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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN)",
"-- High in the hills above the Haitian capital, artist Levoy Exil paints at his terrace studio.",
"The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint creates vibrant abstractions of life and nature.",
"A year ago, The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint infused a celestial oil painting with hues of purplish red -- symbolizing blood -- after The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint gazed outward and for a moment the verdant landscape turned to black.",
"The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint knew then that something bad was coming.",
"The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint saw the blood",
"The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint had imagined on the streets of Port-au-Prince on January 12 when the earth heaved and 150,000 people perished.",
"It's now apparent that among the earthquake's widespread destruction were museums, galleries and other places that contained Haiti's artistic treasures, including Exil's work.",
"They were a troubled nation's legacy, a key source of economic trade with the rest of the world -- and undeniable symbols of hope.",
"Lost, perhaps, forever.",
"the earthquake's blow to Haitian art is staggering: The Centre d'Art, which launched the Haitian arts movement in the 1940s, is severely damaged.",
"The Musee d'Art Nader, which housed more than 12,000 pieces from the largest private collection in Haiti, collapsed.",
"Murals in the Trinity Cathedral, assembled by some of Haiti's best-known artists, came crashing down.",
"\"There is no art museum run by the government of Haiti,\" said Georges Nader Jr., who runs a gallery near the Nader museum opened by Nader's father.",
"\"This is for Nader like patrimony for Haiti.",
"We were holding this collection for future generations.",
"What will happen now?",
"I don't know.\"",
"The significance of art in Haiti may be hard for outsiders to understand.",
"But with few functioning institutions, few outlets of expression, Haiti's brightly colored depictions -- some laced with spiritual traditions of voodoo culture -- of sun and sea, people and animals serve as memory for a country that has suffered under dictatorships and failed governments and is today the poorest in the Americas.",
"With unemployment as high as 85 percent and a majority of Haitians reeling in abject poverty, art has also emerged as an economic lifeline.",
"\"They're painting their lives.",
"They're recording their history,\" said Camille Scully, executive director of Iowa's Waterloo Center for the Arts and co-president of the Haitian Art Society.",
"\"And they're very accessible because of the colors and style.",
"Everyone who sees Haitian art tends to buy Haitian art because Everyone who sees Haitian art respond to Haitian art.\"",
"Scully said efforts are under way to enlist conservationists to help Haiti, and a flurry of e-mails shared by collectors, curators, gallery owners and other interested parties show the urgency people are feeling to support the arts community.",
"One key figure who's been weighing in on the need to save what can be saved is Gerald Alexis, a leading Haitian art historian, critic and curator.",
"Haiti has a long enough history of not conserving Haiti's art, Gerald Alexis, a leading Haitian art historian, critic and curator said from Gerald Alexis, a leading Haitian art historian, critic and curator's Quebec City, Quebec, home.",
"An earthquake in colonial times, fires and hurricanes, as wells as riots, revolutions and government-mandated raids of voodoo temples, destroyed much of the creativity that pre-dated the 1940s artistic boom.",
"For this reason, salvaging art, including the oldest piece in Haiti -- an 1822 painting buried in the national palace -- matters.",
"Haiti's art \"will tell future generations who they are and where they come from,\" Gerald Alexis, a leading Haitian art historian, critic and curator said.",
"\"It's our heritage.",
"And although people think that in poor countries such concepts are unnecessary, they are indeed the only thing we have.",
"Our cultural heritage is our pride.\"",
"In Port-au-Prince, Nader has been frantically trying to rescue the thousands of pieces Nader's father lovingly collected over four decades.",
"Among the masters: Hector Hyppolite.",
"Philome Obin.",
"Prefete Duffaut.",
"Wilson Bigaud.",
"Nader pulled out an oil-on-cardboard floral still-life painted by Hyppolite in 1945 that now looks more like a jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing.",
"Some of the artworks housed in the Centre d'Arts, which was in a wooden structure, will be more repairable, Nader said.",
"What do you do when cement gouges cardboard or canvas?",
"\"This?",
"Only cement can do this,\" Nader said, picking up some of Nader's punctured pieces.",
"On the day of the quake, Nader's 79-year-old parents were in Nader's 79-year-old parents's bedroom on the top floor of the building that houses the museum.",
"Nader's 79-year-old parents were pulled from the rubble after the museum collapsed.",
"Nader could not hold back tears when Nader thought of the suffering around Nader and stopped the conversation to recompose Nader.",
"The cultural loss can hardly compare.",
"\"At that time, the paintings were my last concern,\" Nader continued.",
"\"There were lives at stake.\"",
"But since then, Nader has been going back to the rubble every day to salvage what Nader can.",
"Nader knows Nader has to -- for the sake of Nader's country.",
"On the second floor of Nader's gallery, Nader and Nader's staff have been collecting damaged pieces, their vibrant colors dulled by the dust.",
"\"This is like a hospital for paintings,\" Nader said, watching Nader's staff strip off frames and backings.",
"Nader picked up a damaged portrait of a fruit vendor by Antonio Joseph.",
"Nader grew to manhood looking at the painting on Nader's bedroom wall.",
"It's one of Nader's favorites.",
"So far, Nader has rescued about 1,000 pieces; 70 percent need restoration.",
"That was one room in the museum.",
"Kent Shankle, the curator for Iowa's Waterloo Center for the Arts, which houses the largest public collection of Haitian art in the United States, said he hopes there is a silver lining to the tragedy.",
"\"Hopefully this is raising awareness and shedding light on both the beauty of Haiti and Haiti's people, as well as the incredible needs there,\" he said.",
"And, perhaps it will fuel a new wave of art that reveals the resilience of people here.",
"\"We've survived.",
"It's a blessing,\" said artist Jean Louis Maxan.",
"artist Jean Louis Maxan depicted Jean-Bertrand Aristide's exit from Haiti in 2004, an acrylic-on-canvas painting of \"American Air\" waiting to take the disgraced president away.",
"Now, artist Jean Louis Maxan said, artist Jean Louis Maxan will paint people screaming, piles of bodies and tents blanketing the city's open spaces.",
"High above the misery, The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint, too, said The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint will paint again.",
"When nature tells The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint it is right.",
"\"It's a great loss for all of us,\"",
"The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint said of the earthquake.",
"\"But life continues and we will continue to create.\"",
"The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint will rely on the lush, undulating landscape before",
"The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint.",
"The sun and the moon.",
"And the distant sea.",
"The man who began a career using beets, carrots, tomatoes and black beans for paint will make beauty blossom from the ugliness below.",
"For the future of Haiti.",
"CNN's Moni Basu reported from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.",
"CNN's Jessica Ravitz reported from Atlanta, Georgia."
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"Among earthquake's destruction were museums, galleries with artistic treasures .",
"\"They're painting their lives.",
"They're recording their history,\" expert says of Haiti artists .",
"Artist sifts through rubble to save artwork in order to preserve history ."
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"WUGANG, China (CNN) --",
"Authorities in China's south-central Hunan province are associating disgruntled parents of children stricken by lead poisoning with the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong.",
"A mother feeds A mother's child in a village near the Wugang Manganese Smelting Plant in China's south-central Hunan province.",
"\"Citizens of Wugang area have received phone calls from members of the Falun Gong over the past several days,\" said Wugang Deputy Spokesman Zhen Zhaoxin.",
"\"Any resident who receives any calls or information about the Falun Gong activities are encouraged to report to the police.\"",
"Wugang Deputy Spokesman Zhen Zhaoxin said government, along with police, are investigating to determine the calls' origin.",
"But villagers said villagers have suffered enough and government's accusation is \"insulting.\"",
"The friction comes after residents in Wenping township, governed by the city of Wugang, last month protested pollution from an area factory that left more than 1,000 children with lead poisoning.",
"That was one of three separate lead poisoning incidents reported in August that affected large numbers of Chinese children.",
"Watch more about the lead poisoning » .",
"Residents of Wenping and nearby Simachong village denied any connection to Falun Gong.",
"Residents of Wenping and nearby Simachong village said Residents of Wenping and nearby Simachong village were not even familiar with the religious sect.",
"Residents of Wenping and nearby Simachong village just wanted Residents of Wenping and nearby Simachong village's children to be well again.",
"China banned Falun Gong in 1999 and has cracked down on practitioners.",
"An August 26 public notice warned villagers to beware of Falun Gong members and instructed people to watch for \"reactionary propaganda\" sent online and by phone.",
"The Wugang government issued similar information on The Wugang government's Web site.",
"villagers said government wants villagers to keep quiet, but villagers are worried.",
"\"government are insulting us,\" said one woman, holding up An August 26 public notice.",
"\"government said government are spreading the rumors.\"",
"villagers's lives were shattered when, one by one, children began to fall ill.",
"So far, 1,354 have tested positive for abnormal levels of lead in their blood.",
"Many have stopped eating and are constantly fatigued.",
"Others are not growing hair.",
"Some parents worry Some parents will not be able to provide medical care for long-term problems.",
"Lead poisoning can cause irreversible damage in the nervous and reproductive systems and cause high blood pressure, memory loss and loss of appetite, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.",
"Xiao Aijun, the father of two sick children, was angered by government's claims.",
"\"My baby's been in the hospital for more than 20 days,\" he said of My baby's 10-month-old daughter, Xiao Junmei.",
"\"We have to go back in the month.",
"Look at her hair, look at her hair.",
"\"government said government're Falun Gong,\" he said.",
"\"What is this all about?",
"I have no idea.",
"I don't even know what that is.\"",
"Some villagers told CNN that 15 parents who protested factory pollution had been detained by police.",
"CNN could not reach local police for comment, but Zhen, the Wugang spokesman, denied the reports.",
"\"We would not detain parents.",
"After all, parents need to be with parents's children at this time,\" he said.",
"\"This is definitely not the case.\"",
"The lead poisoning in Wenping stemmed from the Wugang Manganese Smelting Plant.",
"Similar incidents were reported in northern Shaanxi province, where 851 children were affected, and in southwestern Yunnan province, where 200 children were sickened.",
"China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has dispatched inspectors to examine the plants in Shaanxi and Hunan.",
"Wugang government officials say children who live as far as 20 kms (12.5 miles) from the polluting factories in Wenping and Simachong have been affected.",
"One mother, whose son was hospitalized, said One mother, whose son was hospitalized would have moved long ago if One mother, whose son was hospitalized had known.",
"Another Wugang government spokesman, Lei Zanning, said authorities are keenly aware of environmental protections.",
"\"We can't sacrifice it for the sake of economic development,\" he said.",
"But lead poisoning is a serious problem in China, according to Steven Ma of Greenpeace.",
"About 10 percent of the nation's arable land and 12 million tons of annual food crops are contaminated with lead, Steven Ma of Greenpeace said."
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"Villagers said Villagers have suffered enough and government's accusation is insulting .",
"Follows protests from local parents after pollution from local factory left 1,000 kids ill .",
"China banned Falun Gong in 1999 and has cracked down on practitioners ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"New data released Thursday suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be \"largely ice free\" during summer within a decade.",
"As the Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears face extinction.",
"The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is the latest research into ice thickness in the Arctic.",
"Researchers predict that within 20 years ice cover will be completely gone during the warmer months.",
"The expedition, which was completed in May, was led by UK explorer Pen Hadow.",
"UK explorer Pen Hadow and UK explorer Pen Hadow's team collected data by manually drilling into the ice and noting the ice's thickness along a 450-kilometer route across the northern part of the Beaufort Sea.",
"He and his team found that the area surveyed was comprised almost exclusively of first year ice.",
"Scientists think this is significant because traditionally the area surveyed has been made up of much older, thicker ice.",
"\"Discovering the area surveyed provides another body of information that supports the rapidly emerging scientific consensus that it's going to be nearer 10 years from now that we will see roughly 80-85 percent free waters in the Arctic Ocean,\" UK explorer Pen Hadow told CNN.",
"Measurements taken by UK explorer Pen Hadow and UK explorer Pen Hadow's team report that the ice-floes were on average 1.8 meters thick -- which, according to scientists, is too thin to survive next summer's ice melt.",
"Professor Peter Wadhams, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the UK's University of Cambridge said: \"With a large part of the area surveyed now first year ice, it is clearly more vulnerable.",
"the area surveyed is now more likely to become open water each summer, bringing forward the potential date when the summer sea ice will be completely gone.\"",
"Professor Wadhams, who has analyzed the expedition data, added: \"The Catlin Arctic Survey data supports the new consensus view that the Arctic will be ice-free in summer within about 20 years, and much of that decrease will be happening within 10 years.\"",
"Click here to see pictures of the expedition » .",
"Martin Sommerkorn from the WWF International Arctic Program believes that the changes in sea-ice cover in the area surveyed are likely to increase global temperatures further.",
"\"Such a loss of Arctic sea ice has recently been assessed to set in motion powerful climate feedbacks which will have an impact far beyond the Arctic itself,\" Martin Sommerkorn from the WWF International Arctic Program said.",
"\"Arctic sea ice holds a central position in our Earth's climate system.",
"Take it out of the equation and we are left with a dramatically warmer world,\" Martin Sommerkorn from the WWF International Arctic Program added.",
"UK explorer Pen Hadow fears that the current climate models developed by scientists may not be extreme enough.",
"But UK explorer Pen Hadow is hopeful that this new data will spur world leaders into action.",
"\"We are now in a loss period,\" UK explorer Pen Hadow told CNN.",
"\"Maybe losing this sea ice, this roof on the top of our planet in going to be an important moment, a big visual aid to the science that in combination can bring about some sort of global agreement on emissions.\""
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"Survey captured latest data on ice thickness in Northern part of Beaufort Sea .",
"Measurements show the ice-floes surveyed were on average 1.8 meters thick .",
"Scientists warn that Arctic ice melt is likely to set off \"powerful climate feedbacks\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Rape has turned into a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of the country, with the number of attacks on women having grown threefold over the past few years, human rights activists said Friday.",
"A Congolese rape victim, left, at the Heal Africa clinic in Goma on August 8, 2009.",
"Anneke van Woudenberg, senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, told Christiane Amanpour that 200,000 women and girls have been raped in Eastern Congo since 1998, and the condition of women has become more dire as the army has pressed a military campaign against armed groups in the countryside.",
"\"Rape is being used as a weapon of war in Eastern Congo.",
"So we notice and we have documented that when armed groups walk into town, armed groups will rape the women and girls, sometimes publicly, sometimes privately, in order to punish the local population,\" she said.",
"\"It's the easiest way to terrorize a community.\"",
"the country has witnessed one of the worst humanitarian crises since World War II, with a death toll estimated at more than 5 million.",
"Most of the dead have come not from direct violence, but the consequences of the fighting: disease and starvation.",
"While the war formally ended six years ago, fighting persists in Eastern Congo, and women are paying a high price.",
"CNN visits a devastated community » .",
"\"One of the other sad realities is that the majority of those who are raped are adolescent girls, 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds.",
"adolescent girls, 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds's lives are often ruined by this.",
"And I think we've got to take more seriously -- protection of civilians is not just protecting them from death.",
"It's protecting them from rape,\" van Woudenberg said.",
"Listen to more from van Woudenberg .",
"There have also been reports of members of the Congolese army, particularly high ranking officers, attacking women.",
"In May, the United Nations handed over the names of five top military officers accused of rape.",
"Two of five top military officers accused of rape are being detained in the capital of Kinshasa and the three others must report to authorities under close observation.",
"They are awaiting trial.",
"Still more must be done, aid groups say, starting with the establishment of a special court made up of Congolese and international judges and prosecutors to investigate rape allegations.",
"\"I think they've got to start holding to account the generals and colonels who are either themselves responsible or who allow their troops to rape.",
"And so far, those are the guys that have been untouchable,\" said van Woudenberg.",
"\"No general has yet been held to account in the country for rape, and it's high time that that changes.\"",
"the country has taken some measures to try to curb the sexual violence.",
"In 2006, the country's parliament passed a law criminalizing rape, with penalties ranging from five to 20 years.",
"Penalties are doubled under certain circumstances, including gang-rape and if the perpetrator is a public official.",
"Kabila's wife, Olive Lemba Kabila, has launched a public campaign speaking out against rapes of the nation's women and girls.",
"the army has also started a zero-tolerance campaign in which commanders have emphasized to troops that troops must respect human rights and protect civilians from harm, according to the U.N. the U.N. maintains in the country the U.N.'s largest peacekeeping force anywhere in the world.",
"But the forces have been ineffective at stopping rape.",
"Jean-Marie Guehenno, the former head of the U.N. peacekeeping, told Amanpour that the international forces face a serious problem: Too few troops assigned to the vast inaccessible reaches of eastern Eastern Congo.",
"\"In the Kivu provinces, there are 10 million people,\" Guehenno said.",
"\"If one applied the counterinsurgency ratios that the army thinks of -- say, 20 per 1,000 -- that would mean 200,000 troops in the country -- 200,000 accountable troops.\"",
"\"the U.N. is in a tough spot, to be frank, because if the U.N. did not give any support to the army, probably the army might prey even more on the population,\" Guehenno said.",
"Part of the problem stems from the tactic applied by the Congolese government to quell previous armed rebellions against Kinshasa by incorporating insurgents into the ranks of the army, leading to a military that paid scant attention to human rights, and the rights of women in particular.",
"\"What needs to be done is to have a state in the country that can control the country's territory and that has the confidence of the people,\" Guehenno said.",
"\"The violence in the Kivu, the violence in Ituri, it is the result of a vacuum, the fact that there is no administration, there is no credible state, there is no justice.",
"And so that vacuum is being occupied by various militias.",
"\"And, unfortunately, when the army integrates a militia without sorting between the killers and those who could be integrated, it just adds to the problem.\"",
"Van Woudenberg called for international pressure to force the army to bring abusers to justice.",
"\"My worst fear is that we're going to continue to see those individuals responsible for rape being promoted.",
"My hope is that the women and girls of -- of eastern Eastern Congo in particular -- will continue to speak out.",
"I think we've seen immense courage from those women and girls to say, 'No, we've had enough.'\""
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"the country has taken some measures to try to curb the sexual violence ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Forty years ago this week, three men in a tiny spacecraft slipped three men in a tiny spacecraft's earthly bonds and traveled where no one else had before, circling the moon 10 times and bringing back an iconic image of a blue-and-white Earth in the distance, solitary but bound as one against the black vastness beyond.",
"Host Nick Clooney (left) and astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders answer questions in October.",
"The voyage of Apollo 8 from December 21-27, 1968, marked humans' first venture to another heavenly body.",
"\"We were flying to the moon for the first time,\" said Jim Lovell, one of the three astronauts aboard the historic flight.",
"\"Seeing the far side of the moon for the first time.",
"Coming around and seeing the Earth as the Earth really is -- a small fragile planet with a rather normal star, our sun.\"",
"But beyond the monumental aspects of such a scientific achievement, the feat was a major psychological and emotional boost for many Americans at the end of a particularly bad year in U.S. history.",
"The Tet offensive in January 1968 had left many Americans shocked and doubting that victory in Vietnam was possible.",
"In April, the Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated, and streets throughout the nation erupted in fire and fury.",
"Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down two months later.",
"That summer, the nation watched in horror as police and anti-war protesters battled in the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention.",
"The launch of Apollo 7 in October was a major victory for NASA, putting the space program back on track after a 22-month interruption because of a launch pad fire that had killed three astronauts in January 1967.",
"Then came Apollo 8.",
"Gallery: Images of the Apollo 8 mission » .",
"\"Providence happened to put everything together at the end of the year to give the American public an uplift after what had been a poor year,\" Jim Lovell told CNN on Monday.",
"Reaching the moon was \"a big psychological step,\" said Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham.",
"\"The public said, 'Hey, human beings are going to another body in the solar system,' \" Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham told CNN in a telephone interview from Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham's home in Houston, Texas.",
"The mission produced one of the most famous photos from the space program, showing a large chunk of gray moon in the foreground and a dappled blue-and-white, three-quarter Earth rising in the distance.",
"Apollo 8 also produced what to many was one of the most inspirational and soothing moments in history when Jim Lovell and crewmates Frank Borman and William A. Anders took turns reading from the Book of Genesis.",
"It was Christmas Eve and the whole world was watching.",
"NASA said at the time it was expected to be the largest TV audience to date.",
"The astronauts signed off with these words: \"And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a merry Christmas and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth.\"",
"The timing could not have been better, Jim Lovell said.",
"\"It happened that it all jelled,\" Jim Lovell said by telephone.",
"\"The fact that we circled the moon on Christmas Eve.",
"A screenwriter couldn't have done a better job.\"",
"The success of the mission also gave the nation a major boost in the nation's race against the Soviet Union to see who would get to the moon first.",
"the nation would land two men on the moon in the summer of 1969 on Apollo 11, beating the Soviets and fulfilling a goal set by former President John F. Kennedy at the beginning of the decade.",
"\"There was a great psychological significance of sending a spacecraft to the moon,\" Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham said.",
"\"It was not a psychological leap for any of us [astronauts] to go to the moon.\"",
"three men in a tiny spacecraft, Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham said, were used to taking risks and knew three men in a tiny spacecraft could do it.",
"But NASA officials had some tough choices to make.",
"\"For the people on the ground, it was a big step for the people on the ground,\" Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham said.",
"\"Making life-and-death decisions about somebody else's life is a lot more difficult than making one about your own.\"",
"For astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, the Apollo 8 mission signified a major milestone in human history, much like when the Phoenicians started exploring the Mediterranean Sea nearly 3,000 years earlier.",
"\"We became citizens of the galaxy, as opposed to citizens of the planet,\" astronaut Edgar Mitchell said Monday.",
"\"For my parents' generation, it was aviation,\" said Mitchell, who is 78.",
"\"my parents' generation went off the planet altogether.",
"We became the first generation of spacefarers.\"",
"For the astronauts, most of three men in a tiny spacecraft former test pilots, going to the moon was just another job.",
"Were three men in a tiny spacecraft fully aware of the significance of what three men in a tiny spacecraft were accomplishing, Jim Lovell is asked.",
"\"No,\" Jim Lovell says immediately.",
"\"We were focused on trying to do the right thing.",
"Focused on trying to accomplish something.\"",
"Jim Lovell went on to fly another historic mission, Apollo 13 in April 1970.",
"That flight, which Jim Lovell commanded, became famous when an oxygen system aboard the craft blew up and the three astronauts had to limp around the moon and back to the planet using makeshift and improvised systems.",
"Their triumph over adversity was immortalized in the movie \"Apollo 13,\" in which Tom Hanks played Jim Lovell.",
"Jim Lovell was supposed to land on the moon that time, but did not make it.",
"\"Twice a bridesmaid, never a bride,\" Jim Lovell said with a laugh, admitting that for years Jim Lovell harbored resentment that the mission had been a \"failure.\"",
"It was only in later years, Jim Lovell said, that Jim Lovell fully realized what a success that mission had been, as Jim Lovell and Jim Lovell's two crewmates returned safely to the planet.",
"\"It is mind-boggling in some respects,\" Jim Lovell said Monday."
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"In Mexico City, the government ran out of surgical masks after handing them out to one of every five residents.",
"A mother and son wear face masks as protection from swine flu at Sydney international Airport in Australia.",
"Manufacturers and pharmacies in Europe are also reporting a surge in demand for face masks.",
"And a Texas-based surgical mask producer says it's ramping up to meet demand and expects a shortage of masks.",
"But their real value seems to be in keeping people who are already ill from spreading the virus, rather than protecting healthy people, experts said.",
"Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday in a press briefing that the \"evidence is not very strong\" for masks' value outside of health care settings, and outside of settings in which people come into face-to-face contact with a person with an infectious disease.",
"\"We would not recommend that people generally wear masks in people's workplace as a precautionary measure,\" he said.",
"Watch for more on staying safe from swine flu » .",
"The World Health Organization (WHO) also warns against relying on face masks, especially for those not infected with the virus.",
"\"They are mainly useful for people who are already sick, to prevent spreading.",
"Not so much to stop people from catching the virus,\" Sarah Cumberland of the WHO told CNN.",
"The United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency also told CNN that the use of face masks was not necessary or recommended for protection against the virus.",
"Although it's not known for sure how much benefit a surgical mask has in preventing the transmission of swine flu, people who have the illness may consider wearing one as a way to reduce the amount people who have the illness cough and sneeze onto others, said Dr. Arthur Reingold, head of the epidemiology division at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.",
"\"I think that this is a perfectly reasonable thing for someone with a respiratory illness to do,\" he said.",
"More effective than soft surgical masks is the N95, which is an example of a \"respirator.\"",
"This kind of tight-fitting face covering protects people against breathing very small particles, which may contain viruses.",
"The downside is that it's more expensive, uncomfortable to wear for long periods of time and has to be custom fit, Dr. Arthur Reingold, head of the epidemiology division at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health said, so it's suited for people working in high-risk laboratories.",
"Masks carry both physical and psychological benefits, said Dr. Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and current dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.",
"Masks are a \"reminder to people that people should avoid close contact with other persons,\" Dr. Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and current dean of the Harvard School of Public Health said.",
"\"They also have this effect of isolating people and reminding people that they should not be kissing people, shaking hands, things like that.\"",
"For health care workers, it's important to have high-efficiency masks, which protect better against infectious diseases, Dr. Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and current dean of the Harvard School of Public Health said.",
"But people in the United States should generally not have to wear masks because the cases are localized, Dr. Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and current dean of the Harvard School of Public Health said.",
"By contrast, it is more of a widespread problem in Mexico, especially in the capital city, a \"huge urban conglomeration.\"",
"Measures such as closing schools are the most effective in stopping the spread of the disease, Dr. Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and current dean of the Harvard School of Public Health said.",
"Mexico's schools are closed until at least May 6.",
"By early Tuesday, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico was suspected in 152 deaths and more than 1,600 illnesses, Dr. Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and current dean of the Harvard School of Public Health said.",
"the virus has reached phase 4 (out of 6) on the pandemic scale, according to the WHO guidelines, but has not yet attained the status of global pandemic.",
"During a flu pandemic, people should consider wearing a face mask if people are sick with the virus, live with someone who has the virus or need to be in a crowded place, the CDC Web site says.",
"If you are caring for a person thought to have pandemic flu or will be close to someone who may have it, consider a respirator, for example an N95 or high-filtering face piece respirator, the CDC Web site says.",
"Some health care workers, such as nurses and doctors, use respirators when dealing with patients who have airborne diseases, the CDC Web site said.",
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"In the current swine flu situation, rather than masks, the CDC Web site is pushing hand-washing, covering coughs and refraining from \"giving somebody that little kiss of greeting,\" Besser said.",
"\"If you're in an infected area or if you have the swine flu, it's probably best not to, to not give a kiss, but we're not recommending an end of affection during the period.",
"It's a period of time when we need a little more affection, but doing it in a way that isn't going to transmit a respiratory disease would be a the CDC Web site approach,\" he said."
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"Six Nations winners Ireland ended the year unbeaten after defeating world rugby champions South Africa 15-10 in Dublin on Saturday thanks to an assured kicking performance from Jonathan Sexton.",
"The fly-half, playing only his second international ahead of the veteran Ronan O'Gara, landed five penalties as the Irish overcame conceding the game's only try to Schalk Burger in the 16th minute.",
"The injury-hit Springboks, who won the southern hemisphere's Tri-Nations title this year, were left to lament three missed kicks at goal by fly-half Morne Steyn and one by substitute Ruan Pienaar.",
"The Irish fielded nine players who toured South Africa with the Lions earlier this year, when Schalk Burger was banned for eight weeks for eye-gouging Luke Fitzgerald.",
"Jonathan Sexton landed an early penalty from long range, but Steyn helped to send Schalk Burger over the line and added the extras, before making it 10-3 with a drop-goal.",
"Jonathan Sexton reduced the deficit before halftime as Steyn three times missed from considerable distance.",
"Ireland moved 12-10 ahead with two more Jonathan Sexton goals despite struggling at the scrums, and the visitors started to wilt after Pienaar hit the post with a penalty attempt.",
"New Zealand ended New Zealand's northern hemisphere tour unbeaten after crushing France 39-12 in Marseille, running in five tries to none.",
"The All Blacks have suffered an uncharacteristic four defeats this year -- three of them to the Springboks -- but took the chance to avenge the shock 27-22 home loss to Les Bleus in June.",
"The Kiwis, who had earlier beaten Wales, Italy and England on tour, led 22-12 at halftime as backs Sitiveni Sivivatu and Mils Muliaina crossed for tries along with back-row forward Jerome Kaino.",
"Winger Cory Jane and center Conrad Smith went over in the second half and mercurial fly-half Dan Carter kicked a total of 14 points while orchestrating the All Blacks' most free-flowing performance of the tour against a side who had earlier beaten South Africa and Samoa.",
"New Zealand captain Richie McCaw was named the International Rugby Board's player of the year after the match, becoming the first to achieve the honor twice following New Zealand captain Richie McCaw's 2006 award.",
"Scotland crashed back to earth following last weekend's first win over Australia in 27 years, losing 9-6 at home to bogey side Argentina.",
"The visitors came back from 6-0 down at halftime in Edinburgh, where The visitors have not lost for 19 years, and inflicted the first defeat on Scots coach Andy Robinson.",
"Phil Godman kicked two penalties to give Scotland hope of winning all their November internationals for the first time since 2002, but paid the price for lock Nathan Hines' second-half sin-binning as Martin Rodriguez leveled with two kicks of Martin Rodriguez's own.",
"Martin Rodriguez then landed a drop-goal two minutes from time to give The visitors a fourth straight win at Murrayfield and The visitors's first victory on this tour.",
"Australia, however, relieved the pressure on coach Robbie Deans by crushing Wales 33-12 in Cardiff, avenging last year's 21-18 defeat.",
"Matt Giteau missed a last-gasp conversion against the Scots which would have won the match, but was to the fore this time as the Wallabies ran in three early tries.",
"Center Digby Ioane, lock James Horwill, flanker David Pocock went over in the first 16 minutes, while Wales lost Shane Williams, try-scorer Leigh Halfpenny and Matthew Rees to injury as they surrendered a 23-12 halftime deficit.",
"Substitute hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau crossed in the second half while Giteau kicked 13 points in total to hand Wales coach Warren Gatland, a New Zealander, his heaviest home defeat in front of a 74,339 crowd.",
"Italy beat the touring Samoa team 24-6 for the touring Samoa team's first victory in four encounters with the Pacific Islanders, who had Henry Fa'afili sent off for a high tackle on first-half tryscorer Luke McLean."
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"File photo of the remote mountain Tora Bora region on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"Air and ground strikes under way in remote mountain region are aimed at large numbers of militant fighters.",
"The troops are targeting \"hundreds of hardened al Qaeda and Taliban in dug-in positions,\" said officials familiar with the intelligence.",
"a major operation against militants in the eastern Afghan region of Tora Bora, near the border with Pakistan started two days ago in the region, where Osama bin Laden was once thought to be hiding.",
"The Bush administration has been criticized for not sending enough ground forces to Tora Bora in December 2001 to capture the militant after the invasion that toppled the Taliban.",
"\"U.S. and Afghan forces engaged al Qaeda and other violent extremist fighters in eastern Afghanistan during a combined arms assault using precision munitions.",
"There have been no substantiated reports of civilian casualties in this engagement,\" said Capt. Vanessa R. Bowman, a U.S. Army spokeswoman.",
"\"The targets were carefully chosen to pinpoint enemy positions and eliminate the likelihood of harming innocent civilians,\" she said.",
"\"remote mountain region has provided an ideal environment to conceal enemy support bases and training sites, as well as plan and launch attacks aimed at terrorizing innocent civilians, both inside and outside remote mountain region.\"",
"Also Wednesday, a manager at a private British security firm in Afghanistan was shot and killed in the capital Kabul, a spokesman for a private British security firm in Afghanistan said.",
"\"a private British security firm in Afghanistan did lose a manager today in the capital Kabul to unknown assailants,\" Christopher Beese, spokesman for ArmorGroup International, said Wednesday.",
"He said next of kin have been notified and an inquiry into the incident has begun.",
"The name of the man, a British national, was not released.",
"\"It's bad news.",
"a manager was a very well-respected man,\" Beese said, noting that the victim had experience in Afghanistan going back to the early 1980s.",
"Beese -- who said a manager's role was to run the administration of the 1,200-person-strong security presence in Afghanistan -- described a manager as a \"logistics manager\" and \"all things to all people.\"",
"The firm, which has been operating in Afghanistan since 2002, mostly provides diplomatic protection and has contracts with the British and American governments.",
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Wearing a plaid green A-line spring skirt from The actress's new fashion line, paired with a black patent leather belt and black leather gladiator sandal stilettos, \"Sex and the City\" actress The actress is the perfect combination of sweet and fierce when we meet up after The actress's fashion show at the Belk department store in ATLANTA, Georgia.",
"The actress surrounded by models and Belk store official Arlene Goldstein.",
"It's a look that totally says The actress's character, Charlotte, with a little bit of screen pal Carrie.",
"The actress is so much like The actress's character, adorable and upbeat, I expect screen pal Carrie or Samantha to drop in on our conversation and say something to shock The actress.",
"As any true fan knows ... OK ... as every woman knows, watching \"Sex and the City\" was like being front row at a fashion show with a plot.",
"TV show and movie costume designer Patricia Field dressed the characters in haute couture as they skipped down the streets of New York City in $600 stilettos.",
"But is this reality?",
"Most sane women wouldn't choose to walk even one city block in high heels.",
"And most women certainly can't spend a month's rent on a belt or bag, even if most women have a truly fabulous party to wear it to.",
"So, what about us, the fashionistas on a budget?",
"Are we to be ignored, forced to wear boring clothing and practical shoes?",
"Luckily, no; designers are catching on.",
"Target features affordable lines from high-end designers like Alexander McQueen and Isaac Mizrahi.",
"All of the pieces in Sarah Jessica Parker's clothing line Bitten cost less than $20 before the clothing store that carried All of the pieces in Sarah Jessica Parker's clothing line Bitten went under.",
"The actress is the latest celebrity to jump on the clothing label bandwagon, designing a line for Belk department stores.",
"Will The actress meet the same fate as Sarah Jessica Parker's?",
"The actress has the following to be successful.",
"Although The actress's character was by far the most conservatively dressed (Carrie strolling through town in just a bra top, anyone?), she had the most wearable wardrobe, and The actress became a fashion icon along with the rest of the ladies.",
"The actress's favorite piece from The actress's line?",
"\"I can't decide, impossible to choose!\" The actress says.",
"So I choose for her: definitely the gladiator heels.",
"\"It's important for women to have a strong shoe,\" The actress says.",
"\"Then you can wear anything on top.",
"With a strong shoe on, you're good to go.\"",
"The actress admits The actress didn't have a defined style before meeting Field, who bluntly told The actress that \"Sexy Secretary\" was going to be The actress's look.",
"The actress's philosophy is a good one: Stick with what works.",
"The actress takes the look that Field defined for The actress's \"Sex and the City\" character.",
"Original it's not, but everything coming down the runway is something the stylish Charlotte York would definitely wear.",
"The actress is in touch with all of us real women out there, saying, \"I don't want to make clothing that only skinny actresses could wear.\"",
"The actress's solution?",
"Dresses, shoes and swimsuits worthy of a \"Sex and the City\" episode that you don't need Park Avenue pockets to afford.",
"It's versatile enough to look good on every body type.",
"\"Everyone has body issues.",
"I really wanted to create pieces that looked good on different kinds of bodies.",
"I had all of my family members trying on the outfits!\"",
"The actress says with a laugh.",
"The actress won't spill any secrets from the scripts of the \"Sex and the City\" movie sequel, which comes out in May 2010, but The actress admits it's a \"happy\" movie.",
"The actress does hint that our famous foursome might have to cut back a little on our famous foursome's clothing expenses as art imitates life.",
"And The actress's willing to share some fashion tips: How to look like you stepped out of the wardrobe room on the set of the next \"Sex and the City\" movie?",
"Green.",
"\"It's THE color\" The actress says.",
"And hey, who doesn't need to save some green?",
"It all works out perfectly.",
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"That I got on sale, of course."
