at 2.5 million, while the Council on American-Islamic Relations places it as high as 6 million.",
"On Saturday, both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered greetings to American Muslims.",
"\"We know there is more than unites peoples of faith than divides us,\" Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.",
"\"So as Ramadan draws to a close, let us hold on to that spirit of community throughout the year to achieve our common goals of peace, prosperity and stability.\"",
"It is a message that Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, also shared during Eid al-Fitr prayers when Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban to join the peace process in Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai's war-weary country.",
"The day wasn't one of universal comity, however.",
"In Yemen, the government and rebels accused each other Saturday of breaking a cease-fire they both asked for to commemorate Eid al-Fitr.",
"And Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei used Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's Eid al-Fitr sermon to launch another volley at the country's arch-rival Israel and at Western powers.",
"\"We're not quite there, I'll will admit,\" said Mehreen Ali of Boston, Massachusetts.",
"\"But have you seen an Eid prayer?",
"Rows and rows of Muslims all prostrating together in unison.",
"It's a feeling of such unity and brotherhood.",
"You have to believe that with that spirit present, anything is possible.\""
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"On Saturday Barack Obama offered greetings to American Muslims ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A superb second half goal from substitute Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave Barcelona a 1-0 win over arch-rivals Real Madrid to go back to the top of the Spanish La Liga on Sunday.",
"Both teams ended with 10 men after Barca's Sergio Busquets went just after the hour mark for a second yellow card, with Real losing Lassana Diarra in the dying moments for two yellows.",
"Ibrahimovic's goal was truly worthy of settling 'El Clasico' as the Swedish striker met a Daniel Alves ball from the right on the volley to leave Iker Casillas with no chance.",
"The 55th minute strike in the Camp Nou came shortly after he replaced the ineffective Thierry Henry and followed an opening half in which visitors Real were the more threatening.",
"visitors Real had gone into the game with a one point lead in the standings over the defending Spanish and European champions and showed their quality on the break.",
"Cristiano Ronaldo, making his first start in two months, might have put the visitors ahead in the 20th minute but was denied by home keeper Victor Valdes, who knocked his shot wide with his legs.",
"Barcelona central defender Carlos Puyol also came to their rescue with two last-ditch challenges on Marcelo and Gonzalo Higuain from similar Real attacks.",
"But the Catalans made the breakthrough as Ibrahimovic went some of the way to justifying his massive transfer fee and soon afterwards midfielder Xavi came within a whisker of a second from long-range.",
"Further chances fell to Eric Abidal, who shot wide, and Argentine ace Lionel Messi, who was superbly denied by Casillas from close range.",
"A tiring Ronaldo was substituted and Ronaldo's replacement, Karim Benzema, fired over the top in the 80th minute as visitors Real pressed in vain for an equalizer.",
"\"This was a very good test,\" Barca coach Pep Guardiola told gathered reporters.",
"\"It's always difficult against visitors Real but even more so when you go in as favorite and them as a big underdog.",
"That's when visitors Real is most dangerous.\"",
"The three points leave Barcelona on top with 30 points from 12 games, two ahead of visitors Real on 28.",
"Sevilla, who drew on Saturday, have 26.",
"In other action on Sunday, Deportivo La Coruna had a hard-fought 1-0 win at Racing Santander to move level on points with fourth-placed Valencia.",
"Albert Lopo struck in the 76th minute to give the Galicians the Galicians's eighth league success in 12 matches."
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"Cristiano Ronaldo wastes best chance of the match for visitors ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher on Saturday denied that Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is the man shown pointing at the Google Street View camera as the Google Street View camera drove past Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher's local pub in London last summer.",
"Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher says the figure captured on Google Earth outside a pub in London is not Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.",
"\"Just saw Google Earth apparently that's meant to be me, who ... wears legwarmers with reeboks??",
"Not this kid!!",
"LG,\" Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher wrote on Twitter.",
"Though available for a while in the United States, Google Street View only launched in Britain last week.",
"As in America, the launch in Britain prompted people all over the country to try to find people all over the country or spot funny images and famous faces on Google Earth.",
"Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher was apparently spotted outside The Queens pub in Camden, in north London, a place Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher's known to frequent.",
"The picture shows a man dressed in a dark T-shirt and long shorts sitting at an outdoor table.",
"the man points at the Google Street View camera, obviously having seen the Google car and Google's Street View camera drive by.",
"Google Earth blurs people's faces so it is hard to confirm whether it is Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.",
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"Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher said the man was too embarrassingly dressed to be Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher ."
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"(Entertainment Weekly) --",
"For many, the creative relevance of 3-D cinema remains very much an open question.",
"But when the history of Hollywood's 21st century embrace of 3-D is written, it very well may point to this weekend as the moment when the format definitively established its commercial power at the box office.",
"\"The Final Destination\" scared up by far the most box office receipts, banking $28.3 million.",
"Despite a moviegoing weekend dominated with R-rated violent thriller-type films ostensibly shooting for the same audience, \"The Final Destination\" scared up by far the most box office receipts, banking $28.3 million for an easy No. 1 berth, according to early estimates from Hollywood.com Box Office.",
"That's almost $10 million better than the opening frame for the last film in the creatively-dispatching-model-perfect-unknown-actors franchise (which, for those keeping track, was \"Final Destination 3\").",
"There's really only one reason why:",
"Although just over half its 3,121 theaters were screening the flick in 3-D, fully 70 percent of its box office take was from 3-D theaters, which typically charge an extra few bucks per ticket for the privilege of watching the film with those comfy stereoscopic glasses.",
"Rest assured, despite its title (and its abysmal \"C\" Cinemascore grade), this is by no means the final \"Final Destination\" movie.",
"The folks at the The Weinstein Company, meanwhile, continue to enjoy good news for The folks at the The Weinstein Company's much scrutinized bottom line: Quentin Tarantino's \"Inglourious Basterds\" landed at No. 2 with a rather spectacular $20 million, just 47 percent down from its opening weekend for $73.7 million total.",
"TWC's sister company Dimension Films, meanwhile, saw TWC's sister company Dimension Films's \"Halloween II\" debut at third with a nothing-to-sneeze-at $17.4 million.",
"Granted, director Rob Zombie's second re-imagining of the 31-years-old slasher franchise made nothing close to the $30.6 million Labor Day weekend debut of Zombie's first night out with Michael Myers.",
"But given the steep competition, and the film's $15 million budget, Dimension must be breathing a sigh of relief that their film will most likely see a decent profit.",
"The box office love continued through much of the weekend's top 10: District 9 dropped just 41 percent with $10.7 million, strong enough to hold on at fourth place and, with a $90.8 mil running total, well on its way to joining the $100 million club.",
"At number five, \"G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra\" banged out $8 million, a 34 percent drop and $132 million total.",
"And Julie & Julia savored a tiny 16 percent drop for sixth, with $7.4 million in its forth weekend for $70.9 million total.",
"In fact, the only true disappointment for the weekend was Focus Features' \"Taking Woodstock.\"",
"Director Ang Lee's trip back to the iconic three-day concert debuted at ninth with just $3.7 million, doubly disappointing since it opened wide in 1,393 theaters (after a Wednesday opening in New York and Los Angeles), with a feeble $2,691 per theater average.",
"By contrast, two limited release debuts did rather well: Vogue magazine documentary \"The September Issue\" bowed on six screens with a very fashionable $40,000 per theater average; and the extreme-sports-fandom-gone-wrong dramedy \"Big Fan\" won $13,000 per theater on two screens.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Quentin Tarantino's \"Inglourious Basterds\" landed at No. 2 with $20 million .",
"At number five, \"G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra\" banged out $8 million .",
"Check out which other flicks made this weekend's top 10 at the box office ."
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"(CNN) -- Two U.S. spacecraft are set to crash on the moon Friday.",
"On purpose.",
"And we're all invited to watch.",
"An artist's rendering shows the LCROSS spacecraft, left, separating from its Centaur rocket.",
"NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite is scheduled to drop NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite's Centaur upper-stage rocket on the lunar surface at 7:31 a.m. ET.",
"NASA hopes the impact will kick up enough dust to help the LCROSS probe find the presence of water in the moon's soil.",
"Four minutes later, the LCROSS probe will follow through the debris plume, collecting and relaying data back to Earth before crashing into the Cabeus crater near the moon's south pole.",
"the LCROSS probe is carrying spectrometers, near-infrared cameras, a visible camera and a visible radiometer.",
"These instruments will help NASA scientists analyze the debris plume -- more than 250 metric tons' worth -- for water vapor.",
"The orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will watch, and photograph, the collisions.",
"And hundreds of telescopes on Earth also will be focused on the debris plume.",
"Watch animation of how the moon will be \"bombed\" » .",
"NASA is encouraging amateur astronomers to join the watch party.",
"\"NASA expect the debris plumes to be visible through midsized backyard telescopes -- 10 inches and larger,\" said Brian Day at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California.",
"Day is an amateur astronomer who is leading education and public outreach for the LCROSS mission.",
"Ames will host \"Impact Night,\" an event with music and food starting Thursday evening before a live transmission of the lunar impact will be shown around 4:30 a.m. Friday.",
"Other science observatories and amateur astronomy clubs across the country will be hosting similar events.",
"iReport:",
"Are you planning to watch?",
"\"The initial explosions will probably be hidden behind crater walls, but the debris plume will rise high enough above the crater's rim to be seen from Earth,\" Day said.",
"the crater lies in permanent shadow, making observations inside the crater difficult.",
"Watch CNN's Jeanne Moos ask if lunacy is behind the moon \"bombing\" » .",
"The impacts will not be visible to the naked eye or through binoculars.",
"If you don't have a telescope, or you live in areas where daylight will obscure the viewing, NASA TV will broadcast the crashes live.",
"Coverage begins at 6:15 a.m. ET Friday.",
"The two main components of the LCROSS mission are the shepherding spacecraft and the Centaur upper stage rocket.",
"The spacecraft will guide the Centaur upper stage rocket to the Centaur upper stage rocket's crash site.",
"Data from previous space missions have revealed trace amounts of water in lunar soil.",
"the LCROSS mission seeks a definitive answer to the question of how much water is present.",
"NASA has said NASA believes water on the moon could be a valuable resource in the agency's quest to explore the solar system.",
"LCROSS launched with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 18.",
"Friday's lunar impact will be visible best in areas that are still dark, particularly in the Western United States.",
"The Fremont Peak Observatory near Monterey, California, will open up California's doors early Friday to allow people to watch the event through California's 30-inch telescope.",
"It's \"the most accessible public telescope in the [San Francisco] Bay Area,\" said Dave Samuels, California's vice president.",
"So far, at least 50 people have signed up, Dave Samuels, the observatory's vice president said, noting that number is \"really phenomenal, especially on a school night [and] work night.",
"It's really incredible.\"",
"Students, retirees and board members are among those scheduled to attend.",
"Dave Samuels, the observatory's vice president said a special low-light, infrared video camera will be hooked up to its 30-inch telescope so that the audience can watch the rocket strike the moon.",
"California is in Fremont Peak State Park, which is on a list of California parks that could close because of recent budget cuts.",
"Dave Samuels, the observatory's vice president said Dave Samuels, the observatory's vice president hopes Friday's event triggers more interest in astronomy, particularly among young children, and possibly help the park to stay open.",
"\"It's things like this that get kids interested [in science],\" Dave Samuels, the observatory's vice president said.",
"\"It will probably be a defining moment for them.\"",
"Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri, said Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri's planning to take 17 students -- all juniors and seniors -- to watch the lunar impact .",
"\"This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime thing,\" Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri said.",
"Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri said Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri's arranged for a school bus to pick up the kids early Friday and take the class to the Powell Observatory in Louisburg, Kansas.",
"\"It's weather-dependent; we've got rain right now,\" Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri said.",
"\"It's going to be a call I make at 5 a.m.\"",
"Gray, who is also the director of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City, said Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri's students will try to take photos of the lunar impact through the eyepiece of his students's telescopes.",
"Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri said Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri hopes the event will influence Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri's students to pursue careers in science.",
"\"Being as we do live here in Missouri, we're away from the hub [of astronomy],\" Darrick Gray, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Ray-Pec High School near Kansas City, Missouri said.",
"\"We're not in Florida, we're not in Texas, we're not in Silicon Valley -- it's not something his students're used to seeing.",
"\"So any time you can show his students something that's never been done, and his students say, 'Oh this is pretty cool,' I think his students buy into that.\""
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"Four minutes later, the LCROSS probe will follow and crash onto the lunar surface .",
"the LCROSS probe will relay data back to Earth about water vapor in moon dust .",
"The debris plumes will be visible through midsize backyard telescopes ."
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"(Oprah.com) --",
"A businesswoman, a mother of four, an international fashion icon, a woman committed to making the world a better place for women and children -- Queen Rania of Jordan is truly changing the world.",
"Queen Rania says cultural dialogue, education and increased opportunities are ways to combat terrorism.",
"Queen Rania was born in Kuwait.",
"Shortly after Saddam Hussein invaded that country in 1990, Queen Rania's family fled and settled in Jordan.",
"After graduating from business school, Queen Rania began working Queen Rania's way up the corporate ladder.",
"When Queen Rania was just 22, Queen Rania went to a dinner party where Queen Rania met Jordan's Prince Abdullah -- considered one of the world's most eligible bachelors.",
"He didn't remain one for long after that night.",
"Six months later, Queen Rania and Abdullah had a royal wedding and started a family.",
"And, though Rania and Abdullah planned for a life as royals, Abdullah assumed Abdullah'd remain a military officer for life.",
"In 1999, while on his deathbed, King Hussein of Jordan stunned King Hussein of Jordan's country by announcing that King Hussein of Jordan's son Abdullah -- not King Hussein of Jordan's brother -- would succeed King Hussein of Jordan as king.",
"That made 29-year-old Rania the world's youngest living queen.",
"Queen Rania says that being queen is not the trait Queen Rania defines Queen Rania by.",
"\"I am not at all conscious of it,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"I make a conscious effort not to be conscious of it.",
"Because I'm Rania, you know?",
"People call me 'Queen,' but, you know, that's not me ...",
"I'm Rania.\"",
"There are many perks to being queen, of course, but Queen Rania stresses that there are also responsibilities.",
"\"One of the major misconceptions about this position is that people think that I might be far removed, that I might not be in touch with reality,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"The honest truth is that my life is very much about dealing with issues on the ground, dealing with ... the problems that our country faces.",
"That's something I do on a daily basis.\"",
"Watch how Queen Rania uses technology to reach young people » .",
"When most people think of queens, most people probably think of what most people know from fairy tales.",
"\"For me, it's just real life,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"I am a mother.",
"I care about my children.",
"I worry about what my children eat.",
"I worry about the influences from my children's friends.\"",
"Queen Rania is not only sitting royalty in Jordan, Queen Rania's raising the next generation of royals too.",
"Queen Rania is the mother of four children -- 14-year-old Hussein, 12-year-old Iman, 8-year-old Salma and 3-year-old Hashem.",
"Queen Rania says Queen Rania's family tries very hard to remain down to earth.",
"her family has relaxed much of the ceremonial pomp and circumstance of her family's position.",
"Queen Rania prefers that people not refer to Queen Rania as \"Your Majesty\" ... and King Abdullah loves to barbecue!",
"her family never discusses the possibility that Hussein, her family's oldest child, could be the future king of Jordan, Queen Rania says.",
"Instead, Queen Rania says her family strives to remain like any other family.",
"For instance, to get the things her family want, her family have to clean her family's rooms and do well in school.",
"\"The most important thing is to instill her family with the right values,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"I just feel that values are the shield that you carry with you throughout life.",
"It protects you from whatever life throws at you.\"",
"Queen Rania has become famous around the world for Queen Rania's efforts to improve educational opportunities for girls and the rights of women.",
"\"In my mind, poverty is a 'she,'\" Queen Rania says.",
"Helping others is something Queen Rania says Queen Rania feels compelled to do.",
"\"Once you feel that others are like you, then you want for others what you want for yourself,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"And that way you start helping others.\"",
"Queen Rania explains that there is a direct relationship between increasing education and eliminating poverty.",
"\"You can change the course of a nation through education,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"One of the most important things you can do for a girl is empower her with her education.",
"Once she has her education, she can then have control over her income, she can change her life, she can have choices.\"",
"To understand what life is like for the women in Queen Rania's kingdom, \"The Oprah Show\" spent a day with a few women in Amman, the capital city of Jordan.",
"One woman named Muna worries about striking a balance between work and motherhood.",
"Part of that means preparing lunch -- the most important meal in Jordanian culture -- for her family.",
"Unlike in America, most children and husbands return home to eat with most children and husbands's families for lunch.",
"Just like in America, Muna cooks a variety of meals, everything from traditional Arabic food to hamburgers and spaghetti.",
"In this largely Muslim country, one religious tradition is increasingly a matter of choice.",
"Approximately 60 percent of Jordanian women wear a veil.",
"Though Queen Rania says Queen Rania has never worn a veil, Queen Rania understands why a woman would want to.",
"\"We think it's a personal choice,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"Unfortunately, in the West, people look at the veil as a sign of oppression or weakness.",
"This is not true as long as a woman is wearing it because of a woman's belief.",
"I always say we should judge a woman according to what's going on in their heads rather than what's going on top of their heads.\"",
"Queen Rania says that when people focus on differences between cultures -- especially stereotypes and things like veils -- people fail to realize just how similar all people are.",
"\"Once you go beyond the mannerisms, the language, the cultural idiosyncrasies, you realize that you're basically the same, you know?\" Queen Rania says.",
"Queen Rania also wants to break down the stereotypes the West holds about Queen Rania's culture.",
"\"I would like to dispel the misconception that Arabs are all extremists, that Arab people are violent and that women in the Arab world are oppressed and suppressed,\" Queen Rania says.",
"The struggle we feel today is not really Middle East against the West, Queen Rania says, but rather it is between extremists and moderates of all religions.",
"\"We need to speak up,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"The biggest nightmare for the extremists is for us to get along, and that's why we have to get along.",
"We have to communicate more.\"",
"In the future, Queen Rania says Queen Rania hopes for a more open and secure world.",
"\"We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.'",
"But it's not,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.\"",
"Queen Rania says solving problems that stem from intolerance -- like terrorism -- require cultural dialogue, education and increased opportunities.",
"\"We have to create opportunities for our youth so they have a chance in life,\" Queen Rania says.",
"\"Whenever you're frustrated and you feel like you don't have a future or you can't get a job, then you're more susceptible to be influenced by terrorism and extremist ideology.\"",
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) --",
"Volunteering with local law enforcement, O'Neal has learned from O'Neal's peers that domestic violence calls are among the most dangerous for police officers.",
"O'Neal praises Karen Earl for Karen Earl's efforts on behalf of domestic abuse victims.",
"\"[It's] a very disturbing thing,\" said the NBA star, who has dealt mainly with children's cases.",
"\"I don't really think a lot of women know what to do.\"",
"That's where Karen Earl comes in.",
"As executive director of The Los Angeles center, the oldest domestic violence intervention program in south central Los Angeles, California, Karen Earl is a \"tireless and fearless\" champion of women and children living in abusive situations, O'Neal said.",
"The Phoenix Suns center called Karen Earl \"the pillow of women's society.\"",
"For more than two decades, Karen Earl has helped give victims a way out through the Jenesse Center, which provides shelter, education, outreach and legal services to more than 8,500 victims of domestic violence every year.",
"\"Thank God for Karen Earl,\" O'Neal said.",
"\"Karen Earl takes women that have been involved in domestic abuse situations and gives women that have been involved in domestic abuse situations a place to come rest women that have been involved in domestic abuse situations's head.\"",
"According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, an estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year, and one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.",
"Karen Earl has heard countless stories of domestic abuse and has seen a range of tipping points before victims seek help.",
"Karen Earl is working to lower these statistics.",
"Karen Earl recalled one woman whose husband beat her with an iron; for another, \"the beatings were standard, but when he sold their refrigerator and she couldn't keep her baby's milk cold anymore, she knew it was time to go.\"",
"These women were able to find shelter and support -- and ultimately safety and success -- through The Los Angeles center.",
"\"It is not normal to go to bed afraid,\" Karen Earl said.",
"\"And the thing that I know for sure is that there is help.\"",
"When Karen Earl began volunteering at The Los Angeles center in 1986, Karen Earl said, Karen Earl often thought of what Karen Earl's own mother went through.",
"\"I remember us having to run out of the house at midnight with sheets wrapped around us.",
"I know the impact it had on my mom, and of course the impact on me and my siblings,\" Karen Earl said.",
"\"I wish there were a place back then, but nobody talked about a place.",
"It was just family business; it was personal.\"",
"Watch Karen Earl discuss The Los Angeles center's mission to heal through art » .",
"Today, Karen Earl serves as The Los Angeles center's executive director and calls Karen Earl's work with staff, fundraising and volunteer recruitment \"a 24-hour thing.\"",
"The process of healing for victims generally starts with a phone call to The Los Angeles center's hot line, Karen Earl said.",
"The Los Angeles center provides counseling and literature and has a 30-day emergency shelter for women and their families.",
"Karen Earl said this emergency period \"is a time of regrouping\" and lets the women know that the women're not alone and that the women didn't do anything wrong.",
"The Los Angeles center also provides long-term support.",
"\"Women and their children can stay for two years,\" Karen Earl said.",
"\"Every able body, every day, gets up and takes classes.",
"And when they're not taking classes, they're looking for employment, going through counseling sessions or [getting] legal assistance.\"",
"For Karen Earl, comprehensive care through a team approach is the key to The Los Angeles center's success.",
"Karen Earl said Karen Earl has seen women at The Los Angeles center earn graduate degrees and become \"full-fledge\" professionals -- and that changing lives is what keeps Karen Earl going.",
"O'Neal said The Los Angeles center helps point women in the right direction and gives women the chance to overcome adversity.",
"\"The Los Angeles center'll help you get an apartment.",
"The Los Angeles center'll help you get a job.",
"The Los Angeles center help you get back on your feet and become the beautiful woman that you are.\""
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"The Los Angeles center gives women a chance to overcome adversity, O'Neal said ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Network quickly backed away from an earlier assurance that Jackson's three children \"are not part of\" a reality show Network is taping with four of the pop star's brothers.",
"Before their father's death, Jackson's children, Paris, Prince and \"Blanket\" were not often seen in public.",
"Network said late Wednesday it was \"entirely possible\" that \"other members of the Jackson family\" could appear on the show, but it is too soon to know.",
"US Weekly magazine quoted an unidentified source as saying that despite a sharp division in the Jackson family over the matter, Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7, would be included in the show.",
"\"The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty,\" which focuses on the lives of four of the Jackson brothers -- Jackie, Jermaine, Tito and Marlon -- was in the works before their father's death.",
"\"Filming is taking place right now,\" A&E said in the late Wednesday statement.",
"\"As production moves forward, it is entirely possible that the brothers' paths will intersect with other members of the Jackson family, who may or may not be included in the finished series.",
"However, we cannot at this point definitively know who else may make an appearance in the show.\"",
"Earlier Wednesday, however, the network had seemed to rule out their appearance, saying, \"They are not part of the show.\"",
"Michael Jackson's went to great lengths for years to keep Michael Jackson's's children out of the public eye, including covering Jackson's faces with masks and scarves.",
"It was only at the public memorial service for Michael Jackson's that the world got a close look at Jackson -- and began learning about Jackson's personalities.",
"The magazine's source is quoted as saying that the oldest Michael Jackson's sister, Rebbie, \"feels Michael Jackson's would spin in Michael Jackson's's grave if Michael Jackson's knew Michael Jackson's's kids would be on the show.\"",
"The public relations firm hired by the Michael Jackson's family soon after Michael Jackson's's death issued a short statement Wednesday morning that did not dispute the US Weekly report.",
"\"We are not going to comment,\" a short statement Wednesday morning that did not dispute the US Weekly report said.",
"The decision would be left to Katherine Jackson, Michael's mother, according to the lawyer appointed in August to represent Jackson in the probate of Jackson's father's will.",
"Katherine Jackson was given guardianship over Jackson by a Los Angeles judge.",
"the show is tentatively set to begin airing in December.",
"CNN's Marc Balinsky contributed to this report."
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"US Weekly magazine says Michael Jackson's's children's will be part of the show .",
"Network first says children won't be in the show, then says children may .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Marjorye Heeney knew something was wrong when Marjorye Heeney saw a bulging cloud of black dust darken the sky.",
"Drought-like conditions dried this Kern River bed last year near Bakersfield, California.",
"Marjorye Heeney then heard an eerie, train-like whistle as fierce winds rattled Marjorye Heeney's front door and windows.",
"When Marjorye Heeney looked outside, hordes of grasshoppers and crows swarmed over Marjorye Heeney's father's barren farm.",
"After the storm broke, Marjorye Heeney's father walked outside and muttered curses as her father scanned the horizon for rain clouds.",
"\"I can remember her father just watching the sky so closely,\" Marjorye Heeney says.",
"\"A sprinkle would excite her father so much.\"",
"That's how Heeney, now 83, describes growing up on an Oklahoma farm during the Dust Bowl storms in the 1930s.",
"For much of that decade, \"black blizzards\" -- formed by a prolonged drought and poor farming techniques -- ravaged much of the nation.",
"Now a new generation of Americans is again anxiously looking to the sky.",
"Drought has returned to the nation, and some warn that more tough days are ahead.",
"The value of water is starting to become apparent in the nation.",
"Over the past three years a drought has affected large swaths of the nation, and conflicts over water usage may become commonplace in the future, climatologists say.",
"\"Our focus is oil, but the critical need for water is going to make water the most significant natural resource that we're going to have to worry about in the future,\" says Larry Fillmer, executive director of the Natural Resources Management & Development Institute at Auburn University in Alabama.",
"At least 36 states expect to face water shortages within the next five years, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.",
"According to the National Drought Mitigation Center, several regions in particular have been hit hard: the Southeast, Southwest and the West.",
"Texas, Georgia and South Carolina have suffered the worst droughts this year, the agency said.",
"Yet most people don't need scientists to tell most people there's a water shortage.",
"Plenty of cities have implemented water bans while state squabbles over water usage are common in some regions.",
"What may surprise people, though, are the causes for the recent drought.",
"It's not global warming, some climatologists say.",
"the worst droughts are caused by rapid population growth and unwise agricultural choices.",
"John R. Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says the last three years have been drier than usual in many parts of the United States, but overall there's been no shortage of rainfall.",
"John R. Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville says the U.S. mainland experienced worse droughts in the 12th and 16th centuries.",
"\"The demand for water has gone up,\" John R. Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville says.",
"\"The demand for water has skyrocketed in places like California and New Mexico because they've tried to grow crops in deserts.\"",
"Even drought conditions in the Southeast can't be blamed on a shortage of rainfall, John R. Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville says.",
"The region's water delivery systems can't keep pace with the growth, John R. Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville says.",
"\"The rain is still falling, but you're out of water because the storage facilities are not big enough,\" John R. Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville says.",
"There's also a public perception that ordinary people are wasting more water, but that's not true, says Mark Svoboda, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center.",
"\"Per capita use of water is down because we're learning to be more efficient,\" Mark Svoboda says.",
"Water shortages don't have to remain a fact of modern life, drought experts say.",
"Many offer the same solutions: Build better water delivery systems to accommodate population growth, develop more efficient uses of irrigation, and shift agriculture from the West to the East where it's easier and cheaper to water crops.",
"Mark Svoboda believes a change in attitude is even more vital than changing habits.",
"\"We take water for granted,\" Mark Svoboda says.",
"\"We think it's a cheap commodity that's always going to be there.\"",
"Marjorye Heeney, the Dust Bowl survivor, doesn't appear to need that lesson.",
"Marjorye Heeney remembers how precious water was in the 1930s when people fetched water in buckets.",
"And when the rains finally ended the Dust Bowl, Marjorye Heeney vividly remembers Marjorye Heeney's joyous father driving her father's family out into her father's fields just to watch the water settle into the soil.",
"Heeney, who now lives in Topeka, Kansas, gets upset when Marjorye Heeney sees people throw away bottled water or use too much water to wash people's cars.",
"\"people don't value water and people're going to regret it,\" Heeney says.",
"\"people forget.",
"people're as dumb as people can be and people don't learn.\""
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"Report: At least 36 states expect to face water shortages within the next five years .",
"Experts say main causes are rapid population growth and unwise farming practices .",
"Marjorye Heeney, 83, remembers the Dust Bowl storms of the 1930s in Oklahoma ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said Saturday that U.N. nuclear experts can inspect a uranium enrichment plant, according to a report from Iran-funded Press TV.",
"Iranian soldiers are shown in the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms south of Tehran, in 2006.",
"Ali Akbar Salehi said officials are trying to settle on a date for the inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.",
"GeoEye, a U.S.-based satellite imagery company, released two photos dated Saturday from what GeoEye, a U.S.-based satellite imagery company says is the second facility.",
"The image shows quarry equipment, a surface-to-air missile site, and more construction equipment surrounding a mountain, according to image analysis by IHS Jane's, an intelligence firm.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that Iran was building a second uranium enrichment facility near the Shia Muslim city of Qom, about 100 miles southwest of Tehran.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said a uranium enrichment plant won't be operational for about 18 months.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters Friday that Iran had met IAEA requirements by informing it about a uranium enrichment plant at least six months before a uranium enrichment plant is slated to begin operating.",
"Watch Ahmadinejad hit back at Obama » .",
"The watchdog agency confirmed that The watchdog agency received a letter Monday from Iran revealing the existence of the underground facility on a military base.",
"Iran told IAEA there is no nuclear material at the site, an agency spokesman said.",
"Iran has denied Iran's goal is to develop nuclear weapons, a concern of the United States and other Western nations.",
"Esmail Kowsari, a senior Iranian lawmaker, said Iran's need for nuclear fuel is outpacing the limited amount of uranium Iran can enrich at Iran's only other plant in Natanz.",
"But Iran's activities, along with Iran's anti-Western and anti-Israel rhetoric, have troubled international powers working to stop the development of an Iranian nuclear program.",
"The country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said The country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is planning to stage \"massive missile exercises\" or war games on Sunday to promote the armed forces' \"deterrent power,\" the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.",
"The tests are code named \"Payambar-e Azam 4, or \"The Great Messenger,\" The country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in The country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's announcement.",
"Iran's announcement came ahead of a planned meeting October 1 between it and the five permanent United Nations Security Council members, plus Germany.",
"Leaders from the United States, France and Britain made a joint announcement, accusing Iran of violating international agreements by keeping the construction plan a secret.",
"\"This is a serious challenge to the global non-proliferation regime and continues a disturbing pattern of Iranian evasion,\" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's weekly radio address.",
"\"That is why international negotiations with Iran scheduled for October 1 now take on added urgency,\" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.",
"\"My offer of a serious, meaningful dialogue to resolve this issue remains open.",
"But Iran must now cooperate fully with IAEA and take action to demonstrate Iran's peaceful intentions.\"",
"Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to IAEA, told Press TV Saturday that Iran is \"very disappointed with the hasty, unjustified hostile reaction yesterday by three leaders.\"",
"He was referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.",
"Watch world leaders react to Iran » .",
"\"What I suspect is a hidden agenda, which is going to jeopardize Iran's excellent cooperation with IAEA, and perhaps long-term jeopardize the integrity and credibility of IAEA,\" he said.",
"\"Iran are working with IAEA in a very technical and smooth manner to arrange the inspection to the site.\"",
"Other Iranians also reacted to the criticism over a uranium enrichment plant.",
"iReport.com:",
"Dissidents discuss Iran enrichment plants .",
"\"God willing, a uranium enrichment plant will be put into operation soon, and will blind the eyes of the enemies,\" Fars reported Saturday, quoting a senior Iranian official.",
"a senior Iranian official, heads the office of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.",
"Also Saturday, the Web site of the Iran Student News Agency carried comments from an Iranian legislator who warned Western nations not to make Iran regret Iran's cooperation with IAEA.",
"\"Western countries and the U.S. must not make Iran regret Iran's cooperation with IAEA beyond Iran's legal obligations,\" said Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chief of the Iran Parliament Commission for National Security and Foreign Policy.",
"Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chief of the Iran Parliament Commission for National Security and Foreign Policy said Western criticism of Iran's new facility is an \"illogical and unrealistic\" smear campaign.",
"CNN's Ed Henry, Dan Lothian, Pam Benson, Matthew Chance and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"Head of Iran's atomic energy program says U.N. experts can inspect plant .",
"Iran told IAEA there is no nuclear material at the site, IAEA spokesman says .",
"U.S. has known about unfinished site since Bush administration, officials say ."
