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"(CNN) --",
"Responding to Obama's State of the Union comments about the \"deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that \"the American people don't care about process.\"",
"Yet Americans have indicated that Americans are quite unhappy with how Americans's government is working.",
"According to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, only 28 percent of those polled believe that their government is \"working well,\" while seven out of 10 believe that their government is in need of reform.",
"Almost 93 percent said there was too much partisanship; 84 percent said special interests had excessive power.",
"We must always take these kinds of poll numbers with a grain of salt.",
"Polls frequently show that Americans do not like how Americans's government works, especially Congress.",
"The U.S. is a country that has always expressed strong distrust of government.",
"There have been a few exceptional periods, like the progressive era or the 1960s and 1970s, when this frustration turns into a concerted movement for government reform.",
"During the 1960s and 1970s, liberal Democrats and Republicans concluded that much of liberal Democrats and Republicans's policy agenda would be impossible to achieve if the political process did not change.",
"liberal Democrats and Republicans perceived Vietnam and then Watergate as the outgrowth of deep flaws in how our government worked.",
"During the 1970s, liberal Democrats and Republicans were able to pass a series of significant reforms, such as a campaign finance system that included public funds for presidential campaigns and contribution limits.",
"Reforms opened up more of the political process through sunshine laws and retrenched the power of the senior committee chairmen in Congress who had usually done as they pleased, ignoring the will of the majority.",
"Ethics laws regulated the behavior of executive and legislative branch.",
"Even the sacrosanct filibuster underwent an overhaul in 1975: The Senate lowered the number of required to end a filibuster from two-thirds of The Senate, 67; to three-fifths, 60.",
"Many of the reforms did not work, some had unintended consequences, and others were gradually unraveled.",
"But substantive reform was possible and, for a moment, changed the way that politics as usual worked.",
"In addition to diminishing citizens' trust in government, the flaws of the political process constrain and limit what kinds of policies are even possible.",
"If President Obama, Democrats and Republicans are serious about building trust among citizens and creating a more productive political process, President Obama, Democrats and Republicans should work together to do something about it.",
"If Washington is serious about reforming the political process, three specific areas deserve immediate attention.",
"Filibuster reform:",
"The 60-vote supermajority Senate has become dysfunctional.",
"Both parties have expressed frustration with Both parties's inability to move legislation through the process.",
"Both parties have used the filibuster as a normal tool of procedural warfare.",
"Because of the rampant use of the filibuster since the 1960s, senators expect that 60 votes are now required on almost every piece of legislation.",
"Reform can happen again.",
"One option would be to switch to a majority-based system in which 51 votes can end debate.",
"Another, more feasible, option would lower the number of senators required for cloture to 55.",
"To improve the political prospects for any change, some observers have suggested that any reform would not take effect until after the 2012 election.",
"Making it easier to end a filibuster is one of the most important concrete steps that Congress could take to actually diminish partisanship.",
"The sources of partisanship are deep-rooted and hard to change.",
"But filibuster reform would disarm Both parties by weakening or removing one of Both parties's most powerful weapons.",
"Campaign finance reform:",
"A recent Supreme Court decision eliminated many of the barriers to corporate donations and third-party advertising.",
"The power of private money in campaigns has been a huge political issue for over a century.",
"Because politicians depend on interest group support to obtain funds for politicians's campaigns, politicians constantly find politicians constrained when it comes to making policy.",
"The influence of private money also diminishes public trust in government.",
"Every story about another lobbyist like Jack Abramoff confirms their worst fears about corruption.",
"It is not difficult to understand why Congress has crafted a health care bill that avoids making any huge changes to the basic infrastructure of the health care industry.",
"According to The New York Times, citing the Center for Responsive Politics, the health care and insurance industry spent at least $648 million on lobbying in 2009 -- and 20 percent of the year-end reports were not in yet.",
"Pharmaceutical companies spent about $245 million, which The New York Times said was more than any other single industry has ever spent lobbying on behalf of any issue.",
"Several changes have been discussed in recent years.",
"The administration has talked about placing certain kinds of fund-raising restrictions on companies that do business with the government.",
"A second proposal is to build on local and state reforms by providing matching public funds to candidates who raise a certain minimum of private donations.",
"In the end, offering an alternative source of funds to candidates and parties is the only way to change the system, or candidates will be forced to keep going back to the well of interest group money.",
"Congressional earmarks and tax breaks:",
"Pork-barrel politics is as American as apple pie.",
"But in recent decades, the system by which legislators pass appropriations targeted to key interests has become pervasive.",
"Legislators are comfortable putting provisions that are tailor-made for lobbyists or particular interests into bills.",
"These earmarks are not subject to hearings or oversight.",
"The use of earmarks by Senate Democrats to close the health care legislation that passed last month made the public uneasy.",
"The other way in which Congress distributes hidden benefits is through tax breaks.",
"During the 1960s, reformers named these \"tax expenditures\" to convey the point that the government essentially spends money by forgiving certain groups of their obligation.",
"We have not had a major tax reform initiative since 1986.",
"The time has come to clean out the tax code once again and reduce the number of provisions that are in the law.",
"There is also bipartisan support for reforms that would limit the use of earmarks by legislators and make certain that they are fully disclosed upon being requested.",
"Although voters tend to be more interested in bread-and-butter issues, as well as questions about war and peace, there are a few exceptional moments when public anger about the political system becomes so intense that we enter into a period of substantive reform.",
"We might be reaching one of those points, but in the end it will require the initiative of the president and congressional leaders to make sure that calls for reform are not just empty rhetoric.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"Zelizer: Political process flaws limit change in policies .",
"Obama, Democrats and Republicans must work together to restore trust, he writes .",
"Zelizer urges reforms in filibuster system, campaign financing, earmarks and tax law ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Midway Atoll, a small stretch of sand and coral in the middle of the north Pacific, is home to one of the world's largest populations of Laysan albatrosses.",
"Until 1993, U.S. Navy aircraft thundered down the runway of the military base on Midway Atoll, but now ocean going birds nest and embark on birds's own epic cross-ocean journeys from the overgrown landing strip.",
"Yet the impact of humans and increasing consumer waste from thousands of miles away continues to have a direct effect on Midway Atoll's wildlife, as photographic artist Chris Jordan discovered when photographic artist Chris Jordan traveled there in September.",
"The American photographed the remains of albatross chicks that had died from consuming plastic waste found in the surrounding oceans.",
"According to photographic artist Chris Jordan, not a single piece of plastic in any of the photographs was moved, placed or altered in any way.",
"The nesting babies had been fed the plastic by The nesting babies's parents, who collected what looked to them like food to bring back to The nesting babies's young.",
"From cigarette lighters to bottle caps, the plastic is found in what is now known as the great Pacific garbage patch that stretches across thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean.",
"Fed a diet of human trash, it is thought that every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity and choking.",
"photographic artist Chris Jordan has examined the environmental effects of consumer society in photographic artist Chris Jordan's previous work.",
"Pieces in photographic artist Chris Jordan's \"Running the Numbers\" exhibition, use digitally manipulated drinks cans and plastic waste from the Pacific gyre, respectively, to create copies of Hokusai's \"Behind the Great Wave off Kanagawa\" and Seurat's \"Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte\"."
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"Artist Chris Jordan photographed albatross remains on Midway Atoll in Pacific .",
"Remains show that albatross chicks choke or are poisoned by being fed plastic .",
"Plastic waste found across thousands of miles in North Pacific gyre ."
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"PERUGIA, Italy (CNN)",
"-- American student Amanda Knox, accused of killing Kercher's housemate two years ago, testified in U.S. student Amanda Knox's murder trial Saturday that U.S. student Amanda Knox was intimidated by Italian police during questioning.",
"American college student Amanda Knox, 21, testifies Friday at U.S. student Amanda Knox's murder trial in Perugia, Italy.",
"Knox, 21, is charged in the death of British student Meredith Kercher, who was Kercher's housemate in Perugia, a university town north of Rome.",
"Kercher, 20, died in what prosecutors say was a \"drug-fueled sex game\" after suffering a sexual assault.",
"Kercher was found half-naked, with a stab wound to Kercher's neck, in Kercher's bed November 2, 2007.",
"Saturday was the second day of testimony for Knox, who is from Seattle, Washington.",
"The public prosecutor, U.S. student Amanda Knox's defense lawyer, the attorney for U.S. student Amanda Knox's then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and the judge asked U.S. student Amanda Knox about what happened the night of Kercher's death and the following day.",
"Both U.S. student Amanda Knox and Sollecito, 25, are charged with murder and sexual assault.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox tried to explain Saturday why U.S. student Amanda Knox gave conflicting answers to police when police interrogated U.S. student Amanda Knox on November 6.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox said it was a combination of police pressure, their suggestions, and U.S. student Amanda Knox's confused and frightened state of mind.",
"\"When I would say that I was with Raffaele, police would say, 'You are a liar,' and police repeated this,\" U.S. student Amanda Knox said, testifying in fluent Italian.",
"\"You will go to prison for 30 years.",
"... You must remember,\" U.S. student Amanda Knox recalled police as saying.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox said police were standing behind U.S. student Amanda Knox and officers were going in and out of the interrogation room.",
"A policewoman next to U.S. student Amanda Knox was constantly pressing U.S. student Amanda Knox to give police a name, and an interpreter on U.S. student Amanda Knox's right said people under trauma tend to forget things, U.S. student Amanda Knox said.",
"\"I was confused.",
"... I had so much fear,\" U.S. student Amanda Knox said.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox testified that U.S. student Amanda Knox thought, \"Hell, perhaps they're right and I have forgotten.\"",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox repeated Saturday that police slapped U.S. student Amanda Knox on the back of U.S. student Amanda Knox's head while questioning U.S. student Amanda Knox.",
"As U.S. student Amanda Knox spoke, U.S. student Amanda Knox hit U.S. student Amanda Knox's head a few times with U.S. student Amanda Knox's right hand and gestured broadly.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox testified Friday that U.S. student Amanda Knox was not at the women's villa the night Kercher died, which authorities believe was the evening of November 1.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox said U.S. student Amanda Knox was at Sollecito's house.",
"Watch U.S. student Amanda Knox take the stand » .",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox testified Friday that the couple had dinner, watched a movie, smoked marijuana, had sex and went to bed on the night of November 1.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox said U.S. student Amanda Knox returned to Knox and Kercher's villa the next morning to take a shower.",
"That's when U.S. student Amanda Knox said U.S. student Amanda Knox noticed \"strange things\" such as the front door being left open, dried blood in the bathroom sink and on a bath mat, feces in the toilet, and the door to Kercher's room locked.",
"Watch U.S. student Amanda Knox in court » .",
"When U.S. student Amanda Knox returned to Sollecito's house, U.S. student Amanda Knox said, he suggested they call police in case Sollecito's house had been burglarized.",
"Police then found Kercher's body.",
"All cameras were barred from the courtroom Saturday because the public prosecutor said the public prosecutor wanted to avoid \"sensationalism.\"",
"Cameras were allowed at the beginning of the session Friday but then ordered out.",
"Knox's father, Curt, defended U.S. student Amanda Knox Saturday.",
"\"What we've seen over the past five months is a character assassination, and now, hopefully .... a different point of view of who U.S. student Amanda Knox is is coming out,\" he told reporters.",
"People are beginning to see that \"U.S. student Amanda Knox is not this dark angel U.S. student Amanda Knox's been portrayed as,\" he added.",
"\"U.S. student Amanda Knox did a great job\" on the stand, Curt Knox said.",
"\"U.S. student Amanda Knox was very articulate in U.S. student Amanda Knox's answers.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox answered all of the questions truthfully.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox was not quivering in U.S. student Amanda Knox's voice.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox was looking the judge in the eyes.\"",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox's attorney, Carlo della Vedova, described his client as \"very confident.\"",
"\"U.S. student Amanda Knox has repeated exactly what happened that night, on the fifth and sixth, when U.S. student Amanda Knox was arrested.",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox gave all the information that was requested\" during U.S. student Amanda Knox's testimony, he said.",
"The trial is to resume next Friday, but U.S. student Amanda Knox isn't expected to testify again.",
"A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede, was convicted of murder in a fast-track trial in October and sentenced to 30 years in prison.",
"A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede is appealing the verdict."
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"NEW: U.S. student Amanda Knox says questioners badgered, slapped, confused U.S. student Amanda Knox .",
"Knox, ex-boyfriend on trial in death of Knox's British housemate, Meredith Kercher .",
"U.S. student Amanda Knox contends U.S. student Amanda Knox was at boyfriend's house the night Kercher was killed .",
"Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede sentenced to 30 years for Kercher's murder ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Police have identified the man whose shooting of another man outside a store in Naples, Italy, was captured by a surveillance camera, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Saturday.",
"The announcement came two days after police released the video of the brazen daylight shooting in hopes it would lead someone to come forward.",
"Police did not release the man's name.",
"Surveillance video, shot May 11, shows a man wearing jeans, a dark jersey and a baseball cap, walking into the store and looking around, turning and walking back out.",
"Passersby appear unfazed.",
"One woman tries to lift up the victim's head in an apparent attempt to see if One woman knew him; a man steps over the body.",
"Police said Police had been without any clues before the release of Surveillance video.",
"A source who was not identified publicly said the killer was a man in his 30s from Naples' northern Sanita district who had recently left the city.",
"A third man seen in Surveillance video was thought to have been an accomplice, but Third man in video told Il Mattino newspaper that he had nothing to do with the killing.",
"\"I am the man of the film, but I have never been a lookout, and now I am afraid,\" Third man in video said.",
"\"I was taking a breath of air, waiting for my daughter to go shopping.\"",
"Third man in video said Third man in video had been living \"in terror\" since acquaintances called Third man in video from Germany to tell Third man in video acquaintances had seen Third man in video on Surveillance video.",
"Police said Police knew of no motive for the killing, which took place in the poor neighborhood of Rione Sanita, where Camorra, the name for organized crime in Naples, Italy, is strong.",
"The victim was a bank robber, the spokesman said.",
"A police spokesman said Camorra has been blamed for about 60 killings this year in Naples, Italy and its surrounding county."
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"Surveillance video shows man shooting another man outside a store in Naples, Italy .",
"Police released Surveillance video in hopes it would lead someone to come forward .",
"Release of Surveillance video provided clues, police say; source says killer is a man from Naples .",
"Third man in video was thought to be accomplice, but Third man in video tells newspaper Third man in video wasn't involved ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The South Carolina Ethics Commission has charged Sanford with 37 counts of violating state ethics laws, according to a complaint released by The South Carolina Ethics Commission on Monday.",
"a complaint released by the commission on Monday follows a three-month investigation into Sanford's use of taxpayer money.",
"Sanford is accused of using tax money to buy business-class airfare on domestic and international flights, flying on a state-owned aircraft to political gatherings or events \"which involved no official business,\" and spending campaign funds for personal use such as buying a ticket to attend President Obama's inauguration in January.",
"South Carolina law requires state officials to buy the lowest fares available for flights, and bars the use of state aircraft for personal use.",
"Sanford's office did not respond to requests for comment about the charges.",
"Sanford, once a rising star in the Republican Party before Sanford revealed an extramarital affair in June, faces a hearing along with Sanford's legal team before a three-member ethics panel.",
"Cathy Hazelwood, general counsel to the state Ethics Commission, said no date has been set for the hearing.",
"After arguments are presented, a three-member ethics panel will determine if Sanford broke any state laws.",
"The ethics case involves civil charges that are punishable by fines, and Sanford can appeal decisions up to the state Supreme Court.",
"Only the state attorney general, Henry McMaster, can decide to pursue criminal charges against Sanford.",
"Only the state attorney general, Henry McMaster is reviewing the allegations to determine if any laws were broken.",
"the charges compound Sanford's political problems, which have been simmering for months as investigators scrutinized his finances.",
"State legislators already have filed an impeachment resolution against Sanford for leaving the state this summer to visit Sanford's Argentine mistress without installing a proper chain of command or informing Sanford's staff.",
"A special House subcommittee will meet in Columbia on Tuesday to formally consider the resolution for the first time.",
"State Rep. Greg Delleney, a Republican and one of the sponsors of the resolution, said he expects A special House subcommittee to look over the ethics commission results during the Thanksgiving holiday and decide whether to adjust the measure to include material from the ethics complaint.",
"Delleney said Delleney thinks Monday's report will give new momentum to the impeachment push.",
"\"The sheer volume of the violations might be useful in bringing some more representatives over to the side of impeachment,\" Delleney said.",
"If A special House subcommittee decides to move forward with impeachment, the resolution will be passed onto the Judiciary Committee, which will then vote on whether to bring the resolution to the floor of the legislature when lawmakers return to the state capital of Columbia in January.",
"For Sanford to be forcibly removed from office, two-thirds of the South Carolina House and and two-thirds of the state Senate must vote to impeach Sanford."
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"Sanford is accused of using tax money for personal travel .",
"Sanford announced affair with Argentine woman in June .",
"Ethics case involves civil charges that are punishable by fines .",
"Legislators already have filed an impeachment resolution against Sanford ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The FBI is investigating as a possible hate crime an incident in which Tashawnea Hill was beaten to the ground in front of Tashawnea Hill's child at the entrance to a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Morrow, Georgia, south of Atlanta.",
"Troy Dale West, of Poulan, Georgia, is facing battery and cruelty to children charges after the incident.",
"Troy Dale West Jr., of Poulan, Georgia, is facing charges including misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct after allegedly beating Army reservist Tashawnea Hill, 35, after the two had words at the entrance of the Morrow, Georgia, restaurant the evening of September 9.",
"Hill, an African-American, told police that West, 47, yelled racial epithets at Tashawnea Hill as the attack took place.",
"\"He did punch me with a closed fist repeated times.",
"My head is still hurting today.",
"I have knots on My head,\" Tashawnea Hill told CNN Wednesday night, adding Tashawnea Hill also was kicked.",
"Police said witnesses confirmed Tashawnea Hill's account.",
"The FBI has \"initiated an investigation in the matter to determine if a civil rights violation occurred,\" The FBI said in a statement.",
"Because the attack happened in full view of Tashawnea Hill's 7-year-old daughter, the Clayton County district attorney's office added a felony charge of cruelty to children.",
"\"[The woman's daughter] was visibly upset the night of the attack,\" according to Capt. James Callaway of the Morrow Police Department, who said he was on the scene shortly after the attack.",
"A police report of the attack said Tashawnea Hill's daughter was \"crying uncontrollably and Hill's daughter's body [was] shaking/trembling\" from witnessing the attack.",
"Watch Tashawnea Hill discuss ordeal with CNN's Rick Sanchez » .",
"Tashawnea Hill told police the attack started when Tashawnea Hill and Tashawnea Hill's daughter were entering the restaurant at the same time Troy Dale West and Troy Dale West's wife were exiting.",
"\"Troy Dale West slung open the door pretty hard and fast and I had to push Hill's daughter out of the way,\" Tashawnea Hill told CNN affiliate WSB-TV.",
"\"I turned to Troy Dale West and I just said, 'Excuse me sir, you need to watch Troy Dale West; you almost hit Hill's daughter in the face.'",
"And from there it just went downhill.\"",
"Troy Dale West, according to the police report, admitted striking Tashawnea Hill \"after Tashawnea Hill spit on Troy Dale West and accused me of trying to hit Tashawnea Hill's daughter with a door.\"",
"Appearing on CNN Wednesday night, Tashawnea Hill and Tashawnea Hill's attorney, Kip Jones, denied that Tashawnea Hill spat on Troy Dale West.",
"Jones said Jones saw surveillance video of the attack.",
"\"At no point did Tashawnea Hill do anything to provoke the attack.",
"Tashawnea Hill did not spit on Troy Dale West.",
"Tashawnea Hill spoke to Troy Dale West.",
"Troy Dale West attacked Tashawnea Hill,\" Jones said.",
"Police say Tashawnea Hill stated that \"Troy Dale West punched Tashawnea Hill in the left cheek, forehead, kicked Tashawnea Hill's body in several places, and punched Tashawnea Hill's head in many areas several times.\"",
"The Cracker Barrel's manager told police The Cracker Barrel's manager stepped between Troy Dale West and Tashawnea Hill to stop the alleged assault.",
"Cracker Barrel spokeswoman Julie Davis said Wednesday that the restaurant was cooperating fully in the police investigation.",
"\"It's just terrible when something like this happens anywhere, let alone in one of our stores,\" Cracker Barrel spokeswoman Julie Davis said.",
"\"It's worth noting that Cracker Barrel employees did Cracker Barrel employees's best to assist Tashawnea Hill as soon as Cracker Barrel employees became aware of the situation.\"",
"Jones said Jones was \"convinced this was a hateful, racist attack ... based on the N-word, the B-word, etc.\"",
"\"The language was vile.",
"The language was racist.",
"The language was sexist.",
"The language was completely offensive, completely unprovoked,\" Jones said.",
"CNN's efforts to reach Troy Dale West at his home and business were unsuccessful.",
"Police said Police had no indication Troy Dale West had an attorney.",
"He is free on bond awaiting a hearing in the attack, the Clayton County jail said.",
"Tashawnea Hill was treated at a hospital after the attack and released.",
"The Clayton County district attorney has forwarded surveillance video of the attack to The FBI.",
"Edward DuBose, president of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, said Wednesday the NAACP was concerned about the alleged assault.",
"\"the NAACP do know that to see a young mother beat [and] grabbed the way this young lady was, raised concern to the NAACP in this community,\" DuBose said at a news conference in Morrow.",
"\"Certainly it raised concern in the attack that some of the language ... was used toward this mother.\"",
"DuBose said DuBose hoped The FBI would ensure \"that justice is served.\"",
"DuBose said DuBose's organization hadn't spoken to Tashawnea Hill, but that the NAACP planned to reach out to her."
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"The FBI is investigating to see whether \"a civil rights violation occurred\"",
"Police report says \"West punched [Hill] in the left cheek, forehead\"",
"Troy Dale West said Tashawnea Hill spit upon Troy Dale West; Tashawnea Hill denies it ."