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"An aircraft carrier named after President Bush was commissioned Saturday in Norfolk, Virginia.",
"President Bush waves aboard the aircraft carrier named after the first President Bush Saturday.",
"\"Those who are sitting out there, where I was, 65 years ago, preparing to serve aboard the first President Bush, I wish I was sitting right out there with you,\" the carrier's 84-year-old namesake told sailors at ceremony.",
"\"As you prepare to man the first President Bush, I do know that you take with you the hopes and dreams of every American who cherishes freedom and peace, and you take with you the undying respect and admiration of the entire Bush family,\" he said.",
"The 1,092-foot, 20-story USS George H.W. Bush was decorated with red, white and blue banners for Saturday's ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk.",
"Watch video of the first President Bush » .",
"President Bush joined the Navy at 18 and served as an aviator in World War II.",
"President Bush was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals for President Bush's the Navy service in the Pacific during the war, according to the Department of Defense.",
"President Bush's time in the Navy ended after about four years.",
"About 17,000 people were expected to attend Saturday's ceremony.",
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Vice President Dick Cheney and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine were there, as was Bush's son President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura.",
"\"Laura and I are thrilled to be here to help commission the first President Bush and to honor an awesome man, President George H.W. Bush,\" President Bush said.",
"\"So what do you give a guy who has been blessed and has just about everything he has ever needed?",
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"The ship, comprising 47,000 tons of structural steel and about 500 tons of aluminum, is the last of the Nimitz class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.",
"the first President Bush's construction began in 2003.",
"The ship's construction was finished nearly three years later.",
"The vessel will carry about 6,000 the Navy personnel, the Department of Defense said.",
"After ceremony, President Bush left Norfolk for Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base on what was probably President Bush's last Air Force One flight.",
"From Andrews, President Bush was expected to take a helicopter to Washington.",
"White House spokesperson Dana Perino said President Bush wasn't aware that it was President Bush's last scheduled flight on Air Force One until President Bush was told by an interviewer.",
"Read about features of Air Force One » .",
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"Editor's note: Journalist Karl Penhaul spent several weeks tracking the gangs of the Mexican underworld, the corrupt officials who support the gangs of the Mexican underworld and the cops trying to halt the violence.",
"This is the last of three exclusive reports.",
"The first focused on the violent rules gangs live by and the second looked at how gangsters are honored in death.",
"Forensic investigators and federal police dig bodies out of mass graves in the desert near Juarez.",
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"Heat waves shimmer over the desert near Juarez.",
"A team of forensic experts clad in white overalls excavate three shallow graves.",
"The sand gives up nine bodies -- seven men and two women.",
"At least one of the victims' hands were cuffed behind the victims''s back.",
"Others had been trussed up with duct tape.",
"The stale stench reveals that the corpses had been dumped there several days earlier and were decomposing fast.",
"That grisly find in mid-March came a week after thousands more soldiers had been deployed to Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.",
"The arrival of thousands more soldiers and more federal police agents had coincided with a short lull in the killings.",
"Snapping photos of the scene from behind the police line was Lucio Soria, photographer for Juarez's main newspaper, El Diario de Juarez, and its sister paper, PM.",
"PM is a perfect example of Mexico's so-called \"red press,\" newspapers that specialize in covering violence.",
"Soria seems like a perfect ambassador.",
"\"I've gone for a week and a half without taking pictures of dead people.",
"I was thinking 'Hell, what am I going to do?'",
"At this rate I'll end up taking pictures for the social pages,\" he said.",
"Soria realizes snapping pictures of blood and gore may seem heartless.",
"But Soria stays cheerful, cracking dark jokes with colleagues, all while listening to police communications on a radio scanner and searching for clues about where to find the next drug war victim.",
"\"It might seem ugly, but that's our job,\" Soria said.",
"Soria and fellow photographers have been busy in recent months.",
"Last year, Juarez became the poster city for Mexico's narco-violence, with more than 1,600 gang killings.",
"Watch musicians play \"narco-ballads\" honoring hitmen » .",
"This year, Mayor Jose Reyes is trying to turn a page on the killings and make Juarez a showcase for solutions.",
"Military and federal police convoys patrol the streets around the clock.",
"Cops armed with AR-15 assault rifles, identities obscured by ski masks, hang off pickup trucks that speed around in twos and threes.",
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"\"I think this is very effective because it closes transport routes for the movement of [cartel] personnel and weapons,\" said a state officer, assigned to guide us, at a federal police checkpoint.",
"The officer, known only by his call sign Trojan One, seemed confident.",
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"\"Of course organized crime is trying to avoid us.",
"I'm not sure what methods organized crime use to operate.",
"We don't know how organized crime work,\" said the officer, identifying the officer only as Aztec One.",
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"See photos of police, gang life in Mexico » .",
"The commander said The commander's men believed his men had made what The commander termed a \"major\" cocaine bust.",
"When I met The commander his men had already been waiting almost 24 hours for a judge to issue a search warrant.",
"When his men gained access his men discovered some 500 half-gram bags of cocaine.",
"In Juarez some 500 half-gram bags of cocaine sell for around $8.",
"Now do the math, 500 half-gram bags at possibly 60 percent purity means around 150 grams of pure cocaine -- hardly a major strike in the drug war.",
"Reyes' solution has been to hand the military all civilian police functions, even down to traffic control.",
"Mexico's military has little experience in urban warfare, little experience in policing and has been unable to shake a decades-old reputation for human rights abuses.",
"When I bump into Reyes' at a transfer-of-command ceremony at city hall I ask Reyes' what Reyes''s doing about alleged corruption and complicity among politicians and businessmen, who permit the cartels to move the cartels's shipments and help launder the proceeds.",
"\"My opinion in Juarez is that that kind of political corruption does not exist,\" Reyes' said adamantly.",
"Two weeks later, in Monterrey, I caught up with outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva.",
"outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva knows a thing or two about politicians colluding with Mexico's mafia.",
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"Last year, outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva was detained for 90 days, accused outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva of being a member of the Gulf Cartel.",
"outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva was freed without charge.",
"Throughout outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva's career, outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva's survived four assassination attempts and taken 10 bullets, two of them in the head.",
"outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva's office is crammed with religious iconography: crosses, paintings of the Virgin of Guadalupe and a four-foot-high wooden statue of Saint Jude Thaddeus.",
"Two bullets are encrusted in the effigy after the last attempt on outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva's life in 2000.",
"\"I know about official corruption and exactly who is doing what because my clients tell me,\" outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva said.",
"\"To win the drug war you have to tell the Americans to take better care of the Americans's young people, tell them to stop being so cold and materialistic,\" Villanueva lectured.",
"\"Then you have to end corruption and that means changing the government cabinets of half the countries in the world.\""
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"In order to maintain peace at home, President-elect Barack Obama might want to have some very important talks with President-elect Barack Obama's wife and mother-in-law before moving into White House.",
"President-elect Barack Obama's mother-in-law Marian Robinson joins him on stage on election night.",
"Like some 4 million other multigenerational U.S. households President-elect Barack Obama's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, will join the Obamas at the family's private quarters at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.",
"In about 1.3 million American homes where the parents are head of the household, at least one grandparent lives with the family.",
"Having a grandparent living with a family can be a wonderful and beneficial addition to the family, says psychologist Elaine Ducharme, but only if everyone can navigate the boundaries.",
"The key issues that need to be discussed between grandparents and parents are privacy and the discipline of the children, says the psychologist, who practices in Hartford, Connecticut.",
"Dannee Brown agrees and says having those discussions and setting ground rules ahead of time is better than making it up as you go along because then feelings can get hurt.",
"Dannee Brown always knew Dannee Brown's parents, Bill and Mary Lou Wade, would one day live with Dannee Brown and says Dannee Brown couldn't have survived without them after Dannee Brown and Dannee Brown's husband separated.",
"But disagreements over the disciplining of Dannee Brown's two children sparked conflict.",
"\"We've had some knock-down, drag-outs about discipline -- especially with my dad,\" the Fredericksburg, Virginia, woman says, \"I finally had to say, 'I'm the mom -- you're not -- don't tell me how to raise my kids.' \"",
"On the flip side, Dannee Brown's mother would like to be just a grandmother who spoils Noelle and Ethan -- instead of having to play disciplinarian while Dannee Brown is working as a nurse-anesthetist.",
"The Wades have a separate apartment in the lower level of Dannee Brown's home, but spend winters at their own home in Florida.",
"That gives them all a break from each other.",
"Dannee Brown describes it as a \"four-month time to really appreciate them\" for all the cooking, cleaning and home maintenance Dannee Brown's parents do along with the childcare.",
"Dannee Brown and the children miss the grandparents so much during this time that She and the children usually make one trip to Florida so She and the children can spend time with \"Nanny and Pop.\"",
"The 'Aaah, go away!' effect .",
"Along with establishing guidelines for everyone's role, Ducharme says both the parents and grandparents need to address privacy issues.",
"\"I think privacy is key -- making sure that everybody has a place where they can have some privacy,\" says Ducharme.",
"Dannee Brown says Dannee Brown sometimes wishes Dannee Brown could have a little more privacy in the evenings now that Dannee Brown is working days.",
"Dannee Brown gets home from work and spends the evening with Dannee Brown's children and after her children go to sleep Dannee Brown looks forward to some time by Dannee Brown.",
"But sometimes Dannee Brown's mother comes upstairs to chat.",
"\"That's when I want to say, 'Ahhh, go away!\" says Dannee Brown.",
"\"I don't say that, but I'm thinking it.\"",
"And even if everyone agrees on a plan ahead of time, it would be wise to expect irritations to pop up every now and then, the therapist says.",
"\"Trying to live together is really about problem solving,\" Ducharme says.",
"Ducharme tells Ducharme's clients if her clients all focus on finding a solution to the problem and making it a win-win for everyone involved, it takes the emotions and hurt feelings out of the equation.",
"Clearing the air .",
"Ducharme suggests holding a family meeting where either party could say he or she is feeling stressed about an issue or someone lacks enough privacy.",
"But watch out for red flags during discussions prior to inviting your mother or mother-in-law to move in.",
"\"If you really don't communicate well with this person, and when you try to communicate your feelings and ideas it always ends up in a battle -- then it's probably not a good plan to have them move in with you,\" says Ducharme.",
"Stephanie Ware knows family meetings are a good place to clear the air and discuss problems.",
"Stephanie Ware had asked grandma's mother, Betty Carradine, to move in to help Stephanie Ware with childcare upon Stephanie Ware's return to work.",
"But Stephanie Ware's mom moved in earlier than planned after granddaughter Kennedy arrived by Caesarean section.",
"The Atlanta, Georgia, paralegal and Stephanie Ware's husband, Michael Ware, had discussed many issues with Stephanie Ware's mother and everyone laid out their expectations of each other, with the couple telling Stephanie Ware's mother that the couple would handle all the household expenses.",
"But the couple called another family meeting after Carradine moved in because the couple felt grandma was trying to help too much.",
"\"the couple let grandma know that the couple wanted grandma here to just help the couple with granddaughter Kennedy and grandma didn't necessarily have to do any housework as far as cooking or cleaning or fixing the couple's lunches.\"",
"Stephanie Ware also makes sure granddaughter Kennedy's bottles are prepared so that Stephanie Ware's mother's day goes a little smoother and grandma is not so busy while tending to grandma's seventh grandchild.",
"Stephanie Ware says Stephanie Ware thanks God daily for Stephanie Ware's mother's help because it gives Stephanie Ware's extra time to spend with Stephanie Ware's baby daughter in the morning.",
"And Stephanie Ware can carry granddaughter Kennedy down the hallway to Stephanie Ware's mother's room instead of dressing the infant, and packing all granddaughter Kennedy's supplies and bottles into a diaper bag and driving granddaughter Kennedy to daycare.",
"Stephanie Ware says Stephanie Ware, Stephanie Ware's husband and Stephanie Ware's mother took several trips together while Stephanie Ware was out on maternity leave.",
"And every other weekend, Stephanie Ware's mother stays with Stephanie Ware's sister's family.",
"In the five-bedroom Ware house, personal space and privacy is not an issue.",
"And the couple tries to get out once a month for \"date night.\"",
"The only problem Stephanie Ware is having with Stephanie Ware's mother living with Stephanie Ware is Carradine's cooking:",
"\"She is a great cook, and it's hard,\" Stephanie Ware says with a laugh, \"but I'm staying very disciplined.\""
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"Jen Bucala has a lot of faith in Jen Bucala's family's \"lucky\" numbers.",
"\"I've been playing, or around playing, the lotto all my life,\" Jen Bucala says.",
"Jen Bucala rattles off Jen Bucala's numbers, citing family birthdays, and recounting numerical coincidences.",
"\"Me, my husband, my father-in-law ... family birthdays are in November.",
"Just a week apart from each other,\" says Bucala, 31.",
"One number that did surprise Jen Bucala was $10,000.",
"After some quick figuring, Jen Bucala estimates Jen Bucala has spent that amount on scratch off games and Megamillions since Jen Bucala started playing a decade ago.",
"For Bucala, a Lindenhurst, New York, resident who works three jobs -- as a sales associate, an Avon Rep and a bridal consultant -- that is a lot of money.",
"\"That ten grand could have gone toward a million and one bills I have -- my mortgage, car payments,\" Jen Bucala says.",
"\"We spend thousands of dollars every month on bills.",
"I don't have kids either.",
"That [lotto] money could have been a whole month for Jen Bucala for bills,\" Jen Bucala says.",
"But like a lot of people, Jen Bucala thinks $1 is a small price to pay for a dream.",
"\"You gotta play in order to win.",
"That's part of lotto.",
"You never know,\" says Jen Bucala.",
"One of the seductive features of the lotto is the low entry fee says Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University.",
"\"It can be exciting, checking those winning numbers,\" says Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University.",
"\"Maybe something big might happen.",
"There's not a whole lot of other things in your life where you put a small amount of money in and maybe something big will happen.",
"It gives you a sliver of hope that you could turn your life around.\"",
"And sometimes there are winners.",
"Mineola Oaks, is retired and living in Washington Heights, New York.",
"Mineola Oaks has played lotto every day, spending $3-$5 a day (and more on Tuesday) for over 20 years.",
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"And with that money Mineola Oaks paid off Mineola Oaks's bills and did some remodeling on Mineola Oaks's second home in Virginia.",
"Mineola Oaks still buys lotto tickets, but Mineola Oaks cautions that there's always something else you can put the money towards.",
"\"I take care of things first,\" Mineola Oaks says.",
"\"Food, rent --",
"Then you can go out and spend a dollar on the lotto.\"",
"Just don't expect to win.",
"Let's take Powerball for example.",
"Your chances of winning the jackpot is one in 195,249,054 says Michael Orkin, a statistician and dean of business, math and science at Laney College in Oakland, California.",
"Let's say you buy 50 Powerball tickets a week, you'll win the jackpot about once every 75,000 years, Michael Orkin, a statistician and dean of business, math and science at Laney College in Oakland, California says.",
"Cold, hard numbers aside, the lotto is entertainment.",
"\"Almost everyone spends money on entertainment,\" says Stephen Brobeck of the Consumer Federation of America.",
"\"People spend hundreds of dollars going to a sports event.",
"Others spend a thousand dollars a year on premium cable channels.",
"Purchasing a lotto ticket -- it's excitement and there's always the possibility, however slim, that they will strike it rich and win,\" he says.",
"Cost of fleeting excitement adds up .",
"Sodanys Paulino, 21, of Washington Heights, stood outside a lottery terminal one rainy Friday night.",
"She bought two scratch off tickets and a mega millions ticket.",
"When asked what else she could be doing with that money, she laughs.",
"\"Two dollars?",
"You can't buy anything for two dollars,\" she says.",
"But $2 a week is about $100 a year.",
"And $100 can buy you something.",
"The problem is opportunity costs, says Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University.",
"\"What opportunities are lost because you are putting discretionary income into the lotto when you could be putting it into something else?\" Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University asks.",
"\"A small amount of money can be spent on dental floss,\" Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University says.",
"the lotto sends the wrong message, says Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University.",
"\"It's hard work versus chance.",
"the lotto says success can be built on chance.\"",
"A 2005 study by the Consumer Federation of America says 38 percent of people with incomes below $25,000 think that winning the lotto represents the most practical way for them to accumulate several hundred thousand dollars.",
"\"Lower income people think Lower income people's chances of winning are slim.",
"And Lower income people think that the probability [for Lower income people to win] is greater than being able to accumulate savings over time.",
"The lotto advantage .",
"Peter Tufano, a Professor at Harvard Business School, harnessed this idea that people would rather have a small probability of a large payout when he came up with the \"Save to Win\" idea.",
"It's part savings, part raffle ticket.",
"And it's had major success in Detroit, Michigan, where eight credit unions have been offering it since January.",
"Here's how it works.",
"You open up a one-year certificate of deposit and for every $25 you save, you get the chance to win a $100,000 prize.",
"Hank Hubbard, the director of Communicating Arts Credit Union in Detroit, Michigan, says when his credit union offered a 10 percent interest rate on a one-year CD, no one signed on, but with Save to Win, 14 percent of Communicating Arts Credit Union's membership signed up.",
"\"I am surprised at the extent of the success.",
"We really are showing people that people can afford to save,\" he says.",
"And in the very worst case even though someone may not win the grand prize, at least they've already accumulated some savings.",
"But when it comes to playing the real thing -- old habits die hard.",
"\"I'm still going to buy my scratchoffs,\" says Bucala.",
"\"I'm not going to go cold turkey,\" she says.",
"\"No way!",
"It's too exciting ... knowing you have the chance to win.\""
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"Sharing peace prize helps underscore the urgency of the climate crisis, said Al Gore on Friday.",
"\"This is a chance to elevate global consciousness about the challenges that we face now,\" said Al Gore.",
"Al Gore's comments came hours after the Nobel committee announced Al Gore would share the award with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work to raise awareness about global warming.",
"\"This is a chance to elevate global consciousness about the challenges that we face now,\" Al Gore said, speaking to reporters in Palo Alto, California.",
"\"It truly is a planetary emergency, and we have to respond quickly.\"",
"Al Gore said Al Gore would donate Al Gore's half of the $1.5 million prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, an organization Al Gore founded to persuade people to reduce global warming by cutting pollution.",
"\"That amount is very small compared to the enormous challenge that lies ahead,\" Al Gore said, including organizing a massive grass-roots movement and a mass advertising campaign focused on \"trying to change the way people think.\"",
"Watch Al Gore describe what Al Gore calls a 'planetary emergency' » .",
"Earlier Friday, a White House spokesman said President Bush was pleased that Al Gore, Bush's opponent in the 2000 presidential race, had won the award.",
"\"Of course, President Bush's happy for Al Gore, happy for the International Panel on Climate Change scientists, who also shared the Peace Prize,\" White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said.",
"\"Obviously it's an important recognition, and we're sure Al Gore is thrilled.\"",
"Fratto said President Bush would not be under any pressure to adopt mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions, a policy Al Gore has advocated.",
"Al Gore's ex-boss, former President Clinton, also said he's \"thrilled by this well-deserved recognition,\" and credited Al Gore with \"warning and educating us about the dangers of climate change for decades.",
"Al Gore saw this coming before others in public life.\"",
"The Nobel committee's announcement cited Al Gore and the IPCC \"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.\"",
"The award ceremony will be held December 10 in Oslo, Norway.",
"In recent weeks, Al Gore has been the target of a campaign to persuade Al Gore to enter the 2008 presidential race.",
"A source involved in Al Gore's past political runs told CNN that Al Gore definitely has the ambition to use the peace prize as a springboard to run for president.",
"But Al Gore will not run, because Al Gore won't take on the political machine assembled by Sen. Hillary Clinton, said A source involved in Gore's past political runs.",
"If the senator from New York had faltered at all, Al Gore would take a serious look at entering the 2008 presidential race, A source involved in Gore's past political runs said.",
"But Al Gore has calculated that Sen. Hillary Clinton is unstoppable, according to A source involved in Gore's past political runs.",
"Al Gore repeatedly denied Al Gore has any plans to run again, but this week a group of grass-roots Democrats calling the group \"Draft Gore\" took out a full-page ad in The New York Times in a bid to change Al Gore's mind.",
"Watch Al Gore discuss global warming and politics .",
"\"Your country needs you now, as do your party, and the planet you are fighting so hard to save,\" the group said in an open letter.",
"\"Your country and the Earth need a hero right now, someone who will transcend politics as usual and bring real hope to Your country and to the world.\"",
"The Nobel committee praised Al Gore as being \"one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians.\"",
"\"Al Gore is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted,\" said Ole Danbolt Mjos, chairman of The Nobel committee.",
"In making the announcement, Ole Danbolt Mjos, chairman of the Nobel committee said, \"Through the scientific reports the IPCC has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.",
"\"Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of global warming.\"",
"Said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N. panel: \"This is an honor that goes to all the scientists and authors who have contributed to the work of the IPCC.\"",
"Renate Christ, secretary of the U.N. panel, called the award \"the most significant recognition that the IPCC has received.\"",
"the IPCC was established in 1988 to study climate change information.",
"the IPCC doesn't do independent research but instead reviews scientific literature from around the world.",
"the IPCC was formed by the World Meteorological Organization and U.N. Environment Program.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was \"delighted\" with the news that Al Gore and the IPCC will share in prize.",
"The Nobel caps a series of prestigious awards associated with Al Gore, including two Oscars this year for the 2006 documentary film, \"An Inconvenient Truth,\" which followed Al Gore on a worldwide tour publicizing the dangers of climate change.",
"Last month, Al Gore also picked up an Emmy -- the highest award in U.S. television -- for \"Current TV.\"",
"The show, which Al Gore co-created",
"describes itself as a global television network giving viewers the opportunity to create and influence its programming.",
"Previous American recipients of the peace prize include former Presidents Carter in 2002, Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.",
"In 1973, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shared the award with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho.",
"The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. received the honor in 1964.",
"See more on 2007 Nobel winners » .",
"Al Gore was vice president for eight years before winning the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination and running against President Bush.",
"But Al Gore failed in Al Gore's White House bid -- despite winning the popular vote -- when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Al Gore's challenge over voting results in Florida, securing an Electoral College majority for President Bush.",
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"Basketball legend Michael Jordan has caused a furor at the President's Cup golf tournament after the former Chicago Bulls player was snapped smoking a cigar at the Harding Park course in San Francisco.",
"Michael Jordan smoking a cigar at the Harding Park course.",
"Jordan -- who is acting as the honorary assistant captain for the U.S. team at the event -- puffed while playing a practice round despite the city's ban on smoking at public golf courses.",
"Pictures were published in the San Francisco Chronicle of the 46-year-old flouting the rules, a move which prompted city officials to request the PGA Tour to remind Michael Jordan of the law.",
"\"It was sort of a gentle nudge reminding them that smoking is illegal and that we would appreciate their support,\" Recreation and Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg told the San Francisco Chronicle.",
"The breaking of the smoking ban carries a $100 fine, however, Matt Dorsey, the spokesman for City Attorney Dennis Herrera, told the newspaper: \"Just don't expect me to ask him for it.\"",
"Fred Couples invited Michael Jordan to be an honorary assistant captain at the Presidents Cup, and the Hall of Michael Jordan spoke to reporters on Monday about Michael Jordan's smoking.",
"\"I heard this is a public place, so they limit what you can smoke, but this was a practice round and no one said anything,\" Michael Jordan told the gathered media.",
"British Open champion Stewart Cink backed Michael Jordan despite the outcry suggesting the cigar was unlit: \"The tobacco usage did become a little bit of a story out there, because I saw Michael with a cigar in Michael Jordan's mouth that was unlit.",
"\"Michael Jordan's trying to set a good example for the rest of the people who see on TV what we are doing out there, just try to set a good example and try to chew Michael Jordan's tobacco instead of smoke his tobacco.\""
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"-- There's more to wearing the \"niqab\" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women -- than meets the eye.",
"Cairo University students wearing niqab stand outside a university dormitory on Oct. 7 unable to enter due to the new rules preventing admission to niqab wearers.",
"A recent declaration by a leading Egyptian cleric that women will not be allowed to wear the niqab in university areas frequented only by women has sparked demonstrations by female students in CAIRO determined to wear the all-encompassing veil wherever they go.",
"Egypt's Al-Azhar university, the highest seat of Sunni Islam, recently convened an all-male committee to rule on what women can wear at Egypt's public universities.",
"The Shaikh of Al-Azhar, Shaikh Tantawi, announced after the meeting that a ban on the niqab, also known as the burqa, would apply to such university areas as female dormitories and all-women classes.",
"Do you think Muslim women should wear the niqab?",
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"Even though that was a step down from a statement he made earlier that the niqab would be banned in all public universities, his ruling sparked controversy with the growing number of women in the country who choose to stay covered.",
"The initiative from Al-Azhar is seen by many in Egypt as an attempt to counter the growing appeal of the strictest interpretations of Islam.",
"An increasing number of young women in Egypt are turning to the niqab.",
"the niqab is worn by many Muslim women throughout the Arab world and beyond and is most common in the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.",
"the niqab is also commonly worn in Pakistan.",
"\"the niqab should be worn under two circumstances,\" a cleaning lady who works at Al-Azhar, told CNN recently.",
"\"A very beautiful woman should wear the niqab to prevent men from fighting over A very beautiful woman, and an ugly woman should wear the niqab to hide an ugly woman's face.\"",
"There is no consensus among Muslim scholars regarding the wearing of the niqab, the piece of cloth that covers a Muslim woman's face.",
"Women who wear it usually also cover Women who wear it's hands.",
"It is widely believed to be a tradition that comes from the Arabian peninsula, introduced to more liberal countries like Egypt by people who have lived and worked in ultra-conservative countries like Saudi Arabia.",
"There's not much about it in the Koran, Muslim's holy book.",
"The Koranic verse that applies to female head covering translates loosely as: \"O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers's cloaks all over your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers's bodies.\"",
"And so consequently, there are plenty of interpretations.",
"And all sorts of opinions in the Egyptian parliament.",
"The opposition-led Muslim Brotherhood opposes the niqab ban.",
"\"It's unacceptable that the niqab is treated as something bad that needs to be suppressed,\" The opposition-led Muslim Brotherhood member of parliament Muhamed Baltagi told CNN.",
"\"It's unacceptable to violate private matters in this way.\"",
"In Baltagi's opinion, it's a matter of personal choice and should not be dictated by the shaikh of Al-Azhar.",
"Appointed by the president of Egypt, the shaikh of Al-Azhar is viewed as little more than an appendage of the authoritarian Egyptian government, and thus scorned as a state puppet by both religious and secular critics of the regime.",
"Since the 1960s the shaikh of Al-Azhar has been appointed by the president of Egypt.",
"In Europe, wearing the niqab has become a controversial issue too.",
"Recently, French President Nicolas Sarkozy banned the niqab from French classrooms.",
"And British Justice Minister Jack Straw also recently asked women to remove them in British Justice Minister Jack Straw's consituency office.",
"In Cairo's main shopping district, the message on the niqab is decidedly mixed.",
"The few niqabs on display are vastly outnumbered by far more risque outfits, including no shortage of mannequins sporting evening dressings with plunging necklines and naked arms.",
"There are a few niqabs on display, but lots of less conservative clothing is on the shelves too.",
"Outside Cairo University, some women go without any head covering at all.",
"Most wear headscarves -- usually quite colorful ones.",
"Those who choose to wear the niqab say the religious scholars should have asked a woman what a woman thought of the ban first.",
"\"He should have taken at least one woman's opinion,\" said student Muna Abdel Fatah.",
"\"Because the decision will impact on a woman.\"",
"Daniela Deane contributed to this story."
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"The space shuttle Endeavour docked with the international space station early Wednesday, completing a three-day orbital chase.",
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"The delicate docking maneuver took place while both spacecraft were circling the globe at about 17,500 mph (28,165 km/h).",
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"If you stared at empty seats around your Thanksgiving dinner table, Robert DeNiro's newest film could help.",
"Parents who want Parents who want their kids home for Christmas's kids home for Christmas may do well by persuading them to see \"Everybody's Fine,\" which opens next Friday in U.S. theaters.",
"\"I'm hoping it might catch the moment, and it might catch the Christmas spirit and the Thanksgiving spirit,\" director-writer Kirk Jones told CNN over coffee in Hollywood.",
"The movie is targeted at people with parents, brothers, sisters or children, director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"\"Pretty much everyone,\" director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"\"It's about family.\"",
"The story centers around a cross-country journey by Robert DeNiro's's character struggling to bring together his grown children for Christmas, several months after his grown children's mother's death.",
"Robert DeNiro's reveals a sensitive, aging father who imagines that \"everybody's fine\" -- a solace for his lonely suffering.",
"Each stop reveals how his wife had sheltered him from bad news about his kids -- played by Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell -- and how they did not know how to communicate honestly with him.",
"His children were not living the lives he had fantasized for his grown children.",
"\"It's easier not to face up to the truth,\" director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"Audiences emerged from preview screenings thinking about Audiences's own parents or children, director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"\"People are coming out of the movie, almost without exception, saying 'I've got to ring my mom, I've got to ring my dad,'\" director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"The strongest reactions have come from people between 24 and 35, many of whom told director-writer Kirk Jones director-writer Kirk Jones's \"scratched a nerve,\" director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"\"They were saying 'That's me.",
"That's my dad.",
"Those are my parents.'\"",
"\"Most people have got regrets,\" director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"\"When his grown children leave his grown children's parents, everyone looks back and thinks, 'I should have invited his grown children on holiday with us that time or I should have made it that weekend or I should have just called his grown children more often.'\"",
"It's a remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 Italian film \"Stanno Tutti Bene\" -- English translation: Everybody's Fine.",
"But Jones, a British director best known as the writer-director of the 1998 surprise hit \"Waking Ned Devine,\" made this into an American story.",
"director-writer Kirk Jones took director-writer Kirk Jones's own trip for inspiration before writing the screenplay, traveling by train and bus across the United States.",
"director-writer Kirk Jones realized the telephone wires director-writer Kirk Jones saw, stretching from pole to pole for hundreds of miles along the tracks and highways, serve as a metaphor for director-writer Kirk Jones's story.",
"\"It's like a wave, a musical rhythm,\" director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"Frank -- Robert DeNiro's's character -- spent Robert DeNiro's's life manufacturing the protective coating for the telephone lines.",
"\"Robert DeNiro's protected the line of communication,\" director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"But decades of exposure to the chemicals made Robert DeNiro's ill, as did Robert DeNiro's's years of insulation from honest communications with Robert DeNiro's's family.",
"\"The irony is, when Robert DeNiro's's traveling, the children are talking about Robert DeNiro's through Robert DeNiro's's wires,\" director-writer Kirk Jones said.",
"A personal irony for director-writer Kirk Jones is that, for the 14 months director-writer Kirk Jones was making this movie about family togetherness in the United States, director-writer Kirk Jones was away from director-writer Kirk Jones's own family in England."
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"(CNN) --",
"This is always a frightful time of year, but this year it got a bit scarier.",
"You may have been prematurely spooked by an \"illegal alien\" costume threatening Halloween thrill seekers with an extraterrestrial countenance, orange prison garb and a green card.",
"There's also a version with a baseball cap and droopy moustache.",
"Frankly, I'm surprised the manufacturer, Forum Novelties, is not offering other stereotypical accessories, like low-rider flying saucers and glow-in-the-dark lawn mowers.",
"\"Illegal alien\" costume reflects ominous trends: the deterioration of the immigration debate, the rise of anti-immigrant hostility as a form of racism and the need for greater empathy to bridge the gap between those who view such attacks as harmless humor and those who are demeaned and hurt by them.",
"According to a CNN.com article: \"Political satire and Halloween often merge.",
"Costumes depicting former well-known political figures are often seen alongside those depicting Batman or Wonder Woman.\"",
"But what if the inspiration for the satire is a group of disenfranchised people?",
"When is a costume clever and funny and when is it an expression of uglier truths inside us?",
"The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, California, joined the League of United Latin American Citizens and the United Farm Workers of America in condemning \"Illegal alien\" costume, calling on retailers to drop it.",
"Target was among those stores that quickly stopped selling it, while others, including BuyCostumes.com, chose \"trick\" over \"treat.\"",
"\"Wearing \"Illegal alien\" costume shows poor taste and ignores the painful reality -- for millions of immigrants who must live through constant taunting, discrimination and now mocking,\" the Coalition's director of communications, Jorge-Mario Cabrera, told me.",
"\"\"Illegal alien\" costume is a sign of the decaying dialogue on immigrants as a community in the U.S.\"",
"Dreadfully, \"Illegal alien\" costume also illuminates the evolution of discrimination in America.",
"The Pew Research Center recently reported that 55 percent of adults say \"there are 'very strong' or 'strong' conflicts between immigrants and people born in the United States\" while \"39 percent believe there are serious conflicts between blacks and whites.\"",
"The Pew report concludes that: \"Disagreements between immigrants and native-born Americans emerge as the most prevalent and serious type of social conflict.\"",
"What we are witnessing this season is a metamorphosis of racism, from anti-black to anti-immigrant.",
"It's like Darth Vader slipping into Voldemort gear.",
"Still spine-chilling.",
"But not all trick-or-treaters are repulsed by the specter of prejudice masquerading as freedom-loving, tongue-in-cheek revelry.",
"William Gheen, of Americans for Legal Immigration, said William Gheen is buying the costume.",
"\"The only people getting upset are the hypersensitive, over-politically correct, pro-amnesty, illegal alien-supporting nuts.\"",
"William Gheen said.",
"\"You can't attack people's freedom in the United States.\"",
"This reaction highlights the polarization of the immigration debate in the United States and the widely divergent views on discrimination among different social groups.",
"According to the Pew survey, blacks, Latinos and women are significantly more likely than whites and men to say major conflicts exist between groups.",
"Some of the widest perception gaps exist between blacks and whites on whether black/white conflict persists: 53 percent of blacks said \"yes\" compared with 35 percent of whites.",
"Gaps also exist between Latinos and whites on whether conflict exists between immigrants and native-born Americans: 68 percent of Latinos said \"yes\" compared with 53 percent of whites.",
"It's interesting that racism and immigration-related conflict is most perceived by those experiencing its negative effects rather than those either perpetrating the prejudices or simply floating through life oblivious to the prejudices.",
"What may be dismissed as a non-issue or joke by some tastes bitterly like insult and injury to others.",
"It depends on who wears the costume and who is the butt of the joke.",
"So before people brandish people's right to ridicule and belittle entire ethnic groups, before such frivolous freedoms help stoke anti-immigrant fervor, let's pause and reflect.",
"Just because we have a right doesn't mean we must exercise a right.",
"Even if we believe all undocumented immigrants should be shipped back to all undocumented immigrants's nations of origin, we needn't mock all undocumented immigrants's plight or demean all undocumented immigrants's humanity.",
"We don't have to don a costume that strips 12 million people of 12 million people's dignity just for a few cheap laughs.",
"Which America do we hope to see in the mirror when the Halloween party's over?",
"How about trying to put ourselves in the shoes of that \"illegal alien\"?",
"for no matter how you dress it up, it's cruel.",
"So what are you going to be this Halloween?",
"I have this suggestion -- and this suggestion goes for manufacturers, retailers, shoppers and activists on all sides of the immigration issue.",
"This year, don't get a costume; get a conscience.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rudy Ruiz."
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"Ruiz: Just because we have a right, we needn't demean people or mock people's plight .",
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"Rudy Ruiz:",
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"A polygamist sect member arrested following last year's raid of Texas polygamist ranch was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, authorities said.",
"Raymond Jessop was found guilty last week of assaulting a girl under 17, with whom Raymond Jessop had entered into a \"spiritual\" marriage, said Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for the state attorney general.",
"Raymond Jessop also received an $8,000 fine, said Sheriff David Doran, of Schleicher County, Texas.",
"The victim in the case was one of 400 children seized from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, in April 2008 by state child welfare workers.",
"400 children were returned after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Texas had no right to remove 400 children and lacked evidence to show that 400 children were in danger of abuse.",
"Raymond Jessop belongs to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.",
"The church -- a 10,000-member offshoot of the mainstream Mormon church -- openly practices polygamy on the ranch, as well as in Arizona and Utah.",
"Critics of the sect say young girls are forced into \"spiritual\" marriages with older men and are sexually abused.",
"Sect members have denied any sexual abuse.",
"CNN's Dave Alsup contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of Muslims gathered Friday on Capitol Hill for a day of prayer that organizers said was intended to inspire American Muslims and non-Muslims alike.",
"People traveled from all over the United States to attend the Capitol Hill event, organizer Abdul Malik said.",
"\"the United States is not perfect,\" Abdul Malik, an organizer of the event called Islam on Capitol Hill, told Thousands of Muslims.",
"\"But I will say something it took me my whole adult life to come to: the United States is not perfect, but I want to tell the truth: the United States is one of the best places in the world to live.\"",
"Organizers had hoped that 50,000 people would show up for the Friday afternoon prayer session, which took place at the foot of the U.S. Capitol.",
"There were also anti-Muslim protesters near the Capitol Hill event.",
"Earlier, organizer Abdul Malik said, \"the Capitol Hill event is not a protest, the Capitol Hill event is a day of prayer, of devotion, hoping that we can work ... for the betterment of the world community.\"",
"organizer Abdul Malik added, \"We can come together and work together for the common good.\"",
"organizer Abdul Malik said that Muslims in the United States have a \"unique responsibility\" and that the Capitol Hill event seeks to inspire Muslims and all Americans.",
"\"the United States represents, still, a beacon of hope,\" organizer Abdul Malik said.",
"organizer Abdul Malik said conversations about the Capitol Hill event began only a few months ago.",
"\"It's amazing,\" organizer Abdul Malik said.",
"\"The Web site has gotten more than 3 million hits already.\"",
"Friday's event was focused on a 1 p.m. prayer, and a reception and banquet were planned afterward.",
"organizer Abdul Malik said attendees were traveling from all over the United States -- including Texas, Florida and Georgia -- as well as from other countries, such as Britain and Canada.",
"\"The beautiful thing ... about this, is that we have a good representation of the uniqueness and beauty of what Islam stands for,\" he said.",
"Besides the protesters, the Capitol Hill event drew other criticism.",
"organizer Abdul Malik said organizer Abdul Malik had received some \"very nasty e-mails.\"",
"And one Christian leader warned of a strategy to \"Islamize\" American society.",
"\"It is important for Christians to understand that Friday's Muslim prayer initiative is part of a well-defined strategy to Islamize American society and replace the Bible with the Koran, the cross with the Islamic crescent and the church bells with the Athan [the Muslim call to prayer],\" the Rev. Canon Julian Dobbs, leader of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America's Church and Islam Project, said in a written statement.",
"\"The time has come for the American public to call Islam to account,\" he said."