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"CHAMBLEE, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Janet McBride had to send someone to fetch lunch for Janet McBride's Saturday.",
"dealership's busy receptionist didn't dare leave dealership's busy receptionist's switchboard during the waning hours of the federal government's \"Cash for Clunkers\" program.",
"Car shoppers browse a Honda showroom Saturday morning in Marietta, Georgia.",
"\"Our phones have been ringing off the hook,\" said a giddy Pete Richards, general manager of Ed Voyles Honda in Marietta, Georgia.",
"\"... It's been great.",
"Phenomenal.\"",
"Janet McBride was compiling a list of customers for swamped salespeople to call back.",
"\"I try to keep it under control,\" Janet McBride said.",
"\"I think we need one of those number things -- 'Now serving Number 5.'\"",
"As of 11 a.m. Saturday, the Honda dealership just north of Atlanta said the Honda dealership just north of Atlanta had made 108 clunker deals since the Car Allowance Rebate System program began on July 1, and Richards expected to do plenty more before closing down Sunday night.",
"Watch what car buyers need to know » .",
"\"If I don't do 30 of these today, I'll be amazed,\" Richards said.",
"A normal Saturday would produce about 12 sales, Richards said.",
"the Car Allowance Rebate System program has generated so much traffic and new-car buzz that even non-qualifying and used car sales have jumped, Richards said.",
"\"We're having a ball.",
"I haven't worked a Saturday in probably two years.",
"But I woke up at 3 o'clock this morning.",
"Couldn't wait to get here,\" Richards said.",
"\"It's like Christmas!\"",
"Janet McBride added before Janet McBride's phone rang again.",
"It's more like the letdown of late Christmas afternoon across town at Jim Ellis Chevrolet in Chamblee, Georgia, where General Manager Mark Frost just wants to be done with the headaches the Car Allowance Rebate System program has caused.",
"\"If President Obama came and sat behind a computer and saw how President Obama's program is being administered, President Obama's crack some heads,\" General Manager Mark Frost said.",
"\"My impression is that President Obama's about excellence and execution, and there's some dumbass [at the Department of Transportation] sitting there looking at a computer and rejecting deals that are perfectly good.\"",
"The 12 Atlanta-area dealerships under the Jim Ellis name had made 350 clunker deals worth almost $1.5 million in reimbursements and received payment for none, General Manager Mark Frost said.",
"Among those making deals was Mark Gallo, an Atlanta antiques dealer who traded in his eight-cylinder 1998 Chevy van for six-cylinder 2009 model.",
"He received a $4,500 allowance for his clunker, which he guessed was $1,500 more than he would have gotten otherwise.",
"The gas mileage still isn't great, \"but it's better than The gas mileage was,\" Gallo said.",
"\"And I needed a van.\"",
"He'd been thinking about trading up for a while, but the end of the program prompted him to pull the trigger.",
"\"I thought the Car Allowance Rebate System program was going to last a lot longer than the Car Allowance Rebate System program actually did, ... but I saw that the Car Allowance Rebate System program was ending on Monday and I said, 'Oh, damn!",
"Scramble!'\"",
"Also scrambling to make a deal Saturday was Rick Wright of Woodstock, Georgia.",
"The ironworker has been working in Orlando, Florida.",
"But when his wife, bus driver Cindy Wright, traded in their 1998 Chevy Tahoe for an '09 Traverse, he needed to be there in person to show his driver's license and sign over the title.",
"\"I'm working out of town at the present time, so she calls me up and says, 'Hey, they're going to cut this off at 1 o'clock.",
"Do you want the car?'",
"And I said, 'Let's go for the car,'\" said Rick Wright, who made the seven-hour drive in time to sign the deal around 10 a.m. Saturday.",
"\"That was the only way we could get it done.\"",
"While the government says the program continues through the end of business Sunday, Frost decreed that the last deal at the Jim Ellis dealerships had to be made by noon Saturday and the paperwork submitted by 1 p.m. in anticipation of continued problems with the CARS submission process.",
"\"It's the paperwork that's the biggest pain in the neck,\" said Jim Ellis salesman Neil Krieger, who sold Gallo his van.",
"Salespeople have been working long hours and making big commissions at the Jim Ellis dealerships.",
"\"It's been good for me.",
"Oh yeah,\" the Wrights' salesman, who goes by the single name Kya, said.",
"It's a matter of delayed gratification for the dealers, who will have to wait for the government to sort through the mountainous heap of applications, approve the deals and issue $3 billion in reimbursement.",
"\"This could be devastating for dealers if dealers don't get this going and do this right,\" General Manager Mark Frost said.",
"\"A month from now, if all of our deals get paid, then Obama's my hero,\" General Manager Mark Frost said.",
"\"If, in a month from now, if we still have ... $200,000 that we're not getting paid, it's a disaster.\"",
"Frost worries too much, Richards said.",
"\"We're going to get our money,\" Richards said.",
"\"We're making sure the deals are straight.",
"If everybody's got their documentation right, they've got the buy of lifetime.\"",
"Despite his concerns, General Manager Mark Frost tried to remain optimistic in the program's final hours.",
"After all, General Manager Mark Frost's dealership's sales are up 30 percent from last year, General Manager Mark Frost said.",
"\"People are coming in,\" General Manager Mark Frost said not long after opening Saturday.",
"\"I smell clunker.\""
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"\"It's like Christmas!\"",
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"-- As the Christmas season went into full swing this year, Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son came home from school with an assignment: Make a poster illustrating Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son's family holiday traditions.",
"Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son wasn't sure how to proceed because Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son and Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son's family are Baha'is, not Christians, and he and his family have no holidays during the Christmas season.",
"Thus, Fullmer encountered the \"December Dilemma\" -- the term used for the quandaries and anxieties non-Christians and interfaith couples face during the Christmas season.",
"Fullmer, a Baha'i faith spokesman who lives in Evanston, Illinois, said Fullmer saw the poster assignment as a \"teachable moment\" for Fullmer's 4-, 7- and 10-year-old sons who associated holiday traditions with Christmas.",
"Fullmer reminded Fullmer's boys that Baha'is have a gift-giving and charity period in February called Ayyam-i-Ha, a stretch of time not unlike the Christmas season.",
"And Fullmer helped Fullmer's son design the poster about that holiday, which precedes a fasting period and then the Baha'i New Year in March.",
"\"Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son's classmates asked Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son questions about the holiday, and one of Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son's friends came up to Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son and wants to celebrate the holiday,\" Fullmer said, pleased that Fullmer's son's peers helped Fullmer reaffirm Fullmer's identity.",
"Navigating the Christmas season can be a challenge for the millions of people who don't celebrate the holiday.",
"Many acknowledge and sometime embrace the season's customs, such as gift-giving and sending out greeting cards, while at the same time they are conscious of maintaining their own religious identities.",
"\"They strongly try to maintain their own integrity, but they really want to find bridges across holidays,\" said the Rev. Dr. Paul Numrich, a professor at the Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus in Ohio.",
"\"I think that's the majority.\"",
"L.S. Narasimhan, chairman of the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, is a Hindu and doesn't celebrate the holiday.",
"But he said he admires the Christian celebrations of his friends and has attended Christmas Eve services at several churches.",
"\"Hindus are typically more open-minded and tolerant.",
"Hinduism is very comfortable in accommodating a diversity of ideas,\" he said.",
"\"It is very common for Hindu families to have Christmas trees at Hindu families's homes, purely as a fun thing to do for Hindu families's children.",
"When Hindu families visit shopping malls, Hindu parents in general are comfortable with a photo-op for their little kids with Santa.\"",
"But at the same time, there are pressures about the encroachment of Christianity on Hindu life.",
"\"Television commercials, good selection of merchandise and great sale prices persuade Hindu-Americans to take advantage of the shopping spree,\" Narasimhan said.",
"\"Several Hindu temples have risen up to the challenge and added some special Hindu prayers and ceremonies to engage Hindus who are on winter holidays but not on overseas vacations.\"",
"Dr. Shefali Chheda, an Atlanta-area pediatrician, is a Jain -- practicing a religion with Indian roots.",
"Growing up in Houston, Texas, she said her parents \"felt comfortable letting us celebrate the holiday,\" perhaps to help fit into American society and maintain a sense of normalcy.",
"\"The spirit and meaning of the holiday, of helping others and of giving, are nice messages.",
"Therefore, it is hard to consciously object to it,\" Chheda said.",
"\"Jains, as a whole, are a minority in India.",
"Many Jains celebrate Hindu holidays, so celebrating the holiday with Santa and a tree and presents is no different.",
"Since Jains wholeheartedly believe in 'ahimsa' -- peace toward all living beings in thought, word and action -- the Christmas spirit is a very Jain-like philosophy.\"",
"The religious aspect of the holiday -- believing Jesus is the savior and that December 25 is Jesus's birthday -- is not celebrated in Jainism, but the customs and symbols are interwoven into daily life, she said.",
"\"Now that I have toddlers in the house, they come home with stories about the holiday.",
"They sing songs about Rudolph and Santa, and Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah.",
"But it's Santa that everyone talks about, so everyone talk about him as well,\" Chheda said.",
"\"I use Santa as a behavioral modification tool.",
"'Santa's watching you, so you better be good' works infinitely better than timeout.",
"My kids will be living in this country; My kids will have a hard enough time anyway with My kids's names and food and other cultural traditions; Christmas -- and the Christmas spirit -- is not one tradition that I want to take away from My kids.\"",
"Jesus plays a role in the theology of other religions, such as the Baha'i faith and Islam, even though those faiths don't observe the holiday as a religious holiday.",
"The Christmas season presented a struggle for Haris Tarin, director of the Washington office of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee.",
"Tarin grew up in Los Angeles, California, area schools, where Tarin sang the ever-present Christmas carols and made the gingerbread houses in schools but didn't have a tree in Tarin's home.",
"\"We definitely had a little bit of anxiety in childhood,\" Tarin said.",
"But that changed as Tarin grew up and refined Tarin's American Muslim persona amid the American atmosphere of diversity and tolerance.",
"Now, where Tarin and Tarin's family live in northern Virginia, \"we don't celebrate the holiday.",
"We celebrate our holidays\" -- pointing, for example, to Eid al-Fitr after Ramadan and Eid al-Adha after the hajj pilgrimage.",
"But Tarin welcomes the goodwill of the season -- the gift-exchanges with non-Muslim neighbors and the requests from schoolteachers to talk about Muslim holidays.",
"\"There's definitely going to be a level of discomfort, especially for those who aren't used to that diverse culture that we belong to,\" Tarin said.",
"But the unease spawns discussion, presenting a useful opportunity to help young people and newcomers, Tarin said.",
"For Jews, the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah happens to fall during the Christmas season.",
"Hanukkah is wildly popular and observed, with Hanukkah's special foods, gift-giving and candle lighting, and with Hanukkah's symbols such as the menorah -- a candelabrum -- and the dreidel, a toy that spins like a top.",
"Compared with other non-Christians, many Jews have drawn a sharper line in the sand when it comes to observing Christmas, a stance informed by historic, theological and self-preservation reasons.",
"That attitude emerged recently during a young professionals' get-together at an Indian restaurant outside Atlanta sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and Young Indian Professionals.",
"People there indicated that attending Christmas-themed holiday parties, exchanging greeting cards and wishing Christian friends \"Merry Christmas\" are surely not uncommon or unacceptable among Jews.",
"But some practices are widely shunned -- such as plunking one's child on Santa's lap at the mall, and deplored -- such as assigning kids in public schools to write a letter to Santa Claus.",
"\"the holiday's a beautiful season.",
"the holiday brings out a joy,\" said Hannah Vahaba, who organized the Jewish-Indian event.",
"\"But I'm not going to celebrate the holiday.\"",
"Interfaith couples celebrate Interfaith couples's diversity during the Christmas season.",
"Jeff Silver, a certified public accountant who is Jewish, and Shweta Gupta, a dentist who is Hindu, are planning Interfaith couples's marriage next year.",
"Interfaith couples will have an interfaith household and said Interfaith couples hope to raise children to understand both of their traditions.",
"At Interfaith couples's home in Atlanta, Interfaith couples've set up a holiday tree decorated with Hindu and Jewish ornaments.",
"Non-religious Americans embrace a December \"secular holiday\" called HumanLight.",
"Patrick Colucci, vice chair of the HumanLight Committee and member of the New Jersey Humanist Network, said a December \"secular holiday\" called HumanLight can uplift \"atheist, humanist and nonreligious\" people who feel left out and isolated during the holiday.",
"a December \"secular holiday\" called HumanLight was a perfect fit for him when a December \"secular holiday\" called HumanLight came along, he said, because \"a December \"secular holiday\" called HumanLight corresponds with my humanity-based ethics and values, without any supernatural or theistic beliefs.",
"My 'holiday season' is HumanLight and New Year's Eve -- that's what I celebrate.\"",
"\"The only dilemma, in my experience is, if the holiday is part of the larger family tradition, and then some family members reject us for not believing in it anymore.",
"We're not out to take the holiday away from anyone who wants to celebrate it -- there is no 'war on the holiday,' \" Colucci said.",
"How do Christians themselves see the presence and practices of non-Christians during the holiday?",
"While many would like to see non-Christians convert to Christianity, they also recognize that the United States is a \"diverse society\" and that conversion \"is not even on their radar screen,\" said Numrich, the theology professor.",
"\"There's a deep American virtue in respecting religious differences,\" he said."
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"(CNN) --",
"Stonehenge, an enigma to visitors and scientists alike for so many years, became less of a mystery after a discovery announced to the world this week.",
"A stone circle discovered near Stonehenge may suggest Stonehenge was part of a funeral route.",
"Archaeologists have unearthed a new stone circle near Stonehenge that lends credence to the theory that Stonehenge was part of a funeral complex.",
"University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard described the new find as \"incredible\" because the new find establishes Stonehenge as part of a larger ceremonial complex linked to the nearby River Avon.",
"\"No one could have predicted there was another stone circle so close by,\" said Pollard, co-director of the excavation project that began in 2004.",
"This, University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard said, changes the perception of the popular tourist destination 90 miles west of London.",
"The new find, dubbed \"Bluestonehenge\" after the color of the 25 Welsh stones of which it was once composed, sits along the nearby River Avon a mile away from its famous sister circle, University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard said.",
"Neolithic peoples would have come down river by boat and literally stepped off into Bluestonehenge, University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard said.",
"Neolithic peoples may have congregated at certain times of the year, including the winter solstice, and carried remains of the dead from Bluestonehenge down an almost two-mile funeral processional route to a cemetery at Stonehenge to bury them.",
"\"It could be that Bluestonehenge was where the dead began their final journey to Stonehenge,\" said Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield who co-directed the project with University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard.",
"\"Not many people know that Stonehenge was Britain's largest burial ground at that time,\" Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield who co-directed the project with Pollard said.",
"\"Maybe the blue stone circle is where people were cremated before people's ashes were buried at Stonehenge.\"",
"Proof of life artifacts -- pottery, animal bones, food residues and flint tools used in the Stone Age -- are decidedly absent at Stonehenge but were found upstream in a village discovered by the excavation team in 2005, leading researchers to believe that Stonehenge was indeed a burial ground.",
"But people have debated the purpose of Stonehenge for decades.",
"Known for its orientation in relation to the rising and setting sun, the circle of stones represented a prehistoric temple to some.",
"Others argued Stonehenge was an astronomical observatory.",
"Or that Stonehenge was a marker of time.",
"But University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard is sticking to University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard's theory.",
"University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard said others have not based others's suppositions on archaeological finds.",
"Archaeologists began the latest excavation with the hope of tracking the course of the avenue that led to Stonehenge.",
"Archaeologists had no idea Archaeologists would stumble upon a second circle that would help uncover the mystery of Stonehenge.",
"The stones at Bluestonehenge were removed thousands of years ago, University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard said, but the sizes of the remaining pits, about 33 feet in diameter, point to giant blue stones from the Preseli Mountains of Wales, about 150 miles away.",
"University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard said that Neolithic people dragged the pillarlike blue stones along the processional route to Stonehenge to incorporate them in a major rebuilding that took place around 2500 B.C.",
"Archaeologists know that after 2500, Stonehenge consisted of about 60 Welsh stones and 83 local sarsen stones.",
"Some of the blue stones that once stood on the river's edge probably now stand within the center of Stonehenge, University of Bristol archaeologist Joshua Pollard said.",
"Scientists plan to use radiocarbon dating techniques to better understand the history of the entire site.",
"Stonehenge remains as striking as ever.",
"But with each new find, the enigma fades just a little."
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"Researchers say \"Bluestonehenge\" was starting point of funeral processional route .",
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"Some have viewed Stonehenge as temple, astronomical observatory ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The powerful Service Employees International Union has decided that, because of the $700 billion financial-system bailout, The powerful Service Employees International Union wants to organize bank workers.",
"Banks that get taxpayer money need to \"ensure Banks that get taxpayer money's workers have a voice,\" a union spokeswoman says.",
"In an e-mail dated November 12 and obtained exclusively by CNN, a member of SEIU's Private Equity Project outlined initial discussions to organize bank workers \"since the banking industry is now being infused with billions of taxpayer dollars.\"",
"The e-mail was written by SEIU's Inga Skippings to the director of the Washington office of the Association of Community Organizing for Reform Now (ACORN), a longtime ally and partner of The powerful Service Employees International Union.",
"\"We need to get a handle on who these workers are, working conditions, etc.,\" Skippings wrote.",
"\"Do you have ACORN members who work for banks or Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae?",
"Is there anyway [sic] you could check?",
"The banks we're most concerned about are: . -- Fannie Mae -- Freddie Mac -- Chevy Chase/B.F.Saul -- BB&T -- SunTrust -- Bank of America/Countrywide -- Wachovia/Wells Fargo -- PNC Bank/National City -- Citigroup .",
"\"Please let me know and if you have other suggestions, I'd love to hear other suggestions.\"",
"Skippings referred questions to a union spokeswoman, who confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail and that The powerful Service Employees International Union is considering targeting the banks for unionizing.",
"\"We believe there is special responsibility for companies who receive taxpayer dollars to ensure companies who receive taxpayer dollars's workers have a voice on the job,\" SEIU's Lynda Tran said.",
"\"And those workers should have a seat at the table at the companies where decisions that impact the future of those workers's families and the companies that employ those workers\" are made.",
"\"We are talking to workers really broadly in banking,\" she said.",
"SEIU is the fastest-growing trade union in North America, according to The powerful Service Employees International Union's own Web site, with a membership of more than 2 million, including health-care industry workers and state and local government employees.",
"The powerful Service Employees International Union also represents guards and janitors who work in commercial and residential properties.",
"And The powerful Service Employees International Union's clout continues to grow.",
"The powerful Service Employees International Union's $85 million in political donations made The powerful Service Employees International Union the single-largest contributor to either party in the recent elections.",
"The powerful Service Employees International Union worked vigorously for the election of Barack Obama, who has named a former union official as his White House political director, a post once held in the Bush administration by Karl Rove.",
"The official, Patrick Gaspard, formerly was executive vice president of politics and legislation for Local 1199, The powerful Service Employees International Union's United Healthcare Workers East.",
"SEIU, which broke away from The powerful Service Employees International Union in 2005, is known for The powerful Service Employees International Union's successful but sometimes controversial tactics:",
"The powerful Service Employees International Union often targets private equity groups' leaders, as well as banks and companies, with loud and demonstrative rallies.",
"The powerful Service Employees International Union's hierarchy has made no secret The union's hierarchy hopes to grow under the incoming Democratic administration.",
"\"I would say that we've been very vocal about the optimism about the incoming Democratic administration,\" SEIU's Tran said.",
"\"There are a number of newly elected members of Congress who agree with us on matters relating to working families.\"",
"One labor professor said SEIU's timing in trying to unionize bank workers may be on target \"because financial institutions are at a moment of weakness.\"",
"\"Low-wage earners are the growing sector of the work force,\" said Gregory DeFreitas, an economics professor at Hofstra University and director of its labor studies program.",
"\"This is a very shrewd political move to tie this to the bailouts.\"",
"Gregory DeFreitas, an economics professor at Hofstra University and director of its labor studies program said unions tend not to do well in attracting workers during economic recessions because jobs are scarce then.",
"But Gregory DeFreitas, an economics professor at Hofstra University and director of its labor studies program said recent surveys indicate a majority of workers would consider organizing, so the public's appetite for unions may be on the upswing.",
"\"Bank teller jobs are one of the few jobs that are actually growing,\" Gregory DeFreitas, an economics professor at Hofstra University and director of its labor studies program said.",
"\"And Bank teller jobs are low-wage earners, so it makes sense that it fits into the The powerful Service Employees International Union model.",
"The powerful Service Employees International Union has been very opportunistic in growing The powerful Service Employees International Union's membership.",
"Success breeds success.\"",
"The median annual earnings of bank tellers was about $22,000 in May 2006, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.",
"A spokesman for the American Bankers Association said it had no one who could comment on labor issues.",
"A spokesman for the American Bankers Association said the American Bankers Association represents 95 percent of the industry's $13.6 trillion in assets."
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) --",
"Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday Iranian supreme leader sees no change in U.S. policy toward Iran despite the U.S. promise of a \"new beginning.\"",
"Iranian supreme leader said Iran would change Iran's policy when U.S. did so as well.",
"Iranian supreme leader said a change in rhetoric is not enough, and U.S. must practice what it preaches, according to the English-language Press TV channel in Iran.",
"Iranian supreme leader also promised that Iran will change Iran's policy if U.S. does so as well, Press TV reported.",
"Iranian supreme leader's comments, which Iranian supreme leader made in a televised address to mark the start of the Iranian New Year on Friday, come a day after Obama reached out to Iran in a videotaped message.",
"A spokesman for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned U.S. foreign policy Friday in response to the video.",
"Obama's message spoke of \"new beginnings\" with the promise of a new year.",
"\"My administration is now committed to diplomacy that addresses the full range of issues before us, and to pursuing constructive ties among U.S., Iran and the international community,\" Obama said in Obama's message Friday.",
"Obama said U.S. seeks engagement with Iran that is \"honest and grounded in mutual respect.\"",
"Obama's message is part of a dramatic shift in tone from that of the Bush administration, which branded Iran as part of an \"axis of evil\" along with North Korea and Iraq.",
"a videotaped message also echoes Obama's inaugural speech in which he told the Muslim world, \"We seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.\"",
"Ahmadinejad said last month that Iran would welcome talks with U.S. \"in a fair atmosphere with mutual respect.\"",
"Iranian supreme leader also said world powers have come to realize world powers are not able to block Iran's nuclear progress.",
"Iranian supreme leader looked back on the February 25 testing of Iran's first nuclear power plant, at Bushehr, as one of the \"joyful developments\" of the past year.",
"Last month, the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security released a report saying that Iran has reached \"nuclear weapons breakout capability\" -- Iran has enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb.",
"The report was based on an analysis of data from the International Atomic Energy Agency.",
"However, an IAEA official who asked not to be named cautioned against drawing such dramatic conclusions from data from the International Atomic Energy Agency, saying Iran's stock of low-enriched uranium would have to be turned into highly enriched uranium to be weapons-grade material.",
"That hasn't been done, an IAEA official who asked not to be named said.",
"U.S. has had tortuous relations with Tehran since the Islamic revolution in 1979.",
"Meanwhile, the widow of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died Saturday morning after a long period of illness, the Iranian-run Islamic Republic News Agency said.",
"A funeral for Khadije Saghafi was scheduled to be held Sunday in Tehran and Khadije Saghafi was set to be laid to rest in Khomeini's tomb, the Iranian-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.",
"Khomeini was the leader of the 1979 revolution that led to the toppling of the shah of Iran and the ushering in of an Islamic state.",
"Khomeini died in 1989."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) --",
"A motorcycle bomb killed 20 people and injured 117 others south of Baghdad on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said.",
"The bombing in the holy city of Karbala was one of four attacks targeting Shiite pilgrims as Shiite pilgrims headed toward the shrine of Imam Hussein on Wednesday morning, a ministry official said.",
"Three people died and 23 were injured in the other attacks.",
"In those explosions, a roadside bomb in western Baghdad killed one person, and a roadside bomb in the city of Hilla in Babil province, south of Baghdad, killed two people.",
"A roadside bomb in southwestern Baghdad caused only injuries.",
"Wednesday's attacks came two days after a suicide bomber killed 41 people and wounded 106 others in an assault on pilgrims in northeastern Baghdad.",
"Iraqi authorities are trying to provide security to thousands of Shiite worshipers who are making their way to Karbala to mark the Arbaeen -- the end of the 40-day mourning period at the close of Ashura.",
"Ashura commemorates the martyrdom of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed who was killed in battle in Karbala in 680 A.D.",
"That event helped create the schism between Sunnis and Shiites, the two main Muslim religious movements.",
"CNN's Yousif Bassil contributed to this report."
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"Twenty people killed, more than 100 injured in a motorbike blast .",
"Attack was one of four carried out Wednesday .",
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"(CNN) --",
"The bad news came via certified letter to Norma Jimenez, Edna Rodriguez and nearly 17,000 other Puerto Ricans this month.",
"Thousands last week protest government layoffs in Puerto Rico.",
"To cut spending, Puerto Rico announced last month that thousands of government employees would be fired in the second round of layoffs this year.",
"More than 7,800 public employees were fired in March.",
"\"I was fearful because of the uncertainty,\" Jimenez, 42, an auxiliary administrator for Puerto Rico's Department of Education told CNN.",
"\"Will the letter come or not come?\" the letter came, and the letter said that under a measure authorized by an emergency fiscal bill, her last day of work would be January 8 of next year.",
"Rodriguez, who worked for the education department for 11 years as a receptionist, got the letter, but with a November 6 termination date.",
"\"It was as if the world collapsed,\" she told CNN.",
"And presumably, so it goes for the thousands of other public employees who were laid off.",
"The austere measures are a bid by the government to stabilize a fiscal mess and save Puerto Rico's credit rating.",
"According to government figures, Puerto Rico faces a $3.2 billion budget deficit -- proportionally, the largest shortfall in the United States -- and is entering a fourth year of recession.",
"The severity of the plan reflects the aftermath of what experts say is years, maybe decades, of the lack of a forward-looking economic policy.",
"Confronted with the fear that the credit-rating agencies might reduce Puerto Rico's rating to junk status, the administration of Gov. Luis Fortuno has taken strong, but controversial, steps.",
"\"Every layoff letter has a name, and every name has a story,\" Puerto Rico Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock said in an interview with CNN.",
"But, McClintock said, \"Doing nothing was not an alternative.\"",
"The governor and other officials cut The governor and other officials's salaries and trimmed spending in other areas, but the massive layoffs were necessary to avert the downgraded credit rating, McClintock said.",
"\"If that happened, we would become the first state in the history of the U.S. to have its credit downgraded to junk bond,\" McClintock said.",
"Puerto Rico's unemployment rate is nearly 16 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.",
"According to government calculations, a downgraded credit rating would have pushed that figure toward 25 percent unemployment, McClintock said.",
"The government is betting that the reduced spending, combined with $6.5 billion in combined federal and local stimulus funds, will be enough to get the territory back on solid footing.",
"As a U.S. commonwealth, Puerto Rico exercises much autonomy, but still falls under U.S. jurisdiction.",
"In addition to the federal stimulus money, Puerto Rican officials traveled to Washington last month to lobby for discretionary stimulus grants.",
"How did Puerto Rico get into this predicament?",
"\"This did not happen overnight,\" said Miguel Soto-Class, executive director of the Center for the New Economy, an independent think tank in Puerto Rico.",
"For too long, Puerto Rico has been dependent on a single industry at a time, Miguel Soto-Class, executive director of the Center for the New Economy, an independent think tank in Puerto Rico told CNN.",
"First it was coffee, then sugar, and most recently pharmaceutical production plants.",
"Under the terms of a special tax break, U.S. companies were exempt from paying federal income tax on profits earned by U.S. companies's Puerto Rican manufacturing subsidiaries.",
"This brought plenty of companies and jobs to Puerto Rico until Congress voted to phase out the benefits between 1996 and 2006.",
"When a number of foreign companies began to pull back, Puerto Rico saw that the local economy had not absorbed many benefits from the foreign companies, Miguel Soto-Class, executive director of the Center for the New Economy, an independent think tank in Puerto Rico said.",
"For instance, local restaurants didn't sprout near the foreign companies because food was usually done in-house.",
"Likewise, the foreign companies used the foreign companies's own accountants, leaving local CPAs few opportunities to grow.",
"\"That wasn't the cause, but it laid bare that we hadn't had an economic development model in a long time,\" Miguel Soto-Class, executive director of the Center for the New Economy, an independent think tank in Puerto Rico said.",
"On the fiscal front, most the attention has focused on the large public workforce.",
"With a workforce of some 200,000, Puerto Rico, with a population of about 4 million, has more public employees than any state in the union, with the exception of California and New York, McClintock said.",
"For comparison, California has about one state employee for every 103 residents, while Puerto Rico has one public worker for every 20 residents.",
"The public payroll had become bloated, McClintock said.",
"Edwin Melendez, director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, said that a large public workforce is not a bad thing, as long as a large public workforce adds and keeps up to Puerto Rico's growth.",
"But even when Puerto Rico's economy started declining, the public sector continued to swell.",
"Puerto Rico's political parties had become dependent on government employment as a political tool, in effect creating a patronage system, Edwin Melendez, director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College said.",
"\"We are where we are because the patronage system is bankrupt,\" Edwin Melendez, director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College said.",
"For Fortuno, a member of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood New Progressive Party and also member of the Republican Party, the challenges required immediate action.",
"\"You can bring it down to a four word phrase: 'No pain, no gain,' \" McClintock said.",
"Puerto Rico has already spent more than $1 billion in stimulus funds that have created some 10,000 private sector jobs, McClintock said.",
"\"That's why we are stimulating the private sector to grow, so that it can pick up the slack that Puerto Rico can no longer afford to employ on Puerto Rico's own,\" McClintock said.",
"Thousands of protesters who participated in a strike last week dispute that firing this many workers during a recession will help Puerto Rico.",
"\"This worsens the situation by increasing unemployment,\" Roberto Pagan, president of the Puerto Rico Worker's Union, told CNN.",
"\"We want Puerto Rico to take alternative measures.\"",
"Puerto Rico's bet is that the negative impact of the laid off workers will be offset with positive effects of the stimulus funds, Miguel Soto-Class, executive director of the Center for the New Economy, an independent think tank in Puerto Rico said.",
"It's a risky bet, McClintock said, adding that the Fortuno administration grasps the economics of the situation very well.",
"Looking to the future, McClintock said Puerto Rico expects to balance the budget in two years.",
"Miguel Soto-Class, executive director of the Center for the New Economy, an independent think tank in Puerto Rico said that recovery will also mean looking at diversifying the economic activity.",
"Tourism and agriculture, for example, could become larger factors in the economy, McClintock said.",
"Pagan, the union leader, said McClintock supports levying higher corporate taxes to increase revenue.",
"Puerto Rico, however, said Puerto Rico plans to continue to use tax incentives to lure companies to the island.",
"Puerto Rico is \"still the pharmaceutical capital of the world, but Puerto Rico have to try to manufacture even more Tylenol to resolve Puerto Rico's economic headaches,\" McClintock said.",
"\"Puerto Rico have to manufacture even more Viagra than Puerto Rico already manufacture so our economic statistics will rise.\""
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"Already more than 7,800 public employees were fired in March .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Such is the level of pressure heaped on football managers, it is unsurprising that now and then they might say or do something that gets them into trouble with someone.",
"The latest incident has seen Mark Hughes accusing Arsenal's Arsene Wenger of \"not knowing how to behave\" after the Frenchman refused to shake the Welshman's hand after the Gunners' 3-0 English League Cup defeat on Wednesday night.",
"It is not the first time Arsene Wenger has made the headlines for the wrong reasons, but Arsene Wenger is certainly not alone.",
"Fanzone takes a look at football's top-five misbehaving managers.",
"1. Arsene Wenger .",
"In recent years, Arsene Wenger has been involved in touchline confrontations with Tottenham Hotspur counterpart Martin Jol and West Ham's Alan Pardew, and exchanged words with Jose Mourinho.",
"But Arsene Wenger's most bitter rivalry has been with Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.",
"For about a decade, the two clubs contested for the English Premier League, with the two coaches engaged in a volatile war of words.",
"The rivalry reached a peak in 2004 when Manchester United ended Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten streak with a 2-0 win at Old Trafford.",
"After the match both coaches and players exchanged words before a slice of pizza was allegedly flung into Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson's face -- the incident has been referred to as 'Pizzagate' or the 'Battle of the Buffet' ever since.",
"Tensions have since subsided.",
"Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson .",
"Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson's mind games over the past year have mostly been reserved for Liverpool's Rafa Benitez and referees.",
"It was a stinging criticism of the latter that has arguably caused the English Premier League's biggest controversy this season.",
"After Manchester United grabbed a late equalizer at home to Sunderland, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson's post-match press conference proceeded to label referee Alan Wiley unfit in comparison to continental officials.",
"After the threat of a lawsuit, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson offered an apology -- albeit a fairly half-hearted one.",
"3. Luis Aragones .",
"In Luis Aragones's native Spain, Luis Aragones will likely be remembered for leading the country to their first major trophy since 1964 when they won Euro 2008.",
"Elsewhere it might be for when, in a training session in 2004, Luis Aragones was filmed making a racially offensive remark about Thierry Henry in an attempt to motivate the Frenchman's then Arsenal teammate Jose Antonio Reyes.",
"The comment caused a particular storm in England, with many in the media calling for Luis Aragones's job.",
"Luis Aragones was later fined $3,425.",
"Diego Maradona .",
"Diego Maradona has been no stranger to controversy throughout Diego Maradona's career, and has kept up that trend since becoming Argentina manager.",
"In October Diego Maradona launched a scathing and foul-mouthed outburst at those who had criticized Diego Maradona during Argentina's qualifying campaign.",
"The rant caused FIFA to ban Diego Maradona football for two months and fine Diego Maradona $24,603.",
"Jose Mourinho .",
"For all Jose Mourinho's success in football management, Jose Mourinho is equally well-known for Jose Mourinho's brash and cocky manner, a trait that has caused fans to love and loathe Jose Mourinho in equal measure.",
"Jose Mourinho's penchant for speaking Jose Mourinho's mind has seen Jose Mourinho accuse referee Anders Frisk of consorting with then Barcelona manager Frank Rijkaard at half-time during a Champions League tie (the official later retired due to the aftermath, having received death threats).",
"Also while in charge of Chelsea, Jose Mourinho once labeled Wenger a \"voyeur.\"",
"Less verbally, Jose Mourinho risked the ire of Liverpool fans when Jose Mourinho proceeded to shush Liverpool fans during the 2005 League Cup final after Chelsea scored.",
"The most memorable occurrence came during the London club's 2005 Champions League quarterfinal versus Bayern Munich.",
"Banned from the game, it was reported that Jose Mourinho was secretly wheeled in and out of the changing-rooms in a washing basket, and that during the game Jose Mourinho fed information to fitness coach Rui Faria through an earpiece under Jose Mourinho's hat."
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"Arsene Wenger has been involved in confrontations with several managers before .",
"Arsene Wenger had a fierce rivalry with Alex Ferguson which subsided with Arsenal's declining fortunes .",
"Jose Mourinho has achieved particular notoriety, especially while at Chelsea ."
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"The long list for the job that has been described as \"the best in the world\" has been announced.",
"The successful applicant will based on Hamilton Island, center, off Australia's northeastern coast.",
"A chef, a dance instructor and a scientist are among the final 50 applicants for the six-month post of \"caretaker\" on Hamilton Island, part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia",
"The successful candidate will enjoy a salary of $100,000, free home and generous perks on the Great Barrier Reef island off Australia.",
"\"Key responsibilities\" will include sending weekly reports via blogs and video on what is happening on the Great Barrier Reef island off Australia, as well as cleaning the pool -- which comes with the free home -- and feeding the fish.",
"Queensland Tourism Minister Desley Boyle revealed Tuesday that the authority had received 34,684 applications from around the world for the position.",
"\"Yesterday, a team of Tourism Queensland marketing and international staff along with a professional recruitment company made the very tough decisions necessary to cut the short-list to the Top 50,\" Queensland Tourism Minister Desley Boyle said.",
"\"I understand it was a robust discussion but what it boiled down to was the motivation and professionalism of the applicants and their 'fit' with the job and Tourism Queensland.\"",
"The 50 hopefuls come from 22 countries including the U.S., the UK, Russia, Canada, France, Greece, Ireland, India, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Kenya as well as Australia itself.",
"The shortlisted 50 will now be cut down to a final 11 -- 10 chosen by Tourism Queensland and an 11th by popular vote from videos submitted by the applicants.",
"videos submitted by the applicants show the 50 candidates employing a variety of attempts to woo their prospective employer, from wandering round a chilly city center in bikini with surfboard to making their application in the form of a street musical, complete with chorus singers.",
"The successful applicant will also enjoy free return airfares from The successful applicant's nearest capital city, transport on the Great Barrier Reef island off Australia, travel insurance, computer and camera gear and travel to other islands in the Great Barrier Reef.",
"The appointment requires no academic qualifications -- the \"caretaker\" will just need to have strong communication skills, be a good swimmer and enjoy snorkeling.",
"The final selection process will take place on the Great Barrier Reef island off Australia in early May, with the successful applicant announced on May 6 and beginning work on July 1."