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"MAMONI VALLEY PRESERVE, Panama (CNN) --",
"A famed primatologist says the plight of chimpanzees helped inspire Michael Jackson to write the song \"Heal the World.\"",
"Michael Jackson loved chimpanzees, said Jane Goodall: \"chimpanzees made Michael Jackson smile.\"",
"But the theme and the lyrics of Heal the World turned out to be about a better world for humanity.",
"\"Michael Jackson wrote what Michael Jackson told me Michael Jackson thought was Michael Jackson's most powerful song ever, but it didn't end up for animals,\" Jane Goodall said in a CNN interview Thursday night.",
"Jane Goodall spoke exclusively to CNN in a Panamanian rain forest where Jane Goodall is exploring a partnership on behalf of Roots & Shoots, Jane Goodall's global youth education program.",
"The interview comes as a new version of Heal the World, first released on Michael Jackson's 1991 \"Dangerous\" album, is being recorded by a collection of artists for release in late October.",
"Jane Goodall became friends with Michael Jackson about 20 years ago when Michael Jackson invited Jane Goodall to Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, where \"Michael Jackson talked about Michael Jackson's dreams for the place to have animals running, looking free like animals would in the wild.",
"... It was just a very charming day, very low key, nobody else was there,\" Jane Goodall said.",
"Goodall, famous for Jane Goodall's 50 years of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in Africa, said Michael Jackson invited Jane Goodall because \"Michael Jackson loved what I did.\"",
"\"Michael Jackson loved chimpanzees,\" Jane Goodall said.",
"\"Michael Jackson loved to watch chimpanzees feeding.",
"Michael Jackson liked chimpanzees's faces.",
"chimpanzees made Michael Jackson smile.\"",
"Years later, Jane Goodall met Michael Jackson's chimp, Bubbles, and has visited Jackson at Michael Jackson's retirement refuge in Florida, Jane Goodall said.",
"\"Jackson's extremely handsome,\" Jane Goodall said.",
"\"Jackson's a beautiful, beautiful chimp.",
"So, Jackson was rescued in time from this life of being inappropriately dressed up and carted around like a little symbol.\"",
"Goodall, whose life has been spent understanding chimpanzees, said Jane Goodall found Michael Jackson to be \"a sad person.\"",
"\"In some ways, Michael Jackson was like a child, and a very sweet and gentle child, and Michael Jackson wanted me to tell Michael Jackson many, many stories,\" Jane Goodall said.",
"\"Stories about the chimpanzees, the forests, animals, anything.",
"Michael Jackson told me Michael Jackson liked the way I told stories.\"",
"Goodall, who travels the world to promote protection of endangered chimps, said Jane Goodall had hoped Michael Jackson would help get Jane Goodall's message out.",
"\"I said to Michael Jackson, 'You know, Michael Jackson, if you want to help, you could do a concert and give us a percentage.",
"Or much better, write a song,' \" Jane Goodall said.",
"Michael Jackson asked Jane Goodall for tapes of animals in distress because \"Michael Jackson wanted to be angry and cry\" as Michael Jackson wrote the song, which became \"Heal the World,\" Jane Goodall said.",
"The original CD cover notes credited Goodall for inspiring Heal the World, Jane Goodall said.",
"But, Jane Goodall added, the Jane Goodall Institute never saw any money from Heal the World.",
"Michael Jackson later created the \"Heal the World Foundation,\" which Michael Jackson funded with a series of concerts.",
"The group delivered millions of dollars of relief to children around the world."
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"Iran on Sunday released on bail four journalists and a retired professor whom Iran had held for two months, Iran Labour News Agency reported.",
"The five prisoners had been held since",
"The five prisoners were arrested during a December 27 protest, according to Iran Labour News Agency.",
"Four journalists are Abdolreza Tajik, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, Behrang Tonkaboni and Mohammad Javad Mozafar, who is also a prisoners' rights activist, Iran Labour News Agency said.",
"Iran Labour News Agency reported that the retired professor is Mohammad Sadeq Rabani.",
"Separately, Iran Labour News Agency reported that Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Doulatabadi said Sunday that \"detainees of recent unrest will be released due to the upcoming Iranian new year,\" which falls on March 21.",
"At the same time, Iran Labour News Agency quoted Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Doulatabadi as saying that those arrested on the Muslim holy day of Ashura, when The five prisoners freed on bail Sunday were rounded up, could face stiff penalties later.",
"\"The judiciary will imply more strict policies, and those who were arrested on the Muslim holy day of Ashura will be confronted heavily by The judiciary,\" he said.",
"Mozafar and Tajik were released on $100,000 bail, according to Parleman News, the Web site of the minority reformists of the parliament.",
"It did not mention the bail amount for the other two journalists.",
"CNN was not immediately able to independently verify the bail amount for the other two journalists.",
"The protests around Ashura were Iran's deadliest clashes since protests broke out last summer after incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed more than 62 percent of the vote in national elections.",
"At least seven people were killed and hundreds were arrested on Ashura, witnesses said.",
"Iran has denied that Iran's security forces killed anyone, blaming reformists for the violence.",
"Doulatabadi, the Tehran prosecutor, said Sunday that the judiciary and police forces will be on high alert near the Iranian new year.",
"the judiciary and police forces will \"confront those who disturb the norms of society with high explosives,\" Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Doulatabadi said.",
"The five prisoners were released Sunday from Tehran's Evin prison.",
"ILNA did not release the professional affiliations of the journalists, but the professional affiliations of the journalists were listed on opposition Web sites.",
"According to some main opposition Web sites, Tajik is an editor for Farheekhtegan, a weekly magazine, and a freelance journalist.",
"Shamsolvaezin has edited many of post-revolutionary Iran's first independent newspapers, including Kayhan, Jame'eh, Neshat and Asr-e Azadegan, according to opposition sites.",
"Many of those have been closed down.",
"Tonkaboni is the editor of the magazine Farhang va Ahang, or Culture and Music, according to opposition sites.",
"Javad Mozafar is publishing director of Kavir, a publishing house, and vice president of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights, according to opposition sites.",
"Sadegh Rabbani is a retired science professor at the University of Tehran, according to opposition sites."
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"Some call Rajendra Singh the River Maker, others the Rainman of Rajasthan.",
"Rajendra Singh's real name is Rajendra Singh.",
"Rajendra Singh's nicknames come from Rajendra Singh's self-imposed mission to solve Rajendra Singh's state's water problems, one raindrop at a time.",
"Rajendra Singh is trying to solve water issues in Rajasthan -- one of India's driest states.",
"\"Today with global warming and climate change so many things are going on.",
"Yes, this is the global problem.",
"This is the modern problem.",
"The solution is indigenous water conservation,\" Rajendra Singh says.",
"Singh lives and works in Rajasthan, one of the driest states in India.",
"It is India's largest state in land mass but has only about one percent of India's water resources.",
"Rajendra Singh has spent the last 25 years of Rajendra Singh's life practicing what Rajendra Singh preaches there.",
"Rajendra Singh's message is always the same.",
"Rajendra Singh says rainwater is a resource we cannot afford to waste, instead we should capture and utilize rainwater.",
"\"If the drops come from the cloud, we can catch the drops!\"",
"Rajendra Singh says with Rajendra Singh's hands stretched to the sky.",
"\"And that drop go[es] into the under[ground] aquifer and fulfills the aquifer.",
"If that drop comes back so [that drop will] make springs, make a river.\"",
"We caught up with Rajendra Singh in Rajasthan's Alwar district.",
"One of India's so-called \"princely states\" once ruled by Indian royalty.",
"Back in the 1980s the government declared the area a dark zone: An area villagers could no longer pump up clean water because the water table had gotten so low.",
"\"When there was a famine there was a drought I had to leave.\"",
"Rajendra Singh told us who has lived in the area Rajendra Singh's whole life.",
"\"I had to work as a laborer in Delhi to make ends meet.",
"There was no way I could earn any money here.",
"I had to go.\"",
"That meant leaving Rajendra Singh's wife behind to raise their children and try to keep their children fed.",
"\"If there is a harvest we benefit from the farm.\"",
"Rajendra Singh's wife Kalawati Devi Rajendra Singh's wife says.",
"\"And if there is no harvest we get nothing.\"",
"For 10 years Rajendra Singh worked as a snack seller in Delhi sending back money to help Rajendra Singh's family survive.",
"Rajendra Singh says that all changed after Rajendra Singh and Rajendra Singh's organization Tarun Bharat Sangh showed up.",
"The group came to teach the villagers something their forefathers once practiced: The building of traditional dams called Johads.",
"traditional dams are made of earth and rock.",
"traditional dams are fashioned to capture the rain so the water will trickle down and replenish the aquifer eventually giving rise to water in the wells and bringing dead rivers back to life.",
"But the work takes a community effort.",
"One family is not enough to get the work done.",
"Rajendra Singh says Rajendra Singh's role is to teach and motivate the community.",
"\"There are more than 10-thousand water harvesting structures we [have] made in last 25 years.",
"And all these structures came through the community effort.",
"I just motivate and realize to the community and [the] community joined hands with us and they made it!\"",
"It is easy to see the result when water becomes available again.",
"Everything from water buffalo to majestic peacocks.",
"Water snakes gather at the watering holes.",
"Over the years Rajendra Singh says Rajendra Singh's organization and the villagers of Rajasthan have revived seven rivers across the state helping more than a thousand villages.",
"Now instead of traveling long distances carrying heavy vats of water, or migrating to the cities to make a living, the villagers of Rajasthan can stay put and begin to enjoy the villagers of Rajasthan's surroundings more.",
"The availability of water brought the Joshi family back together again because Rajendra Singh could finally make a living here.",
"\"I have planted many kinds of trees.",
"For my livelihood I do farming.\"",
"Rajendra Singh says \"My family and I are leading very peaceful lives.\""
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"The Phenomenon is back.",
"You may not have recognized Brazilian Ronaldo when Brazilian Ronaldo came on as a substitute for Corinthians in a Brazilian Cup match, though.",
"After all, Brazilian Ronaldo's a few kilos heavier than the Brazilian Ronaldo we grew to know and love in the last decade.",
"Comeback Brazilian:",
"Brazilian Ronaldo is playing competitive football again -- but will Brazilian Ronaldo reach Brazilian Ronaldo's former glory?",
"However, at 32 years of age, Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima is attempting another comeback.",
"Will it be a successful one?",
"As far as I am concerned, it won't.",
"Debate: Do you think Brazilian Ronaldo can return to Brazilian Ronaldo's former glory?",
"Tell us in the Sound Off box below.",
"I have had the privilege of interviewing Brazilian Ronaldo various times, and spent some one-on-one time with Brazilian Ronaldo in Italy and France.",
"Brazilian Ronaldo's a great guy, friendly, humble and fun-loving.",
"However, that last personality trait has contributed to a turbulent career and lifestyle.",
"Wherever Brazilian Ronaldo has gone, the striker has always made Brazilian Ronaldo's mark, on and off the field.",
"While Brazilian Ronaldo was helping Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Brazil win a multitude of titles, Brazilian Ronaldo also found Brazilian Ronaldo in the headlines a multitude of times for all the wrong reasons.",
"It's true that Brazilian Ronaldo has always been unfortunate with injuries - Brazilian Ronaldo has undergone three major knee operations.",
"However, Brazilian Ronaldo's love for a night out and for a playboy lifestyle may have also contributed to the breakdown of Brazilian Ronaldo's body.",
"In my opinion, this is the reason Brazilian Ronaldo will struggle to stay fit and motivated for Corinthians this season.",
"There are too many temptations for Brazilian Ronaldo in Brazil, and I don't see Brazilian Ronaldo being able to resist all of them.",
"Furthermore, Brazilian Ronaldo has won practically everything there is to win in the world of football, with the exception of the Champions League.",
"So it would be fair to say that Brazilian Ronaldo's not going to bend over backwards to make sure Brazilian Ronaldo's new team wins some silverware this season.",
"He will score the odd goal and make the odd highlight, but I don't expect Brazilian Ronaldo's latest comeback to be a success."
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"The truck driver kept The truck driver's hand on the horn, but resorted to shifting into first gear and used the full weight of The truck driver's container truck to force The truck driver's way through the over-crowded and narrow market street.",
"In Nigeria, men burn broken computer equipment to collect reusable metals like copper.",
"But his container truck's rattling bulk, over-charged exhaust, and zealous horn only added extra rhythm to the cacophony of hawkers, hagglers, trucks and generators.",
"This was just one of the many deliveries this morning for the big importers of Lagos's second-hand electronics Alaba market.",
"\"A lot of people are interested in buying computer -- just to know what is going on in the world,\" explained Gabriel Okonkwo, as Gabriel Okonkwo watched Gabriel Okonkwo's latest shipment arrive.",
"The doors of Gabriel Okonkwo's container were thrown open to reveal an Aladdin's cave of second-hand treasures -- computers, stereos, printers and televisions.",
"All were quickly passed down to a mob of eager hands, where they are quickly sold to the local electronic stores.",
"Nigeria is desperate for cheap electronic goods to try and bridge the digital divide with the West.",
"Watch a report showing piles of e-waste in Nigeria » .",
"It is estimated five hundred containers of second-hand electronics are imported to Nigeria every month.",
"It is also estimated that three-quarters of these imported products are broken beyond repair.",
"The figures come from a US-based Environmental group -- BASEL Action Network -- who warns that the broken electronics discarded at local dumpsites are a mounting environmental disaster.",
"At one of the local dumpsites, young boys sift through the electronic waste looking for anything of worth.",
"Cables and wires are burnt to get at re-usable metals like copper wire, a practice which releases toxic metals and chemicals harmful to the local population.",
"\"If you don't control it, there will be serious contamination and exposure of large populations to heavy metals from e-waste.",
"Because it's a huge volume of waste we're talking about.",
"And it's spreading,\" explains Oladele Osibanjo, the director for BASEL Nigeria.",
"The irony is that many of these electronics were discarded by these electronics's original owners in the West for recycling.",
"But not all second-hand computers shipped to Nigeria end up on the dumpsites.",
"Traveling to northern Nigeria, we visited the Iya Abubakar Resource Center's IT training course -- attended by students, businessmen, and women.",
"The Centre imports computers, but from charities like Computer Aid in the UK, to ensure they are reliable.",
"For Aisha Hussain, the Iya Abubakar Resource Center's's director, it would be a waste not to use the business and education opportunities provided by the second-hand computers.",
"\"Once you empower someone you do not consider it as waste,\" she explained.",
"\"You empower the person socially, financially -- that shouldn't be referred to as waste because you've given that person a life.\"",
"The Nigerian government has ordered a crackdown on the importation of harmful and waste electronics, and is supporting plans to build a recycling plant in the region.",
"Over-seeing the re-sale of his small mountain of televisions and computers, Gabriel Okonkwo is aware of the environmental problems but insists business must be taken into account.",
"\"Both of them have to come hand-in-hand so we can live.",
"If I don't do business I will die, and if the environment is bad I can die,\" Gabriel Okonkwo explained.",
"\"So I have to do business in a way that will not affect the environment.\"",
"CNN Business Traveller airs from Wednesday, April 8 at the times below:",
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"From Captain Kirk on \"Star Trek\" to Denny Crane on \"Boston Legal,\" William Shatner has been a fixture on television for decades.",
"William Shatner has a new talk show and has written an autobiography.",
"Even as William Shatner's latest series comes to an end, William Shatner is busier than ever.",
"William Shatner has written an autobiography, \"Up Till Now,\" and William Shatner has a new talk show -- \"Shatner's Raw Nerve\" on the Biography channel --billed as an \"edgy and off-beat celebrity interview series.\"",
"William Shatner talked with CNN's Kyra Phillips about William Shatner's career, past and present.",
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"\"Boston Legal,\" what a finale: a wedding between Denny and fellow lawyer and best friend Alan.",
"Don't Denny and fellow lawyer and best friend Alan know that Proposition 8 [passed]?",
"William Shatner: It was all a financial guise, as you learned to your dismay.",
"There was nothing sexual about our marriage.",
"It was all designed to bequeath my fortune to him as [my character] got ready to die.",
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"You must have had a blast doing the show.",
"William Shatner:",
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"So the writing reflected the fact that we knew we were ending and the writing wrapped the whole show up.",
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"William Shatner:",
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"She turns out to be highly sensitive, vulnerable.",
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"It was so good, we're doing a two-parter.",
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"CNN:",
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"Procter & Gamble is recalling Vicks Sinex nasal spray in the United States, Britain and Germany after finding it contained bacteria, Procter & Gamble said.",
"Procter & Gamble said Procter & Gamble announced the voluntary recall after finding the bacteria in a small amount of product made at a plant in Germany.",
"There have been no reports of illness from the bacteria, but it could cause serious infections for people with weakened immune systems or those with chronic lung conditions such as cystic fibrosis, Procter & Gamble said late Thursday.",
"the bacteria poses little risk to healthy people, Procter & Gamble said.",
"Cincinnati, Procter & Gamble said Procter & Gamble detected the problem during routine quality control at a plant in Germany.",
"Analysis so far shows the problem is limited to a single batch of raw material mixture involving three lots of product, which were sold only in the three countries affected by the recall, Procter & Gamble said.",
"In the United States, the recalled product is Vicks Sinex Vapospray 12-hour Decongestant Ultra Fine Mist with lot number 9239028831.",
"In Britain, Procter & Gamble is recalling Vicks Sinex Micromist Aqueous Nasal Spray with lot number 9224028832.",
"In Germany, the recalled product is Wick Sinex Schnupfenspray Dosiersystem with lot number 9224028833.",
"All recalled products are in the 15-milliliter size.",
"Lot numbers are listed on the outer carton and the bottle, Procter & Gamble said.",
"Consumers with the product should discard it, and Consumers with the product may call Procter & Gamble for a replacement coupon or refund, Procter & Gamble said.",
"More information is at Procter & Gamble's Web site, www.pg.com."
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"Quentin Tarantino's new movie \"Inglourious Basterds\" comes with a film inside Film, a Nazi propaganda movie promoting the glory of Germany's Third Reich.",
"Eli Roth and Brad Pitt star in \"Inglourious Basterds.\"",
"Eli Roth also directed a short film within Film.",
"Quentin Tarantino's said Quentin Tarantino's's not worried people might be offended by the short film, which is being promoted by a trailer that is now a viral video on the Internet.",
"\"You would have to have absolutely, positively no sense of humor at all not to get it,\" Quentin Tarantino's said.",
"\"Stolz der Nation\" -- which translates into English as \"Nation's Pride\" -- was produced true to the style of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, but by Eli Roth, the director-actor who also plays one of Tarantino's \"Basterds\" known as the \"Bear Jew.\"",
"\"There was something that we enjoyed immensely about the idea of a Jew making a Nazi propaganda movie,\" Quentin Tarantino's said.",
"Watch Quentin Tarantino's talk about how \"Nation's Pride\" was made » .",
"Roth, well known for his R-rated horror flicks such as \"Hostel,\" said while growing up as a Jewish boy in Boston, Massachusetts, Eli Roth never dreamed Eli Roth would make a Nazi propaganda film.",
"\"After 'Hostel 2,' I thought 'God, what can I make that's more offensive and upsetting than this film,' but somehow I did it with 'Nation's Pride,'\" Eli Roth said.",
"Eli Roth viewed the black-and-white film as a character in \"Inglourious Basterds,\" a World War II fairy tale about a squad of Jewish-American soldiers who infiltrate behind enemy lines to terrorize the German army.",
"Their plot to assassinate Hitler focuses on a small Paris, France, theater where Germany's leadership is gathered for the premiere of Goebbels' movie.",
"The black-and-white film glorifies a fictional war hero played by Daniel Bruhl \"and the glory of the swastika and the power of Germany,\" Eli Roth said.",
"\"His courage was bound by duty.",
"His legend was baptized in blood.",
"His name will be crowned in glory,\" the trailer's narrator says as Pvt. Fredrick Zoller picks off dozens of American soldiers from a sniper's nest.",
"\"Being Jewish, I wanted to make it a real propaganda film,\" Eli Roth said.",
"\"I was, like, I want to show what these movies are like.",
"I don't want to do a sanitized version.\"",
"Using just 20 extras and five stuntmen, Eli Roth shot the five-and-a-half-minute film in three days in Gorlitz, Germany, the same town where \"The Reader\" was filmed a year earlier, Eli Roth said.",
"\"The whole time we were shooting, we were, like, not only does Film have to impress Quentin, Film has got to impress the Fuhrer,\" Eli Roth said.",
"\"Hitler has to see Film and go 'Film is your finest work.'\"",
"\"The German crew were going 'God, normally, we can't do this.",
"This is so illegal.'",
"And I was, like, 'this is what The German crew did,'\" Eli Roth said.",
"\"This is what Joseph Goebbels would have done, and this has got to be honest and accurate.\"",
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"\"Inglourious Basterds,\" starring Brad Pitt, opens across the United States on August 21."
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"More than 3,000 U.S. troops scheduled to deploy to Iraq won't go after all, as the military tries to draw down troop levels in the war-torn country, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday.",
"U.S. troops speak to an Iraqi child in Baghdad on Monday.",
"The 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division will not replace a North Carolina National Guard unit already in Iraq, Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh told CNN.",
"The 3,500-troop combat team, based in Fort Drum, New York, was to leave in January, Butterbaugh said.",
"\"[The cancellation] reflects a thorough assessment of the security environment in Iraq and continued improvement in the ability of the Iraqi security forces to safeguard Iraqi citizens and institutions,\" Butterbaugh said.",
"a North Carolina National Guard unit already in Iraq is still on schedule to return home, which will speed up the drawdown of forces, Butterbaugh said.",
"The troop withdrawal in Iraq coincides with a debate in the Obama administration on whether to send as many as 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.",
"As of Friday, 250 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of the year, according to a CNN tally based on Pentagon numbers.",
"The United States plans to withdraw all The United States's combat troops from Iraq by August, leaving 50,000 in advisory roles.",
"Those advisers are to leave by the end of 2011.",
"Concerns that a delay in the upcoming Iraqi elections could put a dent in scheduled withdrawals was rejected Friday by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Chris Hill.",
"\"As for The United States's schedule of troop withdrawal, The United States've been pretty clear about when the troops would be withdrawn,\" he told CNN.",
"\"So The United States's plan is to draw down the troops as The United States've said The United States're going [to] do.\"",
"The polls are scheduled to open January 16, but both The United States and the United Nations are worried because Iraq still has no election law.",
"If a new law isn't adopted, Iraq may have to change the election date or rely on the law used in the 2005 elections, some officials say.",
"A vote on the new law is expected Monday.",
"Pentagon officials also must weigh the impact of continuing violence in Iraq.",
"Ambassador Chris Hill said continuing violence in the country is a concern, as are insurgent efforts to undermine attempts at reconciliation in Iraq.",
"\"Reconciliation is a tough business.",
"I mean I've been in some of these meetings with people, you know, people don't like each other, you have to get people to work together, get people to understand people's futures are together, and then you get a bombing, which makes it even tougher,\" Ambassador Chris Hill said.",
"\"Again, I think the Iraqi people have really signaled that the Iraqi people are really sick and tired of this stuff.\"",
"Meanwhile, violence continued in Iraq on Saturday.",
"Four soldiers were killed and 10 people, including civilians and security forces, were wounded when a bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint exploded in Falluja, an Anbar province town, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.",
"Elsewhere in Anbar, a suicide truck bomb hit a police checkpoint on a bridge west of Ramadi, wounding a police officer.",
"The blast badly damaged the bridge, which carries a highway linking Iraq with Jordan and Syria, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.",
"Traffic had to be rerouted to an another road.",
"Anbar province, a massive region populated mostly by Sunni Arabs, had been a major front in the Iraqi war.",
"The al Qaeda in Iraq militant group once held great sway in Anbar, but The al Qaeda in Iraq militant group's influence lessened with the advent of U.S.-backed groups called Awakening Councils.",
"CNN's Scott Spoerry and Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report."