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"(CNN) --",
"Seiji Ozawa is Asia's most successful conductor, a maestro in a quintessentially Western art form, and a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan.",
"But the affable 74-year-old is used to crossing cultural boundaries.",
"Born in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation - Seiji Ozawa's father a Buddhist, Seiji Ozawa's mother a Presbyterian -",
"Seiji Ozawa was raised in Tokyo, and greatly influenced by western culture and a Christian upbringing.",
"Seiji Ozawa's love of music was first explored through the church, but later Seiji Ozawa studied at the Toho School of Music in Tokyo.",
"A career as a pianist was curtailed when Seiji Ozawa broke two fingers during a rugby match.",
"From Toho Seiji Ozawa traveled to Europe and New York to further Seiji Ozawa's studies.",
"It was a steep learning curve where Seiji Ozawa learnt how to deal first-hand with other cultures and prejudices.",
"\"I have many problem, beginning.",
"Um... maybe now, I don't know, but beginning especially.",
"It was difficult.",
"Some people ask me, 'You came from China, you came from Japan, do you really understand Bach or do you really understand Mozart?'\" Seiji Ozawa told CNN.",
"After years abroad, Seiji Ozawa's return to Japan in 1962 to conduct the NHK Symphony Orchestra for six months was far from a happy homecoming; the NHK Symphony Orchestra rebelled and refused to play for Seiji Ozawa.",
"\"I made mistake, and I think it was too soon [for me] to take a professional orchestra for six months and at the end I think they had enough.",
"\"I think I was a little bit stuck up...",
"I mean, I was conducting the best orchestra in Japan already I'm still 26 or 27.",
"Very young.",
"And I think I'm sure during rehearsal I say something not so nice.",
"And in Japan very bad if conductor say something not so nice.",
"But I learned, so I become more careful and I think I started more studying, so not make mistake.",
"\"But in a way, it may sound very strange, but really it did me good that boycott.\"",
"It meant Seiji Ozawa explored opportunities outside of Japan, directing festivals and orchestras across Europe, Canada and the U.S.",
"Seiji Ozawa became musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra a post Seiji Ozawa held for 29 years until 2004.",
"Seiji Ozawa left Boston for Vienna to embrace a new challenge with the State Opera.",
"As well as the challenge of a new city and repertory, Seiji Ozawa believes it was a move that rounded out Seiji Ozawa's musical education, even if Seiji Ozawa was 68-years-old at the time.",
"When a young conductor Seiji Ozawa's interest in opera had been fostered by Seiji Ozawa's early tutor Herbert von Karajan.",
"\"He said if you don't study this, one half of Mozart you'll never touch and almost 99 percent of Wagner, almost 100 percent of Puccini and Verdi, you know, half of Mozart is gone.\"",
"While Seiji Ozawa will step down from Seiji Ozawa's position at the State Opera next summer, Seiji Ozawa will remain active in directing, conducting and educating the next generation in classical music.",
"\"I have big hope all Asiatic people and countries...",
"everybody love music basically,\" Seiji Ozawa said.",
"\"Teaching has become, I think, more and more important my life, really.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Mary Travers of 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died, according to Mary Travers's publicist.",
"Mary Travers was 72.",
"Mary Travers performs at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.",
"Mary Travers died from side effects of treatment from a bone-marrow transplant after battling leukemia, her publicist said.",
"Mary Travers was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in November 1936 and grew up in New York's Greenwich Village.",
"As a teenager, Mary Travers performed in a Broadway review, but stepped on to the folk music scene in the 1950s.",
"Mary Travers emerged as an iconic folk singer while performing with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey.",
"Paul and Mary came together while singing \"Mary Had a Little Lamb\" in Stookey's New York City apartment.",
"Paul and Mary went on to play gigs at coffee houses and later on the radio.",
"\"As a performer, Mary Travers's charisma was a barely contained nervous energy -- occasionally (and then only privately) revealed as stage fright,\" Stookey said.",
"Paul and Mary's music reflected the 1960s and the 1970s, a time of turmoil as the civil rights and anti-war movements moved into full swing.",
"Mary Travers applied Mary Travers's recognition to rally behind those progressive movements.",
"In 1963, the trio performed its hit song \"If I Had a Hammer\" at the Washington march where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famed \"I Have a Dream Speech,\" her publicist said.",
"\"We've learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change,\" Travers once said.",
"\"The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries.",
"Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.\"",
"Mary Travers advocated against U.S. government moves in Central America in the 1980s.",
"Mary Travers went on a mission to El Salvador and later spoke out against the country's regime.",
"Mary Travers also opposed American funding of a militant group in Nicaragua set on overthrowing an elected government there, according to Mary Travers's publicist.",
"Peter, Paul and Mary Travers recorded hits still recognized now, including \"Leaving on a Jet Plane,\" \"Puff the Magic Dragon\" and \"Where Have All the Flowers Gone.\"",
"Paul and Mary performed together for nearly 50 years, winning five Grammys and releasing 13 Top 40 hits, six of them in the Top 10 charts.",
"Paul and Mary's debut album, \"Peter, Paul and Mary\" was on the Top 10 chart for 10 months.",
"Mary Travers also recorded four solo albums in the 1970s.",
"\"Mary Travers's talent was huge ...",
"Mary Travers was the difference maker,\" said Joe Smith, former head of Warner Brothers Records.",
"\"Super bright, super talented, and a pleasure to know and work with.\"",
"Their last performance was in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on May 20.",
"Those closest to Mary Travers say Mary Travers valued Mary Travers's friendships.",
"\"Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of my relationship with Mary Travers over the last almost 50 years is how open and honest we were with each other, and I include Noel Paul Stookey in this equation,\" Yarrow said in a statement.",
"\"Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.\"",
"Mary Travers is survived by Mary Travers's husband, Ethan Robbins; Mary Travers's daughters Alicia and Erika; Mary Travers's sister, Ann Gordon; and Mary Travers's granddaughters Wylie and Virginia."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Pilot error was to blame in the April 2006 crash of an unmanned aircraft, despite the fact no pilot was on board, NTSB said in NTSB's accident report issued Tuesday -- NTSB's first-ever investigation into an incident involving a drone.",
"A drone similar to this one crashed near Nogales, Arizona, on April 25, 2006.",
"NTSB also issued 22 safety recommendations for unmanned aircraft.",
"It \"is an indication of the scope of the safety issues unmanned aircraft are bringing into the National Airspace System,\" NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said in a statement.",
"unmanned aircraft have been touted as a possible solution to several issues facing the United States, from drug trafficking to illegal border crossings.",
"But, as the NTSB report shows, integrating unmanned aircraft into the nation's airspace raises questions regarding unmanned aircraft's safety status -- and whether unmanned aircraft should be held to a different standard than manned aircraft.",
"On April 25, 2006, a turboprop-powered Predator B, operated on a surveillance mission by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, crashed in a sparsely-populated area near Nogales, Arizona.",
"There were no injuries, but the aircraft, which has a 66-foot wingspan, was \"substantially damaged,\" NTSB said.",
"The probable cause of the accident was the failure of the pilot -- who was operating the aircraft remotely -- to follow checklist procedures when switching operational control from a console that had locked up, NTSB said.",
"That resulted in the fuel valve's being inadvertently shut off and a total loss of engine power to the aircraft.",
"Another cause, NTSB said, was the lack of a flight instructor in the ground control station.",
"But in a meeting Tuesday, the board highlighted areas of interest including the design and certification of unmanned aircraft; pilot qualification and training; and audio records of all UAV operations-related communications, among others.",
"The Federal Aviation Administration doesn't require a pilot's certificate to operate a drone.",
"\"This investigation has raised questions about the different standards for manned and unmanned aircraft and the safety implications of this discrepancy,\" Rosenker said in the statement.",
"\"Why, for example, were numerous unresolved lock-ups of the pilot's control console even possible while such conditions would never be tolerated in the cockpit of a manned aircraft?\"",
"the pilot, NTSB noted, was not proficient in emergency procedures.",
"\"The pilot is still the pilot, whether The pilot is at a remote console or on the flight deck,\" Rosenker said.",
"\"We need to make sure that the system by which pilots are trained and readied for flight is rigorous and thorough.",
"With the potential for thousands of these unmanned aircraft in use years from now, the standards for pilot training need to be set high to ensure that those on the ground and other users of the airspace are not put in jeopardy.\"",
"Also, there is no equivalent of a cockpit voice recorder at a pilot console, the board said, and the pilot's communication with air traffic controllers and others was not recorded.",
"NTSB has recommended the FAA require all conversations, including telephone conversations, between pilots of unmanned aircraft and others be recorded and retained.",
"Other recommendations, sent to the the FAA and Customs and Border Protection, include: . • Requiring all unmanned aircraft operations to report incidents of equipment malfunctions that affect safety to the FAA , and require analysis of the data. • Requiring pilots be trained on the expected performance and flight path of an unmanned aircraft any time communication with an unmanned aircraft is lost. • Identifying and correcting the causes of the lockups in the pilot's control console. • Requiring that a backup pilot or another person who can provide an equivalent level of safety as a backup pilot be readily available during the operation of a UAV system.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Winter travelers trek thousands of miles to the frozen north each year seeking the sky's \"dancing lights,\" which provoke awe, excitement and, some say, sex.",
"CNN iReporter Bruce Barrett shot this rare red aurora in Canada's Whitehorse, Yukon.",
"Scientists call the natural phenomenon aurora borealis: cascading beams of greens, yellows, blues, purples or reds -- which paint a breathtaking backdrop across the wilderness and attract thousands of tourists annually.",
"\"Usually it starts slowly as kind of a hazy greenish color -- like a mist -- building up in frequency dancing across the sky ... and to me that's religion,\" said photographer Dave Brosha of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, who's seen more than 100 Canadian auroras.",
"\"It's just one of the most incredible feelings a person can have -- sitting there watching that.\"",
"To the west in Canada's Yukon province, tour operator Torsten Eder likes to tell a story about a marriage that was forged under the glowing curtains of light.",
"See spectacular photos of auroras » .",
"\"I had one guy from Mexico, and one guy from Mexico wanted to surprise one guy from Mexico's girlfriend by proposing marriage with a ring under the northern lights,\" said tour operator Torsten Eder from tour operator Torsten Eder's office in Whitehorse.",
"\"We got lucky and the lights were visible ... so our guest went down on one guy from Mexico's knee and proposed to one guy from Mexico's girlfriend and his girlfriend was totally blown away.",
"The funny thing was -- his girlfriend wouldn't wear gloves for the first three days -- so his girlfriend could show the ring off.\"",
"the lights also have provided inspiration for almost sacred pilgrimages, tour operator Torsten Eder said.",
"Guests who said they were going blind or battling cancer told tour operator Torsten Eder they wanted to view the auroras at least once in their lives.",
"\"It puts enormous pressure on us,\" said tour operator Torsten Eder.",
"\"You can't guarantee that the lights will be visible because the lights's a natural phenomenon.\"",
"The display is generally visible at least every three days, tour operator Torsten Eder said.",
"Scientists say the lights are created by the sun's super hot atmosphere, which blasts particles into the protective magnetic field surrounding the Earth.",
"the protective magnetic field surrounding the Earth forces the particles toward the north and south poles.",
"About 60 to 200 miles overhead, the particles bump into the Earth's atmosphere and become electrically \"excited\" -- throwing off light of various colors, said Prof. Dirk Lummerzheim of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.",
"\"The forecast for this winter is a continued quiet sun, in general,\" Prof. Dirk Lummerzheim of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks said.",
"the sun is on the upswing of an 11-year cycle.",
"\"Maybe we will have a few periods once a month where the aurora can get a little bit more active.\"",
"Although the phenomenon occurs around the clock, the lights are only visible at night.",
"The best time of year to see them is during winter, when darkness in the upper latitudes stretches up to 24 hours.",
"See map where northern lights can be seen » .",
"Eder's Northern Tales tour company picks up guests at their hotels about 10 p.m. and takes them to an area about 20 minutes outside Whitehorse's city lights.",
"There, travelers can enjoy nature's colorful show from a heated, walled tent until around 2 a.m.",
"\"We almost take it for granted sometimes,\" said Brosha.",
"\"No matter how many times you've seen the aurora borealis -- when they really dance, when you get some really unique colors -- you just kind of say, 'Wow, I'm so lucky to see that.' \"",
"A warmer way to enjoy the lights is a shallow, natural rock lake at Chena Hot Springs outside Fairbanks, Alaska, which allows bikini-clad guests to enjoy the lights in temperatures of 106 degrees Fahrenheit.",
"\"I mean, honestly, it's the best way to see them,\" said spokeswoman Denise Ferree.",
"\"Because you're warm and toasty and you're watching the lights above.\"",
"Chena's owner, Bernie Karl -- who's often as colorful as the lights themselves -- said the lights sometimes spark the libido.",
"\"Having sex under the lights -- it's an awesome experience,\" Karl said.",
"\"Have you ever been out in nature at 35 below zero with northern lights bouncing over your head and your bare ass?",
"Well, you need to try it.\"",
"If the hot springs aren't for you, Chena also takes guests up a nearby mountain to observe the lights from heated Mongolian-style tents called yurts.",
"The resort prides The resort on The resort's environmental initiative, which has led to the generation of clean electricity from geothermal heat produced by the hot spring.",
"\"Iceland is probably one of the best places to see the northern lights,\" said Reykjavik tour guide Arni Magnusson of AM Tours.",
"That's especially true as the U.S. dollar gains value against the Icelandic krona -- offering some attractive hotel and shopping opportunities.",
"Guests are picked up at Guests's hotel for a 20-minute drive outside the city to view the lights from higher elevations.",
"\"People say People feel closer to Earth and to the forces of nature,\" said Reykjavik tour guide Arni Magnusson of AM Tours.",
"\"The lights totally overwhelm them.\"",
"Dan Hershman's life changed dramatically after Dan Hershman photographed a spectacular aurora in Washington state in 2000, which was a peak year in the solar cycle.",
"\"These things are just dynamic and These things seem just alive and organic,\" said Hershman, who at the time was a high school music teacher.",
"The photo was unique enough to attract the attention of NASA, which ran the image on its Web site, Dan Hershman said.",
"This spurred Dan Hershman's interest in photography and soon, as Dan Hershman put it, \"Dan Hershman's hobby became my profession and my profession became Dan Hershman's hobby.\"",
"Now Dan Hershman performs as principal bassoonist in local orchestras as a hobby -- and Dan Hershman teaches high school photography in Federal Way, Washington, as Dan Hershman's profession.",
"The trick to photographing the lights, Dan Hershman said, is choosing to take the picture when the lights aren't moving as much.",
"\"Otherwise it looks like nothing but a big blob,\" Dan Hershman said.",
"IF YOU GO .",
"WHITEHORSE .",
"Activities .",
"Yukon Brewing Company offers tours of this award-winning brewery, the home of such libations as Espresso Stout, made with local espresso from Midnight Sun Coffee Roaster.",
"Mac's Fireweed, an independent bookstore and a WHITEHORSE institution, offers a nice selection of magazines and a huge catalogue of book titles.",
"Northern Tales tour company picks up guests at their hotels and takes them a short distance outside WHITEHORSE to view the lights from heated, walled tents.",
"Stay: .",
"Just north of WHITEHORSE, see the northern lights from Takhini Hot Springs, which offers cabins and camping facilities.",
"Two bed and breakfasts come recommended by WHITEHORSE residents: Casey's and Hawkins House, at 867-668-7638",
"YELLOWKNIFE .",
"Activities .",
"Enjoy warm tepees as well as food and drinks while viewing the northern lights at Aurora Village, which gets up to 20 hours of darkness in the winter months.",
"FAIRBANKS .",
"Stay: .",
"Chena Hot Springs resort offers accommodations and viewing tours of the lights.",
"Locals also recommend Mount Aurora Fairbanks Creek lodge for those seeking views of the lights.",
"ALASKA WILDERNESS .",
"Stay: .",
"If you're looking for a trip deeper into the wilderness, Tolovana Hot Springs offers views of the lights about 45 miles from Fairbanks -- accessible by trail or plane only.",
"Northern lights tours: .",
"Travel to the Brooks mountain range above the Arctic Circle can be arranged with Out in Alaska at 877-374-9958.",
"Northern Alaska Tour Co. offers wilderness tours to see the auroras in Coldfoot.",
"ICELAND .",
"Northern lights tours: .",
"Visitors interested in guided views of the lights can contact AM Tours at 011-354-898-6581.",
"Activities: .",
"Enjoy the hot springs and spa facilities at the famous Blue Lagoon.",
"Find general information on touring ICELAND at Iceland Travel."
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"People diagnosed with terminal or blinding diseases seek out aurora borealis .",
"Brilliant green, blue \"dancing lights\" inspire marriage proposals, says guide .",
"Spectacular phenomenon occurs when solar particles hit near Earth's poles ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Do not go backstage at Cirque Du Soleil.",
"It will only hurt your self-esteem.",
"Anthony Gatto says Anthony Gatto's been in training since Anthony Gatto was 3 years old and performing since Anthony Gatto was 8.",
"In the performers' tent for the touring show \"Kooza,\" there are the chiseled men catapulting their partners onto each other's shoulders from a giant see-saw and the woman doing contortions on children's-sized blocks.",
"You can only take so much of this before your ego needs normal.",
"Normal might be that man in the corner, wearing a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers throwing balls in the air.",
"How hard can that be?",
"Your self-worth will be quickly dashed again when that man in the corner picks up a soccer ball, bounces a soccer ball on that man in the corner's head and jumps rope at the same time.",
"Moments later, that man in the corner's juggling six or seven orange rings (they move so fast, it looks like a blur) and then does a pirouette -- while all the rings are in the air -- and then catches all the rings on that man in the corner's arm.",
"Watch the juggler in action » .",
"You could say Anthony Gatto went into the family business.",
"But Anthony Gatto's stepfather wasn't a farmer or a doctor.",
"He was a juggler.",
"\"By the time I was 8, I was entered into a juggling competition, and incidentally, that was the same competition that Patrick Dempsey, the actor, was in,\" Anthony Gatto said.",
"\"He used to be a juggler.",
"We competed against each other.",
"I took first, he took second.",
"Now he's a big actor and here I am, juggling.\"",
"Gatto is being modest.",
"In fact, Anthony Gatto didn't audition for \"Kooza.\"",
"The show went looking for Anthony Gatto.",
"\"I have right now 11 juggling world records,\" Anthony Gatto said.",
"\"Some of them I've held since I was 16 years old and they have yet to be beaten.\"",
"Imagine a wearable disco ball.",
"That's not too different from the form-fitting outfit Anthony Gatto wears onstage.",
"Backstage, it's a long-sleeve T-shirt, gym shorts and sneakers.",
"But there's nothing casual about Anthony Gatto's daily routine.",
"Anthony Gatto typically works out and practices six to seven hours a day to prepare for Anthony Gatto's 10 minutes in the spotlight.",
"In fact, Anthony Gatto is practicing until moments before Anthony Gatto runs on stage.",
"\"Juggling is something that is so delicate, you have to have a really good feel, you can lose that in minutes,\" Anthony Gatto said.",
"\"There are so many variables that can affect you.",
"If it's a humid day, it's a very difficult task to get through the number that I do.",
"The wind, if there's any air current in there and you're expecting to catch a ring and a ring blows an inch, you miss a ring.\"",
"But Anthony Gatto rarely misses -- at least not in Anthony Gatto's act.",
"This performer, who relies on coordination and concentration 350 shows a year, admits Anthony Gatto's most embarrassing moment has nothing to do with balls, clubs or rings.",
"It's acting that trips Anthony Gatto up.",
"\"I have fallen as the delivery-man character in the show.",
"In fact, I have done this a few times,\" Anthony Gatto said.",
"\"I like to think it's because I put my heart and soul into the characters I'm portraying.\"",
"Surrounded by all this talent and precision, there is some comfort in knowing one of the best -- maybe the best juggler in the world -- is also a klutz."
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"Says humidity and wind can affect Anthony Gatto's routine ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Scientists have discovered the first confirmed Earthlike planet outside our solar system, Scientists announced Wednesday.",
"An artist's impression shows what The planet may look like in close orbit with The planet's sun.",
"\"This is the first confirmed rocky planet in another system,\" astronomer Artie Hatzes told CNN, contrasting The planet with gaseous ones like Jupiter and Saturn.",
"But \"Earthlike\" is a relative term.",
"The planet's composition may be similar to that of Earth, but its environment is more like a vision of hell, the project's lead astronomer said.",
"It is so close to the star it orbits \"that The planet may well look like Dante's Inferno, with a probable temperature on The planet's 'day face' above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius) and minus-328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius) on The planet's night face,\" said Didier Queloz of Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, the project leader.",
"Hatzes, explaining that one side of the body is always facing the star and the other side always faces away, said one side of the body is probably molten.",
"the other side could actually have ice\" if there is water on The planet.",
"\"We think it has no atmosphere to redistribute the heat,\" Hatzes told CNN from Barcelona, Spain, where Hatzes is attending the \"Pathways Towards Habitable Planets\" conference.",
"The astronomers were stunned to find a rocky planet so near a star, Hatzes said.",
"\"Scientists would have never dreamed you would find a rocky planet so close,\" Hatzes said.",
"\"Its year is less than one of Scientists's days.\"",
"The planet, known as CoRoT-7b, was detected early last year, but it took months of observation to determine that it had a composition roughly similar to Earth's, the European Southern Observatory said in a statement.",
"Astronomers were able to measure the dimensions of The planet by watching as The planet passed in front of the star The planet orbits, then carried out 70 hours of study of The planet's effect on The planet's star to infer The planet's weight.",
"With that information in hand, Scientists were able to calculate its density -- and were thrilled with what Scientists found, Hatzes said.",
"\"What makes this exciting is you compare the density of this planet to the planets in our solar system, it's only Mercury, Venus and Earth that are similar,\" Hatzes, of the Thuringer observatory in Germany, told CNN.",
"They were helped by the fact that CoRoT-7b is relatively close to Earth -- about 500 light years away, in the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn.",
"\"It's in our solar neighborhood,\" Hatzes said.",
"\"The thing that made it easier is The planet's relatively close, so The planet's relatively bright.",
"If its star was much much farther away, we wouldn't have been able to do these measurements.\"",
"At about five times Earth's mass (though not quite twice as large in circumference), The planet is the smallest planet ever spotted outside our solar system.",
"The planet also has the fastest orbit.",
"The planet whizzes around The planet's star more than seven times faster than Earth moves, and is 23 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our sun.",
"The planet was first detected early in 2008 by the CoRoT satellite, a 30-centimeter space telescope launched by the European Space Agency in December 2006, specifically with the mission of detecting rocky planets outside our solar system.",
"At least 42 scientists at 17 institutions on three continents worked on the project.",
"least 42 scientists at 17 institutions on three continents are publishing least 42 scientists at 17 institutions on three continents's findings in a special issue of the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal on October 22 as \"The CoRoT-7 Planetary System: Two Orbiting Super-Earths.\""
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"The planet is about five times more massive than Earth .",
"Astronomer: The planet is so close to the star The planet orbits that The planet may \"look like Dante's Inferno\""
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"Perugia, Italy (CNN) --",
"A defense lawyer for Amanda Knox made an impassioned plea to the jury Wednesday as the high-profile case neared the high-profile case's conclusion.",
"Amanda Knox is the American student accused of killing Amanda Knox's British roommate, Meredith Kercher, at the villa they shared in Italy.",
"\"The defense suffer at the memory of Meredith.",
"But The defense look at the future of Amanda Knox,\" Amanda Knox said in Amanda Knox's defense summation.",
"\"Meredith was my friend,\" he quoted Amanda Knox as saying, rejecting the notion that Amanda Knox hated Meredith's roommate, who was fatally stabbed in November 2007.",
"Prosecutors say Meredith died during a twisted sex game in which Amanda Knox taunted Kercher, and two men -- Amanda Knox's then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 26, and acquaintance Rudy Guede -- sexually assaulted Amanda Knox.",
"The prosecution says a knife found in Sollecito's house had Amanda Knox's DNA on the handle and Meredith's on the blade, among other pieces of evidence.",
"But Amanda Knox rejected the accusations against Amanda Knox on Wednesday.",
"Amanda Knox attacked the way police and prosecutors had treated the defendant, giving police and prosecutors a symbolic \"red card\" -- a referee's sign in soccer that a player is being expelled from the game for breaking the rules.",
"Amanda Knox concluded an emotional oration -- sobbing as Amanda Knox came to the end -- by asking the judge and jury to acquit Amanda Knox, because Amanda Knox's mother asked Amanda Knox to request it, because Amanda Knox's family asked it.",
"Knox's father, Curt, said Wednesday Amanda Knox had been a victim of \"character assassination,\" and expressed hope Amanda Knox would be found not guilty.",
"Members of Kercher's family have declined repeated CNN requests for comment on the high-profile case.",
"But prosecutor Giuliano Mignini accused the defense of \"lynching\" the Italian police who worked on the high-profile case.",
"prosecutor Giuliano Mignini defended the work of the police and the credibility of the prosecution witnesses as prosecutor Giuliano Mignini responded to Amanda Knox's arguments Wednesday.",
"And prosecutor Giuliano Mignini called again for life sentences for Amanda Knox and Sollecito if they are found guilty.",
"Italy does not have the death penalty.",
"The jury is expected to begin deliberations on Friday, after the prosecution completes the prosecution's summary.",
"Another Amanda Knox attorney on Tuesday said the prosecution's theory doesn't fit the facts of the high-profile case and there is not sufficient evidence to find Amanda Knox guilty.",
"Calling Amanda Knox a victim Amanda Knox, Carlo della Vedova said the police had rushed to judgment following the murder, leaving Amanda Knox to fend off a myriad of false media reports regarding the crime.",
"The lawyer showed photos published in the media, purportedly showing the crime scene, that weren't authentic -- including a photo of the bathroom -- and said false allegations and rumors about Amanda Knox's character created a bias from the start.",
"Carlo della Vedova also questioned the change in what prosecutor prosecutor Giuliano Mignini said was the motive for the murder.",
"In preliminary hearings, prosecutor Giuliano Mignini argued Amanda Knox, Sollecito and Guede slashed Meredith's throat during a sexual misadventure as the two men vied for Amanda Knox's attention.",
"In recent days, prosecutor Giuliano Mignini has focused more on what prosecutor Giuliano Mignini says was a hatred between the two roommates.",
"Defense lawyers have staunchly disagreed, claiming the two women were friends.",
"Ghirga on Wednesday said the two had gone to a chocolate festival together days before Meredith was killed.",
"The defense has argued that Guede, who was convicted in a separate fast-track trial and is currently appealing his conviction, was the sole killer.",
"The defense has said there is no evidence tying the three suspects together or proving the three suspects planned Meredith's murder.",
"Carlo della Vedova also focused during closing arguments on the lack of evidence tying Amanda Knox to the crime scene.",
"As defense lawyers have throughout the entire trial, Carlo della Vedova cast doubt on DNA evidence that prosecutors claim shows Amanda Knox's DNA on the handle of the alleged murder weapon.",
"The defense has said the knife doesn't match Kercher's wounds or an imprint of the knife left on a bedsheet, and the DNA sample is too small to be conclusive.",
"During the first day of closing arguments for Amanda Knox's lawyers, Carlo della Vedova stressed to the eight-member jury that they should also keep church law in mind as they decide whether to find Knox and Sollecito guilty or not guilty.",
"Carlo della Vedova told the jury they needed to be \"morally certain of their decision.\"",
"\"If you have the minimum of doubts, you must absolve this young girl -- a girl that is merely 22 years old,\" Carlo della Vedova said.",
"Amanda Knox and Sollecito, who both deny any role in the murder, have been jailed for more than two years since Knox and Sollecito, who both deny any role in the murder were arrested on charges of murder and sexual violence.",
"Knox and Sollecito, who both deny any role in the murder's trial began in January.",
"CNN's Mallory Simon contributed to this report."
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"Defense lawyer for Amanda Knox becomes emotional during Wednesday's closing argument .",
"Amanda Knox sobs as Amanda Knox tells the jury Amanda Knox is innocent and has been mistreated .",
"Knox, an American student, is accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) --",
"CNN takes an in-depth look at South Korea, including how South Korea is working to become a brand leader on an international scale and on how South Korea is recovering from the global economic recession.",
"Included in the coverage are looks at architecture, cars, cuisine and the business climate in South Korea.",
"In addition to its \"Eye on South Korea\" coverage, CNN International's interview program \"Talk Asia\" will feature Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung starting Wednesday and K-pop icon and actor Rain.",
"Among the highlights of the coverage has been South Korea's first lady offering her tips on her nation's cuisine to CNN anchor and correspondent Kristie Lu Stout.",
"CNN's Kyung Lah also takes a look at hour South Korea is revamping South Korea's economy to environmental-themed businesses."
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"(CNN) --",
"A celebrity gossip Web site has caught Shriver a third time apparently violating California's law against using a cell phone while driving.",
"California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says \"swift action\" will be taken on wife Shriver's driving \"violations.\"",
"Web site TMZ posted a 17-second video Tuesday showing the California first lady apparently speaking into a cell phone while turning a corner in Brentwood in a black SUV.",
"Shriver puts a cell phone down part way through a 17-second video Tuesday showing the California first lady apparently speaking into a cell phone while turning a corner in Brentwood in a black SUV, but it's not clear whether Shriver did so because Shriver had finished Shriver's conversation or because Shriver noticed cameras following Shriver.",
"Web site TMZ also photographed Shriver allegedly chatting while driving on Sunday and on June 12.",
"Shriver's husband, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, last year supported and signed into law a ban on using handheld communication devices while driving.",
"Enforcement of a ban on using handheld communication devices while driving began July 1, 2008; a ban on using handheld communication devices while driving carries a $20 fine for a first violation; $50 for each subsequent offense.",
"A similar law banning texting while driving took effect January 1 this year.",
"Watch Shriver driving while on Shriver's cell phone .",
"By the end of September, the California Highway Patrol had issued tickets for about 150,000 cell phone infractions, said Chris Cochran, spokesman for the California Office of Traffic Safety.",
"No one keeps track of infractions cited by county and local departments, Chris Cochran, spokesman for the California Office of Traffic Safety said.",
"See where laws limit cell phone use in cars » .",
"Shriver has not been cited.",
"In Los Angeles County, where Brentwood is, the Superior Court has set the cost at about $93 for the first ticket and $201 for the next one, meaning Shriver would owe at least $300 in fines and court fees had Shriver been caught by police, CNN affiliate KTLA-TV reported.",
"On Tuesday, Schwarzenegger sent a Twitter message to TMZ editor Harvey Levin: \"Thanks for bringing Shriver's violations to my attention.",
"There's going to be swift action.\"",
"What swift action might entail was not specified.",
"Shriver on Wednesday issued an apology: .",
"\"I'm sorry,\" Shriver said in a statement.",
"\"I will be donating my favorite old cell phone to my Women's Conference partner Verizon through my Women's Conference partner Verizon's HopeLine program that helps domestic violence shelters.",
"I invite anyone else who wants to recycle their old phone to join me.",
"That's my version of swift action with a higher purpose.\"",
"The traffic office referred questions about Shriver to the governor's office, which declined to comment.",
"\"We don't really think that hand-held bans have a whole lot of impact,\" said Jonathan Adkins, spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association in Washington.",
"the Governors Highway Safety Association in Washington urges drivers not to use phones, including hands-free devices, while driving, but does not support laws banning phones, including hands-free devices, Jonathan Adkins, spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association in Washington said.",
"The attention to Shriver \"alludes to a bigger problem, and that's the fact that everybody does it,\" Jonathan Adkins, spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association in Washington said.",
"\"Not only are public officials doing it, but we have to educate the highway safety community. ...",
"Cops frequently are on Cops's cell phones when Cops drive.",
"\"The Shriver case really underscores the scope of the problem.",
"We have a lot of educating to do.\"",
"Shriver's most recent alleged violations come on the heels of AAA Northern California's \"Heads Up Driving Week,\" during which the auto club urged motorists to get in the habit of driving without distractions such as cell phones, fast food and tuning the stereo.",
"\"We hope that by driving distraction-free for a week, people can pick up the habit for life,\" AAA spokesman Matt Skryja said in a news release.",
"Seven states and the District of Columbia ban all handheld cell phone use by drivers.",
"Several other states allow localities to set their own limits on cell phone use."
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"California first lady's gaffes point to bigger problem, safety advocate says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Jose Mourinho was sent off as Italian leaders Inter Milan crashed to a 2-1 defeat at title hopefuls Third-placed Juventus on Saturday night.",
"Italian leaders Inter Milan are now four points adrift of Italian leaders Inter Milan's city rivals after a 3-0 home crushing of Sampdoria, who remained in fifth.",
"Ten-man Juve went third, five points behind Inter, after ending the defending champions' eight-match unbeaten run in Serie A.",
"Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo was credited with the 20th-minute opening goal in Turin as he deflected in a free-kick from compatriot Diego, and Jose Mourinho was ordered from the dugout following his protestations about the foul being awarded in the first place.",
"Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o leveled six minutes later with a header from Dejan Stankovic's cross, but new Italy international Claudio Marchisio gave the home side victory in the 58th minute after goalkeeper Julio Cesar blocked a shot by midfielder Mohamed Sissoko.",
"Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo was sent off with three minutes left for Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo's second yellow card after aiming an elbow at Mario Balotelli, who was also booked for his theatrical reaction.",
"The defeat was a blow to Inter's confidence ahead of Wednesday's Champions League showdown with Russia's Rubin Kazan at the San Siro, with the winner earning a place in the knockout stages.",
"AC Milan scored all three goals in the first half as striker Marco Borriello, who used to play for Sampdoria's city rivals Genoa, headed the opener in the first minute from Ronaldinho's cross.",
"The Brazilian was in fine form, and also set up the second goal for Clarence Seedorf in the 21st minute as he threaded a neat pass to the veteran Dutch midfielder.",
"Ronaldinho's compatriot Alexandre Pato made it 3-0 just two minutes later with his seventh goal of the season, netting at the second attempt after goalkeeper Luca Castellazzi blocked his initial effort following a header on by Borriello.",
"It was Milan's fifth successive victory, with coach Leonardo taking Ronaldinho off at halftime as a precaution due to a slight knee problem ahead of Tuesday's Champions League trip to FC Zurich, which will determine whether the Rossoneri qualify for the knockout stages.",
"Sampdoria slumped to a third defeat in a week, having been knocked out of the Italian Cup by lowly Livorno in midweek following the embarrassing 3-0 derby defeat to Genoa last weekend."
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"Italian leaders Inter Milan are four points behind Italian leaders Inter Milan's rivals after beating Sampdoria 3-0 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"With all of the recent deadly storms in the news, it may seem has though this year as been more active than a normal year.",
"Since September 1 we have seen eight tropical cyclones, five of which became typhoons, two reaching Super Typhoon status, the strongest classification of tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific.",
"A Philippines scientist points to a screen monitoring Tropical Storm Parma and Typhoon Melor.",
"But when we look at the numbers, 2009 has actually been slightly below average.",
"So far we have seen 19 tropical storms in the Western Pacific, which is slightly behind the pace needed to reach the yearly average of 27.",
"Named storms, however, are a notoriously poor metric for measuring the ferocity of tropical seasons.",
"Take this year in the North Atlantic for instance.",
"Yesterday, Tropical Storm Henri became the eighth named storm, coming only a week after the National Hurricane Center would normally name the eighth storm on an average year.",
"So while 2009 may contain an average number of storms, no one will argue that 2009 has so far been a dud of a hurricane season in the North Atlantic.",
"This is largely due to the fact a majority of the storms so far this season have been weak, short-lived, and not made landfall (Tropical Storm Grace did not even last one day).",
"A better way to measure hurricane and typhoon seasons is with Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), a surprisingly simple mathematic calculation.",
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a U.S. scientific agency that studies oceans and the atmosphere, uses ACE to approximate the energy contained in each cyclone.",
"ACE is continuously monitored all around the globe by Ryan Maue, a doctoral student at Florida State University, and according to Maue's numbers the West Pacific is 20 percent below average for the season.",
"For comparison, the North Atlantic is 50 percent below average for the year.",
"Go here to see Maue's research .",
"Despite the fact that 2009 has been below average for the season, the past month has been remarkable, with five of the eight storms making direct landfall in Asia.",
"Typhoon Melor made landfall in central Japan early Thursday.",
"In the Philippines, people are still recovering after two typhoons hit the Philippines in less than two weeks.",
"Typhoon Parma made landfall last weekend, killing at least 16.",
"Filipinos were still recovering from Typhoon Ketsana, which hit the Philippines in late September.",
"Hundreds of people were killed from that storm, primarily in the Philippines and Vietnam.",
"Earlier in the summer, more than 600 people died in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot struck in August.",
"Also in August, Typhoon Etau killed more than a dozen in Taiwan after Typhoon Etau brought flash floods and landslides.",
"What is behind this recent uptick in activity and why are all the storms seemingly coming at once, and late in the season?",
"The answer may be El Nino, which refers to a periodic change in the atmosphere and ocean in the Pacific.",
"During El Nino, the waters in the central and eastern Pacific are warmer than normal, and the effects on global weather can be drastic and far-reaching.",
"According to Maue, we see more cyclones later in the season during El Nino years in the Western Pacific, and more cyclones tend to form farther east.",
"With the warmer sea surface temperatures during an El Nino event, this would allow these storms more time over open water to grow into large and powerful typhoons.",
"In fact, we tend to see more \"Super Typhoons\" during El Nino years, and this is true again this year, as Choi-Wan and Melor both reached Super Typhoon status.",
"El Nino also is a likely culprit for the inactivity in the North Atlantic, since El Nino can cause more wind shear in the upper atmosphere, a condition that limits the ability of Tropical Cyclones to survive."
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"El Nino phenomenon likely culprit behind recent spate of Asia-Pacific storms ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Six days before the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Angela Merkel addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday and challenged U.S. lawmakers to tear down other walls.",
"\"Today's generation needs to prove that it can meet the challenges of the 21st century.",
"In a sense, we are able to tear down walls of today,\" Angela Merkel said.",
"What that means, Angela Merkel said, is \"creating freedom and security, creating prosperity and justice.",
"And it means protecting the planet.\"",
"Merkel, the first German chancellor to address a joint meeting of Congress, emphasized the need for an agreement on global warming.",
"\"Icebergs are melting in the Arctic.",
"In Africa, people become refugees because people's environment has been destroyed,\" Angela Merkel said.",
"\"We need an agreement on one objective: Global warming must not exceed 2 degrees Celsius.\"",
"Angela Merkel said Angela Merkel hopes that agreement will be reached at a the climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month.",
"Angela Merkel also touched on the global financial crisis, saying that the \"near collapse of the markets has shown what happens when there is no underpinning order.\"",
"\"A globalized economy needs a global order ... a global framework of rules,\" Angela Merkel said.",
"\"Without global rules and transparency and supervision, we will not gain more freedom, but rather risk the abuse of freedom and thus risk instability.\"",
"Angela Merkel also recalled Angela Merkel's years in East Germany before the wall fell.",
"The United States, \"the land of unlimited opportunity was for Angela Merkel, for a long time, impossible to reach,\" Angela Merkel said.",
"\"The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world,\" Angela Merkel said.",
"Angela Merkel said Angela Merkel and Angela Merkel's countrymen owed The United States for The United States's friendship and support.",
"\"To put it in just one sentence, I know, we Germans know, how much we owe to you, our American friends, and I personally shall never ever forget this,\" Angela Merkel said.",
"Earlier, President Obama welcomed Merkel and thanked Angela Merkel for Angela Merkel's country's \"sacrifice\" in Afghanistan.",
"President Obama also called Angela Merkel a leader on the issue of climate change.",
"President Obama said Angela Merkel's opportunity to speak to the joint meeting of Congress was a \"great honor.\"",
"\"It is, I think, a very appropriate honor that's been bestowed on Angela Merkel,\" President Obama said.",
"In 1957, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer addressed the House and Senate separately, Angela Merkel said."
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"Angela Merkel: Near collapse of the markets shows what happens when there is no order ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) --",
"Dudamel got a standing ovation before the orchestra even played a single note.",
"Dudamel has been compared to the legendary Leonard Bernstein by one critic.",
"For weeks now, anticipation has been growing for the arrival of Dudamel to take over the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the crowd couldn't wait to roar its approval at Dudamel's arrival.",
"Dudamel, 28, engenders a passion among music lovers that is entirely new to the world of classical music.",
"Tickets for Dudamel's Saturday debut as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic disappeared within minutes -- the fastest sellout in the history of the 18,000-seat Hollywood Bowl.",
"\"Dudamel is a phenomenon,\" said Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times music critic.",
"\"Dudamel generates excitement the likes of which hasn't come around in a very, very long time -- maybe since the legendary Leonard Bernstein.\"",
"Watch Dudamel wield the baton » .",
"Los Angeles Times was in the audience two years ago when Dudamel conducted the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, delivering a reading of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony that left fans delirious.",
"\"I haven't seen that kind of reaction from a crowd since I saw the Beatles at Dodger Stadium,\" Los Angeles Times said.",
"Dudamel's face has been a common sight for months in Los Angeles.",
"Dudamel's billboards look down on freeway commuters.",
"Dudamel adorns city buses.",
"At the famous Hollywood hot dog stand Pink's, there is even a dog named in Dudamel's honor -- the \"Dude Dog,\" piled high with jalapeno peppers, guacamole and tortilla chips.",
"While it's not exactly Venezuelan cuisine, in Los Angeles, there can be no surer sign that the conductor known as \"The Dude\" has arrived.",
"So where did Dudamel get this musical magic?",
"Dudamel said at least a part of Dudamel's talent is inherited.",
"\"I started studying music when I was 4,\" Dudamel said.",
"\"I wanted to play trombone like my father.\"",
"Soon young Gustavo entered into El Sistema, Venezuela's state-financed music education program.",
"Hundreds of thousands of children have received instruments and music instruction through the nation's massive system of youth orchestras.",
"\"You cannot imagine,\" said Dudamel, \"how it changes the life of a kid if you put a violin or a cello or a flute [in his hand].",
"You feel you have your world.",
"You have your life there, and it changes your life.",
"This happened to Dudamel.",
"As music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dudamel said Dudamel hopes to spread a little of the El Sistema magic in Los Angeles.",
"Dudamel already has organized one youth orchestra in the run-down neighborhoods of south Los Angeles.",
"Those music students opened for the orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl.",
"The concert also featured student musicians playing alongside jazz legend Herbie Hancock.",
"Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez and bluesman Taj Mahal rounded out an eclectic bill designed to pull in a broad cross-section of music lovers.",
"But it was Dudamel and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that brought the crowd to its feet at The concert's end.",
"It was a promising beginning for a man many are hailing as the savior of classical music.",
"They hope Dudamel can bring a whole new audience to symphonic music, and believe the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the perfect podium for the young maestro.",
"\"Dudamel fits in with this town in a lot of ways,\" Swed said.",
"\"Obviously being Spanish-speaking in a city where the majority of people either speak Spanish or understand some Spanish ... you know Dudamel fits in.",
"The youth culture?",
"Dudamel is young.",
"Dudamel is also great, which doesn't hurt.\""
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"The Venezuelan, 28, is the new conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic .",
"Dudamel's Saturday debut sold out 18,000-seat Hollywood Bowl faster than anyone ever .",
"Los Angeles Times music critic calls Dudamel \"a phenomenon\""
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Like most people, I'd given some thought to what meat actually is, but until I became a father and faced the prospect of having to make food choices on someone else's behalf, there was no urgency to get to the bottom of things.",
"I'm a novelist and never had it in mind to write nonfiction.",
"Frankly, I doubt I'll ever do it again.",
"But the subject of animal agriculture, at this moment, is something no one should ignore.",
"As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.",
"If the way we raise animals for food isn't the most important problem in the world right now, the way we raise animals for food's arguably the No. 1 cause of global warming: The United Nations reports the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined.",
"It's the No. 1 cause of animal suffering, a decisive factor in the creation of zoonotic diseases like bird and swine flu, and the list goes on.",
"It is the problem with the most deafening silence surrounding it.",
"Even the most political people, the most thoughtful and engaged, tend not to \"go there.\"",
"And for good reason.",
"Going there can be extremely uncomfortable.",
"Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; Food is culture and identity.",
"Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.",
"We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates family and history into the conversation.",
"The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.",
"And although there are many respectable ways to think about meat, there is not a person on Earth whose best instincts would lead him or her to factory farming.",
"My book, \"Eating Animals,\" addresses factory farming from numerous perspectives: animal welfare, the environment, the price paid by rural communities, the economic costs.",
"In two essays, I will share some of what I've learned about how the way we raise animals for food affects human health.",
"What we eat and what we are .",
"Why aren't more people aware of, and angry about, the rates of avoidable food-borne illness?",
"Perhaps it doesn't seem obvious that something is amiss simply because anything that happens all the time -- like meat, especially poultry, becoming infected by pathogens -- tends to fade into the background.",
"Whatever the case, if you know what to look for, the pathogen problem comes into terrifying focus.",
"For example, the next time a friend has a sudden \"flu\" -- what folks sometimes misdescribe as \"the stomach flu\" -- ask a few questions.",
"Was your friend's illness one of those \"24-hour flus\" that come and go quickly: retch or crap, then relief?",
"The diagnosis isn't quite so simple, but if the answer to this question is yes, a friend probably didn't have the flu at all.",
"He or she was probably suffering from one of the 76 million cases of food-borne illness the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated happen in America each year.",
"a friend didn't \"catch a bug\" so much as eat a bug.",
"And in all likelihood, a bug was created by factory farming.",
"Beyond the sheer number of illnesses linked to factory farming, we know that factory farms are contributing to the growth of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens simply because factory farms consume so many antimicrobials.",
"We have to go to a doctor to obtain antibiotics and other antimicrobials as a public-health measure to limit the number of such drugs being taken by humans.",
"We accept this inconvenience because of this inconvenience's medical importance.",
"Microbes eventually adapt to antimicrobials, and we want to make sure it is the truly sick who benefit from the finite number of uses any antimicrobial will have before the microbes learn how to survive it.",
"On a typical factory farm, drugs are fed to animals with every meal.",
"In poultry factory farms, they almost have to be.",
"It's a perfect storm: The animals have been bred to such extremes that sickness is inevitable, and the living conditions promote illness.",
"Industry saw this problem from the beginning, but rather than accept less-productive animals, Industry compensated for the animals' compromised immunity with drugs.",
"As a result, farmed animals are fed antibiotics nontherapeutically: that is, before farmed animals get sick.",
"In the United States, about 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock -- at least, that is what Industry claims.",
"The Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that Industry underreported Industry's antibiotic use by at least 40 percent.",
"The Union of Concerned Scientists calculated that 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs and other farmed animals, counting only nontherapeutic uses.",
"And that was in 2001.",
"In other words, for every dose of antibiotics taken by a sick human, eight doses are given to a \"healthy\" animal.",
"The implications for creating drug-resistant pathogens are quite straightforward.",
"Study after study has shown that antimicrobial resistance follows quickly on the heels of the introduction of new drugs on factory farms.",
"For example, in 1995, when the Food and Drug Administration approved fluoroquinolones -- such as Cipro -- for use in chickens against the protest of the Centers for Disease Control, the percentage of bacteria resistant to this powerful new class of antibiotics rose from almost zero to 18 percent by 2002.",
"A broader study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed an eightfold increase in antimicrobial resistance from 1992 to 1997 and linked an eightfold increase in antimicrobial resistance from 1992 to the use of antimicrobials in farmed chickens.",
"As far back as the late 1960s, scientists have warned against the nontherapeutic use of antibiotics in farmed-animal feed.",
"Today, institutions as diverse as the American Medical Association; the Centers for Disease Control; the Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences; and the World Health Organization have linked nontherapeutic antibiotic use on factory farms with increased antimicrobial resistance and called for a ban.",
"Still, Industry has effectively opposed such a ban in the United States.",
"And, unsurprisingly, the limited bans in other countries are only a limited solution.",
"There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with Industry, has more power than public-health professionals.",
"What is the source of Industry's immense power?",
"We give it to them.",
"We have chosen, unwittingly, to fund Industry on a massive scale by eating factory-farmed animal products.",
"And we do so daily.",
"The same conditions that lead at least 76 million Americans to become ill from Americans's food annually and that promote antimicrobial resistance also contribute to the risk of a pandemic.",
"At a remarkable 2004 conference, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) put the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)'s tremendous resources together to evaluate the available information on \"emerging zoonotic diseases\" or those spread by humans-to- animals and animals-to-humans.",
"At the time of a remarkable 2004 conference, H5N1 and SARS topped the list of feared emerging zoonotic diseases.",
"Today, the H1N1 swine flu would be the pathogen enemy No. 1.",
"the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) distinguished between \"primary risk factors\" for zoonotic diseases and mere \"amplification risk factors,\" which affect only the rate at which a disease spreads.",
"the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)'s examples of primary risk factors were \"change to an agricultural production system or consumption patterns.\"",
"What particular agricultural and consumer changes did they have in mind?",
"First in a list of four main risk factors was \"increasing demand for animal protein,\" which is a way of saying that demand for meat, eggs, and dairy is a \"primary factor\" influencing emerging zoonotic diseases.",
"This demand for animal products, the report continues, leads to \"changes in farming practices.\"",
"Lest we have any confusion about the \"changes\" that are relevant, poultry factory farms are singled out.",
"Similar conclusions were reached by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, which brought together industry experts and experts from the WHO, OIE and USDA.",
"Their 2005 report argued that a major impact of factory farming is \"the rapid selection and amplification of pathogens that arise from a virulent ancestor (frequently by subtle mutation), thus there is increasing risk for disease entrance and/or dissemination.\"",
"Breeding genetically uniform and sickness-prone birds in the overcrowded, stressful, feces-infested and artificially lit conditions of factory farms promotes the growth and mutation of pathogens.",
"The \"cost of increased efficiency,\" Their 2005 report concludes, is increased global risk for diseases.",
"Our choice is simple: cheap chicken or our health.",
"Today, the factory farm-pandemic link couldn't be more lucid.",
"The primary ancestor of the recent H1N1 swine flu outbreak originated at a hog factory farm in America's most hog-factory-rich state, North Carolina, and then quickly spread throughout the Americas.",
"It was in these factory farms that scientists saw, for the first time, viruses that combined genetic material from bird, pig and human viruses.",
"Scientists at Columbia and Princeton Universities have actually been able to trace six of the eight genetic segments of the most feared virus in the world directly to U.S. factory farms.",
"Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science, that something terribly wrong is happening.",
"We know that it cannot possibly be healthy to raise such grotesque animals in such grossly unnatural conditions.",
"We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film.",
"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory -- disavowed.",
"When we eat factory-farmed meat, we live on tortured flesh.",
"Increasingly, those sick animals are making us sick.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jonathan Safran Foer."