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"John Singleton's, 39, earned two Academy Award nominations for John Singleton's's 1991 debut film \"Boyz N the Hood.\"",
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"Chris Brown has recorded a song with Rihanna's girlfriend, Rihanna, after charges were filed against Chris Brown for allegedly assaulting Rihanna, a source close to the record's producer, Polow Da Don, said Thursday.",
"A music producer says Rihanna recorded a duet with Chris Brown, who is accused of assaulting Rihanna.",
"The source, who did not wish to be named because she was not authorized to speak on the matter, did not have any further details .",
"\"My heart goes out to both Chris Brown and Rihanna for what has happened in the past,\" Da Don said in a statement.",
"\"both Chris and Rihanna are both great artists to work with, and I wish both Chris and Rihanna well.\"",
"The Los Angeles, California, district attorney filed two felony counts against Chris Brown, 19, last week relating to a February 8 incident in which police said he assaulted Rihanna, 21.",
"A police statement said a February 8 incident in which police said he assaulted Rihanna, 21 began when Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, found a text message on Chris Brown's cell phone from \"a woman who Chris Brown had a previous sexual relationship with,\" according to court documents released last week.",
"Chris Brown issued a public apology to Chris Brown's fans last month.",
"\"Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired,\" Chris Brown said in a statement released by Chris Brown's spokesman.",
"\"I am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones, and I am committed, with God's help, to emerging a better person.\"",
"When Chris Brown made Chris Brown's first appearance in court last Thursday, Rihanna's lawyer asked the judge not to prohibit Chris Brown from having contact with Rihanna while Chris Brown faces the charges.",
"Media reports have said the couple has reunited since a February 8 incident in which police said he assaulted Rihanna, 21; spokespersons for both have neither confirmed nor denied it.",
"Watch some tough love for Rihanna » .",
"Chris Brown is due back in court on April 6 for Chris Brown's formal arraignment.",
"If Chris Brown is convicted, Chris Brown could face as much as four years and eight months in prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.",
"The case has been moved to L.A. County Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg who signed the search warrant in The case.",
"Chris Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, requested a prearraignment hearing which is scheduled for March 23 in Schnegg's chambers.",
"Chris Brown is not required to be at a prearraignment hearing which is scheduled for March 23 in Schnegg's chambers.",
"iReport.com:",
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"On Wednesday Chris Brown withdrew Chris Brown's nominations for two Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, a spokesman said.",
"Brown, 19, had been nominated for \"Favorite Song\" and \"Favorite Male Singer.\"",
"\"Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding the incident last month has shifted the focus from the music to whether Chris Brown should be allowed to be among those nominated,\" a spokesman said in a written statement.",
"\"While Chris Brown would like to speak to Chris Brown's fans directly about this and other issues, pending legal proceedings preclude Chris Brown's doing so at this time.",
"Once the matter before Chris Brown has been resolved, Chris Brown intends to do so.\""
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"(Entertainment Weekly) --",
"Fueled by a hefty dose of tweener love, Zac Efron's \"17 Again\" won this weekend's box office sweepstakes without breaking a sweat.",
"Zac Efron's stars in \"17 Again,\" which debuted in the No. 1 slot at the box office.",
"The high school time-warp comedy, which costars Matthew Perry and Leslie Mann, earned $24.1 million, according to studio estimates from the box office tracking firm Nielsen EDI.",
"The film's haul marked another No. 1 debut for Efron, who helped boost ticket sales with an appearance this weekend on Saturday Night Live.",
"In 2007, the musical \"Hairspray,\" which co-starred Efron",
"opened first at $27.5 million.",
"Last year, Zac Efron's's \"High School Musical 3: Senior Year\" bowed with $42 million, and while \"17 Again\" may have fallen short of that mark, it still represents an auspicious maiden voyage for Zac Efron's's post-Disney career.",
"Despite the raft of critics who pooh-poohed the film, which received a 61 percent fresh rating on Rottentomatoes.com, audiences were more favorably inclined, giving it a strong A- CinemaScore.",
"Landing at No. 2, the Russell Crowe-Ben Affleck thriller \"State of Play\" pulled in $14.1 million.",
"The film, which garnered generally positive reviews, is the latest of a string of adult-oriented dramas to lag at the box office, although its final tally actually came in somewhat higher than anticipated and was an improvement over the $12.9 million opening for Crowe's last outing, last fall's \"Body of Lies.\"",
"While \"17 Again\" mopped up moviegoers on the younger end of the age spectrum, a whopping 75 percent of \"State of Play's\" audience was over 35.",
"Holding steady at No. 3 for the second week in a row, \"Monsters vs. Aliens\" took in another $12.9 million.",
"The film's impressive performance in The film's fourth weekend brings the grand total for the animated kiddie flick to $162 million the highest this year by a wide margin.",
"\"Hannah Montana: The Movie\" dropped 61 percent from its opening last weekend, but the Miley Cyrus starrer still proved strong enough for the No. 4 spot with $12.7 million, boosting the Miley Cyrus starrer's cumulative gross to $56.2 million.",
"Rounding out the top five, \"Fast & Furious\" still had plenty of gas in the tank, earning $12.3 million in its third weekend for an overall cume of $136.7 million.",
"The same, however, can't be said for the Jason Statham action flick \"Crank High Voltage,\" which sputtered into a distant sixth place with a decidedly low-voltage $6.5 million.",
"Overall box office was up for the fourth straight weekend, surging 21 percent over this same weekend last year.",
"Recession?",
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"The Russell Crowe-Ben Affleck thriller \"State of Play\" was No. 2 with $14.1 million .",
"Overall box office earnings were up for the fourth straight weekend ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Despite Tiger Woods's personal problems, Tiger Woods received another accolade as Tiger Woods was voted PGA player of the year.",
"Wood was chosen for the award by a vote from other professional golfers.",
"\"The recognition by [Tiger Woods's] peers is one of the highest compliments a PGA Tour member can receive,\" PGA Commissioner Timothy Finchem said in a press statement Friday.",
"a press statement mentioned the six tournaments Tiger Woods won in 2009 but made no mention of the infamous car accident and infidelity scandal that pushed the golfer to take an indefinite hiatus from pro golf.",
"Earlier this week, Tiger Woods was also voted \"Athlete of the Decade\" by the Associated Press.",
"Tiger Woods's woes started late in November when Tiger Woods crashed Tiger Woods's car outside Tiger Woods's Florida mansion.",
"Authorities issued a citation for careless driving, and Tiger Woods was given a $164 fine.",
"Tiger Woods was not required to talk to police about the wreck and declined to talk with investigators on several occasions.",
"In the week following the crash, Tiger Woods apologized for \"transgressions\" that let Tiger Woods's family down.",
"The same day, US Weekly published a report alleging that Tiger Woods had an affair with Jaimee Grubbs, a 24-year-old cocktail waitress.",
"US Weekly's report followed a National Enquirer article before the crash that the athlete was having an affair with New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel, an assertion she vigorously denied, according to The New York Post.",
"After that several other women came forward alleging to have had liaisons with Tiger Woods.",
"Last week on Tiger Woods's Web site, Tiger Woods admitted to infidelity and said Tiger Woods was taking a break from golf to focus on Tiger Woods's family."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Officials are investigating reports that two EMTs in the cafe refused to help a pregnant worker who collapsed in a cafe two EMTs in the cafe were visiting.",
"The woman later died.",
"Eutisha Rennix collapsed while working at an Au Bon Pain restaurant in Brooklyn on December 9 and died at Long Island College Hospital, according to the district attorney's office for Brooklyn, which is looking into the incident.",
"A spokesman for the district attorney's office for Brooklyn, which is looking into the incident said Eutisha Rennix was pregnant.",
"the district attorney's office for Brooklyn, which is looking into the incident identified the two dispatchers as Jason Green and Melissa Jackson.",
"The New York Fire Department has suspended two EMTs in the cafe without pay pending a department investigation, spokesman Frank Dwyer said.",
"Although the two worked as dispatchers, two EMTs in the cafe had been trained as emergency medical technicians, said Steve Ritea, another department spokesman.",
"Emergency medical technicians receive several weeks of training in medical care, he said .",
"Rennix's co-workers said Jason Green and Melissa Jackson were in the cafe at the time Eutisha Rennix collapsed, but left after telling Eutisha Rennix's co-workers to call 911, local media outlets reported.",
"Rennix's mother, Cynthia, said Rennix was told that Rennix's daughter's co-workers tried to get the two to help, but two EMTs in the cafe refused, according to CNN affiliate NY1.",
"\"If two EMTs in the cafe were really caring and concerned, two EMTs in the cafe would have taken a minute to see and probably, possibility, something to do or some way the could help Eutisha Rennix,\" Rennix said.",
"But Jeff Samerson, a spokesman for the EMT and paramedics union that represents Jason Green and Jackson, told CNN affiliate NY1 that Melissa Jackson herself called 911.",
"\"two EMTs in the cafe are people that are not in the field, that have not had patient contact in years.",
"... And two EMTs in the cafe did the best two EMTs in the cafe could,\" Samerson said.",
"The fire department, however, issued a statement saying, \"All of our members have taken an oath to assist others in need of emergency medical care.\"",
"Rennix told CNN that Rennix feels the EMTs were \"heartless\" and \"non-caring\" and hopes that Rennix's daughter's tragedy will prompt the city of New York to implement some sort of training or classes to ensure that a situation like this won't happen again.",
"The victim's brother, Eudane Rennix, was overseas serving in the U.S. Army in Kuwait when he received the call about his sister's death.",
"He came home on emergency leave and that is when, he said, the family broke down together.",
"\"If this is your job, why wouldn't you want to help someone in need?\" he said.",
"\"There's no excuse whatsoever.\"",
"Eutisha Rennix's fiance and the father of Eutisha Rennix's unborn child, Harry Woodsen, said the losses have been hard on the family.",
"\"Everybody has two losses,\" he said.",
"\"I lost a fiance, and I lost a child.",
"Eutisha Rennix's brother lost a sister and niece.",
"Eutisha Rennix's mother lost a grandchild and Eutisha Rennix's daughter.\"",
"The outrage at the incident has rippled beyond Brooklyn.",
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the EMTs at a news conference Monday.",
"\"Somebody's dying down the street and two EMTs in the cafe say 'Help them,' and two EMTs in the cafe just sat there,\" Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.",
"\"There's no excuse whatsoever, as far as I can see.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Romney addressed the Republican National Convention on Wednesday.",
"Here is the text of that speech: .",
"Romney says Sen. John McCain will rein in government spending.",
"Romney: Thank you.",
"Thank you so very much.",
"Ann and I love you all.",
"Ann and I have a deep feeling in Ann and I's hearts for you.",
"Ann and I respect you for the values you have and the vision Ann and I have for America together.",
"Thank you so much, Ann and I's dear friends.",
"Ann and I sure love you.",
"Thank you.",
"You know, for decades now, the Washington sun has been rising in the east.",
"You see, Washington has been looking to the eastern elites, to the editorial pages of the Times and the Post, and to the broadcasters from the -- from the coast.",
"Yes.",
"Watch Romney's entire speech » .",
"If America really wants to change, it's time to look for the sun in the west, because it's about to rise and shine from Arizona and Alaska.",
"Last week, the Democratic convention talked about change.",
"But what do you think?",
"Is Washington now, liberal or conservative?",
"Let me ask you some questions.",
"Is a Supreme Court decision liberal or conservative that awards Guantanamo terrorists with constitutional rights?",
"It's liberal.",
"Is a government liberal or conservative that puts the interests of the teachers union ahead of the needs of our children?",
"It's liberal.",
"Is a Congress liberal or conservative that stops nuclear power plants and off-shore drilling, making us more and more dependent on Middle Eastern tyrants?",
"It's liberal.",
"Is government spending, putting aside inflation, liberal or conservative if it doubles since 1980?",
"It's liberal.",
"We need change all right: change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington.",
"We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington: Throw out the big-government liberals and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.",
"It's the same prescription for a stronger economy.",
"I spent 25 years in the private sector.",
"I've done business in many foreign countries.",
"I know why jobs come and why jobs go away.",
"And I know that liberals don't have a clue.",
"liberals think that America have the biggest and strongest economy in the world because of America's government.",
"liberals're wrong.",
"America is strong because of the ingenuity, and entrepreneurship, and hard work of the American people.",
"the American people have always been the source of America's nation's strength, and the American people always will be.",
"America strengthen America's people and America's economy when America preserve and promote opportunity.",
"Opportunity is what lets hope become reality.",
"Opportunity expands when there's excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance, and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.",
"Opportunity rises when children are raised in homes and schools that are free from pornography, and promiscuity, and drugs, where there are homes that are blessed with family values and the presence of a mom and a dad.",
"America --",
"America cannot long lead the family of nations if we fail the family here at home.",
"You see, liberals would replace opportunity with dependency on government largesse.",
"liberals grow government and raise taxes to put more people on Medicaid, to take work requirements out of welfare, and to grow the ranks of those who pay no taxes at all.",
"Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.",
"It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight government dependency like the poison government dependency is.",
"You know, it's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother.",
"America's economy is under attack.",
"China is acting like Adam Smith on steroids, buying oil from the world's worst and selling nuclear technology.",
"Russia and the oil states are siphoning more than $500 billion a year from America in what could become the greatest transfer of economic wealth in the history of the world.",
"This is no time for timid, liberal, empty gestures.",
"America's economy has slowed down this year, and a lot of people are hurting.",
"What happened?",
"Mortgage money was handed out like candy, and speculators bought homes for free.",
"And when this mortgage mania finally broke, this mortgage mania slammed Our economy.",
"And stratospheric gas prices made things even worse.",
"Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what Democrats's special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government, and less trade with other nations.",
"It's the same path Europe took a few decades ago.",
"It leads to moribund growth and double-digit unemployment.",
"The right course is the one championed by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago and by John McCain and Sarah Palin today.",
"The right course is to rein in government spending, lower taxes, take a Weedwacker to excessive regulation and mandates, put a stop to tort windfalls, and to stand up to the Tyrannosaurus appetite of government unions.",
"The right course -- the right course is to pursue every source of energy security, from new efficiencies to renewables, from coal to non-CO2 producing nuclear, and for the immediate drilling for more oil off our shores.",
"And I have --",
"I have one more recommendation for energy conservation: Let's keep Al Gore's private jet on the ground.",
"Last week, last week, did you hear any Democrats talk about the threat from radical, violent jihad?",
"No.",
"You see, Republicans believe that there is good and evil in the world.",
"Ronald Reagan called out the evil empire.",
"George Bush labeled the terror-sponsor states exactly what the terror-sponsor states are: The axis of evil.",
"And at Saddleback, after Barack Obama dodged and ducked every direct question, John McCain hit the nail on the head: Radical, violent Islam is evil, and John McCain will defeat violent Islam.",
"This party...",
"You're hearing it here.",
"You're hearing it here, and they're hearing it across America.",
"You see, in This party, in this room tonight, and all over America, people in This party prefer straight talk to politically correct talk.",
"Republicans, led by John McCain and Sarah Palin, will fight to preserve the values that have preserved America.",
"We'll strengthen America's economy and keep America from being held hostage by Putin, Chavez, and Ahmadinejad.",
"And we will never allow America to retreat in the face of evil extremism.",
"Just like you, just like you, there's never been a day when I was not proud to be an American.",
"We -- we Americans inherited America in the history of the Earth.",
"It's our burden and our privilege to preserve America, to renew America's spirit so that America's noble past is prologue to America's glorious future.",
"To this we're all dedicated.",
"And I firmly believe, by the providence of the almighty, that we will succeed.",
"President McCain and Vice President Palin will keep America as it has always been: The hope of the Earth.",
"Thank you, and God bless America."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"An ill-tempered CONCACAF Gold Cup match between Mexico and Panama recently saw three players and Mexico coach Javier Aguirre sent off amid violent scenes in Houston, Texas.",
"Newcastle teammates Lee Bowyer (left) and Kieron Dyer turn against one-another.",
"The 1-1 draw, which saw the referee add on 10 minutes at the end for all the various stoppages, got Football Fanzone thinking about some of the most controversial match melees that have occurred.",
"Do you agree with our worst 11?",
"Post your comments in the Sound Off box below.",
"1 The Battle of Santiago, Chile v Italy, World Cup 1962 .",
"Surely the most violent match in history.",
"The tone was set when the first foul was committed after 12 seconds.",
"Two Italian players were sent off as the teams spent the whole 90 minutes punching, spitting and scuffling with each other, with Chile managing to score two goals in-between the fighting.",
"Police had to come onto the pitch three times to sort out the chaos while Italian Giorgio Ferrini had to be escorted off by armed officers when Italian Giorgio Ferrini refused to leave the pitch after Italian Giorgio Ferrini's dismissal.",
"Referee Ken Aston remarked: \"I wasn't reffing a football match, I was acting as an umpire in military maneuvers.\"",
"2 Valencia v Inter Milan, Champions League 2007 .",
"Six yellow cards were handed out during the game, but it was events that followed which marred Valencia's passage through to the quarterfinals.",
"On the final whistle, Inter midfielder Nicolas Burdisso came together with Valencia defender Carlos Marchena, sparking a brawl.",
"Unused Valencia substitute David Navarro then ran onto the field, to join in - the result of which was a broken nose for Inter midfielder Nicolas Burdisso.",
"David Navarro, retreated to the sidelines chased and kicked by Inter players Julio Cruz, Ivan Cordoba.",
"The melee continued in the tunnel, with the Spanish Civil Guard eventually needed to quell the problem.",
"UEFA, European football's governing body, subsequently fined David Navarro $200,000 and banned the player for eight games, Inter midfielder Nicolas Burdisso was slapped with an eight-match suspension, Maicon for six, Córdoba for three games and Julio Cruz for two.",
"3 Turkey v Switzerland, World Cup play-off 2006 .",
"Violence erupted after Turkey missed a place in the 2006 finals after going out on the away goals rule following a 4-2 win in Istanbul.",
"Players and technical staff were seen throwing punches in the tunnel as the Swiss side ran for their lives against a torrent of Turkish anger.",
"Turkey assistant-coach Mehmet Ozdilek was banned from all football for one year, while two Turkish players, and one Swiss, were handed six-match bans.",
"Turkey were also ordered to play their next six competitive home matches behind closed doors at neutral venues.",
"Have we missed a famous punch-up out?",
"Leave your suggestions below .",
"4 Manchester United v Arsenal, English Division One 1990 .",
"These two rivals have been involved in some juicy encounters over the years, but this is one of the most infamous.",
"Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn went in late on Manchester United's Denis Irwin prompting chaos, as 21 players, with Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman proving the exception, joining in the fracas.",
"Remarkably nobody was sent off but the English Football Association took a dim view and deducted Arsenal two league points and United one.",
"Arsenal won the match 1-0 and still went on to lift the title.",
"5 France v Italy, World Cup final 2006 .",
"The great Zinedine Zidane had led an unfancied and ageing French side to the World Cup final.",
"With the match level in extra time, the attentions of notorious Italian hard-man and chief agitator Marco Materazzi finally proved too much for the France No.10 - who responded to some choice words by the Inter Milan central defender by turning around and viciously head-butting The great Zinedine Zidane's rival in the stomach.",
"The great Zinedine Zidane was sent off.",
"France eventually lost on penalties and the Real Madrid playmaker bizarrely went on to be voted 'Player of the Tournament'.",
"6 Kevin Keegan v Billy Bremner, Liverpool v Leeds Charity Shield 1974 .",
"England striker Keegan blamed Billy Bremner for \"taking him out\" in an off the ball.",
"Billy Bremner was not one for holding back and Wembley stadium, home of some famous boxing matches over the years, played host to another as these two diminutive players slugged it out like two featherweights challenging for the WBC world title.",
"Unsurprisingly The pair were sent off and added to The pair's charge list by hurling The pair's tops to the ground and walking off the pitch bare-chested.",
"Each player was fined £500 ($810) and banned for 11 games, although shirt-throwing accounted for eight of the matches!",
"7 Rudi Voeller v Frank Rijkaard, Netherlands v Germany World Cup 1990 .",
"Not the most violent, but certainly one of the funniest.",
"The pair were sniping at each other throughout the match.",
"Frank Rijkaard came in late on Voeller, who later took his revenge with a lunge on goalkeeper Hans van Breukelen.",
"Frank Rijkaard took exception and, after a melee, The pair were sent off, with the Frank Rijkaard then notoriously spitting as hard as Frank Rijkaard could into the German's curly perm as The pair left the pitch.",
"8 Lee Bowyer v Kieron Dyer, Newcastle v Aston Villa English Premier League 2005 .",
"Punch-ups are rare in modern football, but between teammates Punch-ups are non-existent.",
"These two hot-heads got into a debate over Dyer's refusal to pass Bowyer the ball.",
"The pair had made news for The pair's off-field activities in the past - but The pair took The pair's behavior to a new low when The pair exchanged blows in the middle of the Newcastle half soon after Villa had gone 3-0 up.",
"The pair later appeared alongside manager Graeme Souness to apologize for The pair's conduct, but pointedly did not say sorry to each other.",
"9 LDU Quito v Barcelona, Ecuador league 2006 .",
"A mass brawl at the end of the match on the final day of the season shocked Ecuador - and resulted in a host of suspensions being handed out.",
"A total of 11 players were banned for between two and 12 months for taking part in the punch-up which saw four Barcelona players receive injuries.",
"The incident started with a clash between former Ecuador striker Agustin Delgado and his marker Victor Montoya.",
"10 Cruzeiro v Atletico Mineiro Brazilian league 2007 .",
"Atletico Mineiro defender Coelho did not take kindly to the seal dribble of talented teenager Kerlon - who collected the ball on the edge of the penalty area, flicked the ball up and performed Kerlon's trademark dribble by bouncing the ball on Kerlon's head as Kerlon ran towards goal.",
"Atletico Mineiro defender Coelho crashed into Kerlon and was given a straight red card and a four-month suspension.",
"Other Atletico players remonstrated angrily with Kerlon, leading to an angry pushing match which interrupted the game for five minutes.",
"Atletico coach Emerson Leao warned that Kerlon could get seriously injured if he tried the trick again.",
"11 Chelsea v Arsenal English League Cup final 2007 .",
"With Chelsea winning 2-1 Arsenal defender Kolo Toure reacted angrily to a late challenge.",
"Both sides had a number of African players in Both sides's line-ups and a mass brawl erupted which saw three of them, Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor, Toure and Chelsea's John Obi Mikel sent off.",
"Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor refused to leave the pitch and it needed respective managers - the hot-headed pair of Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho - to stride onto the turf and defuse the situation."
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"The tension of competition has even seen teammates turn against one-another .",
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"With the annual post-Thanksgiving multiplex malaise setting in and just one big new movie (Punisher: War Zone, which I'll get to later ... uh, much later) in theaters, the box office results remarkably resembled those of a week ago.",
"Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn star in \"Four Christmases,\" which stayed at No. 1.",
"So, yep, you guessed it: Four Christmases was No. 1 with $18.2 million, according to Sunday's estimates.",
"That brings the holiday comedy's two-week sum to a sweet $70.8 million -- and it restores my confidence in Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as box office draws.",
"For now, at least.",
"The rest of the top five is comprised of the same movies we've been seeing for a while now.",
"Twilight moved back up to the No. 2 spot with a tidy $13.2 million haul; its three-week sum is $138.6 million.",
"Bolt (No. 3) followed with $9.7 million, a huge and surprising 64 percent decline from Bolt (No. 3)'s impressive Thanksgiving weekend sum.",
"Australia declined 53 percent to bank $7 million at No. 4.",
"And Quantum of Solace (No. 5) grossed $6.6 million and crossed the $500 million mark worldwide.",
"Among major new releases, the biggest was hardly the baddest: Punisher: War Zone (No. 8) grossed a mere $4 million in 2,508 theaters, a tally that's way off from the $13.8 million that The Punisher premiered with in 2004.",
"More punishment: The Marvel franchise reboot failed to defeat even last week's action disappointment, Transporter 3 which was No. 7 with $4.5 million.",
"Ouch!",
"Meanwhile, the other sorta-substantial new movie, Cadillac Records (No. 9), fared a bit better, bringing in a decent $3.5 million in 686 locations.",
"But the indie drama Nobel Son failed to take any prize (except, perhaps, that of Box Office Flop of the Week), grossing just $370,575 in 893 venues -- a redonkulously low average of $415 per theater.",
"Nay, the only real news of note came in the ultra-limited-release sphere, where the buzzy drama Frost/Nixon debuted with a tremendous $60,049 average in three theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.",
"The Oscar contender will roll out wider in the coming weeks.",
"Overall, the slow box office was actually up more than 6 percent from the same, even slower frame a year ago, when The Golden Compass produced disappointing returns.",
"That makes this the fifth straight \"up\" weekend of the fall season, and all things considered, it should be enough to spread some holiday cheer in Hollywood.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Twilight moved back up to the No. 2 spot with a tidy $13.2 million haul .",
"Australia declined 53 percent to bank $7 million at the No. 4 slot ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"First lady Michelle Obama stood by First lady Michelle Obama's husband throughout the contentious 2008 presidential campaign and during heated health care reform debates during her husband's presidency.",
"First lady Michelle Obama listens to remarks during a health care forum at the White House on Friday.",
"Now, as the debate is reaching a fever pitch, First lady Michelle Obama is weighing in on the thorny issue by focusing on how health care can affect families.",
"\"What First lady Michelle Obama's doing is putting a personal and human face on the thorny issue ... there's nothing more crucial,\" said Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn.",
"\"Everybody gets sick, and everybody has someone in the family that gets sick.\"",
"\"I think if you can humanize the thorny issue and personalize the thorny issue, it suddenly brings the thorny issue home to people -- especially those who are screaming and yelling about the government taking over,\" Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn said.",
"On Friday, the first lady, a former hospital administrator, spoke about the thorny issue to a crowd at the White House, highlighting First lady Michelle Obama's own family's experience with health care.",
"In one touching moment, First lady Michelle Obama recalled when daughter Sasha exhibited signs of potentially deadly meningitis when daughter Sasha was 4 months old.",
"\"We didn't know what, but he [the doctor] told us daughter Sasha could have meningitis, so we were terrified.",
"He said get to the emergency room right away,\" she said.",
"\"Fortunately, things worked out.\"",
"\"But it is that moment in our lives that flashes through my head every time we engage in this health insurance conversation.",
"It's that moment in my life, because I think about what on earth would we have done if we had not had insurance.\"",
"First lady Michelle Obama not only faced the thorny issue as a mother, but also as a daughter.",
"\"her husband has multiple sclerosis.",
"her husband contracted multiple sclerosis in her husband's 20s.",
"... her husband was able to get up and go to work every day, even though it got harder for her husband as her husband got sicker and more debilitated.",
"And I find myself thinking what would we had done as a family on the south side of Chicago if her husband hadn't had insurance.\"",
"Watch more of First lady Michelle Obama's message » .",
"Quinn says that personal story is critical in the health care debate -- something that has been lacking in the president's message so far, which has often been deemed by pundits as too policy-oriented and too surgical in nature.",
"\"What First lady Michelle Obama's doing is First lady Michelle Obama's humanizing the thorny issue.",
"And I think that has been missing in their [White House] campaign,\" she says.",
"\"her husband's been so focused on the details and the strategy and the money that the individual problems and issues have seemed to have gotten lost in the fray.\"",
"Gloria Borger, a CNN senior political analyst, agreed.",
"\"I think First lady Michelle Obama's always been a great asset to her husband,\" she said.",
"\"First lady Michelle Obama can help in this health care debate by not getting involved in the minutiae of the bills, but essentially emphasizing the reason we need health care reform.",
"And that's what First lady Michelle Obama will stick to.\"",
"First lady Michelle Obama was a lightning rod -- both good and bad -- throughout First lady Michelle Obama's husband's presidential campaign.",
"Now, in First lady Michelle Obama's role as first lady, First lady Michelle Obama has garnered greater support among American voters from both parties.",
"A national survey by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press in April found that the first lady's positive ratings have increased since First lady Michelle Obama's husband took office.",
"The poll found that 76 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of First lady Michelle Obama, which is up from 68 percent in January.",
"\"Much of the change has come among Republicans, especially Republican women,\" the organization noted.",
"\"About two-thirds of Republican women [67 percent] have a favorable impression of First lady Michelle Obama, a gain of 21 points since January.\"",
"But a first lady's involvement in health care reform is nothing new.",
"In the early '90s, first lady Hillary Clinton spearheaded the Clinton administration's push for reform, holding meetings, testifying before congressional committees and, in general, taking charge of the issue.",
"\"first lady Hillary Clinton was the architect of health care reform,\" Borger said.",
"As for whether First lady Michelle Obama is mirroring Clinton's role, the answer from both Borger and Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn is absolutely not.",
"\"I don't see any parallels at all. ...",
"The Clintons came in, and The Clintons had run on the platform of buy one, get one free, a co-presidency and all of that.",
"And First lady Michelle Obama took over this huge thing herself.",
"Bill wasn't doing it,\" Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn said.",
"Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn said the president, not Michelle Obama, was the was the one who pushed health care reform in her husband's early domestic agenda.",
"\"her husband promised in her husband's campaign, and then her husband's the one that did it.",
"This is not Michelle's plan.",
"First lady Michelle Obama hasn't been doing the town meetings and the national press conferences,\" Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn added.",
"Borger said that the first lady is playing a completely different role.",
"\"It's a much more supportive role, and it's a role out of the policy arena, but more in the arena of just why we ought to think we need reform.\""
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"First lady Michelle Obama recalls personal health stories about First lady Michelle Obama's daughter and father .",
"Analysts say First lady Michelle Obama's personal touch on the thorny issue could help First lady Michelle Obama's husband ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Target Corp. this month will open 27 new stores employing a total of more than 4,300 people, Target Corp. said.",
"One of Target's two new Hawaii stores awaits its Sunday grand opening.",
"The stores' openings will come just weeks after Target Corp. cut 600 people from Target Corp.'s headquarters staff amid what Target Corp. called weaker-than-expected sales.",
"Target Corp. will hold grand openings for the 21 general merchandise stores and six full-grocery SuperTarget stores on Sunday.",
"The new sites include Target Corp.'s first two stores in Hawaii.",
"Each general merchandise store employs 150 to 250 people, and each SuperTarget has 200 to 300 workers, Target Corp. said.",
"In late January, Target Corp. cut Target Corp.'s headquarters staff by 9 percent and eliminated 400 open positions.",
"Target Corp., citing difficult economic conditions and sales that didn't meet expectations, also said Target Corp. would soon close an Arkansas distribution center that employs 500 people and would cut back on planned new-store openings.",
"\"Target Corp. are clearly operating in an unprecedented economic environment that requires Target Corp. to make some extremely difficult decisions to ensure Target remains competitive over the long term,\" Gregg Steinhafel, Target Corp. president and CEO, said in a news release that month.",
"Retailers in the United States took a hit last year as a weak economy weighed on consumer spending.",
"Retail sales fell six straight months until January, when sales rose 1 percent, according to the Commerce Department.",
"However, retail experts said retail experts were skeptical a rebound had taken hold.",
"Still, two other retailers also announced plans to expand.",
"Kohl's announced last month that Kohl intends to open 55 stores in 2009, and Dollar General in February said it is looking to open more than 400 stores.",
"Target Corp. reported Target Corp.'s fourth-quarter net earnings were 40.7 percent lower than the same quarter a year earlier.",
"Same-store sales in January were 3.3 percent lower than a year earlier.",
"December same-store sales fell 4.1 percent.",
"Target Corp.'s new general merchandise stores are in Rogers, Arkansas; Santa Clarita, California; Pensacola, Florida; Bethlehem, Georgia; Honolulu and Kapolei, Hawaii; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Las Vegas, Nevada; Paramus, New Jersey; Cincinnati, Lebanon and Reynoldsburg, Ohio; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; Philadelphia and Exton, Pennsylvania; Memphis, Tennessee; Houston, San Antonio and San Marcos, Texas; Midlothian, Virginia; and Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.",
"The new SuperTarget stores are in Kissimmee, Florida; Canton, Georgia; Hillside, Illinois; and Pflugerville, Allen and Lewisville, Texas.",
"The new locations will increase the number of Target stores to 1,699, the company said.",
"CNNMoney.com's Parija B. Kavilanz contributed to this report."