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"Al-Shabaab militants ride through Mogadishu, Somalia, after a religious gathering in September.",
"The U.S. government, concerned about the challenges in delivering assistance in a country wracked by civil war, says allegations that Al-Shabaab is stopping aid from reaching the people are under review.",
"Although one U.S. government source said aid continues to flow to Somalia and hasn't been suspended, another said aid might not reach \"some parts of the country\" because of Al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked terror group that is trying to overthrow the government.",
"Located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia has long been a lawless, war-ravaged nation.",
"The United Nations says that nearly half the population is dependent on humanitarian assistance, and one in five children are acutely malnourished.",
"Somalia has suffered through five consecutive seasons of drought, and the ongoing conflict has caused more than a million people to be displaced.",
"Kiki Gbeho, head of office for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia, said the United States is reviewing whether the United States's aid helps fund Al-Shabaab.",
"The U.N. office, in a report issued in September, said the U.S. delay in reaching a decision on humanitarian funding \"is already impacting on many agencies and their programmes.\"",
"The United Nations estimates that 60 percent of the people The United Nations needs to reach with emergency assistance live in areas controlled by Al-Shabaab.",
"\"According to humanitarian principles, we have to serve people and need to deal with those in charge,\" Gbeho said.",
"Peter Smerdon, chief spokesman for the World Food Program, the agency responsible for delivering aid to Somalia, would not comment on the U.S. funding controversy but said investigations into whether Al-Shabaab is assisted by U.N. aid assistance are \"ongoing.\"",
"Food supplies could run out for millions of Somalis in the next few weeks, according to the United Nations.",
"The U.S. government is traditionally the biggest donor for food assistance.",
"The issue of breakdowns in humanitarian aid in Somalia has long concerned the United States.",
"A senior administration official and an administration official spoke about The issue of breakdowns in humanitarian aid in Somalia on the condition of anonymity because A senior administration official and an administration official were not authorized to speak publicly.",
"The senior U.S. administration official said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Transitional Federal Government President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed discussed in August how the \"delivery of services\" to the Somali people be broadened.",
"Hillary Clinton said publicly in Nairobi that the United States continues to provide \"humanitarian assistance to the Somali people where delivery is feasible and effective.\"",
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"The senior U.S. administration official said, \"We are working with groups there to ensure that we can deliver assistance without having to pay off Al-Shabaab in the process.",
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"Indonesian soldiers crawl under the rubble of a collapsed building to search for victims.",
"Local disaster management officials put the death toll from the quakes at 540.",
"Earlier United Nations figures that put the death toll at 1,100 were just estimates, said El-Mostafa Benlamlih, a United Nations humanitarian coordinator.",
"A 7.6-magnitude quake struck Sumatra on Wednesday and a 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit Thursday morning in the same region.",
"Wednesday's quake reduced buildings to rubble in Sumatra.",
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"Staff at a local hospital treated the injured outside a collapsed building as bodies of the dead lay in makeshift morgues.",
"An area that now looks like a flattened mess of destruction was, just days ago, a group of three villages.",
"Officials believe 90 percent of the residents -- as many as a few hundred people -- were buried, just one piece of the devastation from two large earthquakes that struck Indonesia in as many days.",
"The stench of dead bodies fills the air.",
"Indonesia's health ministry and ministry of social affairs said Friday Indonesia's health ministry and ministry of social affairs believe thousands remain buried beneath rubble.",
"The West Sumatran capital, Padang, with about a million residents, is near the epicenter.",
"CNN's Arwa Damon spoke with a few dozen survivors from these villages in the area, most of whom only made it through because a few dozen survivors weren't home during the quake.",
"a few dozen survivors remained huddled together in a tent, in shock over what had happened.",
"One older woman said eight of One older woman's family members were buried.",
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"Another survivor, a 27-year-old man, told CNN four of Another survivor, a 27-year-old man's family members were killed.",
"Another survivor, a 27-year-old man's home used to be on top of a cliff in the area.",
"Now, there is only mud.",
"Search and rescue teams are working with the military, but so far, only 25 bodies have been recovered.",
"With each passing day, the scope of the devastation grows.",
"Watch aftermath at house leveled by quake » .",
"President Obama spoke with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday after trying several times to reach Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the White House said.",
"President Obama received an update on the situation on the ground from Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the five-minute call.",
"The the White House statement says President Obama \"offered, on behalf of the United States, to do everything we can to help alleviate the suffering and provide assistance to the relief operation.\"",
"The U.N.'s Holmes told reporters Thursday that hundreds are believed to be injured.",
"\"hundreds, I fear, will rise as more information becomes available,\" The U.N.'s Holmes added.",
"Telecommunications are difficult in the region, roads are cut off, and the hardest-hit area, including Padang, lacks power and other services, The U.N.'s Holmes said.",
"In addition, heavy rainfall has hindered search and rescue efforts.",
"Some have suggested the damage may be worse than that of a 6.3-magnitude quake centered in the central Java city of Yogyakarta in May 2006, The U.N.'s Holmes said.",
"a 6.3-magnitude quake centered in the central Java city of Yogyakarta in May 2006 killed more than 5,000 people and triggered fears of an eruption from a nearby volcano.",
"Many people wandered the streets of Padang stunned and dazed.",
"Some searched the rubble for survivors.",
"Staff at a local hospital treated the injured outside the semi-collapsed building as bodies of the dead lay in makeshift morgues.",
"Several of a local hospital's buildings were severely damaged.",
"Damage in the town itself was spotty; some buildings remained intact near others in ruins.",
"\"Aftershocks can be just as devastating as the initial quake,\" said Adjie Fachrurrazi, emergency response coordinator in Indonesia for the CARE aid organization, in a statement.",
"\"After an earthquake of this size, we know the immediate needs are going to be getting safe water, food and emergency supplies to the survivors.",
"The question now is: How bad is it?",
"We're hoping for the best, but the information so far is not looking good.\"",
"Amelia Merrick, the operations director for World Vision Indonesia, described the situation as \"quite devastating.\"",
"\"Bridges have gone down, phone lines are in total disrepair,\" Amelia Merrick, the operations director for World Vision Indonesia said.",
"\"It's difficult for us to assess the situation.\"",
"Earlier this month, an earthquake in West Java killed 57 people.",
"CNN's Arwa Damon and Ben Adams near Padang, Indonesia; Andy Saputra in Jakarta, Indonesia; and Tricia Escobedo in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"Before a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in New Orleans, Obama fired back at critics who accuse Obama of accomplishing little in Obama's nine months in office, saying \"I'm just getting started.\"",
"Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans on Thursday.",
"\"I never thought any of this was going to be easy,\" said Obama, speaking at the University of New Orleans in Obama's first visit to the Gulf Coast city since taking office.",
"Obama poked fun at Obama's critics, asking, \"Why haven't you solved world hunger yet?",
"It's been nine months.",
"Why?\"",
"\"What'd I say during the campaign?",
"I said change is hard,\" Obama said.",
"\"Big change is harder.",
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"\"Those folks who are trying to stand in the way of progress ... let me tell you, I'm just getting started,\" Obama said.",
"\"I don't quit.",
"I'm not tired.",
"I'm just getting started.\"",
"Before taking questions, Obama discussed the recovery effort in New Orleans, a city struggling to get back on its feet after Hurricane Katrina.",
"\"It has now been just over four years since that terrible storm struck your shores,\" Obama said.",
"\"And [in] the days after it did, this nation and all the world bore witness to the fact that the damage from Katrina was not caused just by a disaster of nature, but also by a breakdown of government, that government wasn't adequately prepared and that government didn't appropriately respond.\"",
"Obama said that when Obama took office, Obama pledged to make Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts and disaster response top priorities of Obama's administration.",
"\"So far, I'm pleased to report that we've made good progress,\" Obama said.",
"\"We've got a long way to go, but we've made progress.\"",
"Obama said Obama has sent more Cabinet members to Gulf Coast than any other region -- \"not just to appearances, but to listen and to learn and help you move forward.\"",
"Also, Obama said, Obama's administration has helped eliminate red tape and turf disputes in order to get stalled programs moving, and freed up $1.5 billion in recovery funds.",
"Obama said Obama's administration is tackling \"corruption and inefficiency\" that has plagued the New Orleans Housing Authority for years -- remarks that drew applause from the crowd -- and has helped move families out of emergency housing, helping homeowners rebuild and helping renters find affordable options.",
"The government has also invested in supporting health centers and recruiting primary care providers, nurses and other professionals to fill shortages left by the 2005 hurricane, Obama said.",
"Watch bloggers debate Obama's handling of New Orleans » .",
"Before the meeting, Obama toured the Martin Luther King charter school -- the first charter school to reopen in New Orleans's Ninth Ward, the hardest-hit portion of New Orleans.",
"Obama called the Martin Luther King charter school -- the first charter school to reopen in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, the hardest-hit portion of the city \"an inspiration for New Orleans.\"",
"However, \"it's clear how far we have to go before we can call this recovery a real success,\" Obama said, adding that much remains to be done to repair roads, hospitals and schools and rebuild neighborhoods.",
"\"We will not forget about New Orleans,\" Obama said.",
"\"We're going to keep on working.\"",
"Obama also touched on the economy and on health care reform.",
"\"Too many Americans have waited too long for this to happen,\" Obama said, drawing wild cheers from the crowd.",
"\"We are going to pass health care reform by the end of the year.\"",
"Meeting the challenges faced by the nation, Obama said, \"requires diligence and perseverance and patience ... it requires a renewed spirit of cooperation among our citizens.\"",
"Obama took questions from the crowd on topics ranging from the school dropout rate to immigration.",
"One man asked Obama, \"Why is it four years after Katrina we're still fighting with that government for money to repair our devastated city? ...",
"I expected as much from the Bush administration, but why are we still being nickeled and dimed in our recovery?\"",
"Obama responded, \"I make no excuses for the fact that that government did not work effectively with state and local governments immediately in the aftermath of the storm to make sure that everybody got the help they needed right away.",
"And we are still working through the backlog of problems that existed.\"",
"\"My expectation is that by the time that my term is over, you guys are going to look back and you're going to say, 'This was a responsive administration on health care, on housing, on education, that actually made sure the money flowed and that things got done the way things were supposed to get done,\" Obama said.",
"A fourth-grade boy asked Obama A fourth-grade boy's final question: \"Why do people hate you? people're supposed to love you.",
"And God is love.\"",
"\"Well, now, first of all, I did get elected president, so not everybody hates me now,\" Obama said.",
"If you were watching TV lately, it seems like everybody's just getting mad all the time.",
"Some of it is just what's called politics, where, you know, once one party wins, then the other party kind of feels like it needs to poke you a little bit to keep you on your toes.\"",
"In addition, Obama told A fourth-grade boy, some people have lost some people's jobs and are frustrated.",
"\"When you're president of the United States, you've got to deal with all of that,\" Obama said.",
"\"... I'm a pretty tough guy.",
"Are you a tough guy?\"",
"Four years after Katrina, evidence of the storm's devastation lingers.",
"About 1,500 people in Louisiana are still living in temporary housing, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, although that is down from a high of more than 90,000.",
"And the Army Corps of Engineers is only a third of the way through a $15 billion system to provide 100-year flood protection for the city.",
"However, the Federal Emergency Management Agency says 76 disputed projects in Louisiana have been resolved since Obama took office, and more than $1.4 billion in aid has been sent to Louisiana, along with more than $160 million to Mississippi.",
"And the Federal Emergency Management Agency says that more than 89,000 Louisiana households and 45,044 Mississippi households displaced by Katrina -- and by Hurricane Rita, which hit a month later -- have found longer-term housing solutions.",
"the Federal Emergency Management Agency also says more than $1 billion from the stimulus program has been targeted for New Orleans.",
"The Obama administration's efforts have been praised.",
"In August, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, told the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper, \"there is a sense of momentum and a desire to get things done.\"",
"Still, the length and nature of Obama's visit Thursday drew some ire.",
"Obama was to spend less than four hours in New Orleans and will not visit other areas of Gulf Coast affected by Katrina, such as the Mississippi coast.",
"\"The people of New Orleans deserve more than a 'drive-through daiquiri' summit with Obama,\" Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, said in a news conference Monday.",
"And Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, wrote in a letter to Obama that \"if the town hall is the only major event of Obama's visit Thursday, I truly think it will be deeply disappointing to most citizens.\"",
"The White House said that Obama has been to New Orleans five times since Katrina, and that since Obama took office, there have been 35 trips to Gulf Coast by more than 20 senior administration officials.",
"\"Obama made a promise to come to New Orleans and wanted to fulfill that promise as soon as Obama's schedule allowed,\" The White House spokesman Nicholas Shapiro said."
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"New York City (CNN) --",
"Four years ago, the devastating Hurricane Katrina affected millions in the United States.",
"The initial medical response was ill-equipped, understaffed, poorly coordinated and delayed.",
"Criticism was fierce.",
"The response to Haiti has been the same.",
"The point no one seems to remember is this: Medical response to these situations cannot be delayed.",
"Immediate access to emergency equipment is also crucial.",
"Within 24 hours of the earthquake, Dr. David Helfet put together a 13-member team of surgeons, anesthesiologists and operating room nurses, with a massive amount of orthopedic operating room equipment, ready to be flown directly to Port-au-Prince on a private plane.",
"We also had a plan to replace physicians and equipment -- within 24 hours, we could bring in whatever was necessary on a private jet.",
"We believe we had a reasonably comprehensive orthopedic trauma service; as trauma surgeons, we planned to provide acute care in the midst of an orthopedic disaster.",
"We expected many amputations.",
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"We recognized that in an underdeveloped country, a limb amputation may be a death sentence.",
"It does not have to be so.",
"We thought our plan was a good one, but we soon learned we were incredibly naive.",
"Disaster management in Haiti was nonexistent.",
"The difficulties in getting in -- despite the intelligence we had from people on the ground and Dr. Helfet's connections with Partners in Health and Bill and Hillary Clinton -- only hinted at the difficulties we would have once we arrived.",
"We started out Friday morning and got a slot to get into Port-au-Prince on Friday.",
"That was canceled when we were on the runway and was rescheduled for the next day.",
"We were diverted to the Dominican Republic and planned on arriving in Port-au-Prince on Saturday.",
"a slot to get into Port-au-Prince on Friday also was canceled and postponed until the afternoon.",
"The airport had one runway and hundreds of planes trying to land.",
"But nobody was prioritizing the flights.",
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"We had been told that Port-au-Prince was up and running with two functioning operating rooms.",
"Once we arrived, we saw a severely damaged hospital with no running water and only limited electrical power, supplied by a generator.",
"Surgeries were being performed in the equivalent of a large storage closet, where amputations were performed with hacksaws.",
"This facility could not nearly accommodate our equipment nor our expertise to treat the volume of injuries we saw.",
"We quickly took our second option: Community Hospital of Haiti, about two miles away.",
"There, we found about 750 patients lying on the floor.",
"But the facility had running water, electricity and two functional operating rooms.",
"We found scores of patients with pus dripping out of open extremity fractures and crush injuries.",
"Some wounds were already ridden with maggots.",
"About a third of these victims were children.",
"The entire hospital smelled of infected, rotting limbs and death.",
"Later on, we would judge our surgical progress by the diminishment of the stench.",
"In our naïveté, we didn't expect that the two anesthesia machines would not work; that there would be only one cautery available in the entire hospital to stop bleeding; that an operating room sterilizer fit only instruments the size of a cigar box; that there would be no sterile saline, no functioning fluoroscopy machine, no blood for transfusions, no ability to do lab work; and the only local staff was a ragtag group of voluntary health providers who, like us, had made it there on their own.",
"As we got up and running and organized the patients for surgery, we told our contacts in the United States what we needed.",
"More supplies were loaded for a second trip.",
"More suppliesincluded a battery-operated pulse lavage, a huge supply of sterile saline and the soft goods we needed desperately in the operating room.",
"The plane landed as planned Sunday night, and the new equipment was loaded onto a truck.",
"Then that truck, loaded with life-saving equipment, was hijacked somewhere between the airport and the hospital.",
"We had planned to run a marathon round-the-clock operation and leave at 11 p.m. Tuesday.",
"We worked for 60-plus hours without stopping.",
"The plane that would take us home would bring with The plane that would take us home not only a new medical staff, but also equipment that was nonexistent in the hospital, or even the country.",
"These pieces of equipment, two of each, were urgently needed: portable anesthesiology machines; electrocautery machines to stop bleeding after amputations; portable monitors for the recovery room; autoclaves to sterilize equipment; and a lot of orthopedic equipment, which we were quickly using up.",
"The other items were those that were on the previous flight and had been hijacked.",
"Officials at the Port-au-Prince airport canceled that plane's 6 a.m. Tuesday slot, and the plane never made it to us on time.",
"We had started to see daylight Monday night, having performed about 100 surgeries, which were mainly amputations, fixing broken limbs and soft tissue debridements.",
"Many of the patients were children and babies.",
"But on Tuesday morning, a huge number of new patients arrived.",
"The Haitians had heard we were trying to save limbs, and families were bringing their injured loved ones to us.",
"The hospital was forced to lock down, closing The hospital's gates to the angry and frustrated crowd outside.",
"On Tuesday morning, we saw that many of the patients we had operated on were becoming septic and would require additional surgeries.",
"We finished operating at noon Tuesday, our last surgery assisting an obstetrician on a Caesarean section and helping to resuscitate a newborn who was not breathing.",
"We decided the situation was untenable.",
"Our supplies were running out, our team was past exhaustion, safety was rapidly becoming a concern, and we had no firm plan to leave or resupply.",
"A hospital benefactor helped us get to the airport.",
"First, Jamaican soldiers with M-16s escorted us out of the building as the crowd outside saw us abandoning The hospital.",
"We made it to the airport on the back of a pickup, got onto the tarmac, hailed a commercial plane that had carried cargo to Haiti and was returning to Montreal, Canada, and had a private jet pick us up from there.",
"We were unprepared for what we saw in Haiti -- the vast amount of human devastation, the complete lack of medical infrastructure, the lack of support from the Haitian medical community, the lack of organization on the ground.",
"No one was in charge.",
"We had the first hospital in the Port-au-Prince area with functioning operating rooms, yet no one came to the hospital to assess how we did it or offer help.",
"The fact that the military could not or would not protect the critical resupply medical equipment on Sunday, or allow the Tuesday flight to come in, is devastating and merits intense investigation.",
"There was no security at the hospital.",
"We needed a much higher level of security with strong and clear support of the military from the very beginning.",
"The lack of support for our operation by the United States is shocking and embarrassing and shows how woefully unprepared we are for the realities of disasters.",
"We came to understand that our isolated operation may work in a mission, but not in a disaster.",
"We first thought we would support those at the helm but soon realized we were almost the only early responders with the critical expertise and equipment to treat an orthopedic disaster such as this.",
"Still, nobody with a clear plan is in charge, and care is chaotic at best.",
"Doctors are coming into Haiti with no plan of what Doctors are going to do, and nobody directing Doctors how to do it.",
"Surgeons who expect to show up and operate will be mistaken.",
"Without a complement of support staff and supplies, Surgeons who expect to show up and operate are of limited to no value.",
"We left feeling as if we abandoned these patients, the country and Haiti's people, and we feel terrible.",
"Our role back in New York is to expose the inadequacies of the system in the hopes of effecting change immediately.",
"Patients who are alive and still have Patients who are alive and still have's arms and legs remain in jeopardy unless an urgent response is implemented.",
"The quickest and most efficient way to really help now and support the medical staff on the ground is to assess needs, provide equipment and personnel in necessary quantities, and bring them safely and expeditiously into Haiti and to the hospital units caring for patients.",
"Upon our departure, we witnessed pallets of Cheerios and dry goods sitting on the tarmac helping nobody.",
"Yet our flight of critical medical equipment and personnel had been canceled, and the equipment that did get through was hijacked.",
"We implore an official organization to step up and take charge of the massive ongoing medical effort that will be necessary to care for the people of Haiti and their children.",
"And to do it now.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Drs. Dean Lorich, Soumitra Eachempati and David L. Helfet."
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"Chansa Kabwela, the editor of the Post, wanted to highlight the conditions in which women were being forced to give birth during a hospital strike last summer.",
"Chansa Kabwela mailed pictures to government ministers of a woman delivering a baby in a hospital parking lot.",
"But Zambian President Rupiah Banda described the photos as pornographic and Chansa Kabwela was ordered arrested.",
"On Monday, a judge in the capital Lusaka ruled there was no evidence the photos were obscene or could corrupt public morals.",
"a judge in the capital Lusaka dismissed the case.",
"Chansa Kabwela was out of the office Wednesday and could not immediately be reached.",
"But as Chansa Kabwela exited the courtroom, Chansa Kabwela told Reporters Without Borders that Chansa Kabwela was relieved.",
"\"My victory is also a victory for all those who suffered during the health sector strikes,\" Chansa Kabwela said.",
"\"I am happy the court acquitted me.",
"I had no intention of causing anyone any harm.",
"The letter I wrote to the vice-president was very clear.",
"I just wanted to draw the vice-president's attention to the situation in the hospitals.\"",
"The month-long nurse's strike in June was over pay and benefits.",
"The month-long nurse's strike in June shut down hospital wards, turning away hundreds of patients.",
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"The baby later died, said the Committee to Protect Journalists.",
"a woman's husband gave the photos to the Post who deemed the photos to graphic to publish.",
"Chansa Kabwela then included the photos in a letter Chansa Kabwela wrote to the vice president, the health minister and several non-governmental organizations urging that The month-long nurse's strike in June be settled.",
"Soon afterward, Zambian President Rupiah Banda ordered police to take action against Chansa Kabwela.",
"Journalism advocacy groups believe Zambian President Rupiah Banda retaliated against the newspaper because of the newspaper's frequent criticism of Zambian President Rupiah Banda's policies.",
"At least six members of the newspaper's staff have been physically or verbally attacked by leaders of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy since the year began, the Committee to Protect Journalists said."