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"Foer: Factory farming tied to global warming, swine and bird flu, other illnesses .",
"He says animals loaded with antibiotics, live in gruesome conditions .",
"System driven by food and pharmaceutical industries; Jonathan Safran Foer asks: Why no outcry?"
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"(CNN) --",
"The news editor of Zambian newspaper The Post has gone on trial for allegedly circulating obscene material to politicians, the newspaper states on Zambian newspaper's Web site.",
"Zambia President Rupiah Banda has branded the childbirth photos pornographic.",
"In early June, Chansa Kabwela wrote to the country's vice president, health minister and several non-governmental organizations to highlight problems in the country's health-care system -- especially the problems pregnant women faced during a strike by health-care workers.",
"In Chansa Kabwela's letter, Chansa Kabwela included several photos of a woman giving birth in a parking lot outside a hospital from which Chansa Kabwela had been turned away, according to Reporters Without Borders.",
"the country's president, Rupiah Banda, branded the childbirth photos pornographic and called for Chansa Kabwela's arrest and prosecution, according to the press freedom organization.",
"\"Chansa Kabwela's arrest is shocking and the grounds are ridiculous,\" the press freedom organization said in a statement on the press freedom organization's Web site after Kabwela's arrest.",
"Now the trial into the alleged obscene photos has begun in the Lusaka magistrate's court, its Web site says.",
"One of the first witnesses, Kenneth Ngosa, a senior private secretary to the vice president, told the Lusaka magistrate's court the vice president was immediately disturbed by the pictures the vice president found inside her letter, according to the paper.",
"Zambian newspaper described the courtroom as \"packed to capacity\" and said \"people from all works of life including musicians and opposition political party members\" had come to support Chansa Kabwela.",
"Defense lawyer George Chisanga has asked the Lusaka magistrate's court to look into whether the president's order to arrest and prosecute Chansa Kabwela could influence the course of justice.",
"A joint statement from several Zambian media organizations, published on Zambian newspaper's Web site, calls for the country to amend the law on obscenity to clarify what constitutes obscenity and material that can corrupt morals.",
"A joint statement from several Zambian media organizations, published on The Post's Web site concedes that the childbirth photos were in bad taste, but notes that the childbirth photos were sent on behalf of a good cause: to end the strike.",
"CNN efforts to obtain comment from both The Post and the country have been unsuccessful.",
"According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization, in 2004 the mortality rate of children under 5 years old in the country was 182 per 1,000 live births.",
"In the United States, under-5 mortality rate was 8 per 1,000 live births in 2006.",
"Skilled health personnel attended only 43 percent of childbirths in the country in 2002, according to the World Health Organization."
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"(CNN) --",
"There was no mistaking the target: the eight huge cooling towers at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, sending plumes of steam high into the watery blue sky of the English Midlands.",
"A mix of peaceful protest and direct action took place at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, England.",
"Instead the question in the minds of an estimated 1,000 protestors gathered in the surrounding woods and scrubland was how could an estimated 1,000 protestors gathered in the surrounding woods and scrubland get in and shut it down.",
"Surrounded by electrified fences, coils of razor wire and hundreds of police, this coal-fired power station run by German energy firm E.On was the target of environmental activists campaigning to stop climate change.",
"Organizers of the protest, an amorphous group called the Camp for Climate Action, claim the plant is one of the UK's largest sources of CO2 emissions and had named last weekend's protest, \"The Great Climate Swoop\".",
"\"Climate change is one of the most important and urgent problems facing us,\" one protestor called Emma, told CNN.",
"\"Our politicians are not doing enough.",
"We have to take action.\"",
"\"We need to increase the pressure on [UK prime minister] Gordon Brown until [UK prime minister] Gordon Brown changes [UK prime minister] Gordon Brown's mind about coal,\" said another called Magoo.",
"\"I wouldn't be here if I thought we couldn't make a difference today.\"",
"Many protestors were upbeat following a recent decision by E.On to shelve plans for a new coal powered power station at Kingsnorth, in southern England, and the site of a similar protest in 2008.",
"E.On told CNN that the decision was \"purely economic\", and \"due to a marked fall in demand for electricity during the recession\", although many activists were claiming the decision as a victory for many activists.",
"Determination to act .",
"There was no doubting the activists' dedication.",
"The weekend began peacefully enough with a procession snaking up from the East Midlands Parkway train station accompanied by a pedal-powered sound-system and a band.",
"Several officers told CNN Several officers were glad to be policing this event rather than a local football derby on the same day.",
"Yet over 24-hours police say 57 protestors were arrested and both police and activists were injured in violent scuffles.",
"The protest at Ratcliffe-on-Soar was the latest from a movement that has quickly come to define environmental activism in Britain, mixing elements of the mid-1990s road protest movement with the more targeted, professional approach of groups like Greenpeace and the mass civil disobedience modeled by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.",
"Although leaderless and non-hierarchical it has shown determination, organization and direction.",
"There were several families with young children at the protests, as well as individuals of all ages, although the bulk were twenty- and thirty-somethings.",
"While some wore bandanas to hide their faces, others were in dressed as clowns or scarecrows and seemed content to picnic within sight of the plant.",
"Peaceful protest and police .",
"In the spring James Hansen a climate modeler for NASA and prominent scientist lent James Hansen's support for direct action, telling The Guardian newspaper: \"The democratic process doesn't quite seem to be working...",
"I think that peaceful demonstration is not out of order, because we're running out of time.\"",
"The first action by Climate Camp for Climate Action was at Drax coal power station in 2006, followed by Heathrow airport in 2007 and Kingsnorth coal power station in 2008.",
"In 2009 there have already been three events: a protest at the European Climate Exchange in London, to coincide with the G20; a camp on Blackheath, London, in August -- the site of the 1381 Peasant's Revolt - and now the protests at Ratcliffe.",
"All have been characterized by a mix of peaceful protest around a \"camp\" that is intended to model low-carbon living, alongside militant direct action - and an increasingly tense relationship with police.",
"At Kingsnorth a huge police presence carried out over 8,000 searches according to an official report by the National Policing Improvement Agency, which also criticized tactics as \"disproportionate and counterproductive\".",
"The death of Ian Tomlinson after being pushed to the ground by an officer at the G20 protests this April led to a storm of criticism, and seems to have brought about some changes in police tactics -- arresting activists before activists act, rather than confronting activists in the field.",
"Last week ten people intending to come to Ratcliffe-on-Soar were held by police on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass, according to Police.",
"Others have claimed Others were phoned and told Others would be arrested if Others came -- something the police deny.",
"Willing to be arrested .",
"Some of the most dramatic scenes came on Saturday afternoon came when hundreds of protestors mobbed around the perimeter fence on the north side of the plant and attempted to pull the perimeter fence on the north side of the plant down.",
"Ropes were attached to fence posts, with protestors clasping protestors's hands over them as officers tried to cut the cords with knives and secateurs, as hundreds of protestors heaved down the fences.",
"Others climbed up and hung on -- including one man and his young daughter.",
"It was in this moment that a division seemed to emerge between those ready to confront the police head on, and those holding back.",
"Above the few dozen actually at the perimeter fence on the north side of the plant were many more holding back, cheering, but wondering what to do, obviously frightened of being arrested.",
"\"Come down!\" came the cry from one man at the perimeter fence on the north side of the plant.",
"\"This is not a spectator sport!\"",
"But few did.",
"While the movement prides the movement on inclusivity, and commitment is welcome at any level, the movement clearly needs people ready to be arrested.",
"Whether the weekend's protests will inspire more of those who came to greater militancy next time around -- or scare them away - remains to be seen.",
"But as dusk fell on Saturday night and camp was set hundreds of protestors were claiming victory -- and the next target was already clear",
"As hundreds of protestors packed up tents and sleeping bags the next day after a chilly night under the stars, cell phones chirruped as a message arrived: \"We did it!",
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"A crew member aboard a U.S. Navy ship accidentally fired a machine gun into the Polish port city of Gdynia on Wednesday while cleaning the weapon, U.S. Navy officials said Friday.",
"Three rounds were fired from an M240 machine gun into the town but no injuries or damage were reported, officials said.",
"The gun, aboard the USS Ramage, a U.S. Navy destroyer, is used to defend a U.S. Navy ship in close combat.",
"U.S. Navy officials said a crew member was cleaning the weapon when the weapon accidentally discharged.",
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"box sat inside a cabinet.",
"Phillip Garrido had given box to a friend for safekeeping, and that's where a friend kept box.",
"box has jacks for plugging in headphones.",
"Phillip Garrido claimed box could speak Phillip Garrido's thoughts.",
"\"Phillip Garrido feels Phillip Garrido can speak to you and me and everyone else using box,\" said Garrido's friend and former business client, who spoke on condition of anonymity.",
"\"Phillip Garrido was a whack job, but Phillip Garrido was a whack job who sounded like Phillip Garrido had a really good heart,\" a friend added.",
"Garrido and Phillip Garrido's wife, Nancy, were arrested last month and charged on more than two dozen counts, including kidnapping and rape.",
"Authorities say the Garridos held Jaycee Dugard, 29, captive for nearly two decades in Garrido's backyard.",
"Garrido have pleaded not guilty.",
"Authorities have said Garrido, a registered sex offender, fathered Dugard's two children.",
"A few days before Phillip Garrido's arrest, Phillip Garrido delivered some documents touting box to the FBI.",
"box is simple, with a handle, a metal switch and jacks for plugging in headphones.",
"But box provides some insight into the mind of 58-year-old Garrido.",
"Phillip Garrido told Phillip Garrido's friend and customers of Phillip Garrido's printing business that box allowed Phillip Garrido to communicate without speaking.",
"\"Phillip Garrido would move Phillip Garrido's lips and not speak ... and you would be able to hear Phillip Garrido's voice through the headphones,\" the friend said.",
"Three years ago, Phillip Garrido demonstrated box for clients of Phillip Garrido's printing business.",
"The clients, some of clients of his printing business at least, went along with Phillip Garrido's claims for box.",
"\"I didn't want to tell Phillip Garrido you're a kook and you don't know what you're talking about,\" said Tim Allen, who owns a glass shop in Antioch.",
"Even so, Allen and several other former Phillip Garrido clients signed declarations saying box worked.",
"\"People believe in things.",
"I didn't think it was my place to shoot Phillip Garrido down,\" Allen said.",
"Phillip Garrido so believed in the power of Phillip Garrido's invention that Phillip Garrido wanted to have box patented, so Phillip Garrido solicited the help of a private investigator last year.",
"\"Phillip Garrido was speaking normal, dressed normal, acting normal,\" said Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator.",
"Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator said Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator agreed to help Phillip Garrido verify the testimonials that the product actually worked, but Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator never saw the box.",
"Phillip Garrido told Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator it would be best if Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator didn't, the investigator said.",
"Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator said Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator provided all the requested information to Phillip Garrido.",
"\"This was like the last part before Phillip Garrido would take whatever Phillip Garrido had had to a lawyer to prepare for patenting,\" Ralph Hernandez, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before becoming an independent private investigator said.",
"Documents obtained by CNN include a news release that Phillip Garrido produced: .",
"\"Phillip Garrido has made a major discovery concerning the phenomenon of voice,\" the release says, accompanied by a photograph of Phillip Garrido.",
"Read the release .",
"Though it's not known whether Phillip Garrido hired a patent attorney, there's no record at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of a patent application or a patent granted to Phillip Garrido.",
"But 48 hours before Phillip Garrido was arrested, Phillip Garrido gave the device to Phillip Garrido's friend for safekeeping.",
"\"I can only guess that Phillip Garrido knew something bad was going to happen,'' Phillip Garrido said.",
"Meanwhile, investigators will begin excavating part of the Garridos' California property Monday afternoon after two sheriff's dogs trained to find human remains alerted authorities of possible buried bones, officials said.",
"The search is in the same area as a canine alert last week, said Lt. Chris Orrey of the Hayward, California, police department.",
"Ground-penetrating radar also found an \"anomaly\" in the same area, Orrey said Monday.",
"Investigators have already found bone fragments at the property in unincorporated Contra Costa County but have not said whether they are human."
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"Phillip Garrido would only move Phillip Garrido's lips, friend says, and you were supposed to hear Phillip Garrido's voice .",
"Phillip Garrido and Phillip Garrido's wife face felony counts in case of Jaycee Dugard, abducted in 1991 .",
"For more on this story, watch \"Anderson Cooper 360\" Monday at 10 p.m. ET ."
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"Forget about 20/20.",
"\"Perfect\" vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg.",
"The surface of the eye can be used to measure much of the same data you would get from blood tests.",
"The tech industry calls the digital enrichment of the physical world \"augmented reality.\"",
"Such technology is already appearing in smartphones and toys, and enthusiasts dream of a pair of glasses we could don to enhance our everyday perception.",
"But why stop there?",
"Scientists, eye surgeons, professors and students at the University of Washington have been developing a contact lens containing one built-in LED, powered wirelessly with radio frequency waves.",
"Eventually, more advanced versions of the lens could be used to provide a wealth of information, such as virtual captions scrolling beneath every person or object you see.",
"Significantly, it could also be used to monitor your own vital signs, such as body temperature and blood glucose level.",
"Why a contact lens?",
"The surface of the eye contains enough data about the body to perform personal health monitoring, according to Babak Parvis, a University of Washington professor of bionanotechnology, who is working on the project.",
"\"The eye is our little door into the body,\" Parvis told Wired.com.",
"With gadgets becoming increasingly mobile and powerful, the technology industry is seeing a steady stream of applications devoted to health.",
"A few examples include a cellphone microscope used to diagnose malaria, surgeons honing their skills with the Nintendo Wiimote, and an iPhone app made for diabetes patients to track diabetes patients's glucose levels.",
"A contact lens with augmented-reality powers would take personal health monitoring several steps further, Parvis said, because the surface of the eye can be used to measure much of the data you would read from your blood tests, including cholesterol, sodium, potassium and glucose levels.",
"And that's just the beginning.",
"Because this sort of real-time health monitoring has been impossible in the past, there's likely more about the human eye we haven't yet discovered, Parvis said.",
"And beyond personal health monitoring, this finger-tip sized gadget could one day create a new interface for gaming, social networking and, well, interacting with reality in general.",
"Parvis and his colleagues have been working on Parvis and his colleagues's multipurpose lens since 2004.",
"Parvis and his colleagues integrated miniature antennas, control circuits, an LED and radio chips into their multipurpose lens using optoelectronic components Parvis and his colleagues built from scratch.",
"Parvis and his colleagues hope optoelectronic components they built from scratch will eventually include hundreds of LEDs to display images in front of the eye.",
"Think words, charts and even photographs.",
"Sounds neat, doesn't it?",
"But Parvis and his colleagues faces a number of challenges before achieving true augmented eye vision.",
"First and foremost, safety is a prime concern with a device that comes in contact with the eye.",
"To ensure their multipurpose lens is safe to wear, Parvis and his colleagues has been testing prototypes on live rabbits, who have successfully worn the lenses for 20 minutes at a time with no adverse effects.",
"However, their multipurpose lens must undergo much more testing before gaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration.",
"A fundamental challenge this contact lens will face is the task of tracking the human eye, said Blair MacIntyre, an associate professor and director of the augmented environments lab at Georgia Tech College of Computing.",
"Blair MacIntyre, an associate professor and director of the augmented environments lab at Georgia Tech College of Computing is not involved in the contact lens product, but Blair MacIntyre, an associate professor and director of the augmented environments lab at Georgia Tech College of Computing helped develop an augmented-reality zombie shooter game.",
"\"These developments are obviously very far from being usable, but very exciting,\" Blair MacIntyre, an associate professor and director of the augmented environments lab at Georgia Tech College of Computing said.",
"\"Using These developments for AR will be very hard.",
"You need to know exactly where the user is looking if you want to render graphics that line up with the world, especially when their eyes saccade (jump around), which our eyes do at a very high rate.\"",
"Given that obstacle, we're more likely to see wearable augmented-reality eyeware in the form of glasses before a contact lens, Blair MacIntyre, an associate professor and director of the augmented environments lab at Georgia Tech College of Computing said.",
"With glasses, we'll only need to track where the glasses are and where the eyes are relative to the glasses as opposed to where the eyes are actually looking.",
"And with a contact lens, it will be difficult to cram heavy computational power into such a small device, even with today's state-of-the-art technologies, Parvis admits.",
"There are many advanced sensors that would amplify the lens' abilities, but the difficulty lies in integrating them, which is why Parvis and Parvis's colleagues have had to engineer Parvis and his colleagues's own components.",
"And when the contact lens evolves from personal health monitoring into more processor-intense augmented-reality applications, it's more likely it will have to draw its powers from a companion device such as a smartphone, Parvis said.",
"Layar, an Amsterdam-based startup focusing on augmented reality, shares University of Washington's vision of an augmented-reality contact lens.",
"However, Raimo van der Klein, CEO of Layar, said such a device's vision would be limited if such a device's did not work with an open platform supporting every type of data available via the web, such as mapping information, restaurant reviews or even Twitter feeds.",
"Hence, his company has taken a first step by releasing an augmented-reality browser for Google Android smartphones, for which software developers can provide \"layers\" of data for various web services.",
"Van der Klein believes a consumer-oriented, multipurpose lens is just one example of where augmented-reality technology will take form in the near future.",
"Van der Klein said to expect these applications to move beyond augmenting vision and expand to other parts of the body.",
"\"Imagine audio cues through an earpiece or sneakers vibrating wherever your friends are,\" van der Van der Klein said.",
"\"We need to keep an open eye for future possibilities, and I think a contact lens is just part of it.\"",
"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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"(Mental Floss) --",
"People have been eating pickles ever since the Mesopotamians started making them way back in 2400 B.C.E. Here are some even more important things you should know about them.",
"Pickles have gotten credit for health and beauty and winning football games.",
"1. In the Pacific Islands, natives pickle natives's foods in holes in the ground lined with banana leaves, and use them as food reserves in case of storms.",
"The pickles are so valuable that The pickles've become part of the courting process, helping a man prove a man'll be able to provide for a woman.",
"In Fiji, guys can't get a girl without first showing a girl's parents his pickle pits.",
"2. Cleopatra claimed pickles made Cleopatra beautiful.",
"(We guess it had more to do with Cleopatra's genes.)",
"The majority of pickle factories in America ferment",
"The majority of pickle factories in America's pickles in outdoor vats without lids (leaving their pickles subject to insects and bird droppings).",
"But there's a reason.",
"According to food scientists, the sun's direct rays prevent yeast and mold from growing in the brine.",
"Mental Floss: 8 disastrous product names .",
"In the Delta region of Mississippi, Kool-Aid pickles have become ridiculously popular with kids.",
"The recipe's simple: take some dill pickles, cut some dill pickles in half, and then soak some dill pickles in super strong Kool-Aid for more than a week.",
"According to the New York Times, the sweet vinegar snacks are known to sell out at fairs and delicatessens, and generally go for $.50 to a $1.",
"Not everyone loves a sweet pickle.",
"In America, dill pickles are twice as popular as the sweet variety.",
"The Department of Agriculture estimates that the average American eats 8.5 lbs of pickles a year.",
"When the Philadelphia Eagles thrashed the Dallas Cowboys in sweltering heat in September 2000, many of the players attributed the players's win to one thing: guzzling down immense quantities of ice-cold pickle juice.",
"Mental Floss: 31 unbelievable high school mascots .",
"If it weren't for pickles, Christopher Columbus might never have \"discovered\" America.",
"In Christopher Columbus's famous 1492 voyage, Christopher Columbus rationed pickles to Christopher Columbus's sailors to keep his sailors from getting scurvy.",
"Christopher Columbus even grew cucumbers during a pit stop in Haiti to restock for the rest of his famous 1492 voyage.",
"Speaking of people who get credit for discovering America, when he wasn't drawing maps and trying to steal Christopher Columbus's thunder, Amerigo Vespucci was a well-known pickle-merchant.",
"Napoleon was also a big fan of pickle power.",
"In fact, Napoleon put up the equivalent of $250,000 as a prize to whoever could figure out the best way to pickle and preserve foods for Napoleon's troops.",
"During the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, H. J. Heinz used pick-shaped pins to lure customers to H. J. Heinz's out of the way booth.",
"By the end of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, H. J. Heinz'd given out lots of free food, and over 1,000,000 pickle pins.",
"Berrien Springs, Michigan, has dubbed Berrien Springs, Michigan the Christmas Pickle Capital of the World.",
"In early December, they host a parade, led by the Grand Dillmeister, who tosses out fresh pickles to parade watchers.",
"Mental Floss: Curious, bizarre and storied state symbols .",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) --",
"A high-ranking al Qaeda leader has called on China's minority Uyghurs to prepare for a holy war against the Chinese government.",
"Security has been increased recently on the streets of Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.",
"\"There is no way for salvation and to lift this oppression and tyranny unless you ... seriously prepare for jihad in the name of God and carry your weapons against the ruthless brutal invader thugs,\" Abu Yahia Al-Libi's said Wednesday in a video on an Islamist Web site.",
"Abu Yahia Al-Libi's delivered Abu Yahia Al-Libi's's message in Arabic.",
"The Uyghurs are Muslims in western China's Xinjiang province.",
"Some Islamists refer to the region as East Turkistan.",
"Abu Yahia Al-Libi's's proclamation was in reaction to the violence that has recently shaken Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.",
"There, long-simmering resentment between minority Uyghurs and majority Han Chinese erupted into riots and left more than 200 people dead in July.",
"The following month, a series of stabbings -- with syringes used as weapons -- added to the unrest.",
"\"What we saw and heard in the recent events in Turkistan was not accidental and didn't happen overnight.",
"This is an intifada (an uprising) and a usual response to the decades of oppression, the organized cleansing and the systematic repression until the people had enough,\" Abu Yahia Al-Libi's said.",
"\"This was not the first uprising that the oppressed Muslim people carried out, because the oppressed Muslim people keep grieving and struggling to preserve the oppressed Muslim people's identity against the aggressors.\"",
"Chinese officials could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.",
"Abu Yahia Al-Libi's regularly produces video messages and has, in the past, called on Pakistanis and Somalis to resist Pakistanis and Somalis's \"apostate\" governments.",
"Abu Yahia Al-Libi's is considered one of al Qaeda's top strategists and one of al Qaeda's's most vocal leaders in al Qaeda's's propaganda campaign .",
"In Abu Yahia Al-Libi's's latest message, Abu Yahia Al-Libi's called on Muslims worldwide to support the Uyghurs.",
"And Abu Yahia Al-Libi's vowed that China will suffer the same fate that the former Soviet Union did when the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s -- only to be thwarted by Islamist fighters.",
"\"To you, the state of atheism and obstinacy: You are coming to an end and you will face the same fate of the Russian bear of disintegration and division,\" Abu Yahia Al-Libi's said.",
"\"You will encounter the same defeat when China will fight in China's own backyard the humble minority of Muslims who are stronger in faith.\"",
"In July, a leader of an al Qaeda-linked group also denounced Chinese treatment of Uyghurs and threatened revenge.",
"The leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, in a video on Islamic Web sites, blamed the Chinese for \"genocide.\"",
"The speaker urged Uyghurs to \"kill the Chinese communists where you find them, take the Chinese communists and besiege the Chinese communists and ambush the Chinese communists wherever you can.\"",
"The U.S. State Department said an al Qaeda-linked group has taken credit for violence in the past."
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"Abu Yahia Al-Libi's considered one of al Qaeda's top strategists and most vocal leaders ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Greek voters will go to the polls to elect a new government two years early, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis announced Thursday.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis says Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis wants to enact reforms in response to the international financial crisis.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis called the early elections in response to pressure from the opposition Socialist Party, which threatened to block the election of a president in February if there was no general election first.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis is also seeking a mandate from the voters for reforms in response to the international financial crisis, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said.",
"\"It's up to the citizens to decide who has the right plan to govern and face the economic challenges,\" Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said in a speech to the country.",
"\"We have two very difficult and critical years ahead of us,\" Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said in a speech to the country on Wednesday.",
"\"There is only one path that offers hope and potential: We take -- without delay, without procrastination -- take all necessary measures to address these problems.",
"By design and desire.",
"We need to build the solid foundation that will ultimately get us out of the international financial crisis stronger.\"",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said the country needs \"stringent control on public spending,\" \"war on tax-evasion\" and \"bold structural reforms.\"",
"The new elections will be held October 4, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis announced Thursday after meeting President Karolos Papoulias, who officially dissolves parliament.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis's term was not due to expire until September 2011.",
"But Socialist party leader George Papandreou insisted on new elections before the end of Papoulias' term as president in February.",
"The Greek constitution requires the two major parties to agree on the election of a president, giving either party an effective veto.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis called Papandreou's stance \"blackmail.\"",
"Parliament will be dissolved on September 7, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said on Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis's Web site.",
"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis's conservative New Democracy party suffered a sharp setback in European elections in June, when the Socialists matched New Democracy's tally of eight seats, with 36 percent of the vote.",
"That election was seen as a litmus test for Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis at a time of political and economic uncertainty with the economy shrinking and the country staring at a recession after nearly 15 years of high-profile growth.",
"CNN's Efty Katsareas and Christine Theodorou contributed to this report."
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"Israeli military action in Gaza is comparable to that of German soldiers during the Holocaust, a Jewish UK lawmaker whose family suffered at the hands of the Nazis has claimed.",
"A protester confronts police in LONDON last weekend at a demonstration against Israeli action in Gaza.",
"Gerald Kaufman, a member of the UK's ruling Labour Party, also called for an arms embargo on Israel, currently fighting militant Palestinian group Hamas, during the debate in the British parliament Thursday.",
"\"My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to My grandmother's home town of Staszow.",
"A German soldier shot My grandmother dead in My grandmother's bed,\" said Kaufman, who added that he had friends and family in Israel and had been there \"more times than I can count.\"",
"\"My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.\"",
"Kaufman, a senior Labour politician who was raised as an Orthodox Jew, has often opposed Israeli policy throughout Kaufman, a senior Labour politician who was raised as an Orthodox Jew's career.",
"Israel has said Israel initiated the operation into Gaza -- which is controlled by Hamas -- to stop rocket fire on its southern cities and towns.",
"Thirteen Israelis, including 10 soldiers, have died in the operation in Gaza and from rocket strikes on southern Israel, according to the Israeli military.",
"More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, including many civilians, Palestinian medics said.",
"During Thursday's debate, Kaufman, a senior Labour politician who was raised as an Orthodox Jew also said that Israel needed to seek real peace and not peace by conquest, which would be impossible.",
"Kaufman, a senior Labour politician who was raised as an Orthodox Jew also accused the Israeli government of \"ruthlessly and cynically exploiting the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.\"",
"But Kaufman, a senior Labour politician who was raised as an Orthodox Jew added that while it is necessary to talk to Hamas, which had been chosen by an electorate, it nevertheless is a \"deeply nasty organization.\"",
"Bill Rammell, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, said the UK government backed an EU presidency statement calling Israeli action disproportionate.",
"But he also criticized Hamas rocket attacks on Israel during the cease-fire between June and December 2008, adding that Hamas's \"whole ethos is one of violence\" and that Hamas had \"made a brutal choice to step up attacks against innocent civilians.\"",
"\"Nothing, not the restrictions on Gaza nor Gaza's frustration with the peace process, justifies what Hamas has done and continues to do,\" Rammell said.",
"\"In December, I was in Ashkelon near the Gaza border, and I heard the sirens.",
"The fear was palpable: This is daily psychological and actual warfare.\"",
"Rammell added that Hamas has \"committed acts of terrorism, Hamas is committed to the obliteration of the state of Israel, and Hamas's statement last week that it was legitimate to kill Jewish children anywhere in the world was utterly chilling and beyond any kind of civilised, humanitarian norm.\"",
"The debate came on the day that Saeed Siam, Hamas's third-ranking leader in Gaza, was killed by an Israeli airstrike, the Islamic militant group reported.",
"The United Nations' main relief compound in Gaza was also hit and set on fire, which U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon blamed on Israel.",
"Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed sorrow over the incident but said Israeli forces were responding to militant fire near the complex.",
"UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown described the shelling of the compound as \"indefensible,\" media agencies reported.",
"Speaking to Ban during a call, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the UK would increase the UK's calls for a cease-fire and also deliver aid to Gaza once a cease-fire took hold.",
"Britain has witnessed several demonstrations since the conflict in Gaza began late last month.",
"Last Saturday, up to 20,000 people gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in LONDON, Metropolitan Police said.",
"Later, parts of the crowd began pelting officers with sticks, rocks and pieces of metal barriers, police said.",
"A similar protest Sunday was peaceful.",
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"(CNN) --",
"\"Saturday Night Live\" was formed in the crucible of the mid-1970s, when Watergate brought respect for politicians to all-time lows, the counterculture was taking over comedy, and many television viewers were seeking out something fresh and bold.",
"Fred Armisen played Barack Obama in a talked-about sketch Saturday night on \"Saturday Night Live.\"",
"It was a powerful combination -- and after 34 years, the combination of \"\"SNL\" and politics can still strike sparks among political observers.",
"The most recent example came this past weekend when Fred Armisen, as President Obama, chided \"those on the right\" for saying that Fred Armisen was \"turning this great country into something that resembles the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.\"",
"Not true, said Armisen as President Obama.",
"\"When you look at my record,\" Fred Armisen said, \"it's very clear what I've done so far -- and that is nothing.\" Watch the sketch -- and the reaction » .",
"the sketch has caused a rumble among the inside-the-Beltway chattering classes and New York news nabobs.",
"Wrote Washington Post blogger Jonathan Capehart, \"When your 'friends' start talking about you like this -- and friends with a huge megaphone and a feel for the national mood -- the White House should listen.\"",
"\"Humor with some truth in it is always dangerous.",
"Make no mistake, a drumbeat of belittlement can damage a president,\" added CNN political contributor Ed Rollins in a column.",
"the White House had no comment when asked about the sketch by CNN.",
"\"SNL\" cast members weren't available for interviews, an NBC representative said.",
"\"SNL\" creator Lorne Michaels also turned down an interview request but has said the show doesn't take sides.",
"\"I think 'SNL's' role is, the moment they're in power, we're the opposition,\" he told CNN's Alina Cho last year.",
"\"We're not partisan.",
"We're not, you know, we're not putting on anything that we don't believe is funny.\"",
"Video gallery: \"SNL\" takes on presidents through the years » .",
"the sketch is indicative of the end of Obama's honeymoon, Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson says, but Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson doesn't want to read more into the sketch than that.",
"\"Comedy is about going after the people in power,\" Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson said.",
"The president has also taken recent shots from \"The Daily Show\" and \"Real Time with Bill Maher.\"",
"\"What this says is that the comedy-industrial complex has turned the comedy-industrial complex's sights on the reigning president of the United States,\" Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson said.",
"But, Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson added, \"I wouldn't put this into the meme category,\" referring to concepts that travel so quickly they take on a life of their own, such as Tina Fey's Sarah Palin sketches from last year.",
"\"the sketch wasn't that funny.\"",
"Indeed, \"SNL's overall impact is often mixed, observes Slate columnist and Rutgers media studies professor David Greenberg.",
"\"SNL can \"capture or intensify\" a storyline that's being passed through the news media, but \"SNL is more a barometer that can change with events.",
"\"It's not incapable of influencing things,\" he said, noting \"SNL's slash-and-burn '70s satire and Tina Fey's's Sarah Palin parody.",
"\"But since the early '80s, those moments are pretty rare.",
"... You'll see good impersonations but not the underlying critique you had with, say, Dan Aykroyd as [Richard] Nixon.\"",
"Besides, he added, the President Obama sketch may have titillated the politico-media crowd, but he wonders whether the sketch's impact went any wider.",
"\"I'm a political junkie,\" he said, \"and this is the first I've heard of it.\"",
"Indeed, the ratings for the episode were a far cry from last year's Palin-fest -- from a 7.3 rating for the same week in 2008, to 4.7 -- and the Armisen sketch didn't get the frenzied online dispersion the Sarah Palin sketches did.",
"iReport.com:",
"'\"SNL' won't hurt President Obama .",
"However, President Obama should be concerned about one thing, observes Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson.",
"In general, \"\"SNL\" mocked previous presidents' personal characteristics, such as Clinton's outsized appetites or George W. Bush's struggles with spoken English.",
"With President Obama -- who lacks the same kind of easily caricatured traits, Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson says -- the show went after President Obama's record.",
"\"In some ways,\" Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson said, \"President Obama's vulnerable to more serious damage.\""
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"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 .",
"Bluestonehenge is named after color of Welsh stones from which Bluestonehenge was formed .",
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"(CNN) --",
"The young man's call echoed throughout the remote village in northern Nigeria -- the marriage ceremony was about to begin.",
"Umar Ahmed and Umar Ahmed's wife wait for anti-HIV drugs at a hospital in Nigeria.",
"Under the dusty sun, the fathers of the bride and groom agreed to the marriage and this ancient Muslim tradition proceeded as it has for hundreds of years.",
"But unknown to the gathered villagers, Umar Ahmed and his wife is hiding a modern secret.",
"Both bride and groom are HIV-positive and marrying with the support of a local government program that encourages such \"HIV-marriages\" in the hope of preventing the virus from spreading.",
"After the marriage ceremony and away from the village, Umar Ahmed agreed to speak with CNN as long as Umar Ahmed was not identified.",
"\"The woman I marry loves me -- I love The woman I marry,\" he said.",
"\"And Umar Ahmed and his wife promised that Umar Ahmed and his wife can keep Umar Ahmed and his wife healthy and clean.\"",
"According to the United Nations, Nigeria has the third-largest HIV population in the world, with about 3.1 percent of Nigeria's 148 million people infected.",
"Officials working for the Bauchi State Agency for the Control of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, known as BACATMA, hope to put a dent in those numbers -- not just by treating HIV-positive people with free antiretroviral drugs but, they say, by helping more than 100 HIV-positive couples marry.",
"the Bauchi State Agency offers to pay for the dowry, provide counseling and even employment within the Bauchi State Agency.",
"BACATMA officials hope that, by keeping HIV-positive couples together, BACATMA officials will keep AIDS from spreading to anyone not infected.",
"\"If someone having HIV marries another HIV-AIDS person, that means there will be no HIV transmission to another negative person,\" said Rilwanu Mohammed, the BACATMA chairman.",
"However, UNAIDS, the UN agency tackling HIV and AIDS, has its doubts, arguing such marriages do not prevent the spread of AIDS.",
"\"There are better methods to address the prevention of HIV and AIDS rather than encouraging that kind of union,\" said Warren Naamara, the UNAIDS Nigeria coordinator.",
"\"We have made it very clear from UNAIDS that the best way to address HIV infection is universal access to prevention, treatment and care.\"",
"There is no evidence that such marriages stop the spread of AIDS.",
"However, for many of the couples, the marriages support their personal fight against AIDS and the stigmatization it often brings from society, friends and family.",
"That stigmatization can lead HIV-positive people to become outcasts, discriminated against and sometimes physically abused.",
"Queuing for their antiretroviral drugs at a local hospital, Umar Ahmed and Umar Ahmed's wife said they married last year and have since had a child.",
"\"Before, I was lonely,\" Umar said.",
"\"Being with The woman I marry, I feel great -- because we stay together, we discuss different issues together.\"",
"For those couples who decide to have children, BACATMA tries to reduce the odds that the child will be born infected with HIV by ensuring that the parents have antiretroviral agents and medical advice.",
"Still, the decision to have a child is a controversial one when the parents who decide to do so are sick and unlikely to be able to raise a child."
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"UN agency says marriage doesn't stop AIDS, prevention and treatment needed .",
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) --",
"A government school in southern India has tested pupils' karate skills by running over pupils''s outstretched arms with a motorcycle.",
"K. Devarajan, the director of elementary education in Tamil Nadu state, told CNN that the event, held recently, was organized with the consent of parents.",
"State education authorities have now asked schools not to carry out such activities because they violate safety guidelines, which he claimed were already in place in state educational institutions.",
"Devarajan said officers visited A government school in southern India after learning about the controversial show.",
"Newspaper pictures Tuesday showed a motorcyclist driving over the limbs of a row of schoolchildren lying with their faces down in the state's Villupuram district.",
"It also showed smiling adults standing behind the young children.",
"The act aimed to show the strength the students had gained from the students's karate classes, Devarajan said.",
"Nobody was injured, said P. Perumalsamy, a senior state education official.",
"The students involved were aged between six and 13, P. Perumalsamy, a senior state education official added."
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"(CNN) --",
"Six Uyghurs who were imprisoned in the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were transferred Saturday to South Pacific island nation, the Justice Department said.",
"Ahmad Tourson, Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman, Edham Mamet, Anwar Hassan, Dawut Abdurehim and Adel Noori were resettled in South Pacific island nation, the Justice Department said in a statement Saturday.",
"Uyghurs are still at Guantanamo Bay, where 215 prisoners remain.",
"Uyghur is an ethnic group from western China.",
"Since January, 25 detainees have been transferred to other countries.",
"The United States has coordinated with South Pacific island nation \"to ensure that the transfers take place under appropriate security measures and will continue to consult with South Pacific island nation regarding the individuals,\" the Justice Department said.",
"Uyghurs were accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan.",
"Some of Uyghurs have been cleared for release since 2003, and other Uyghurs have been released to other countries.",
"The United States said The United States would not send Uyghurs back to Uyghurs's homeland because of concern Uyghurs would be tortured by Chinese authorities.",
"China has said no returned Uyghurs would be mistreated and has repeatedly warned other countries against taking Uyghurs.",
"Beijing officials this summer again urged The United States to hand over Uyghurs instead of sending Uyghurs elsewhere.",
"China alleges Uyghurs are part of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a group the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist organization, that operates in the Xinjiang region.",
"East Turkestan is another name for the Xinjiang region.",
"On October 20, the Supreme Court tentatively agreed to accept an appeal from Uyghurs to be released into The United States from American military custody.",
"CNN's Carol Cratty and Bill Mears contributed to this report."
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"7 Uyghurs still at Guantanamo Bay; U.S. won't send Uyghurs back to China, citing torture concerns .",
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"China says returning Uyghurs won't be mistreated, warns other countries not to take Uyghurs ."