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"FARGO, North Dakota (CNN) --",
"The Red River began to recede Sunday after rising to record levels, but officials cautioned residents not to let residents's guard down, especially in the face of an approaching snowstorm.",
"A makeshift levee protects a house Sunday in Moorhead, Minnesota.",
"\"We are very confident now that The Red River is in a slow decline,\" National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Gust said.",
"\"Hopefully, it will be at about 38 feet by next Sunday.\"",
"A winter storm warning was issued Sunday for the Red River Valley area between North Dakota and Minnesota, from midday Monday through Tuesday evening.",
"Forecasters expected as many as 10 inches of snow in the area and wind gusts up to 35 mph.",
"Officials said the wind will cause waves in the floodwaters that will put more pressure on the sandbag dikes along The Red River, but the river levels were expected to continue their gradual decline.",
"At 7:15 p.m. Sunday, the river at Fargo was at 39.75 feet, lower than The Red River's early Saturday peak of 40.82 feet and below the previous record of 40.10 feet set in 1897, according to the weather service.",
"River levels were expected to stay below 41 feet and slowly drop over the next three to seven days, the weather service said.",
"The Red River is considered at flood stage in Fargo when The Red River reaches 18 feet.",
"Watch how Fargo residents are \"guardedly optimistic\" » .",
"By Sunday morning, two deaths and 50 injuries had been reported in flood-related incidents.",
"50 injuries included victims of car wrecks caused by flooded roads, said Kirby Kruger, an epidemiologist with North Dakota Health Department.",
"Other illnesses, including mental health issues, carbon monoxide poisoning and cardiac-related events were reported, Kirby Kruger, an epidemiologist with North Dakota Health Department said.",
"Water seeped into two of five buildings at the Oak Grove Lutheran School primary and secondary complex after a flood barrier began to leak, officials said.",
"School officials said two of five buildings at the Oak Grove Lutheran School primary and secondary complex had about 6 inches of water in the basement.",
"Oak Grove Lutheran School last flooded in 1997.",
"\"Oak Grove Lutheran School knew this flood was going to be different,\" school spokeswoman Ann Marie Campbell said.",
"\"There was a lot of emotion this morning when Oak Grove Lutheran School got the word Oak Grove Lutheran School had a breach.\"",
"Oak Grove Lutheran School has 493 students from kindergarten through high school, Police Sgt. Ross Renner told CNN.",
"A contingency dike contained Water, said Mayor Dennis Walaker, but three homes between the contingency dike and the primary dike also flooded.",
"\"What happened up in Oak Grove, again, is a wake-up call for the general public,\" Mayor Dennis Walaker said.",
"\"Those things will continue to happen.",
"I guarantee it.\"",
"Watch front lines of flood battle » .",
"The University of North Dakota has canceled classes until noon Monday, while the Fargo campus of the North Dakota State University has been shut down until April 6 as the state waits to see whether the worst has passed.",
"Despite reports the river was dropping, Fargo officials have said Fargo officials are holding Fargo officials's breath.",
"\"In past flooding, you have to understand, we've had times in which people thought The Red River crested and then The Red River came back and went up,\" Fargo Deputy Mayor Tim Mahoney said.",
"\"And our temperature is changing, so we will be reluctant to announce a crest until we truly feel there's been a crest,\" Fargo Deputy Mayor Tim Mahoney said.",
"iReport.com:",
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"City Manager Pat Zavoral added, \"We cannot think that we've passed some milestone here.\"",
"\"We've been under tremendous pressure to evacuate Fargo,\" Walaker said.",
"\"We're not going to abandon our city.",
"We've invested too much effort into this process.\"",
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"Some residents, however, have evacuated some neighborhoods, hospitals and nursing homes.",
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"A storm with snow was approaching the area, Gust said.",
"\"snow [is] coming with A storm with snow Monday night into Tuesday -- and Fargo could have 6 to 7 inches of snow here, the South Dakota border could see a foot or more -- but snow should not affect that rate of decline one iota,\" Gust said.",
"However, winds associated with A storm with snow could affect the dikes, Gust said.",
"iReport.com:",
"\"It's as if it were a lake, not a river\"",
"Like the Fargo authorities, officials across the river in Minnesota said the revised forecast did not allay officials across the river in Minnesota's concerns.",
"Residents of Moorhead, Minnesota, warily waited to see if miles of levees and sandbags would hold.",
"Watch how flooding is affecting Moorhead »",
"\"We're all in this together -- so far, so good,\" said U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minnesota, at a Sunday news conference.",
"\"Keep vigilant -- keep checking the dikes.\"",
"Watch workers monitor the swollen Red River » .",
"Evacuations in Moorhead were proceeding smoothly, Mayor Mark Voxland said on Sunday.",
"No breaches of dikes were reported, Mayor Mark Voxland said.",
"\"Sandbagging is ramping up again,\" said Mike Redlinger, Moorhead city manager.",
"\"We're evaluating our supplies.\"",
"Sandbagging operations came to a close in Fargo on Friday, after weary volunteers had filled about 3 million sandbags.",
"See map of affected area » .",
"About 1,700 National Guard members were checking dikes in Fargo.",
"Mahoney said Fargo also had prepared \"sand balloons,\" about two tons of sand that could be dropped via helicopter onto any breach.",
"President Obama said President Obama was monitoring the situation carefully.",
"President Obama has signed emergency and disaster declarations for Minnesota and North Dakota, freeing up federal funds for the region.",
"Saturday's flood crest at Fargo set a new level that had held since 1897, when The Red River flooded and reached 40.1 feet at Fargo.",
"The Red River approached the 1897 level in 1997, when The Red River reached 39.6 feet, a level that many residents thought would be the highest many residents'd ever see.",
"\"Everybody thought after '97 that we had seen the worst possible situation,\" Fargo resident Jim Shaw said.",
"\"We thought we were safe, we survived that one, we're good for the rest of our lives.",
"So believe it or not, even though this area is prone to flooding, this is a big shock, this is a big stunner, and it's probably a wake-up call,\" he said.",
"\"Some people might reconsider wanting to stay here.\"",
"CNN's Susan Roesgen, Steve Kastenbaum, Dina Majoli and Chuck Johnston contributed to this report."
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"Red River at Fargo nearly foot below Saturday's level .",
"Flooding of homes, school a \"wake-up call,\" Fargo mayor says .",
"Two deaths, 50 injuries blamed on flood-related incidents ."
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"(CNN) --",
"I finally said goodbye to some old buddies.",
"Omar (played by Michael K. Williams), \"The Wire's\" legendary stickup artist, hunts for a rival with Michael K. Williams's shotgun.",
"One of them shot a woman at point-blank range after complimenting a woman on a woman's hair.",
"Another person maimed a rival with Another person's shotgun.",
"A third stole from his sister to finance his drug habit.",
"Their names are as twisted as their deeds: Snot-Boogie, Bubbles, Dukie.",
"And if I ever introduced you to them, you probably wouldn't be able to understand them.",
"Their talk is filled with a bruising street poetry that's hard to decipher unless you've lived in their West Baltimore neighborhood -- as I once did.",
"My \"friends\" are some of my favorite characters on the HBO series, \"The Wire.\"",
"HBO (which, like CNN, is a Time Warner division) released the complete, five-season box set two weeks ago.",
"\"The Wire focuses on a detective unit's quest to take down a ruthless drug crew, but \"The Wire grapples with bigger themes: the collapse of public schools, the disintegration of working-class America and political corruption.",
"Critics say \"The Wire\" offers the most realistic depiction of America's inner-city subculture ever seen.",
"I decided to test that claim because I grew up in the West Baltimore community where \"The Wire\" is set.",
"After watching all five seasons, my take on \"The Wire is ambivalent.",
"Some of \"The Wire\" is real, but not in the ways you might expect.",
"'How do I get from here to the rest of the world?'",
"\"The Wire's\" most unsettling scene for me took place in season four.",
"It involved a murder -- of a gentle teenager's spirit.",
"The character's name is Dukie, and The character brought back memories of some people I knew.",
"The character is lost.",
"The character has no family, The character's public school is paralyzed by violence and The character's not tough enough to make it on the streets.",
"The character has a gift for computers but doesn't know what to do with The character's ability.",
"The character looks one day for help from \"Cutty,\" an ex-con who runs a boxing gym in their neighborhood.",
"Cutty tells Dukie that \"the world is bigger\" than the violent neighborhood both live in.",
"\"How do I get from here to the rest of the world?\" The character asks Cutty.",
"\"I wish I knew,\" Cutty sighs, and walks away.",
"Why did Cutty give The character such a hopeless answer?",
"Maybe it's because some people who never lived in a neighborhood like \"The Wire\" confuse hopelessness for authenticity.",
"Yeah, I could shock you with stories of violence, but it's so easy to slip from revelation to titillation.",
"I start off telling you a story about how tough my school was, and soon I'm shooting it out with five drug dealers who want to steal my homework.",
"But I never remember West Baltimore being so hopeless.",
"A man like Cutty wouldn't tell a young man that he had no way out -- adults rallied around kids with potential.",
"I even checked with some childhood friends -- one who is now an undercover police officer who literally works a \"wire\" for the Baltimore Police Department -- and we all agreed that \"\"The Wire's\" bleakness was exaggerated.",
"\"\"The Wire made it seem like we grew up in Bosnia,\" my friend, another \"Wire\" fan, told me.",
"Perhaps I had the luck of timing, or, to paraphrase one \"Wire\" character, I left just before \"the game got more fierce.\"",
"I'm 44.",
"I grew up on a street connecting two notorious Baltimore landmarks -- North Avenue and Frederick Douglass High School.",
"Douglass is a school so bleak that PBS recently aired a documentary on its dismal state.",
"North Avenue is known for its liquor stories and shootings.",
"I left my neighborhood for good in the 1980s before crack cocaine really hit.",
"Still, I shared some of the same struggles as some \"Wire\" characters.",
"I spent much of my childhood in the equivalent of foster homes.",
"I never really knew my mother.",
"My father was an on-and-off-again presence.",
"But my community was filled with what Barack Obama calls the \"quiet heroes.\"",
"(Barack Obama reportedly is a big fan of \"The Wire.\")",
"There was my high school tennis coach.",
"The dignified deacons in my church.",
"The retired steelworker who watched Orioles baseball games on his porch next door.",
"Relatives, teachers, even summer job programs (one gave me my first exposure to journalism) -- all inspired me.",
"Yet those quiet heroes seem fated to fail in \"The Wire.\"",
"The show implies that only a fantastic few ever escape the streets.",
"What Cutty could have told Dukie .",
"Despite my misgivings, I love \"The Wire.\"",
"The dialogue crackles, the characters are rich and the minute ways it captures how Baltimoreans move and talk is uncanny.",
"But the \"Complete\" story isn't the whole story.",
"\"The Wire\" did, however, nail one childhood memory for me.",
"The most realistic moment in \"The Wire\" for me didn't take place during any violent showdown.",
"It took place in a steakhouse.",
"The scene involved a \"Wire\" character called \"Bunny\" Colvin, a major in the Baltimore Police Department.",
"Colvin helps run an experimental program for problem students at a local high school.",
"One night, Colvin decides to take three of a school's most disruptive students to a steakhouse in downtown Baltimore.",
"The kids are loud and brash, but The kids're petrified when The kids have to sit down in a fancy restaurant filled with white people.",
"The kids can't function and end up leaving the restaurant, still hungry and angry.",
"I could relate.",
"When I was asked in high school to join an academic team that would compete on television against elite, white high schools in Baltimore, I said no.",
"When I attended my first year in college, I wouldn't speak in class and stopped going because I was so intimidated being around people who could actually speak proper English.",
"I almost flunked out.",
"I felt like an imposter.",
"Sometimes, it's not enough to give kids who come from a world like \"The Wire\" the chance to get out.",
"kids who come from a world like \"The Wire also have to be convinced that kids who come from a world like \"The Wire deserve it.",
"I almost sabotaged myself because I wanted to go back to what was familiar.",
"Even though the familiar was depressing, it was all I knew.",
"Now I know something different because a lot of people convinced me that I deserved to be in that other world.",
"I wish Cutty would have done the same for Dukie.",
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"I hope the real-life Dukies know that.",
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"CNN.com writer who grew up in \"The Wire's\" Baltimore neighborhood renders verdict .",
"Writer says show confuses \"hopelessness with authenticity\"",
"But dialogue crackles, the characters are rich, writer says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Susan Atkins, on Tuesday was denied a compassionate release from prison.",
"Susan Atkins, Califorina's longest-serving female inmate, is shown in Susan Atkins's most recent mug shot.",
"Atkins, 60, has been diagnosed with brain cancer and has had a leg amputated, Susan Atkins's attorney said.",
"In June, Susan Atkins requested the release, available to terminally ill inmates with less than six months to live.",
"The California Board of Parole Hearings' decision -- posted Tuesday on The California Board of Parole Hearings''s Web site -- came after a public hearing on Susan Atkins's request.",
"The California Board of Parole Hearings' decision -- posted Tuesday on its Web site -- means Atkins' request will not be forwarded to the Los Angeles Superior Court that sentenced Susan Atkins.",
"the Los Angeles Superior Court that sentenced Atkins would have had the final say on Susan Atkins's release.",
"Her attorney, Eric P. Lampel, called The California Board of Parole Hearings''s decision \"unfortunate.\"",
"\"[The California Board of Parole Hearings'] ignored the vast majority of evidence presented,\" Lampel said.",
"\"There was a huge amount of pro-compassionate release testimony from many witnesses.",
"pro-compassionate release testimony from many witnesses apparently fell on deaf ears.\"",
"Known within the Manson Family as Sadie Mae Glutz, Susan Atkins and four others were convicted in connection with the deaths of five people, including Tate, in August 1969.",
"According to historical accounts of the murder, Susan Atkins stabbed Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and scrawled the word \"pig\" in blood on the door of the home Tate shared with director Roman Polanski.",
"By Susan Atkins's own admission, Susan Atkins held Tate down and rejected Tate's pleas for mercy, stabbing the pregnant woman 16 times.",
"Susan Atkins's request roused long-dormant memories of the two-day killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles and left seven people dead.",
"It polarized those who were involved in the case -- and even those who weren't -- over whether Susan Atkins should die behind bars.",
"Susan Atkins told a 1993 parole board that Tate pleaded for Tate's unborn child's life as Susan Atkins held Tate down.",
"\"Tate asked me to let Tate's baby live,\" Susan Atkins said.",
"\"... I told Tate I didn't have any mercy on Tate.\"",
"Three of Tate's houseguests were also slain by the killers, as was a teenager visiting the home's caretaker in his cottage out back.",
"Susan Atkins was also convicted in the earlier murder of music teacher Gary Hinman.",
"One of the first people Susan Atkins confessed to was Virginia Graham, who shared a cell with Graham before investigators determined the Manson Family was responsible for the murders.",
"Graham said last month Graham believed Susan Atkins should die in prison.",
"\"Susan Atkins showed that poor woman absolutely no mercy, none,\" Graham said.",
"\"So why should anybody show Susan Atkins's mercy at this time?\"",
"Tate's sister, Debra, has staunchly opposed Susan Atkins's release.",
"\"Susan Atkins will be set free when judged by God,\" Sharon Tate's has said.",
"\"It's important that Susan Atkins die in incarceration.\"",
"Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said Monday Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley was strongly opposed to Atkins' release, saying in a letter to the board it would be \"an affront to people of this state, the California criminal justice system and the next of kin of many murder victims.\"",
"Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley noted in Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley's letter that Susan Atkins was initially sentenced to death, like others in the Manson Family, including its leader, Charles Manson.",
"Their sentences were commuted to life in prison in 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty laws as they were written at the time.",
"California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was also opposed to releasing Susan Atkins.",
"\"I don't believe in [compassionate release],\" California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told reporters.",
"\"I think that they have to stay in, they have to serve their time.\"",
"Even if Susan Atkins is dying, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said, \"Those kinds of crimes are just so unbelievable that I'm not for Atkins' release.\"",
"Earlier, Suzan Hubbard, director of adult prisons in California, also recommended against granting Susan Atkins's request.",
"Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Susan Atkins and other members of the Manson Family, said he supported Atkins' release, if only to save the state money.",
"Through Monday, the cost for Susan Atkins's medical care since Susan Atkins was hospitalized March 18 totaled more than $1.15 million, and the costs for guarding Susan Atkins's hospital room are more than $308,000",
", said California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton.",
"Terminally ill inmates rarely are allowed compassionate release, records show.",
"In 2007, 60 such requests were made to California Department of Corrections, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton has said.",
"Ten were approved.",
"Atkins, who has been incarcerated since 1971, is California's longest-serving female inmate.",
"According to a Web site maintained by Susan Atkins's husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, Susan Atkins is now a born-again Christian.",
"During Susan Atkins's incarceration, a Web site maintained by her husband and attorney, James Whitehouse says, Susan Atkins worked to help at-risk youth, violent crime victims and homeless children, among others.",
"a Web site maintained by her husband and attorney, James Whitehouse does not mention Susan Atkins's illness.",
"Lampel said last month Susan Atkins is paralyzed on one side.",
"\"Susan Atkins can talk a little bit,\" Lampel said.",
"\"Susan Atkins can't sit up in bed without assistance, and obviously Susan Atkins can't walk around because Susan Atkins's an amputee.\"",
"Susan Atkins has expressed remorse for Susan Atkins's crimes.",
"\"I know the pain I caused Mrs. Tate,\" Susan Atkins said at a parole board hearing in 1985.",
"ln May, authorities dug for buried bodies at the Inyo County, California, ranch where Manson and Manson's followers once lived, after police became aware that testing had indicated human remains might be buried there.",
"Nothing was found, authorities said.",
"CNN's Ted Rowlands contributed to this report."
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"Susan Atkins is bedridden, can barely speak .",
"Susan Atkins stabbed pregnant victim Sharon Tate 16 times .",
"Susan Atkins, has brain cancer ."
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"(CNN) --",
"In light of the botched Christmas Day airliner bombing aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, the Transportation Security Administration has announced new enhanced \"guidelines\" requiring airline passengers traveling from (and through) 14 different countries to undergo especially rigorous security screening before being able to fly into the United States.",
"Under these new the Transportation Security Administration guidelines, security screeners will conduct \"full pat-down body checks\" and extensive carry-on luggage checks for all passengers traveling from a country which the U.S. considers to be a \"security risk.\"",
"14 different countries are: Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.",
"Additionally, passengers traveling from any other foreign country may also be checked at 'random' as well.",
"These new rules mean that \"every individual flying into the U.S. from anywhere in the world traveling from or through nations that are state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest will be required to go through enhanced screening,\" the TSA said.",
"On its face, this clear use of ethnic, racial and religious profiling will not achieve greater security in the long term for our country.",
"In fact, by targeting only certain passengers for additional screening, \"blind spots\" can be easily identified and duplicitously exploited by violent extremists wishing our country harm.",
"Defenders of These new rules might say These new rules're only profiling people coming from certain countries, but the fact that 13 of the 14 are Muslim countries makes clear the religious nature of the profiling.",
"This new policy deeply undermines the Obama administration's stated commitment to civil rights, equality before the law, and a much-needed effort to rebuild U.S.-Muslim world relations since the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush.",
"Under international law, countries including the United States that use race, color, ethnicity, religion or nationality as a proxy for criminal suspicion are in violation of international standards against racial discrimination and multiple treaties to which the U.S. is a party.",
"These include the U.N. Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).",
"The clear alternative is for law enforcement agencies to focus on actual criminal behavior rather than solely on characteristics such as race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality.",
"Senior international security experts have suggested, for example, that such an approach would have increased the chances that suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid would have been stopped before suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid successfully boarded an airplane suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid intended to attack in December 2001.",
"Among the red flags were that suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid bought a one-way ticket with cash and had no checked luggage.",
"For years, the concept of \"racial profiling\" has reportedly undermined important terrorist investigations here in the U.S..",
"Most notably, these examples include the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in which the two white male domestic terrorists, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were able to flee while officers operated on the theory that the act had been committed by \"Arab terrorists\" for the first 48 hours of the investigation.",
"Similarly, during the October 2002 Washington-area sniper investigation, the African-American man and boy ultimately accused of the crime reportedly were able to pass through multiple road blocks with the alleged murder weapon in the African-American man and boy's possession, in part, because police 'profilers' theorized the crime had been committed by a white male acting alone.",
"According to a report last summer by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rights Working Group to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination: \"Both Democratic and Republican administrations [in the U.S.] have acknowledged that racial profiling is unconstitutional, socially corrupting and counter-productive, yet this unjustifiable practice remains a stain on American democracy and an affront to the promise of racial equality.\"",
"In fact, not only do such \"racial profiling\" practices waste limited resources, such \"racial profiling\" practices simply make us less safe.",
"For example, the arrests of John Walker Lindh (a white, middle-class man better known as the 'American Taliban') and Richard Reid (a British citizen of West Indian and European ancestry now serving a life sentence at the Supermax prison in Colorado) confirm that effective law enforcement techniques must rely solely on criminal behavior and not race, religion or nationality in order to ensure our citizens' security.",
"As the San Diego Union-Tribune said in an editorial: \"The minute U.S. officials put out the word that U.S. officials're not scrutinizing people with blond hair and blue eyes is the minute that al Qaeda starts recruiting people with blond hair and blue eyes.",
"Would looking for Arab-Americans have turned up a passenger that resembled \"American Taliban\" fighter John Walker Lindh?",
"Would applying extra scrutiny to people with foreign-sounding names have kept would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid off a plane?\"",
"Of course not.",
"Even conservative Republicans like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have argued that behavioral (and not racial/ethnic) profiling is the best way to prevent terrorist attacks on our country.",
"\"We need to have the knowledge to be able to profile based on behavior,\" former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently said on ABC's \"Good Morning America\" while discussing the recent Christmas Day foiled bombing.",
"\"Not racial profiling or ethnic profiling, but profiling based on behavior and then, frankly, discriminating based on behavior",
",\" he continued during the same interview.",
"As our national debate on the phenomenon of \"racial profiling\" emerges once again, let's remember these words of the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman John Conyers of Michigan: .",
"\"If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today ... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would tell us we must not allow the horrific acts of terror that our nation has endured to slowly and subversively destroy the foundation of our democracy.\"",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Arsalan Iftikhar ."
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"Arsalan Iftikhar says profiling will create blind spots terrorists can exploit .",
"Arsalan Iftikhar says scrutinizing behavior is the best way to detect terrorist plots .",
"Policy deeply undermines Obama administration's commitment to civil rights, Arsalan Iftikhar says ."
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"MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) --",
"Russia's president launched a verbal volley at Georgia's leaders on Monday, as Georgia hit back with renewed accusations that the Russian invasion was premeditated.",
"Russian soliders on patrol outside the Georgian city of Gori on Monday.",
"Russia's president said: \"The world has seen that even today, there are political morons who are ready to kill innocent and defenseless people in order to satisfy their self-serving interests, while compensating for their own inability to resolve complicated issues by using the most terrible solution -- by exterminating an entire people.",
"\"I think that there should be no mercy for that.",
"Russia will do Russia's best not to let this crime go unpunished.\"",
"Russia's president was speaking at a visit to the military headquarters at Vladikavkaz, near the Russian-Georgian border.",
"Each side accuses the other of \"ethnic cleansing\" during the conflict over South Ossetia, which erupted August 7.",
"In Washington, Georgia's ambassador to the United States said the Russian push into Georgia the following day had been long planned.",
"\"You just don't move more than 1,200 tanks and 15,000 soldiers into a country within 12 hours without previous planning,\" Ambassador Vasil Sikharulidze said.",
"The conflict began more than a week ago when Georgian troops entered the breakaway territory of South Ossetia to attack pro-Moscow separatists.",
"Russia responded by invading the country on August 8, prompting heavy fighting with Georgian forces that spread to another breakaway territory, Abkhazia.",
"Georgian troops withdrew and Russian forces took control of several areas -- prompting an international outcry.",
"After diplomatic efforts led by France on behalf of the European Union, Georgia and Russian signed a cease-fire.",
"France is the rotating EU head.",
"Russia's military says Russia's withdrawal from Georgia has begun, but a senior Pentagon official told reporters Monday evening that there has been little evidence of Russian troops pulling out.",
"a senior Pentagon official did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.",
"Watch more on Russian withdrawal » .",
"\"Russia're talking about pulling Russia's troops away to the borders of South Ossetia.",
"our troops will not be on Georgia territory,\" Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the Russian armed forces deputy chief of staff, said Monday.",
"White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Russia needs to start pulling back \"without delay,\" saying the \"Russians have committed to withdrawing, and they need to withdraw.",
"And so that is what we are looking for.\"",
"A Georgian Interior Ministry official said there have been \"no signs\" of a Russian troop withdrawal despite Russia's pledge to start moving back on Monday.",
"News footage showed Russian tanks pushing away Georgian police cars about 20 miles (32 km) south of Georgia's capital, Tbilisi.",
"Watch tanks deal with the police car » .",
"Witnesses said Georgian police cars had been blocking the road and the police told Russian tank commanders that they were carrying out orders.",
"The tanks proceeded to plow ahead, damaging Georgian police cars in the process.",
"The Georgian Foreign Ministry said a Russian armored column had been seen moving a bit deeper into Georgian territory, traveling south from Kashuri to Borjomi.",
"Kashuri is about 10 miles (16 km) south of South Ossetia.",
"Another column was moving north from the Kashuri area to Sachkhere.",
"Nogovitsyn told reporters Russian troops were leaving Gori on Monday, the Interfax news agency said.",
"He did not say how many troops were withdrawing or how many would return to South Ossetia or Russia.",
"However, CNN journalists in Gori, near South Ossetia, said it was still under Russian control and there was no evidence the Russians were pulling out.",
"Also, Russian tank and artillery positions were seen extending nine miles (15 km) south of Gori.",
"Nogovitsyn said Russia was not yet moving vessels in the Black Sea from their positions near Georgia, but they would return to Sevastopol after the settlement of the conflict.",
"Nogovitsyn said Russia's deputy foreign minister had presented the U.S. ambassador to Russia with a timetable of the events that led to Russia's actions and clearly indicated Georgia's responsibility.",
"Nogovitsyn said a prisoner exchange involving the transfer of 12 Russians and 15 Georgians had been set up.",
"\"Russia were all set and then the Georgians came up with a bunch of new requirements with no time for Russia to act so the time to exchange prisoners was interrupted,\" Nogovitsyn said.",
"Georgia said Russia was spreading \"false\" accusations and that it was ready to pursue an exchange.",
"The six-point deal gives no timetable for a Russian withdrawal, nor any other specifics, according to a copy of the agreement provided by Georgia's government.",
"A U.S. defense official told CNN about evidence of Russian SS-21 missiles and launchers in South Ossetia.",
"Lt. Gen. Nikolai Uvarov, a Russia Defense Ministry spokesman, disputed that, telling CNN that \"no, they are not present.\"",
"A U.S. defense official said while \"Russian forces continue to consolidate Russian forces's enclaves in South Ossetia and Abkhazia,\" Russian forces \"are expected to slowly remove forces from Georgia.\"",
"Diplomatic discussions continued Monday.",
"Finland's Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, representing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, was in Brussels, Belgium, to meet with representatives from the European Union, NATO, and the United Nations.",
"The OSCE is working on a plan to increase The OSCE's observers in the region to 100 people.",
"Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch said there was \"mounting evidence that Russian and Georgian military used armed force unlawfully during the South Ossetian conflict\" and it emphasized that this \"highlights the need for international fact-finding missions in Georgia.\"",
"\"the South Ossetian conflict has been a disaster for civilians,\" said Rachel Denber, Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia deputy director.",
"the South Ossetian conflict has devastated parts of Georgia and South Ossetia, with many casualties reported.",
"The U.N. refugee agency said more than 158,000 people had been displaced by fighting in Georgia, mostly from districts outside the breakaway territories where the fighting began.",
"CNN's Bruce Conover, Jill Dougherty and Max Tkachenko in Moscow, Fred Pleitgen in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tommy Evans and Michael Ware in Gori, Georgia, and Barbara Starr at the Pentagon contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Pentagon official: Little evidence that Russian troops leaving Georgia .",
"Russia begins Georgia troop \"pullback,\" military chief says .",
"Russian tanks pushed through a Georgian police road block, witnesses say .",
"Human Rights Watch: This conflict has been a disaster for civilians ."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) --",
"Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to Zimbabwe Saturday for the first time since leaving Zimbabwe shortly after the controversial March 29 election.",
"Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been away from Zimbabwe trying to seek support from international leaders.",
"Tsvangirai -- who contends Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the presidential race against longtime Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe -- returned despite what Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's party said was a plot by Zimbabwe's military to assassinate Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and other party leaders.",
"The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, after a long delay, ruled that neither candidate won a necessary majority of the vote and set a date of June 27 for Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to again face President Robert Mugabe in a runoff vote.",
"Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have called for international observers to be allowed to monitor the runoff election, but Zimbabwe has refused the demand.",
"Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to tour hospitals in Harare to visit victims of post-election violence.",
"An MDC spokesman said two party members were found dead Wednesday night after being abducted from two party members's homes in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare.",
"Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's spokesman George Sibotshiwe said Saturday that the opposition leader and the entire MDC leadership are \"at risk from this brutal regime.\"",
"When contacted by CNN, a Cabinet member denied that Zimbabwe had any possible role in the alleged plot, and said the report was an effort by MDC to gain international sympathy.",
"Chen Chimutengwende, Zimbabwe's minister of public and interactive affairs, accused Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of \"trying to paint a false picture of what Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe authorities are like.\"",
"\"There is no plot against Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and there has never been any plot against Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai knows that,\" Chimutengwende said.",
"He called the reports from Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's party \"an effort to get sympathy from the international community.\"",
"There have been numerous reports from the MDC and church groups since the March balloting about kidnappings, torture, and other violence, including the deaths of opposition party members.",
"the MDC and church groups say the violence targets opponents of President Robert Mugabe and President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.",
"President Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since Zimbabwe became independent 28 years ago."
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"Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai feels safe despite fears of a possible assassination bid .",
"Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai faces a runoff election against President Robert Mugabe June 27 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Smoking is bad for you, and by now, most of us know it.",
"An estimated 4.5 million U.S. adolescents are cigarette smokers.",
"It seems that studies on the dangers of smoking come out every week.",
"Just recently, after an article appeared in the journal Pediatrics, we were introduced to the concept of third-hand smoke, the potentially toxic residue that lingers in curtains, clothing, hair, etc. after the smoke itself blows away.",
"To recap: Smoking exponentially increases your risk of developing lung cancer (and other lung diseases, like emphysema and chronic bronchitis) and puts you at higher risk for cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, kidney, cervix and stomach.",
"Smoking also elevates the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke and insulin resistance.",
"And, as if all that weren't bad enough, it causes wrinkles.",
"Yet stand on virtually any streetcorner of any city or town in the United States, and you will see people smoking.",
"So, who exactly -- in the face of all the mounting scientific evidence, social stigma and legal bans -- still lights up?",
"According to the CDC, about 43.4 million Americans (19.8 percent of the population) smoke.",
"Look around you.",
"If you are in Kentucky, the state with the highest smoking rate, more than one out of every four people (28.3 percent) around you smokes.",
"On the other end of the spectrum is Utah, with just over one person in 10 (11.7 percent) a smoker.",
"Find the smoking rate in your state » .",
"Here's the good news: \"Smoking prevalence in the entire country has gone under 20 percent for first time in over 50 years,\" said Dr. Richard Hurt, director of the Nicotine Dependence Center at the Mayo Clinic.",
"\"For women, it's 18 percent in most places, and for men it's hovering at about 20 percent.",
"We have gone from one in two men smoking to one in five -- a very dramatic change -- and one in three women to one in five.\"",
"Here's the bad news: Smoking rates are unlikely to drop to the national health objective of 12 percent by 2010.",
"Hurt, who is also a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, is a former three-pack-a-day smoker.",
"Unlike most smokers, he picked up the habit during college; according to the CDC, about 90 percent of heavy smokers start in high school.",
"And studies show that the younger you are when you start, the more likely you'll become a heavy smoker as an adult.",
"According to the American Cancer Society, each day more than 3,500 people younger than 18 try more than 3,500 people younger than 18's first cigarette, and 1,100 others become regular daily smokers.",
"About one-third of these kids will eventually die from a smoking-related disease.",
"Retired radio broadcaster and iReporter Gerald Dimmitt, 65, has smoked since Dimmitt was 14.",
"\"I've always smoked a pipe,\" Dimmitt said.",
"\"I have successfully quit about 40 times.\"",
"But, Dimmitt says, Dimmitt always restarted, because \"it calms me down.\"",
"iReport.com: Do you still smoke?",
"Dimmitt has even more incentive to quit now, since developing lesions and irritation in Dimmitt's mouth.",
"After speaking to Dimmitt's doctor, Dimmitt received a prescription for Chantix, a pill to aid with smoking cessation.",
"But when Dimmitt went to pick up Dimmitt's prescription at the pharmacy, Dimmitt was charged $139 (because it's not generic) for two weeks worth.",
"Outraged, Dimmitt left Chantix behind.",
"\"If smoking is so dangerous ... why then do they want to charge $139 to make me stop?",
"There is something very wrong with that.",
"I guess they would rather pay to take care of lung cancer,\" Dimmitt said.",
"Some would-be smokers pick up Some would-be smokers's first cigarette to fit in.",
"\"I started smoking at 12 years old to be part of the 'in' crowd.",
"It never got me into the 'in' crowd, but with my first cigarette, I was totally hooked,\" wrote Lori Jerome, 45, a former bartender and now full-time university student from Canada.",
"Said Lisa \"Smith,\" 44, a recently laid-off administrator from Minnesota, \"I began smoking in junior high school because I wanted to fit in with a certain crowd.",
"However, that group of friends is looooong gone from my life and I still have the nasty habit.\"",
"Lisa \"Smith,\" 44, a recently laid-off administrator from Minnesota didn't want Lisa \"Smith,\" 44, a recently laid-off administrator from Minnesota last name used.",
"Hurt says the reason many people start, and continue, is peer influence.",
"But Hurt also blames targeted promotions by tobacco companies (like Virginia Slims targeting women in the 1970s and other brands targeting inner-city minority groups today) and the movies.",
"\"There is a lot of research right now that shows that smoking in the movies has made a comeback. ...",
"It clearly affects start-up smoking among young people.\"",
"As for things that prevent children from smoking, Hurt cites higher cigarette taxes and smoke-free zones, like offices and restaurants.",
"\"Those two public health policies do three things: reduce smoking among continuing smokers, help people to stop smoking and reduce the chances of our children starting to smoke, because it de-normalizes it.",
"... The child interprets smoke-free as the social norm,\" he said.",
"That's why children of smokers are much more likely to become smokers themselves: Smoke-filled surroundings is children of smokers's norm.",
"Of course, society's perception of smoking has changed a lot since the days of doctors actually endorsing one brand or another in the first half of last century.",
"Dimmitt recalls \"ashtrays in church pews, smoking in the classroom and blowing pipe smoke all over the students!\"",
"\"When I was born, my mother was allowed to smoke in the hospital room with me in there,\" Jerome said.",
"\"When I had my adult children, we were allowed to smoke in the day room on the maternity ward floor, although the babies were not allowed in there.",
"When I had my youngest children, ages 5 and 8 now, you couldn't smoke in the hospital.",
"How the times have changed.\"",
"Now, smokers in some places face smoking bans in certain public and private spaces, and unspoken -- and sometimes overt -- hostilities.",
"Smith, a mother of six, wrote, \"It's so socially unacceptable where I live, and none of my current friends or relatives smoke.",
"In fact, I don't even smoke out in public anymore -- unless it's dark and I'm in my car.",
"I feel it's such a disgusting and stinky habit.\"",
"Dulcie Long, 50, of Denver, Colorado, said, \"I won't say I feel actual 'social discrimination,' but it is something I feel a sense of shame about and do my best not to smoke in the presence of friends.",
"None of my friends smoke, and I'm very uncomfortable doing it anywhere near my friends.\"",
"Dimmitt switched from a pipe to cigarettes when Dimmitt was working with youngsters so Dimmitt wouldn't reek so much.",
"Not only have attitudes towards smoking changed, the profile of smokers has changed, too.",
"\"The demographics have changed so much that now, more often than not, it's the disadvantaged who are still smoking compared to the highly educated, highly trained people,\" Hurt said.",
"\"It is pretty clear that the prevalence of smoking in groups of people is related to education status, which is a surrogate for income status.",
"... When you go down the income ladder, the smoking prevalence rises.",
"Some groups of severely disadvantaged people have smoking rates of 30 to 40-plus percent.\"",
"Hurt says that there is also a much higher prevalence of smoking among people with mental health disorders like depression, alcoholics, drug users and schizophrenics.",
"But movers and shakers are not immune.",
"President-elect Barack Obama has struggled with, and seems to have conquered, President-elect Barack Obama's habit.",
"Former President Clinton was known to sit on the balcony of the White House and enjoy a cigar (Former President Clinton's wife, Secretary of State-designate Hilary Clinton, officially made the White House a smoke-free zone).",
"First lady Laura Bush admits to being an ex-smoker.",
"Plenty of celebrities -- like actresses Salma Hayek, Katherine Heigl and Eva Longoria Parker -- have been caught, cigarette in mouth, by the paparazzi.",
"Even actor Patrick Swayze, who is battling pancreatic cancer, admitted that he continues to smoke.",
"Which brings us back to the inescapable fact that, worldwide, an estimated 4 million adults die each year of tobacco-caused diseases.",
"Said Hurt, \"This is only product that I know on the face of the Earth which, if it is used as recommended by manufacturer, kills 60 percent of its customers.\""
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"About 90 percent of adult smokers start in high school .",
"Worldwide, about 4 million adults die each year of tobacco-caused diseases .",
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"Share your story ."