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"At least 18 people have been killed and 80 injured in a car bomb blast in central Baghdad as deadly violence returned to the streets of the Iraqi capital for a second day.",
"latest attack was caused by a suicide bomber who drove through the checkpoint, toward a government forensic office, Iraq's ministry of information said.",
"latest attack followed three vehicle bombings near hotels in Baghdad on Monday which killed 36 people and wounded 71 others.",
"three vehicle bombings near hotels in the city on Monday which killed 36 people and wounded 71 others come amid concerns over security and fears of a fresh wave of sectarian violence between Iraq's rival Shia and Sunni factions as Iraq prepares for crucial national elections on March 7.",
"The buildup to that vote has been dominated by controversy over the legitimacy of hundreds of candidates banned from participating because of alleged links to former dictator Saddam Hussein's regime.",
"The 511-name \"blacklist\" issued by Iraq's Accountability and Justice Commission, which is charged with purging former members of former dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from public life, includes many prominent Sunni Arab politicians.",
"Banning such candidates has raised fears of alienating the Sunnis -- an issue during the 2005 elections that analysts say was a contributing factor to the years of sectarian violence that followed.",
"Monday's bombings also followed the execution earlier in the day of former dictator Saddam Hussein's cousin and notorious henchman Ali Hassan al-Majeed -- also known as \"Chemical Ali.\"",
"In a statement issued Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad condemned the attacks on the hotels.",
"\"The terrorists who committed these senseless crimes aim to sow fear among the Iraqi people.",
"We are confident, however, that the Iraqi people will stand fast and work together to build the Iraqi people's common future in peace and security,\" the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said.",
"CNN's Yousif Bassil contributed to this report."
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"Sri Lankans went to the polls on Tuesday in the island nation's first peacetime presidential election in 26 years, despite explosions and mortar fire in the capital of Northern Province hours before polls opened.",
"Once a stronghold for the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Northern Province city of Jaffna was a frequent battleground for the rebels and Sri Lankan government troops until a government offensive last year crushed the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.",
"While it wasn't clear what the explosions were, they were nothing new for Jaffnans, who have lived under military control for decades.",
"More than 14 million Sri Lankans are expected to elect More than 14 million Sri Lankans's sixth executive president to a six-year term.",
"President Rajapaksa is seeking a fresh mandate for President Rajapaksa's government, but President Rajapaksa faces a tough challenge from Fonseka's one-time confidante and former Army commander, retired General Sarath Fonseka.",
"President Rajapaksa cast President Rajapaksa's vote in President Rajapaksa's ancestral town of Medamulana, near the southern town of Tangalle.",
"\"I am very confident of victory,\" President Rajapaksa told journalists.",
"Fonseka was expected to visit a polling booth in Colombo.",
"Queues were large outside most polling booths in Colombo and principal towns, election officials said.",
"\"I waited in a queue for 45 minutes before I could cast my ballot,\" said Damayantha Perera of the Colombo suburb of Maharagama.",
"\"I also had to wait for almost an hour,\" said W. Ramiah, a resident of Nugegoda, also of Colombo.",
"Fonseka, who won wide acclaim for leading troops to military victory against the rebels, broke ranks with the President Rajapaksa administration after he was elevated to the largely ceremonial post of chief of defense staff in July after retiring as Army commander.",
"After Fonseka announced Fonseka's presidential bid, the main opposition parties -- with widely diverse political ideologies -- closed ranks behind Fonseka to make Fonseka widely diverse political ideologies's common candidate.",
"\"There has been abuse of power, corruption and nepotism.",
"We want to abolish the executive presidency and make the parliament more answerable to the people.",
"The best person to do this is the one who defeated terrorism,\" Ranil Wickremesinghe, leader of the United National Party, told CNN.",
"Many of President Rajapaksa's family members, including his brothers, hold key positions in the government: Chamal is a Cabinet minister, Gotabhaya is Defense Secretary, and Basil is a member of parliament and senior presidential adviser.",
"Other members of the family hold important positions locally and in the government's diplomatic missions abroad.",
"The coalition of parties backing Fonseka includes a main opposition right wing party and a leftist Marxist outfit, as well as the Tamil National Alliance.",
"Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu of the Center for Policy Alternatives, a branch of the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence, said the situation in the government, however, is \"a picture of dysfunction and breakdown.\"",
"There have been allegations of interference with mail-in ballots, according to the group.",
"Most of the complaints have been against members of the government, it said.",
"There have been more than 700 reports of violence ahead of the election, with at least four deaths reported, Saravanamuttu said.",
"More than 14 million Sri Lankans are casting More than 14 million Sri Lankans's ballots in more than 11,000 voting booths across the nation.",
"Local leaders have urged a peaceful voting day amid the escalating violence, including the shooting deaths of two people -- one a supporter of the opposition and the other of the government.",
"A contingent of 85,000 police officers have been deployed to maintain law and order, said Mahinda Balasooriya, the inspector general of police.",
"Each polling station has two to three police officers on duty, Mahinda Balasooriya, the inspector general of police said.",
"The spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week that the U.N. chief was \"concerned about the growing violence in the lead-up to the election.\"",
"\"The peaceful conduct of the first post-conflict national election is of the highest importance for long-term peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka,\" he added.",
"CNN's Sara Sidner and Iqbal Athas contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Calling the ruling \"huge,\" New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday reacted to a federal judge finding Army Corps of Engineers's failure to maintain a shipping channel led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina.",
"New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin hopes the court decision will \"open up the floodgates\" for others to file lawsuits against the federal government, including New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's Louisiana city.",
"However, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin acknowledged it's likely the federal government will appeal the court decision.",
"Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller said in an e-mail the federal government is reviewing the court decision and has made \"no determination as to what future steps it would take in this matter.\"",
"U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. ruled that the \"negligence of Army Corps of Engineers\" by failing to maintain the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet waterway \"was not policy, but insouciance, myopia and short-sightedness.\"",
"\"For over 40 years, Army Corps of Engineers was aware that the Reach II levee protecting Chalmette and the Lower Ninth Ward was going to be compromised by the continued deterioration of the [waterway]. ...",
"Army Corps of Engineers had an opportunity to take a myriad of actions to alleviate this deterioration or rehabilitate this deterioration and failed to do so.",
"Clearly, the expression 'talk is cheap' applies here.\"",
"U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. issued the court decision in a lawsuit brought by six plaintiffs affected by the 2005 hurricane, who alleged Army Corps of Engineers was liable for damages.",
"U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. ruled against one couple, who lived in New Orleans East, but awarded the others, from the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish, damages ranging from $100,000 to $317,000.",
"New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had thought the court decision was a long shot.",
"\"This was a surprise but a pleasant one,\" New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said.",
"The decision applies not only to six plaintiffs affected by the 2005 hurricane, who alleged the Corps of Engineers was liable for damages, attorney Pierce O'Donnell said, but also to some 100,000 homes and businesses in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower Ninth Ward.",
"Under the precedent set by U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr.'s ruling, some 100,000 homes and businesses in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower Ninth Ward too will be entitled to compensation, O'Donnell said.",
"At a news conference Thursday, Craig Taffaro, president of St. Bernard Parish, said, \"It's a bittersweet victory in the sense that yes, St. Bernard Parish are at the table, yes, St. Bernard Parish are grateful for U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr.'s ruling and for the legal team to deliver St. Bernard Parish to this point, but what a shame that St. Bernard Parish had to go through such devastation and destruction to get here.\"",
"At one point a Category 5 hurricane",
", Katrina had weakened to a Category 3 storm with top sustained winds of 127 mph when it made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005, between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of Mississippi River.",
"Its winds were only slightly diminished when it passed over more populated coastal areas hours later.",
"More than 1,800 people died in the storm, including nearly 1,600 in Louisiana.",
"In New Orleans, New Orleans's levee system failed and widespread flooding occurred.",
"Overall, the storm damage covered more than 90,000 square miles and displaced nearly 300,000 people, causing more than $81 billion in damage.",
"Ivor van Heerden, a researcher who warned of the potential for catastrophic damage from a hurricane, said the court decision is \"total vindication for everybody who was involved.\"",
"\"I think he's called a spade a spade,\" van Heerden told CNN by phone.",
"The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center said Louisiana State University fired The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center because of the investigation The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center led into the levee failures.",
"The probe put much of the blame for the disaster on the Corps of Engineers.",
"The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center alleged Thursday that Louisiana State University blocked The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center from being an expert witness in the case, but said The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center \"put together a lot of the science\" and reviewed the defense's explanation to find the holes.",
"\"Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was a manmade catastrophe with a hurricane trigger,\" The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center said.",
"\"I saw the suffering of the people in New Orleans. ...",
"Finally there is the potential of compensation.\"",
"The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center said The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center intends to file a lawsuit against LSU, which The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center said has to pay The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center through the end of The former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center's contract, which ends in May.",
"LSU did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Thursday.",
"CNN's Ashley Hayes contributed to this report."
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"New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin calls decision \"a surprise,\" says New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin expects feds to appeal .",
"Plaintiffs awarded damages from Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish ."
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"A man charged with stalking sports reporter Erin Andrews is now accused of making nude videotapes of Andrews in one more city than previously thought, according to court documents filed Wednesday.",
"Michael David Barrett, 48, is accused of surreptitiously videotaping Andrews through hotel peepholes and posting the videos online.",
"Authorities previously had said Authorities believed most of the videos were made at a Nashville, Tennessee, hotel in September 2008.",
"But the information filed Wednesday alleges that Michael David Barrett also taped Andrews through an altered peephole in a hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, in February 2008.",
"Michael David Barrett stayed in the hotel room next door to Andrews, Wednesday said.",
"Michael David Barrett is charged with interstate stalking, which carries a potential sentence of five years in prison, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California.",
"Michael David Barrett was arrested in Illinois, but will make an initial appearance in federal court in Los Angeles on Friday, Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California said.",
"He is scheduled to be arraigned on November 23 and will be asked to enter a plea.",
"An Illinois judge last month released Michael David Barrett on bail.",
"Michael David Barrett waived Michael David Barrett's right to be indicted by a grand jury, Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California said, and authorities on Wednesday filed a criminal information against Michael David Barrett in place of an indictment.",
"Investigators found that Michael David Barrett reserved a room at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, hotel where Andrews was staying in July 2008, but did not check in, according to prosecutors and the initial criminal complaint against Michael David Barrett last month.",
"The complaint accused Michael David Barrett of making seven videos from the surreptitious tapes.",
"In Nashville, the door peephole into Andrews's room was altered with a hacksaw, and the peephole to Andrews's room in Milwaukee was altered in a similar way, The complaint said.",
"Authorities believe the videos were taken with a cell phone camera.",
"In addition, The complaint said that Michael David Barrett \"traveled from Illinois to Victim Andrews' home state\" in August 2008, but did not specify which state.",
"Michael David Barrett allegedly attempted to sell the videos to celebrity gossip site TMZ in January 2009.",
"TMZ did not purchase the images, but employees of the Web site assisted in the investigation by providing information to Andrews's attorneys, authorities said.",
"However, the videos were posted to other Web sites by Michael David Barrett, The complaint said, with labels like \"Sexy and hot blonde sports celebrity shows us her all.\"",
"Andrews, 31, is a sideline reporter for ESPN, traveling around the country covering college football games.",
"The complaint said Andrews became aware of the videos in July and that their posting has caused Andrews's distress, anxiety and trouble sleeping."
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"A lock break occurred on the Ohio River near Warsaw, Kentucky, on Sunday, stopping barge traffic for several hours as the Army Corps of Engineers investigated.",
"A lock break stopped traffic on the Ohio River about 65 miles northeast of Louisville, Kentucky.",
"The incident involved structures, and there were no reports of injuries.",
"All traffic on the Ohio River was stopped in both directions at about 9 a.m. ET, the Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Todd Hornback said.",
"By 8 p.m., an auxiliary lock was set up to start allowing the half-dozen blocked barges through.",
"\"It's going to take more time, but we're keeping the Ohio River open tonight,\" Corps spokesman Todd Hornback said.",
"the Ohio River is a major artery for commodities shipping, with more than 50 million tons of cargo passing through the affected area annually, according to a waterways organization.",
"It was not known what caused the break at the Markland Locks and Dam.",
"Engineers were going to the site, about 65 miles northeast of Louisville, Kentucky, Corps spokesman Todd Hornback said.",
"The lock's gates are 1,200 feet long and 110 feet wide.",
"A smaller auxiliary lock is 600 feet long and 110 feet wide.",
"Watch traffic backed up on Ohio River » .",
"A lock is a section of a waterway, such as a river, that is closed off with gates.",
"Vessels in transit enter the lock and the water level is raised or lowered in order to raise or lower the vessel to adjust to elevation changes.",
"One of the broken portions is known as a miter gate, Corps spokesman Todd Hornback said.",
"the Army Corps of Engineers, on the Army Corps of Engineers's Web site, says a miter gate \"has two leaves that provide a closure at one end of the lock.\"",
"They are so named because two leaves that provide a closure at one end of the lock meet at an angle pointing upstream and resembling a miter joint, the Web site said, referring to a joint meeting at a 45-degree angle, such as the corner of a picture frame.",
"A public policy organization, in a February 2008 report, graded the locks' performance as a D, \"based primarily upon risk of failure due to unreliability of miter gates.\"",
"The federal government allocated $10.6 million to install new chamber miter gates, according to Waterways Council Inc., which describes itself as an organization \"advocating a modern and well-maintained national system of ports and inland waterways.\"",
"Corps spokesman Todd Hornback said the work was scheduled for 2011, adding that it's unclear whether Sunday's break will speed that up.",
"\"The risk is very high that a failure of the lock gates will occur, forcing traffic through the auxiliary lock for an extended period, causing huge delays and costs to the towing industry,\" the council said in a February 2008 report last year.",
"Engineers hope to have the river back open as soon as possible, Corps spokesman Todd Hornback said, but an exact time frame was not known.",
"Some 55 million tons of commodities pass through the Markland Locks each year, according to the council.",
"The principal commodity passing through Markland is coal, which fuels numerous electric power plants along the Ohio River, and numerous electric power plants typically stockpile only about a 30-day supply, the council said."
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"Abe Pollin, the longtime owner of the Washington Wizards professional basketball franchise, has died, Washington Wizards said Tuesday.",
"Abe Pollin was 85.",
"No further details were immediately available.",
"Washington Wizards said information would be released as it became available.",
"The Abe Pollin family asked that The Pollin family's privacy be respected, the basketball team said.",
"Pollin and Abe Pollin's wife, Irene, have owned the NBA franchise, previously known as the Washington Bullets and before that the Baltimore Bullets, for 45 years.",
"As the majority owners of Washington Sports & Entertainment Limited Partnership, the Pollins oversaw the Washington Wizards, Washington/Baltimore Ticketmaster and in-house promoter Musicentre Productions, as well as the management of the Verizon Center and George Mason University's Patriot Center, according to the Verizon Center's Web site.",
"Abe Pollin at one time also owned the Washington Capitals hockey team and the Washington Mystics WNBA team.",
"Abe Pollin moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Washington area when Abe Pollin was 8, according to the Verizon Center's biography of Abe Pollin.",
"Abe Pollin attended George Washington University and worked for Abe Pollin's family's construction company for more than a decade, it says.",
"Abe Pollin and Irene, a St. Louis, Missouri, native, launched Pollin's own construction company in 1957 and built several large apartment houses and office buildings.",
"Pollin have two sons and two granddaughters, according to the Verizon Center's Web site."
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"Abe Pollin and Abe Pollin's wife have owned the Wizards, formerly known as the Bullets, for 45 years .",
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) --",
"Iraqi Olympic Committee said Saturday Iraqi Olympic Committee stands by Iraqi Olympic Committee's decision to disband the country's soccer association -- a move that led to the association's suspension from international football.",
"FIFA said Friday FIFA had decided to suspend the association because of Iraqi Olympic Committee's move to disband the association.",
"FIFA described that as governmental interference.",
"The suspension means Iraqi soccer clubs and teams may not play in international matches or receive financial assistance, though FIFA made an exception for Iraqi female players to play in a weeklong under-16 regional football festival in Jordan starting Sunday.",
"FIFA said FIFA learned Monday that Iraqi Olympic Committee had disbanded the association and that governmental security forces had seized control of IFA.",
"FIFA officials gave Iraqi Olympic Committee 72 hours to revoke the decision and hand IFA back to the association.",
"\"The deadline has expired without revocation of the decision by Iraqi Olympic Committee and the association has not been restored to the association's headquarters,\" FIFA said in a statement Friday.",
"\"The FIFA Emergency Committee has therefore decided to immediately suspend the association until the decision of Iraqi Olympic Committee is revoked and the association retakes possession of IFA's offices.\"",
"Iraqi Olympic Committee's actions are in \"total contradiction\" to FIFA statutes, which require national teams to have full independence, FIFA said.",
"Two top Iraqi officials said Saturday the decision to disband the association was based on financial and administrative irregularities and violations, and that Two top Iraqi officials were not surprised by FIFA's decision and had expected the decision.",
"Samir al-Moussawi, a senior member of Iraqi Olympic Committee, told CNN he was hopeful the issue could be resolved with FIFA in the coming days, and that Iraqi Olympic Committee had international lawyers working on the issue.",
"He denied, however, that government security forces had seized the association headquarters, saying the men were protection services personnel guarding the building.",
"Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman who has been delegated for months to deal with the International Olympic Committee, told CNN Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman who has been delegated for months to deal with the International Olympic Committee will work on cooperating with FIFA's demands and holding transparent the association elections.",
"Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman who has been delegated for months to deal with the International Olympic Committee said the suspension \"will not have a major effect\" on Iraqi football because the national team has no international matches scheduled over the next six months.",
"It is the second time FIFA has suspended Iraqi football.",
"The first time was in May last year, after the Iraqi government dissolved the national Olympic committee and all national sports federations.",
"FIFA lifted the ban after the Iraqi government excluded the IFA from dissolution.",
"Iraqi soccer has come a long way since the days of Saddam Hussein, when Saddam Hussein's son, Uday, was president of the International Olympic Committee and regularly threatened players with physical violence and torture if they played poorly.",
"the national team has continued playing, however, and has been viewed as something that has united Iraqis across sectarian lines.",
"Although Iraq has not qualified for next year's World Cup in South Africa, the national team was able to celebrate becoming the Asia champions in 2007.",
"In July, Iraq played the national team's first home game since 2002, beating the national team's Palestinian opponents 4-0.",
"Tens of thousands attended the match in the capital after FIFA lifted FIFA's ban on international games in Iraq.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report."
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"Thaksin arrived in Cambodia Tuesday to begin Thaksin's first day as an economic adviser, a move that has infuriated Thailand.",
"In response to the relationship with Thaksin, Thailand has suspended Thailand's cooperation with Cambodia, a Thai government official said Tuesday.",
"Thailand has also suspended a memorandum of understanding with Cambodia, an agreement that governs an overlapping waterway between Cambodia and Thailand, said Panitan Wattanayakorn, a Thai government spokesman.",
"Thai officials also plan to send out an extradition request to Cambodia for Thaksin, Panitan Wattanayakorn, a Thai government spokesman said.",
"The actions are the latest moves in worsening relations between the southeast Asian countries that were sparked by Cambodia's hiring of Thaksin.",
"Last week, Thailand withdrew Thailand's ambassador to Cambodia and, in response, Cambodia pulled Cambodia's top diplomat to Thailand.",
"Cambodian officials said Thaksin arrived Tuesday and had a welcome luncheon with Prime Minister Hun Sen and the two were expected to have a friendly dinner later.",
"Cambodia had not received extradition papers from Thailand, government spokesman Phay Siphan said.",
"Thaksin, a billionaire businessman who served two terms as prime minister, was ousted in a bloodless coup in 2006.",
"Thaksin fled Bangkok last year while facing trial on corruption charges that Thaksin said were politically motivated.",
"Though Thaksin has fled Thailand, Thaksin remains a controversial figure in Thailand, and there have been violent clashes in Thailand between pro and anti-Thaksin groups.",
"CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Irish football officials have lodged an official complaint with world ruling body FIFA after France's Thierry Henry confessed that France's Thierry Henry handled the ball in the build-up to the goal which sent France to next summer's World Cup.",
"Television cameras showed France's Thierry Henry guiding the ball with France's Thierry Henry's hand twice, before William Gallas scored from William Gallas's resulting cross to give \"Les Bleus\" a narrow win in the two-legged World Cup play-off against the Republic of Ireland.",
"\"I will be honest.",
"It was a handball but I am not the referee,\" the Barcelona striker told reporters after the match in Paris.",
"The Irish Justice Ministry confirmed to CNN that Dermot Ahern had asked the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to demand a replay in the interests of fair play.",
"\"France's Thierry Henry has admitted handling the ball, claims France's Thierry Henry told the ref France's Thierry Henry handled it.",
"Millions of people worldwide saw it was a blatant double handball -- not to mention a double offside -- and we should put the powers that be in the cozy world of world ruling body FIFA on the spot and demand a replay,\" Dermot Ahern said in a statement sent to CNN.",
"\"They probably won't grant it as world ruling body FIFA are minnows in world football but let's put world ruling body FIFA on the spot.",
"It's the least we owe the thousands of devastated young fans around the country.",
"Otherwise if that result remains that result reinforces the view that if you cheat you will win.\"",
"the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) later confirmed that the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) had taken the matter to world ruling body FIFA.",
"\"I really believe the integrity of the game has been questioned last night,\" chief executive John Delaney told reporters.",
"\"The governing body of world football have to step up to the plate and accede to our call for a replay.\"",
"chief executive John Delaney said the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) had also written to the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).",
"\"the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) need to look at the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) in this situation.",
"France's Thierry Henry is the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)'s captain and a wonderful footballer, but does France's Thierry Henry want to be like Diego Maradona and his legacy to be this handball, this goal that got the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to the World Cup in an unjust manner?",
"If we had qualified in this manner, I wouldn't be happy,\" he said.",
"\"It is up to the people who govern the game now.",
"Every time I go to a the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) congress I hear about fair play and integrity.",
"This was a defining game with the whole world watching, and if the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) believe in fair play and integrity, this is the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)'s opportunity to step forward.\"",
"the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has argued that there is a precedent for the result to be struck out, following the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)'s ruling that Uzbekistan had to replay a play-off against Bahrain for the 2006 World Cup in Germany after the referee made a mistake in awarding a penalty.",
"\"the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) is hoping that the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)'s disciplinary committee will, on behalf of football fans worldwide, act in a similar fashion so that the standards of fair play and integrity can be protected,\" the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) said.",
"the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) confirmed the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) had received the Irish request for a replay, but gave no timescale on a decision.",
"However, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) said that under the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)'s regulations the referee's decision cannot be changed.",
"\"Law 5 states that the decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play, including whether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match, are final,\" it said.",
"\"The referee may only change a decision on realising that it is incorrect or, at The referee's discretion, on the advice of an assistant referee or the fourth official, provided that The referee has not restarted play or terminated the match.\"",
"Irish captain Richard Dunne, who spoke to Henry on the final whistle, said Henry felt cheated by the goal.",
"\"Henry admitted Henry handled the goal, but it doesn't make me feel any better because we are not going to the World Cup finals,\" the defender said.",
"\"the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) will probably be happy.",
"Yet again the big decisions have gone for the bigger team.\"",
"Football's international governing body had faced criticism from several Irish players that the seeding system for the play-off draw favored more powerful nations such as France.",
"Blog:",
"When will the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) see what's staring them in the face?",
"Dunne's teammate Robbie Keane admitted it was \"hard to speak,\" as Dunne's teammate Robbie Keane struggled to come to terms with the result.",
"\"With the way the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) played, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) certainly deserved to win the game and it killed the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) near the end with that handball,\" Dunne's teammate Robbie Keane was quoted by the FAI Web site as saying.",
"\"I've seen the replay but the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) knew anyway (it was handball).",
"You could see by the reaction of the players, especially Shay (Given) who was two yards away from it.",
"You don't get a reaction like that.",
"It was a clear handball.",
"\"He (France's Thierry Henry) almost caught the ball and actually ran into the net with the ball.",
"the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)'re devastated.\"",
"Ireland team manager Giovanni Trapattoni told reporters that the referee had time to ask the linesman and then France's Thierry Henry.",
"\"It would not have been the first time a player would have asked and it would not have been out of turn.",
"\"We are angry,\" the Italian continued.",
"\"It is a bitter evening for me.",
"I would prefer to have gone out on penalties.\"",
"Fanzone: Five of football's most famous injustices .",
"But former France international David Ginola was emphatic that France's Thierry Henry should not have \"owned up.\"",
"\"You don't do that,\" former France international David Ginola told CNN.",
"\"France's Thierry Henry was doing France's Thierry Henry's job.",
"You can't blame France's Thierry Henry for doing everything France's Thierry Henry could for France's Thierry Henry's team and country to get his team and country to South Africa.",
"\"But it was a shame to finish the game like that as Ireland had played very well.",
"\"Referees need more help on the pitch, so as not to allow things like that.",
"Obviously the referee was not well-positioned and couldn't see.\"",
"English Referees Union chief Alan Leighton told CNN that Swedish official Martin Hansson had clearly missed a huge decision.",
"\"I think the incident was more of instinct than deliberately attempting to cheat but it does seem that the ball hit his hand twice and therefore there is an issue.\"",
"But on the wider issue of cheating, English Referees Union chief Alan Leighton said: \"It is all very well to blame the referees for not spotting it but fundamentally it starts with the players.",
"\"I think the players have to think about the game, think about the reputation of the game and the players's own reputations and say look actually there is a line that we will not cross.\""
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"NEW: FAI also writes to French counterparts asking for World Cup play-off to be replayed .",
"Cameras showed France's Thierry Henry guiding ball with France's Thierry Henry's hand twice, before William Gallas scored .",
"Ex-France player David Ginola said France's Thierry Henry was only doing France's Thierry Henry's job for his country and should not be blamed ."