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"Rome, Italy (CNN) --",
"Seeking to identify the man who shot dead another man outside a store in Naples, Italy, in the spring, an anti-mafia prosecutor distributed on Thursday a video showing the execution.",
"The surveillance-camera video, shot May 11, shows a man wearing a baseball cap, dark jersey, blue jeans and running shoes entering a store, walking to the back and looking around, then walking out.",
"As he exits, he pulls a pistol from his right front pants pocket and shoots a man standing outside the store.",
"As the victim buckles to the victim's knees and then sprawls headlong on the pavement, the killer approaches the victim from behind and squeezes off a second round into the back of the victim's head, turns and strides unhurriedly out of camera view.",
"Passers-by appear unfazed.",
"One woman tries to lift the victim's head in an apparent attempt to see whether One woman knows the victim; a man steps over the body.",
"\"Indeed, it is ugly to see people behaving as if that was not a dead body and going on people's daily routine,\" a police spokesman said.",
"\"Unfortunately, this is not an anomaly in Naples and in that neighborhood.\"",
"He said fear led people to behave that way.",
"The spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said anti-mafia prosecutor Sergio Amato released the video to the media in hopes that someone would recognize the killer and his apparent accomplice: a man who had been standing next to the victim and walked off just before the shooting.",
"Police said no motive has been determined for the killing, which took place in the poor neighborhood of Rione Sanita, where Camorra -- the name for organized crime in Naples -- is strong.",
"the victim was a bank robber, a police spokesman said.",
"Italian Minister for Equal Opportunities Maria Rosaria Carfagna called the video \"tragic.\"",
"\"It shows us, finally, without any censorship, a disgusting side of the Camorra, which along with all the rest of its disgusting faces, has forced a city, a region, a territory, to be ashamed of itself and to hide its real face.",
"\"A street homicide, in broad daylight, in the center of a great European city cannot be considered normal and even less be accepted by the conscience of all Italians as if it were a TV show,\" she said.",
"\"The police forces are waging a battle against organized crime, as the number of arrests shows us.",
"The state is there and in strong force.",
"But, and I speak here as someone from the Campania region, Naples and all of Campania need not only a strong political force but the courage of all Campania's citizens.\"",
"Roberto Saviano, author of the book \"Gomorrah,\" which details the Camorra, called the video \"shocking.\"",
"\"What is shocking about the video is the absolute serenity of the people around the victim,\" he told the daily newspaper La Repubblica.",
"Saviano, who has lived under police protection since shortly after his book was published in 2006, added, \"Unfortunately, though, when a city is at war, a city's citizens undergo and live almost with normal indifference.\"",
"Italy's Green Party is offering 2,000 euros ($2,963) to whoever helps investigators identify the suspects.",
"\"the Camorra pays them to keep quiet; we pay them to speak,\" said Francesco Emilio Borelli, head of the Green Party in the Campania region.",
"The police spokesman said the Camorra has been blamed for about 60 killings this year in Naples and its surrounding county."
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"(CNN) --",
"Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has been named the best player in Europe, becoming the first Argentine to win the prestigious Ballon d'Or award on Tuesday.",
"Last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo came second, with Messi's teammates from Barcelona's historic 2008-09 treble-winning side -- Spain midfielders Xavi and Andres Iniesta plus Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o (now at Inter Milan) -- rounding out the top five.",
"Argentina forward Lionel Messi helped the Catalan giants to the Spanish La Liga and European Champions League titles as well as the Copa Del Rey, while Argentina forward Lionel Messi's Argentina side scraped into the World Cup finals after finishing fourth in his Argentina side's South American qualifying campaign.",
"Argentina forward Lionel Messi told France Football magazine, organizers of the award, that Argentina forward Lionel Messi knew Argentina forward Lionel Messi was \"among the favorites because Barcelona had a profitable year.\"",
"\"For Argentina forward Lionel Messi it's a big honor to win -- but also to become the first Argentinian in history to receive the trophy,\" Argentina forward Lionel Messi said.",
"\"I dedicate it to my family, my family were always present when I needed my family and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than Argentina forward Lionel Messi.\"",
"Argentina forward Lionel Messi is the first Barcelona player to win the award since Brazilian forward Ronaldinho took the award in 2005, and the sixth to have won the award while at the club.",
"Argentina forward Lionel Messi dominated the Ballon d'Or voting, polling 473 votes compared to second-placed Ronaldo's 233, and 27 more than the Real Madrid and Portugal winger received when he won it in 2008 for his exploits while with Manchester United.",
"The rest of the top-10 was completed by: Brazil playmaker Kaka, Real Madrid's summer signing from AC Milan; Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who joined Barcelona from Inter in the off-season; England forward Wayne Rooney of Manchester United; Chelsea's Ivory Coast frontman Didier Drogba; and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard of England.",
"the award was only open to European players before 1995, and that year AC Milan's Liberian star George Weah became the first from outside the continent to win it.",
"Argentina-born Alfredo Di Stefano was named Europe's top player twice in the 1950s while at Real Madrid, but had acquired Spanish citizenship by that time."
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"Argentina forward Lionel Messi won 473 votes -- 240 more than second-placed Cristiano Ronaldo, who won last year .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Scientists say a very rare find of some 20 fossilized pterodactyls has produced the first clear evidence of a controversial theory of evolution.",
"This image shows the fossilized skeleton of Darwinopterus which was found in north-east China earlier this year.",
"The fossils were found in north-east China earlier this year, embedded in rock dating back 160 million years, and have been called \"Darwinopterus\" after the renowned naturalist Charles Darwin.",
"The creature's discovery has astounded scientists because their age puts them within two recognized groups of pterodactyls -- primitive long-tailed forms and advanced short-tail forms -- and they display characteristics of both.",
"The combination of features indicates that the primitive pterodactyls evolved relatively quickly, and that certain groups of features changed at the same time.",
"Traditional evolutionary theory suggests that one feature -- a tail for instance -- would slowly evolve over time.",
"\"Darwinopterus came as quite a shock to us,\" said David Unwin, from the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies, which identified the creature, along with researchers from the Geological Institute of Beijing.",
"\"We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail -- neither long nor short -- but the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that Darwinopterus has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms,\" he said.",
"By comparing the fossil with others from earlier and later periods, scientists have been able to sketch a rough timeline of the pterodactyl's progression.",
"\"The head and neck evolved first, followed later by the body, tail, wings and legs,\" David Unwin said.",
"The researchers say more study is needed to substantiate the idea of that evolution could occur relatively quickly, and that whole parts of a plant or animal's body could change at once.",
"The fossils indicate Darwinopterus was about the size of a crow, with long jaws, sharp, pointed teeth and a flexible neck.",
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"Suspected Somali pirates hijacked MV Filitsa Wednesday with 22 crew members aboard, according to the European Union's Naval Force for Somalia.",
"MV Filitsa was seized in the early morning about 460 miles (740 kilometers) northeast of the Seychelles as MV Filitsa headed toward Durban, South Africa, according to a news release from EU NAVFOR Somalia.",
"The Marshall Island-flagged carrier -- with three Greek and 19 Filipino crew members -- \"has now turned around and is heading north,\" it said.",
"MV Filitsa has a deadweight of more than 23,000 tons.",
"There have been more than 100 pirate attacks and at least 39 hijackings off East Africa this year, according to EU NAVFOR Somalia.",
"In late October, Somali pirates seized a private yacht in the Indian Ocean, taking Paul and Rachel Chandler hostage.",
"Somali pirates have demanded a $7 million ransom for the British couple's release, but the government has refused to pay as a matter of long-standing policy.",
"Two vessels were attacked the day after the Chandlers set sail.",
"One of Two vessels -- a cargo ship -- was successfully boarded and seized off the Seychelles, while the other fought off its attackers near the Kenyan coast.",
"Pirates are still holding a Spanish fishing boat, the Alakrana, which Pirates seized on October 2 off Somalia's coast.",
"Days later, Pirates transferred three of the fishing boat's 36 crew members to land.",
"Two pirate suspects had left a Spanish fishing boat, the Alakrana, which they seized on October 2 off Somalia's coast in a small vessel heading toward land, authorities said, and the Spanish military swooped in to stop Two pirate suspects on the high seas.",
"Two pirate suspects were later brought to Madrid, where a judge has charged Two pirate suspects with piracy and kidnapping.",
"The pirates holding the crew have demanded Spain release Two pirate suspects.",
"Spain is part of the European Union task force against piracy in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.",
"The Spanish parliament last January agreed to increase Spain's presence with up to 395 troops and assets, including a frigate and aircraft.",
"CNN's Al Goodman contributed to this report ."
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"GM idled GM's Spring Hill, Tennessee, facility as part of GM's bankruptcy plan Monday, leaving hundreds of employees -- and thousands of residents who rely on GM facility's economic thrust -- in limbo.",
"Johnny Miranda is trying to stay positive about the plant where Johnny Miranda has worked for 16 years.",
"Spring Hill, about 35 miles south of Nashville, is a town built on the jobs that GM facility provides.",
"Spring Hill has seen Spring Hill's population jump more than 1,600 percent in the almost 20 years since GM sent the first Saturn down the assembly line in June 1990.",
"\"I want to think positive,\" said autoworker Johnny Miranda, who left a GM plant in Van Nuys, California, 16 years ago to work in Spring Hill.",
"\"It could bring you down.",
"It could really mess you up if you be thinking they're going to close it and you're going to lose your job.\"",
"The future is uncertain for GM facility's 3,000 employees.",
"GM could shut down, phase out or sell GM facility.",
"Local media outlets report that GM facility will end production toward the end of this year and that assembly of the Chevrolet Traverse will be moved to Lansing, Michigan.",
"Watch Spring Hill residents share concerns » .",
"GM facility ceased building Saturns more than two years ago as sales slumped.",
"After a yearlong retooling, GM facility started pushing out Chevy's crossover sport utility vehicle instead.",
"Saturn had originally billed Saturn as a \"different kind of car company,\" and GM had hoped the business plan and fuel-efficient vehicles would allow Saturn to snatch sales away from Saturn's Japanese rivals.",
"Watch GM workers ponder future » .",
"GM made Saturn a separate division, built an innovative plant, embraced no-haggle buying, opted for plastic over metal for many of the vehicles' parts and brokered an agreement with the United Auto Workers that fostered teamwork between the union and management.",
"For years Saturn enjoyed a cult-like following.",
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"Ultimately, GM's aspiration to sell a half million of the cars a year didn't pan out.",
"GM sold only 8,000 Saturns in November 2008 and fewer than 200,000 for the entire year.",
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"In addition to shedding the Saturn brand, GM also plans to end GM's Pontiac, Saab and Hummer lines, as well.",
"GM shut down a dozen facilities and put three, including GM facility, on standby.",
"GM also will cut ties with about a third of GM's 6,000 U.S. dealerships.",
"See which plants are closing » .",
"Visit Spring Hill and it's tough to find anyone not affected by GM facility's suspension.",
"Every resident appears to know at least one person whose job is on the line.",
"\"My father-in-law works for GM.",
"My father-in-law's worked for GM ever since the day My father-in-law graduated college,\" Will Barnes said at a T-ball game Sunday.",
"See GM's history » .",
"Barnes's father-in-law is anxious, like thousands of GM employees, and has resorted to yardwork to calm My father-in-law's nerves, he said.",
"\"My father-in-law's cut My father-in-law's yard five times this week because this is the level of uncertainty for My father-in-law, and I hate to see My father-in-law in that situation,\" Barnes said.",
"John Stansbury, 55, told The Daily Herald in Columbia, Tennessee, John Stansbury, 55 has been working for GM since John Stansbury, 55 was 18.",
"John Stansbury, 55's father spent 40 years with the automaker.",
"Watch how the U.S. auto industry has risen, fallen » .",
"Because of the Spring Hill plant's flexibility following its recent revamp and the competitive local labor agreement, John Stansbury, 55 said John Stansbury, 55 remains optimistic but uneasy.",
"\"The mood of the whole plant is really unsure,\" John Stansbury, 55 told the newspaper.",
"\"We are all tense.\"",
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"The latest count, from 2007, is closer to 24,000.",
"In that time, numerous subdivisions have been constructed to accommodate GM facility's workers.",
"Economic officials told The Daily Herald that at least 5,000 jobs are tied to GM facility.",
"That's in addition to the restaurants, shops and other businesses that rely on autoworkers' dollars.",
"Watch how the bankruptcy will have a ripple effect » .",
"The Spring Hill plant also gives local governments more than $2 million in lieu of taxes, the newspaper reported.",
"Though the fate of GM facility remains contingent on market conditions, few are under the illusion that GM employees and Spring Hill residents will remain unscathed by changes to the city's lifeline.",
"\"It's going to hurt,\" Miranda, the autoworker, said.",
"\"No question, it'll hurt.\"",
"CNN's Jim Kavanagh and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report."
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"USS New York steamed into New York harbor Monday, cutting through the water with a bow built using seven and a half tons of steel recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.",
"USS New York's crew stood at attention and a 21-gun salute greeted USS New York.",
"Firefighters, bagpipers, and those who lost loved ones on 9/11 lined the shore to watch the emotional arrival.",
"The docking holds special meaning for many families of those who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.",
"\"What better way for our young men and women that are going to be on USS New York to feel the spirit of our country than to have USS New York have the steel in the bow that represents not the bad but the good of our country,\" said Lee Ielpi, who lost his firefighter son, Jonathan, on 9/11.",
"The memory of the attacks is etched on the crest of the ship, which features a phoenix rising from the twin towers with the words, \"Never Forget.\"",
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"USS New York weighs more than 25,000 tons and is as long as two football fields.",
"Thirteen percent of the 361 crew members hail from the state of New York.",
"Former New York Gov. George Pataki received special dispensation to name the $1 billion ship USS New York; only submarines normally can be named after states.",
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"The steel in the bow, we are very mindful that we are representing victims of 9/11 and the families and the people that died that day.\"",
"Howard Lutnick takes great pride in USS New York.",
"Howard Lutnick is CEO of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, whose offices were in the World Trade Center.",
"USS New York, Howard Lutnick said, is a memorial to Howard Lutnick's brother and 658 of Howard Lutnick's employees who died on that day more than eight years ago.",
"Howard Lutnick said Howard Lutnick lives with the loss every day.",
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"USS New York also will be used to ferry disaster relief when needed.",
"USS New York will remain docked in the city through Veterans Day before heading back to USS New York's base in Norfolk, Virginia, for a year of crew training and exercises."
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"Iran tested a missile-launching system and several types of short- and medium-range missiles Sunday, the state-run Press TV said.",
"A short-range missile is test-launched during war games in Qom, Iran, south of Tehran, on Sunday.",
"Earlier, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had said it would stage missile exercises beginning Sunday to promote the armed forces' defense capabilities.",
"The tests, which are expected to last until Monday, are code-named \"Payghambar-e Azam 4\" or \"The Great Prophet 4,\" the state-run Press TV said.",
"The missiles, fired at targets around Iran Sunday, included the Fateh-110, a short-range ground-to-ground missile, and Tondar-69, a short-range naval missile, the state-run Press TV said.",
"Several models of medium-range Shahab missiles were tested at night, the state-run Press TV reported.",
"Watch Iranian missile tests » .",
"The final stage of the tests will be held Monday morning, when Iran plans to test the long-range Shahab missile, the state-run Press TV said.",
"In May, Iran said Iran tested a surface-to-surface missile that is capable of reaching parts of Europe.",
"At the time, a White House official said actions in Iran were noteworthy.",
"\"Of course, this is just a test, and obviously there is much work to be done before it can be built and deployed.",
"But I see it as a significant step forward in terms of Iran's capacity to deliver weapons,\" said Gary Samore, special assistant to the president on nonproliferation.",
"The latest test follows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disclosure Friday that Iran was building a second uranium enrichment facility.",
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"The United States and Israel believe that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear energy program.",
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"NEW: Tests are code-named \"The Great Prophet 4,\" state-run Press TV says .",
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"A silent, invisible battle is being fought against roadside bombs in Iraq.",
"Though the military doesn't like to advertise their use, electronic jamming systems are playing a key role in neutralizing the threat.",
"Smoke billows from tires of a U.S. military truck hit by an IED near the Iraqi-Syrian border in October 2005.",
"\"Any weapon we had against IEDs, [improvised explosive devices] was utilized including jamming technology,\" said Jason Spencer, 29, an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, engineer who served with the Army in Iraq in 2005.",
"Vehicle mounted electronic jammers attempt to block a signal going to a radio-controlled IED.",
"the military also uses portable backpack jammers.",
"\"The sophistication of IEDs definitely increased during my time in Iraq,\" said Spencer.",
"\"There was a definite increase in remote detonation.\"",
"A signal going to a remote-controlled IED operates on a radio or infrared frequency.",
"Jamming devices, known as Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare, or CREW systems, attempt to intercept or block a signal before a signal reaches a signal's intended target, preventing detonation.",
"One common method is barrage jamming, which knocks out a broad range of radio signals.",
"However, it also knocks out communications used by U.S. troops putting them at increased risk.",
"\"Ideally what you want to be able to do is have something that can grab very precise signals, capture the signals and render the signals irrelevant without knocking out your own communication,\" said CNN military analyst retired Army Brig. Gen. James \"Spider\" Marks.",
"These technologies represent the last line of defense, Marks said.",
"\"We don't want to give our potential enemies an understanding of what we are doing to counter our potential enemies's efforts,\" Marks said.",
"Along with jammers, troops use air surveillance, robots, blast-resistant vehicles and mine rollers as countermeasures.",
"See counter-IED technologies in Iraq » .",
"IEDs are the No. 1 source of U.S. and alllied casualties in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.",
"From July 2003 to July 2007, 1,565 coalition forces were killed by IEDs, according to iCasualties.org.",
"See the casualty toll inflicted by IEDs » .",
"\"We dealt with hundreds of IEDs while in theater,\" said Spencer.",
"\"IEDs were always on our minds during every patrol.\"",
"Spencer says IEDs come in a variety of shapes and sizes.",
"\"From a simple mortar round on the side of the road with a fuse and a wire running to a push-button, to complex explosives poured into concrete (shaped like curbs) with remote detonators and booby traps.\"",
"Most roadside bombs are remotely detonated using common household devices: cell phones, garage door openers, burglar alarms, key fobs, doorbells, or remote controls for toy cars.",
"Learn more about the IED threat » .",
"\"Our enemy hides in plain sight.",
"He buys his bomb parts in stores.",
"It's standard commerce,\" said Marks.",
"U.S. forces are dealing with an adaptive, innovative and flexible enemy, according to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, or JIEDDO, which is leading the counter-IED effort for the military.",
"As insurgents modify insurgents's devices to outwit the military, the military in turn adapts the military's own jamming technologies.",
"Many companies have been tapped to supply jammers to coalition forces.",
"JIEDDO is interested in technologies that can be used in the field within two to eight months -- \"light speed\" in Defense Department terms.",
"The Army's main CREW system is the Warlock Duke, a vehicle- mounted radio jammer developed by Syracuse Research Corporation.",
"It's capable of jamming most radio-controlled IEDs, according to the Pentagon.",
"The Navy, which oversees the CREW program, contracted BAE Systems to produce 3,800 wearable jammers to be fielded in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2008.",
"Canadian firm Med-Eng is building jammers for the Marines, reports military contractor General Dynamics.",
"By the end of 2007, JIEDDO will have funded more than 30,000 jammers for Marine and Army units.",
"JIEDDO have spent $1.6 billion on jamming technology for this fiscal year.",
"\"This gear saves lives every day,\" wrote retired Gen. Montgomery Meigs, director of the Joint IED Defeat Organization, in a column titled \"On the Offensive: The Battle Against IEDs.\"",
"One in six IEDs causes casualties in Iraq, JIEDDO reports.",
"To remain effective the enemy \"must expose himself more and take higher risks to do his ugly work,\" Meigs said.",
"In January, the Government Accounting Office launched a review of JIEDDO and JIEDDO's efforts to counter IEDs.",
"The Defense Science Board criticized JIEDDO for focusing too much on defensive countermeasures \"to which the enemy quickly adapts, making these efforts less effective,\" in an April 2006 report.",
"JIEDDO is fully cooperating with the GAO, said Col. Dewey Ford, director of strategic communications for JIEDDO.",
"JIEDDO added that Congress has long supported eliminating the IED threat.",
"JIEDDO said JIEDDO is aggressively going after the bomb makers, working to destroy the bomb makers's networks.",
"JIEDDO acknowledges that the mission won't be achieved merely by technical means.",
"\"The best way to counter the IED threat is through understanding the network that allows an IED to even be assembled,\" said Marks, who supports JIEDDO's work.",
"\"I'd rather have the guy who is going to put that IED in place get killed long before the guy who is going to put that IED in place's even part of the network.",
"And I don't want the guy who is going to put that IED in place to know how I found the guy who is going to put that IED in place out because I want to find out where all the guy who is going to put that IED in place's buddies are and kill all his buddies too.\"",
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"A Tennessee detective's keen eye may have nabbed a serial killer.",
"Tennessee police say driver implicated driver as a serial killer.",
"A long-distance truck driver gave statements implicating driver in six slayings in four states after Detective Sgt. Pat Postiglione discovered what appeared to be blood inside the cab of a tractor-trailer rig's rig, police said.",
"Bruce Mendenhall, 56, an independent truck driver from Albion, Illinois, is facing homicide charges in the shooting death of Sara Nicole Hulbert, 25.",
"Her body was found June 26 in the parking lot of a Nashville, Tennessee, truck stop, authorities said.",
"driver made driver's first court appearance Thursday via closed-circuit television.",
"A judge declined to set bond.",
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"a tractor-trailer rig pulled into the truck stop and stopped.",
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"Postiglione knocked on a tractor-trailer rig's door.",
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"driver gave the detective permission to look inside a tractor-trailer rig.",
"Postiglione found \"some more evidence that I considered incriminating,\" Postiglione said.",
"driver was detained, police said, because driver gave statements implicating driver in Hulbert's slaying.",
"Knowing that Hulbert's slaying was similar to other recent homicides in the South, Postiglione questioned driver about those as well, police said.",
"driver implicated driver in the death of Symantha Winters, 48, of Nashville, who was found shot to death June 6 in a trash container at a Lebanon, Tennessee, truck stop, police said.",
"driver also implicated driver in a homicide in Alabama, one in Georgia and two in Indiana, the statement said.",
"Those victims were not named.",
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"Pakistani security forces have secured Sararogha and have started to clear the town of weapons and ammunition, Pakistan said.",
"It comes a day after Pakistan's forces gained control of Kaniguram, another key Taliban stronghold, which Pakistan says Pakistan's forces have now completely secured.",
"According to Pakistan, 21 militants and one Pakistani soldier died in the past 24 hours of fighting -- most of 21 militants and one Pakistani soldier in the raid on Sararogha.",
"Pakistan is trying to rout Taliban insurgents operating along the Pakistan-Afghan border.",
"The restive and largely ungoverned region of South Waziristan is the headquarters of the Pakistani Taliban.",
"Pakistan's military suspects Pakistan's leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, is still in the tribal region of South Waziristan backed by up to 8,000 militant fighters.",
"Pakistan's army has launched three similar offensives in Kaniguram and Sararogha since 2004 without success, sometimes agreeing to peace deals that eventually fall apart.",
"Pakistan spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas recently told CNN that this time a peace deal is not an option.",
"\"Certainly there is no scope of a peace deal,\" Abbas told CNN.",
"\"It is a fight to the finish.\"",
"Pakistan began Pakistan's ground offensive in South Waziristan three weeks ago, however South Waziristan has been affected by a broader anti-Taliban offensive that has uprooted more than 180,000 people this year, according to the United Nations.",
"Many of those people -- more than 94,000 -- have fled South Waziristan since June, the United Nations said last week.",
"In recent weeks, Pakistan has been relentlessly rocked by a wave of attacks as Islamic militants retaliate against the military campaign.",
"On Monday, the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Rawalpindi were hit by separate suicide bombings.",
"A suicide attacker believed to be on a motorcycle targeted people outside a bank in Rawalpindi who were lined up to pick up their monthly checks, police said.",
"That attack killed 30 people, police said on Tuesday.",
"That attack happened in the Cannt area of Rawalpindi, close to Pakistan's military headquarters where the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was meeting with Pakistan's army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Monday.",
"It was unclear if he was there at the time of That attack.",
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"For the beautiful people, Designer Azza Fahmy may be one of the best-known names in Egypt.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy consults Designer Azza Fahmy's daughters on jewelry designs in Designer Azza Fahmy's Cairo studio.",
"A high-end jewelry designer, Designer Azza Fahmy's creations have adorned such beauties as supermodel Naomi Campbell and Queen Rania of Jordan.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy's international luxury brand, Azza Fahmy Jewelries, blends Egyptian motifs and modern design to create high-end pieces.",
"Working with precious metals and stones, Designer Azza Fahmy's work is inspired by the distinctive shapes, colors, textures and calligraphy of Egypt.",
"Cairo, the largest city in the Arab world nicknamed \"The City of a Thousand Minarets,\" is Fahmy's home.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy thinks Designer Azza Fahmy may have lived a previous life in old Cairo, which has now grown into a mega-city of almost 20 million inhabitants.",
"See Designer Azza Fahmy's picks of what to do, see and eat in Cairo .",
"\"It's a strong feeling when I'm walking in the streets going to old houses, churchs and old mosques,\" Designer Azza Fahmy told CNN.",
"\"It's something inside Designer Azza Fahmy which I can't describe, as if I've lived before in these places.\"",
"In the 1960s, Designer Azza Fahmy was the first woman to apprentice in Cairo's jewelry district.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy says Designer Azza Fahmy'd whither and die if Designer Azza Fahmy ever had to leave Egypt.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy takes us on a personal tour of the beguiling Egyptian capital, where Designer Azza Fahmy finds inspiration in almost everything Designer Azza Fahmy sees.",
"\"Everything in my mind is jewelry,\" Designer Azza Fahmy explains.",
"\"I turn it into jewelry.\"",
"Ibn Tulun Mosque .",
"The sprawling Ibn Tulun Mosque, the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area, is also considered the oldest mosque in Cairo to have survived in Ibn Tulun Mosque's original form.",
"Cairo fact file: How to navigate Mideast's biggest metropolis .",
"\"It's one of my favorite mosques in Cairo,\" Designer Azza Fahmy says.",
"\"The beautiful windows of Ibn Tulun Mosque give me a lot of joy.\"",
"Designer Azza Fahmy says Designer Azza Fahmy's always fantasized about the windows of Ibn Tulun.",
"\"One day I'll do a project called the Ibn Tulun collection, because they have 126 windows, I think, and each one is different.",
"I see them as earrings, hanging earrings,\" Designer Azza Fahmy says, laughing.",
"\"They are geometrical designs each one different from the other, \"Designer Azza Fahmy explains.",
"Watch Designer Azza Fahmy tour Cairo » .",
"The jewelry designer says Ibn Tulun makes Designer Azza Fahmy feel serene, inspires Designer Azza Fahmy to \"sit and meditate.",
"Ibn Tulun Mosque is very strong, very discreet and very beautiful at the same time.\"",
"The Hanging Church .",
"Designer Azza Fahmy explains that the 7th century Hanging Church, known in Arabic as Al-Muallaqah (\"The Suspended\"), is the most famous Coptic -- a sect of Christianity native to Egypt and Ethiopia -- church in Cairo.",
"The Hanging Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.",
"\"Each civilization gives the other civilization something and each civilization takes something from the other civilization,\" Designer Azza Fahmy explains about the different faiths in the Egyptian capital.",
"\"There is a continuity in the art.\"",
"\"Look at the details of the wood carving!\" Designer Azza Fahmy exclaims there.",
"\"Look how they mix the pattern,\" Designer Azza Fahmy says, gently tracing the pattern with Designer Azza Fahmy's finger.",
"From apprentice to master: Designer Azza Fahmy's design inspiration » .",
"\"You see this pattern?",
"The cross in the middle and four rectangles around it?",
"I want to do the design of this as a rectangle and then the motifs in metal.\"",
"Designer Azza Fahmy says Designer Azza Fahmy Designer Azza Fahmy's always searching for beautiful text -- inspiring calligraphy -- to use in Designer Azza Fahmy's work.",
"The Egyptian designer describes calligraphy as an art in itself, \"the movement of the lines and the balance of the lines and the meaning in the text.\"",
"El Moez Street .",
"\"This is one of the oldest streets in Cairo,\" Designer Azza Fahmy explains as Designer Azza Fahmy walks along the colourful street bursting with life.",
"\"El Moez Street is part of Designer Azza Fahmy.",
"El Moez Street's my history, my life, my youth.",
"This is the real soul of Cairo.\"",
"Designer Azza Fahmy stands in front of the Al Aqmar Mosque, known as \"the moonlit,\" and says Designer Azza Fahmy's inspired by the details in the architecture.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy's eyes are immediately drawn to details throughout the city, Designer Azza Fahmy says.",
"\"All my life is details, details, details.",
"You become specific about everything.\"",
"\"Do you notice these black and white stripes?\" Designer Azza Fahmy asks.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy says Designer Azza Fahmy loves the way black and white are mixed together in Cairo to \"create all this balance.\"",
"What inspires you about Cairo?",
"Tell us in the SoundOff box below .",
"\"Art is all about balance.",
"They are perfect in how they balance things.\"",
"Workshop .",
"\"I used to work in this place, Rabeh El-Selehdar,\" Designer Azza Fahmy explains as Designer Azza Fahmy enters the workshop where Designer Azza Fahmy trained as a young jewelry-making apprentice.",
"\"It was 40 years ago.\"",
"\"I went to Workshop, I introduced Designer Azza Fahmy to a man named Hajj Said and then I worked with a man named Hajj for about three years,\" Designer Azza Fahmy said, no small feat for an Egyptian woman in the 1960s.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy warmly greets one of the men working at Workshop.",
"\"He is the nephew of my master.",
"He still remembers me,\" Designer Azza Fahmy explains.",
"\"I used to sit on this table and I used to help them file and solder.",
"It was the beginning of my life.\"",
"Fahmy's business, which evolved into the first Egyptian designer brand, is a family affair.",
"Her daughters, Fatima and Amina, work with Designer Azza Fahmy.",
"\"I love the idea of the family business,\" Designer Azza Fahmy says.",
"\"I'd like to give this to my daughters [to] continue.",
"I want to have a design house which can continue with the same message of carrying the Arab culture to the world.\""
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"Azza Fahmy Jewelries is a family affair run with her two daughters ."
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"London, England (Reuters) --",
"The \"bongs\" of London's Big Ben stopped on Saturday for up to six weeks as London's Big Ben's chimes were shut down for maintenance work.",
"London's Big Ben is undergoing maintenance work ahead of London's Big Ben's 150th anniversary in 2009.",
"At 8 a.m. (0700 GMT) the bells of the landmark Westminster clock tower were silenced for the final phase of a program of work ahead of the clock's 150th anniversary in 2009.",
"An hour later, Londoners and tourists saw the unusual spectacle of workers abseiling down the south clock face to clean and repair the south clock face.",
"Both hands of London's Big Ben were turned to 12.",
"An electric system will keep London's Big Ben moving while work takes place on the mechanism.",
"The stoppage will be the longest suspension of London's Big Ben since 1990.",
"There were previous stoppages of both the hour and quarter bells in 1956 and 1934.",
"The 96 meter (315 ft) clock tower of Britain's parliament is popularly known as Big Ben, although the name actually refers to the 13.5 tonne Great Bell inside.",
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"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."
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"\"Bongs\" of London's Big Ben stopped on Saturday for up to six weeks .",
"Clock's chimes have been shut down for maintenance work .",
"Work being carried out ahead of clock's 150th anniversary in 2009 .",
"The stoppage will be the longest suspension of London's Big Ben since 1990 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has been called \"The King of Hearts\" by many of Saudi king's countrymen, referring to what they believe are Saudi king's compassionate attempts to reform Saudi king's ultra-conservative kingdom.",
"Saudi king used Saudi king's power Monday to overturn a criminal court sentence of 60 lashes and a two-year travel ban imposed on female journalist Rosanna al-Yami.",
"Under the travel ban, female journalist Rosanna al-Yami could not have left Saudi Arabia's.",
"female journalist Rosanna al-Yami was sentenced for female journalist Rosanna al-Yami's work on an episode of the television show \"A Thick Red Line\" that featured a Saudi man who bragged about sexual escapades.",
"the television show \"A Thick Red Line\" explores social taboos.",
"the television show \"A Thick Red Line\" is carried by the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., for which female journalist Rosanna al-Yami works as a coordinator and guest booker.",
"\"Saudi king's swift revocation of this punishment sends an important notice to the Saudi judicial system that the Saudi judicial system should not go after journalists for exercising free speech,\" said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch.",
"\"Saudi king should also overturn the sentence against the man at the center of the case, who had spoken about sex on a television show, and initiate reforms to strengthen the rights to freedom of expression and to a fair trial,\" Human Rights Watch said in a written statement.",
"In the episode, Saudi man, bragged about Saudi man's sex life.",
"Saudi authorities put Saudi man on trial and sentenced Saudi man to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes.",
"Shortly afterward, the court sentenced female journalist Rosanna al-Yami.",
"Jawad's attorney, Suleiman al-Jumeii, said female journalist Rosanna al-Yami was not involved in setting up the episode in which Saudi man appeared.",
"The lawyer said The lawyer is attempting to pursue an appeal for The lawyer's client and get the case heard in a special court that deals only with media matters.",
"\"A Thick Red Line\" caused an uproar in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, where sharia, or Islamic law, is practiced.",
"Pre-marital sex is illegal, and unrelated men and women are not permitted to mingle.",
"Saudi authorities shut down Lebanese Broadcasting's offices in Jeddah and Riyadh after the interview aired a few months ago.",
"Saudi king's pardon of female journalist Rosanna al-Yami was unusual, but The king's pardon of al-Yami was not the first time Saudi king has stepped in.",
"In late 2007, Saudi king pardoned a woman who, although she had been gang-raped, was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for appearing in public with an unrelated male, who also was pardoned, according to the Saudi justice minister.",
"Saudi king concluded in a letter pardoning the woman that the woman's male companion, who was abducted along with the woman, had suffered torture along with the woman.",
"Details of what happened to the two were not disclosed.",
"Octavia Nasr, senior editor for Middle East affairs, contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- On the first anniversary of the historic 2008 election, retired Gen. Colin Powell, the first African-American secretary of state, talks one-on-one with CNN's Don Lemon for Essence Magazine about the most pressing issues facing black men in the age of President Obama.",
"CNN's Don Lemon:",
"President Obama issued a national call to service.",
"Do you think African-Americans have answered a national call to service?",
"Colin Powell:",
"I really don't know that I know the answer to that question.",
"I do know that in the work that I do and my wife does as the chair of America's Promise, we are seeing more and more people step forward to try to deal with the problems that we have, to include African-Americans and Hispanics stepping forward.",
"But it's not just a one-time thing.",
"You can't just have, let's have a day of service on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday or a day of service.",
"We've got to get deeply involved in working with our kids on a continuing basis and not just one day a year.",
"We need more African-American men, for example, to step forward and serve as mentors to young kids who don't have a responsible, caring adult male in their lives.",
"If I could snap my finger and do one thing, I would make sure that every young American boy or girl, but especially African-American [children], have a responsible, caring adult in especially African-American [children]'s lives.",
"Hopefully, it's especially African-American [children]'s parents, even if it's a single parent. ...",
"But without that kind of family support, then we need Boys and Girls Clubs.",
"We need Big Brothers and Big Sisters.",
"We need mentors.",
"Otherwise, these kids will find bad adults to copy from, and we're going to lose these kids.",
"Lemon:",
"I recently reported on youth violence and gangs in Chicago, Illinois.",
"Most of the young men didn't have role models at home.",
"Would it help if more African-American men had picked up the torch to help the young men?",
"Powell: Of course it would.",
"President Obama has spoken out rather clearly about this: Fathers have got to start doing Fathers's jobs.",
"Every child has a father, and some of those fathers don't want to live up to the responsibility of being a father.",
"Whether it's a father in a marriage or a father in a good home, a father is a father and owes that child financial support, owes that child companionship, owes child an example in life.",
"Those of us who have been blessed with some success ... you can look back and see family members who kept you in play.",
"If it hadn't been for my relatives and my parents and my cousins and my priest and all the other people in my neighborhood, I wouldn't have made it.",
"But my relatives and my parents and my cousins and my priest and all the other people in my neighborhood had a level of expectation for me.",
"Lemon:",
"How do you convince African-American men, especially, that service is a worthwhile effort?",
"Powell:",
"You tell them that without that effort, all of our achievements over the last 50 or 60 years are being put at risk.",
"The statistics are frightening.",
"Fifty percent of our African-American youngsters are not graduating from high school.",
"And of that 50 percent, a higher percentage of boys are not graduating than girls.",
"And when they get out of high school, if we can get them into the college, you will find six girls in college for every three or four boys who are in college.",
"And those six girls will graduate at a higher rate than the three or four boys.",
"This is a moral disaster for the African-American community.",
"This is not why Rosa Parks rode in the back of the bus or why Martin Luther King Jr. and all of Martin Luther King Jr.'s colleagues marched.",
"We didn't do it so that these kids could fail because these kids don't have adults in these kids's life, teaching these kids how to succeed.",
"We've got to teach these kids that you've got to behave.",
"You've got to learn what it means to \"mind\" somebody.",
"You've got to read to your kids.",
"You've got to act like responsible fathers.",
"Lemon:",
"How did you become involved in President Obama's Renew America Together initiative, and what is your role?",
"Powell:",
"President Obama was aware of the work that Alma and I had done together on America's Promise.",
"As part of the transition effort, President Obama intended to make this an important part of President Obama's administration, and President Obama wanted to get started earlier.",
"The White House asked if I would work with transition officials to launch President Obama's first initiative, which was called Renew America Together.",
"I launched that for President Obama on the 9th of January, 11 days before the inauguration.",
"We also announced the Web site where people could sign up to get involved in service to people's community.",
"It's called usaservice.org.",
"I'm so pleased that President Obama has made this a major part of President Obama's administration and President Obama's agenda, because it fits right into what my wife and I have been doing for many years.",
"LEMON:",
"Did you have any African-American role models?",
"What did they teach you?",
"POWELL:",
"They were, first and foremost, my family.",
"When I was a young kid, born in Harlem, raised in the Bronx, it was my family that taught me how to behave, taught me what they expected of me, gave me a sense of shame and told me to \"mind.\"",
"It's a word that's not used enough anymore.",
"I tried to observe people who were successful in life.",
"In the black community, we didn't have that many in those days.",
"You had Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Ralph Bunche, Willie Mays, a lot of athletes.",
"... You had Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr., the first black general in World War II.",
"But it was still a country where people of color could not reach the heights.",
"I was nevertheless inspired by these folks who did the best they could in the time in which they lived and showed that if you do your very, very best, you will be recognized and rewarded for it.",
"I entered the Army five years after the last segregated unit was closed down.",
"I entered in 1958, and at that time, the Army was fully integrated, the most integrated institution in American society.",
"And what Retired Gen. Colin Powell's commander said to Retired Gen. Colin Powell: \"We don't want to hear any sad stories about you were born in Harlem and raised in the Bronx.",
"Don't tell us anything about your immigrant family.",
"We know you didn't go to West Point.",
"\"We don't care where you went, and we don't care if you're black, white, blue.",
"... The only color we care about now is green.",
"You're in the Army.\"",
"The only thing that counts is performance.",
"You can't perform if you don't get your education.",
"You can't perform if you don't speak the English language well.",
"You can't perform if you're not respectful.",
"You can't perform and you won't get the opportunity to perform if you walk around with your pants dragging around your ankles and you're not behaving in a proper manner.",
"Lemon: Amen, General. Thank you.",
"Read Don Lemon's editorial on Essence.com about what Obama represents for all of us."