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"The U.S. military plans to help the Afghanistan government recruit, train and arm local Afghans to fight a resurgent Taliban, U.S. military officials say.",
"U.S. soldiers patrol near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Wednesday.",
"U.S. officials describe the program as a \"community-based\" security effort.",
"The main job of the local units is to be an \"early warning system\" and be armed mainly for defensive operations, a U.S. military official said.",
"Participants will get uniforms so Participants can be readily identified, officials said.",
"The first phase of the program is expected to begin next year in Wardak province, where the Taliban have overrun many local government institutions.",
"For the United States, the most sensitive part of the program will be the use of American military funds to purchase small arms, most likely AK-47 rifles, that will be given to local Afghans, according to a U.S. military official.",
"U.S. commanders acknowledge concerns that arming local groups is risky, as it could lead to new armed conflicts between tribes, putting American troops in the middle of unexpected firefights.",
"The Afghan government will select men for the program.",
"The Afghan government will train them and technically arm them, although the funds will come from the U.S. military.",
"The Afghans will be responsible for ensuring the loyalty of people in the program, but the United States will oversee the effort and collect biometric information, such as eyeprints and fingerprints, on all participants, according to a U.S. military official.",
"U.S. officials are emphasizing that because of tribal diversity, the program differs from the Awakening Councils in Iraq, which include tens of thousands of Sunni gunmen and was credited with helping reduce violence there."
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"The U.S. Postal Service spent more than $792,000 \"without justification\" on meals and events in one five-month period even as The U.S. Postal Service reported losing $3.8 billion this year, The U.S. Postal Service's inspector general says in a report.",
"Employees spent $792,022 on meals and external events \"without justification for food purchases, purchased alcohol without officer approval and exceeded the dollar limit for meals,\" a report says.",
"Among the purchases were crab cakes, beef Wellington and scallops at an installation ceremony for one of several postmasters in the United States, a report says.",
"Despite The U.S. Postal Service's mandate to curtail spending, The U.S. Postal Service's inspector general found that \"imprudent spending continues to occur, including continued purchases of gift cards from unauthorized vendors and expensive items purchased as employee recognition awards and retirement gifts.\"",
"Read the full report (PDF)",
"Such purchases conflict with The U.S. Postal Service's goal to drive down costs, according to the report, which covered spending during several months in late 2008 and early 2009.",
"The U.S. Postal Service reported a $3.8 billion net loss for the 2009 fiscal year, despite cost-cutting and reductions in retiree health benefit payments.",
"Asked about the expenses, a The U.S. Postal Service spokesman pointed to an agency response included in a report.",
"In an agency response included in the report, the agency's vice president and controller, Vincent Devito, agreed to enforce a spending limit on events and recognition awards as well as make sure employees justify business meal expenses.",
"\"We agree that further policy enforcement is essential to ensure that the policy is followed and imprudent spending is no longer an issue,\" Devito wrote.",
"\"It appears there is still work to be done in curtailing spending even further during this time of economic uncertainty.\"",
"Among a report's findings: . • There was \"no business justification\" for $355,451 of food provided at a September 2008 national sales educational conference; $355,451 of food provided at a September 2008 national sales educational conference included a $96-per-person dinner and a $500 \"bartender charge.\" •",
"An installation celebration for one postmaster -- a report didn't say where -- included \"unallowable food purchases\" totaling more than $17,000.",
"The menu included \"crab cakes, beef Wellington, shrimp and scallops\" even though The U.S. Postal Service guidelines allow for only \"light snacks\" at such events.",
"• There was \"no business necessity or justification\" provided for $77,757 in breakfast meals for events between September 2008 and February 2009.",
"The report, issued December 3, documented purchases for lodging, table linens, flowers and other items \"that we consider excessive during this challenging economic time.\"",
"\"Such purchases are in direct conflict with The U.S. Postal Service's objective of driving down costs in all operations and processes,\" a report said.",
"\"Moreover, the public's image of such purchases could have a detrimental effect on The U.S. Postal Service's public image.\"",
"a report cited two Postal Service districts that purchased movie tickets for $14,140 to give incentives to employees after the postmaster general \"issued a memo directing a curtailment of spending.\"",
"a report also documented the purchase of 30 retirement watches, costing $216 each, in another district.",
"A CNN investigation this year revealed that The U.S. Postal Service spent $1.2 million to buy the lakefront home of an employee who was relocating.",
"The purchase was part of a policy that allowed The U.S. Postal Service to pay for employee homes when employee moved, whatever the cost.",
"Months after the story, The U.S. Postal Service changed The U.S. Postal Service's policy to limit home purchases to $800,000."
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"(CNN) --",
"Brazilian authorities detained the wife of Gatti as a suspect in Gatti's killing, according to local reports.",
"Gatti pictured during the final fight of Gatti's career, a knockout defeat by Alfonso Gomez in 2007.",
"Gatti was found dead Saturday in a hotel in Brazil, where Gatti was taking a vacation with Gatti's wife, Amanda Carina Barbosa Rodrigues, and their young child.",
"The 37-year-old Canadian, who was born in Italy and made Gatti's name as a fighter based in New Jersey, was staying in the northeast seaside resort of Porto de Galihnas.",
"Rodrigues, 23, was being held in a police station in the city of Recife in connection with his killing, a police official in Porto de Galihnas told CNN.",
"Police official Osmar Silva Santiago confirmed local reports that Gatti's body was found Saturday morning in his hotel room with strangulation marks.",
"\"This crime is being investigated by our homicide experts and we hope to have more answers tomorrow,\" Police official Osmar Silva Santiago said.",
"Police recovered a blood-stained purse strap from the scene, according to media reports.",
"his 23-year-old wife became a suspect because of inconsistencies during his 23-year-old wife's interrogation, local reports quoted homicide task force chief Josedith Ferreira as saying.",
"Gatti made Gatti's name in a series of three fights against \"Irish\" Micky Ward, losing the first but triumphing in the other two.",
"Gatti held the IBF super-featherweight and WBC light-welterweight titles, and Gatti also won the WBC junior welterweight belt but lost the WBC junior welterweight belt to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2005.",
"Gatti retired in 2007 after suffering a knockout defeat by Alfonso Gomez in Gatti's comeback, ending with a record of 40 wins and nine losses.",
"Gatti grew up in Montreal, Quebec, after leaving Italy at an early age, and returned to the city following Gatti's retirement.",
"According to Gatti's official Web site, the Italian-born pugilist won \"Fight of the Year\" for three consecutive years.",
"CNN's Helena de Moura contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Wife, Amanda Carina Barbosa Rodrigues, detained at Recife police station .",
"NEW: Rodrigues' answers to interrogation reportedly had inconsistencies .",
"NEW: Gatti's body was found Saturday in hotel room with strangulation marks .",
"Gatti was vacationing with Gatti's 23-year-old wife ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Jurors started to deliberate Friday after prosecutors and defense attorneys made closing arguments in the murder trial of an anti-abortion activist charged with killing a doctor who performed late-term abortion procedures.",
"Scott Roeder is charged with murder in the death of Dr. George Tiller, who was shot to death May 31 in Dr. George Tiller's church in Wichita, Kansas.",
"Prosecutor Ann Swegle urged jurors to convict Scott Roeder, reminding the jury of the defendant's testimony Thursday.",
"\"Scott Roeder's testimony was delivered very matter-of-factly, but its contents were chillingly horrific,\" Prosecutor Ann Swegle said.",
"\"Scott Roeder carried out a planned assassination, and there can be no other verdict in this case ... other than guilty.\"",
"Kim T. Park, chief deputy district attorney, told jurors that Scott Roeder's actions were unjustified and cowardly.",
"\"Scott Roeder is not justified,\" she said.",
"\"Scott Roeder is only and simply guilty of the crimes Scott Roeder is charged with.\"",
"Mark Rudy, a defense attorney for Scott Roeder, told jurors that Scott Roeder believed Scott Roeder had to act.",
"\"Scott Roeder thought that the babies kept on dying,\" he said.",
"\"Scott Roeder formed a belief that Scott Roeder had to stop George Tiller from killing more babies.\"",
"He admitted that Scott Roeder killed Dr. George Tiller but said only the jurors can decide if Scott Roeder \"murdered\" Dr. George Tiller.",
"He said he was not asking jurors \"to check your common sense at the door\" and urged jurors to \"represent our little part of the nation well.\"",
"\"No defendant should ever be convicted based on his convictions,\" Rudy said.",
"Scott Roeder testified Thursday that Scott Roeder shot and killed Dr. George Tiller and did not regret it.",
"\"There was nothing being done, and the legal process had been exhausted, and these babies were dying every day,\" Scott Roeder said.",
"\"I felt that if someone did not do something, he was going to continue.\"",
"Dr. George Tiller ran a women's clinic at which Tiller performed abortions.",
"Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert ruled after the end of testimony Thursday that the jury could not consider a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter against Scott Roeder as the defense wanted.",
"In making the ruling, Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert noted that Scott Roeder had been talking about killing Dr. George Tiller for 10 years, CNN affiliate WDAF reported.",
"Several of Dr. George Tiller's family members broke into tears as Scott Roeder recounted the shooting.",
"Scott Roeder said Scott Roeder didn't regret what Scott Roeder did and felt \"a sense of relief\" when Scott Roeder learned that Dr. George Tiller's clinic was shut down after Dr. George Tiller's death.",
"Scott Roeder calmly testified that Scott Roeder thought about different ways to kill the doctor -- driving a car into Dr. George Tiller's, perhaps, or shooting Dr. George Tiller with a rifle.",
"Scott Roeder also considered cutting Dr. George Tiller's hands off with a sword, but decided that would not be effective, as Dr. George Tiller would still be able to train others.",
"Tiller, 67, was one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortion procedures.",
"Dr. George Tiller had already survived one attempt on Dr. George Tiller's life before Dr. George Tiller was killed.",
"Scott Roeder decided to kill Dr. George Tiller at Scott Roeder's church, Scott Roeder said, because \"I felt that actually if Dr. George Tiller was to be stopped, that was probably the only place Dr. George Tiller could have been stopped.",
"... It was the only window of opportunity I saw.\"",
"Scott Roeder said Scott Roeder visited his church four or five times before Dr. George Tiller's death.",
"The week before the shooting, on May 24, Scott Roeder carried a .22-caliber handgun with Scott Roeder, Scott Roeder testified, but Dr. George Tiller did not attend church that day.",
"On May 31, though, the doctor was there, and \"I did what I thought was needed to be done to protect the children,\" Scott Roeder said.",
"\"I shot Dr. George Tiller.\"",
"\"The lives of the children were in imminent danger if someone did not stop George Tiller,\" he said.",
"The defense had sought to have former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline and current Deputy Attorney General Barry Disney testify, but Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert did not allow it.",
"former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline unsuccessfully attempted to prosecute Dr. George Tiller in 2006, and Barry Disney charged Dr. George Tiller with 19 misdemeanor counts, but a jury acquitted Dr. George Tiller.",
"Wilbert said Scott Roeder could testify about the cases and how the cases affected his beliefs, but to allow testimony from former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline would \"get into legal matters that do not concern this jury.\"",
"And, Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert said, the cases do not give Scott Roeder a basis to state absolutely that Dr. George Tiller's actions were illegal, since the doctor had never been convicted.",
"Defense attorneys claim Scott Roeder was led to shoot Dr. George Tiller in part because of authorities' failure to punish Dr. George Tiller through the judicial system.",
"Scott Roeder testified Scott Roeder was \"very frustrated\" by Dr. George Tiller's acquittal, saying it \"seemed like that was the last attempt by the state of Kansas to find if there was anything at all going on illegally in Tiller's clinic.\"",
"Scott Roeder could face life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder.",
"Scott Roeder also is charged with two counts of aggravated assault for allegedly pointing Scott Roeder's gun at two other ushers as Scott Roeder fled the church."
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"(CNN) --",
"Floyd Mayweather Junior has confirmed that Floyd Mayweather Junior will fight WBA welterweight super champion Shane Mosley in Las Vegas on May 1 following the controversial collapse of Floyd Mayweather Junior's much-hyped showdown with Manny Pacquiao.",
"The 38-year-old Mosley, a three-weight world title winner, had already signed up for the bout at the MGM Grand, which will take place under the Olympic-style random blood testing drug protocols that Pacquiao refused to accept.",
"The undefeated Mayweather, a six-time world champion at five different weights and Manny Pacquiao's chief rival for the pound-for-pound bragging stakes, said in a statement that Floyd Mayweather Junior was looking forward to taking on Floyd Mayweather Junior's fellow American.",
"\"This one is definitely for the fans as I wasn't going to waste anyone's time with a meaningless tune-up bout and asked to fight Manny Pacquiao immediately,\" the 32-year-old said.",
"\"I have said ever since I came back to the sport that I only wanted to fight the best.",
"I think Manny Pacquiao is one of the best, but come May 1, Manny Pacquiao still won't be great enough to beat me.",
"Shane Mosley had been due for a unification bout on January 30 with Andre Berto, who claimed the WBC title that Mayweather vacated when Floyd Mayweather Junior retired in 2008, but the fight was scrapped when Floyd Mayweather Junior's opponent lost family members in the Haiti earthquake.",
"\"I have always wanted to fight Floyd Mayweather Junior, and now it is finally coming true,\" Shane Mosley said.",
"\"I am already in great shape and ready to show everyone on May 1 that I am stronger, faster and better than Floyd Mayweather Junior is.",
"I will have no problem beating Floyd Mayweather Junior.\"",
"Shane Mosley's promoter Golden Boy took the chance to have a dig at Filipino star Pacquiao over his refusal to undergo blood testing in the lead-up to the planned fight with Mayweather.",
"\"Shane Mosley is one of the greatest fighters of this era and I commend Shane Mosley for not only agreeing to the fight against Mayweather, but also agreeing to participate in a testing process that can only help the integrity of the sport,\" Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer said.",
"Leonard Ellerbe, Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer's counterpart at Mayweather Promotions, also weighed in on the matter.",
"\"Floyd Mayweather Junior has been trying to make this fight for the last 10 years, so Floyd Mayweather Junior is extremely excited about the opportunity to face Shane.",
"Floyd Mayweather Junior can't wait to extend Floyd Mayweather Junior's undefeated record and perform at the highest level,\" Leonard Ellerbe said.",
"\"More importantly, Floyd Mayweather Junior is also happy to set the precedent for random blood testing in order to ensure fair and safe contests for all fighters.\"",
"Floyd Mayweather Junior will defend Floyd Mayweather Junior's WBO welterweight title against Ghana's Joshua Clottey in Dallas on March 13 before returning to politics as Floyd Mayweather Junior seeks election in Floyd Mayweather Junior's local constituency."
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"Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) --",
"Just taking a sip of water or walking to the bathroom is excruciatingly painful for 15-year-old Michael Brewer, who was burned over 65 percent of Mikey's body after being set on fire, allegedly by a group of teenagers.",
"\"It hurts my heart to see Mikey in pain, but it enlightens at the same time to know my son is strong enough to make it through on a daily basis,\" Mikey's mother, Valerie Brewer, told CNN on Wednesday.",
"Brewer and her husband, Michael Brewer, Sr., spoke to CNN's Tony Harris, a day after a 13-year-old boy who witnessed last month's attack publicly read a written statement: .",
"\"I want to express my deepest sympathy to Mikey and Mikey's family,\" Jeremy Jarvis said.",
"\"I will pray for Mikey to grow stronger every day and for Mikey's speedy recovery.\"",
"Jeremy Jarvis's older brother has been charged in the October 12 attack in Deerfield Beach, Florida.",
"When asked about the teen's statement, Valerie Brewer -- who knows the Jarvis family -- said Mother of burned teen \"can't focus on that.\"",
"\"I would really like to stay away from that because that brings negative energy to me and I don't need that right now,\" Mother of burned teen said.",
"Mother of burned teen's son remains in guarded condition at the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center.",
"Mikey suffered second- and third-degree burns over about two-thirds of Mikey's body, according to the hospital's associate director, Dr. Carl Schulman.",
"The teen faces a lifelong recovery from Mikey's injuries, the hospital's associate director, Dr. Carl Schulman told CNN's Harris.",
"\"Mikey's still got a lot of major surgery ahead of Mikey, a lot of rehabilitation and therapy,\" the hospital's associate director, Dr. Carl Schulman said.",
"\"Mikey's doing about as well as could be expected at this point in Mikey's recovery, but Mikey's got a period of probably several weeks to a couple of months still left in the hospital if everything goes well, but his recovery is lifelong.",
"This is truly a life-changing event.\"",
"Mother of burned teen said Mother of burned teen's son's treatment is excruciating at times.",
"Physical therapy, Mother of burned teen said, is \"incredibly painful.",
"Mikey almost cries because it's so painful.",
"Mikey's burned badly on the backs of Mikey's knees and every time Mikey moves Mikey's knee, it pulls, and if it's healing, it pulls the scab and it cracks, and it starts to bleed.\"",
"Mikey must undergo hour-and-a-half showers, Mother of burned teen said, where \"they take a piece of gauze, and they wipe off all the dead skin.",
"They give Mikey painkillers for that, but it's incredibly painful and it breaks my heart every time they have to do it.",
"... That's what we call the torture hour.\"",
"Heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne sent Mikey a CD, and Mikey plays a CD on a boom box during the showers, she said.",
"\"Mikey focuses on Ozzy, and Mikey gets through Mikey's torture hour.\"",
"Police were able to interview Mikey on Monday for the first time since the incident.",
"Hospital officials have said Mikey can communicate only in one- or two-word answers.",
"Mother of burned teen would not go into details about what Mother of burned teen's son told investigators, but said that \"Mikey answered the questions investigators asked.\"",
"The interview was emotional for both the teen and the investigators, according to Maria Schneider, a prosecutor with the state attorney's office in Broward County.",
"\"It was difficult for Mikey to talk about.",
"Difficult for us to listen to,\" she said of The interview.",
"\"Just difficult all around, heart-wrenching.",
"Mikey's doing so much better, but it's such a terrible situation.\"",
"Jeremy Jarvis and Matthew Bent, both 15, are accused along with a third teen, Jesus Mendez, 16, of being in a group that poured alcohol over Mikey and set Mikey ablaze in a dispute over $40, a video game and a bicycle.",
"All three pleaded not guilty in an appearance last week in Broward County Circuit Court.",
"If convicted, they would face a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.",
"Detectives say eyewitnesses told Detectives that Mendez used a lighter to set fire to Mikey after Jeremy Jarvis allegedly poured alcohol over him.",
"Bent allegedly encouraged the attack, police said.",
"Mikey jumped into a pool at Mikey's apartment complex to put out the flames.",
"Authorities have said Mendez admitted setting Mikey on fire.",
"According to an arrest transcript, Jeremy Jarvis said Jeremy Jarvis made a \"bad decision.\"",
"Jeremy Jarvis was arrested as a juvenile after Mikey was burned and spent about 30 days in juvenile detention.",
"However, prosecutors have not filed charges against Jeremy Jarvis and are still determining how to proceed.",
"Jeremy Jarvis still could be charged, as prosecutors have 90 days from Jeremy Jarvis's arrest to decide whether to move forward with the case.",
"Jeremy Jarvis has not been interviewed by police or prosecutors, Schneider said.",
"\"Jeremy Jarvis has invoked Jeremy Jarvis's rights to counsel and has invoked Jeremy Jarvis's rights to silence,\" she said.",
"Jeremy Jarvis's attorney, Stephen Melnick, said it appears Jeremy Jarvis was only a witness to the attack.",
"Broward County schools expelled the seventh-grader after Jeremy Jarvis's arrest and Jeremy Jarvis is currently being home-schooled, Melnick said.",
"He described Mikey's client was a good friend of Mikey, and said Jeremy Jarvis is troubled by Mikey's injuries as well as by Jeremy Jarvis's brother facing criminal charges that could land him in an adult prison if convicted.",
"Mother of burned teen said it was \"heartbreaking\" when Mother of burned teen and Mother of burned teen's husband learned that Mother of burned teen's son's attackers may have included kids that they knew.",
"\"But we don't focus on that,\" Mother of burned teen added.",
"\"We focus strictly on Mikey and Mikey's recovery.",
"We don't need any negative energy coming into his recovery so we just stay away from it, period.",
"We don't watch the news because we're living this nightmare and we don't need to see it on the TV.",
"So we just stay away from it and stay positive for Mikey.\"",
"Mother of burned teen's son's recovery has been filled with ups and downs, Mother of burned teen said.",
"\"It's been a roller coaster ride, the fear of the unknown,\" Mother of burned teen said.",
"\"The first time Mikey spoke to us was joyous but watching Mikey struggle every single day ...",
"\"I'm proud of Mikey, I'm very, very proud of Mikey, 'cause I don't think I could do what Mikey's doing.\"",
"CNN's Rich Phillips contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- high court has refused a lower court's unusual request to decide whether a shocking 45-year-old civil rights crime can be prosecuted decades later.",
"Justices Monday dismissed an appeal involving James Ford Seale, convicted in the 1964 kidnapping of two teenagers whose bodies were found in a backwater area of the Mississippi River.",
"James Ford Seale had long been suspected in the crime, but it was officially unsolved until James Ford Seale was indicted in 2007, and later convicted.",
"James Ford Seale is serving three life sentences.",
"The move by high court not to get involved keeps in place James Ford Seale's original indictment, but does not resolve the larger question of whether similar cases can be prosecuted.",
"The issue could have enormous implications for several dozen \"cold cases\" involving racially motivated crimes dating back to the 1950s.",
"James Ford Seale had appealed James Ford Seale's conviction, claiming the statute of limitations had expired five years after the crime.",
"The confusion arises over the fact that kidnapping could be considered a capital offense in 1964, and thus had no time limit for a prosecution.",
"high court in 1968 eliminated the federal death penalty for that crime, and Congress four years later changed the law to reflect that ruling.",
"But lawmakers 15 years ago reinstated kidnapping as death penalty-eligible.",
"So the justices were being asked to decide when the statute of limitations kicked in, if ever.",
"Justice John Paul Stevens, supported by his conservative colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, thought high court should get involved.",
"\"I see no benefit and significant cost to postponing the question's resolution,\" Stevens wrote in dissent.",
"\"A prompt answer from high court will expedite the termination of this litigation and determine whether other similar cases may be prosecuted.\"",
"Seale, a former sheriff's deputy, was convicted in June 2007 of kidnapping and conspiracy in the disappearances of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19.",
"Federal officials had initially trumpeted reopening the James Ford Seale case.",
"\"Today's indictment is one example of the FBI's strong and ongoing commitment to re-examining and investigating unsolved civil rights era murders and other crimes,\" FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said in January 2007.",
"\"Under FBI's Cold Case Initiative, FBI will continue to identify and pursue these cases of racially motivated violence to ensure justice is served wherever possible.\"",
"James Ford Seale was not tried for murder, but prosecutors alleged that Seale and fellow Klansmen conspired to abduct, beat and murder Dee and Charles Eddie Moore in May 1964.",
"An indictment accused James Ford Seale and James Ford Seale's cohorts of picking up the two men hitchhiking and driving them into the Homochitto National Forest in Franklin County, Mississippi, where the teenagers were beaten and interrogated at gunpoint.",
"Dee and Charles Eddie Moore were then bound with duct tape and weighted down by an engine block and railroad rail.",
"Moore were still alive when Moore were thrown into the Old Mississippi River, where Moore drowned, according to FBI.",
"Moore's decomposed bodies were found two months later during a search for three other missing civil rights workers that would later be known as the Mississippi Burning case.",
"James Ford Seale and another man, Charles Edwards, were arrested in the slayings in 1964, but were released on bond and never tried.",
"FBI turned the Mississippi Burning case over to local authorities, and the investigation was dropped after a justice of the peace said witnesses had refused to testify.",
"the Mississippi Burning case was revived in 2007 when Moore's brother -- during a visit to Franklin County to help research the case for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary -- discovered James Ford Seale was still alive.",
"Charles Eddie Moore told CNN in January 2007 that Charles Eddie Moore gave the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi FBI files on the case, which Charles Eddie Moore had obtained from a Mississippi reporter.",
"U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton helped form a task force that led to James Ford Seale's indictment.",
"James Ford Seale was the only person convicted in the Charles Eddie Moore and Dee murders, the Justice Department said.",
"Since then, other notable cold cases from the civil rights era also have gone to trial.",
"In 2005, Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of manslaughter for Edgar Ray Killen's role in the Mississippi Burning case.",
"Adding to the unusual nature of the James Ford Seale case is that a lower court was unable to decide the matter.",
"The full 18-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split evenly on the time-limit question.",
"The full 18-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals then asked high court to \"certify\" the question, a rarely used procedure that essentially asks the justices about how to proceed.",
"high court was under no obligation to accept the case in this fashion, under high court's \"Rule 19.\"",
"That provision gives appeals courts the discretion to hand off to high court \"any question of law in any civil or criminal case as to which instructions are desired, and upon such certification high court may give binding instructions or require the entire record to be sent up for decision of the entire matter in controversy.\"",
"the Seale case is U.S. v. Seale (09-166)."
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"(CNN) --",
"The U.S.-led war against the Taliban in Afghanistan has been a tough slog, a nearly eight-year conflict replete with gloom.",
"U.S. Staff Sergeant Robert Brunner secures an area in the Baraki Barak district of Logar Province on August 22.",
"Lately a lot of the news from Afghanistan seems particularly grim for the United States and the United States's allies.",
"More U.S. troops have been killed there in August than in any month since The U.S.-led war against the Taliban in Afghanistan began.",
"There are indications that more U.S. troops could be deployed to the country.",
"The Afghan presidential elections this month were rife with charges of fraud.",
"Corruption plagues the political system.",
"The poppy trade is flourishing.",
"And, in the words of the top U.S. military official, Adm. Mike Mullen, the \"Taliban insurgency has gotten better, more sophisticated.\"",
"Support for The U.S.-led war against the Taliban in Afghanistan hit a new low among Americans, a CNN poll found this month.",
"So why do the United States and the United States's allies continue to pour money and troops into Afghanistan?",
"\"The importance of the place is pretty substantial,\" said Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution.",
"Al Qaeda has used that part of the world as a sanctuary, he said.",
"Neighboring Pakistan has been serious about vanquishing the militants there and that helps the fight against militants in Afghanistan.",
"A victory for Al Qaeda in a conflict there would represent an important public relations triumph for the militants, he said.",
"He understands why Americans are displeased but said people need to feel that progress is being made in the region.",
"\"We haven't been winning for eight years,\" O'Hanlon said.",
"\"They want to know why.\"",
"U.S. President Barack Obama has tackled the question head-on.",
"The Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan represent an urgent threat to the United States, U.S. President Barack Obama said in March, just as The al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan were when Al Qaeda attacked the United States in 2001, when the then-ruling Taliban harbored the terror network.",
"\"Many people in the United States -- and many in partner countries that have sacrificed so much -- have a simple question: What is our purpose in Afghanistan?\" U.S. President Barack Obama said.",
"\"After so many years, they ask, why do our men and women still fight and die there?",
"And they deserve a straightforward answer.",
"\"So let me be clear: Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda's allies -- the terrorists who planned and supported the 9/11 attacks -- are in Pakistan and Afghanistan.",
"\"Multiple intelligence estimates have warned that Al Qaeda is actively planning attacks on the United States homeland from Al Qaeda's safe haven in Pakistan.",
"And if the Afghan government falls to the Taliban -- or allows Al Qaeda to go unchallenged -- that country will again be a base for terrorists who want to kill as many of our people as they possibly can.\"",
"The questions have come up in Britain, too, where the deaths of 15 British troops in July stirred outrage and criticism of Britain's strategy in Afghanistan.",
"Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Prime Minister Gordon Brown's countrymen that British involvement in that country now is as crucial as it was after the 2001 terrorist attacks.",
"\"In 2001 the case for intervention in Afghanistan was to take on a global terrorist threat and prevent terrorist attacks in Britain and across the world,\" Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.",
"\"In 2009 the overriding reason for our continued involvement is the same -- to take on, at its source, a global terrorist threat, and prevent attacks here and elsewhere.\"",
"U.S. President Barack Obama said the Afghan insurgency \"feeds instability\" in Pakistan and Pakistan extremists have the proven ability to undermine the Afghan government.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama cited the importance of confronting the heroin trade that finances the Afghan insurgency.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama has listed several objectives in dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, such as promoting an accountable Afghan government and self-reliant security forces, developing a stable government and strong economy in Pakistan, and disrupting terror networks.",
"Pakistani security forces have been battling militants in the northwestern part of Afghanistan, and drone strikes thought to be conducted by the United States have been carried out from Afghanistan against militants in Pakistan.",
"\"The future of Afghanistan is inextricably linked to the future of Afghanistan's neighbor, Pakistan,\" U.S. President Barack Obama said.",
"\"In the nearly eight years since 9/11, Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda's extremist allies have moved across the border to the remote areas of the Pakistani frontier.",
"\"This almost certainly includes Al Qaeda's leadership: Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.",
"They have used this mountainous terrain as a safe haven to hide, to train terrorists, to communicate with followers, to plot attacks, and to send fighters to support the insurgency in Afghanistan.",
"For the American people, this border region has become the most dangerous place in the world.\"",
"In Britain, Brown said the military effort to clear a region and establish security would be buttressed by Afghan plans \"to build basic services -- clean water, electricity, roads, basic justice, basic health care, and then economic development.\"",
"\"This inevitably takes time, but the important thing is that work has begun, to give the people a stake in the future,\" he said.",
"U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, Democrat-Virginia, said in a recent TV interview that he has \"a lot of concerns about the way the United States've articulated the United States's national goals in Afghanistan.\"",
"\"I think that it is extremely important for the United States to be able to articulate the end point of the United States's strategy, just as it was in Iraq,\" he said.",
"While there is grim news on the ground in Afghanistan, the picture painted by the president in March was a red alert for Americans: It's a tough but necessary fight that requires patience and resources.",
"\"There are no quick fixes to achieve U.S. national security interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan,\" Obama said.",
"\"The danger of failure is real and the implications are grave.\""
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"Support for the war has hit a new low among Americans, says CNN poll .",
"Among allies, political leaders have had to defend sending troops to Afghanistan .",
"U.S. military: Taliban insurgency has gotten better, more sophisticated.\""
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"Indian batsman Virender Sehwag admitted Indian batsman Virender Sehwag was not too disappointed after Indian batsman Virender Sehwag fell seven agonising runs short of a world record third triple-century in the third Test against Sri Lanka.",
"The 31-year-old opener had moved from Indian batsman Virender Sehwag's overnight score of 284 to 293 before Indian batsman Virender Sehwag chipped a flighted delivery from Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan back to the bowler who claimed the catch at the second attempt.",
"\"I am very happy I got at least 293 runs -- I am proud of what I have achieved,\" Indian batsman Virender Sehwag told reporters at the close of the third day's play.",
"\"Not many people have got two triple centuries and followed that with 293.",
"So there is nothing to be disappointed about.",
"\"I tried to take my time, but maybe the ball was not there to be hit.",
"I misjudged the length and the ball went straight into Murali's hands.",
"\"I always tell myself to bat the full day, and if there is a ball to be hit, just hit it.",
"If I'm able to bat the whole day we will be in a good position.\"",
"The innings, which lasted 254 balls and included 40 boundaries and seven sixes, was the backbone of India's highest-ever total of 726-9 declared in reply to Sri Lanka's's 393.",
"India skipper Mahendra Dhoni hit an unbeaten century before India skipper Mahendra Dhoni opted to declare with a lead of 333 before Sri Lanka saw off a difficult few overs in their second innings to close on 11 without loss.",
"Elsewhere, England claimed a 2-1 series victory over South Africa in Durban after the fifth one-day international was abandoned without a ball being bowled.",
"Andrew Strauss' side became only the third team to beat the Proteas in a home one-day series after the umpires called the match off with the onset of another heavy downpour.",
"Meanwhile, a century from Dwayne Bravo was the highlight of a competitive opening day of the second Test between Australia and the West Indies at the Adelaide Oval.",
"the West Indies won the toss, elected to bat and finished the final session with momentum to be 336 for six at stumps."
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"Indian batsman Virender Sehwag fell seven agonising runs short of a world record third triple-century.",
"Indian batsman Virender Sehwag made 293 before Indian batsman Virender Sehwag chipped the ball back to Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan.",
"India closed the third day of the third Test with their highest-ever total of 726-9 declared in reply to Sri Lanka's 393."