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"(CNN) --",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and foreign ministers from more than a dozen countries met Montreal to discuss how to rebuild Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake.",
"Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive also attended the one-day meeting of the Friends of Haiti group of nations in Montreal, Quebec.",
"The United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and European Union also sent representatives, according to Canada's Foreign Ministry.",
"In Haiti, desperate residents of Port-au-Prince, the capital, waited for two hours in lines around the heavily damaged Presidential Palace to get their first relief supplies, bags of rice or beans.",
"U.N. troops brandishing automatic weapons kept order.",
"Any spilled food prompted fast scavenging by those hanging around the distribution point.",
"One woman, Via Maria Rosile, took off her shirt to collect a small pile of dropped beans.",
"Watch images of a shattered palace .",
"\"I am very unhappy,\" Rosile said.",
"\"So far, until now we have received nothing.\"",
"The aim of the Montreal meeting is to develop a strategy for early recovery and longer-term reconstruction of Haiti.",
"Once a strategy for early recovery and longer-term reconstruction of Haiti is set, a donors' conference to secure funding would take place.",
"Clinton told reporters traveling with Clinton to the meeting that a donors''s conference would take place in \"the next 30 to 60 days.\"",
"\"There's a tremendous desire to help, but we've got to create the mechanisms so that it can be done effectively, and we've got to get the Haitian government's capacity to lead put together,\" Clinton said.",
"Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the Montreal meeting's attendees that the challenge is enormous.",
"Interactive map: Where to find aid .",
"\"It is not an exaggeration to say that 10 years of hard work awaits the world in Haiti,\" Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, according to CNN affiliate CTV, a Canadian television network.",
"Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper noted the initial outpouring of money and relief aid for Haiti, which Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called generous in the face of human catastrophe.",
"\"The difficulty we face, then, is not one of concern but rather one of coordination,\" Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.",
"\"We must ensure that every resource committed -- every relief worker, every vehicle, every dollar -- is used as effectively as possible.\"",
"The United States has committed $100 million in emergency aid to Haiti, and Clinton said Monday \"there will be more to come.\"",
"At the same time, Clinton noted to reporters that even before the quake, Haiti had an economic development plan worked out with the United Nations and others that was intended to modernize the economy after decades of political and social instability.",
"the quake required a revision of the plan, rather than scrapping the plan entirely, Clinton said.",
"\"the plan was a legitimate plan.",
"the plan was done in conjunction with other international donors, with the United Nations,\" Clinton said.",
"\"And I don't want to start from scratch, but we have to recognize the changed challenges we are now confronting.\"",
"Bellerive, in comments at the meeting reported by CTV, also said Haiti must achieve a new development path rather than simply returning to the same situation that existed before the quake.",
"\"What we are speaking about is relaunching our country on a path of development.",
"It is not a question of going back to the status quo,\" he said, according to CTV.",
"Port-au-Prince will have to be rebuilt and public institutions decentralized to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of Haitians expected to relocate to rural areas",
", CTV reported Bellerive as saying.",
"In addition, Montreal's meeting provided an opportunity for the donor community, the Haitian government and the United Nations to review progress so far in the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Haiti.",
"A senior European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity to reporters in Washington, said the countries attending the Montreal meeting want to avoid pouring money into Haiti in ways that previously have yielded little result.",
"Priorities might include agriculture, reforestation and building new roads, with projects carried out in coordination with the Haitian government, according to A senior European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity to reporters in Washington.",
"A senior European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity to reporters in Washington also said France is ready to host a donors' conference on the Caribbean island of Martinique.",
"A spokesman for the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry said Montreal that the nation donated the money to Haiti for relief aid.",
"The spokesman, Usama al-Nugali, said the money has already been received by the United Nations.",
"Montreal's meeting came as Haitians reacted with anger and frustration to news that efforts to rescue possible survivors had been called off.",
"Looking for loved ones in Haiti .",
"Thousands of people pushed Sunday for rescue efforts to continue after a 24-year-old man was pulled alive from rubble Saturday, 11 days after the quake.",
"a 24-year-old man had no injuries, but was dehydrated.",
"a 24-year-old man's brother said a 24-year-old man had survived on cookies and beer from the store of the Hotel Napoli Inn, where a 24-year-old man worked.",
"a 24-year-old man is recovering in a hospital.",
"Families of Americans who were staying at the Hotel Montana started an online petition Saturday in an effort to get search efforts to continue \"until all the survivors are accounted for.\"",
"As of Sunday morning, 2,395 people had signed an online petition and sent 6,216 messages to the Senate, Congress and the White House, said Sue Keller, a friend of a family whose relatives are among the missing.",
"So far, 59 Americans, including three children, are confirmed dead in the quake, the U.S. State Department said Monday.",
"The deaths include one U.S. embassy employee, previously identified as Victoria DeLong, and three children of embassy employees, according to Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley.",
"Another 37 Americans are presumed dead, Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley said.",
"About 11,500 Americans and some of Americans's Haitian family members, who had medical emergencies or other circumstances, have been evacuated from Haiti, according to Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley.",
"The Haitian government has said the quake is believed to have killed at least 150,000 people.",
"Tired of stench, Haitians torch bodies in plaza .",
"The rescues that occurred over the past week sparked hope among families of the missing.",
"International search teams have rescued at least 132 people, the United Nations said.",
"More than 600,000 people have been left homeless in and around the capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty, Mohammed Jamjoom, Elise Labott and Lisa Desjardins contributed to this report."
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"Ten years of hard work needed to rebuild Haiti, Canadian PM tells meeting .",
"Top officials from more than a dozen countries meet in Montreal on Montreal .",
"Families of the missing fight Haiti's effort to shift from rescue to recovery mode ."
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"(CNN) --",
"World No. 2 Novak Djokovic was on track to defend Novak Djokovic's Dubai Tennis Championship title when torrential rain, thunder and lightning halted play in Saturday's final against Mikhail Youzhny.",
"The Serbian led 7-5 2-0 when the heavens opened on the desert emirate and flooded the court, and after a long delay it was decided to resume play on Sunday afternoon.",
"Top seed Novak Djokovic won a topsy-turvy first set in 63 minutes as there were five breaks in serve overall, then rain forced a half-hour delay.",
"He was 30-15 up in the third game against the Russian seventh seed when the weather intervened again, and umpire Mohamed Lahyani ruled that the court was too wet for further play.",
"Workers tried to clear the water, but to no avail.",
"Novak Djokovic is seeking to avenge Novak Djokovic's semifinal defeat by Youzhny at the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam a fortnight ago and claim Novak Djokovic's 17th ATP Tour title.",
"Mikhail Youzhny lost to Robin Soderling in the Dutch final after suffering a hamstring injury, leaving Mikhail Youzhny with five career titles.",
"Meanwhile, world No. 7 Elena Dementieva will face fellow Russian Alisa Kleybanova in Sunday's final of the inaugural Malaysian Open as Elena Dementieva seeks to win a third title this year.",
"Top seed Elena Dementieva defeated Austria's Sybille Bammer 6-3 6-1 in Elena Dementieva's semifinal on Saturday, while Kleybanova beat Japan's Ayumi Morita 6-4 6-1."
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"Novak Djokovic leads Mikhail Youzhny 7-5 2-0 in Dubai Tennis Championship final .",
"World No. 2 must wait until Sunday to complete successful defense of his title .",
"Russian seventh seed Youzhny beat Serbian in Rotterdam semifinals two weeks ago .",
"Elena Dementieva will face fellow Russian Alisa Kleybanova in Sunday's Malaysian Open final ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Iran will not send Iran's partially enriched uranium abroad to be turned into material for medical research, Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday, rejecting a key plank of a deal designed to ease international fears that Tehran aims to build nuclear weapons.",
"Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran might allow Iran's nuclear material to be reprocessed inside Iran, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.",
"The deal hammered out last month with the help of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency aimed to reduce the amount of raw material Iran has to build a nuclear bomb.",
"Tehran denies that Tehran wants to do so, saying Tehran's nuclear program is to produce civilian nuclear energy and do medical work.",
"the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday that the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency could not confirm or deny that Iran had rejected any part of Proposal.",
"U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said, \"This is Proposal, and Iran has to give their response to the IAEA, and that's what we're waiting for.",
"That's what the IAEA is waiting for.\"",
"But, U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said, \"until the IAEA gets the response and formally says this is ... Iran's response, I don't consider a statement to the press necessarily a response.\"",
"On October 1, Proposal \"was accepted in principle by all the parties including Iran,\" U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"\"And there was also an agreement that each of all the parties including Iran would provide a written response to Proposal.",
"\"Russia, France and the United States have provided a written response,\" U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"\"We expect Iran to provide a written response.",
"And we expect the IAEA to pronounce on a written response.",
"So we will wait for the IAEA to make a formal response to this.\"",
"In a report published Monday, the IAEA expressed concerns about Iran's nuclear program.",
"The Islamic republic's disclosure of a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom raised questions about the existence of other such facilities, and its delay in acknowledging a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom \"does not contribute to the building of confidence\" in Tehran",
", the IAEA said in the report.",
"Tehran has not convinced the agency Tehran's nuclear program isn't military, said the report, published on the Institute for Science and International Security Web site.",
"A source with direct knowledge of the report confirmed the report's authenticity to CNN.",
"Tehran shocked the international community in September by revealing the existence of a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom.",
"On Monday, Kelly said in a statement that the report \"underscores that Iran still refuses to comply fully with Iran's international nuclear obligations.\"",
"the IAEA inspectors visited a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom last month, according to the report.",
"During a meeting in Tehran, Iranian officials told IAEA inspectors that construction of a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom had begun during late 2007, the report said, and it would not be operational until 2011.",
"However, the the IAEA inspectors told Iran that \"Iran had acquired commercially available satellite imagery of a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom indicating that there had been construction at the site between 2002 and 2004, and that construction activities were resumed in 2006 and had continued to date,\" the report said.",
"IAEA member states also allege that design work on a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, began in 2006, the report said.",
"Iranian officials told inspectors that Iran has no other undisclosed nuclear facilities either under construction or in operation, the report said, and promised that any future facilities would be disclosed.",
"A letter sent this month asks Tehran to confirm that Tehran has not decided to construct or authorized construction of any undisclosed facility, the report said.",
"Iran remains bound by the terms of a 2003 agreement under which Iran must provide information to the IAEA regarding nuclear facilities as soon as the decision to build is made or construction is authorized.",
"\"Even if, as stated by Iran, the decision to construct the new facility at the Fordow site was taken in the second half of 2007, Iran's failure to notify the agency of a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom until September 2009 was inconsistent with Iran's obligations,\" the IAEA said.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said construction of a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom violates U.N. Security Council resolutions, Kelly said.",
"\"Iran's delay in submitting such information to the IAEA does not contribute to the building of confidence,\" the report said.",
"\"While the IAEA has confirmed that the plant corresponds to the design information provided by Iran, Iran's explanation about the purpose of a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom and the chronology of a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom's design and construction requires further clarification.\"",
"the IAEA is waiting for Iran's reply to its request to meet officials in regard to those issues and others, according to the report.",
"\"Further analysis of the information available to the IAEA underscores the importance of Iran engaging with the IAEA in a substantive and comprehensive manner, and providing the requested access, so that the remaining outstanding issues may be resolved.\"",
"the IAEA encouraged IAEA member states who have provided the IAEA information on Iran to share that information with Tehran as well.",
"CNN's Laura Perez Maestro contributed to the report."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"\"Oh, the humanity.\"",
"When these three words were uttered by aghast radio journalist Herbert Morrison -- as the LZ129 Hindenburg airship crashed and burst into flames in New Jersey in 1937 -- it was seen as the end of airships.",
"The other remaining Zeppelin-class dirigible, the Graf Zeppelin II, was destroyed by the Nazi administration who felt the materials could be put to better use with more conventional aircraft.",
"The Aeroscraft ML866 is a prototype for future cargo vehicles that could have a payload of up to 60 tonnes .",
"But, 70 years on, could the Hindenburg-style airship be experiencing a renaissance?",
"There are two types of craft that are commonly called \"airships.\"",
"The first is basically a balloon filled with a lighter-than-air gas, with an attached pod for the pilot and passengers, and tilting propellers to aid with descent and maneuvering.",
"These are known as 'blimps' and are commonly used for promotional activities, for filming sporting events and by law enforcement agencies for surveillance.",
"But their limited payload make them unsuitable for other purposes.",
"The other type of airship is the dirigible.",
"Like a blimp, a dirigible airship is filled with lighter-than-air gas but a dirigible airship has an internal skeleton.",
"This greater rigidity allows dirigible airships to carry larger payloads than blimps.",
"See pictures of airships through the ages.",
"While the Hindenburg crash dented public confidence in the dirigible airship concept, the principal cause of the disaster wasn't bad design but propaganda.",
"The Germans were desperate to show off The Germans's technical achievement.",
"But the United States, the world's primary supplier of the inert gas helium (which was used to inflate and lift the airships), had imposed a military embargo on the gas.",
"So the Hindenburg was filled with the massively explosive gas, hydrogen.",
"And the Hindenburg exploded.",
"Massively.",
"In recent years the concept of the dirigible airship has been reevaluated because of the environmental need to find lower-carbon methods of freight transportation; and the military and humanitarian need to deliver supplies to remote locations not served by airports.",
"One failed attempt to resuscitate the airship content came from the German company Cargolifter AG in the mid 1990s.",
"the German company Cargolifter AG planned a large airship, the CL160, to be used as a transporter for large and heavy loads.",
"A giant hangar, one of the world's largest structures, was built in Brand, near Berlin in Germany, for storage and manufacture of these giant craft.",
"But the German company Cargolifter AG became insolvent in 2002.",
"The hangar was sold for a fraction of The hangar's construction cost and now houses an indoor water park.",
"In 2005 the Aeros corporation of Montebello, CA. resurrected the airship concept.",
"Responding to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s \"Walrus\" program the company was given a $3.2 million grant to develop: \"a very large airlift vehicle concept designed to control lift in all stages of air or ground operations including the ability to off-load payload without taking on-board ballast other than surrounding air.\"",
"What distinguishes a \"Walrus\" craft from a Hindenberg-style airship is that it would not be lighter than air.",
"Rather it would generate lift from a combination of aerodynamics, propellors and gas buoyancy.",
"This would allow for a quicker descent without the expulsion of lift gas, for instance.",
"DARPA terminated the Walrus program but Aeros is continuing to develop the technology with a view to creating an enormous civil airship utilizing a glass-fiber and carbon-fibre semi-monocoque envelope structure.",
"The planned Aeroscraft ML866 could be the next generation of corporate transportation.",
"With more than 465 square meters (5000 square feet) of interior floor space, The planned Aeroscraft ML866's interior could house a floating boardroom or an opulent flying home.",
"Because it would be flying at a lower altitude than a passenger jet (6,000 to 12,000 feet, as opposed to 25,000 to 35,000 feet) the cabin would not be pressurized.",
"The technological legacy of the Walrus program is the COSH (control of structural heaviness) system.",
"By compressing and decompressing stored helium, the aircraft can become lighter for take-off and heavier for landing.",
"If Aeros secure funding to develop The planned Aeroscraft ML866, it would be offered with a choice of turboprop engines (for either greater speed or heavier payload).",
"But could large airships supplement the role of large passenger aircraft?",
"Flight International's technical reporter Rob Coppinger is skeptical: . \"Whether it is cargo, corporate or mass transpiration I think the issues with airships are; can [airships] carry enough people/cargo between two popular destinations and do it fast enough to carry a sufficient volume of cargo/people to generate enough revenue to pay for the development, certification and running costs?",
"\"I think if it were easy to financially justify, they would exist already.\"",
"Flight International's technical reporter Rob Coppinger concedes, however, that airships could have potential military applications.",
"Aeros plans to begin testing a non-rigid airship, the Aeros 40D, in 2008 to demonstrate the helium compression and decompression system.",
"Production of a prototype Aeroscraft ML866 has begun, with a test flight planned for 2010.",
"...................................... Are dirigibles just a load of hot air?",
"Would you travel by airship?",
"Share your views and read others' thoughts in the Just Imagine forum."
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"Airship concept all-but abandoned after 1937's Hindenburg disaster .",
"New-style airships will be heavier-than-air and use helium, not hydrogen .",
"Aeros hopes to have a prototype of Aeros's \"floating boardroom\" flying in 2010 ."
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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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"(CNN) -- South Korean star Park Ji-Sung has signed a two-year contract extension at English Premier League champions Manchester United.",
"Park Ji-Sung has been handed a contract extension at Manchester United.",
"Park Ji-Sung is now tied to Old Trafford until 2012 as reward for Park Ji-Sung's dogged displays for Manchester United since joining from PSV Eindhoven in 2005.",
"\"I am so pleased to have a new contract,\" Park Ji-Sung told www.manutd.com.",
"\"We have achieved great success over the last four years and won many trophies.\"",
"Park Ji-Sung has had to work hard to establish Park Ji-Sung as a regular member of Manchester United's starting line-up and was devastated to be left out of the squad for their 2008 Champions League final success against Chelsea.",
"But last season Park Ji-Sung was a key figure as Manchester United completed a hat-trick of Premier League titles.",
"Park Ji-Sung also gained selection for the Champions League final against Barcelona, becoming the first player from Asia to play in the European club showpiece.",
"Park Ji-Sung's popularity in Park Ji-Sung's home region is undoubted and Manchester United have been able to capitalize with two highly-profitable visits to the continent with Park Ji-Sung a key draw.",
"Park, who will be a driving force in South Korea's World Cup challenge in South Africa next year, has played 127 times for Manchester United, scoring 12 goals.",
"\"Manchester United are always pleased to secure the future of Manchester United's star players and Ji-Sung has proved Park Ji-Sung to be a fantastic professional as well as an important versatile player in Manchester United's squad,\" said manager Alex Ferguson.",
"Park Ji-Sung has been rewarded with an improved deal worth a reported $5.9 million per year."
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"South Korea star was first player from Asia to play in Champions League final .",
"Park Ji-Sung has made 127 appearances for Manchester United since joining from PSV in 2005 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Prosecutors asked Wednesday for a 25-year sentence for Argentina's last dictator, who is on trial on charges that Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone violated human rights during Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone's 17-month rule in the early 1980s.",
"Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone is accused of torturing 56 people and depriving 56 people of 56 people's liberty, as well as committing illegal searches.",
"Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone ruled Argentina from June 1982 until the nation's return to democracy in December 1983.",
"More than 100 people have testified at Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone's trial since it started in November, the government's Judicial Information Center said.",
"his trial is expected to last until March.",
"Also facing charges that he violated human rights during his 17-month rule in the early 1980s are former intelligence chief Fernando Ezequiel Verplaetsen and ex-military officials Santiago Omar Riveros, Eugenio Guanabens Perello, Carlos Alberto Tepedino and German A. Montenegro.",
"Prosecutors also asked for 25-year sentences for Verplaetsen and Riveros and a 20-year incarceration for Tepedino, the government's Judicial Information Center said.",
"Prosecutors want sentences of 12 years for Perello and two years for German A. Montenegro.",
"The alleged crimes occurred at the secret Campo de Mayo torture center in Buenos Aires, court papers say.",
"Campo de Mayo was the main torture center during the 1976-83 right-wing dictatorship.",
"Few who were taken there walked out alive.",
"Up to 30,000 students, labor leaders, intellectuals and leftists who ran afoul of the 1976-83 right-wing dictatorship because of their political views disappeared or were held in secret jails and torture centers during the eight-year \"Dirty War.\"",
"Bignone, 82, has been under house arrest.",
"Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone faces two other trials: in the abduction and disappearance of doctors and nurses at the Hospital Posada and of two soldiers when Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone was head of the Military College.",
"The three-judge panel in the current trial was scheduled to hear testimony Wednesday from two groups representing Argentineans who were victims of the Dirty War.",
"Trial will resume February 25 with the first defense testimony, the government's Judicial Information Center said."