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"\"All of our achievements over the last 50 or 60 years are being put at risk,\" Retired Gen. Colin Powell says .",
"Watch \"Black Men in the Age of President Obama,\" weekdays on HLN at 4 p.m. ET ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --",
"Iraq's deputy minister of transport has been arrested after investigators taped him taking a $100,000 bribe, Integrity Commission said Monday.",
"It's the latest sting aimed at what many Iraqis say is rampant corruption in the country.",
"The anti-corruption body said Monday this was the first time such a high-level Iraqi official was caught in the act of taking a bribe.",
"The announcement, made on Integrity Commission's Web site, said investigators detained the deputy minister last Wednesday.",
"A spokesman for the Ministry of Transport, Aqeel Kawthar, told CNN on Monday that the deputy minister took office August 10, and the deputy minister's arrest came as a surprise to the Ministry of Transport.",
"He said there were no indications that the deputy minister might be corrupt before this incident, but he said the Ministry of Transport \"supports and congratulates\" Integrity Commission's work.",
"A foreign security firm had approached Integrity Commission alleging that the deputy minister had asked for a bribe of $500,000 to renew A foreign security firm's contract, Integrity Commission said.",
"\"the deputy minister was supposed to receive the full amount first, but the scenario was changed into the deputy minister receiving $100,000 [in U.S. dollars] as a down payment, and the rest of the money would be delivered after the renewal of the firm's contract,\" according to Integrity Commission's account.",
"\"Orders were issued to security forces to deploy undercover in Karrada district\" in central Baghdad.",
"Watch more about Iraq's war against corruption » .",
"The statement said security forces did not know who the target was and security forces's orders were in coordination with Integrity Commission's operations room.",
"Integrity Commission said that five minutes before the arrest, the head of Integrity Commission, Judge Rahim al-Agili, informed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that a high-ranking government official had taken a bribe.",
"Integrity Commission said al-Maliki responded by saying: \"I do not want to know the deputy minister's name, carry out the operation even if the wanted individual is Nuri al-Maliki. ...",
"Whether the deputy minister is from the Dawa party, a Sadrist, or a member of ISCI [all Shiite political parties, including that of the prime minister], he is only known to me as a bribe taker ... \"",
"Integrity Commission said the sting was caught on videotape, which Integrity Commission said would be posted soon on Integrity Commission's Web site.",
"\"The arrest of of the deputy minister of transport was a professional operation with no political dimensions to The arrest of of the deputy minister of transport, and we have not heard any political or parliamentary bloc objecting to The arrest of of the deputy minister of transport ... \" the commission's account said.",
"\"The operation was carried out within 56 hours of continuous, nonstop, work.",
"The head of the secret informant department and the men of the special operations branch [of Integrity Commission] played a major role ... and Integrity Commission dedicated all Integrity Commission's advanced capabilities to document and follow this.\"",
"According to the monitoring group Transparency International, the country is one of the top three most corrupt countries in the world, along with Somalia and Myanmar.",
"A recent report from the monitoring group Transparency International said almost half the people it surveyed in the country had paid a bribe in the previous year.",
"When CNN talked to people coming and going from the country's Interior Ministry, complaints were frequent.",
"\"The employee inside said The employee inside will only finish my ID for an extra $40,\" one man said.",
"Another said, \"You can't even talk to the janitor in a government office unless you're paying a bribe.\"",
"Judge al-Agili told CNN Judge al-Agili's office is kept busiest by Iraq's Interior Ministry, but it is investigating 8,000 allegations of corruption against people through all departments and all levels of government.",
"Judge al-Agili said Judge al-Agili believes corruption is part of the country's culture, stretching back long before Saddam Hussein's regime.",
"But Judge al-Agili said Judge al-Agili believes it can be beaten slowly, and that's why Judge al-Agili set up the undercover special operations unit to carry out sting operations.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Phil Black contributed to this report."
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"Fort Collins, Colorado (CNN) --",
"The lawyer of a Colorado father accused of carrying out a bizarre hoax involving his son and a huge balloon said Monday that official charges in the case could be filed next week.",
"Authorities announced that Richard Heene and Richard Heene's wife, Mayumi Heene, face several felony charges, but David Lane said the sheriff was overreaching with the charges.",
"\"It's piling on and it's using charges that really aren't designed to fit this sort of allegation,\" David Lane said on \"Larry King Live.\"",
"\"The attempt to influence a public official fraudulently, that's bribing a public official.",
"That's not what happened here.\"",
"The Heenes face charges of conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and attempting to influence a public servant, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said Sunday.",
"The family also probably will be charged with filing a false police report, which is a misdemeanor, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.",
"David Lane has said that the couple is \"not running from the law\" and deserves the presumption of innocence.",
"\"The sheriff having a press conference saying that the couple're guilty does not make the couple so,\" David Lane told CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"Authorities say the event -- in which the couple said the couple's 6-year-old might have been trapped in the drifting balloon -- was staged.",
"the couple had met in a Hollywood acting school and pursued fame for the couple's family in the world of reality TV, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.",
"Lane, asked Monday by CNN about his client's state of mind, said it was \"what you would expect someone's state of mind to be after law enforcement searched your house, seized your property, held a press conference announcing you're about to be charged with felony criminal charges.",
"Your state of mind would be rather upset and you would feel somewhat under siege, which is exactly how the family feels at this point.\"",
"During the incident Thursday, as millions worldwide watched live TV coverage of the contraption floating above northern Colorado, authorities did not pick up on any deceptive behavior, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.",
"But that night, during an interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" the boy, Falcon, gave authorities an \"Aha! moment,\" Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.",
"\"You guys said we did this for the show,\" Falcon said in an interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live, when Falcon's father asked Falcon why Falcon had not come out from hiding when Falcon's parents were looking for Falcon.",
"the couple said the couple's son was simply confused.",
"Lane said on \"Larry King Live\" on Monday that he thinks Falcon was referring to Falcon's demonstration to reporters of how Falcon hid from view.",
"But authorities enacted a game plan to get the truth, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.",
"a game plan included misleading the media on Friday when Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said authorities still believed the incident was not a hoax.",
"authorities wanted to keep the couple's trust, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.",
"Investigators pursued separate interviews and polygraph tests with the couple Saturday, then searched the couple's home early Sunday for computer records, phone records, video recordings and other potential evidence, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.",
"\"Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden put both of the couple on a box, and the couple have not shared with us whether or not the couple passed or failed,\" David Lane told \"American Morning\" on Monday.",
"Polygraphs are not admissible in court, David Lane added.",
"Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said that, under Colorado law, authorities cannot announce whether polygraph tests were taken -- only that authorities pursued them.",
"Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden added that authorities plan to seek restitution for the expenses incurred in the wild goose chase for Falcon.",
"Because authorities aren't required to share evidence until charges are filed, David Lane said David Lane could not lay out the Heenes' defense.",
"\"Until that point ... I'm shooting in the dark,\" David Lane said, adding, \"If they have probable cause to make an arrest, then make an arrest and give me the evidence.\"",
"iReport.com: \"Outraged\" over balloon hoax .",
"Alderden, speaking at a news conference Sunday, said authorities are concerned about the safety of all three Heene children, ages 6, 8, and 10.",
"Authorities spoke with Mayumi Heene about domestic violence and the children's safety, the sheriff said.",
"\"But we didn't have enough that would allow us or child protection services to physically take the kids from that environment.\"",
"A 9-1-1 call from the home earlier this year led authorities to a \"suspicious circumstance\" that the sheriff said might have involved \"domestic violence, perhaps against the wife.\"",
"David Lane told CNN affiliate KMGH on Sunday that David Lane has \"no reason to believe they're anything but loving parents.\"",
"iReport.com: \"Balloon boy saga is symptom, not disease\"",
"Speaking to CNN on Monday, David Lane said the Heene children were in David Lane's office Sunday, and that by David Lane's observations as a father of three, \"the Heene children seem to be perfectly, normal, happy, well-adjusted kids that are being insulated from this process as much as possible.\"",
"During a round of live TV interviews Friday morning, Falcon was sick, which many speculate was because he was upset about the incident.",
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"Now, authorities are unsure.",
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"the couple have previously appeared on the ABC program \"Wife Swap.\"",
"Richard Heene also chases storms, brings Richard Heene's family along and takes videos.",
"TLC, which produces the show \"Jon & Kate Plus 8\" -- told CNN that the couple had \"approached us months ago\" about a possible show, \"and we passed.\"",
"Richard Heene has been described as a meteorologist, but Richard Heene's education ended at the high school level, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.",
"The sheriff said investigators want to interview researcher Robert Thomas, who worked with Richard Heene for about two months this past spring.",
"Thomas, 25, was paid by the gossip site Gawker.com to write about his experience with Richard Heene for a story published on Saturday.",
"In an interview arranged with the help of Gawker, Thomas told CNN that at one point they talked about the Roswell UFO incident of the late 1940s, when Richard Heene said it would be easy to cook up \"a media stunt that would be equally profound as Roswell, and we could do so with nothing more than a weather balloon and some controversy.\""
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Wynton Marsalis says The blues is the true American music -- the heartbeat and unifying principle of jazz, country, R&B, gospel and other styles -- but it's been relegated to the back of the bus by greed and the legacy of racism.",
"Wynton Marsalis grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, son of Dolores and Ellis Marsalis.",
"Wynton Marsalis was a trumpet prodigy, surrounded by top-notch musicians and steeped in the city's eclectic music.",
"Wynton Marsalis was encouraged to excel by Wynton Marsalis's father, a jazz pianist who instilled in his son's son a love of musical excellence and integrity.",
"Wynton Marsalis plays classical and jazz music with equal mastery.",
"Wynton Marsalis is artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and has won nine Grammy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize in music.",
"Wynton Marsalis will be awarded the French Legion of Honor on November 6.",
"In an interview Tuesday, Wynton Marsalis talked to CNN.com about the primary position of The blues in American music.",
"The blues is our root music, American born-and-bred, but The blues's been treated like a stepchild of dubious origin, granted only secondary status, in Wynton Marsalis's view.",
"The blues suffuses Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, rock 'n' roll, country-western, gospel, bluegrass and more, but never got The blues's financial due or the respect The blues deserves.",
"Wynton Marsalis says that's because of racism -- The blues was the music of a whole people granted only secondary status -- and The blues's inability to make a lot of money.",
"Wynton Marsalis also talks about his son's father, how slavery has affected the nation, and some lessons to be learned from jazz.",
"CNN:",
"You have a DVD out called \"Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis Play the Music of Ray Charles.\"",
"That's jazz, country and R&B.",
"What do those styles have in common?",
"Wynton Marsalis: The blues.",
"The blues runs through all American music.",
"Somebody bending the note.",
"The other is the two-beat groove.",
"It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.",
"The other is the down-home sensibility that's sophisticated.",
"That's why Louis Armstrong could play with Jimmy Rogers.",
"Ray Charles is actually the embodiment.",
"Ray Charles and Willie Nelson came 'round in young manhood at a time in the late '40s early 1950s when all of the American music, root music, was all combined.",
"It became segregated in the mid- to late-'50s.",
"Carl Perkins had a hit in 1955 -- \"Blue Suede Shoes.\"",
"It was on the R&B charts, it was on the country charts, it was No. 1 on the rock and roll charts.",
"[It was] basically the same music, so there was an intersection point.",
"It's like in cuisine, that would be like fried chicken and red beans and rice, it would be like potato salad and barbecued ribs.",
"Someone in Texas not going to eat barbecued ribs?",
"CNN:",
"What led to the compartmentalization of these kinds of music, that came from the same roots?",
"Wynton Marsalis: Money and racism.",
"I don't know which one came first.",
"CNN:",
"Why was blues not regarded as something of value in this country?",
"Wynton Marsalis:",
"It came from who we didn't like.",
"That's what it was -- it wasn't that we couldn't see it.",
"Who it came from, we did not like them.",
"CNN:",
"So do you include African-Americans in that?",
"So black people didn't appreciate it?",
"Wynton Marsalis: black people didn't appreciate it.",
"black people don't now.",
"That's part of the whole kind of self-hatred that comes from that type of slavery that the black American still labors under.",
"That racism was heavy.",
"The legacy of That racism -- it wasn't just 50 years.",
"It was seven generations, and if a generation is 33 years, ... seven or eight [generations].",
"That's a long time.",
"And to recover from it has proven to be very difficult.",
"CNN:",
"So is that what's going on with rap?",
"Wynton Marsalis:",
"No question.",
"rap is the repetition of the minstrel show.",
"But it's not going to go away, it was too many people.",
"If rap had been 100,000 people, rap can go away.",
"... But it can't be millions of people and their descendants.",
"[Slavery] was a very powerful and successful system.",
"And Slavery went on for a long time.",
"In the aftermath of slavery ... there was a retrenching, and [it turned into] the type of racism that was experienced by people who came to the North.",
"That consciousness has begun to shift, in the last 30 years.",
"And that's 20 or 30 years of just thawing and shifting that's attached to 330 years [of slavery], and the thought you can get up and you will be better ... that's just asinine, it's absurd.",
"CNN:",
"But didn't The blues come from this, being marginalized?",
"Wynton Marsalis:",
"The blues was like a solution to that, an antidote to it.",
"But The blues is not only Afro-American music.",
"CNN:",
"So, you've written that it's not just African, it's American.",
"What about America gave rise to The blues?",
"Wynton Marsalis:",
"It is America.",
"It's that combination, those tensions, the east-west tensions, the kind of tension of being a slave in the land of freedom, and the land of freedom itself, the Western mind, the concept of soloing across time, the call-and-response of democracy, direct call and response, the kind of optimism that is American in nature, is in The blues.",
"There are elements in it that are African and there are elements of the American take on Europeanism.",
"The blues's integrated, The blues's like a person whose DNA is integrated.",
"You start to try to figure it out -- but you can't.",
"That's how The blues is, that's why The blues fits with everything, country-western, bluegrass -- everybody's playing the same music.",
"CNN:",
"You write that jazz leaves room for individual creativity, but you have to listen and allow the other musicians to participate equally.",
"So what's the lesson for the nation?",
"MARSALIS:",
"We have to have an overall cultural objective, which we don't have.",
"... We then fight under the flag of a position, the left or the right, black or white, old or young.",
"It's very simplistic.",
"We don't know our cultural history, we don't know we are together, and because we don't know we are together we can't act in that way.",
"And that's the main thing our music, and the history of our music, can teach us as a nation.",
"The one concept that has to be at the heart of the American experiment is integrity.",
"The integrity of the process is very important.",
"If you come up on the bandstand you have to be at least trying to swing.",
"If you don't really want to swing or play with the musicians, there's nothing the musicians can do, because you have the freedom to destroy it.",
"CNN:",
"his son set an example.",
"It sounds like you got a lot of your ideas about integrity from his son.",
"MARSALIS: Yes, his son sure did.",
"From his son.",
"his son wasn't segregated about any music, his son didn't care, you could play pop music, funk, his son'd say \"right, great man.\"",
"his son was a jazz musician.",
"his son wasn't uptight and always railing about somebody.",
"What his son did was very clear, and what his son thought about being a man, his son didn't look at a boy like that.",
"I remember his son sat in with our funk band one time.",
"... We'd go to his son's gig, there'd be six people.",
"We'd go to our gig, there'd be thousands of people, dancing having a good time.",
"We were playing a dance at a high school, his son didn't know any of the music, but his son played all of the music we had.",
"We were laughing, we said, my daddy didn't know any of the music and his son didn't know any of the tunes but his son was playing better than us.",
"CNN:",
"When you were playing in a funk band in high school, did you look at your jazz musician dad as old school?",
"Wynton Marsalis:",
"No, no, never, I never suffered from that misconception, because his son was so much hipper than the people I was around.",
"Philosophically, his son knew more than we did.",
"I'd bring people to see his son.",
"his son never tried to act like a child, like a kid.",
"I never thought I knew more than his son, his son was on the case.",
"CNN:",
"What are the components of jazz?",
"Wynton Marsalis:",
"The main three components are the blues, improvisation -- which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up -- and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together.",
"It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.",
"Sometimes you get in a good coordinated groove, and it just continues to happen.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Wynton Marsalis."
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"He says Americans don't know Americans's cultural history: There are solutions to divisions ."
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"Lula da Silva erupted in tears, pulled a white handkerchief from Lula da Silva's back pocket, carefully unfolded a white handkerchief and pressed a white handkerchief into Lula da Silva's eyes, pulled a white handkerchief away, pressed a white handkerchief again to Lula da Silva's eyes, this time with more force, pulled a white handkerchief away again just long enough to take a sip of water, then rubbed them again.",
"Lula da Silva gets a kiss from bid committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman after announcement Friday.",
"\"I've never won a gift before,\" Lula da Silva told reporters.",
"\"The first gift I ever had in my life I had to buy.",
"It was an old bike with a broken belt and I had to fix it.",
"Today, people who don't even know me gave me the greatest gift that a president could have: to host the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.",
"Rio de Janeiro deserves this because Rio de Janeiro is a city that has suffered.\"",
"For Lula da Silva, Friday's announcement in Copenhagen, Denmark, that Rio de Janeiro will host the 31st Olympiad in 2016 signified a major achievement not only for Lula da Silva's hemisphere (no city in South America has ever before hosted the games) but for Lula da Silva -- a former autoworker and union organizer who defied dizzying odds to become president.",
"Lula da Silva was born to a peasant family in one of northeastern Brazil's most impoverished areas and migrated as a young man to a city near São Paulo, where Lula da Silva worked as a metalworker, losing Lula da Silva's left pinky finger in the process.",
"In the 1970s, Lula da Silva became a union leader, said Lula da Silva.",
"During the years of military rule from 1964 until 1985, the government cracked down on unions.",
"But Lula da Silva acquired a reputation as a public figure by leading a successful strike in São Paulo, Lula da Silva told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"Lula da Silva was able to negotiate a favorable contract for Lula da Silva's union but, from a political standpoint, Lula da Silva demonstrated that worker strikes were possible again in Brazil,\" Lula da Silva said.",
"During the early 1980s, as the military rulers' grip on control loosened, Lula da Silva helped found the leftist Workers' Party.",
"In the late 1980s, Lula da Silva ran for Congress and won, but Lula da Silva chose not to run for re-election.",
"Instead, Lula da Silva set Lula da Silva's sights on the top job, waging a losing presidential campaign in 1989, Brazil's first presidential election since 1960.",
"Successive tries in 1993 and 1997 were unsuccessful, but in 2001, Lula da Silva won and quickly surprised many observers.",
"\"When Lula da Silva began, Lula da Silva was perceived as someone very much on the left,\" said Lula da Silva.",
"\"Lula da Silva was perceived as being a socialist.",
"However, Lula da Silva has not governed as a socialist.",
"Instead, Lula da Silva's economic policies were a continuation of the previous administration's.\"",
"In fact, Brazil's economic policy has been \"pretty much middle of the road, some people would say pretty conservative,\" said Valente, who added that Lula da Silva has never voted for Lula da Silva.",
"But Lula da Silva has worked to help Brazil's poor, introducing populist measures intended to lower the incidence of poverty and making other moves, Lula da Silva said.",
"\"As a union leader during the military dictatorship, Lula da Silva learned how to negotiate with the so-called enemy,\" Lula da Silva said.",
"\"So Lula da Silva is going to try to reach some kind of consensus, and Lula da Silva did.",
"What Lula da Silva did was not a product of ideology but of a pragmatist attitude of the government of Brazil.\"",
"Lula da Silva's moderate modus operandi has gained Lula da Silva popularity at home, where Lula da Silva has made no moves toward abolishing the term limits that preclude Lula da Silva's running for a third term next year, Lula da Silva said.",
"That pragmatism has served Lula da Silva well on the international front, where Lula da Silva is on good terms with the leftist governments of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador as well as with the United States and the European Union.",
"\"Lula da Silva knows how to play the game,\" Lula da Silva said.",
"Like Brazil's president, Rio de Janeiro did not succeed on Rio de Janeiro's first try, having been rejected in an earlier bid -- which inspired planners to be meticulous, Lula da Silva said.",
"\"They were very well-prepared,\" Lula da Silva said.",
"Indeed, the city two years ago hosted the Pan-American Games, which officials looked on as a trial run for the Olympics, Lula da Silva said.",
"\"Everything ran without a hitch,\" said Lula da Silva.",
"\"It was just a beautiful event.\"",
"Lula da Silva's waterworks were no surprise to Lula da Silva's countrymen, the professor said.",
"\"Lula da Silva's a very emotional guy and Brazilians tend to be emotional.",
"Brazilians're certainly not ashamed of showing Brazilians's emotions ...",
"It's not unusual for Brazilian men to cry in situations like that.",
"Brazilians actually like to see men cry.",
"Brazilians think it's good to show your emotions.\"",
"Watch the reaction as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is named host city for the 2016 Olympics » .",
"\"Lula da Silva always cries when Lula da Silva talks of Lula da Silva's mother, who never saw Lula da Silva become president,\" said Fabiana Frayssinet, CNN's correspondent in Rio de Janeiro.",
"\"Lula da Silva's a man who cries, who gets mad.",
"Lula da Silva's an emotional man who says what Lula da Silva thinks whenever Lula da Silva wants.\"",
"Emotions were on display Friday on Copacabana beach in Rio, where thousands of people flocked on the first sunny day after two weeks of rain and atypically cold weather.",
"\"It was a mix of the end of a football championship with a ... carnival and all the Brazilian festivals,\" Fabiana Frayssinet, CNN's correspondent in Rio de Janeiro said."
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"(CNN) -- Sea The Stars showed a blistering turn of pace to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and confirm his status as one of the greatest race horses in history.",
"Sea The Stars finishes clear of the field to win Europe's top horse race.",
"It was the fifth consecutive win for the three-year-old colt, including the 2,000 Guineas and English Derby, as he claimed Europe's premier flat race on Sunday.",
"Trained in Ireland by John Oxx, Sea The Stars was boxed in approaching the final furlong, but jockey Mick Kinane found a gap before bursting clear of the field.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Pirates seized control of a cargo vessel near the Seychelles Thursday, one of two attacks that took place within minutes of each other off the coast of east Africa, according to European Union Naval Force.",
"The International Maritime Bureau say attacks off the east coast of Africa have increased this year.",
"The EU maritime patrol responded to the early morning attacks, along with the Seychelles Coast Guard.",
"The crew of the Panama-flagged MV Al Khaliq said two pirates had boarded the vessel before communication was cut off with the crew.",
"European Union Naval Force confirmed that six pirates have boarded the 180-meter long bulk carrier, with two attack skiffs in tow.",
"They hoisted the \"mother skiff\" onto the vessel with a crane, European Union Naval Force said.",
"A second attempted hijacking took place at approximately the same time, but the Italian-flagged cargo ship evaded the attack, the EU said.",
"Armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, pirates opened fire on the vessel about 460 miles (740 km) east of Mombasa, Kenya.",
"A Belgium warship, part of European Union Naval Force, responded to the attack, which caused no casualties.",
"the vessel continued the vessel's voyage.",
"Pirate attacks off the coast of east Africa have significantly increased this year, according to the International Maritime Bureau, which monitors shipping crimes.",
"But successful attacks have gone down as a result of a strong presence of international monitors.",
"The first nine months of this year has seen more pirate attacks than all of last year, the International Maritime Bureau reported on Wednesday.",
"From January 1 until September 30, pirates worldwide mounted 306 attacks, compared with 293 in all of 2008, the International Maritime Bureau said.",
"More than half of this year's attacks were carried out by suspected Somali pirates off the east coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, a major shipping route between Yemen and Somalia.",
"Out of those attacks, Somali pirates successfully hijacked 32 vessels and took 533 hostages.",
"Eight others were wounded, four more killed and one is missing, the International Maritime Bureau said.",
"On Monday, pirates hijacked a Chinese merchant ship and its 25-member crew about 630 miles (1,000 km) northeast of Seychelles.",
"pirates appeared to be heading toward Somalia, the European Union Naval Force said.",
"China plans to make \"every effort to rescue\" the crew members, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu, told reporters.",
"The bulk carrier De Xin Hai is one of four ships that Somali pirates are holding for ransom with 80 crew members as hostages, the International Maritime Bureau said Wednesday.",
"Maritime authorities say two recent trends have led to a rise in piracy: access and opportunity.",
"As global commerce picks up, more and more of the world's fuels, minerals and other crucial commodities travel by ship.",
"Ninety-five percent of America's foreign trade, for instance, moves by water, according to the U.S. Maritime Administration.",
"Ninety-five percent of America's foreign trade is an easy target for robbers in countries that lack the resources to secure their shorelines, such as Somalia.",
"Somalia's transitional government, which has a tenuous grip on power, has been unable to stop the pirates -- many of whom are based in the country's port cities.",
"This has prompted Europe and other Western countries to step up maritime patrols.",
"\"In the Gulf of Aden, the number of attacks have gone up.",
"But because of the presence of naval vessels, the success rate of the pirates have decreased,\" said Cyrus Mody, manager of the International Maritime Bureau.",
"\"The navies are responding very very effectively.\"",
"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.",
"With the ransoms they collect, pirates can earn up to $40,000 a year, analysts say.",
"That's a fortune for someone from an impoverished country.",
"Some analysts say companies are simply making the problem worse by paying the piracies.",
"\"Yes, the ransoms have probably caused Piracy to become a bit more rampant.",
"But at the same time, from the owner's point of view, there is no other way currently to secure the safe release of the vessel along with the crew and the cargo,\" Mody said.",
"\"It's basically a cycle.\"",
"CNN's Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report ."
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"An employee of a luxurious New York hotel has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a woman in one of the hotel's residential condominiums, police say.",
"The Jumeirah Essex House is a landmark on Central Park South in New York.",
"Derrick Praileau, 29, faces second-degree murder charges in connection with the death of Andree Bejjani, 44.",
"Police said Bejjani, who was originally from Lebanon, had moved to New York from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and had been staying in a residential condominium at The Jumeirah Essex House since August.",
"Bejjani's nude body was found Saturday afternoon on the 10th floor of the hotel on Central Park South.",
"Her throat was slashed, authorities said.",
"Police have not revealed a suspected motive for the slaying.",
"\"the slaying occurred in one of the private condominiums at The Essex House complex,\" The Jumeirah Essex House said in a statement provided to CNN.",
"\"The Jumeirah Essex House's sincere condolences go out to the victim's family and The Jumeirah Essex House have offered The Jumeirah Essex House's full support during this difficult time.\"",
"a statement provided to CNN continued: \"The Jumeirah Essex House understand that a hotel employee has been arrested pending charges in conjunction with the slaying.",
"The Jumeirah Essex House continue to fully cooperate with the police throughout the police's investigation.\"",
"A message left with Derrick Praileau, 29's defense attorney was not returned.",
"The Jumeirah Essex House referred to Derrick Praileau, 29 only as an employee, but the New York Daily News said he was its housekeeping manager, citing Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.",
"The Jumeirah Essex House opened in 1931, a landmark Art Deco building.",
"The Jumeirah Essex House recently underwent a $90 million renovation.",
"The Jumeirah Essex House has more than 500 luxury rooms and suites, along with several privately-owned residences.",
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"Iranian protesters are vowing to continue Iranian protesters's anti-government demonstrations into Wednesday night, despite violent crackdowns and arrests.",
"Witnesses in Tehran tell CNN the demonstrators number in the tens of thousands.",
"The protests are timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy.",
"Iran celebrates the U.S. Embassy takeover as an official holiday, and tens of thousands showed up to hear anti-American speeches in front of the building that once housed the U.S. diplomatic corps.",
"Many chanted \"Death to America.\"",
"30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover was also an opportunity to reignite the anti-government protests that were sparked in June, following a disputed presidential election.",
"Thousands of protesters ignored warnings from Iranian authorities to stay home, many chanting \"Death to the Dictator\" and others saying, \"Obama - Either you're with us or with them,\" referring to the U.S. president.",
"Riot police and pro-government Basij militia turned out in force to quash anti-government protests.",
"\"We were running from the police in the alleys off of the main streets,\" said Soheil, an opposition protester, who gave only one name for security reasons.",
"\"Strangers were opening up Strangers's garages so we could hide until the police went away.",
"I ran into a garage for about 15 minutes.",
"When I went back into the main street, I saw riot police arresting a group of young men, then putting a group of young men inside a bank and locking the door.",
"\"Only God knows what will happen to a group of young men after that.\"",
"iReport: Iranians take to the streets .",
"Soheil, like many other of the demonstrators, took part in the protests this summer.",
"As with previous demonstrations, many images of Wednesday's protest were uploaded to the Internet on the site YouTube.com -- including video of protesters walking over an image of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.",
"Another clip showed a group of women being beaten by what appeared to be Iranian security forces.",
"Witnesses said many Iranian women took part in Wednesday's demonstration, and were frequently targeted by the Iranian security forces -- which is what also happened during the summer protests.",
"Video posted on YouTube showed many protesters beaten on the head with batons.",
"Iranian reformists have chosen key anniversaries to protest the hardline government -- the same anniversaries chosen for government-sanctioned anti-American rallies.",
"Wednesday's was the biggest annual anti-American observance of all.",
"On November 4, 1979, Islamic students stormed the U.S. Embassy.",
"Islamic students held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.",
"There were also small pockets of protest on Wednesday in the southwest Iran city of Shiraz, according to a resident who witnessed the protests.",
"Demonstrators marched down the main street of Shiraz, yelling \"Death to the dictator\" and \"We will not stand down to you, together we are united,\" according to Najmeh, who only gave her first name for security reasons.",
"There was strong police presence on the streets, and the police force seemed much more organized than past occasions, she said.",
"Earlier in the day, opposition supporters marched defiantly in Tehran's Haft-e-Tir Square, witnesses said.",
"Many held up their hands in V-signs.",
"Others shouted \"Allahu Akbar,\" or \"God is great,\" which has become a slogan of protest.",
"Police blocked all roads leading to Tehran's Haft-e-Tir Square, creating massive traffic jams.",
"Witnesses described helmet-clad security personnel beating demonstrators with batons and firing tear gas at Haft-e-Tir Square and in a neighborhood a few kilometers north.",
"\"I had never seen that many riot police and security personnel,\" a witness told CNN.",
"\"They were brought in by the busloads.",
"As soon as crowds gathered somewhere, riot police were there within minutes.\"",
"The opposition showed Wednesday that even after five months of government crackdown, people were still willing to take risks.",
"The disputed June 12 presidential election triggered Iran's most serious political crisis since the Islamic revolution toppled the shah.",
"Led by opposition candidate Mir Houssein Moussavi, thousands of Iranians protested what thousands of Iranians believed was a rigged vote that returned hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office for a second term.",
"In the election aftermath, the Iranian government arrested more than 1,000 people and accused reformists Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi of spreading anti-government propaganda and fueling anger among the public.",
"But despite warnings from the Iranian government, Iran's reformists have largely refused to back down.",
"Iran's reformists released the names of 72 protesters Iran's reformists say were killed in the unrest that followed The disputed June 12 presidential election -- more than double the Iranian government's official number.",
"Both Moussavi and Karrubi were prevented from attending Wednesday's rallies, according to a reformist Web site, Norooz News.",
"Karrubi's son told Norooz News that Karrubi's son's father tried to reach the Haft-e-Tir Square rally on foot, but Karrubi was blocked by anti-riot police, sparking clashes with Karrubi's followers.",
"Police fired tear gas toward Karrubi, hitting one of Karrubi's guards on the head, and causing Karrubi and some of Karrubi's supporters to fall to the ground, according to Norooz News.",
"Karrubi and Karrubi's followers returned to Karrubi and his followers's vehicles and drove away when, at one point, security forces attacked and damaged Karrubi's vehicle, Norooz News said.",
"Video posted on YouTube showed Karrubi briefly opening Karrubi's car door to a crowd of cheering supporters, who chanted, \"Honorable Karrubi, help the people of Iran.\"",
"Iranian authorities had warned Karrubi to not participate in the marches, saying Karrubi might be the victim of a suicide attack, according to Norooz News.",
"Moussavi was unable to join the demonstration after Moussavi's car was prevented from leaving Moussavi's office, according to Moussavi's Facebook page and a report on a reformist Web site.",
"Cell phone and Internet connections were cut in the area where Moussavi's office is located, and dozens of plainclothes motorcycle riders blocked the entrance and chanted slogans against Moussavi, the Web sites said.",
"Read analysis from Hamid Dabashi, author of \"Iran: A People Interrupted\"",
"In Washington, President Obama said the world continues to bear witness to Iran's \"calls for justice and Iran's courageous pursuit of universal rights.\"",
"\"Iran must choose,\" President Obama said in a statement late Tuesday.",
"\"We have heard for thirty years what Iran is against; the question, now, is what kind of future it is for.",
"\"It is time for Iran to decide whether Iran wants to focus on the past, or whether Iran will make the choices that will open the door to greater opportunity, prosperity, and justice for its people,\" President Obama said.",
"President Obama noted how the embassy takeover reshaped U.S.-Iranian relations.",
"\"This event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust, and confrontation,\" President Obama said.",
"\"I have made it clear that the United States wants to move beyond this past, and seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect.\"",
"President Obama said the United States has demonstrated willingness to work with Iran over nuclear issues by recognizing Iran's right to peaceful nuclear power and accepting a recent proposal by the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency.",
"\"We have made clear that if Iran lives up to the obligations that every nation has, Iran will have a path to a more prosperous and productive relationship with the international community,\" President Obama said.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah, Sara Mazloumsaki, Mitra Mobasherat, and journalist Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"It says something about the popularity of \"Dancing With the Stars\" that the Stars's professional dancers have become almost as famous as the celebrities the show's professional dancers're paired with.",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas and Shawn Johnson celebrate after winning last season's \"Dancing With the Stars.\"",
"Take Mark Ballas, who last season waltzed and tangoed Professional dancer Mark Ballas's way to a first-place finish with Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson -- Professional dancer Mark Ballas's second mirror ball trophy since Professional dancer Mark Ballas joined the hit series in 2007.",
"At just 23, Professional dancer Mark Ballas is already recognized on the street, Professional dancer Mark Ballas's in a band with fellow \"Dancing\" pro Derek Hough, and Professional dancer Mark Ballas's thinking about branching out into acting.",
"For the new season of \"Dancing With the Stars,\" which begins Monday, Professional dancer Mark Ballas is paired with Melissa Joan Hart, best known for her roles in the television series \"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch\" and \"Clarissa Explains It All.\"",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas spoke to CNN about Melissa Joan Hart's new celebrity partner, Professional dancer Mark Ballas's training routine and whether former \"American Idol\" judge Paula Abdul could find a new home on the show.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview.",
"CNN:",
"What is Melissa Joan Hart like as a dancer?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"Melissa Joan Hart's doing really well so far.",
"I think Melissa Joan Hart's going to shock a lot of people, and I think a lot of people will love Melissa Joan Hart's personality.",
"Melissa Joan Hart's really bright and bubbly.",
"CNN:",
"Does Melissa Joan Hart have any dancing experience?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"No, Melissa Joan Hart's never danced before.",
"I mean, Melissa Joan Hart took a couple of ballet classes when Melissa Joan Hart was a child, but everyone's done that.",
"Melissa Joan Hart's never danced like this before, so it's been a bit of a learning curve for Melissa Joan Hart, but hopefully Melissa Joan Hart'll smooth it out.",
"CNN:",
"Did you know who Melissa Joan Hart was before you were matched?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"Oh, yeah.",
"I used to watch Melissa Joan Hart's shows all the time when I was younger.",
"I would watch \"Clarissa Explains It All\" and \"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch\" after school.",
"CNN:",
"Do you get any input in what celebrity you are paired with?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"No, we get no choice whatsoever.",
"It's basically [dependent on] whether they think our personalities will be compatible and also on height.",
"You have to be the right height, because if someone is 6 feet and your partner is 5 feet, it won't work out.",
"CNN:",
"How do you choreograph dances?",
"Do you like to use certain routines over again?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"I start fresh every time.",
"Having a good song is definitely helpful, and when you get a new song, it's really inspiring and makes you want to move, and that's the fun of it.",
"You always want to keep things fresh, and I always keep challenging myself, like how can I outdo what I did last time?",
"CNN:",
"The facial expressions seem so important in ballroom dancing.",
"How do you teach that to your celebrity partners?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"That's something you can't teach.",
"Obviously, you explain what the dance is and how you have to act and what you should be thinking, but you don't choreograph facial expressions.",
"That's got to come from the heart and the soul, and you just have to feel it.",
"CNN:",
"If you have a celebrity partner like Kim Kardashian, who was criticized for being wooden on the dance floor, is there anything you can do?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"The best thing to do is to make them feel comfortable.",
"Kim got very shy when the cameras were on, and Kim would always dance a lot better off camera.",
"But sometimes, dancing just isn't for certain people.",
"Kim and I had a great time together and still are good friends to this day.",
"But dancing wasn't Kim's thing, Kim just didn't take to it.",
"CNN:",
"Do you keep in touch with your former partners?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"Yes, I talk to Shawn [Johnson] and Kristi Yamaguchi all the time; I talked to Kim about an hour ago.",
"We stay good friends.",
"Kristi Yamaguchi was amazing to work with -- great temperament, really eager to learn, Kristi Yamaguchi was like a machine.",
"Kim was a doll.",
"We talk all the time, we hang out when we can, Kim's a lot of fun.",
"Shawn Johnson was just a joy to work with, from start to finish.",
"Just an absolute sweetheart.",
"We had a lot of fun, we laughed a lot.",
"CNN:",
"A lot of people were surprised that actor Gilles Marini didn't win last season.",
"What's your take on that?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"I definitely feel that Shawn was the better dancer.",
"actor Gilles Marini was a great performer, but technically -- if you were looking at technique and you're looking at dancing -- Shawn was the stronger dancer.",
"Shawn's routines were a lot harder, Shawn's technique was a lot stronger ... especially in the last four weeks.",
"I definitely feel like it was a fair result.",
"CNN:",
"Your father, Corky Ballas, who is also a professional dancer, made quite a splash when he was paired with 80-something Cloris Leachman on \"Dancing\" last year.",
"Is he coming back to the Stars anytime soon?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"I hope so.",
"It was a lot of fun having him around, and I thought he was amazing, of course.",
"They were a great team, absolutely hilarious.",
"I'm sure if the Stars ask him back, which I'm hoping the Stars do, that he would definitely come back.",
"CNN:",
"There were some suggestions that Paula Abdul might join the Stars as a judge.",
"What do you think about that?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"I think that Paula would be great as a contestant.",
"If Paula wanted to be on the Stars's show, Paula should come on to compete and be partnered with one of the Stars.",
"As far as the judges, I love the Stars's judges.",
"I think the Stars's judges are great, and I think the Stars've got a great system, and I don't think there would be any need for an extra judge.",
"I love Paula -- I've met Paula several times because \"American Idol\" is right next door to us.",
"I would love for Paula to come on the Stars and be my partner.",
"CNN:",
"Are you recognized on the street?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"I have loads of people come up to Professional dancer Mark Ballas.",
"people ask questions about the season.",
"It's really nice, and I really appreciate it.",
"CNN:",
"Your fellow pros on \"Dancing,\" Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff, broke off Your fellow pros on \"Dancing,\" Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff's engagement recently.",
"Is that going to affect the Stars in any way?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas:",
"We're all very professional.",
"These things happen.",
"It will definitely not affect the Stars, we'll keep on dancing.",
"You won't even be able to tell.",
"I've talked to Max several times.",
"Max's doing OK.",
"These things are never easy, and Max is a dear, dear friend of mine.",
"I've known Max for 13 years.",
"CNN:",
"What are your career goals beyond dancing?",
"Professional dancer Mark Ballas: I'm actually a guitar player and a singer/songwriter.",
"I studied musical theater and music and vocals.",
"Anything to do with music is definitely a big goal of mine.",
"I've studied acting for 10 years, so I'd love to do film at some point as well."
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"Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff's breakup won't affect the Stars, he says ."
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"Huddled on the top floor of her home after waist-deep water inundated the lower story, Doranne Lim is bothered by the debris -- and the smell.",
"Residents remove mud from a home Monday as waters recede in Marikina City, suburban Manila.",
"\"My house is super, super messy,\" Doranne Lim said, speaking from Doranne Lim's home in the eastern Manila suburb of Pasig City.",
"The mud left behind by receding floodwaters -- caused when the nearby river flooded the nearby river's banks -- is \"really smelly.\"",
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"Most of Doranne Lim's possessions have been moved upstairs.",
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"In addition, people Doranne Lim knows are still searching for missing friends and relatives in the flooding.",
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"\"She was sitting on her roof for 15 hours.",
"They didn't save anything, nothing.\"",
"The floodwaters were beginning to subside in some areas Monday after a weekend that saw Manila hit with torrential rainfall caused by Typhoon Ketsana, which has since strengthened into a typhoon.",
"Officials said the Philippine capital saw the Philippine capital's heaviest rain in more than four decades.",
"The water swallowed whole houses and buses.",
"At least 240 people are dead, officials say.",
"See incredible images of the flooding » .",
"Doranne Lim said Doranne Lim is cleaning up the smelly mess, but no one Doranne Lim knows has begun fixing the damage -- because another typhoon could be bearing down on the Philippine capital in several days.",
"Tracking maps show Tropical Storm Nineteen approaching the Philippine capital later this week.",
"Doranne Lim submitted a photo to CNN's iReport site of people traveling down a flooded road -- a main thoroughfare -- in Pasig City.",
"Some are wading through thigh-deep water; others are being pulled on rafts.",
"Some opportunists are charging others money to pull them on rafts, Doranne Lim said.",
"At the end of a flooded road is a church and a market, Doranne Lim said.",
"a market is not flooded, but is \"really, really muddy,\" Doranne Lim said.",
"\"Most of the vendors in a market said they are going to sleep in a market tonight because they don't have any place to go.\"",
"Manila, on the island of Luzon, and the nearby province of Rizal bore the brunt of the storm.",
"People like Doranne Lim's office mate huddled on rooftops Sunday waiting on army helicopters to pluck them to safety.",
"Others used ropes to wade through waist-deep muddy waters.",
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"Power and water supply failed in some areas.",
"Roads were rendered impassable, making rescue efforts challenging.",
"Rescue crews were handing out food rations.",
"\"Right now the challenge is to find out how many people have actually died and how many people we have to take care of in terms of people who've been displaced,\" said Richard Gordon, the chairman of the Philippines National Red Cross.",
"Richard Gordon, the chairman of the Philippines National Red Cross estimated up to 300,000 people have been displaced on the island of Luzon alone.",
"Another Pasig City resident, Arturo Fidelino, said 80 percent of Fidelino's village was flooded.",
"Fidelino counts Fidelino lucky that Fidelino's home was not inundated, but Fidelino's family had to evacuate and move in with Fidelino's in-laws because nearby streets were impassable.",
"Fidelino said Fidelino and Fidelino's wife have to get to work, and he and his wife's 14-year-old daughter has to get to school.",
"Fidelino said Fidelino's family was stuck in his family's home for two days, before a relative who owns heavy machinery was able to remove his family.",
"\"It's our first time to experience that kind of flood,\" Fidelino said, estimating it could take about a month for the waters to completely recede.",
"Fidelino said many of Fidelino's neighbors remain stuck in their homes, as the homeowners' association organizes a removal effort.",
"Other Pasig City residents were evacuated to temporary shelters set up in a municipal hall or gymnasium, Fidelino said.",
"Officials worried that if the rains return, they could bring more floods if reservoirs burst.",
"\"We're hoping that there will be no more breaching of the dams,\" Gordon said.",
"\"That's one of the things that are very disconcerting to many people right now.\"",
"Fidelino said many Filipinos aren't sure if the flooding was caused by the typhoon or by the opening of dams.",
"\"It was so sudden,\" Fidelino said.",
"\"It was sort of a flash flood.\"",
"The floodwaters contained all sorts of animals as well -- snails, snakes, Doranne Lim said.",
"Two crocodiles escaped from the zoo, Doranne Lim said -- \"it's funny, but it's scary.\"",
"\"I'm happy that I'm a lot better off than so many other people I see on TV, clinging to electric posts, electric wires, so they won't be carried away (by the water),\" Doranne Lim said.",
"\"I have friends who are still missing their siblings, missing their dogs.\"",
"Both Doranne Lim and Fidelino said residents have banded together to help one another.",
"Doranne Lim said that after Doranne Lim's electricity was restored, Doranne Lim got on Facebook, where Doranne Lim saw numerous posts from people seeking missing friends or loved ones.",
"Members of the media and even the government were trying to help on the social networking site, asking them to send more information.",
"Some people are putting together \"relief bags\" of food and other items to distribute to those in shelters, while others were bringing canned goods, Doranne Lim said.",
"\"Everyone is united right now to help feed everyone,\" Doranne Lim said.",
"Others are just trying to feed Others.",
"John Gonzalez, 11, has been pushing a trolley through John Gonzalez's flooded neighborhood in the Philippine capital's Marietta Romeo village for two days.",
"\"The flood went above the height of a man,\" he said.",
"\"Way above our heads.",
"Today, the water just comes to my mouth.",
"That's why we are out looking for food.\"",
"CNN's Dan Rivers contributed to this report from the Philippine capital, Philippines."