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"(CNN) --",
"Those who knew Taylor Mitchell say Taylor Mitchell's passion for Taylor Mitchell's craft was matched by Taylor Mitchell's affinity for nature.",
"Fresh out of high school, Taylor Mitchell embarked upon a three-week tour of Eastern Canada earlier this month full of hope over Taylor Mitchell's blossoming career and excited to explore the region with a new car and driver's license.",
"Taylor Mitchell was in between gigs when, according to a Nova Scotia Cape Breton Highlands National Park official, Taylor Mitchell was killed by coyotes during a hike on Tuesday afternoon.",
"\"If there can be any comfort at all, it is knowing that Taylor Mitchell was doing two of the things Taylor Mitchell loved most, sharing story and song on the road and spending time in nature's fold,\" Taylor Mitchell's manager, Lisa Weitz said in an e-mail.",
"\"Taylor Mitchell loved the woods and had a deep affinity for their beauty and serenity.\"",
"Taylor Mitchell was a \"seasoned naturalist\" well versed in wilderness camping who wouldn't want the coyotes responsible for Taylor Mitchell's death to be killed, Taylor Mitchell's mother said Thursday.",
"\"When the decision had been made to kill the pack of coyotes, I clearly heard Taylor Mitchell's voice say, 'please don't, this is the pack of coyotes's space.'",
"Taylor Mitchell wouldn't have wanted the pack of coyotes's demise, especially as a result of Taylor Mitchell's own.",
"Taylor Mitchell was passionate about animals, was an environmentalist and was also planning to volunteer at the Toronto Wildlife Centre in the coming months,\" Emily Mitchell said in a statement Thursday.",
"\"Tragically, it was Taylor Mitchell's time to be taken from us so soon,\" her mother said.",
"When Taylor Mitchell was 15, Taylor Mitchell began vocal lessons with Taylor Mitchell's future producer, Michael Johnston.",
"\"Taylor Mitchell inspired and impressed everyone from Taylor Mitchell's musical peers to members of the Canadian roots-music community who were two and three times Taylor Mitchell's age,\" he said in a statement.",
"\"They saw in Taylor Mitchell the rarest of the gifts -- an ability to sing not only from the heart, but in a way that transcended Taylor Mitchell's age and experience and became something universal.\"",
"The Toronto-based musician's career began to take off earlier this year after the April release of Taylor Mitchell's debut album, \"For Your Consideration.\"",
"Taylor Mitchell was nominated for Young Performer of the Year honors by the Canadian Folk Music Awards, which will be awarded in November.",
"On Taylor Mitchell's Facebook page, Taylor Mitchell detailed Taylor Mitchell's busy summer performance schedule, describing it as Taylor Mitchell's \"craziest summer yet.\"",
"In July, Taylor Mitchell said Taylor Mitchell took a Greyhound bus to perform in the Young Performers Program at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Taylor Mitchell's first show west of Ontario, which featured acts including Arlo Guthrie, Neko Case and Elvis Costello.",
"Taylor Mitchell played more shows in the Toronto area, relishing the airplay Taylor Mitchell's album was receiving, and worked on songs for Taylor Mitchell's next album, Weitz said.",
"Yet Taylor Mitchell managed to return to nature with Taylor Mitchell's aunt, mother and best friend at the family cottage in Owen Sound, Ontario, delighting in Ontario's simple joys.",
"\"Ontario is on the shores of Georgian bay.",
"Ontario's 125 years old with three bedrooms that sleep two and one bedroom that sleeps four, plus a bunkhouse.",
"It's old and creaky and absolutely beautiful.",
"As I sit on my couch in my apartment, I'm homesick for the precariously slanted stairs, tennis courts, lake and wonderful memories,\" Taylor Mitchell said on Taylor Mitchell's Facebook page.",
"Before Taylor Mitchell set out eastward for Taylor Mitchell's tour of the Maritimes, Taylor Mitchell shared Taylor Mitchell's works in progress at the Ontario Council of Folk Music conference in Ottawa, impressing all those in attendance, Taylor Mitchell said.",
"\"Taylor Mitchell's vocal style and consummate songwriting craft belied Taylor Mitchell's vernal years.",
"Indeed, Taylor Mitchell's songs told the tales of a seeker, a sojourner with a sage wisdom atypical of most, let alone one of such tender years,\" Taylor Mitchell said.",
"On Taylor Mitchell's Facebook page, Taylor Mitchell had begun counting down the days to Taylor Mitchell's East Coast tour in September, saying in a September 18 status update that Taylor Mitchell was \"feeling the pull of the road.\"",
"In Taylor Mitchell's last post on the site, Taylor Mitchell described playing a show in someone's home, calling a show \"a welcome dose of normality after a whirlwind weekend\" at the Ontario Council of Folk Music.",
"Those closest to Taylor Mitchell said they'll derive inspiration from Taylor Mitchell's passion for life.",
"\"Taylor Mitchell was my shining light, my baby, my confidante and best friend,\" Taylor Mitchell's mother said.",
"\"I don't know how to move forward from here but I know that Taylor Mitchell would want that for me, and I will try to do that in Taylor Mitchell's memory and celebrate Taylor Mitchell's life in the way Taylor Mitchell lived it -- with passion, commitment and an unbridled loving heart.\""
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"Taylor Mitchell wouldn't want coyotes responsible for Taylor Mitchell's death to be killed, Emily Mitchell says .",
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"Taylor Mitchell was touring Eastern Canada when Taylor Mitchell died in coyote attack ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Nineteen former patients at a Denver, Colorado, hospital have tested positive for hepatitis C, federal prosecutors said Thursday as federal prosecutors announced new charges against a former hospital employee accused of exposing Nineteen former patients to the virus.",
"Kristen Diane Parker is accused of injecting Kristen Diane Parker and using unclean syringes for patients.",
"Prosecutors charged Kristen Diane Parker with 21 counts of tampering with a consumer product and another 21 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by deceit or subterfuge, according to an indictment.",
"Parker, 26, had previously faced three federal counts from earlier this month.",
"Parker, who worked as a surgical technician at Rose Medical Center in Denver, is accused of injecting Kristen Diane Parker with syringes that held patients' pain medication Fentanyl, then replacing the pain medication in the syringes with saline, according to a statement from the office of the U.S. attorney for Colorado.",
"In a statement to police during the investigation, Kristen Diane Parker said, \"I can't take back what I did, but I will have to live with it for the rest of my life, and so does everyone else.\"",
"Kristen Diane Parker's attorney did not return a call from CNN on Thursday.",
"Authorities said Kristen Diane Parker knew Kristen Diane Parker had hepatitis C.",
"hepatitis C can lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"Kristen Diane Parker believes Kristen Diane Parker contracted hepatitis C through using heroin and sharing needles with other users while Kristen Diane Parker lived in New Jersey in 2008, authorities said.",
"According to an affidavit filed by an investigator with the Food and Drug Administration, Rose Medical Center knew Kristen Diane Parker tested positive for hepatitis C.",
"Kristen Diane Parker was counseled on how to limit Kristen Diane Parker's exposure to patients.",
"Kristen Diane Parker worked at Rose Medical Center from October 2008 to April 2009, said Jeff Dorschner, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney for Colorado.",
"Kristen Diane Parker's employment was terminated after Kristen Diane Parker failed a hospital-ordered drug test, said Leslie Teegarden, spokeswoman for Rose Medical Center.",
"The tests were ordered after co-workers reported \"suspicious behavior,\" Teegarden said Thursday.",
"Rose Medical Center contacted about 4,700 patients who may have been exposed to hepatitis C, according to a statement on Rose Medical Center's Web site.",
"Of about 4,700 patients who may have been exposed to the virus, 3,540 have been tested thus far, Teegarden said.",
"Teegarden said the hospital plans to use tamper-resistant, pre-filled Fentanyl syringes to prevent intentional contaminations.",
"Kristen Diane Parker also worked at Northern Westchester Hospital in New York and Audubon Ambulatory Surgical Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.",
"Prosecutors have not charged Kristen Diane Parker with any crimes related to Kristen Diane Parker's employment at the other two facilities.",
"About 1,200 patients may have been exposed between May 4 and July 1 of this year, when Kristen Diane Parker worked at Audubon, according to Rose Medical Center's Web site.",
"As of last week, 545 of Audobon's former patients had been tested for hepatitis C, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.",
"One patient tested positive for hepatitis C, but that infection could not be linked to Kristen Diane Parker, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Web site.",
"Nearly 1,000 patients had been tested as of Thursday, said Audubon spokeswoman Amy Triandiflou.",
"Details about what Kristen Diane Parker may have done to expose Audubon patients to hepatitis C are still sketchy, Audubon spokeswoman Amy Triandiflou said.",
"More than 2,700 patients could have been exposed at Northern Westchester Hospital, according to Northern Westchester Hospital's Web site.",
"the center's Web site did not indicate whether any infections had been detected.",
"There is no vaccine for hepatitis C.",
"If Kristen Diane Parker is convicted and if any one of Nineteen former patients suffers serious bodily injury because of Kristen Diane Parker's actions, Kristen Diane Parker could face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison, prosecutors said.",
"If Kristen Diane Parker is convicted and if any one of Nineteen former patients dies as a result of the infection, Kristen Diane Parker could be sentenced to life in prison, according to prosecutors.",
"CNN's Jim Spellman contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Officials warned Wednesday that the bridge linking the California cities of San Francisco and Oakland will likely remain closed Thursday morning, promising more delays for Bay Area commuters.",
"That work is intended to dampen vibration on the structure.",
"Vibration may have played a role in causing pieces of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to fall Tuesday night from the span onto the roadway, resulting in San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's closure.",
"San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge spans the San Francisco Bay and carries an average 280,000 vehicles daily, according to the state's Transportation Department.",
"\"Right now, we do not have a time when San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will potentially open,\" said Bart Ney, a spokesman for the state's Transportation Department.",
"\"The work has to be completed first.\"",
"Once the new steel is in place and the rods have been made tense, at least three hours of testing will be carried out before San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will reopen to vehicular traffic, Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said, refusing to speculate on when that might occur.",
"\"The first thing that I would say to motorists is that you need to be at this point planning other routes over the next day or so,\" Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said.",
"The Federal Highway Administration and the Seismic Peer Review Board are scrutinizing the repair plans, Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said.",
"Wednesday's commute was a horror show for many.",
"\"My wife actually drives over to the peninsula; My wife says it's taken My wife two hours to get to work so far and My wife's not there yet,\" commuter Seth Carp told CNN affiliate KTVU as Seth Carp prepared to board a Bay Area Rapid Transit train.",
"\"I tried to take the Golden Gate Bridge,\" said a woman who identified herself only as Yemi.",
"\"It was a big mistake.\"",
"She gave up and wound up taking BART.",
"\"It was back-to-back bumper, there were rows of cars everywhere,\" said Christina Chou, who lives in Foster City near the San Mateo Bridge, which served as an alternate route for many.",
"\"It was just horrible.\"",
"Ridership increased on ferries, too, with some people finding a silver lining to the snafu.",
"\"I have been looking for an opportunity to go across the bay in the ferry,\" said Jack Pierce of Oakland.",
"\"I'm sorry the cable parted, but I am glad to get an opportunity to go across the bay in the ferry.\"",
"Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said wind gusts of up to 50 mph slowed repair efforts on Tuesday, but the winds had diminished by Wednesday evening.",
"Winds increased vibration by the rods that were fatigued and ultimately failed, Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said.",
"\"It was a contributing factor, but not necessarily the only factor, and we are analyzing what the factors are right now,\" Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation said.",
"Travelers flocked to BART, which ran longer trains and extra trains.",
"The rail line was on track to exceed The rail line's peak ridership of 405,000 in a single day, said The rail line spokesman Linton Johnson.",
"Were you there?",
"Send photos and video .",
"\"The rail line have called in extra personnel to help The rail line make sure The rail line operate with every available train car The rail line have in order to provide as much capacity as possible,\" said The rail line's assistant general manager of operations, Paul Oversier.",
"Amtrak was running a shuttle between the San Francisco and Martinez stations for Coast Starlight and California Zephyr passengers.",
"The pieces that fell -- a cross beam and tie rods -- came from the same section that was repaired in September over Labor Day weekend, when crews worked almost around the clock to fix a crack in the span.",
"A 50-foot section of the bridge collapsed in 1989 during the Loma Prieta earthquake, killing one person and prompting efforts to make it quake-tolerant.",
"San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is slated to be replaced in 2013, said Patrick Siegman, a transportation planner at Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates, a national transportation planning firm based in San Francisco.",
"San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is \"really showing San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's age,\" Patrick Siegman, a transportation planner at Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates, a national transportation planning firm based in San Francisco said.",
"\"It's kind of a race against time to finish the new bridge before the next quake hits.\""
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"San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge closes after parts of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge fall to roadway .",
"Repair work ongoing, but there's no word when bridge will reopen .",
"Travelers flock to public transit, including trains and ferries .",
"Repairs aim to stop vibration, which may have caused the problem ."
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"One doctor says the study \"very clearly shows that autism did not arrive through a vaccine.\"",
"A new study published in the January 2008 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry found the prevalence of autism cases in the state of California children continued to rise after most vaccine manufacturers started to remove the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in 1999, suggesting that the chemical was not a primary cause of the disorder.",
"Researchers from the State Public Health Department found that the autism rates in children rose continuously during the study period from 1995 to 2007.",
"The preservative, thimerosal, has not been used in childhood vaccines since 2001, except for some flu shots.",
"The latest findings failed to convince some parents and advocacy groups, who have long blamed mercury, a neurotoxin, for the disorder.",
"For years, parents have been concerned that a mercury-containing vaccine preservative may play a role in autism.",
"But a study conducted in the state of California found that autism rates increased even after thimerosal was removed from most vaccines.",
"The study authors say this is evidence that thimerosal does not cause autism, although advocacy groups say it's too soon to determine whether autism rates have been affected.",
"Do these findings suggest that autism isn't linked to mercury in vaccines?",
"Dr. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent: Let me explain.",
"In 1999, manufacturers began removing thimerosal - which is a mercury-based preservative - from vaccines.",
"Some people believed autism would decrease as a result, because Some people thought the two were connected.",
"A new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry says this just didn't happen.",
"Researchers looked at cases of autism in the state of California after 1999.",
"Researchers reasoned that if mercury exposure in vaccines was a major cause of autism, the number of affected kids should have dropped after thimerosal was removed.",
"Just the opposite happened.",
"From 2004 to 2007, when exposure to thimerosal dropped significantly for 3- to 5-year-olds, the autism rate continued to go up, from 3 per 1,000 children to 4 per 1,000 children in the state of California.",
"A child psychiatrist who supported A new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry said A new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry \"very clearly shows that autism did not arrive through a vaccine.\"",
"But advocacy groups say it's too soon to determine whether autism rates were affected by removing thimerosal from vaccines.",
"The National Vaccine Information Center says A new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry doesn't include children under the age of 3, which The National Vaccine Information Center say is the only group that was never exposed to mercury in vaccines.",
"The National Vaccine Information Center says thimerosal wasn't completely off the shelves until 2002 or 2003.",
"Their main point is that mercury is a neurotoxin, so why take a chance by putting mercury in vaccines?",
"What do scientists think causes autism?",
"As many as one in every 166 children in this country is found to have autism, and doctors still don't know why.",
"Doctors point to genetics and environment as culprits, but it could be more complicated than that.",
"The latest research shows these children are not necessarily born with autism but with the potential to develop it.",
"What exactly are these outside factors?",
"It's hard to pinpoint.",
"What we eat, what we breathe, what we drink -- all these things could play a role.",
"Some doctors say the increase is due to a change in the way the condition is diagnosed",
"kids who were once labeled mentally retarded are now being labeled as autistic.",
"What are possible signs of autism in your child?",
"Doctors are now looking for signs of autism in children as young as 18 to 24 months.",
"Some red flags that indicate your child may have autism: no babbling or pointing by 12 months, no single words by 16 months, no brief phrases by 24 months, loss of language or social skills.",
"If you see any of these signs, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends seeing a pediatric neurologist, developmental pediatrician or child psychologist.",
"What led companies to remove thimerosal from vaccines to begin with?",
"Several things pushed companies in this direction.",
"Over the past decade, more and more attention was given to the health effects of mercury on humans.",
"And then in the '90s, the CDC added new vaccines to the list of routine shots that children should get.",
"Some of them used thimerosal as a preservative.",
"This was happening while the government was trying to decrease our exposure to mercury.",
"So the FDA began looking into the issue.",
"In 1997, Congress passed a bill that mandated review of products containing mercury, which led manufacturers to begin removing thimerosal from vaccines two years later."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Hillary Clinton said Friday Hillary Clinton did not come to Pakistan for \"happy talk.\"",
"Hillary Clinton's three-day trip is aimed at getting frank, open discussions going about the fight against terrorism, and that includes presenting U.S. concerns about how much success Pakistan is having, Hillary Clinton said.",
"In an interview with CNN, Hillary Clinton said it's time to \"clear the air\" with a key U.S. ally.",
"Hillary Clinton added, \"I don't think the way you deal with negative feelings is to pretend negative feelings're not there.\"",
"\"I think it's important, if we are going to have the kind of cooperative partnership, that I think is in the best interest of both of our countries, for me to express some of the questions that are on the minds of the American people,\" Hillary Clinton told CNN's Jill Dougherty.",
"The secretary's comments came a day after Hillary Clinton seemed to question the commitment of some in Pakistan for going after the leaders of al Qaeda, who U.S. intelligence experts believe are taking refuge in Pakistan's remote tribal areas.",
"\"Al Qaeda has had safe haven in Pakistan since 2002,\" Hillary Clinton told a group of Pakistani journalists Thursday.",
"\"I find it hard to believe that nobody in Pakistan knows where they are and couldn't get them if nobody in your government really wanted to.\"",
"Hillary Clinton added, \"Maybe they're not gettable.",
"I don't know.\"",
"In the CNN interview Friday, Hillary Clinton said Hillary Clinton was not suggesting that someone inside Pakistan might be complicit with Al Qaeda or might be failing to follow through in fighting the terrorist group.",
"\"No, no,\" Hillary Clinton said.",
"\"What I was responding to is what I have been really doing on this trip, which is there exists a trust deficit, certainly on the part of Pakistanis toward the United States, toward our intentions and our actions.",
"And yet we have so much in common, we face a common threat.",
"We certainly have a common enemy in extremism and terrorism, and so part of what I have been doing is answering every single charge, every question.\"",
"Trust \"is a two-way street,\" Hillary Clinton added.",
"While Pakistan's military operation has been \"extremely courageous in both Swat and now in South Waziristan, success there is not sufficient,\" Hillary Clinton said.",
"I just want to keep putting on the table that we have some concerns as well.",
"And I think ... that's the kind of relationship I'm looking to build here.\"",
"Asked whether Hillary Clinton had underestimated the level of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, Hillary Clinton said, \"No, because I've been following the research and the polling that's gone on for a couple of years.",
"I knew that Pakistan were inheriting a pretty negative situation that Pakistan were going to have to address.\"",
"That's why Hillary Clinton wanted three days in Pakistan, \"a long trip for a secretary of state,\" Hillary Clinton said.",
"\"I wanted to demonstrate that, look, Pakistan are not coming here claiming that everything Pakistan've done is perfect.",
"I've admitted to mistakes by Pakistan going back in time, but I've also reminded people that we've been partners and allies from the beginning of Pakistan's inception as a country.",
"Pakistan has helped us on several important occasions, and we are very grateful for that.",
"So let's begin to clear the air here.\"",
"Hillary Clinton also commented on Iran, as the United States seeks clarification on whether Iran will agree to a deal brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency aimed at resolving a dispute about Iran's nuclear program.",
"\"I am going to let the process play out, but clearly Pakistan are working to determine exactly what they are willing to do,\" Hillary Clinton said.",
"The secretary made a vow to Israeli and Palestinian leaders during the CNN interview as well.",
"\"Pakistan're going to do everything Pakistan can to try to clear away whatever concerns that the parties have, to actually get the parties into negotiations where the parties then can thrash out all of these difficult issues,\" Hillary Clinton said.",
"\"I think I'm pretty realistic about what has to be overcome for there to be the level of acceptance that is required to get into these negotiations,\" Hillary Clinton added.",
"\"But remember, prior to negotiations, people stake out all kinds of positions, and then in the caldron of actually getting down to specifics, that all begins to be worked out.\"",
"Hillary Clinton referred to the experience of former President Bill Clinton.",
"\"I watched in the '90s as my husband just kept pushing and pushing and pushing, and good things happened.",
"There wasn't a final agreement, but fewer people died, there were more opportunities for economic development, for trade, for exchanges.",
"It had positive effects, even though it didn't cross the finish line.",
"So I think that being involved at the highest levels sends a message of our seriousness of purpose.\""
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"On Thursday, Hillary Clinton said Hillary Clinton wondered why terrorists hadn't been found and dealt with .",
"Hillary Clinton said Hillary Clinton wasn't suggesting Pakistan was complicit with al Qaeda or didn't want to fight it ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China increased China's harassment of religious minorities before the Olympic Games, according to a U.S. State Department report released Friday.",
"A Tibetan Buddhist monk in southwest China's Sichuan province.",
"U.S. State Department's Annual Report on Religious Freedom singled out China, Myanmar, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan to \"blacklist\" because they are \"countries of particular concern\" when it comes to religious oppression.",
"Over the past year, \"repression of religious freedom intensified in some areas\" in China, including in the Tibetan region and in Xinjiang province, where the Uighur Muslims live.",
"As the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games approached, some unregistered Protestant religious groups in Beijing reported intensified harassment from government authorities and said China cracked down on home churches, a U.S. State Department report released Friday says.",
"The State Department found that over the past year, Chinese officials also detained and interrogated several foreigners about several foreigners's religious activities, alleged that several foreigners had engaged in \"illegal religious activities\" and canceled several foreigners's visas.",
"China also undertook a \"patriotic education campaign,\" which required monks and nuns to sign statements personally denouncing the Dalai Lama.",
"As a result, the reports says, protests led to violence in Lhasa, Tibet, in March, and China detained an unknown number of monks and nuns or expelled an unknown number of monks and nuns from monasteries.",
"In addition to China's continued crackdown on groups such as the Falun Gong, which China considers a \"cult,\" China harassed Uighur Muslims and confiscated some of Uighur Muslims's passports to prevent Uighur Muslims's taking part in the hajj, the pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.",
"Once again, the U.S. criticized the government of Myanmar, saying its \"repressive, authoritarian military regime\" had \"imposed restrictions on certain religious activities and frequently committed abuses of the right to freedom of religion.\"",
"Most followers of registered religions were permitted to worship as Most followers of registered religions chose, but China infiltrated and monitored activities of virtually all organizations, including religious ones.",
"a U.S. State Department report released Friday says that although the North Korean constitution provides for religious freedom, \"genuine religious freedom does not exist, and there was no change in the extremely poor level of respect for religious freedom\" over the past year.",
"In Iran, a U.S. State Department report released Friday says, \"continued deterioration of the poor status of respect for religious freedom\" last year.",
"\"Government actions and rhetoric created a threatening atmosphere for nearly all non-Shia religious groups, most notably for Baha'is, as well as Sufi Muslims, evangelical Christians, and members of the Jewish community,\" a U.S. State Department report released Friday says.",
"\"Government-controlled media intensified negative campaigns against religious minorities, particularly the Baha'is.",
"Reports of imprisonment, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination based on religious beliefs continued.\"",
"U.S. State Department found some progress in Saudi Arabia.",
"\"While overall government policies continue to place severe restrictions on religious freedom, there were incremental improvements in specific areas,\" a U.S. State Department report released Friday says.",
"However, a U.S. State Department report released Friday goes on to note that \"Non-Muslims and Muslims who do not adhere to the government's interpretation of Islam continued to face significant political, economic, legal, social, and religious discrimination.\"",
"a U.S. State Department report released Friday also criticizes U.S. allies in Pakistan and Jordan for aggressiveness toward religious minorities.",
"The governments of Iraq and Afghanistan were praised for endorsing religious freedom, but U.S. State Department found that the war-torn countries have problems.",
"In Afghanistan, \"the residual effects of years of Taliban rule, popular suspicion regarding outside influence of foreigners, and weak democratic institutions hinder the respect for religious freedom.\"",
"In Iraq, \"violence conducted by terrorists, extremists, and criminal gangs restricted the free exercise of religion and posed a significant threat to the country's vulnerable religious minorities.\"",
"In releasing a U.S. State Department report released Friday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States is \"concerned by efforts to promote a so-called defamation of religions concept,\" which has been the focus of numerous resolutions passed at the United Nations.",
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was referring to the Organization of Islamic Conference, a grouping of 57 Muslim states that does not recognize the right of individuals to freely change individuals's religion and has prevented consensus on resolutions at the United Nations that would prohibit defamation of all religions, not just Islam.",
"\"Despite a pretense of protecting religious practice and promoting tolerance, the flawed concept attempts to limit freedom of religion and restrict the rights of all individuals to disagree with or criticize religion, in particular Islam,\" a U.S. State Department report released Friday says.",
"\"Instead of protecting religion practice and promoting tolerance, the flawed concept seeks to limit freedom of speech, and that could undermine the standards of international religious freedom,\" Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said."
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"(AOL Autos) --",
"Over the decades, I've interviewed dozens of automotive engineers; engine engineers, transmission engineers, chemical engineers, tire engineers, etc.",
"But never have I interviewed an engineer quite like Ford's Cristina Rodriguez.",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez has been with the Ford Motor Company for 12 years.",
"What separates Crissy (what Ford's Cristina Rodriguez prefers to be called at work) from other engineers is that it seems as though Ford's Cristina Rodriguez was born be where Ford's Cristina Rodriguez is today; the Vehicle Dynamics Development Engineer of the 2010 Ford Taurus.",
"the 2010 Ford Taurus goes on sale this summer, and the 2010 Ford Taurus is arguably the most important vehicle Ford announces this year.",
"This thirty-something Ford's Cristina Rodriguez is the only woman at Ford Motor Company to have achieved Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's status as a Vehicle Dynamics Development Engineer.",
"The job is equal parts engineer, race driver and vehicle psychologist.",
"\"As an engineer, I need to make sure the 2010 Ford Taurus is safe,\" Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said.",
"\"As a (race) driver I have to make sure the 2010 Ford Taurus handles well.",
"And then I have to tune the 2010 Ford Taurus to have the right personality for being the latest Ford.\"",
"AOL Autos: Best sedans under $30K .",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez goes on to define what how cars exhibit personality.",
"\"Some cars have a more relaxed personality, so everything about the way Some cars drive is soft and slower to react,\" Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said.",
"\"Ford have a DNA that is sportier, more fun to drive, more responsive, more alive, so Ford need to feel that way.\"",
"You'll be able to tell whether Ford's Cristina Rodriguez has done Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's job well when you get behind the wheel of the 2010 Ford Taurus.",
"While we didn't get to drive the 2010 Ford Taurus, we did get an opportunity to ride in the high-performance Taurus SHO model at Ford Motor Company's Dearborn, Michigan proving grounds (a special test track for developing new cars and trucks).",
"More on that experience later.",
"AOL Autos: Best and worst automotive designs .",
"Preparing for success .",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez told us about Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's background in the automotive business.",
"\"I've grown into this job because Ford's engineering group works on a model that emphasizes 'technical maturity.'\"",
"AOL Autos: First drive of the 2010 Chevy Camaro .",
"For Ford's Cristina Rodriguez, this means that because Ford's Cristina Rodriguez first possessed the technical background for this job, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez was then able to develop and prove Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's practical skills on Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's way to becoming one of the company's most influential engineers.",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's been with Ford 12 years.",
"Matter-of-factly, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez elaborates.",
"\"In this job, your body has to become a precisely calibrated instrument that can understand what the car's mechanicals are doing,\" Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said.",
"\"It takes a while to tune your body, but I've been working on this particular chassis for eight years, so I really know what it's capable of and how to make it respond.\"",
"While the 2010 Ford Taurus is an all-new vehicle, the 2010 Ford Taurus is related to other Ford products (the Lincoln MKS, Ford Flex, and the outgoing Ford Five Hundred/Taurus).",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez also contributed to the ride and handling on those vehicles, a task that began with the Ford Five Hundred back in 2001.",
"Born to Cuban parents who fled Castro's communist regime, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez grew up in Puerto Rico.",
"\"I learned to be a methodical thinker from my father, who was a chemical engineer,\" Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said.",
"\"But it was my mother who was the mechanical one.",
"my mother encouraged me when I was growing up to figure out how things worked, and my mother never got too mad at Ford's Cristina Rodriguez when I put things back together and still had a few pieces left over.\"",
"While Ford's Cristina Rodriguez worked on Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's motor skills, another aspect of Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's life laid groundwork for Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's future success.",
"\"I come from a very athletic family,\" Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said.",
"\"My grandfathers and uncles played Olympic basketball, so we were always active.",
"I can remember that when my brother enrolled in little league baseball, my brother didn't want to join without a friend, so my mother enrolled me with my brother.",
"I was the only girl in the league.\"",
"We doubt Ford's Cristina Rodriguez throws like a girl.",
"And if you thought we'd make a joke about Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's driving like a woman?",
"Think again.",
"We doubt anyone could keep up with Ford's Cristina Rodriguez on a track, male or female.",
"Regarding Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's education, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's Bachelors in engineering came from Georgia Institute of Technology.",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez also earned a Masters from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.",
"Mechanical engineering is a heavily male-dominated career path, but this hasn't slowed Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's progress.",
"It is obvious that Ford's Cristina Rodriguez knows how to operate with the guys, without becoming one of the guys.",
"Certainly, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez doesn't look like a mechanical engineer: pocket protectors and out-of-style glasses don't seem to be part of Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's wardrobe.",
"Actually, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez looks like Ford's Cristina Rodriguez could be Indy Racing League driver Danica Patrick's sister.",
"This comparison is fitting given the ride we were about to experience.",
"Spicing up the bull .",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez explained the process used to give a car a dynamic personality.",
"\"First, we start with models generated by Computer Aided Engineering,\" Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said.",
"\"These give us starting points for (suspension) spring rates, dampers, bar thicknesses, etc.",
"After that, everything we do is by the seat of the pants.",
"That's why it's so important to have a feel for what's happening at the road, because you end up becoming a cook who is perfecting a recipe by trial and error.",
"We add more of this or take away some of that.",
"Each change is designed to wake you up and make you feel alive behind the wheel, just like eating a great meal.\"",
"AOL Autos: 2009 best looking cars .",
"the 2010 Ford Taurus has four distinct suspension calibrations; they are mechanical recipes, if you will.",
"There's one each for the front-wheel-drive Taurus, the all-wheel-drive Taurus, the all-wheel-drive high-performance SHO and the ultimate SHO fitted with the Performance Package.",
"Rodriguez noted that each model has unique suspension calibrations that are based on the specific model's equipment and personality.",
"For example, the two non-SHO Taurus models must have the same feel even though one carries the additional weight of the all-wheel-drive system.",
"\"the 2010 Ford Taurus needs to be comfortably engaging,\" she said.",
"\"the 2010 Ford Taurus can't be stiff like a (Mustang) Shelby GT500, but the 2010 Ford Taurus also can't be too soft like a Toyota Camry.",
"We wanted to keep most of the suppleness of the Lincoln MKS sedan, but make it more responsive.\"",
"AOL Autos:",
"First drive of the 2010 Ford Mustang Shelby GT .",
"The move from the regular Taurus to the SHO edition is dramatic.",
"This is where about 10-percent more chili powder and cayenne pepper get added to the recipe.",
"Nearly every tunable suspension component is changed between the base model and the SHO, resulting in a much more dynamic drive.",
"The step up from the SHO to the SHO with the Performance Pack tightens everything even further (more chilies), including another 20-percent on the dampers (those would be struts and shock absorbers to non-engineers), then 9-percent stiffer rear springs, and a thicker rear anti-roll bar.",
"These changes make the most performance-oriented SHO a more neutral handling car that drivers should find exceptionally agile and immediately responsive.",
"Riding shotgun in the SHO .",
"Rodriguez was only too willing to take us for a ride to demonstrate what Ford's Cristina Rodriguez had been talking about, \"the SHO is really my pride and joy.",
"I think you're going to like the SHO.\"",
"With that, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez moved the floor-shifter into Sport mode and took off.",
"Riding along in the passenger seat, we couldn't help but feel how effortlessly the twin-turbocharged EcoBoost engine took the full-size Taurus well above legal speeds.",
"Unlike turbocharged cars from decades past, the SHO did not seem to exhibit any turbo lag.",
"And the turbochargers sounded quiet (no turbo whine or unrefined popping and hissing).",
"The EcoBoost is efficient, too, although EPA numbers aren't yet available.",
"From where we sat, the ride was firm but not harsh, even as Crissy drove us over test roads that were intentionally bumpy and pocked.",
"By far, the most fun was riding along on the handling course.",
"This smooth, serpentine ribbon features undulating hills and off-camber curves.",
"Normally, one wouldn't expect a full-size car to be at home here.",
"The steering would be too slow and the handing ponderous.",
"We weren't behind the wheel, but we got the impression that the SHO is no traditional full-size car.",
"the SHO's heavy-duty six-speed gearbox felt quick and smooth from a passenger's perspective, and as Ford's Cristina Rodriguez increased engine speed, the growl came from under the hood, not the exhaust.",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez confirmed that the turbochargers absorb much of the exhaust noise.",
"The faster Ford's Cristina Rodriguez drove, the smaller the 2010 Ford Taurus seemed to get, easily carving lines between and through the corners.",
"The roll of the body felt well controlled from a passenger's perspective, and The roll of the body never wallowed.",
"Watching Ford's Cristina Rodriguez dial in the steering, the 2010 Ford Taurus felt like the 2010 Ford Taurus responded quickly and directly.",
"Compared to an all-wheel-drive Taurus, the SHO's unit gets unique tuning with a greater power bias to the rear wheels for a more balanced feel, and the 2010 Ford Taurus seemed to rotate around the corners effortlessly.",
"We can't wait to get behind the wheel ourselves later this spring, when we'll provide a full road test.",
"\"After doing this for 12 years,\" Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said.",
"\"I know what a car should feel like, and I don't get questioned anymore,\" Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said.",
"In other words, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez earned the respect of other engineers, making it completely understandable why Ford would trust Ford's Cristina Rodriguez to tune the ride of the 2010 Ford Taurus.",
"After about 30 minutes of trashing around Ford's Dearborn proving grounds, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez aptly demonstrated that Ford's Cristina Rodriguez and the team Ford's Cristina Rodriguez's part of knows how to dial in the suspension of a performance car.",
"As Ford's Cristina Rodriguez pressed the Start/Stop button on the SHO's dash, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez said, \"I think I've got the best job at Ford.\"",
"We'd agree."