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"RIVERDALE, Georgia (CNN) --",
"In his darkest moment, Kenneth Brown lost it all.",
"Kenneth Brown's wife and kids, the housebroken dog, the vacation home on Cape Cod all vanished when Kenneth Brown was sent to prison for an arson in 1996.",
"Kenneth Brown, a former inmate, learned to meditate during Kenneth Brown's nine years in prison.",
"Trapped in Kenneth Brown's gloomy cell and serving a 20-year sentence that felt like an eternity, Brown, then 49, found Kenneth Brown stretched out on the floor.",
"Kenneth Brown was silent.",
"Kenneth Brown's eyes were shut.",
"Kenneth Brown's body did not move.",
"Brown, a man raised as a Baptist and taught to praise the Lord and fear the devil, was meditating.",
"\"I try to focus on the space between two thoughts, because it prevents me from getting lost,\" said Brown, who discovered meditation, yoga and Buddhist teachings three months into Kenneth Brown's sentence.",
"\"This helped me stay on track and get me through prison,\" Kenneth Brown said.",
"Eastern religions encompassing meditation techniques have captivated hippies, 20-somethings and celebrities like actor Richard Gere.",
"But since the 1960s, the art of meditation also has found a growing number of unlikely followers behind prison bars.",
"The inmates say meditation -- an ancient practice that develops mental awareness and fosters relaxation -- is teaching The inmates how to cope in prison.",
"\"Mostly, the people in Buddhist community are going into the prisons, providing programs, and word of mouth gets from one inmate to another,\" explained Gary Friedman, communications chairman for the American Correctional Chaplains Association.",
"\"It's a break from all the hustle and noise of the prison environment.\"",
"There is no group tracking the number of inmates converting to Buddhism or engaging in meditation practices.",
"But programs and workshops educating inmates about meditation and yoga are sprouting up across the country.",
"Meditation can help the convicts find calmness in a prison culture ripe with violence and chaos.",
"The practice provides them a chance to reflect on their crimes, wrestle through feelings of guilt and transform themselves during their rehabilitative journey, Buddhist experts say.",
"In the past five years, books like the \"Prison Chaplaincy Guidelines for Zen Buddhism\" and \"Razor-Wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison\" have emerged.",
"\"This is transformative justice, as opposed to punitive,\" said Fleet Maull, founder of the Prison Dharma Network, one of the largest support networks helping inmates learn meditation and Buddhist teachings.",
"Since its inception in 1989, Prison Dharma Network has grown from one person -- Maull -- teaching Buddhist principles to more than 75 member organizations corresponding with 2,500 individuals, many of 2,500 individuals inmates.",
"For the past seven years, Maull's group has taught a weekly meditation class in Boulder County Jail in Colorado.",
"Some inmates follow Zen Buddhism, a practice that originated in China, and meet weekly to focus Some inmates's minds.",
"Others practice Vipassana, a Buddhist practice founded in India, which consists of completing hundreds of hours of meditation in a short period of time.",
"Buddhism has gained momentum in the United States over the past 25 years, becoming the third most popular religion in America behind Christianity and Judaism, according to the 2008 report from the the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.",
"About 1.7 million Americans call About 1.7 million Americans Buddhists, and many of About 1.7 million Americans are converts, the study said.",
"According to the American Religious Identification Survey in 2008, there were 1.2 million self-identified Buddhists.",
"Some inmates, like Brown, may not label themselves official Buddhists, but they meditate, practice yoga and follow Buddhist principles on truth, responsibility and suffering.",
"The practice of meditation seeped into the heart of the Bible Belt in 2002.",
"The Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Alabama, was notorious for violence.",
"But a group of male inmates, including several murderers, completed a Vipassana meditation retreat that required more than 100 hours of meditation in 10 days.",
"One inmate, who was featured in the 2007 documentary \"The Dhamma Brothers,\" said Vipassana was harder than the 8½ years he had spent on death row.",
"More than 120 men in Donaldson have gone through Vipassana at least once.",
"Watch a clip of \"The Dhamma Brothers\" » .",
"\"They don't feel so close to exploding,\" said Jenny Phillips, director of the film.",
"\"They aren't afraid to have conversations with people and to express themselves.",
"They aren't always on edge.\"",
"Critics, including some prison officials, doubt that meditation works.",
"Critics, including some prison officials worry that it may be a tactic to convince parole boards to lighten a sentence.",
"In areas that are heavily Christian, some wardens are uncomfortable with introducing Eastern religions.",
"Alabama prison authorities were initially skeptical about meditation but next year will designate an open dormitory for inmates going through Vipassana, said Ron Cavanaugh, director of treatment for the Alabama Department of Corrections.",
"Ron Cavanaugh, director of treatment for the Alabama Department of Corrections said corrections officers have seen lower levels of violence among Donaldson inmates who meditate.",
"In California, a state where the swollen prison population has resulted in dangerously overcrowded prisons, teaching conflict management is critical, said Anne Seisen Saunders, a Zen Buddhist instructor who was raised Christian.",
"Anne Seisen Saunders, a Zen Buddhist instructor who was raised Christian's Prison Meditation Project, based near San Diego, began a decade ago in one prison yard.",
"Today, the program has expanded to five prisons, with an average of 20 inmates participating in each location.",
"Last week, the autumn sky transformed from a deep purple to light blue outside Kenneth Brown's meager studio apartment.",
"Inside, Kenneth Brown sat on Kenneth Brown's bed, barefoot and deep in concentration, in front of a makeshift altar holding books a photo of the Buddha.",
"Traces of incense billowed in the air.",
"Kenneth Brown, now 62, resides in Georgia to be near Kenneth Brown's family.",
"Kenneth Brown says Kenneth Brown was wrongfully convicted of arson.",
"In 2005, a Massachusetts appeals judge reduced his sentence from 20 years to nine.",
"Kenneth Brown's body was motionless, Kenneth Brown's eyes closed and the palms of Kenneth Brown's hands facing upward.",
"These days, Kenneth Brown's practice of mediation helps Kenneth Brown tackle the challenges of being unemployed with a felony record.",
"The college graduate has been rejected from jobs catching stray dogs and cleaning hotel rooms.",
"But Kenneth Brown's got a lot to be thankful for: Kenneth Brown's daughters, Kenneth Brown's grandchildren -- and meditation, Kenneth Brown said.",
"\"I finally feel at peace.\""
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"\"They don't feel so close to exploding,\" documentary director says .",
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"LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) --",
"The theater was packed as Garth Brooks shared stories about why Garth Brooks decided to officially step out of retirement after nine years.",
"Garth Brooks played two secret concerts in Las Vegas earlier this summer.",
"Now Garth Brooks's signed on for an engagement.",
"Camera crews and journalists filled the front section.",
"Executives flanked the sides.",
"And then smack dab in the middle of the audience was a row of chefs, enthusiastically applauding in their toques and kitchen whites.",
"Yes, the media was buzzing about the much-anticipated announcement, but hotel employees at the Wynn Encore in Las Vegas were equally excited -- maybe even more so, because of the part hotel employees at the Wynn Encore in Las Vegas played in persuading the country music superstar to enter into a five-year weekend residency at the establishment beginning December 11.",
"This summer, as the media threw itself head-first into the death of Michael Jackson, the Oklahoma native quietly took the stage at the 1,500-seat Encore Theater in two hush-hush shows attended by hotel workers.",
"One was an intimate acoustic performance; the other a concert with Garth Brooks's full band.",
"Garth Brooks sang.",
"Garth Brooks charmed.",
"Garth Brooks won over staffers who never thought they'd be caught dead tapping their toes to country music.",
"And that, ladies and gentleman, exemplifies the uncanny ability of Garth Brooks to connect with human beings, and explains why Garth Brooks -- not Michael Jackson -- is the best-selling solo artist of all time in any genre.",
"(You can look it up.)",
"\"I think my gift truly is I'm an average guy.",
"What I like, an average guy likes.",
"It's that simple.",
"The music that I love, I find that most guys around Garth Brooks love, too,\" Garth Brooks told CNN in Garth Brooks's dressing room after Thursday's news conference in Las Vegas.",
"There's a big old-fashioned star on the door that says \"Garth Brooks.\"",
"It suits Garth Brooks.",
"Even though Garth Brooks's pushed boundaries and rewritten rules in the music industry, Garth Brooks's still an old-fashioned guy with old-fashioned values -- work hard, stay humble and family first.",
"It's the latter that led to Garth Brooks's decision to hang up Garth Brooks's mic and Garth Brooks's Stetson in 2000.",
"\"We were retiring because I gotta get back to Oklahoma and raise my girls.",
"Sandy and I were getting a divorce at the time, so I couldn't expect Sandy to do my job for Garth Brooks any longer,\" Garth Brooks said.",
"\"We told the people that's what I'm going to do, and the people -- 99 percent of the people -- said, 'Go.",
"Go do what you gotta do.",
"We'll be here when you get back,' and we'll see if the people are.\"",
"Watch Garth Brooks talk about new course » .",
"Garth Brooks's three daughters -- Taylor, August and Allie -- are now 17, 15 and 13.",
"When Garth Brooks retired, Garth Brooks famously stated that Garth Brooks wanted to be able to drive Garth Brooks's kids to school every day.",
"Garth Brooks's new Friday-through-Sunday gig will allow Garth Brooks to keep Garth Brooks's pledge of seeing them off to class until they head to college.",
"Of course, the commute from Garth Brooks's farm in Owasso, Oklahoma, to Las Vegas will be made a little faster with Garth Brooks's new private jet -- an 11-seat Challenger, courtesy of Steve Wynn, the billionaire CEO of Wynn Hotels.",
"\"I don't know anything about jets,\" Garth Brooks downplayed with a shrug.",
"\"It's got a cool interior, cool paint job, I don't know.",
"But it gets me here (to Las Vegas), and it gets me home to see my girls.",
"And so in that case, it's fabulous.\"",
"\"Garth Brooks's been happy being at home, attending every soccer game and knowing what Garth Brooks's kids like to eat for breakfast,\" said singer Trisha Yearwood, whom Garth Brooks married in 2005.",
"\"We both came from a family where our parents were there every single day, and so we don't know any other way.\"",
"On most weekends, Yearwood will be making the two-hour trip to Sin City -- and every now and again, Yearwood'll make an appearance with Yearwood's husband on stage.",
"\"It's a 'Beauty and the Beast' thing, you know?\" said Garth Brooks.",
"\"I can start a song in one octave and end a song up in three keys, not knowing that I've changed.",
"Yearwood's precision -- perfect with feeling -- and that's impressive to anybody you bring out.\"",
"From time to time, Garth Brooks will bring out special guests, but for the most part, it's a one-man show -- just him, an acoustic guitar and a bunch of great songs and intimate stories.",
"And, of course, there's the audience.",
"\"As long as my gift is here, as long as I open my mouth and my gift works,\" Garth Brooks said, \"then I think my job is to keep doing it, you know?\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Federal prosecutors said Friday that Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man accused in the shooting death last year of Carson, student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.",
"Police said Carson was taken from Carson's home and killed.",
"A grand jury indicted Demario James Atwater on October 27 on federal charges of carjacking resulting in death, carrying and using firearms in relation to carjacking, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing a short-barreled shotgun not properly registered to Demario James Atwater.",
"Demario James Atwater also faces state first-degree murder charges in Orange County, North Carolina, along with 18-year-old Lawrence Alvin Lovette.",
"\"Both federal and state law violations are implicated in the tragic events of March 5, 2008, and we will vigorously prosecute the violations of federal law committed in connection with the death of Carson,\" said Anna Mills Wagoner, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, at the time of Demario James Atwater's indictment.",
"An autopsy report showed that Carson, an honors student, had multiple gunshot wounds when Carson was found lying on a Chapel Hill street.",
"An autopsy report listed six gunshot wounds but said two of six gunshot wounds were probably from the same bullet.",
"Court documents released in the North Carolina case said Carson was taken from Carson's apartment and forced to provide Carson's abductors with ATM access to Carson's bank account before Carson was shot to death in the early hours of March 5.",
"Applications filed for search warrants said a confidential informant told police that Demario James Atwater said Demario James Atwater and Lovette entered Carson's home through an open door and forced Carson to accompany he and Lovette in Carson's car.",
"a confidential informant said she had talked with Demario James Atwater after a picture was shown on television of someone attempting to use Carson's ATM card at a convenience store two days after Carson's body was found.",
"a confidential informant said the two men drove Carson to an ATM, obtained Carson PIN from Carson and then shot Carson.",
"The witness told police that Demario James Atwater said the two got about $1,400 from Carson's account.",
"Bank records show that was approximately the amount taken from Carson's account over a two-day period, the documents said.",
"Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall has said Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall also will seek the death penalty against Demario James Atwater, according to the Raleigh News and Observer.",
"Authorities cannot seek the death penalty against Lovette because he was 17 at the time of the slaying, the newspaper said.",
"Carson's death shocked the community and drew national attention.",
"An estimated 10,000 people turned out for a service in Carson's honor.",
"The Athens, Georgia, native was a pre-medicine student double-majoring in political science and biology.",
"Carson was a recipient of the university's prestigious Morehead Scholarship and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, according to UNC."
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"Carson was honor student, student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill ."
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"Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) --",
"Army investigators on Sunday asked troops and civilians for help in the probe of a deadly mass shooting at the Fort Hood last week, saying some who fled the gunfire might have evidence.",
"\"The Fort Hood office of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is seeking any military or civilian personnel who may have left the scene ... with gunshot damage such as damaged privately owned vehicles, personnel clothing, etc.,\" investigators said in a written statement.",
"\"CID is also seeking any military or civilian personnel who may have inadvertently left the scene of this incident with material that could be used as firearms residue related evidence such as shell casings inside the boot, etc.\"",
"a written statement said such objects would help Army investigators and the FBI \"in their bullet trajectory analysis of the scene, to insure the comprehensiveness of the ongoing investigation.\"",
"Thirteen people -- a dozen soldiers and a civilian -- died Thursday in the shooting at the Fort Hood.",
"Some 42 people were wounded, according to the Fort Hood's public information office.",
"It was unclear how many of those suffered gunshot wounds.",
"Among the wounded was Pvt. Joseph Foster, 21, who was preparing for his January deployment to Afghanistan when he was hit in the hip during the attack.",
"With his wife and 6-week-old daughter beside him, he told reporters gathered outside his home Sunday that it was difficult to accept such an attack on his own post.",
"\"Not here at home -- but as we've seen, anything is possible,\" Foster said.",
"\"We are at war.\"",
"As of Sunday, 16 gunshot victims remained hospitalized plus the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, spokesman Col. John Rossi told reporters.",
"spokesman Col. John Rossi did not say where all those hospitalized were being treated.",
"Of the 16, seven were in intensive care, spokesman Col. John Rossi said.",
"When Staff Sgt. Alvin Howard's wife heard Howard was hurt at the Fort Hood, her feelings were \"indescribable,\" she said Sunday.",
"Kaneesha Howard told reporters her husband was set to deploy to Afghanistan in January.",
"In 2003, Howard was deployed to Iraq, she said.",
"Daughters, Alanna, 9, and Kristen, 7, were shaken by the event.",
"Alanna said of Alanna's younger sister: \"She started crying when we went to the hospital because she [had] never seen her dad bandaged up like that.\"",
"Howard was shot in the shoulder and was recovering in the hospital, Howard's family said.",
"his family were unsure when Howard would be released.",
"spokesman Col. John Rossi said Hasan, a 39-year-old licensed Army psychiatrist who worked at a hospital on the Fort Hood, is no longer on a ventilator, but remained in critical but stable condition and in intensive care at Brooke Army Medical Center.",
"Authorities have not identified a motive in the attack at the Fort Hood's military processing center, where soldiers report before they head to war.",
"Efforts to assist those affected by the incident, including family members of soldiers at the Fort Hood, were ongoing, spokesman Col. John Rossi said.",
"the Fort Hood was awaiting the arrival of two specialists in child psychology and disaster management, spokesman Col. John Rossi said.",
"\"This is not just for those directly affected by this tragedy,\" spokesman Col. John Rossi said, noting that effects from trauma sometimes are not immediately apparent.",
"However, spokesman Col. John Rossi said, soldiers are trained to respond to violence by controlling and securing the scene.",
"\"soldiers's training kicks in, and that's what we saw,\" spokesman Col. John Rossi said.",
"\"The troubling part of it is it happened here in our own house.\"",
"Army Criminal Investigation Command spokesman Chris Grey said Saturday that all evidence indicates that the suspect acted alone and there was no indication of \"friendly fire.\"",
"The processing center has been moved to another location so The processing center's work can continue while investigators work at the crime scene, spokesman Col. John Rossi said Sunday.",
"spokesman Col. John Rossi told reporters spokesman Col. John Rossi did not know Hasan's schedule on the day of the shooting, but \"my understanding is that there was no purpose for my brother Nidal\" to be in The processing center.",
"The remains of those killed are currently at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, undergoing the same process as the remains of soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.",
"\"These heroes are being treated the same way,\" spokesman Col. John Rossi said.",
"spokesman Col. John Rossi said spokesman Col. John Rossi had visited with Fort Hood Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley -- the civilian officer who confronted and disabled Hasan in a shootout -- and with an injured soldier.",
"\"Truthfully, it was an honor just to be in their presence,\" spokesman Col. John Rossi said.",
"But, spokesman Col. John Rossi said, \"I cannot tell you how many times they reiterated to spokesman Col. John Rossi that this is not about them.\"",
"Munley has drawn national praise for Munley's actions.",
"Munley's husband has been brought in from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to be with Munley, spokesman Col. John Rossi said.",
"In a statement Saturday, Munley's family said Munley had undergone a second surgery and was in good condition.",
"The suspect's brother, Eyad Hasan, released a statement Saturday saying his family was in a \"state of shock and disbelief over this dreadful news.\"",
"He wrote, \"I've known my brother Nidal to be a peaceful, loving and compassionate person who has shown great interest in the medical field and in helping others.",
"my brother Nidal has never committed an act of violence and was always known to be a good, law-abiding citizen.\"",
"Eyad Hasan said his family has faith in the legal system.",
"An earlier statement from another family member said Hasan, a U.S.-born citizen of Palestinian descent, had been telling my brother Nidal's family that my brother Nidal wanted to get out of the military but had been unsuccessful in doing so.",
"spokesman Col. John Rossi said Saturday that Hasan had a late November deployment date to Afghanistan.",
"It was to have been my brother Nidal's first overseas deployment.",
"The shooting, on the nation's largest military base, sparked outrage.",
"In President Obama's Saturday radio address, President Obama said it was \"an act of violence that would have been heartbreaking had it occurred any place in America.\"",
"But, President Obama said, \"it's all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable because of the place where it occurred and the patriots who were its victims.\"",
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"International officials arrived in Iran on Sunday to inspect a newly disclosed nuclear facility near the city of Qom, state media reported.",
"Inspectors from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog -- the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- will visit the installation to make sure the installation is being used for peaceful purposes, said Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.",
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"\"It is important for IAEA to send out inspectors to do comprehensive verification ... to assure IAEA that it is ... fit for peaceful purposes,\" ElBaradei said earlier this month.",
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"Editor's note: Watch \"The Situation Room\" at 5 p.m. ET Tuesday for more from CNN's Brooke Baldwin about the dog rescue.",
"Authorities raided a residence in Laurens County, Georgia, and found dogs scarred and malnourished.",
"Laurens County, Georgia (CNN) --",
"It was 8 a.m. October 15.",
"Our CNN crew had been up for a while, waiting.",
"We still didn't have an address.",
"My producer, Susan Brown, and I had several questions: What would the living conditions of these dogs be like?",
"What about the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on?",
"the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on was unaware of the raid that was about to occur in the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on's backyard.",
"Despite all of our planning, unknown variables were at play.",
"First stop was the Sheriff's Office in Laurens County, which is in central Georgia.",
"Starting with information from a tip line, authorities had uncovered clues that led authorities to believe authorities needed to intervene and investigate.",
"The plan was this: The sheriff would drive to the property to execute the search warrant for particular objects generally associated with dogfighting, and for the dogs themselves.",
"Watch the raid that was about to occur in his backyard unfold » .",
"Expressing concerns about the conditions at this private residence where dogs were suspected of being bred for dogfighting, Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell said, \"If anything is going wrong, we want to get it stopped.\"",
"Private investigators with Norred and Associates Inc. will work alongside Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell and Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell's deputies, leading tactical teams.",
"tactical teams were made up of veteran investigators donating their time, effort and expertise, along with volunteers of the Dublin-Laurens County Humane Society, who would collect and care for the dogs.",
"All of the team members had experience with animals, particularly pit bulls.",
"Based on information from the tip line, All of the team members were starting the day prepared to find as many as 60 dogs chained up in the woods behind one man's house in East Dublin, Georgia.",
"All of the team members waited, braced for battle -- only the war All of the team members were waging was on animal cruelty.",
"\"I want to thank everybody for coming.",
"It's for a good thing.",
"It's for the dogs.\"",
"Chuck Simmons, a private investigator and former police chief, was mapping out the search area on a dry erase board.",
"Chuck Simmons, a private investigator and former police chief was warning Chuck Simmons, a private investigator and former police chief's crew about snakes, water from recent rains and nonsocialized dogs.",
"After loading up crates on several trucks, everyone headed out.",
"With the address of the raid location in hand, our crew joined a convoy of half a dozen cars down several rural roads to our final location.",
"We arrived at a one-story ranch house with several acres of grounds.",
"Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell beat us there.",
"Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell and Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell's deputies were already roping off this man's front yard with yellow crime tape.",
"Rollin Monta \"Monty\" Loyd, the property owner, appeared furious.",
"As the teams moved into the woods behind his home, our crew was stuck in front and across the street.",
"his crew could not go on the property to get the shots his crew wanted, because that would be trespassing.",
"his crew couldn't see the dogs, but his crew could hear the dogs.",
"The private investigators, who were part of the raid, videotaped the operation.",
"Half an hour into the raid, reports began to come in.",
"The good news: the dogs were still there; news of the raid hadn't leaked.",
"The bad news: There weren't 60 dogs, as anticipated; there were more.",
"The final count was 97.",
"Most of the dogs were pit bull terriers; many were puppies.",
"They were found cowering in cages or chained.",
"Some older dogs were scarred -- possible signs of fighting, investigators said.",
"Others were malnourished, simply skin and bone.",
"Their conditions were atrocious, according to Terry Wolf of the Dublin-Laurens County Humane Society.",
"\"the dogs's chains are too short to reach shelter, those who have shelter.",
"The water that the dogs have seems to be recent rainwater with algae in it, and I've seen no food bowls.",
"Most of the dogs are very timid,\" Terry Wolf of the Dublin-Laurens County Humane Society said.",
"\"the dogs seem to be human-friendly, but the dogs're attention starved, and the dogs're definitely not socialized.",
"You can tell the dogs've been living hidden in the woods, out of sight.\"",
"Irene Sumner, director of the Dublin-Laurens County Humane Society, talked through tears, overcome before the count had been completed.",
"She told us about a puppy found dead and tossed aside into a used plastic bag.",
"\"I wouldn't do that to anybody.",
"How can they -- what do you need 80-plus dogs for?",
"There's no reason for it.",
"It would be totally different if it was a kennel situation where they were housed, fed, vetted, all of the above.",
"We don't know all of the information on that yet, but you can visually see that that's not the case here,\" Sumner said.",
"The Sheriff's Office says no evidence of dogfighting or training was found on the property, but veterinarians will examine the dogs for any physical signs of fighting.",
"Test results will take several days.",
"As volunteers continued to count dogs and buzzards circled overhead, the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on waited out front with members of the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on's family.",
"the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on was angry.",
"CNN tried to speak to the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on, to give the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on a chance to tell the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on's side of the story.",
"the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on didn't want to talk.",
"Instead, the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on shouted to go see the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on's lawyer.",
"When reached, Loyd's attorney said: \"My client has not participated in dogfighting and is not charged with dogfighting.\"",
"the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on was arrested and charged with animal cruelty.",
"Neighbors and family members whom CNN spoke with came to the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on's defense, saying the man whose door the Sheriff's Office was about to knock on loved the dogs and the dogs were bred to be pets.",
"The founder and CEO of the private investigation firm heading up the raid isn't buying it.",
"Since the story broke about NFL player Michael Vick's dogfighting ring, the private investigation firm heading up this raid has been donating the private investigation firm heading up this raid's firm's time and expertise and the private investigation firm heading up this raid's own money to rescuing dogs.",
"\"I'm an animal lover.",
"I've always been an animal lover.",
"And in the wake of the Michael Vick case, I always thought there might be something I could do about animal cruelty, and with the type of business that I'm in and the resources that I have, it seems like dogfighting is the best vehicle that I can use to do something about animal cruelty.\"",
"In the past two years, the private investigation firm heading up this raid's team has volunteered for at least 16 raids.",
"Norred's team've helped put 20 people behind bars and saved 200 dogs.",
"Make that almost 300 after the raid.",
"Several hours into the raid, the first group of dogs was transported from the woods to an undisclosed location.",
"A CNN crew was allowed to go but could shoot only from inside this building.",
"Investigators feared that if there were any identifiable marks outside the property, someone might recognize it and steal the dogs.",
"Authorities couldn't take that chance.",
"But Authorities did allow video of some of the dogs from inside the cages.",
"They had taken many puppies, which looked helpless.",
"Volunteers feared one puppy wouldn't make it through the night.",
"The next step for the dogs is to determine which ones are healthy enough to possibly be adopted.",
"Some, sadly, won't share that fate.",
"They'll have to be put down."