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"Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian living in the United States illegally, is charged with plotting to set off a bomb at the base of the 60-story Fountain Plaza office tower in downtown Dallas.",
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"Peter Fleury, the public defender representing Hosam Smadi, told reporters that his client remains held under immigration law, with no bail set.",
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"Prosecutors don't have to share the evidence against Hosam Smadi until after a grand jury acts, so lawyers don't know the full extent of the case against Hosam Smadi, Fleury said.",
"\"We have got a lot of work to do,\" Fleury said.",
"\"They have had the case against him since March.",
"We just got the case against him.",
"We're way behind them.\"",
"Friends in the town of Italy, Texas, about 45 miles south of Dallas, said Hosam Smadi was outgoing and friendly -- but one told CNN last week that the teen started showing signs of depression about six months ago, around the same time the FBI started believing he was serious about carrying out a bomb plot.",
"CNN's Tracy Sabo contributed to this report."
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"State Department has sold State Department's London embassy building to a Qatari real estate company, the embassy announced Tuesday.",
"The signing of the deal is another major step in the embassy's plans to relocate from the embassy's longtime headquarters in central London to a new site in Wandsworth, on the south bank of the River Thames.",
"It wasn't immediately clear how much Qatari Diar Real Estate paid for the embassy building in Grosvenor Square, whose 1960s facade was recently given listed status, meaning its design can't be changed.",
"the embassy will continue to operate from the embassy until the new one is completed in 2016 or 2017, the embassy said.",
"Construction is expected to begin in 2012 or 2013.",
"It was a year ago that the embassy announced the embassy was looking for a new site that is more modern, open, and secure than the current building in London's West End.",
"the embassy has now settled on a site in Wandsworth and is having a design competition for the new building.",
"When the embassy does move to Wandsworth, it will mark the end of a more than 200-year association with Grosvenor Square, in the historic and exclusive neighborhood of Mayfair near Hyde Park.",
"John Adams, who later became U.S. president, lived on the square from 1785 to 1788, when John Adams, who later became U.S. president was the first U.S. minister to the Court of St. James.",
"The building in which John Adams, who later became U.S. president lived still stands in the square's northeast corner.",
"the embassy moved to various locations in the West End before returning to Grosvenor Square in 1938.",
"For years, it occupied a building on the east side of the square -- a building that now houses the Canadian High Commission.",
"During World War II, the square was known as \"Little America\" because the embassy was on one side and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters were on the other.",
"the embassy moved to the embassy's current site, occupying the entire west side of the square, when the building was completed in 1960.",
"The concrete, four-story structure was designed by Eero Saarinen, who also designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and the U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.",
"Since the September 11 attacks in 2001, the embassy has caused controversy locally by installing blast walls in a wide perimeter around the building.",
"Neighbors complained blast walls were unsightly, and blast walls caused the road in front of the building to be closed to traffic.",
"Sitting atop the building at the front is a huge gilded aluminum eagle with a 35-foot wingspan.",
"It is not clear whether a huge gilded aluminum eagle with a 35-foot wingspan will be considered part of the building's listed status, meaning a huge gilded aluminum eagle with a 35-foot wingspan will have to stay on the facade, or whether a huge gilded aluminum eagle with a 35-foot wingspan can be moved to the new location, according to a spokesman for the realty firm Cushman and Wakefield, which advised the United States on the sale."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) --",
"The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how an international flight into the plane's major airport landed on a taxiway instead of a runway early Monday.",
"FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said Delta Flight 60, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, was cleared to land about 6:05 a.m. Monday on Runway 27R but landed instead on Taxiway M, which runs parallel to the runway.",
"the plane had 194 passengers and crew aboard, according to CNN affiliate WXIA.",
"No other aircraft were on the taxiway, and there was no damage to either the taxiway or the plane, a Boeing 767, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.",
"A runway or taxiway collision, particularly with one plane preparing to take off and carrying a full fuel load, would be catastrophic.",
"FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen isn't sure whether or when other aircraft have ever landed on the taxiway at Hartsfield.",
"Both Runway 27R and Taxiway M are 11,890 feet long, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said, but the runway is marked with white lights while the taxiway is marked with blue lights.",
"the plane spokesman Anthony Black said the plane is cooperating with the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board in their investigation, as well as conducting an internal investigation.",
"The pilots of the plane have been relieved from active flying pending the completion of these investigations, Delta spokesman Anthony Black said.",
"FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen and Black said a medical emergency was reported on the plane, but neither offered any details.",
"The incursion came just two weeks after FAA announced that serious runway incursions were down 50 percent from the year that ended September 30, 2008, over the year ending on the same date this year.",
"FAA said there were 12 serious incursions in 2009 and 25 in 2008.",
"Only two of the serious incursions involved commercial airliners in 2009, compared with nine in 2008.",
"FAA defines a serious incursion as one in which a collision is narrowly avoided, or there was a significant potential for collision that resulted in the need to take quick corrective action."
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"Two firefighters crawled out of truck's windows after it sank Tuesday morning.",
"No one was injured.",
"incident happened after four firefighters took truck to the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Valley Village, where flooding had been reported after a water main break, just before 6 a.m. PT.",
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"It may run contrary to the conventional image of a sport obsessed with the latest technological improvement but, from Stockholm to Shanghai, players are turning back the clock to take part in the latest craze -- hickory golf.",
"The game, which involves using 19th century wooden-shafted clubs, has proved a hit as national championships in the United States, Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Sweden and Finland have blossomed.",
"Companies too have been attracted to the format as a way of motivating staff.",
"\"Golfers love a challenge,\" says Gavin Bottrell, who runs hickory golf days in Britain.",
"\"There's a saying about modern golf clubs that you can buy any shot out of the shop.",
"Playing with hickory makes people think more about people's swing and be clever about people's shots.\"",
"Hickory clubs were used widely until the 1930s, when manufacturers turned to more modern materials for construction.",
"However, despite Hickory clubs's lesser performance, the attraction of dressing up in old-fashioned golfing garb and hacking around 18 holes with mashies, niblicks and cleeks -- the evocative names given to the clubs used by Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and Henry Cotton -- has endured.",
"the format has a huge following in the U.S. where devotees gather at historic courses to play an \"authentic\" round of golf.",
"Hampton Munsey, who organizes the U.S. Hickory Open in Morganton, North Carolina, says the size of the field has almost doubled since the event was first held in 2008.",
"This year's tournament already has entrants from Sweden and Germany, with players' ages ranging from 20 to 70.",
"\"The camaraderie is almost as important as the game itself,\" says Munsey, a member of the Society of Hickory Golfers.",
"\"People feel a certain level of pride at being able to play with the old clubs and do well with them.\"",
"Bottrell, a university researcher, has been buying and selling hickory clubs since 1995.",
"Bottrell, a university researcher now has 60 full sets, which Bottrell, a university researcher rents out to companies as a package for $934.",
"Recently, Bottrell, a university researcher has noticed an increase in interest from abroad, with amateur golfers from Germany, South Korea and Australia all wanting their own slice of hickory history.",
"But Bottrell, a university researcher's profit margins are nothing compared to one Scottish collector.",
"In April last year, Edinburgh antiques dealer John Dixon sold 7,000 clubs to a Chinese entrepreneur for $193,500.",
"The load has since been shipped to China in bundles of 20.",
"\"I think he is tapping into a growing market over there.",
"New golf courses are opening in China all the time,\" says John Dixon.",
"\"If they are building so many courses they need the merchandise and the memorabilia to go with it.\"",
"At Bottrell, a university researcher's hickory golf days, participants try to enter the spirit of the era by dressing up in knickerbockers, neckties, flat caps and braces.",
"\"They usually raid local charity shops and come up with some kind of outfit,\" Bottrell, a university researcher said.",
"\"They sometimes look like they've stepped out of a pantomime.",
"There's quite a lot of confusion as to what golfers were wearing in the early 1900s.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Bayern Munich stayed level on points with German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen after beating Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in Saturday's late match.",
"German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen had defeated defending champions Wolfsburg 2-1 earlier in the day, but Bayern Munich joined German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen on 48 points after 22 matches as Bayern Munich came from behind with a victory that left the two teams separated by just one goal on for-and-against differential.",
"Third-placed Schalke will seek to reduce Third-placed Schalke's six-point deficit on German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen with victory at home to Cologne on Sunday.",
"German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen took the lead three minutes after halftime at their BayArena ground as Stefan Reinartz pounced to score after veteran goalkeeper Andre Lenz spilled a free-kick by Toni Kroos.",
"The hapless 36-year-old handed German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen a second goal 20 minutes later in unfortunate circumstances as home striker Eren Derdiyok's header from another Kroos set-piece hit the bar, rebounded onto Lenz's leg and into the net.",
"Wolfsburg striker Edin Dzeko pulled a goal back in the 79th minute but Wolfsburg striker Edin Dzeko's side could not force an equalizer, and have now slumped to 14th place -- 23 points behind German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen.",
"Borussia Dortmund took a fifth-minute lead against Bayern Munich as Egypt's Africa Cup of Nations winner Mohamed Zidan profited from a mistake by defender Daniel Van Buyten.",
"Bayern Munich could already have been 2-0 down at that stage as Martin Demichelis and Mark Van Bommel cleared two shots off the line by Sven Bender.",
"Mark Van Bommel leveled in the 21st minute as the Dutch midfielder beat Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Marc Ziegler from 20 yards, then compatriot Arjen Robben made it 2-1 five minutes after halftime when compatriot Arjen Robben was set up by France playmaker Franck Ribery, making his first start this year following injury problems.",
"France playmaker Franck Ribery was again the provider as striker Mario Gomez sealed Bayern Munich's ninth successive league victory in the 65th minute, cutting in from the left to beat Ziegler on the angle.",
"Hamburg went three points clear of Dortmund in fourth place with a 3-1 win at Stuttgart as new signing Ruud Van Nistelrooy scored his first goals for the club.",
"The veteran Dutch striker came off the bench in the 65th minute with the score at 1-1 to make The veteran Dutch striker's second outing since arriving from Real Madrid, scoring two typically opportunist efforts in three minutes as Stuttgart boss Christian Gross suffered his first defeat since taking the job in December.",
"Sixth-placed Werder Bremen crushed third-bottom Hannover 5-1 away, scoring four times in the first half, while Bochum moved eight points clear of the bottom three with a 2-1 win at home to mid-table Hoffenheim.",
"Basement side Hertha Berlin came from behind to earn a 1-1 draw at home to eighth-placed Mainz, but are still four points behind second-bottom Nuremberg, who lost 2-1 at Borussia Moenchengladbach on Friday night."
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"(CNN) --",
"Police met a wayward jet that overshot the runway by 150 miles -- while not responding to control tower communications -- and said the pilots were \"cooperative, apologetic and appreciative.\"",
"Authorities are reviewing the plane's cockpit voice recorder as well as its flight data recorder.",
"The Minneapolis-St. Paul [Minnesota] Airport Police report on the incident, released Friday, said officers asked flight attendants to keep passengers in their seats while officers checked out the cockpit, where, officers said, \"the door was standing open.\"",
"The police report identified the pilot as Timothy B. Cheney and the first officer as Richard I. Cole.",
"\"the pilot ... indicated they had become involved in conversation and had not heard radio communications,\" The police report said.",
"\"They indicated there had been no involvement from anyone in the cabin.\"",
"\"Both volunteered to a preliminary breath test with the result being .000 for both parties,\" The police report said.",
"The lead flight attendant, The police report said, told officers that she was unaware there had been an incident aboard.",
"Northwest Flight 188 -- carrying 144 people and five crew members -- flew past the Minneapolis airport during a mysterious 78 minutes of radio silence beginning about 7:56 p.m. ET Wednesday night.",
"The Airbus A320 was carrying 147 passengers and an unknown number of crew members, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.",
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"The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident, is hoping The Airbus A320's cockpit voice recorder will either confirm the pilot's account or provide evidence of another possible explanation, including whether the captain and first officer had fallen asleep.",
"However, approached outside the first officer's home Friday, the first officer told CNN affiliate KGW that \"nobody was asleep in the cockpit and no arguments took place.\"",
"the first officer was referring to NTSB's earlier statement that said, \"Crew stated Crew were in a heated discussion over airline policy and Crew lost situational awareness.\"",
"\"There's a lot of misinterpretation going on,\" the first officer said, though the first officer refused to comment further.",
"the plane's cockpit voice recorder is capable of recording only 30 minutes of audio, federal accident investigators said Friday.",
"The Airbus A320 was in the air for another 45 minutes after radio contact was restored, meaning that if the plane's cockpit voice recorder was working properly, anything the pilots would have said during the time the pilots were not answering radio calls would have been recorded over.",
"But a former accident investigator told CNN the plane's cockpit voice recorder may still provide valuable information, because the pilots could have discussed the earlier events on the way back to Minneapolis.",
"The separate flight data recorder also could prove valuable because The separate flight data recorder would have recorded actions taken by the pilots during the 78 minutes the pilots did not respond to repeated calls from air traffic controllers, a former accident investigator said.",
"The safety board said Friday afternoon that experts were reviewing the solid-state voice recorder.",
"The safety board said only that the plane's cockpit voice recorder \"captured a portion of the flight that is being analyzed,\" and added there would be no further comment.",
"Watch as former NTSB official calls long silence \"unacceptable\" » .",
"Meanwhile, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which scrambled fighter jets for The Airbus A320 did not launch them, said it was reviewing procedures for launching the fighters to track potentially hijacked or suspicious aircraft.",
"At issue, according to a senior U.S. official directly familiar with the timeline of the incident, is the FAA's apparent delay in notifying NORAD that the Northwest jet was not in contact with controllers.",
"The official, who declined to be identified because both the military and the FAA are reviewing the incident, said that the FAA's request for military involvement came after The Airbus A320 passed the Minneapolis airport.",
"NORAD scrambled fighter jets at two locations.",
"But as they approached the runway for takeoff, the FAA reported being back in contact with the Northwest flight, and the fighters stayed on the ground.",
"\"My real question is why we did not know of the 'radio out' situation from the FAA sooner,\" the officials said.",
"\"the FAA is also looking into that,\" the official told CNN.",
"Since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, NORAD has regularly launched fighter jets to track aircraft in unusual situations such as when they deviate from flight plans, lose radio contact or enter restricted airspace.",
"According to a second U.S. official, NORAD is in constant contact with the FAA so the FAA can respond when situations arise.",
"Reported instances of two pilots falling asleep are rare.",
"In August, The safety board concluded The safety board's investigation into a February 13, 2008, incident in which two pilots aboard a Go airlines flight fell asleep and traveled 26 miles beyond the destination of Hilo, Hawaii, before waking and contacting air traffic controllers.",
"Northwest Airlines is part of Delta Air Lines, which issued a statement Thursday, saying it is \"cooperating with the the FAA and NTSB in their investigation, as well as conducting our own internal investigation.",
"two pilots aboard a Go airlines flight have been relieved from active flying pending the completion of these investigations.\"",
"It said Flight 188 landed safely in Minneapolis just after 9 p.m.",
"Delta suffered another major embarrassment this week when a Delta pilot landed a passenger jet on a taxiway at Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport instead of the runway.",
"NTSB is investigating that case as well.",
"CNN's Mike M. Ahlers and Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"A court order issued Monday blocks five Americans arrested in Pakistan last week from being deported or being handed over to the FBI, officials said.",
"\"All the government functionaries, including federal government or provincial governments are directed not to hand over the alleged detainees [Americans] to any American agencies, or any other foreign agencies,\" the order said, according to Faisal Zaman, attorney for the government of Pakistan's Punjab province.",
"The five were arrested Wednesday amid suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks.",
"They were transferred Saturday from Sargodha, a small town where they were seized, to a more secure location in Lahore, police said.",
"the order was a response to a petition from Khalid Khawaja, a former Pakistani intelligence official and founder of an organization called Defense of Human Rights of Pakistan.",
"Under Pakistani law, any citizen can file a petition with a court.",
"The Lahore High Court scheduled a hearing for Thursday and ordered the government to respond to Khawaja's petition.",
"A police report on the interrogation of the American suspects, dated Thursday, focused on one identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni, a 20-year-old born in Virginia.",
"The report said he regularly goes online to watch attacks on the U.S. military in Afghanistan and that he left comments praising the actions.",
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"\"This mode of communication enabled the suspects to pass on messages without fear of interception by the FBI,\" The report said.",
"The report said the suspects made a plan with Saifullah to go from Pakistan to Afghanistan.",
"the suspects gathered in Karachi and left for Hyderabad on December 1.",
"the suspects tried to hook up with two militant groups, Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, but neither of them showed interest.",
"the FBI said Pakistani authorities detained the men -- four of whom it said were found to have American passports.",
"Along with Minni, there were snapshots and brief profiles of four others -- Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan and Ramy Zamzam -- all from the Washington area.",
"Police in Sargodha took a sixth man -- Khalid Farooq, father of Umar -- into custody, and a sixth man -- Khalid Farooq, father of Umar -- was undergoing questioning at a safe location.",
"Authorities have said Khalid Farooq has not been considered a suspect.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Hondurans divided over an ongoing political crisis agree on one thing -- Hondurans don't think very highly of Hondurans's leaders, according to a new survey.",
"Almost half of Hondurans polled -- 48 percent -- said Almost half of Hondurans disapproved of the job Zelaya was doing before Zelaya was ousted in a coup on June 28, said a new survey.",
"The man who assumed power after the coup, de facto President Roberto Micheletti, received a disapproval rating of 65 percent for how he has handled the crisis, according to a new survey.",
"The annual Latinobarometro survey, named after the Chile-based non-profit company of the same name, is among the most highly regarded polls in the region.",
"This year, the poll asked a number of questions that shed light on how Hondurans and other Latin Americans viewed the political crisis in Honduras.",
"A new Honduran president, Pepe Lobo Sosa, was elected last month, though the international community is split on whether to recognize A new Honduran president, Pepe Lobo Sosa because the vote took place under the rule of the de facto government.",
"An agreement between negotiators for Zelaya and Micheletti had been reached earlier, but lost much credibility when An agreement between negotiators for Zelaya and Micheletti's implementation didn't go as planned.",
"Zelaya, who remains holed up inside the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital ever since covertly sneaking back into Honduras in September, has called the plan dead.",
"Several attempts to find a resolution failed, despite strong international criticism of the coup.",
"\"It can be said that the force of rejection of all the international organizations, which were raised in a singular voice against the coup and in favor of the restitution of the constitutionally elected president, were ineffective against the local political forces that had expelled Zelaya in an ignominious manner,\" the survey said.",
"The political crisis stemmed from Zelaya's desire to hold a referendum that could have changed the constitution to allow longer terms for the president.",
"Honduras's congress had outlawed the vote, and the supreme court had ruled it illegal.",
"Micheletti and his supporters say Zelaya's removal was a constitutional transfer of power and not a coup.",
"According to Latinobarometro, 58 percent of Hondurans disapproved of the coup, while another 28 percent said another 28 percent approved of Zelaya's ouster.",
"Those more heavily in favor of the coup included those with a higher education and the elderly, the survey found.",
"Of those with university degrees, 40 percent approved of the coup, compared with 27 percent approval among those with only a basic education, the survey said.",
"Zelaya faced long odds of returning to the presidency because the supreme court and congress, including lawmakers from Zelaya's own party, were against Zelaya's calls for the referendum that led to Zelaya's ouster.",
"These political power brokers, and in general, the Honduran elite that backed Micheletti, likely account for the discrepancy between education level and views of the coup.",
"In Honduras, the elite are more likely to have completed university than others.",
"The low approval ratings for Zelaya point to Zelaya's thin election victory in 2005, according to the survey.",
"Zelaya was elected with just under 50 percent of the vote.",
"That margin hardly gave Zelaya a mandate to push the sweeping constitutional reforms Zelaya wanted, the survey said.",
"\"Zelaya wanted to implement reforms that were beyond what the majority supported,\" the report said.",
"Outside of Honduras, 24 percent of respondents in the other Latin American countries approved of the coup, the survey found.",
"Asked to rate Honduran democracy on a scale of 1 to 10, those outside of Honduras said Honduras merited a 5.2, the survey said.",
"It was the first time that the firm asked for people to give people's perception of democracy in a country that was not people's own.",
"the survey also asked respondents in the region whether respondents believed a coup was possible in respondents's own country.",
"The highest affirmative responses came from countries that have left-leaning presidents.",
"Ecuadorians (36 percent), Brazilians (34 percent) and Venezuelans (30 percent) said a coup was possible in Ecuadorians (36 percent), Brazilians (34 percent) and Venezuelans (30 percent)'s country."
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"MORROW, Georgia (CNN) -- Jobless for nearly a year, Michael Rivers was about to walk out of Michael Rivers's house a few weeks ago to catch the bus for another daylong employment hunt when a radio announcement stopped Michael Rivers.",
"With rapper at her side, single mom Joya Montgomery, 26, proudly displays keys to her car Sunday.",
"\"This is Ludacris, and I'm giving away 20 free cars. ...\"",
"rapper was pulling an Oprah in rapper's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.",
"rapper announced that if listeners were able to pay the taxes, registration, tags and insurance, listeners should go to rapper's nonprofit Ludacris Foundation Web site and write 300 words about why listeners deserved new wheels.",
"\"And make it good,\" rapper warned.",
"Watch rapper talk about rapper's \"stimulus\" plan » .",
"Four thousand people took rapper up on rapper's challenge, and in a few days, more than 2,000 essays poured into the Nissan South dealership in Morrow, Georgia, that had teamed with rapper on the used-car giveaway.",
"See and hear the winners tell the winners's stories » .",
"Rivers' essay was among the winners.",
"\"I didn't even wait; I just continued out that door to the community center, sat at a computer and let all my emotions come out,\" Michael Rivers said.",
"Rivers described riding the city bus with Michael Rivers's 14-year-old daughter to make sure his 14-year-old daughter arrived safely at school and how Michael Rivers recently celebrated the small victory of getting Michael Rivers's 17-year-old autistic son, who can't tolerate crowds, to stand calmly for a few moments outside the bus stop.",
"Michael Rivers doesn't live near a grocery store so Michael Rivers has to bring home the food Michael Rivers can carry on the city bus.",
"Michael Rivers was laid off from Michael Rivers's job as a court clerk in the summer of 2008, and making job interviews on time isn't easy when the city bus is often late.",
"But on Sunday afternoon, Michael Rivers was giddy, slightly bouncing as Michael Rivers spoke.",
"Michael Rivers stood shoulder to shoulder among the 20 winners and their friends and families waiting to see their cars.",
"\"I don't care what it is,\" Michael Rivers said.",
"\"I'm grateful for any car with four wheels because any car with four wheels beats two heels.\"",
"Winners received 30 days of free gas, which will be a big help to Joya Montgomery, a 26-year-old single parent of a 4-year-old, 8-year-old and 3-month-old.",
"She has been waking before 5 a.m. and walking to the bus stop, while it's dark, with her children to begin a long journey to her job and to drop her children off at school or a friend's home.",
"\"It was scary at times,\" she said.",
"\"You don't even know who's out there.",
"I was always looking over my shoulder.",
"\"I just can't believe I won.",
"I'm real happy.\"",
"In the parking lot, the crowd was dancing.",
"But the bass of Ludacris' latest single blasting from the dealership's loudspeakers was secondary inspiration for one Atlanta grandmother.",
"Fifty-one-year-old Vermelle Jackson was so excited to have a 2005 Mercury Sable to drive around grandchildren, nieces and nephews that Fifty-one-year-old Vermelle Jackson swiveled Fifty-one-year-old Vermelle Jackson's hips around and dipped it shockingly low to the ground.",
"\"Lord Jesus.",
"... He brought this car to Fifty-one-year-old Vermelle Jackson, baby!\" she shouted, arms raised.",
"\"This is God's work!\"",
"Actually, the giveaway idea came from Chris White, the jovial, hand-shaking manager of Nissan South.",
"\"I knew someone who knew someone who knew Luda and, you know, we just made it happen,\" Chris White said.",
"The concept seemed like a winner for everyone.",
"Like many dealerships, Nissan South has not yet been reimbursed for the money Nissan South spent upfront during the federal government's Cash for Clunkers program that allowed customers to trade in older cars for $3,500 or $4,500 credit.",
"When Clunkers ended August 24, the car dealer didn't want to turn away customers who kept streaming in, expecting to get the same discounts.",
"So Nissan South continued giving customers identical low rates and taking customers's used cars.",
"The Cash for Clunkers program and the continued discounts totaled nearly $800,000 in the hole for the dealership, said owner Scott Smith.",
"\"Nissan South're grateful for Clunkers because Clunkers really helped business, but it's a lot of money to be without,\" owner Scott Smith said.",
"At the end of the year, the cars given away under the Luda program, which were not technically acquired during Clunkers, may be eligible as charity tax write-offs.",
"\"Nissan South like to think of it as not being about the write-offs,\" Chris White said.",
"\"It's more like Nissan South had a chance to do something positive in the community that is going through a really hard time right now.\"",
"Chris White helped place a few radio spots and within two days, more than 2,000 essays had been sent in.",
"That number quickly shot to close to 4,000.",
"rapper and rapper's mother, Roberta Shields, who directs rapper's foundation and helped give away the cars Sunday, and rapper's foundation staff of about a dozen helped read the essays.",
"To validate the stories they found most compelling, they made phone calls and interviewed people who knew the finalists.",
"\"We ended up calling a homeless shelter to reach one gentleman whose cell phone had gone out, and he was recharging it,\" Shields said.",
"\"We didn't know if we'd get ahold of him, but we finally did.",
"All he wanted was a car to help him go out for job interviews.\"",
"rapper was particularly moved by the story of a Sudanese refugee who has experienced every hardship imaginable, the least of which was a broken-down car.",
"The two sat down Sunday and had a long talk.",
"\"That's one of those stories that really had me like, man, I thought I had faced some adversities in life,\" rapper said in a quiet moment away from the crowd.",
"\"But I've not faced adversities at all compared to what he's been through.",
"I cannot imagine going through what he's gone through and still be that strong.\"",
"Mading Duor, who escaped civil war and was providing for his four children on a school maintenance worker's salary, was crossing a street in Decatur, Georgia, when a driver ignored a crosswalk and hit and killed his 4-year-old son.",
"Karen McCrea, who attends church with Duor, wrote the winning essay.",
"\"I don't expect anyone to understand [what I have been through], but I know that people come to me with a good heart now,\" he said.",
"\"I couldn't believe it when she called me to tell me.",
"I said, 'You are kidding!",
"It cannot be!' \"",
"Neither McCrea, from Atlanta's affluent Buckhead area, nor Duor, neatly dressed in a shirt buttoned to the collar, seemed like Ludacris' demographic.",
"They nodded their heads to rapper's music anyway, smiling.",
"\"Oh, I know rapper's music, I know his music, yes,\" Duor said.",
"\"I will play his music [in my car].\""
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"A 219-year-old document that stemmed from alcohol tariffs to pay off Revolutionary War debts -- and signed by Alexander Hamilton -- became the property of The National Archives' on Thursday.",
"This document, signed by Alexander Hamilton, discusses tools for customs agents to determine alcohol content for imported spirits.",
"The historic letter, which has been the property of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for the past 35 years, chronicles the federal government's earliest efforts to regulate alcohol.",
"In Document, Hamilton, the first United States secretary of the Treasury, discusses tools for customs agents to determine -- for tax purposes -- the alcohol content of St. Croix rum and other imported spirits.",
"Historians said Document is a notable footnote in American history.",
"In 1789 and again in 1790, Congress imposed alcohol tariffs to pay Revolutionary War debts.",
"In response to the tax on imports, Americans began distilling Americans's own spirits.",
"And when the federal government began taxing those beverages, citizens staged the \"Whiskey Rebellion,\" harassing and threatening federal agents in several cities.",
"But in 1794, the federal government squelched the uprising, helping to establish the federal government's authority in disputes with individual states.",
"Even non-historians might appreciate the timelessness of the dog-eared document, given its skillful use of bureaucratic language to deliver bad news.",
"One eye-glazing, 76-word sentence probably can be summarized as follows: \"We don't have the thermometers you'll need, so for now, use the ones you've got.\"",
"The document, dated Dec. 18, 1790, is an original draft of a \"circular letter,\" an official memo that would have been hand-copied and sent to customs officers, historians said.",
"\"In this circular letter, Alexander Hamilton attempts to provide customs officers with new tools to more efficiently do customs officers's jobs,\" said Kenneth Melson, acting director of ATF.",
"Alexander Hamilton notes that Alexander Hamilton is sending a hydrometer -- used to determine the specific gravity or density of liquids -- to ports so that customs officers can determine the proof of imported beverages.",
"Alexander Hamilton says Alexander Hamilton intends to provide two hydrometers to every port; one to be used as a standard or check.",
"\"But it is not possible in the first instance to send both.",
"Hence one only will accompany this circular letter,\" Alexander Hamilton writes.",
"In a postscript, Alexander Hamilton adds that Alexander Hamilton is also sending a \"Tin Cylinder\" to hold liquor while its alcohol content is being measured.",
"Archivists said the early history of the Alexander Hamilton circular is not known.",
"But in the mid-1970s, an ATF spokesman and autograph collector -- Howard Criswell Jr. -- came across this circular letter in a catalog from an autograph dealer in New York City.",
"an ATF spokesman and autograph collector -- Howard Criswell Jr. -- purchased this circular letter for about $100, intending to use this circular letter in an ATF bicentennial exhibit.",
"Criswell, now 84, is retired and lives in Maryland.",
"this circular letter remained in an ATF safe until this circular letter was rediscovered by ATF employees during a relocation of its headquarters building in 2005.",
"ATF officials said ATF officials had once planned to frame this circular letter, but were told that this circular letter would be damaged by exposure to light.",
"The National Archives' said this circular letter will become part of The National Archives''s permanent holdings and will be preserved in a locked, temperature and humidity-controlled stack area at The National Archives''s facility in College Park, Maryland."
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"Yabuli, China (CNN) --",
"Insulated in designer skiwear against a temperature of -15° Celsius, three of China's burgeoning ski set bundle into a gondola headed to a wind-swept mountaintop in Heilongjiang province, Northeastern China.",
"These new members of China's skiing elite had traveled from Harbin three hours drive away for a day's skiing at Sun Mountain, and clearly relished hurtling downhill at one of China's newest high-end resorts.",
"\"Control your speed\" is good advice for any novice skier, but it could be equally applied to the growing number of businesses aiming to tap into the nascent Chinese skiing industry.",
"Skiing is just the latest market in China touted to \"boom\" as an increasingly affluent middle class finds new ways to spend an increasingly affluent middle class's wealth and leisure time.",
"The China Ski Association put the number of skiers in China at 5 million in 2005, up from just 200,000 in 2000.",
"The China Ski Association predicts 20 million skiers by 2014.",
"\"But around 80 percent will probably never do it again, because the experience is so bad,\" says Graham Kwan, CEO of Melco China Resorts the developers of Sun Mountain.",
"It's a factor that has held back the momentum of the Chinese ski industry, where the image is still one of bumpy nursery slopes crowded with first-time skiers snow-ploughing into one another.",
"\"the nascent Chinese skiing industry isn't developing as fast as the nascent Chinese skiing industry should,\" says Justin Downes, president of Axis Leisure, a Beijing-based resort industry consultancy.",
"\"Ninety percent of skiers are still considered beginners and rent Ninety percent of skiers's equipment.",
"The quality of the product and safety has often been questionable, service has been poor.\"",
"Kwan hopes Sun Mountain will provide Chinese skiers with a five-star destination resort that keeps novices coming back to the slopes.",
"Others developers are following suit.",
"French resort company Club Med plans to open a dedicated ski village in China at the end of the year, the first of five the company plans to open by 2015.",
"China's Wanda group have plans on a resort in the mountains bordering North Korea, and a resort called Beijing Secret Garden is being developed outside of Beijing near the Great Wall.",
"Since opening last year Sun Mountain has gained accolades, including TIME Magazine's Best Resort Make-over in 2009.",
"Yabuli was also the site of the World University Games in 2009, with a reported $400 million invested by the government in updating the facilities and improving transport links to the area, making it the base for China's national ski team.",
"For Kwan, however, transforming a sleepy town with one aging hotel at the bottom of a mountain has been far from a smooth ride.",
"\"To be perfectly honest, it's been a struggle,\" says Kwan.",
"\"It's easy to have a mountain in China.",
"People often ask, 'Why did you put [the resort] here?'",
"There are beautiful mountains [elsewhere], but too far from the market.",
"Chinese people travel like Europeans; Chinese people're North-South travelers.\"",
"With over $100 million invested in Sun Mountain, Kwan hopes it will be the centerpiece of the new face of skiing in China, offering more than just well-groomed slopes and après-ski with a Chinese twist.",
"\"It's a combination of operations and real estate, you can't sell luxury homes if you don't sell luxury products,\" says Kwan.",
"A new boutique hotel at the top of the 1000-meter mountain will open next year and capacity eventually expanded to 15 hotels.",
"But it is the resort's real estate that will be just as important to how fast the area develops.",
"Around 75 houses are already built with almost a thousand more nestled on the mountainside planned for the next 10 years.",
"\"The concept of buying a recreational home in the mountains when it's -20° Celsius is not something the Chinese have grasped yet,\" says Downes.",
"\"The ski market [in China] is so small that you can't expect to put $100 million into a project and hope to recoup that any time soon off your ski operations.",
"But the leisure real estate market is also immature in China.\"",
"As well as selling the resort as an investment opportunity, nurturing the culture of skiing is part of the development.",
"the culture of skiing's absence is something that Downes believes is really hampering the market.",
"\"When I went to work in a ski resort it's because I wanted to ski all day and party all night.",
"The people who go to work in Chinese ski resorts don't have any aspirations to do any of those things,\" says Downes.",
"A few gold medals by Chinese skiers at the Winter Olympics could help create a buzz around the sport itself, but for Kwan and Downes, presenting a gold-standard lifestyle is just as important.",
"\"All their gear is high-end, because of course All their gear represents their status.",
"And that's why we've chosen to go higher end, because those kinds of customers want to be with us,\" says Kwan, who plans to add VIP gondolas with heated seats and sound system at Sun Mountain, as well as slope-side tea service.",
"\"You can't just pick up a Whistler or Three Valleys pop it into China and expect it to be successful,\" adds Downes.",
"\"Because while Chinese skiers want all the positive trapping Chinese skiers also want something that is Chinese skiers -- food and cultural elements, but delivered at a much higher level.",
"\"The younger generation is getting money, traveling and getting more adventurous,",
"The younger generation're the ones who are going to define the industry.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"A Saudi court on Wednesday sentenced a man who caused uproar by bragging about his sex life on television to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes, according to Ministry of Information officials.",
"Mazen Abdul Jawad talked openly about Mazen Abdul Jawad's sex life on the controversial show.",
"Mazen Abdul Jawad, a 32-year-old airline employee and divorced father of four, spoke openly about Mazen Abdul Jawad's sexual escapades, Mazen Abdul Jawad's love of sex and losing Mazen Abdul Jawad's virginity at age 14.",
"Mazen Abdul Jawad made the comments on Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, which aired the interview a few months ago.",
"Saudi authorities shut down LBC offices in Jeddah and Riyadh after airing the interview on an episode of the interview's popular show \"A Thick Red Line.\"",
"Mazen Abdul Jawad was arrested shortly after the program aired and charged with violating Saudi Arabia's crime of publicizing vice.",
"On the program, Mazen Abdul Jawad is also shown in Mazen Abdul Jawad's bedroom, where Mazen Abdul Jawad holds sexual aids up to the camera.",
"The room is decorated with Mickey Mouse and stuffed bears in sexually suggestive positions.",
"The cameras gave audiences a glimpse of The room's nightclub-like chandeliers mixed with seafood-shaped wall sconces, perfume bottles and a book in Arabic, \"101 Questions About Sex,\" that Mazen Abdul Jawad calls Mazen Abdul Jawad's \"reference.\"",
"Mazen Abdul Jawad, wearing a red shirt, explained that Mazen Abdul Jawad put Mazen Abdul Jawad's phone number and details about Mazen Abdul Jawad's car -- a red Mini Cooper -- on Mazen Abdul Jawad's mobile phone's Bluetooth.",
"Mazen Abdul Jawad says women usually call Mazen Abdul Jawad to ask if his car -- a red Mini Cooper -- is for sale but, Mazen Abdul Jawad boasts, \"some go out with Mazen Abdul Jawad that same night.\"",
"The episode ended with Mazen Abdul Jawad cruising the streets of Jeddah in Mazen Abdul Jawad's car looking for women.",
"The show that aired Mazen Abdul Jawad's story is as popular as the program is controversial in the Middle East.",
"the program tackles taboos sometimes never discussed in public.",
"In one instance, a guest admitted a guest put up a guest's children for sale and tried to justify why a guest continued to look for the highest bidder even though a guest's kids were begging a guest to change a guest's mind.",
"Most guests wear sunglasses, wigs and strange clothing to disguise Most guests's identities as Most guests's lives can be endangered for talking about such taboo subjects.",
"Surprisingly, Mazen Abdul Jawad did not disguise Mazen Abdul Jawad's identity on the program.",
"Watch report on the uproar over the broadcast » .",
"The episode caused an uproar in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, where sharia, or Islamic law, is practiced.",
"Pre-marital sex is illegal, and unrelated men and women are not permitted to mingle.",
"The segment in question has been posted on the video-sharing site YouTube since its initial broadcast last month, and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.",
"Speaking about promiscuous acts \"is a violation of the sharia regulations on the one hand and against Saudi customs on the other,\" police spokesman Suleiman Al-Mutawae told Arab News, an English-language daily newspaper in Saudi Arabia.",
"Before Mazen Abdul Jawad's detention, Arab News reported that Mazen Abdul Jawad initiated a damage-control campaign, apologized for Mazen Abdul Jawad's comments and was considering filing a complaint against the show's producers for presenting Mazen Abdul Jawad \"in the worst possible manner by taking two hours of footage and condensing it down to a minutes-long segment.\"",
"Mazen Abdul Jawad's lawyer could not be reached for comment.",
"The ministry officials spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity."