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"As child, Ford's Cristina Rodriguez took things apart, put things back together, some parts left over .",
"Ford's Cristina Rodriguez designed Taurus 2010, one of Ford's most important vehicles .",
"Your body has to be precisely calibrated instrument to understand car's mechanicals ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The reaction to Kanye West's hijacking of the microphone from Taylor Swift during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards came quickly and unequivocally.",
"Kanye West took the microphone from Taylor Swift during Taylor Swift's speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.",
"Celebrities and fans alike expressed Celebrities and fans alike's disapproval of Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift's win for Best Female Video to tout his appreciation of nominee Beyonce.",
"\"Taylor Swift, I'm really happy for Taylor Swift,\" Kanye West said after grabbing the microphone from a clearly stunned Taylor Swift.",
"\"I'll let you finish, but nominee Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!",
"One of the best videos of all time!\"",
"Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar, sat in front of members of Kanye West's entourage at the live Sunday night awards show and said the mood quickly turned from one of surprised amusement to anger.",
"Watch Kanye West grab the microphone from Taylor Swift » .",
"\"At first, people weren't sure if it was kind of like a gag,\" Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar said.",
"\"You could feel everybody being nervous and not knowing if it was a prank or something.",
"Then people started booing Kanye West really loud.\"",
"Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar said Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar believes that Kanye West -- who Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar said bounded on stage from Kanye West's seat in the front row near nominee Beyonce -- intended to have Kanye West's say before allowing Taylor Swift to continue but said the rapper became angered by the crowd response in a moment that wasn't captured by the MTV cameras.",
"\"The reaction to Kanye West's tantrum was so strong ... and what happened was, Kanye West gave everybody the finger,\" Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar said.",
"Stars taking to Twitter returned the sentiment with some harsh words for the sometimes mercurial rap star.",
"Singer Pink tweeted, \"Kanye West is the biggest piece of [expletive] on earth.",
"Quote me,\" and Joel Madden of the band Good Charlotte tweeted, \"All i'm saying is Taylor Swift is a young chic and you just walk up and grab the mic.\"",
"Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton said via Twitter that \"Taylor Swift deserved that award, damnit.",
"It is what THE PEOPLE voted!",
"My heart broke for Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift looked so sad at the end of that moment.\"",
"Singer Katy Perry weighed in with \"F--- u Kanye West.",
"It's like you stepped on a kitten.\"",
"VMA nominee Kelly Clarkson took to VMA nominee Kelly Clarkson's blog to publish an open letter to Kanye West.",
"\"What happened to you as a child??",
"Did you not get hugged enough??\" VMA nominee Kelly Clarkson asked.",
"On Monday, \"Taylor Swift,\" \"VMAs,\" \"Kanye West's\" and \"Beyonce\" were top trending topics on Twitter.",
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"Wilson, a noted hip-hop journalist, said there was a great deal of tension inside the event Sunday night before Kanye West and his girlfriend, model Amber Rose, left the show.",
"\"It was almost like wrestling, when the good guy turns bad and the crowd turns on the good guy,\" Wilson said.",
"\"Every time Kanye West's name was mentioned, people booed.\"",
"Wilson said Wilson believes that alcohol may have played a part in Kanye West's actions, given that the rapper appeared both on the red carpet and inside the arena with a bottle of cognac.",
"Wilson added that Kanye West is well known for such behavior.",
"Kanye West appeared uninvited onstage at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, walked out of the 2004 American Music Awards after losing in the Best New Artist category and reportedly threw a backstage tantrum at the 2007 VMAs because Kanye West did not perform on the main stage.",
"\"I think Kanye West came in to be the bad boy, but Kanye West obviously had an emotional spaz moment because Kanye West is cool\" with nominee Beyonce and nominee Beyonce's husband, Jay-Z, Wilson said.",
"\"I think the alcohol blurred Kanye West's judgment.\"",
"Wilson said attendees at the awards show were allowed to have drinks at attendees at the awards show's seats.",
"Emil Wilbekin, managing editor of Essence.com, said Kanye West may have gone too far with Kanye West's antics this time.",
"\"I think that it was not Kanye West's place to speak for nominee Beyonce or to ruin Taylor Swift's moment,\" Wilbekin said.",
"\"It's OK for Kanye West to rattle off about Kanye West, but I think Kanye West crossed the line when Kanye West decided to speak for other people.\"",
"Though Kanye West is known for having a healthy ego, Wilbekin said, Kanye West's actions may be damaging the very legacy the rapper claims to want to leave.",
"\"Kanye West's talked about wanting to be Elvis; Kanye West's talked about wanting to be the new king of pop,\" Wilbekin said.",
"\"It's almost like Kanye West's overshadowing Kanye West by getting in Kanye West's own way with Kanye West's mouth.\"",
"Kanye West apologized to Taylor Swift via Kanye West's blog.",
"As for Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift gave Taylor Swift's acceptance speech after nominee Beyonce graciously invited Taylor Swift's onstage during Taylor Swift's win for Video of the Year.",
"Kanye West's disruption wasn't the only one the evening offered, Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar said.",
"During a performance by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, rapper Lil Mama rushed the stage.",
"Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar said that from Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar's vantage point in the audience, the female rapper, who also serves as a judge on MTV's \"America's Best Dance Crew,\" was neither expected nor wanted as part of the performance.",
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"The stars' behavior might have long-lasting consequences, Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar added.",
"\"I wouldn't be surprised if MTV banned alcohol [at the event] next year,\" Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar said."
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"Serena Williams has handed a three-year suspended ban from the U.S. Open after The incident's verbal tirade at a lineswoman at this year's event.",
"The incident occurred during Serena Williams's semifinal defeat to Kim Clijsters when Serena Williams was called for a foot fault to give the Belgian mum match point and The incident's profanity-laced tirade resulted in a penalty point that ended the match.",
"The punishments handed down by the International Tennis Federation's Grand Slam committee could result in a the U.S. Open Open suspension if Serena Williams commits another major violation in any Grand Slam event in 2010 or 2011.",
"Serena Williams was fined a record $175,000 with the amount to be reduced to $82,500 if Serena Williams stays on good behavior over two seasons.",
"The fine amount included $10,000 Serena Williams paid the U.S. Tennis Association in September after The incident, the maximum fine the group had the power to impose.",
"The biggest prior fine imposed by the International Tennis Federation's Grand Slam committee came when American Jeff Tarango was fined just under $50,000.",
"Serena Williams initially declined to issue an apology to the line-judge but subsequently issued a contrite statement in which she said: \"I need to make it clear to all young people that I handled myself inappropriately on this occasion.",
"\"It's not the way to act -- win or lose, good call or bad call in any sport, in any manner.\"",
"Serena Williams was trailing Clijsters 4-6, 5-6 and serving at 15-30 when the baseline judge called a foot-fault on a second serve.",
"Serena Williams walked over to the baseline judge and waved Serena Williams's racket angrily as Serena Williams unleashed Serena Williams's tirade at the official, who immediately reported what had been said to the umpire.",
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"For as long as anyone cares to remember, the pastoralists of Kenya's Rift Valley have fled with the pastoralists of Kenya's Rift Valley's herds to the fertile slopes of Kenya when times are tough.",
"Hundreds of dead cattle litter the slopes of Mount Kenya, fatally weakened by long treks to the region.",
"When the rains failed this year the pastoralists of Kenya's Rift Valley set off once again in search of water and pasture -- but the pastoralists of Kenya's Rift Valley found only despair.",
"\"I could have stayed home, or I could have come here, but it is all the same.",
"All that you find is death,\" said Peraguan Lesagut, an aging pastoralist who came five months ago with his herd.",
"After years of persistent drought Lesagut left Lesagut's two wives and 16 children and drove 200 cattle to the foothills of Kenya -- Africa's second highest summit.",
"Now, only 40 are left; the rest succumbing to cold, disease and exposure.",
"Across the folds of this mountain everyone has the same story.",
"Hundreds of dead cattle dot the forests, young herdsmen try to coax ailing calves onto their feet, knowing that if they don't get up, they will die.",
"\"I am hopeless because I have seen almost all of my animals die,\" Lesagut said.",
"\"If the rains are delayed for even another week two, then I will lose everything.\"",
"Millions of Kenyans are facing the same stark reality.",
"The World Food Program (WFP) says that, together with the Kenyan government, they will need to feed 3.8 million people across the country.",
"Successive years of failed crops, drought and erratic rains caused by climate change have all had an impact.",
"Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti all face similar crises.",
"Despite this, the U.N. agency says that the U.N. agency's emergency programs are facing massive shortfalls.",
"\"We are facing a really difficult situation.",
"We realize that the world economic crisis has affected the amount that countries can give to us,\" says WFP spokesperson Gabrielle Menezes, \"But at the same time we are seeing an awful situation in Kenya.",
"If we don't start feeding people now, things are only going to get worse.\"",
"For many Kenyan farmers, the situation is already bad enough.",
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"This is harvest time in Kenya but Eunice Wairimu's corn plants barely reach Eunice Wairimu's knees and Eunice Wairimu will have to use Eunice Wairimu's meager harvest as animal feed.",
"\"I don't even like to go to my farm because I become very upset,\" Eunice Wairimu said.",
"\"There is nothing for me to get there for my family.\"",
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"Eunice Wairimu accepts food rations grudgingly.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Aerosmith announced the cancellation of the remainder of Aerosmith's summer tour Thursday, more than a week after Aerosmith's lead singer tumbled off stage in South Dakota.",
"Aerosmith Lead singer Steven Tyler fell off stage August 5 while dancing to \"Love in an Elevator.\"",
"\"Due to injuries Lead singer Steven Tyler sustained last week when Lead singer Steven Tyler fell from the stage during a concert in Sturgis, South Dakota, doctors have advised Lead singer Steven Tyler to take the time to properly recuperate from the accident that resulted in a broken shoulder and stitches to Tyler's head,\" Aerosmith said in a statement.",
"The accident happened August 5 during a concert at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in western South Dakota.",
"Lead singer Steven Tyler was dancing during \"Love in an Elevator\" when Lead singer Steven Tyler fell.",
"Lead singer Steven Tyler was airlifted to a local hospital for initial treatment before returning to Boston, Massachusetts, for treatment with Lead singer Steven Tyler's own doctors.",
"\"Words can't express the sadness I feel for having to cancel this tour,\" said guitarist Joe Perry.",
"\"Aerosmith hope Aerosmith can get the Aerosmith machine up and running again as soon as possible.\"",
"\"Aerosmith never anticipated this tour coming to such a swift and unfortunate ending,\" guitarist Brad Whitford said.",
"\"Aerosmith's thoughts and prayers go out to Steven for a speedy recovery and return to good health.\"",
"Lead singer Steven Tyler's fall was the second mishap for the lead singer during their tour with ZZ Top.",
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"Lead singer Steven Tyler broke Lead singer Steven Tyler's shoulder and received stitches to Lead singer Steven Tyler's head; doctors advise rest .",
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"Roger Federer has been hit with a $1,500 fine for swearing at the umpire during his shock U.S. Open final defeat to Juan Martin Del Potro.",
"Roger Federer argues with umpire Jake Garner during his five-set defeat to Juan Martin Del Potro.",
"The world number one became embroiled in an argument with Jake Garner at the end of the second set after complaining Juan Martin Del Potro was taking too long to decide whether or not to make challenges.",
"The Argentine successfully overturned an \"out\" call shortly before Roger Federer's outburst, a point that led to him breaking serve and eventually taking the set.",
"During the exchange Roger Federer was picked up on microphones telling Jake Garner: \"Don't tell me when to be quiet, okay?",
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"Roger Federer's fine pales in comparison to the one meted out to Serena Williams, who was docked $10,000 for an altercation with a line judge at the climax of her semifinal with Williams.",
"Williams reacted angrily after being called for a foot fault, and unleashed a torrent of abuse at the official, who reported the exchange to umpire Louise Engzell.",
"The resulting penalty point for a code violation handed the match to eventual winner Kim Clijsters.",
"Williams later apologized for the incident.",
"Williams was also fined $500 for racket abuse in the same encounter.",
"Over $31,000 in fines were handed out in the final grand slam of the season with Daniel Nestor, from Canada, forced to pay $5,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct towards a fan he confronted.",
"Vera Zvonareva of Russia and Austria's Daniel Koellerer were also fined $1,500 for audible obscenities.",
"Roger Federer will get an early chance to put his U.S. Open disappointment behind Roger Federer when Roger Federer plays for Switzerland in a World Group playoff tie against Italy this weekend in Genoa."
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"\"IAEA inspectors today visited the... nuclear installation,\" the semi-official Mehr news agency said, referring to The IAEA staff.",
"\"The The IAEA inspectors arrived Saturday night and are scheduled to inspect the... site several times.",
"The IAEA inspectors will leave Tehran Tuesday.\"",
"Tehran sent shock waves through the international community in September by revealing the existence of the previously secret nuclear enrichment facility near Qom.",
"The IAEA announced Saturday The IAEA's inspectors were leaving for the much-anticipated inspection.",
"The IAEA declined to give more details on Sunday.",
"\"It is The IAEA's policy not to comment on the itinerary of The IAEA's inspectors,\" a spokesman for the U.N. nuclear watchdog told CNN.",
"The IAEA inspectors will visit the installation to make sure the installation is being used for peaceful purposes, said Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.",
"the much-anticipated inspection comes after Iran said Friday that Iran needs more time to decide whether to sign onto a deal that could help end the international showdown over Iran's nuclear activities.",
"That proposal calls for low-enriched uranium produced in Iran to be sent abroad for further enrichment and then returned for use in medical research and treatment.",
"Tehran is studying That proposal and will have an answer next week, Iranian diplomat Ali Asghar Soltanieh said on state-run Press TV.",
"Iran informed The IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei that Iran is \"considering the proposal in depth and in a favorable light, but Iran needs until the middle of next week to provide a response,\" according to an The IAEA statement.",
"Delegations from Iran, France, Russia, the United States and The IAEA met in Vienna this week to work out details of the tentative deal reached in early October.",
"France, Russia and the United States have indicated France, Russia and the United States's approval of the arrangement.",
"\"The Director General hopes that Iran's response will equally be positive, since approval of this agreement will signal a new era of cooperation,\" an IAEA statement said.",
"After the current inspection, but before the end of the month, Iranian officials are expected to meet with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany to further discuss Tehran's nuclear program.",
"Iran's leaders maintain that Iran's leaders's nation's nuclear program is intended solely for peaceful purposes, but many in the West believe Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons capabilities.",
"Low-enriched nuclear fuel can be further enriched into weapons-grade material.",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Harry Patch -- the last surviving British soldier from World War I -- died Saturday at the age of 111, Britain's Ministry of Defence said.",
"Harry Patch, pictured here on November 11, 2008, at an Armistice Day commemoration ceremony in LONDON.",
"Patch died peacefully at Patch's care home in the southwestern English city of Wells, Britain's Ministry of Defence announced.",
"Patch's death came a week after fellow British World War I veteran Henry Allingham died at the age of 113.",
"Patch was the last surviving soldier to have witnessed the horrors of trench warfare in World War I .",
"Patch fought and was seriously wounded in Ypres, Belgium, in 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele, in which 70,000 of Patch's fellow soldiers died -- including three of Patch's close friends.",
"Born in 1898, Patch became a plumber before being conscripted to the army in 1916.",
"After training, Patch was recruited to The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry as a Lewis gunner assistant.",
"The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry was rushed to the front line trenches of Ypres, where soldiers were urgently needed to replace those who were wounded and dying by the thousand.",
"Patch fought in the trenches between June and September of 1917 and was involved in some of the fiercest fighting of World War I.",
"In late September Patch was wounded when a light shell exploded above Patch's head, bringing an end to Patch's military service.",
"Patch received battlefield treatment without anesthetic.",
"After World War I, Patch returned to Patch's work as a plumber and later became a sanitary engineer.",
"Patch married Ada Billington, a young girl Patch met while convalescing after the battle.",
"They married in 1919 and had two sons.",
"In World War II, Patch joined the Auxiliary Fire Service and helped tackle the fires caused by heavy German raids on the English cities of Bath and Bristol.",
"At one point, Patch was sent to organize sanitary arrangements for soldiers at a camp near Yeovil, where Patch became friendly with some of the men.",
"Patch remembered the shock of finding the camp deserted, with coffee still hot and meals half-eaten, on the morning that the soldiers had gone off to France, Britain's Ministry of Defence said.",
"His wife, Ada, died in 1976, and their two sons also later died.",
"Patch remarried in 1980, but Patch became a widower for the second time four years later.",
"Patch didn't speak about World War I until Patch turned 100, Britain's Ministry of Defence said.",
"\"Patch tried to suppress the memories and to live as normal a life as possible; the culture of Patch's time said that Patch was fortunate to have survived and that Patch should get on with Patch's life,\" a Ministry of Defence biography says.",
"\"That suited Patch; Patch could 'forget' Patch's demons, the memories of what happened to Patch and to Patch's close friends.\"",
"In 1998, a television producer with an interest in World War I talked to Patch, who then made the decision to speak of Patch's memories, Britain's Ministry of Defence said.",
"Patch took part in a documentary on World War I and began gradually to open up.",
"It wasn't long before Patch became a spokesman for Patch's generation, speaking about the horrors of World War I as well as Patch's own emotions and reactions, Britain's Ministry of Defence said.",
"\"In speaking about Patch's experiences, Patch began at last to come to terms with Patch's war, and was at peace with Patch and Patch's memories,\" Britain's Ministry of Defence said.",
"\"Patch's thoughts then turned to reconciliation, to the long-term effects of suffering and coming to terms with that suffering.\"",
"Patch returned to Belgium in 2002, something Patch had said Patch would never do, and laid a wreath to Patch's battalion, Britain's Ministry of Defence said.",
"Two years later, Patch met and shook hands with a German artilleryman from the Western Front, Charles Kuentz.",
"Patch later laid a wreath at Langemark Cemetery for the German war dead.",
"In Patch's last years, Patch was honored at Buckingham Palace and the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street.",
"On Patch's 101st birthday France awarded Patch the Knighthood of the Legion of Honor, and this year President Nicolas Sarkozy upgraded that to the rank of officer.",
"Last year, King Albert II of Belgium made Patch a Knight of the Order of Leopold.",
"\"Patch was delighted to receive these awards and wore the medals with great pride, but Patch always made it clear that Patch wore the medals as a representative of the selfless generation Patch had come to represent,\" the Ministry of Defence said.",
"Patch wrote a book detailing Patch's life in 2007, called \"The Last Fighting Tommy.\"",
"The name referred to the slang term for British privates.",
"\"While the country may remember Patch as a soldier, we will remember Patch as a dear friend,\" said Jim Ross, a close friend.",
"\"Patch was a man of peace who used Patch's great age and fame as the last survivor of the trenches to communicate two simple messages: Remember with gratitude and respect those who served on all sides, (and) settle disputes by discussion, not war.\"",
"Gen. Richard Dannatt, the chief of the general staff, issued a statement expressing his sadness about Patch's death.",
"\"Self-effacing about Patch's experiences in the trenches Patch was no less effective in describing the horror they represented when invited to speak to schoolchildren about the realities of war.\"",
"Dannatt said.",
"\"Patch was the last of a generation that in youth was steadfast in its duty in the face of cruel sacrifice and we give thanks for Patch's life -- as well as those of Patch's comrades -- for upholding the same values and freedom that we continue to cherish and fight for today.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"A union representing thousands of transit workers went on strike early Tuesday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shutting down buses, subways and trolleys that carry almost a million people daily.",
"Transport Workers Union leaders walked out of contract talks just before midnight, saying Transport Workers Union leaders couldn't accept an offer from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority because of a shortfall in Transport Workers Union leaders's pension fund and disagreements on some work rule issues.",
"Joe Casey, general manager of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, said an offer from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority presented to workers was competitive.",
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"\"For the life of me I can't believe the TWU walked away from an offer from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority,\" he said.",
"the strike means all buses, subways and trolleys in Philadelphia and on the Frontier line in Bucks and Montgomery counties stopped running at 3 a.m.",
"Read local coverage from CNN affiliate WPVI .",
"One train operator was as surprised as customers to discover the strike had begun.",
"Sly Wagner showed up at the Fern Rock station ready to work, CNN affiliate Philly.com reported.",
"\"I'm like everybody else,\" Sly Wagner said.",
"\"The only way I found out was when I went to the station and the gates were locked.\"",
"Commuters weren't taking it well.",
"Comments on the Web site of CNN affiliate WPVI-TV were anti-strike by a ratio of 9 to 1 on Tuesday.",
"\"These guys need to take a look around and see that we're facing 10 percent unemployment and an economy on the brink of collapse,\" Lee Henderson commented to the Web site of CNN affiliate WPVI-TV.",
"\"They should be grateful for good jobs and go back to work without further delay.\"",
"Lee Henderson commutes from Elkins Park, on the northern edge of Philadelphia.",
"But a city resident who only gave his first name, Gary, backed the union.",
"\"Local 234 is standing up for the union members; Philadelphia is a union city,\" he commented.",
"\"Local 234 is just expressing Local 234's rights.",
"Septa always pulls the economy into negotiations, but when it comes to their managers getting paid, they get what they want.\"",
"Read local coverage from CNN affiliate Philly.com .",
"Concern about crowds converging in downtown Philadelphia for the World Series surfaced in talks over the weekend and workers agreed to stave off the strike.",
"But not long after the last out in Game 5 and the series heading back to New York, Local 234 went on the picket line.",
"the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority urged riders to check the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's Web site for contingency plans."
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"Broadening the number of health care professionals who can administer vaccine, NEW YORK Gov. David Paterson issued a sweeping executive order Thursday officially declaring a state of emergency due to the increase in H1N1 cases, including 75 H1N1-related deaths in NEW YORK.",
"The announcement, which comes on the heels of President Obama's declaration of H1N1 flu as a national emergency, expands the categories of health care professionals who can give the vaccine to include dentists, pharmacists, podiatrists, midwives and emergency medical technicians, a sweeping executive order said.",
"At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Gov. David Paterson stressed that Gov. David Paterson's order is not intended to incite panic but rather allocates the necessary resources to effectively combat H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu.",
"\"If an enormous number of flu vaccines came into NEW YORK because of an epidemic and an emergency and we need to administer flu vaccines as widely as possible, we have expanded the health care personnel who would be deemed to have the authority to administer the flu vaccine,\" Gov. David Paterson told reporters.",
"Under current state law, some health care professionals are prohibited from delivering the vaccine because of limits on some health care professionals's professional duties.",
"a sweeping executive order waives any law that would prevent these people from giving vaccinations, according to Claire Pospisil from the New York state department of health.",
"\"a sweeping executive order's called an emergency declaration, but what a sweeping executive order does is that a sweeping executive order provides New York the capability that once vaccine supplies become more available, a sweeping executive order allows (health departments) to quickly vaccinate as many people as possible,\" Claire Pospisil said.",
"Dr. Mark Feldman, a retired dentist who serves as executive director of the New York State Dental Association, which represents 75 percent of the dentists in the state, said Feldman would be more than willing to help administer the vaccine.",
"\"If there is a shortage and they need more hands, I can do my part,\" Feldman said.",
"Health care professionals named in a sweeping executive order may not administer the vaccine at Health care professionals named in the executive order's individual practices.",
"Rather, Health care professionals named in the executive order must do so at a New York state health department distribution center.",
"Feldman thinks it would be wiser to allow Health care professionals named in the executive order to distribute the vaccine at Health care professionals named in the executive order's private practices.",
"\"If there is a severe outbreak, to go to a mass distribution center, you risk being exposed,\" Feldman said.",
"NEW YORK Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a statement Thursday supporting a sweeping executive order.",
"a sweeping executive order will \"let a larger number of health care workers administer vaccines, and strengthen our health department's ability to track the use of vaccine supplies,\" the statement read.",
"About 800,000 people in NEW YORK became infected with the disease during the first wave of the virus last spring, according to the New York City Department of Health .",
"The New York health department will provide training for administering the vaccinations, though the exact amount of training required is yet to be determined, according to Tom Dunn of the New York state education department, which issues vaccine licenses."
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"Order allows dentists, pharmacists, podiatrists, midwives to give vaccines .",
"Gov. David Paterson said increasing those who can give vaccine would help state in emergency .",
"Retired dentist: \"If there is a shortage and they need more hands, I can do my part\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN)",
"-- ex-president warned members of Congress on Tuesday that America's failure to achieve energy independence is threatening America's national security, undermining America's long-term potential for economic growth and contributing to global warming.",
"ex-president said Tuesday that America must end America's energy-based vulnerability.",
"\"Collectively, nothing could be more important than this question of energy,\" ex-president said during a rare presidential appearance before a congressional committee.",
"\"I would guess that America's entire status as a leading nation in the world will depend on the role that America play in energy and environment in the future.\"",
"Carter, who in 1977 famously declared the fight for energy independence to be \"the moral equivalent of war,\" told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that reaching that goal is crucial to ending America's \"vulnerability to possible pressures and blackmail.\"",
"Right now, ex-president noted, \"whether America admit it or not, America are very careful not to aggravate America's major oil suppliers.\"",
"Watch ex-president talk about energy and security » .",
"ex-president also asserted that more jobs will be gained than lost by transitioning America away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner, renewable energy sources.",
"ex-president's testimony came as Congress continues Congress's consideration of broad-reaching energy legislation with the potential to dramatically tighten emissions controls while reshaping America's environmental standards.",
"Among other things, the American Clean Energy and Security Act would create a controversial \"cap-and-trade\" system establishing steadily declining limits on greenhouse gas emissions over the next four decades.",
"Under the bill, polluters would be able to buy and sell emissions credits while utilities would be required to generate an increasing amount of power from renewable sources.",
"Congressional attention to the issue is being driven by President Obama, who, like ex-president, has placed energy near the top of Carter's domestic agenda.",
"ex-president suggested that energy reform advocates craft an omnibus proposal that could be considered collectively by Congress in order to minimize \"adverse influence of special interest groups\" opposed to any major changes.",
"Powerful entrenched interests ultimately helped derail ex-president's administration's energy agenda, ex-president said.",
"ex-president noted that ex-president's administration nevertheless succeeded in reducing net oil imports by 50 percent, from 8.6 to 4.3 million barrels per day.",
"But after \"a long period of energy complacency,\" ex-president said, daily imports to America are now almost 13 million barrels.",
"America consumes 2.5 times more oil than China and 7.5 times more than India, ex-president noted.",
"On a per capita basis, America consumes 12 times more oil than China and 28 times more than India.",
"\"Although America can afford these daily purchases, there is little doubt that, in general terms, America are constrained not to alienate America's major oil suppliers, which puts a restraint on America's foreign policy,\" ex-president said.",
"ex-president reminded committee members that, as part of ex-president's drive for renewable energy, ex-president had ordered 32 solar panels to be placed on the roof of the White House in 1979.",
"But 32 solar panels were removed \"almost instantaneously after [Ronald Reagan] moved into the White House, with assurances to the American people that such drastic action would no longer be necessary.\"",
"Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, opened the hearing by noting that the price of a barrel of oil has fallen $90 below the record high hit in summer 2008.",
"Unfortunately, Kerry added, the \"political will to take decisive action has dissipated\" as each past energy crisis has subsided.",
"ex-president \"had the courage to tell the truth to Americans [and] set America on the right path in the 1970s,\" Kerry said.",
"\"Regrettably, the ensuing years saw those efforts unfunded [and] stripped away.\"",
"Richard Nixon was the first president to set a goal of energy independence, Kerry noted.",
"Richard Nixon called for that goal to be reached by 1980."
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"Energy independence would protect national security, create jobs, ex-president claims .",
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Federal investigators trying to determine why a Delta Air Lines jet landed on a taxiway instead of the runway in Atlanta on Monday morning say the runway in Atlanta was illuminated, but that approach lights and a ground-based instrument that helps pilots line up with the runway in Atlanta were off.",
"The pilots of the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport have been relieved from flying duties pending probes.",
"The incident happened at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest.",
"But The incident occurred shortly before dawn, when airport operations are slow.",
"Delta Flight 60, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was cleared to land on the runway in Atlanta around 6:05 a.m., but it landed instead on nearby Taxiway M, which runs parallel to the runway in Atlanta, said FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen.",
"The departure taxiway, which can be filled with aircraft during peak hours, was empty at the time, and the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport landed safely, officials said.",
"No one was injured, and there was no damage to the taxiway.",
"the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport had 182 passengers and a crew of 11.",
"The FAA, the National Transportation Safety Board and Delta Air Lines are investigating.",
"The pilots of the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport were placed on nonflight status, Delta said.",
"The NTSB on Wednesday confirmed that a \"check pilot\" on the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport was sick, and the crew had declared a medical emergency.",
"It was not clear what, if any, role that played in the mishap.",
"Sources familiar with The incident say that Flight 60 originally was scheduled to land on Runway 27L (left), the active runway at that time, but was \"sidestepped\" to Runway 27R (right).",
"Pilots commonly ask to be \"sidestepped\" to Runway 27R -- and air traffic controllers commonly offer 27R -- because it is closer to the terminal and pilots can shave minutes from a trip.",
"In this case, it is not clear whether the pilot made the request, or the air traffic controllers made the offer.",
"Nor is it clear why the change was made -- whether to shave time from the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport, or because of the medical emergency on the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport or some other reason.",
"But after being given permission to land on Runway 27R, the plane went too far to the right, landing on Taxiway M.",
"The runway was marked with yellow lights, while the taxiway was marked with blue lights, one person familiar with The incident said.",
"The NTSB said the runway lights on 27R were illuminated, but a \"localizer\" and approach lights for The runway were off.",
"Officials said the weather at the airport was clear, and The NTSB said the wind was calm at 10 mph.",
"The sky was dark, with twilight still more than an hour away.",
"The NTSB said a \"check airman\" was in the cockpit with the captain and first officer during the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport, but became ill and moved to the cabin for the remainder of the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport.",
"Check airman are company pilots who watch over crew members during significant flights, such as when a first officer becomes a captain, when a pilot is making a maiden international flight, or over mountainous terrain for the first time.",
"The NTSB said The NTSB is uncertain why the check airman was on the Delta flight.",
"Delta spokesman Anthony Black said Delta is cooperating with the FAA and The NTSB and conducting Delta's own investigation.",
"The pilots of the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport have been relieved from active flying, Delta spokesman Anthony Black said.",
"The incident came just two weeks after the FAA announced that serious runway incursions were down 50 percent this year.",
"Close calls in 2007 at some of the busiest U.S. airports prompted the FAA to take action to reduce the risk of runway incursions and wrong runway departures.",
"There were 24 serious runway incursions that year, eight of them involving commercial carriers."
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"Although you may think that bottled water is a safer option than tap, two new reports show that the store-bought stuff is actually less regulated than the water you get out of your faucet for free.",
"What's in your water?",
"You may be hard pressed to find out, reports the Environmental Working Group.",
"The Food and Drug Administration has little authority to regulate bottled brands, according to a U.S. Congressional report released recently.",
"While municipal water utilities are required to provide public reports of test results, bottled-water makers are not.",
"(On the other hand, well water, which is found in many rural areas, isn't regulated as water provided by towns and cities is.)",
"So although you may fork over a pretty penny for bottled water, that doesn't mean it's any better than what's coming out of your faucet.",
"In fact, it could be worse and you'd never know it.",
"The new research is backed by a second report from the Environmental Working Group.",
"The nonprofit advocacy organization surveyed the labels and Web sites of nearly 200 popular bottled-water brands and found that less than 2 percent disclosed three important facts that can affect safety: the water's source, purification methods, and chemical pollutants in each bottle.",
"(See the full report on bottled water at EWG's Web site.)",
"\"We're really pushing for a consumer's right to know what's in their water,\" says Nneka Leiba, an environmental health researcher at the EWG.",
"\"This isn't a doomsday scenario.",
"It isn't that the claims are false; it's just that the claims are misleading.\"",
"Reaching for the most popular bottled brands isn't necessarily a solution.",
"In fact, a second report from the Environmental Working Group found that some of the best-known brands -- for example Whole Foods and San Pellegrino -- are the least likely to report where the water comes from and what the water contains.",
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"\"This probably has to do with the fact that they're imported, so the regulations are different,\" says Nneka Leiba, an environmental health researcher at the EWG.",
"\"Some of the brands you think wouldn't be as transparent, like Walgreens or Sam's Club, scored higher than many of the popular brands.\"",
"So what's a safety-conscious shopper to do?",
"In recent years, some reports have suggested that tap water could be contaminated by trace amounts of pharmaceuticals or other substances.",
"Health.com: Why caffeine and sugar are poor substitutes for sleep .",
"Nneka Leiba, an environmental health researcher at the EWG says that activated carbon water filters -- like Brita pitchers or faucet attachments -- are a safe and affordable option for filtering tap water.",
"If families can afford it, Nneka Leiba, an environmental health researcher at the EWG recommends a reverse osmosis filter, which will eliminate all impurities.",
"These reports come as food safety concerns seem to be at an all-time high.",
"Lately, recalls of spinach, sprouts, peanut butter, and, most recently, cookie dough have made many consumers start to question the safety of the items many consumers find on grocery-store shelves.",
"Unlike tap water suppliers, bottled water companies don't have to have bottled water companies's water tested by a certified laboratory, and bottled water companies aren't required to notify customers within 24 hours if they find elevated levels of contaminants.",
"The FDA does require bottled water companies to test for contaminants and other problems, says Joshua Sharfstein, M.D., the agency's principal deputy commissioner.",
"Health.com:",
"Could your rug make you sick?",
"If the companies fail, however, the public doesn't get to see the actual test results.",
"\"There's clearly a difference in disclosure between municipal water and bottled water, but The FDA's laws focus on safety of food more than on disclosure of information,\" says Sharfstein.",
"\"It's not a question of whether The FDA can do more; it's whether the government can do more through the food safety bill.\"",
"Only changes in the current regulations would make it mandatory for manufacturers to make those kinds of records public, he says.",
"the current regulations may change with the Food Safety Enhancement Act.",
"Health.com:",
"Drink this tea to lose that belly .",
"the Food Safety Enhancement Act covers many aspects of food safety, including better preventive control measures by food manufacturers, more frequent inspections of facilities, and greater The FDA authority over food recalls.",
"Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2009 ."
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"Congressional Report: FDA has little authority to regulate bottled water brands .",
"Conversely, municipal water utilities are required to make test results public .",
"Watchdog group's survey: Less than 2 percent of bottlers disclose important info ."