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"Their promise is always the same -- to reduce your credit card debt to just pennies on the dollar without making you file for bankruptcy!",
"Clark Howard says debt-settlement firms promise to help consumers lower their debts.",
"Are debt-settlement firms for real?",
"It turns out that promise is just an illusion.",
"Most debt-settlement outfits require you to pay an upfront fee, plus a monthly retainer.",
"Most debt-settlement outfits's strategy is to get you to stop paying on your bills.",
"Most debt-settlement outfits typically have you take the money you would have paid toward monthly minimums and stash it in savings.",
"The basic idea is to make the credit card companies so desperate that the credit card companies'll settle with you.",
"This may end up being the end result, in some cases.",
"However, along the way your credit suffers greatly.",
"In fact, complaints about debt-settlement firms have increased dramatically in North Carolina, Florida and Oregon, according to The New York Times.",
"Watch how Clark helped a caller pay off a massive debt » .",
"Many people wonder why these companies even exist.",
"That goes back to 2005, when the bankruptcy laws changed in our nation.",
"At that time, the giant banks that control the credit card portfolios stopped being cooperative with affiliates of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC), which helps consumers manage and eliminate consumers's debt.",
"the giant banks that control the credit card portfolios were cynically trying to force people into a position where they had no choice other than to pay up.",
"That environment created an opportunity for the debt-settlement firms to pop up with the debt-settlement firms's false promises that the debt-settlement firms alone knew how to defeat the giant banks that control the credit card portfolios.",
"The irony here is that the giant banks that control the credit card portfolios have now agreed to work with the NFCC again.",
"There's an initiative known as \"Call to Action\" that is essentially a 60-month payment plan.",
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"Under the Call to Action initiative, the 10 largest credit issuers have agreed to modify the terms and conditions of the 10 largest credit issuers's repayment policies.",
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"In industry terms, this kind of arrangement is known as a hardship debt-management plan.",
"The goal here is to increase the chance that you'll pay off your debt instead of bankrupting out of your debt.",
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"Senk's the other hero.",
"After pulling child to safety, Senk went back into burning building in case another was inside.",
"Senk is a Bronx, NEW YORK, firefighter who went inside a burning apartment with black smoke billowing out of the windows on Wednesday, pulled out a 4-year-old boy and handed a 4-year-old boy to a bystander.",
"\"I'm just glad a 4-year-old boy's alive, you know?\" Senk told CNN.",
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"\"What am I gonna do now?\" Senk recalled.",
"\"I masked up and went in.\"",
"Senk says there was intense heat.",
"the black smoke was so thick that Senk couldn't see a thing.",
"Senk felt around for a 4-year-old boy with Senk's hands.",
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"Senk says Senk knew a 4-year-old boy wasn't in good shape.",
"\"a 4-year-old boy was unconscious.",
"The body was limp.",
"a 4-year-old boy was foaming at the mouth.\"",
"\"I didn't think a 4-year-old boy was going to make it,\" Senk added.",
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"Senk says Senk yelled to Senk's team to get some oxygen.",
"Then, thanks to the helping hand from Cretan, Senk went right back in.",
"Senk said Senk had to.",
"Senk remembered seeing that bunk bed.",
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"Cretan pushed on Cretan's chest and Cretan says a 4-year-old boy opened a 4-year-old boy's eyes.",
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"And he [another firefighter] goes, 'a 4-year-old boy lived.'",
"He was talking before he left,' \" said Senk.",
"\"It was just incredible.",
"I couldn't believe it because a 4-year-old boy was completely unconscious.\"",
"Cretan has been congratulated on several TV shows for Cretan's efforts, but Cretan acknowledged the role firefighters played.",
"\"Trust me.",
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"Iraqis are just ahead of people fleeing wars in Afghanistan and Somalia, said a report published by The U.N. refugee agency Wednesday.",
"Iraqi refugees leave the plane after arriving at the airport in Hanover, northern Germany, on March 19, 2009.",
"The U.N. refugee agency said 13,200 Iraqis applied for asylum.",
"An additional 12,000 claims were from Afghans and 11,000 from Somalis.",
"In all, the United Nations said 185,000 people filed for asylum in the first six months of 2009, a 10 percent increase over last year.",
"185,000 people were fleeing homelands that also included China, Serbia (including Kosovo), Russia, Nigeria, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.",
"The United States received the most asylum applications -- 23,700, or 13 percent -- while 38 European nations received 75 percent of the applications.",
"\"These statistics show that ongoing violence and instability in some parts of the world force increasing numbers of people to flee and seek protection in safe countries,\" said Antonio Guterres, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.",
"\"There is an acute need for countries to keep countries's asylum doors wide open to those who are in genuine need of international protection,\" he said."
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"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.",
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"Theron in \"The Burning Plain,\" which Theron both stars in and executive produces.",
"Indeed, the 33 year-old's career could be seen as a template for what women can achieve in Hollywood.",
"As an actress, Theron is famous for roles in films as diverse as serial killer biopic \"Monster\" and Will Smith superhero movie \"Hancock,\" switching with apparent ease between small independent movies and big-budget blockbusters.",
"Theron also represents a small minority of women who work behind the camera in Hollywood.",
"During the 15 years Theron has worked in Hollywood Theron has also produced four films.",
"The latest is Guillermo Arriaga's \"The Burning Plain,\" which Theron both stars in and executive produces.",
"At a time when women are picking up increasingly varied roles in front of the camera, statistics show women are failing to make the same headway behind the scenes.",
"Last year, women made up just 16 percent of all directors, producers, writers and cinematographers who worked on the 250 top grossing films in the U.S. But, says Theron, there is no point in complaining about the tough time women have getting work behind the scenes in the movies.",
"Do you think breaking through through the glass ceiling is still an issue for women in Hollywood??",
"\"I try not to kind of bitch and complain about what [women] don't have,\" Theron told CNN.",
"\"It's a tricky thing because, I think, if you want to find that lynchpin, you can, in anything.",
"\"I look at the work that I've done and I feel incredibly proud that I've had the chance and the opportunity to work on the material that I have.\"",
"Originally born in South Africa, Theron is best-known for Theron's harrowing depiction of prostitute turned serial killer Aileen Wuornos in \"Monster.\"",
"\"Monster\" was also the first film Theron produced, taking a huge risk on a low-budget project with a script penned by a first-time director -- and with no previous experience of producing Theron.",
"Theron saw the film as an opportunity to move away from the lighter roles that are often thrown in the direction of a starlet with looks to spare.",
"\"It's what I've been dying to do with my career,\" Theron told UK paper The Observer at the time.",
"\"The work I've been doing the last couple of years is not really what I wanted.",
"If you're not careful, you get typecast.",
"I was getting stuck.\"",
"Theron was awarded a Best Actress Oscar for Theron's role in 2004 and \"Monster,\" which was made for just $8 million went on to gross over $60 million worldwide.",
"It is unsurprising, then, that Theron's attitude towards women in Hollywood is one of stand-up-and-be-counted.",
"Although, Theron says that Theron will only produce films Theron feels Theron can bring something to.",
"\"The things that I've produced have been because I really feel like I can lend some kind of knowledge to making a certain film.",
"\"When I meet a certain director and there's a certain amount of chemistry and we see the same film, and we just kind of feel like we want to set out and make a film together, it just kind of happens.\"",
"Like \"Monster\" -- and Theron's other producing credits, Cuban rap documentary \"East of Havana,\" and indie drama \"Sleepwalking\" -- Theron's latest film \"The Burning Plain\" is also by a first-time director.",
"The difference this time is that Arriaga is already a well-established, Oscar-nominated Hollywood screenwriter.",
"Arriaga first came to prominence through Arriaga's close relationship with fellow Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu.",
"Arriaga wrote the screenplays for \"Amores Perros,\" Oscar-nominated \"Babel\" and \"21 Grams,\" all of which were directed by Iñárritu.",
"Arriaga, famed for Arriaga's nonlinear narrative style, also wrote the screenplay for \"The Burning Plain,\" a project of such personal resonance for the writer that it was a natural progression for Arriaga to also direct the film.",
"Despite Theron's success in bringing Arriaga's vision to the big screen, Theron says Theron is not ready to move into producing bigger films yet.",
"\"There's no way that I, right now, could produce a massive blockbuster,\" Theron told CNN.",
"\"I just don't feel prepared for that.",
"\"I wouldn't produce something where I didn't feel like I had the skill.\"",
"However, Theron feels positive about not only her own position in Hollywood, but also that of Theron's female peers in the industry, such as fellow Oscar winner Kate Winslet.",
"\"I thought Kate Winslet did an amazing job.",
"I do think that it's in our hands to make sure we keep working with the right people who want to go and explore those themes and want to push the envelope and want to tell great female stories.\""
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"In Theron's 15 years working in Hollywood, Theron has produced four films .",
"Theron produced \"Monster,\" for which Theron was awarded a Best Actress Oscar .",
"Theron on being a woman working in Hollywood: \"I try not to bitch and complain\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Pakistan cricket is embroiled in a new controversy after Pakistan's cricket team were accused of deliberately losing two games at Champions Trophy by a government official.",
"Younis Khan's future as Pakistan captain is in doubt following accusations of match-fixing.",
"The chairman of the National Assembly's standing committee on sports claimed in a television interview that Pakistan lost to Australia to knock traditional rivals India out of the limited-overs tournament in South Africa.",
"Australia won by two wickets by running a bye on the final ball of the closing Group A tie on September 30, which ensured they reached the semifinals and ended India's hopes.",
"Younis Khan's then dropped a simple catch as Younis Khan's's side lost to New Zealand by five wickets in Saturday's semifinal.",
"\"Pakistan's cricket team went with a pre-determined mind to lose the match against Australia,\" Jamshed Ahmed Dasti told Pakistan TV channel Geo TV on Tuesday.",
"\"Pakistan's cricket team's intention was to keep India out.",
"It was a deliberate decision to lose the match against India.\"",
"Jamshed Ahmed Dasti said that Pakistan's cricket team also intentionally lost the match to New Zealand, who were beaten in Monday's final by defending Australia.",
"\"That's why the NA Standing Committee on Sports has called in captain Younis Khan, coach Intikhab Alam and [Pakistan Cricket Board] chairman Ijaz Butt for investigations,\" he said.",
"One report in Pakistan claimed that Younis and Intikhab had already been sacked by the PCB, but others said that Pakistan cricket's ruling body was happy with Pakistan's cricket team's performance.",
"\"Pakistan's cricket team played well and tried hard.",
"It is unfortunate Pakistan's cricket team couldn't qualify for the final, which every player wanted to do, but Pakistan's cricket team had one bad day against New Zealand,\" PCB spokesman Nadeem Sarwar told the Express Cricket Web site.",
"\"As far as we are concerned, Pakistan's cricket team did well in Champions Trophy and Pakistan's cricket team's performance was satisfactory.\"",
"Former captain Rashid Latif criticized Dasti for making serious allegations without backing them up with proof.",
"\"I was one of those who first raised the issue of match fixing in international cricket, so I know what I am talking about.",
"I can say Pakistan's cricket team did Pakistan's cricket team's best and played hard in the tournament -- a few mistakes cost Pakistan's cricket team a place in the final,\" Former captain Rashid Latif told Express Cricket.",
"\"I think parliamentarians should first look at the corruption in the government before talking about cricket.",
"It is unfortunate that when Pakistan's cricket team needs backing, a parliamentarian should make such allegations.\"",
"The accusations are another blow for Pakistan's cricketing fortunes.",
"The sub-continent nation lost the rights to host Champions Trophy due to security issues -- it was postponed last year and switched to South Africa -- and was then ruled out of staging the 2011 World Cup.",
"Earlier this year, veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar missed the Twenty20 World Cup after needing treatment for genital warts.",
"Akhtar, once Pakistan's most feared weapon, has constantly clashed with the PCB, which banned veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for hitting a teammate with a bat in 2007 and threatened veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar with court action following a public feud which ended with a five-year suspension that veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar successfully appealed.",
"The PCB also punished veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug nandrolone in 2006, while fellow fast bowler Mohammad Asif was arrested in Dubai for possession of illegal drugs last year."
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"Government official alleges Pakistan lost to Australia to knock out rivals India .",
"Pakistan progressed to Champions Trophy semifinals after last-ball defeat .",
"Jamshed Ahmed Dasti also claims Pakistan lost semi to NZ on purpose ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The same day a cease-fire agreement was to go into effect, a Yemeni government official accused rebels of trying to assassinate a Yemeni government official.",
"a Yemeni government official told Almotamar, the newspaper of the ruling party, Friday that \"a Yemeni government official's car came under intensive fire shots in an attempt to assassinate him.\"",
"a Yemeni government official added that a Yemeni government official was in the northwestern city of Saada to inspect security forces and accused Houthi rebels of carrying out the attack, according to the state-run Saba News Agency.",
"Also in Saada Friday, troops and rebels exchanged fire, killing one and injuring others, the state-run Saba News Agency reported.",
"The rebels did not immediately respond to the reports, which followed the announcement of an end to a six-year battle between the government and Shiite Muslim Houthi rebels.",
"Despite the reports, which followed the announcement of an end to a six-year battle between the government and Shiite Muslim Houthi rebels, the truce deal was still intact, said a Yemeni government official who is not authorized to speak to the media.",
"A \"few skirmishes\" occurred, including an attack on a security official's motorcade, a Yemeni government official who is not authorized to speak to the media said.",
"a Yemeni government official who is not authorized to speak to the media would not say whether that official was al-Qawsi.",
"Such violence is common in the early stages of peace deals, a Yemeni government official who is not authorized to speak to the media said.",
"\"There are many reasons why this happened, and they were expected,\" the source said.",
"\"One, some of the militia fighters have not been informed yet that the truce was executed.",
"Two, there were revenge killings -- some of the Houthi tribesmen carried out attacks against government forces.",
"These could be considered tribal revenge killings.\"",
"The government agreed to end all military operations against the Houthis beginning midnight Friday, an apparent end to violence that even tumbled into Saudi Arabia.",
"Houthi rebel leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi earlier signed off on the cease-fire and took to his Web site to order his followers to respect the agreement.",
"The cease-fire conditions include clearing mines, not interfering with elected local officials, releasing civilians and military personnel, abiding by Yemeni law, returning looted items, and ending attacks within the country's northern neighbor, Saudi Arabia.",
"The Yemeni government official said rebels were expected to free seven captured Saudi soldiers Saturday.",
"The revolt by the Houthis in northern Yemen began in 2004.",
"The conflict is believed to be both separatist -- over who will have power in the area -- and sectarian -- whether Shiite Islam will dominate, even though the majority of Yemenis are Sunni.",
"The rebels are supporters of slain Shiite cleric Hussein al-Houthi.",
"CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Truce deal still intact, a Yemeni government official says .",
"NEW: Official cites revenge, truce info not yet reaching militia fighters as reasons .",
"a Yemeni government official tells newspaper that Houthi rebels fired on a Yemeni government official's car .",
"Troops and rebels exchange fire, killing one, state-run media reported ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) --",
"The father of a baby born with his son's heart protruding from his son's chest has told CNN about the 1100 km train journey Father made to save Father's son's life.",
"his son was born with his son's heart outside his chest's chest and faces complex surgery.",
"Chander Majhi, 24, became a father last week but Father had to leave Father's wife behind in hospital and make a train journey from a remote region along India's border with Nepal to the capital New Delhi.",
"Father's son was born with his son's heart protruding from his chest's chest, an extremely rare condition called ectopia cordis, which only affects five to eight cases in one million live births.",
"The parents did not know about the defect until his son was born on August 25 at a government facility in Majhi's home state of Bihar in eastern India.",
"\"We didn't go for any (pre-natal) tests,\" Majhi told CNN.",
"Doctors at a government facility in Majhi's home state of Bihar in eastern India referred Father and his son to New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).",
"Professor of cardiothoracic surgery at AIIMS, A.K. Bisoi, told CNN his son was admitted to the hospital with dehydration and a severe infection which his son probably suffered because of the arduous train journey.",
"Doctors were surprised that his son had been able to survive despite so many complexities, he said.",
"Doctors at the state-run AIIMS are now planning a complex surgery on Thursday for his son, referred in Doctors at the state-run AIIMS's records as \"baby of Vibha,\" his son's mother.",
"his chest's heart has been covered with a synthetic membrane and infected blood fully replaced from his son's body, said A.K. Bisoi, professor of cardiothoracic surgery at AIIMS.",
"Surgeons may now plan a total circulatory arrest procedure that will also involve creating a home for the heart in the chest, said Bisoi.",
"The baby, who suffers from immunodeficiency, will be put in a state where his blood will be cooled down to 18 degrees (64 Fahrenheit) for a half-an-hour stage of the operation, Bisoi explained.",
"\"We could carry it out in one go, if his son is able to tolerate.",
"If not, we will do it in stages,\" Bisoi said.",
"\"We are working with hope,\" Bisoi remarked when asked about chances of success.",
"And it was the same hope that drove Majhi to Delhi.",
"\"That is why I am here.",
"There's hope.",
"My child is a fighter,\" he said.",
"In 2006, doctors in the U.S. state of Florida carried out a similar operation on Naseem Hasni who was born with Naseem Hasni's heart outside Naseem Hasni's chest.",
"The operation was carried out immediately after Naseem was born by caesarean section at a the U.S. state of Florida hospital.",
"Doctors wrapped Naseem Hasni's heart in Gore-Tex, a waterproof, breathable fabric used in outdoor clothing and medical applications.",
"Naseem Hasni's heart was then wrapped in a layer of Naseem Hasni's own skin, to substitute for Naseem Hasni's missing pericardium, the sac that encloses the heart.",
"his heart was then slowly eased inside."
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"Newborn baby with heart protruding from his son's chest faces complex surgery Thursday .",
"his son has severe infection and hole in his son's heart .",
"Doctors in New Delhi say only five to eight cases of this kind in one million live births ."
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"Paris, France (CNN)",
"-- Syrian President Bashar Assad says peace talks with Israel could resume if Israel showed willingness to fully engage in the process.",
"\"the process cannot only be relaunched by one party.",
"Syria wants peace and we have a mediator, Turkey, which is ready to use its mediation role as well as the European partnership.",
"What we are missing is the Israeli partnership, and we need the Israeli partnership in order to renew peace talks and obtain results,\" Syrian President Bashar Assad told reporters.",
"Syrian President Bashar Assad traveled to France, sat down with President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday for a one-hour lunch, and held a press briefing, where Syrian President Bashar Assad blamed Israel for the stalled talks with Syria.",
"Turkey recently had mediated indirect talks between Israel and Syria, neighboring countries that have been adversaries for years.",
"Among their many differences are Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and Syria's ties with Iran and anti-Israel militants.",
"His visit to Paris comes days after the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.",
"Questioned on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that Israel was ready to relaunch peace talks Syria without pre-conditions, Syrian President Bashar Assad emphasized that if Israel is serious about talks, Syria is ready to send experts to Turkey and begin discussions with Israeli experts.",
"Asked if Syrian President Bashar Assad was ready to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in person at some point without conditions, Syrian President Bashar Assad didn't say Syrian President Bashar Assad would or wouldn't, but said it would depend on the subject of the discussion.",
"\"Are we talking about the menu or about land restitution?",
"We must talk about territory restitution.",
"For this matter, mechanisms and a framework exist.",
"The negotiators know the mechanisms.",
"It is neither me nor Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,\" he said.",
"Asked about the role of France in the peace process, Syrian President Bashar Assad said Syrian President Bashar Assad hopes France backs the relaunch of the peace negotiations through Turkey and persuades Israel to accept this mediation process.",
"As for the peace process in the wider Middle East, Syrian President Bashar Assad said it will only work if Israel stops tearing down the other side's rights and demands.",
"Syrian President Bashar Assad said Syrian President Bashar Assad and Sarkozy discussed living conditions in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory of Gaza -- reeling from the ongoing conflict with Israel, including the fierce Israeli offensive against militants that began late last year after constant rocket attacks on Israel by Gaza guerrillas.",
"Saying a civilian was shot on Friday by Israeli troops, Syrian President Bashar Assad said Syrian President Bashar Assad asked Sarkozy to stop violence against civilians in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory of Gaza.",
"Israel Defense Forces and the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory of Gaza security sources both confirmed an incident, but the sides had different accounts.",
"The IDF said soldiers identified a number of suspected terror operatives who appeared to be planting explosive devices adjacent to the northern the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory of Gaza security fence near \"the Karni humanitarian crossing.\"",
"soldiers opened fire and identified hitting two of the suspects -- one of which was transferred to an Israeli hospital; the other operative died of the other operative's wounds.",
"Three other suspects were taken for questioning.",
"The Palestinian security sources said a special force opened fire on a number of youths near the border fence with Israel in central Gaza.",
"One of the youths was killed and four others were taken by the Israeli soldiers.",
"Syrian President Bashar Assad said Syrian President Bashar Assad and Sarkozy also discussed Iran's nuclear program and Lebanon.",
"Journalist Claire Boube contributed to this report."