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"Camp Lejeune, North Carolina (CNN) --",
"On a base accustomed to deploying Marines into some of the most hostile war zones, you would expect some hesitancy when units from here were asked to surge into some of the worst fighting since the start of the war in Afghanistan.",
"this week, the first of 1,500 Marines will be part of the initial wave of Obama's surge plan to head to Afghanistan's restive provinces to support Marines and soldiers fighting a dug-in Taliban force.",
"However, many Marines we talked to in this coastal, scrub pine-covered North Carolina base are more than excited to go, despite the dangers that await them.",
"\"I'm absolutely ecstatic about the situation.",
"I've got a good group of Marines that are behind me, so I'm real excited about the deployment,\" said Sgt. Jason Bendett of the 3rd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, based at Lejeune.",
"But combat deaths in Afghanistan are up -- 305 this year, from 155 during 2008 -- giving pause to even the most motivated Marines.",
"\"I think I wouldn't be human if I wasn't worried, obviously this being my first combat deployment, but the Taliban are an experienced group of fighters, and I'm not taking that for granted,\" 2nd Lt. John Auer, also of the 3rd Platoon, said during some of his final rifle range training before he deploys.",
"Members of this unit say Members of this unit have been waiting and waiting as Members of this unit watched fellow Marines deploy ahead of Members of this unit this year, and Members of this unit say Members of this unit are more than ready to go.",
"Members of this unit were supposed to go to Iraq in June, but as priorities shifted, Members of this unit were reassigned to Afghanistan's Helmand province, where Marines are in daily battles with the Taliban.",
"\"Having months to train and putting Marines out in the elements in Southern California, where this unit train, gives them a chance to see what the atmospherics are going to be like and to work as a team, so this is perfect, and this unit are really looking forward to this,\" Auer said.",
"\"These guys have a lot of training under These guys's belts, more than Marine units typically get in this situation.",
"Senior military leaders have a lot of big expectations for this team,\" said this unit's first sergeant, Ronald Neff.",
"Last week, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, gave some of the deploying Marines an impassioned speech about what some of the deploying Marines will face.",
"\"We don't have a lot of time.",
"The slope on this insurgency is going in the wrong direction, and The slope on this insurgency has picked up, three years, each year to a significant degree,\" Mullen said, describing the deteriorating security situation.",
"\"I believe the strategy that Obama laid out, the decision that Obama's made, is the right decision.",
"Both those are right, and we will now move out, given our orders, and we'll carry our orders out.",
"And again, I couldn't be more confident and more pleased that you are going to be at the core of that,\" he told the hundreds of Marines in attendance.",
"Many of the deploying Marines there are young and are facing the Marines's first combat deployment.",
"Although all the bravado of a newly minted Marine ready for combat looks and sounds ready to fight, the Marines's eyes showed worry and concern for the unknown as the Marines listened to Mullen.",
"\"Best thing you can hope for is that you personally know yourself, that you're not going to freeze up,\" Lance Cpl. Matthew Jenkins said after Mullen's speech.",
"\"We'll see how I react when it goes down in a couple weeks,\" said Lance Cpl. Joshua Williamson.",
"Questions remain, however, about how so many Marines without combat experience in Afghanistan can jump into a heated combat zone.",
"Mullen admitted some concerns.",
"\"We're obviously not in an ideal situation with respect to that.",
"I understand that, but I have a huge amount of confidence in our Marine Corps based on our Marine Corps's ability to adapt, what our Marine Corps did in Iraq,\" he said.",
"There seems to be little worry among unit leaders in the 3/2nd LAR, who have been training and watching unit leaders in the 3/2nd LAR, who have been training and watching their troops grow in skills and confidence in recent months's troops grow in skills and confidence in recent months.",
"\"One thing about our Marine Corps is that you always have experience wherever you go,\" Auer said.",
"\"So we've got Marines that have done deployments before and the training Marines have given me, I'm confident to where I can lead my platoon, but I'm also relying on staff NCOs (non-commissioned officers) that have years of experience.",
"\"That experience we have from the different deployments in Iraq, I'm relying on all the NCOs to carry all the NCOs's weight, and with that I don't think there is anything that can get in our way,\" Auer continued.",
"For the families of these Marines, deployments are never easy, especially when they know that their husbands and wives are moving to a region known for its hostility.",
"\"I'm glad Dan Durbin's going where Dan Durbin's needed.",
"It would be a waste for Dan Durbin to go where Dan Durbin's not needed and not be able to do Dan Durbin's job,\" said Kim Durbin, wife of deploying Marine Lt. Dan Durbin.",
"\"It's just not Dan Durbin in the Marine Corps, it's our family, and we are proud to be a part of it,\" Kim Durbin said.",
"Kim Durbin and Kim Durbin's three kids, ages 1, 3 and 5, will watch Dan Durbin leave for Helmand province on Dan Durbin's first combat deployment in a few weeks.",
"Kim Durbin appears strong for a young mother, but all the preparations a family does can sometimes bury reality.",
"\"Well we're thankful Dan Durbin's going to be with us for Christmas, so we just want to enjoy the time we have together.\"",
"But Kim Durbin's eyes close, and Kim Durbin fights back tears that become a sob.",
"\"I think when we actually say goodbye, it's going to be hard, but we'll get through it, and we want to enjoy the time we do have together,\" Kim Durbin said.",
"Families on this base are Families on this base's own support system.",
"Wives of Marines with husbands who have deployed numerous times help younger families get through the first deployments.",
"\"It's very difficult, I think, for people outside the military community to understand what people outside the military community have to go through,\" said Marine Capt. Eric Maedor, who returned from his third combat deployment to Afghanistan weeks ago.",
"His wife, Teresa Maedor, a veteran of keeping the family together while Eric is away, agrees.",
"\"I don't think when you have 'X' number of deployments under your belt that it makes it any easier; you just know what to expect.",
"You know what to expect next time as far as how you need to manage things.",
"Sometimes you worry about them more; sometimes you worry about them less,\" she said."
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"\"I'm absolutely ecstatic about the situation,\" says Sgt. Jason Bendett .",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"At the House Republican strategy session in January, I stood before the Republican Conference and said, \"I am your worst nightmare.\"",
"It was a figure of speech, of course, but my point was that our campaign helped change the political equation for winning elections.",
"No longer is it enough to have big-name identification and big money to win.",
"We demonstrated that principles and policy matter, and if you combine that with hard work and dynamic new media, young upstarts can beat incumbents in a big way.",
"(I beat a 12-year incumbent in my own party, winning by 20 points.)",
"In order to survive in the current political climate, it's paramount to be on the cutting edge of technical trends.",
"As a young freshman, it is challenging to distinguish myself among 434 other members.",
"If I want to be relevant and productive, I have to work hard to get my message across.",
"Using social media is a great way to do just that.",
"I stay in contact with people through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.",
"Other members of Congress have also jumped aboard the Online Express.",
"These days, even John McCain is all-a-twitter over new social media.",
"See the latest episode of \"Freshman Year\"",
"Granted, my \"tweets\" will not replace town hall meetings or direct mail, but social media is an important outreach supplement.",
"People like feeling connected to People's elected officials.",
"Residents of my district want Residents of my district's voices to be heard and want to be a part of the political process.",
"It has been very important to me that my constituents don't have to wade through layers of bureaucracy to reach me.",
"My Facebook page, for example, hosts hundreds of interactions each week from \"supporters.\"",
"I post frequently and engage in the comments.",
"I never outsource this type of communication to staff.",
"It's done entirely by me.",
"That kind of attention builds trust with people.",
"people know what I really think, and people develop a connection with me -- even if we disagree.",
"Twitter has become a particularly useful tool for me.",
"I often tweet several times a day.",
"Followers get an inside look at not only my job, but also my personality -- and sometimes my appetite.",
"When I came to Washington as a newly elected member of Congress, I got a few headlines for bringing a cot to sleep on in my office.",
"Taking my inspiration from FDR's Fireside Chats in the 1930s and '40s, I began producing \"Cotside Chats\" that are featured on my Web site.",
"\"Cotside Chats\" that are featured on my Web site give me the opportunity to talk directly with my constituents about the issues I think are important.",
"Social media is a two-way street.",
"Social media's a great way to deliver a message, and Social media's free.",
"Social media also provides me with opportunities to listen to what is going on in the real world in real time.",
"With today's easy Internet access and the surging popularity of social networking, there's no excuse for politicians to remain in the 20th century.",
"For me, embracing new media and increasing the accessibility for my constituents is a winning formula.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jason Chaffetz."
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"Rep. Jason Chaffetz says using social media is a great way to get a message out .",
"Rep. Jason Chaffetz says constituents want to hear from constituents's representatives, and constituents want to talk back ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Hashim Amla compiled Hashim Amla's first double century after Jacques Kallis again fell short of the landmark as South Africa continued to punish India's bowlers on day two of the first cricket Test in Nagpur.",
"Hashim Amla was unbeaten on 253 when the tourists declared on 558-6 in the final session on Sunday, then India safely reached stumps at 25-0 in a clash between the top two teams in the five-day format.",
"It is the highest score made by a South African No. 3 batsman, and the highest by any from Hashim Amla's country against India.",
"Hashim Amla extended Hashim Amla's third-wicket partnership with Jacques Kallis to a South African record of 340 before Jacques Kallis's senior partner fell for 173, having added just 14 to Jacques Kallis's overnight tally in a subdued second part of Jacques Kallis's innings.",
"It was the first time any pair have put on a triple century in any matches between the two nations.",
"Jacques Kallis edged a delivery from off-spinner Harbhajan Singh onto Jacques Kallis's pads, and Murali Vijay took the catch at short leg to end a 351-ball knock that put the all-rounder into third equal on the all-time Test century-scoring list with 34.",
"Hashim Amla then added another 108 with A.B. De Villiers, who made a brisk 53 off 88 deliveries, and rode Hashim Amla's luck as Hashim Amla was dropped twice on 149, as they broke South Africa's record for the fourth wicket in matches between the two teams.",
"De Villiers fell to part-time bowler Virender Sehwag and then -spinner Harbhajan Singh removed J.P. Duminy for just nine to have the Proteas 476-5, but then Mark Boucher contributed 39 to a stand of 78 with Hashim Amla before becoming Zaheer Khan's third victim, and captain Graeme Smith called the innings to a close with 40 minutes left in the day.",
"India openers Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag survived four overs from pace bowlers Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel with some positive batting, and will start Monday's play on 12 and nine respectively as they seek to make inroads into a massive first-innings deficit.",
"They will do well to take the lead of Amla, who was steady throughout his 473-ball innings, hitting 22 boundaries and scoring 55, 45 and 38 in Saturday's three sessions.",
"While India relied heavily on Harbhajan and Amit Mishra, who on a helpful pitch bowled only six maidens between them in 99 overs for combined figures 2-306, captain Graeme Smith has only one specialist spinner in Paul Harris plus all-rounder Duminy, with the medium pace of Kallis backing up Dale Steyn, Morkel and rookie fast bowler Wayne Parnell.",
"Meanwhile, Australia crushed the West Indies by 113 runs in the opening match of Australia's one-day series in Melbourne on Sunday.",
"Batting first, the hosts reached 256-8 in their 50 overs as opener Shane Watson top-scored with 56 in his 100th match, while captain Ricky Ponting made 49.",
"All-rounder Kieron Pollard took 3-45 for the Windies, while seamer Ravi Rampaul claimed 2-43.",
"The tourists then slumped to 143 all out in just 34.2 overs as opening bowler Ryan Harris and spinner Nathan Hauritz claimed three wickets each.",
"Doug Bollinger also snared two early victims, including the key scalp of big-hitting captain Chris Gayle, as the West Indies were left reeling on 12-3.",
"All-rounder Kieron Pollard, signed for $750,000 in the Indian Premier League auctions last month, top-scored with 31 from 35 deliveries."
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"Hosts India reach 25-0 at stumps on the second day of the opening Test of the series .",
"Hashim Amla extends third-wicket partnership to 340 with Jacques Kallis, who falls for 173 .",
"Hashim Amla then adds 108 with A.B. De Villiers and 78 with Mark Boucher, being unbeaten on 253 ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"British Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth announced a public inquiry Wednesday into allegations that Iraqis were killed and abused after a firefight more than five years ago in the southern part of the country.",
"allegations that Iraqis were killed and abused after a firefight more than five years ago in the southern part of the country center around the aftermath of a fight in May 2004 at the so-called Danny Boy checkpoint in Maysan Province.",
"Former detainees and the family of a slain Iraqi contend at least 20 people were killed and others were abused at Maysan Province after a fight between British soldiers and Iraqi insurgents.",
"That claim has been denied by the UK Ministry of Defence -- which says the 20 people died in battle and people detained were not mistreated.",
"The probe is called the Al Sweady inquiry -- named after the family of the dead Iraqi.",
"Thayne Forbes -- who retired from the High Court Bench last year -- will chair The probe into allegations.",
"The probe will look into allegations of \"unlawful killings\" and the \"ill-treatment of five Iraqi nationals detained at Maysan Province.\"",
"Even though The probe will focus on five detainees, attorneys claim nine people were detained and abused.",
"The defense ministry disputes those allegations.",
"\"We have found no credible evidence that those detained, as a result of the attack on British troops and the prolonged firefight at Danny Boy checkpoint, were mistreated,\" The defense ministry said in a statement.",
"The release of a photo published in British media and obtained by CNN about the incident shows an armed soldier standing near four people face down on the ground with four people's hands bound behind four people's backs and four people's faces covered.",
"Attorneys for four people say four people were beaten and evidence shows a breach of the Geneva Conventions prohibiting humiliating and degrading treatment of prisoners.",
"But, The defense ministry disputes that.",
"\"It is important to remember that The defense ministry's first priority at the end of such attacks is to protect The defense ministry's personnel from further threats,\" The defense ministry said.",
"CNN's Atika Shubert and Per Nyberg contributed to this report."
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"Allegations center around aftermath of firefight in 2004 at checkpoint in Maysan Province, southern Iraq .",
"Former detainees and family of a slain Iraqi say at least 20 people were killed and others were abused .",
"UK defense ministry says at least 20 people died in battle and people detained were not mistreated ."
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"(CNN) --",
"At least 30 people died and 70 were wounded in shelling on a marketplace in Somali capital Mogadishu Thursday, according to journalists and emergency services.",
"Members of Islamist militia Al-Shaabab patrol Bakara Market in Mogadishu, Somalia, earlier this month.",
"A local journalist called the rocket fire on Bakara market \"unprecedented.\"",
"\"This was the most brutal shelling,\" according to an ambulance service representative who said they had picked up 61 wounded, but expect the number to climb.",
"Other victims were being brought to hospitals by family and friends.",
"The source of shelling in Somali capital Mogadishu could not immediately be determined.",
"Journalists saw shell fire coming from AMISOM -- the African Union Mission in Somalia -- strongholds in a fortified district of Somali capital Mogadishu and from near the airport.",
"Somalia is the only force in the area believed to have the firepower capable of such an intense attack.",
"However, Somalia denied any involvement in the incident.",
"The African Union has a 3,400-member peacekeeping force in Somalia, made up of troops from Burundi and Uganda.",
"It operates under a U.N. mandate to support Somalia's transitional federal government.",
"The peacekeeping force is charged with protecting key government and strategic installations in Mogadishu, including the port, airport and presidential palace.",
"The peacekeeping force is the de facto military force of the weak, transitional Somali government.",
"The African Union forces have been battling an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia in Somalia called Al-Shaabab.",
"The United States is supporting Somalia's transitional federal government's fight against the insurgents, including providing weapons to government forces.",
"an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia in Somalia called Al-Shaabab is on the U.S. list of terror organizations because of an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia in Somalia called Al-Shaabab's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.",
"The United States is concerned that Somalia's weak government could fall to the Islamist insurgency, as Somalia's transitional federal government did in 2006 before Ethiopian forces ousted the militants from power in early 2007.",
"Ethiopia invaded Somalia with the support of Somalia's weak transitional government.",
"Journalist Mohamed Amiin Adow contributed to this report."
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"Journalists report shell fire coming from African Union Mission in Somalia stronghold .",
"Military force Somalia has denied any involvement in the incident ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"An investigation into an attack that killed eight U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan last year said combat outpost was an \"attractive target\" because protection improvements hadn't been made and intelligence assets had been diverted.",
"These were main points in the findings released Friday by the U.S. military into the probe of the October 3 attack on combat outpost in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province.",
"the October 3 attack on Combat Outpost Keating in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province killed eight U.S. service members and wounded 22 others.",
"Based on the recommendations in the investigation, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top coalition military commander in Afghanistan, \"took appropriate action regarding Army personnel involved.\"",
"The report also praised soldiers of B Troop, 3rd Squadron, 61st Calvary for repelling the October 3 attack on Combat Outpost Keating in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province by a force of 300 militants.",
"Commanders must regularly assess \"the value and vulnerabilities\" of combat outposts, said the report, which \"made several recommendations to improve coalition tactics.\"",
"The base had been scheduled to be closed before the October 3 attack on Combat Outpost Keating in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province occurred, and \"needed force protection improvements (which) were not made\" because of the imminent closure.",
"\"Critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets which had been supporting combat outpost had been diverted to assist ongoing intense combat operations in other areas,\" The report said.",
"The report also said \"intelligence assessments had become desensitized to reports of massing enemy formations by previous reports that had proved false.\"",
"All of these factors \"resulted in an attractive target for enemy fighters.\"",
"The military says militants had been planning the attack for days, hiding mortars, rockets and heavy machine guns in the mountains.",
"the October 3 attack on Combat Outpost Keating in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province started around dawn as bullets and rockets peppered the remote outpost October 3 and lasted for 12 hours, pinning down the exhausted troops.",
"One soldier said afterward the insurgency was so fierce that the exhausted troops couldn't get to the exhausted troops's weapons to fire back.",
"the exhausted troops called in air support to help thwart militants.",
"\"the exhausted troops were under heavy enemy contact,\" Sgt. Jayson Souter said.",
"Four servicemen -- Souter, a fellow soldier, an Apache helicopter pilot and a gunner -- talked to a military reporter about Four servicemen -- Souter, a fellow soldier, an Apache helicopter pilot and a gunner --'s roles during the Keating attack in an interview posted by the Department of Defense on Facebook and NATO's International Security Assistance Force YouTube Channel.",
"Chief Warrant Officer Ross Lewallen, an Apache pilot, said a few aircraft were damaged in what was a \"time-consuming endeavor\" governed by tough terrain.",
"He said the morning battle was \"significant,\" but later troops were able to identify targets and eliminate larger weapons.",
"\"One of the primary reasons for the fight taking so long is that it is an extreme terrain,\" he said in the interview.",
"The report said the exhausted troops killed 150 enemy fighters and \"found that the exhausted troops fought heroically in repelling an enemy force five times the exhausted troops's size.",
"\"Members of B Troop upheld the highest standards of warrior ethics and professionalism and distinguished Members of B Troop with conspicuous gallantry, courage, and bravery under the heavy enemy fire that surrounded Members of B Troop.\""
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"Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) --",
"The trial of Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett took a new twist Tuesday when the prosecution told the judge the prosecution wanted to impeach the prosecution's star witness.",
"the prosecution called Micheal Peter Hitschmann to the stand to implicate Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett in the procurement of the arms.",
"Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett is a senior official of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and Zimbabwe's deputy agriculture minister-designate.",
"Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett has pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism and inciting people to carry out terrorism.",
"Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett could face the death penalty if convicted.",
"The MDC -- led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai -- says the case against Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett is politically motivated and was aimed at keeping Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett out of the unity government it formed with President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party last February.",
"Under questioning from Attorney General Johannes Tomana, Micheal Peter Hitschmann testified Micheal Peter Hitschmann had seen Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett on television and then had met Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett at a public gathering.",
"But Micheal Peter Hitschmann told the fully packed courtroom that Micheal Peter Hitschmann was not aware of some of the weapons the prosecution claims that Micheal Peter Hitschmann bought with the financial support of Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett.",
"In addition, Hitschmann -- who appeared relaxed throughout the proceedings -- cast doubt on the authenticity of e-mails that were produced in court which the prosecution said had been retrieved from Micheal Peter Hitschmann's laptop and which allegedly reveal that Micheal Peter Hitschmann and Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett were planning to commit terrorism.",
"\"None of the contents was retrieved from his laptop in my absence or in the presence of my legal counsel (in 2006 when he was arrested),\" Micheal Peter Hitschmann said, adding, \"I don't know here they came from.\"",
"After that, Tomana started questioning Micheal Peter Hitschmann as if he were a hostile witness and not the star witness for the prosecution.",
"Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett's lawyers objected, saying the prosecution was trying to \"confuse\" people.",
"At that point, Tomana indicated that Tomana was in the \"preparatory stage\" to \"to lay evidence that Micheal Peter Hitschmann was being inconsistent.\"",
"\"The witness -- who is an accomplice witness by the way -- is getting to be a witness in favor of the accused; we are entitled to start impeachment procedures when Micheal Peter Hitschmann starts showing that Micheal Peter Hitschmann is being unfavorably indisposed in favor of the accused,\" he added.",
"Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett's lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, said the prosecution had never indicated that the prosecution had e-mails which were purportedly written by Mtetwa's client and Hitschmann.",
"Mtetwa said Micheal Peter Hitschmann had submitted an affidavit saying Micheal Peter Hitschmann does not want to testify against Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett, adding that the statements about conspiracy that were purportedly made by Micheal Peter Hitschmann were done under \"traumatic and unfriendly circumstances\" in 2006, when Micheal Peter Hitschmann was arrested and later charged with terrorism himself.",
"Mtetwa said the prosecution was attempting to take a statement Micheal Peter Hitschmann made to the army and turn a statement Hitschmann made to the army into a statement against Mtetwa's client.",
"\"That is an army-procured statement.",
"What legal basis is there to change it to a witness statement?",
"a statement Hitschmann made to the army was made when Micheal Peter Hitschmann was an accused facing conspiracy charges,\" said Mtetwa.",
"\"During that time the prosecution did not indicate that Micheal Peter Hitschmann had acted in common purpose with the accused (Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett).\"",
"Micheal Peter Hitschmann was acquitted of terrorism charges in 2006 but served a jail sentence for the lesser charge of possessing weapons without a license.",
"weapons allegedly included six sub-machine guns and two machine guns, which the prosecution produced in Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett's trial as part of the state's exhibits.",
"The judge in the case, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu, who resumed Bennett's trial after adjourning it last November, is expected to rule Wednesday whether the state can proceed to impeach the state's own witness.",
"Throughout the court proceedings, Bennett -- clad in a blue suit, matching blue tie and a light blue shirt -- sat motionless, gazing into the sky once in a while.",
"Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett laughed out loud when Micheal Peter Hitschmann said Micheal Peter Hitschmann first saw Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett on television punching the justice minister in parliament."
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"Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett denies the charges, which Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett's party alleges are politically motivated ."
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"(CNN) --",
"\"Precious,\" a movie about a 1980s-era Harlem teen who strives to overcome abuse, neglect and illiteracy, pulled five Independent Spirit Award nominations Tuesday morning.",
"Stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique were both recognized for Stars Gabourey Sidibe's portrayals of a mother and daughter in a dysfunctional relationship, with a best female lead nomination for newcomer Sidibe and a best supporting female nomination for Mo'Nique.",
"The film's success is not entirely a surprise, considering that The film and Tyler Perry-backed Sundance darling has earned $27 million at the domestic box office and was received well by audiences during The film's slow rollout in cities across the nation in November.",
"newcomer Sidibe's work in \"Precious\" has been one of the breakout roles of the year, and the young actress is rumored to be the star of a new series, \"The C Word.\"",
"However, it hasn't been all smooth for \"Precious\": The film earned zero nominations for the Gotham Independent Film Awards, which were given out Monday night.",
"the Gotham Independent Film Awards are a New York-based indie film honor.",
"\"The Hurt Locker,\" by contrast, took home two Gotham awards Monday night, one for best picture and the other for best ensemble.",
"There were no Independent Spirit Award nominations for this Iraq war drama, however, as it was nominated last year.",
"For the Spirits, \"Precious\" is facing off against the Zooey Deschanel-driven \"(500) Days of Summer,\" \"Amreeka,\" \"The Last Station\" and \"Sin Nombre\" for best picture.",
"\"Summer\" also snagged a nomination for best male lead, a nod for Joseph Gordon-Levitt.",
"On top of the best picture nomination, \"The Last Station\" -- a biographical piece about Leo Tolstoy featuring James McAvoy, Helen Mirren and Paul Giamatti -- is up for best director, best screenplay, best female lead and best supporting male lead.",
"Christian McKay, another relatively unknown actor in the United States, has gotten lots of love from critics for his portrayal of Orson Welles in Richard Linklater's \"Me and Orson Welles,\" and the Spirit Awards noticed, giving the British actor a nomination for best supporting male performer.",
"In order to be considered, all films had to be 70 minutes long with a budget under $20 million, and had to have screened at one of the major film festivals, such as Sundance or Toronto.",
"The awards ceremony is typically held the Saturday before the Academy Awards, but since the Spirit Awards are celebrating the Spirit Awards's 25th anniversary in 2010, the Spirit Awards're moving out from under Oscar's shadow and will air live on the Independent Film Channel on March 5."
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"This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Solferino which led to the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross.",
"The ICRC is using the date to launch an awareness campaign of The ICRC's work in conflict-affected countries, featuring photos taken by five award-winning photojournalists.",
"This week we're bringing you stories from some of the world's most troubled countries, as told by The ICRC.",
"CITÉ SOLEIL, Haiti (ICRC) --",
"Roudeline Lamy was 23 when Roudeline Lamy was shot in the stomach.",
"The impact of the bullet sent the small baby Roudeline Lamy was holding tumbling to the ground.",
"Roudeline Lamy shows the scar from Roudeline Lamy's bullet wound.",
"At 26, Roudeline Lamy's a widow after losing Roudeline Lamy's husband to gangland violence.",
"Roudeline Lamy still suffers from stomach pains and Roudeline Lamy's daughter, now three years old, is paralyzed from the waist down.",
"The mother and child sleep on the concrete floor of a shack that floods every time it rains.",
"Since Roudeline's husband was killed by the gangs, Roudeline Lamy has had to rely on the charity of friends and Roudeline Lamy's faith that God will not abandon Roudeline Lamy.",
"With very few State services, God is all the poor in Haiti's sprawling seaside slum of Cité Soleil can believe in.",
"Two schools and one state hospital serve the ever-expanding population, with aid agencies and religious groups trying to plug the gap.",
"The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been in Haiti since 1994 and in Cité Soleil since 2003.",
"Rob Drouen, head of the ICRC delegation, explains, \"Haiti is a fragile state where armed gangs can be used to stir up trouble for political reasons and abject poverty fuels discontent.\"",
"See photos taken by award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv » .",
"Even among the children.",
"In Cité Soleil, a dozen street children start pummeling a young girl.",
"It's not known why.",
"But within seconds word has spread that a fight is on.",
"Hordes of children with matted hair and ragged clothes race to the scene, glad of anything to relieve the monotony of yet another day with nothing to do.",
"Weary parents pull Weary parents's children away, leaving a young girl to escape.",
"This is a far cry from the days when families ran for cover from daily gun battles.",
"A few years ago, Cité Soleil was one of the most dangerous and destitute places on earth -- a shanty town torn apart by a vicious gang war for control of the area.",
"United Nations troops have stabilized the security situation in Haiti, the western world's poorest country, and many gang members are either dead or behind bars.",
"Nevertheless, violence still surrounds the 300,000 residents of Cité Soleil, fueled by hunger and the frustration of trying to survive on less than a dollar a day.",
"I sidestep the brawling children and enter the home of a woman who has suffered more than most.",
"A long-standing resident of Cité Soleil, 83 year old Elevanise Tidor was first caught in gangland crossfire in 1993.",
"In 2004 she stepped into harm's away again when she was shot in the breast and stomach.",
"As she undoes her faded dress to show the scars from her mastectomy, she tells me she was later hit by a car and now can hardly walk.",
"Watch Elevanise Tidor tell her story » .",
"Confined to a sparsely furnished corrugated iron shack, she worries about how her children and grandchildren are going to make ends meet.",
"\"My body took the bullets, but my family has been hit the hardest,\" she says.",
"\"I can't work or do anything for my family.",
"My grandchildren often go to bed crying with hunger.\"",
"That the victims of violence can suffer for years after the event is well-known, but in Cité Soleil the suffering can last a lifetime.",
"With the help of the ICRC, a group of victims of the violence is aiding fellow sufferers.",
"In 2007, Pierre Wilber founded REVICIS (Regroupement des victimes de Cité Soleil) after gang members beat Pierre Wilber up for political reasons.",
"REVICIS has already identified 300 victims and is now trying to get funds for social, psychological and legal help.",
"\"There are so many social problems in Cité Soleil that everyone here is a victim,\" Pierre Wilber says.",
"\"But we give priority to people visibly scarred by violence, because people visibly scarred by violence have suffered a double blow.\"",
"Brice Osmer is one of the rare victims who can still work.",
"In April 2005, Brice Osmer was caught in a shoot-out between UN troops and gang members.",
"Brice Osmer was hit three times and lost an arm.",
"Since then Brice Osmer walks the streets selling mobile phone time cards and bags of water.",
"\"On a good day I earn a dollar, but it's thanks to my wife who sells food from dawn to dusk that my children don't starve.\"",
"In 2004, at the height of the gang warfare, the Red Cross ensured that people had safe access to water.",
"Previously, they had been risking their lives crossing frontlines to fill up their buckets.",
"Today, The ICRC works with the water board, maintaining and running 53 communal water points across Cité Soleil, turning them on for a couple of hours 20 days a month.",
"Prospere Borgelin works with The ICRC on its water project.",
"Prospere Borgelin also works with other international organizations to improve living conditions in Ti-Haiti where Prospere Borgelin lives (Ti-Haiti is Creole for Petit Haiti, or Little Haiti.)",
"Like other community leaders, Prospere Borgelin has seen the benefits of working closely with the humanitarian agencies and with the Brazilian troops from the U.N. stabilization mission responsible for security in Cité Soleil.",
"\"the Brazilian troops from the U.N. stabilization mission responsible for security in Cité Soleil have brought security.",
"Communities are beginning to organize Communities.",
"We see the results in that roads are being built, rubbish collected and sewage removed,\" Prospere Borgelin says.",
"At considerable personal risk, Prospere Borgelin has helped the U.N. and the Haitian police arrest gang members in Prospere Borgelin's neighborhood and continues to be vigilant.",
"Like many in Cité Soleil, Prospere Borgelin fears that the U.N. will pull out before the Haitian police are ready to take over and that the streets will again echo to the sound of gunfire.",
"\"Misery,\" Prospere Borgelin says, \"breeds violence.",
"And there's still plenty of misery in Cité Soleil.\"",
"For more about this topic go to the ICRC Website.",
"Have you been affected by conflict?",
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"(CNN) --",
"A leading Muslim-American civil rights group is advocating intense grassroots engagement among police and U.S. Muslim neighborhood leaders to thwart the emergence of homegrown Islamic terrorists.",
"A report, issued Friday by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, reflects the shock among American Muslims over the Fort Hood massacre, the arrests of five American Muslims in Pakistan suspected of plotting terrorist attacks, and the arrests of eight Somali-American men on charges related to what prosecutors said were efforts to recruit youths to fight for a Somali guerrilla movement.",
"Titled \"Building Bridges to Strengthen America: Forging an Effective Counterterrorism Enterprise between Muslim Americans and Law Enforcement,\" the paper stresses a division of labor and a collaboration between police and community groups.",
"Police should fight crime, including terrorism, and neighborhood leaders should deal with the causes of radicalization, it says.",
"At the same time, both need to work hand in glove, the paper said.",
"\"We will capture the narrative from those who seek to misguide the young people,\" said Haris Tarin, the head of the council's District of Columbia office.",
"Haris Tarin, the head of the council's District of Columbia office was speaking Friday at a news conference in Washington that introduced the 32-page paper.",
"\"One incident of violent extremism is one too many,\" said Alejandro J. Beutel, the author of the report and the group's government liaison.",
"\"Our community needs to develop more sophistication in dealing with this challenge.\"",
"Beutel, who also spoke at a news conference in Washington that introduced the 32-page paper, said there needs to be a greater emphasis on community policing, an idea that calls for closer ties between neighborhood residents and cops on the beat.",
"Developing closer relations with local Muslims would help police tap \"unique cultural and linguistic\" skills that can spot and head off trouble.",
"Study said police must surmount community distrust, which Study says is common and calls \"an automatic barrier to police community outreach.\"",
"\"Unfortunately, in the current political climate, the actions of certain law enforcement agencies -- whether spying on peaceful activist groups and houses of worship without reasonable suspicion, or religious profiling -- have added to difficulties,\" Study said.",
"Such a \"heightened sense of fear and grievances also creates a greater pool of alienated people terrorists can tap into for recruitment,\" Beutel's report said.",
"Haris Tarin, the head of the council's District of Columbia office and Beutel said concern about radicalism in Our community isn't new: Books have been published about the subject, and imams at mosques have raised the issue for many years.",
"Speaking at a news conference in Washington that introduced the 32-page paper, Haris Tarin, the head of the council's District of Columbia office said that Muslim leaders need to \"think outside the box\" and engage young people in cyberspace, on social networking sites and in other social circles where they are coming together.",
"And Tarin and Beutel said that all Muslim groups need to work together to help confront problems like the emergence of radical thought and identify sources of discontent.",
"Beutel said Our community can learn from the experience of the British Muslim community.",
"While there was initial surprise that local Muslims were involved in the July 7, 2005, London bombings, Muslims there later realized that militant leaders were tapping into the problems caused by youthful alienation and social issues such as racism, drug use and premarital sex.",
"Beutel cites a study that says many militants had been secular before many militants embraced radical Islam, but many militants typically lacked mainstream religious knowledge.",
"Beutel said making communities \"religiously literate\" would help fight radicalism.",
"\"Muslim communities must do Muslim communities's part to reach out and continue to assist law enforcement to bring real terrorist perpetrators to justice,\" Beutel wrote in the report.",
"\"The role Muslim communities should play is in counterradicalization efforts through better religious education, social programs and long-term constructive political engagement.\""
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"Report, cites Fort Hood tragedy, Americans' arrest in Pakistan, Somali-Americans' arrest .",
"Study says police must undo community distrust, which Study calls a barrier to outreach .",
"Muslim leaders asked to engage youths on social networking sites and in other social circles ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Anjali Thakur is living in fear in India.",
"Anjali Thakur is a mother afraid for Anjali Thakur's son.",
"\"We are all having sleepless nights,\" Anjali Thakur says.",
"Sourabh Sharma -- one of the Indian students attacked in Melbourne.",
"Her son isn't in a war zone or even a country known to be dangerous.",
"her son is a student in Melbourne, Australia.",
"\"Three years back when we sent her son,\" she says, \"it was one of the safest places for the children to go.\"",
"The Australian government says it is still safe but a spate of vicious attacks on Indian students in recent weeks has parents like Anjali Thakur and hundreds of students shaken and angry.",
"From Melbourne to Victoria to Sydney Indian students say Indian students are targets of racially motivated attacks.",
"At least 10 Indian students have been attacked over the past month, the most severe case left an Indian student in a coma, another student was stabbed in the stomach, and a third left with a nasty black eye.",
"So far more than a dozen arrests have been made.",
"Australia authorities say Australia authorities don't believe the attacks and robberies are racially motivated but instead crimes of opportunity against soft targets: students who typically travel alone at night on public transportation.",
"But hundreds of Indian students see it differently.",
"hundreds of Indian students have reacted with protests in at least three Australian cities.",
"Police say at one point Indian students decided to take the law into Indian students's own hands and retaliate which has been condemned in both India and Australia.",
"The situation has gotten so much attention Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made several statements on the matter, insisting the attacks are isolated incidents.",
"In an interview on Australian radio Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said: \"Every city has violence, let's put this into perspective, and Australia I'm advised on the statistics is one of the safest countries in the world for international students.\"",
"In India though the perception of a safe Australia has been shattered partly due to the widespread publicity of the recent cases.",
"The story has been front page news for days while local television media has been going with breaking news every time it receives a report of an Indian student attacked anywhere in Australia.",
"Political tension has even bubbled up between India and Australia with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing the attacks and asking Australia does something to safeguard India's young people.",
"Australia has responded with a 10-point action plan to help safeguard students.",
"A helpline has also been set up.",
"As for Anjali Thakur, Anjali Thakur says Anjali Thakur's son has lived in Australia for three years and never experienced violence; in fact Anjali Thakur says her son didn't even know about the attacks in Melbourne where her son lives until Anjali Thakur called her son to warn her son.",
"But Anjali Thakur has been watching the news in India and seeing a totally different picture of Australia.",
"\"It's a lovely beautiful peaceful country,\" Anjali Thakur says, \"but now what you see on TV and what you hear, that's a total contrast to what we know of Australia.\"",
"The Thakur family has responded by refusing to let the youngest son study in Australia and keeping The Thakur family's eldest son from enrolling in a master's program at his university.",
"If that kind of sentiment spreads, that kind of sentiment could have serious consequences for Australia's $12.6 billion-a-year education export industry.",
"More than 80,000 students from India study in Australia.",
"\"Any parent will tell you,\" Anjali Thakur says, \"Any parent are not going to send a child for the best education in the world at the cost of his life.\""
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"Spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia makes headlines in India .",
"Students say attacks racially motivated; authorities say they are crimes of opportunity .",
"Attacks have stoked political tensions between New Delhi, Canberra .",
"More than 80,000 Indian students attend Australian universities ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"A woman who helped raise Lisa Miller with Janet Jenkins's female partner in Vermont before the pair split can visit the girl in Virginia even though Virginia doesn't recognize same-sex unions, a court ruled Friday.",
"Janet Jenkins with Isabella, the daughter she helped raise with former partner Lisa Miller.",
"Virginia's Supreme Court ruled that Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller's civil union in 2000 gave Vermont, and its law on same-sex unions, jurisdiction over their subsequent custody and visitation disputes.",
"Lisa Miller moved to Virginia with Lisa Miller in 2003, and a Vermont court granted Janet Jenkins visitation rights.",
"But Lisa Miller took the case to a Virginia court, which ruled that Janet Jenkins had no such rights there.",
"the case was considered by legal experts to be the first conflict between two state courts over a major legal question arising from same-sex unions.",
"Janet Jenkins's attorney, Joseph Price of the Washington law firm Arent Fox, said Friday's ruling \"just affirms the old principle that when these kinds of custody and visitation disputes begin in one state, that's where they should remain.\"",
"\"You can't shop them around to another state,\" Price said.",
"\"Virginia really had no choice but to enforce judgments and judicial orders from Vermont.\"",
"Vermont is one of the few states that allow same-sex partners to enter into a civil union.",
"Two years after Vermont recognized Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins' relationship, Lisa Miller gave birth to a daughter, Isabella, conceived through artificial insemination.",
"The relationship deteriorated, and Lisa Miller and the baby moved to Virginia.",
"A Vermont court later granted Lisa Miller a dissolution of the civil union and granted custody of the child to her and visitation rights to Janet Jenkins.",
"Lisa Miller then asked the courts in Virginia -- which does not recognize same-sex unions or marriages -- to take jurisdiction of the dispute.",
"A Virginia state judge eventually ruled that Janet Jenkins had no \"parentage or visitation rights.\"",
"The Virginia high court ruling Friday returned the case to Vermont's control, meaning Janet Jenkins can visit the girl, who is now 6.",
"Lisa Miller's attorney, Mathew Staver, said he was \"disappointed Vermont sidestepped the larger legal questions.\"",
"\"the case shows that one state is not an island in the same-sex marriage dispute, and underscores having state laws that protect traditional one-man, one-woman marriages,\" said Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel, a law firm that fights on behalf of what it calls \"traditional families.\"",
"Lisa Miller said in 2005 that Lisa Miller was doing what was best for Lisa Miller's daughter and was no longer a lesbian.",
"\"I am Lisa Miller's mom.",
"I did conceive Lisa Miller; I birthed Lisa Miller,\" Lisa Miller said.",
"\"I'm raising Lisa Miller.",
"And in my opinion, Lisa Miller needs to stay with Lisa Miller 100 percent of the time, because I am the only person that Lisa Miller identifies as a mom.\"",
"Lisa Miller lives with Lisa Miller in Winchester, Virginia.",
"Janet Jenkins did not offer an immediate reaction to the ruling but said in 2005 that Janet Jenkins was only fighting for Janet Jenkins's rights as a parent.",
"\"Justice will be served for Lisa Miller,\" Janet Jenkins said.",
"\"I believe that.",
"And I'll do whatever it takes.",
"I'll be with Lisa Miller for as long as I can, or I'll be without Lisa Miller for as long as I have to, but I'm Lisa Miller's mom.",
"\"Lisa Miller's born here [in Vermont].",
"Lisa Miller's always here.\"",
"Price said Jenkins, who lives in Fair Haven, Vermont, was supposed to visit Lisa Miller last weekend, but Lisa Miller didn't appear with Lisa Miller.",
"the ruling comes a week after the California Supreme Court's refusal to delay the California Supreme Court's's recent decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the state.",
"Massachusetts also allows same-sex marriages; Vermont and three other states permit civil unions, and 12 other states give gay and lesbian couples some legal rights.",
"Virginia amended Virginia's constitution in 2007 to decree that marriage is defined as a union between one man and one woman."
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"Virginia ruling gives Vermont court jurisdiction over case .",
"Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller were in civil union in Vermont but later split .",
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"Lisa Miller got Virginia court to block visitation; Friday's ruling overturns that ."
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