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"(CNN) --",
"An agreement could be reached before week's end between Washington University students and an Illinois nightclub that allegedly barred African-American students while admitting nearly 200 of African-American students's white classmates.",
"Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri, said African-American students have been in contact with lawyers representing Bar.",
"The two sides expect a resolution to The two sides's dispute as early as Wednesday, Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said.",
"Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri did not, however, say what African-American students were demanding or why Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri was optimistic that a deal could be struck.",
"African-American students complained to state and federal agencies after six African-American members from African-American students's senior class trip celebration were denied admission to the club on October 17.",
"Bar personnel cited dress code violations -- specifically baggy jeans -- in barring the African-American students, Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said.",
"A white student and a black student then exchanged jeans to see what would happen.",
"The white student was admitted, while a black student's classmate still was kept outside, Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said.",
"Calls from CNN to the nightclub were not immediately returned.",
"Bar told the Chicago Tribune newspaper that it was investigating.",
"The celebration at Original Mother's was to top off a two-day senior class trip to Chicago, Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said.",
"The party had been arranged with Bar in advance by the student class board, which includes two of the African-American students who were later denied entry, Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said.",
"Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri was already inside Bar with some 200 other students, none of whom are African-American, when the first group of African-American classmates arrived.",
"Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri quickly learned that the manager of Bar had denied the six students entry, and Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said the manager of the bar told African-American students African-American students's baggy pants violated Bar's dress code.",
"Cutz, who is white, said Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri confronted the manager of the bar.",
"\"African-American students were better dressed than I was,\" Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri told CNN.",
"Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri told African-American students to \"go back to the hotel and change.\"",
"But the manager of Bar stepped in to say that the manager of the bar had made the manager of the bar's decision and that African-American students could not return to Bar even if African-American students changed clothes, Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said.",
"African-American students became \"more agitated\" and \"set up an experiment,\" Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said.",
"Class Treasurer Regis Murayi, who is black, exchanged jeans with a white student, Jordan Roberts, who -- being 3 inches shorter than Murayi -- looked \"substantially baggy.\"",
"Roberts approached the same manager who had turned away the African-American students, paid the entry fee and was allowed in, Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri said.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti also contributed to this report."
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"Group: Bar kept African-American students out, let white classmates in .",
"Washington University's senior class was celebrating at Bar .",
"Class president: Bar cited dress code violations, but clothing swap didn't help .",
"Class complains to Illinois attorney general, others; bar hasn't returned CNN's calls ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Five people were detained off Somalia's coast Wednesday after pirates mistook a French ship involved in an anti-piracy operation for a commercial vessel, the French Defense Ministry said.",
"A German-flagged warship taking part in the EU's anti-piracy mission is pictured in this April 2009 file photo.",
"There were no injuries as a result of the attack on BCR Somme, the French Defense Ministry said.",
"pirates opened fire at midnight local time, about 250 nautical miles (463 kilometers) off Somalia's coast, officials added.",
"An hour after the attack on the BCR Somme, the French command and supply ship chased down one of pirates's skiffs, and detained five suspected pirates, it said.",
"A second skiff involved in the attack on the BCR Somme got away.",
"BCR Somme was carrying supplies off Somalia's coast to forces involved in the European anti-piracy operation, called \"Atalante,\" the French Defense Ministry said.",
"Europe and other Western powers have stepped up Europe and other Western powers's maritime patrols off Somalia's coast following a spate of pirate attacks over the past year.",
"Somalia's transitional government, which has a tenuous grip on power, has been unable to stop the pirates, many of whom are based in Somalia's port cities.",
"Those who have tracked pirate activity say pirate activity started in the 1980s in Somalia, when the pirates claimed the pirates were aiming to stop the rampant illegal fishing and dumping that continues to this day off Somalia's coast.",
"Piracy accelerated after the fall of the Somali government in the early 1990s and began to flourish after shipping companies started paying ransoms.",
"Those payments started out being in the tens of thousands of dollars and have since climbed into the millions.",
"Some experts say companies are simply making the problem worse by paying the pirates."
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"(CNN) --",
"Law enforcement authorities have recovered 52 children and arrested 60 pimps allegedly involved in child prostitution, FBI announced Monday.",
"More than 690 people in all were arrested on state and local charges, FBI stated.",
"The arrests were made over the past three days as part of a nationwide law enforcement initiative conducted on the federal, state and local levels, the bureau said.",
"\"Child prostitution continues to be a significant problem in our country, as evidenced by the number of children rescued through the continued efforts of our crimes against children task forces,\" Kevin Perkins, assistant director of FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, said in a written statement.",
"\"There is no work more important than protecting America's children and freeing America's children from the cycle of victimization.\"",
"The three-day operation, tagged Operation Cross Country IV, included enforcement actions in 36 cities across 30 FBI divisions nationwide.",
"It is part of FBI's ongoing Innocence Lost National Initiative, which was created in 2003 with the goal of ending sex trafficking of children in the United States.",
"The initiative, conducted with assistance from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, has so far resulted in the recovery of almost 900 children, according to FBI.",
"It has also led to more than 500 convictions."
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"FBI says more than 690 people in all were arrested on state, local charges .",
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) --",
"Former teen idol Leif Garrett posted a $10,000 bond Wednesday after spending two days in a jail on a drug charge, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said.",
"Leif Garrett, 48, was arrested Monday at a downtown Los Angeles train station after police found heroin in Leif Garrett's shoe, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said.",
"Leif Garrett was 16 when Leif Garrett scored Leif Garrett's first pop chart hit, \"Surfin' USA,\" in 1977.",
"It was followed by a four-year run of songs that kept young girls swooning and teens dancing.",
"When deputies approached Leif Garrett Monday morning at a downtown Los Angeles train station, Leif Garrett was \"acting in a pronounced way, shaking and sweating,\" a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said.",
"Leif Garrett told them Leif Garrett was \"nervous around law enforcement because of other meetings with them in the past,\" he said.",
"Leif Garrett did jail time four years ago after Leif Garrett was arrested with heroin while Leif Garrett stood on a subway platform at another Los Angeles transit station.",
"This time, Leif Garrett told the officers that Leif Garrett had no drugs and Leif Garrett agreed to let the officers search Leif Garrett, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said.",
"As the officers searched, Leif Garrett told the officers Leif Garrett did have a little heroin in Leif Garrett's shoe.",
"\"That was found and it was black tar heroin,\" a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said.",
"Leif Garrett was taken to the East Los Angeles sheriff's station, where Leif Garrett was booked and held on bond.",
"Leif Garrett's court date is February 24, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said.",
"CNN's Michelle Wright and Alan Duke contributed to this report."
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"Leif Garrett was found with heroin and arrested Monday, sheriff's spokesman says .",
"The former teen idol was arrested four years ago for possession of heroin .",
"Leif Garrett was 16 when Leif Garrett scored Leif Garrett's first pop chart hit, \"Surfin' USA,\" in 1977 ."
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"NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) --",
"The Orleans Parish district attorney said The Orleans Parish district attorney plans to look into deaths at a New Orleans hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina, but stopped short of calling it an investigation.",
"Staff at Memorial Hospital were accused of hastening four patients' deaths in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.",
"\"My office has not reopened an investigation into the deaths at Memorial Hospital\" after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, The Orleans Parish district attorney said in a statement released Friday.",
"\"As district attorney, I have a legal obligation to evaluate statements regarding possible criminal activity in this jurisdiction,\" a statement released Friday said.",
"\"I am making that kind of evaluation, but that does not constitute an investigation by My office.\"",
"The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported in a story Saturday that The Orleans Parish district attorney will interview New Orleans coroner Frank Minyard and possibly other pathologists on the coroner's staff regarding the deaths of Memorial Medical Center patients.",
"But The New Orleans Times-Picayune quoted The Orleans Parish district attorney as saying an investigation would involve convening a grand jury and bringing in witnesses to testify, and The Orleans Parish district attorney does not at this time have plans to do that.",
"After speaking with the coroner, The Orleans Parish district attorney said The Orleans Parish district attorney would decide whether a more in-depth investigation is necessary.",
"The Orleans Parish district attorney's spokesman, Christopher Bowman, said Monday My office had no further comment beyond the Friday statement.",
"According to the Times-Picayune, The Orleans Parish district attorney's conversation with the coroner was prompted by an article in The New York Times last month that quoted two doctors as saying that two doctors gave Memorial Hospital patients morphine and other drugs in the days after the hurricane struck, knowing they would die.",
"The Orleans Parish district attorney told The New Orleans Times-Picayune The Orleans Parish district attorney would be \"remiss in The Orleans Parish district attorney's responsibilities\" if The Orleans Parish district attorney did not talk to the coroner about information in the article.",
"\"That doesn't mean I am opening an investigation,\" The Orleans Parish district attorney said.",
"Katrina roared ashore near the Mississippi-Louisiana state line on August 29, 2005, rupturing three of New Orleans' protective levees and putting about three-quarters of the city under water.",
"Then-Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. launched an investigation after officials from Lifecare, an acute-care facility operating on the seventh floor of Memorial Hospital, reported allegations that several seriously ill, mostly elderly patients had been euthanized by medical staff at Memorial Hospital as the floodwater rose around the hospital and conditions inside deteriorated.",
"In 2006, Foti ordered the arrest of Dr. Anna Pou and two nurses, Lori Budo and Cheri Landry, on preliminary charges of second-degree murder in the deaths of four patients.",
"Former Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan, who under Louisiana law was responsible for prosecuting crimes, gave Lori Budo and Landry immunity in exchange for Budo and Landry's testimony.",
"In July 2007, the grand jury refused to indict Pou.",
"Foti said Foti's investigation revealed that the four patients -- ages 63, 68, 91 and 93 -- were given a \"lethal cocktail\" of morphine and midazolam hydrochloride, both central nervous system depressants.",
"Pou, Landry and Budo all denied preliminary charges of second-degree murder in the deaths of four patients, and Pou, Landry and Budo all's attorneys said Pou, Landry and Budo all acted heroically, staying to treat patients rather than evacuate.",
"In an interview with Newsweek magazine in 2007, Pou admitted giving the patients drugs.",
"\"If in doing so it hastened the patients's deaths, then that's what happened,\" Pou said.",
"\"But this was not, 'I'm going to go to the seventh floor and murder some people.'",
"We're here to help patients.\"",
"the grand jury never heard testimony from five specialists who advised Foti that the patients were deliberately killed with overdoses of drugs after Katrina struck.",
"All five were brought in by Foti's office to analyze their deaths, and concluded the patients were homicide victims.",
"After the grand jury refused to indict Pou, Jordan called the case closed and said Jordan would no longer pursue the case.",
"If Cannizzaro does decide an in-depth investigation is warranted, an in-depth investigation could affect the outcome of a lawsuit in which CNN and The Times-Picayune are seeking the release of Foti's investigative file into their deaths.",
"CNN was the first to report the allegations of euthanasia, six weeks after the hurricane.",
"the case went to the Louisiana Supreme Court, which in July sent the case back to the trial court to rule on whether criminal litigation in the case is reasonably anticipated, according to Lori Mince, the New Orleans attorney representing the media organizations.",
"A reopened investigation could lead the court to rule that criminal charges may be forthcoming.",
"Hospital workers identified only as John and Jane Doe had sued to block the public release of the file, claiming the records are covered by grand jury secrecy rules, that Hospital workers should have been considered confidential informants and that releasing the documents would violate Hospital workers's privacy."
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"An Illinois woman and Dobbs's boyfriend, already charged with aiding in the abduction of the woman's 6-year-old grandson, face new charges of tampering with a witness in the case, officials said Tuesday.",
"Boy, 6, allegedly was hidden with Dobbs's mother in a secret room in Dobbs's grandmother's house.",
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"The two were charged previously with aiding and abetting child abduction, a felony, according to Beth Sandusky and court records.",
"They were released from jail on bond Monday, but were back in custody within hours, according to ABC News and CNN affiliate WSIL.",
"Last week, authorities found Ricky Chekevdia, Diane Dobbs's grandson, at Dobbs's home.",
"Boy was hiding along with Boy's mother, Shannon Wilfong, in a secret room built to hide them -- an area about 5 feet by 12 feet, with a 4-foot ceiling, according to WSIL.",
"Police say Boy had been hidden for nearly two years.",
"Wilfong, 30, is jailed on felony child abduction charges and made her first court appearance Tuesday, Beth Sandusky said.",
"\"We let Boy out of the car and Boy ran around like Boy'd never seen the outdoors,\" Master Sgt. Stan Diggs with the Illinois State Police told WSIL.",
"\"It was actually very sad.\"",
"In an interview on ABC's \"Good Morning America\" on Monday, before Dobbs was arrested, Dobbs disputed the accusation that Boy was hidden in the small room, saying that in two years Boy spent \"maybe five minutes\" there.",
"\"Boy had the run of the house,\" Dobbs said.",
"\"When we were outside, we would go fishing, we would do weenie roasts.",
"We've done fireworks on the Fourth of July.",
"Boy's helped me plant my flower garden in the back.\"",
"Dobbs said Dobbs would not plead guilty to the charges.",
"\"We were on our own and we had to do what we had to do and that was make sure our grandson was safe,\" Dobbs said.",
"Sandusky would not comment on the pending charges against Dobbs and Sandefur or identify the witness.",
"However, a woman told WSIL a woman called police after Dobbs and Sandefur came onto a woman's property and threatened a woman's son's life.",
"Diggs told WSIL that Boy is \"in very good spirits for someone who's been isolated in that house.",
"... Boy's a very, very social, very polite, very talkative little boy.\"",
"Wilfong and Ricky's father, Michael Chekevdia, had battled over custody since Boy was born in 2002, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.",
"Wilfong and Ricky's father, Michael Chekevdia initially had joint custody, Chekevdia told the newspaper, but Dobbs would often fail to bring Boy for weekends or scheduled meetings, then in 2007 failed to show up for visitation hearings.",
"A judge granted Chekevdia temporary custody, but by then Dobbs and Boy had disappeared.",
"Wilfong and the boy were reported missing in November, and in December, prosecutors charged Dobbs with felony child abduction.",
"Dobbs and Dobbs had accused Chekevdia of sexually abusing Boy, but authorities have said those allegations are unfounded, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said.",
"Leaving court Tuesday, Dobbs denied any wrongdoing to reporters, and accused Chekevdia of making lewd comments about the child.",
"Dobbs added that Boy feared returning to Boy's father.",
"But Chekevdia told WSIL that Dobbs and Dobbs's family are \"accusing me unjustly.\"",
"\"I was the best father I could be given the time that I had with Boy,\" he said.",
"Boy was taken into Illinois Department of Children and Family Services custody, and is staying with Boy's father's family under child welfare supervision, WSIL said.",
"Illinois Department of Children and Family Services declined comment.",
"Chekevdia told the station Chekevdia got to see Chekevdia's son smile for the first time at a Labor Day parade.",
"\"It was just a wonderful feeling to see a little boy that's been in that situation for so long enjoy himself,\" he said."
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"Rick Lyke was diagnosed with prostate cancer when Rick Lyke was 47.",
"Rick Lyke's response was to set up \"Pints for Prostates,\" an organization that uses the universal language of beer to reach men with its message about the importance of prostate cancer screening.",
"In 2008, at the insistence of a colleague with prostate cancer, Lyke, from Charlotte, North Carolina, had Rick Lyke tested for illness, even though Rick Lyke had no health problems.",
"Rick Lyke's doctor was initially reluctant to have Rick Lyke tested, as men under the age of 50 aren't considered to a high-risk group for prostate cancer, but tests came back positive and Rick Lyke needed surgery to remove prostate cancer.",
"Rick Lyke's surgeon said that if Rick Lyke had waited until Rick Lyke was 50 to be screened, Rick Lyke would probably have only lived another two or three years.",
"\"I'm doing great now,\" Rick Lyke told CNN.",
"\"I have to get tested every six months for the next 15 years, but I really feel like I dodged a bullet.\"",
"Prostate cancer affects one in six men American men, with 27,000 Americans expected to die from the disease this year.",
"The American Cancer Society believes health care professionals should discuss the potential benefits and limitations of prostate cancer early detection testing with men before any testing begins.",
"The American Cancer Society says that should include an offer for yearly testing with the prostate-specific antigen blood test and digital rectal exam, beginning at age 50, to men who are at average risk of prostate cancer and have at least a 10-year life expectancy.",
"But Rick Lyke says other groups recommend that men should be screened once men reach men's forties.",
"\"I think it's a financial issue in a lot of cases rather than a health issue as to why that guideline is 50,\" Rick Lyke told CNN.",
"\"The fact of the matter is not many men are going to have prostate cancer in many men's forties, but for those who do, if they wait until they're 50 to be tested, their numbers aren't going to look very good.\"",
"Rick Lyke founded \"Pints for Prostates\" to spread the message about need for regular prostate health screenings.",
"The organization travels to beer festivals and tries to engage with men in an informal way.",
"\"Beer is a universal thing for men,\" Rick Lyke told CNN.",
"\"Where women get together and talk about health issues, men really don't, so we try to use an atmosphere like a pub, where guys are a little bit more relaxed, to talk about prostate cancer.\"",
"Rick Lyke says prostate cancer is a highly personal disease for men, in much the same way that breast cancer is for women.",
"Treatment for prostate cancer can sometimes result in impotence.",
"\"The pink ribbon campaign has really made it possible for women to talk about breast cancer, so we're trying to do the same thing for guys.",
"They need permission to talk about it,\" said Rick Lyke.",
"As well as setting up stalls at beer festivals and organizing events in pubs, \"Pints for Prostates\" has run adverts in magazines and Rick Lyke estimates its message has reached about 30 million people.",
"A year after Rick Lyke's own surgery, Lyke's first granddaughter was born.",
"Rick Lyke is aware that by being screened for prostate cancer Rick Lyke has vastly improved Rick Lyke's chances of seeing her grow up, and Rick Lyke hopes that by encouraging other men to be tested Rick Lyke will give other men a similar opportunity.",
"Rick Lyke told CNN, \"I'm hoping that there's a whole bunch of other guys out there who'll be able to experience the same thing [as Rick Lyke] -- see their families grow up and grow old.\"",
"Mark Tutton contributed to this report ."
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"Prostate cancer affects on in six men American men and screening is recommended for men over 50 ."
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"Detroit, Michigan (CNN) --",
"Six men appeared in federal court Thursday, a day after Six men were arrested in raids targeting an African-American Muslim group that FBI said sought to establish an Islamic state in the United States.",
"Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the alleged leader of the African-American Muslim converts, was fatally shot during one of Wednesday's raids in the Detroit area after Abdullah fired at law enforcement agents who were trying to arrest Abdullah and four other suspects.",
"An FBI dog was also killed.",
"Authorities say Abdullah was the imam at a Detroit mosque where Abdullah preached offensive jihad, including violence against the U.S. government and law enforcement.",
"A criminal complaint states that Abdullah repeatedly told three confidential informants Abdullah would never be taken alive, saying \"If they're coming to get me, I'll just strap a bomb on and blow up everybody.\"",
"Abdullah was one of 11 men charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit federal crimes, including theft from interstate shipments, mail fraud to obtain the proceeds of arson, illegal possession and sale of firearms, and tampering with motor vehicle identification numbers, FBI said in a news release.",
"Eight suspects were in custody, including one man already in prison on an unrelated charge and another man who was arrested on Wednesday and added to the charging sheet, U.S. Attorney spokeswoman Susan Plochinski said Thursday.",
"An additional suspect was taken into custody in Canada on Thursday, an FBI statement said.",
"Two men remain at large.",
"Mujahid Carswell, aka Mujahid Abdullah, was taken into custody in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, by Canadian authorities Thursday afternoon, FBI said.",
"According to the federal criminal complaint, Carswell, 30, is the eldest son of Abdullah, who was killed in the raid Wednesday.",
"Canadian Border Patrol is holding him on immigration violations, FBI said.",
"Of the six suspects who appeared Thursday afternoon in court, Abdullah Beard was ordered held without bail; and Muhammad Abdul Salaam's bail decision was delayed, as was that for Gary Laverne Porter, a 38-year teacher who was arrested at an area school.",
"Ali Abdul Raqib was given a $10,000 unsecured bond; Abdul Saboor was given a $100,000 bond, despite a prosecution request that he be held without bond.",
"Another man, Acie Pusha, who was arrested Wednesday, was described by the prosecutor as \"minimally involved\" and given a $10,000 bond.",
"The FBI criminal complaint says the group held target practice in a mosque basement, blowing holes in concrete walls.",
"the federal criminal complaint includes references to possible attacks on the government, including Detroit's federal building and FBI.",
"There is also discussion about causing trouble at the 2006 Super Bowl in Detroit.",
"But Six men were not arrested for any of that.",
"Two law enforcement sources said the information about possible attacks was included in the charging document to add \"context for the crimes Six men're charged with, the purpose of the group.\"",
"\"Six men had to earn money for Six men's mosque and the Ummah,\" one of Two law enforcement sources said.",
"\"And the purpose of the group was to set up a separatist state.\"",
"the group refers to the nationwide group to which the suspects belonged, according to the federal criminal complaint.",
"It's a group made up of mostly African-American members, including some who converted to Islam while in prison.",
"the group is led by Jamil Abdullah al-Amin -- formerly known as H. Rap Brown -- a 1960s radical and former member of the Black Panthers who once said \"violence was as American as cherry pie.\"",
"He is serving a life sentence in Colorado's Supermax prison for killing two Georgia police officers.",
"Andrew Arena, the FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, contacted local imams and civil rights leaders in Detroit during Wednesday's operation \"to bridge any gaps that could possible come over this,\" FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said.",
"\"Abdullah'd rather they hear it from Abdullah,\" FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold added.",
"\"FBI have a good relationship with the community and FBI want to keep a good relationship with the community that way.\"",
"In the 43-page criminal complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan and unsealed Wednesday, authorities said the arrests were made based on information gleaned from confidential sources identified only as S-1, S-2 and S-3.",
"\"S-1 heard Abdullah encourage Abdullah's followers to 'pick up guns and do something' rather than try to achieve his followers's goals through peaceful means,\" the federal criminal complaint said.",
"S-2 recorded a conversation on December 12, 2007, in which Abdullah said, \"I got some soldiers with Abdullah, so it's not like Abdullah, I don't have, you know, nothing.",
"Brothers that I know would, you know, if I say 'Let's go, we going to go and do something,' they would do it,\" the federal criminal complaint said.",
"S-3 said that, on March 21, 2008, Luqman Abdullah told him \"that FBI is the enemy of Islam,\" the federal criminal complaint said.",
"The other men charged were identified as: . • Mohammad Abdul Bassir, aka Franklin D. Roosevelt Williams.",
"Mohammad Abdul Bassir, aka Franklin D. Roosevelt Williams is serving a prison term at Ojibway Correctional Facility in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.",
"• Mujahid Carswell.",
"• Mohammad Philistine.",
"• Yassir Ali Khan.",
"• Adam Hussain Ibraheem.",
"Acie Pusha was arrested on Wednesday and added to the charging sheet, Plochinski said Thursday.",
"Plochinski would not provide details about the charges against Acie Pusha.",
"The two charged but still at large are Mohammad Philistine, also known as Mohammad Alsahi, a 33-year-old resident of Ontario; and Khan, 30, who is believed to be a resident of Ontario and Warren, Michigan.",
"All of the defendants \"are members of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over a period of many years, and known to be armed,\" FBI said.",
"the federal criminal complaint was filed by FBI's counter-terrorism squad in the Eastern District of Michigan.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Carol Cratty and Ross Levitt contributed to this story."
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"Alleged group leader was fatally shot Wednesday after firing at law enforcement agents .",
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"New York (CNN) -- Diplomacy hasn't worked.",
"Sanctions have achieved little.",
"Relations between Iran and the United States are, at best, chilly.",
"So why not try music?",
"On Saturday night, for the first time, Iranians were the headline performers at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall.",
"A father and son from Iran led American musicians in a hybrid session of traditional Iranian and classical Western music.",
"Son told CNN Son was pleased to present \"another dimension of Iran and Iranian culture to the Western people.\"",
"Nazeri, who now lives in the United States, said, \"We hear mostly about the other side -- bloodshed, chaos -- and I wanted to be able to present the reality of our culture, which is about peace and love and unity.\"",
"Nearly 3,000 people, many of them Persians, flocked to New York City's famed Carnegie Hall for the concert.",
"One patron said, \"The message was completely obvious: Love all the way.",
"Peace!\"",
"Hafez Nazeri and his father Shahrem said it was an honor to be onstage at the historic music center.",
"Son said Son's music might be able to bridge cultural divides between Iran and the United States.",
"Son's father, Shahrem, still lives in Iran.",
"Speaking in Farsi, the man known as the Iranian Pavarotti talked about the demonstrations that followed June's disputed Iranian presidential election.",
"The tenor said some of the people in the streets are \"requesting something, and I think it's important to answer to some of the people in the streets's requests.",
"The government should answer to some of the people in the streets's requests and some of the people in the streets have to see what some of the people in the streets's people want.\"",
"Hafez Nazeri and his father Shahrem are two of the few Iranian musicians allowed to freely travel and perform in Iran.",
"Western-style popular music is banned in Iran.",
"With just a few musicians, they form a rare group, blending Persian traditional themes with Western classical style.",
"It's very simple in presentation: a cello, percussion and an improvised setar -- a Persian instrument like a lute -- played by Hafez Nazeri.",
"Hafez Nazeri and his father Shahrem's music is based on the 13th-century Persian poet and philosopher Rumi.",
"\"The idea of The Nazeris' music is to bring unity and to be able to create a music that is not just for Iranians, it's for people from all over the world,\" the younger Nazeri said.",
"Rachel Cooper, director of cultural programs and performing arts at the Asia Society, said, \"You're seeing the Iranian culture and the Western culture in something that's a kind of hybrid, that I think represents the times that we live in.\"",
"Hafez Nazeri and his father Shahrem receive cultural support from the nonprofit New York-based Asia Society, Rachel Cooper, director of cultural programs and performing arts at the Asia Society told CNN.",
"\"We've been going through this time period where we've been thinking about the Berlin Wall coming down, and throughout that period of the Cold War, cultural relations were always a really important component.",
"So I think that cultural relations -- music in particular -- are a really important part of how we know each other as human beings,\" Rachel Cooper, director of cultural programs and performing arts at the Asia Society said.",
"Hafez Nazeri and his father Shahrem have performed in cities across the United States in recent years."
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"Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) --",
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"A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey indicates that 26 percent of the public has an unfavorable view of the Tea Party movement and that 4 in 10 have not heard of the Tea Party movement or don't know enough to form an opinion.",
"a new national poll's Friday-morning release comes as what's billed as the first national Tea Party convention begins its first full day of meetings in Nashville.",
"\"the Tea Party movement is a blank slate to many Americans, which is not surprising for a political movement that is only about a year old,\" said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.",
"\"Not surprisingly, opinion breaks along partisan and ideological lines.\"",
"According to the survey, Democrats by a 2-to-1 margin have an unfavorable view of the Tea Party movement; Republicans like it by a 3-to-1 margin.",
"Among independents, 35 percent of independents holding a positive view and 24 percent a negative view.",
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"On Saturday, Sarah Palin will serve as the convention's keynote speaker.",
"The also poll indicates that Americans are split on the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, with 43 percent seeing Sarah Palin in a positive light and 46 percent holding an unfavorable view.",
"\"Opinion on Sarah Palin also breaks down along party lines, with seven in 10 Democrats disliking Sarah Palin and seven in 10 Republicans with a positive view.",
"Sarah Palin has a net-negative rating among independents: 42 percent favorable and 47 percent unfavorable,\" Holland added.",
"\"Sarah Palin also continues to rate better among men than women.\"",
"the Tea Party movement developed last year in protest to what the Tea Party movement's supporters saw as overspending in Washington -- by both Republicans and Democrats -- after the stimulus bill, the bank bailouts and President Obama's budget.",
"The poll was conducted January 22-24, with 1,009 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.",
"CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report."
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"Colombia and the United States signed an agreement Friday that allows U.S. personnel to be stationed at seven military bases in the South American nation.",
"the United States says the United States needs seven military bases in the South American nation to help in the United States's fight against terrorists and narcotraffickers, especially since the closure a few months ago of a U.S. base in Ecuador.",
"the United States maintains similar \"forward operating locations\" in El Salvador and Aruba-Curacao.",
"Colombia's agreement to host the Americans has come under harsh criticism in Latin America, particularly from President Hugo Chavez in neighboring Venezuela.",
"President Hugo Chavez in neighboring Venezuela has likened the agreement to an act of war and accuses the United States of wanting to stage military personnel nearby to destabilize President Hugo Chavez in neighboring Venezuela's leftist government.",
"The U.S. forward operating location in Aruba-Curacao is off the northern coast of Venezuela.",
"the United States linked Colombia's agreement to a trade pact Colombia wants.",
"Colombia also stands to gain from U.S. help in Colombia's 45-year-old war against Marxist guerrillas known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly called FARC.",
"Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez, Defense Minister Gabriel Silva and Interior and Justice Minister Fabio Valencia Cossio were joined by U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield in signing the document Friday in Bogota, Colombia's capital."
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"(CNN) --",
"I spoke at TED in 2006, the year they started to put the talks online.",
"I'm told that since then, the talk has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times in more than 200 countries.",
"The number of people who've seen it may be 20 times that or more.",
"I have a stream of e-mails, tweets and blog posts round the world from young people, parents, students, teachers, cultural activists and business leaders of all sorts.",
"young people, parents, students, teachers, cultural activists and business leaders of all sorts tell me how deeply young people, parents, students, teachers, cultural activists and business leaders of all sorts relate to the talk and often that young people, parents, students, teachers, cultural activists and business leaders of all sorts've seen or shown it many times at meetings, conferences, workshops and retreats.",
"Parents tell me Parents've shown the talk to Parents's children; young people tell me young people've shown the talk to young people's parents.",
"young people say young people've laughed and sometimes cried together and had a different sort of conversation as a result.",
"Changing the conversation is one of the primary purposes of TED.",
"Why has the talk had such an impact?",
"I think there are several reasons.",
"To begin with, the talk is short.",
"the talk is part of the genius of TED.",
"In a world of instant messaging, rampant data and overspecialization, brevity is a virtue.",
"(Even so, I've seen blogs that strongly recommend the talk but warn that it's almost 20 minutes long.)",
"A second factor is that, based on the audience's reaction, the talk is entertaining and funny at times, which always helps.",
"And I'd just had my hair cut.",
"We may never know how much that simple act contributed to the global appeal of the talk.",
"But the real reason for its impact is that what I'm saying clearly resonates deeply with people of all ages and across many different cultures.",
"I believe that the argument is becoming more urgent by the day.",
"What is the argument?",
"In a nutshell, it's that we're all born with immense natural talents but our institutions, especially education, tend to stifle many of immense natural talents and as a result we are fomenting a human and an economic disaster.",
"In education, this vast waste of talent involves a combination of factors.",
"They include a narrow emphasis on certain sorts of academic work; the exile of arts, humanities and physical education programs from schools; arid approaches to teaching math and sciences; an obsessive culture of standardized testing and tight financial pressures to teach to the tests.",
"The result is a disastrous waste of talent among students and their teachers.",
"To sense the scale of this disaster, you only have to look at the alarming rates of turnover among faculty and the levels of drop out, disaffection, stress and prescription drug use among students.",
"Even for students who stay the course and do well in education, the rules of success have changed irrevocably.",
"Just look at the plummeting value of college degrees.",
"The waste of talent in education is not deliberate.",
"Teachers are as anxious about this as everyone else, but many of Teachers feel trapped in the awkward groping of national reform policies, many of which misunderstand the problems as well as the solutions.",
"The waste of talent in education isn't deliberate, but The waste of talent in education is systematic.",
"The waste of talent in education happens in part because the dominant systems of education are rooted in the values and demands of industrialism: the dominant systems of education are linear, mechanistic and focused on conformity and standardization.",
"Nowadays, the dominant systems of education're buttressed by major commercial interests in mass testing and by the indiscriminate use of prescription drugs that keep students' minds from wandering to things they naturally find more interesting.",
"The tragedy is that meeting the many social, economic, spiritual and environmental challenges we now face depends absolutely on the very capacities of insight, creativity and innovation that the dominant systems of education are systematically suppressing in yet another generation of young people.",
"Reforming the dominant systems of education is not enough.",
"The truth is that we are caught up in a cultural and economic revolution.",
"This revolution is global in scale and unpredictable in nature.",
"To meet This revolution, we need a revolution in the culture of education.",
"the culture of education has to emerge from a richer sense of human ability.",
"To shape the culture of education, I believe we have to leave behind the manufacturing principles of industrialism and embrace the organic principles of ecology.",
"Education is about developing human beings, and human development is not mechanical or linear.",
"It is organic and dynamic.",
"Like all living forms, we flourish in certain conditions and shrivel in others.",
"Great teachers, great parents and great leaders understand those conditions intuitively; poor ones don't.",
"The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community.",
"There is no alternative.",
"There never was.",
"The good news is that all around the world there are wonderful examples of people and organizations that are making determined efforts to do things differently in education -- and in business, health care, architecture, communities and cultural programs.",
"There are examples of these all over the TED Web site and in the expanding ripples of the TED prizes.",
"TED is a great example of the spirit of collaboration and inter-disciplinarily that is the essential to a genuine culture of creativity.",
"What are the principles of this culture?",
"Towards the end of my talk, I mention a book I was working on called \"Epiphany.\"",
"a book I was working on called \"Epiphany was published this year under a much better title, \"The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything\" (Viking) and is now in 11 languages.",
"It draws on conversations with people in science, business, education, the arts, sports and more on how education, the arts, sports and more found in education, the arts, sports and more the talents and passions that have shaped education, the arts, sports and more's lives.",
"But a book I was working on called \"Epiphany is not about education, the arts, sports and more: a book I was working on called \"Epiphany's about you and your children, if you have any; and your friends too, if you have any of those.",
"There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us.",
"All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sir Ken Robinson."
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"The election victory of Massachusetts senator-elect is expected to be certified Thursday, which could allow Massachusetts senator-elect to be sworn in as early as Thursday afternoon to replace late Sen. Ted Kennedy.",
"Massachusetts senator-elect's win stripped Democrats of their 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate and raised fears among many congressional Democrats about a potential GOP landslide in November's midterm elections.",
"Brian McNiff, spokesman for Massachusetts's secretary of state, said the final election returns from last month's special election were delivered to governor's office Wednesday.",
"Massachusetts senator-elect had asked for immediate certification.",
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