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"Syrian President Bashar Assad: We need Israel partnership in order to renew peace talks and obtain results .",
"Syrian President Bashar Assad traveled to France for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy, where Syrian President Bashar Assad blamed Israel for the stalled talks with Syria .",
"Syrian President Bashar Assad said Syrian President Bashar Assad and Sarkozy also discussed Iran's nuclear program and Lebanon ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) --",
"Israeli government ministers Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a temporary freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank in an effort to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.",
"Security Cabinet voted 11-2 in favor of the measure which calls for a 10-month freeze on new building permits and the construction of new residential buildings in the West Bank.",
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it \"a very big step toward peace\" and said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoped the Palestinians would \"take full advantage\" of the opportunity to restart talks during the 10-month window.",
"\"I hope the Palestinians and the Arab world will work with us to forge a new beginning... for our children and for theirs,\" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.",
"In Washington, the top U.S. envoy for the region, George Mitchell, said he hoped to use the time to begin negotiations on permanent status issues, which include security for Israelis and Palestinians, borders, refugees and the status of Jerusalem.",
"\"My personal and fervent wish is that we will, during this process at some point, have a resolution of borders so there will no longer be any question about settlement construction,\" Mitchell told reporters.",
"\"the West Bank falls short of a full settlement freeze, but the West Bank is more than any Israeli government has done before, and can help move toward agreement between the parties,\" Mitchell told a briefing at the State Department.",
"Mitchell said Mitchell plans to return soon to the region.",
"Mitchell shrugged off a suggestion Mitchell might be discouraged after more than 10 months of failing to relaunch peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.",
"\"You can't take as final the first 'no,' the second 'no' or even the hundredth 'no,' \" said Mitchell, who helped negotiate a peace agreement in Northern Ireland and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.",
"\"You can't get discouraged by setbacks and you can't be deterred by criticism.",
"You have to be patient, persevering and determined.\"",
"Mitchell also released a statement from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which said the announcement helps move the issue forward.",
"\"We believe that through good-faith negotiations the parties can mutually agree on an outcome which ends the conflict and reconciles the Palestinian goal of an independent and viable state based on the 1967 lines, with agreed swaps, and the Israeli goal of a Jewish state with secure and recognized borders that reflect subsequent developments and meet Israeli security requirements,\" the Clinton statement said.",
"\"Let me say to all the people of the region and world: our commitment to achieving a solution with two states living side by side in peace and security is unwavering,\" the Clinton statement added.",
"Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a representative of the Middle East Diplomatic Quartet made up of the European Union, the United States, the Russian Federation and the United Nations, called the announcement \"an important step towards creating the possibility for serious and credible negotiations for a two-state solution.",
"\"The key, as I have said consistently, is to combine a credible political negotiation with real change on the ground, in institution-building, security performance and economic development,\" Blair said.",
"But Danny Danon, a member of the Knesset from Netanyahu's Likud Party and chairman of the Settlers Council, opposed the announcement.",
"\"If the prime minister will implement the ideology of the left, the prime minister will not get the support of the prime minister's own party,\" he said.",
"\"All the things the prime minister wrote in the prime minister's books, said in the prime minister's speeches, the prime minister so eloquently preached for, the prime minister does exactly the opposite,\" said Danon, calling the move a \"disappointment.\"",
"Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the proposed temporary freeze would be inadequate:",
"\"The exclusion of Jerusalem is a very serious problem for us,\" Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told reporters on Wednesday.",
"Palestinian officials, including Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, have called on Israel to freeze construction in Jerusalem as well.",
"the Palestinians want Jerusalem to be the capital of a Palestinian state.",
"In recent weeks, the prime minister and other members of the prime minister's cabinet have made clear that a construction freeze would not be implemented in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem.",
"Israel views Jerusalem as a separate issue to be hammered out in final status talks with the Palestinians.",
"The measure would not affect buildings already under construction for the existing Jewish residents in the West Bank, the prime minister said.",
"Construction of public building would also continue, government officials have said.",
"Israel is under tremendous pressure -- particularly from Israel's ally, the United States -- to halt settlement construction in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank.",
"Continued construction has been a key stumbling block in restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.",
"The Israeli Security Cabinet is a subset of the larger Israeli Cabinet.",
"The Israeli Security Cabinet has historically been used by prime ministers to approve quick action on defense and diplomatic matters.",
"CNN's Michael Zippori and Kevin Flower contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Did you know that there exists an all-natural remedy for memory loss?",
"Weight gain?",
"Macular degeneration?",
"Prostate enlargement?",
"These products are so successful that clinical testing has already begun!",
"Just listen to the following testimonial from an unidentified person ...",
"As these ads blare at you from your favorite AM radio station, perhaps you wonder: How can this be legal?",
"Since the late 1960s, aspirin makers have been trying to win the right to tell the public that a daily low-dose tablet can help prevent heart disease.",
"aspirin makers have been told no, and no, and no again.",
"Federal regulators are so nervous about over-selling aspirin's benefits that Federal regulators have restricted statements about aspirin to the most bland and basic.",
"Yet while the statements about aspirin have to be cushioned in the vaguest generalities, snake oil flim-flam can be huckstered in the most truth-defying way, thanks to a 1994 law coaxed through Congress by the people who make these drugs.",
"a 1994 law bears the long title of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.",
"a 1994 law was sponsored in House of Representatives by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Indiana, and in the Senate by Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Dick Durbin, D-Illinois.",
"a 1994 law draws a line between synthesized medicines like aspirin and remedies made from herbs, minerals, vitamins and amino acids.",
"This latter group was recategorized as \"dietary supplements\" -- that is, as foods rather than drugs.",
"\"Drugs\" are subjected to exacting scientific trial to prove them both safe and also effective.",
"Sellers of dietary supplements are not required to prove that Sellers of dietary supplements's remedies work.",
"Sellers of dietary supplements are not even required to prove them safe -- as \"foods\" they are presumed safe unless shown otherwise.",
"\"Drugs\" must disclose any risk of side effect.",
"(That's why those erectile dysfunction ads terrify TV audiences with those erectile dysfunction ads's references to four-hour erections.)",
"Dietary supplements bear no such burden -- which is why St. John's wort can be sold as an anti-depressant, without any mention of the disturbing indications that the herb weakens the effectiveness of birth control pills.",
"\"Drug\" advertising must be pre-",
"approved by the Food and Drug Administration, which minutely reviews the ads' accuracy.",
"Dietary supplement advertising is regulated by the Federal Trade Commission.",
"So long as supplements avoid promises to cure a specific disease, their sellers can say pretty much whatever they want, provided only that they have some kind of supporting evidence on file.",
"evidence on file does not have to meet any kind of scientific test: pretty much any pattern of ink on paper will do the job.",
"I cannot say, \"My rosemary-sage-thyme-and-oregano tablets cure AIDS.\"",
"But if I pay my cousin $100 to do a few experiments, I can claim, \"My tablets boost the immune system -- and clinical trials are under way!\"",
"(There is an exception to the permissive rules about advertising natural products: wine.",
"There is substantial evidence that a glass of red wine a day reduces the risk of heart attack.",
"The laws of most states forbid any hint or suggestion that moderate alcohol use might confer health benefits.",
"Still, if you ask the scientists, wine has better grounds to call wine a health food than does, say, echinacea!)",
"Fifteen years after receiving the favor of Congress, dietary supplements have grown into a $24 billion a year industry.",
"Most of the products sold by a $24 billion a year industry are merely useless.",
"For those who eat a balanced diet, scientists have found no quantifiable benefit from taking multivitamins.",
"On the other hand, multivitamins probably won't do any harm.",
"It would be better to give the $10 you spend on a jar of pills to the Salvation Army, but at least you are not poisoning yourself.",
"The same could not be said, alas, for the unfortunate customers of a Belgian herbal dispensary who bought a supplement that contained the herb Aristolochia fangi.",
"The A. fangi herb is rich in aristolochic acid, a carcinogen -- and users experienced an outbreak of urinary tract cancers.",
"Aristolochia fangi has since been banned in the European Union.",
"Aristolochia fangi remains legal in the United States.",
"As outrages go, Congress's special favor to a $24 billion a year industry might seem relatively small stuff: a splash in the torrent of the $2 trillion per year that Americans spend on health and wellness.",
"And yet in the midst of a great national debate over health care, this small outrage has some serious implications.",
"Advocates for a $24 billion a year industry justify Advocates for the herbal supplement industry's special sweet deal by championing the right of consumers to make consumers's own \"health choices.\"",
"Individual choice certainly sounds like the American way.",
"But the fact is that most of us are not well positioned to make intelligent health choices.",
"If we try to play our own doctor, we are going to expose our health -- and our money -- to risk and exploitation.",
"As individuals, we have trouble distinguishing between anecdotes: \"My neighbor took zinc for My neighbor's cold and My neighbor said it really helped,\" and data: Most colds last four days, so you could smoke yak-dung cigarettes on day three and feel better on day four.",
"We are poor balancers of risk: Look at the rising number of Americans who resist taking vaccines because of astronomically remote chances that something might go wrong.",
"We are vulnerable to placebos: \"Hey -- I took the 30-day free sample and I feel sure my vision did improve!\"",
"We are swayed by prejudice and ideology: The film-maker Spike Lee wrote in Rolling Stone in 1992: \"I'm convinced AIDS is a government-engineered disease.\"",
"The reason we should defer to experts is not that the experts know everything.",
"Of course they don't.",
"It's just that they know more than non-experts do.",
"It's not that science has all the answers.",
"It doesn't.",
"It's just that astrologers, shamans, and natural healers have none of natural healers.",
"Americans spend over 50 percent more per person on Americans's health than anyone else on earth.",
"For all that extra money, Americans see very little benefit.",
"Americans rank 42nd on earth in life expectancy, 29th in infant mortality.",
"Improving and rationalizing this costly and dysfunctional system is a gigantic, maybe impossible, task.",
"But one small reform could strike a meaningful blow for reason and cost-effectiveness: Apply the rules governing the advertising of aspirin to the advertising of oregano tablets.",
"Repeal the DSHEA law and give the Food and Drug Administration full authority over every manufactured substance that purports to promote health or relieve illness.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
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"(CNN) --",
"Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia delivered the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday night.",
"Here is a transcript of the speech.",
"Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia:",
"Thank you very much.",
"Thank you.",
"Good evening.",
"I'm Bob McDonnell.",
"Eleven days ago, I was honored to be sworn in as the 71st governor of Virginia.",
"I'm standing in the historic House Chamber of Virginia's Capitol, a building designed by Virginia's second governor, Thomas Jefferson.",
"It's not easy to follow the president of the United States.",
"And my 18-year-old twin boys have added pressure to me tonight by giving me exactly 10 minutes to finish before my 18-year-old twin boys leave to go watch \"SportsCenter.\"",
"(LAUGHTER)",
"I'm joined by fellow Virginians to share a Republican perspective on how to best address the challenges facing our nation today.",
"We were encouraged to hear President Obama speak this evening about the need to create jobs.",
"All Americans should have the opportunity to find and keep meaningful work, and the dignity that comes with it.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"Many -- many of us here tonight -- and many of you watching -- have family or friends who have lost their jobs.",
"In fact, 1 in 10 Americans is unemployed.",
"That is unacceptable.",
"Here in Virginia, we've faced our highest unemployment rate in more than 25 years, and bringing new jobs and more opportunities to our citizens is the top priority of my administration.",
"Good government policy should spur economic growth and strengthen the private sector's ability to create new jobs.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"We must enact policies that promote entrepreneurship and innovation so America can better compete with the world.",
"What government should not do is pile on more taxation, regulation and litigation that kill jobs and hurt the middle class.",
"It was Thomas Jefferson who called for \"a wise and frugal government which shall leave men free to regulate men's own pursuits of industry and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread the mouth of labor has earned.\"",
"He was right.",
"Today, government is simply trying to do too much.",
"Last year, we were told that massive new federal spending would create more jobs immediately and hold unemployment below 8 percent.",
"In the past year, more than 3 million people have lost more than 3 million people's jobs, and yet the Democratic Congress continues deficit spending, adding to the bureaucracy, and increasing the national debt on our children and our grandchildren.",
"The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10.",
"debt is now over $100,000 per household.",
"This is simply unsustainable.",
"The president's partial freeze announced tonight on discretionary spending is a laudable step, but a small one.",
"The circumstances of our time demand that we reconsider and restore the proper limited role of government at every level.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"Without reform, the excessive growth of government threatens our very liberty and our prosperity.",
"In recent months, the American people have made clear that the American people want government leaders to listen and then act on the issues most important to them.",
"the American people want results, not rhetoric.",
"the American people want cooperation, not partisanship.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"There is much common ground.",
"All Americans agree that we need health -- health care system that is affordable, accessible, and high quality.",
"But most Americans do not want to turn over the best medical care system in the world to the federal government.",
"Republicans in Congress have offered legislation to reform health care, without shifting Medicaid costs to the states, without cutting Medicare, and without raising your taxes.",
"And we will do that by implementing common sense reforms, like letting families and businesses buy health insurance policies across state lines and ending frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals that drive up the cost of your health care.",
"And our solutions aren't 1,000-page bills that no one has fully read, after being crafted behind closed doors with special interests.",
"In fact, many of our proposals are available online at solutions.gop.gov, and we welcome your ideas on Facebook and Twitter.",
"(LAUGHTER)",
"All Americans agree that this nation must become more energy independent and secure.",
"We are blessed here in this nation with vast natural resources, and we must use them all.",
"Advances in technology can unleash more natural gas, nuclear, wind, coal, alternative energy that will lower your utility bills.",
"Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas off-shore.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"But this administration's policies are delaying off-shore production, hindering nuclear energy expansion, and seeking to impose job-killing cap-and-trade energy taxes.",
"Now is the time to adopt innovative energy policies that create jobs and lower energy prices.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"All Americans agree that a young person needs a world-class education to compete in the global economy.",
"As a young kid, my dad told me, \"Son, if you want a good job, you need a good education.\"",
"my dad was right, and that's even more true today.",
"The president and I agree on expanding the number of high-quality charter schools and rewarding teachers for excellent performance.",
"More school choices for parents and students mean more accountability and greater achievement.",
"A child's educational opportunity should be determined by A child's intellect and work ethic, not by A child's ZIP Code.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"All Americans agree that we must maintain a strong national defense.",
"The courage and success of this nation's armed forces is allowing this nation to draw down troop levels in Iraq as Iraq is increasingly able to step up.",
"My oldest daughter, Jeanine, was an Army platoon leader in Iraq, so I am personally grateful for the service and sacrifice of all our men and women in uniform, and a grateful nation thanks them.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"We applaud President Obama's decision to deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.",
"We agree that victory there is imperative for national security.",
"But we have serious concerns over the recent steps the administration has taken regarding suspected terrorists.",
"Americans were shocked on Christmas Day to learn of the attempted bombing of a flight to Detroit.",
"This foreign terror suspect was given the same legal rights as a U.S. citizen and immediately stopped providing critical intelligence.",
"As Sen.-elect Scott Brown has said, we should be spending taxpayer dollars to defeat terrorists, not to protect terrorists.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"Here at home, government must help foster a society in which all our people can use all our people's God-given talents and liberty to pursue the great American dream.",
"Republicans know that government cannot guarantee individual outcomes, but Republicans strongly believe that government must guarantee equality of opportunity for all.",
"That opportunity exists best in a democracy which promotes free enterprise, economic growth, strong families, and individual achievement.",
"Many Americans are concerned about the administration's effort to exert greater control over car companies, banks, energy, and health care, but over-regulating employers won't create more employment, overtaxing investors won't foster more investment.",
"Top-down, one-size-fits-all",
"decision-making should not replace the personal choices of free people in a free market, nor undermine the proper role of state and local governments in our system of federalism.",
"As our founders clearly stated, and we governors clearly understand, government closest to the people governs best.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"And no government program can ever replace the actions of caring Americans freely choosing to help one another.",
"The scriptures say, \"To whom much is given, much will be required.\"",
"As the most generous and prosperous nation on Earth, it is heartwarming to see Americans giving much time and money to the people of Haiti.",
"Thank you for your ongoing compassion.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"Some people say",
"Some people're afraid that this nation is no longer the great land of promise that she has always been.",
"Some people should not be.",
"this nation will always blaze the trail of opportunity and prosperity.",
"this nation will -- must always be a land where liberty and property are valued and respected and innocent human life is protected.",
"Government should have this clear goal: Where opportunity is absent, we must create it.",
"Where opportunity is limited, we must expand it.",
"Where opportunity is unequal, we must make it open to everyone.",
"(APPLAUSE)",
"this nation's founders pledged our founders's lives, our founders's fortunes, and our founders's sacred honor to create this nation.",
"Now this nation should pledge as Democrats, Republicans and independents -- Americans all -- to work together to leave this nation an ever better place than this nation found this nation.",
"God bless you, and God bless this great land of this nation.",
"Thank you very much."
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"(CNN) --",
"A slightly higher number of Americans will travel the holiday weekend holiday weekend compared with last year, but those traveling by air is expected to decline, AAA said.",
"The association, which surveyed 1,350 American households, projects that 38.4 million Americans will travel over the holiday weekend, up from 37.8 million last year.",
"However, the number traveling by air is expected to decline to 2.3 million, the automobile association said.",
"In 2008, 2.5 million Americans traveled by plane for the holiday weekend.",
"\"We do this every year,\" said Mindy Potter of Atlanta, Georgia, who was flying with Mindy Potter's husband and 6-year-old son.",
"\"It's insanity every year.\"",
"Mindy Potter said Mindy Potter and Mindy Potter's family were headed Wednesday to Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, to see Mindy Potter's husband's family.",
"See the FAA's flight delays map .",
"Mindy Potter said she and her family were allowing she and her family plenty of time at the airport.",
"\"My husband's a stickler for going early,\" Mindy Potter said.",
"\"If I was in charge of it, we'd probably have a frenzied rush.\"",
"AAA said the slight increase in the number of Thanksgiving travelers from last year reflects improved consumer confidence as well as \"a growing sense among many consumers that the worst of the global economic crisis is behind us.\"",
"Travelers are still concerned about the economy, said AAA spokesman Geoff Sundstrom, and the numbers remain well down from two years ago.",
"\"Clearly, there was a huge drop-off in the number of people traveling last year,\" he said.",
"According to AAA, Thanksgiving travel dropped 25.2 percent last year, compared with 2007.",
"Still, AAA spokesman Geoff Sundstrom added, \"We are encouraged that the numbers have stabilized and turning up from what the numbers were a year ago.\"",
"The bulk of Thanksgiving travelers -- about 33.2 million -- will be traveling by car, AAA said.",
"Jennifer Burrell of Tucker, Georgia, said she, her husband and their two daughters were driving Thursday morning to the Asheville, North Carolina, area, and will return Sunday.",
"She said she wasn't expecting traffic on the way there but \"it always gets heavy\" on the return trip.",
"In addition to those traveling by car, some 2.9 million will travel by train, watercraft, bus or a combination of transportation modes, and 2.3 million will travel by air, AAA predicted.",
"Citing excess baggage fees and surcharges for jet fuel, along with delays and flight groundings, AAA spokesman Geoff Sundstrom said that it's \"not a very friendly environment this decade for the airline industry or the airline traveler.\"",
"As in earlier years, the Federal Aviation Administration said military airspace will be opened to commercial flights along the East and West coasts and in the Southwest in an attempt to alleviate congestion.",
"military airspace will be opened from Tuesday to Monday, spokesman Paul Takemoto said.",
"As of Tuesday afternoon, the FAA Web site was reporting slight delays because of \"weather/wind\" at New York's LaGuardia Airport.",
"Of course, some Americans are not traveling at all.",
"Heather McKinnon of Broomfield, Colorado, said Heather McKinnon is staying home with family for Thanksgiving.",
"\"I don't like to fly and really rarely like flying on holidays,\" Heather McKinnon said, adding that Heather McKinnon would consider driving.",
"\"I know what it's like going through the airport,\" Heather McKinnon said.",
"Plus, Heather McKinnon added, \"Everything I love is here.\""
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"Tottenham Hotspur humiliated Wigan 9-1 with England striker Jermain Defoe scoring five to move into the Champions League spots in the English Premier League.",
"The incredible rout sees Tottenham Hotspur draw level on points with North London rivals Arsenal and into fourth place ahead of Aston Villa, who Tottenham Hotspur visit next weekend.",
"Jermain Defoe's five equaled a Premier League record and, along with Manchester United's 9-0 thrashing of Ipswich Town in the 1994/95 season, it is the most goals scored by a Premier League side in a single game.",
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"Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp said Defoe, who was returning after a suspension, was a \"fantastic talent\" and paid tribute to Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp's side's eight-goal salvo after the break.",
"\"We came out in the second half fantastic, pressed Wigan worked Wigan and took the opportunities,\" Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp told Sky Sports News.",
"In other English Premier League action on Sunday, Blackburn Rovers beat Bolton Wanderers 2-0 away to climb up to 11th in the table.",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"President Obama mentioned an $8 billion investment in high-speed train systems across the country in President Obama's State of the Union speech on Wednesday.",
"Details released Thursday said an $8 billion investment in high-speed train systems across the country would be grants from the government's $862 billion economic stimulus package to begin the planning and initial work on creating the first nationwide program of high-speed intercity passenger rail service.",
"Overall, projects and planning involving the rail corridors will take place in 31 states, according to a White House statement.",
"Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were scheduled to travel to Tampa, Florida, Thursday to formally announce the first nationwide program of high-speed intercity passenger rail service.",
"Other Cabinet members and administration officials also were visiting sites of the first nationwide program of high-speed intercity passenger rail service in other states on Thursday and Friday.",
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"\"This project will create jobs and generate economic activity as 84 miles of track are constructed, stations are built or enhanced, and equipment is purchased,\" with work expected to be completed in 2014, a White House statement said.",
"\"The projects announced today are part of President Obama's strategic long-term plan to transform travel in America by building and sustaining a comprehensive passenger rail program,\" a White House statement said.",
"\"In addition to the $8 billion awarded today, President Obama's strategic long-term plan to transform travel in America by building and sustaining a comprehensive passenger rail program also included $1 billion a year for five years in the federal budget as a down payment to jump-start the first nationwide program of high-speed intercity passenger rail service.\"",
"a White House statement described the first nationwide program of high-speed intercity passenger rail service as \"a long-term venture in which states will need to plan projects, purchase and lay track, build and assemble equipment, and construct or upgrade train stations, tunnels and bridges.\"",
"\"Spain spent two decades and $35 billion developing Spain's high-speed rail system,\" it said.",
"\"South Korea took 12 years and more than $10 billion to build a line stretching from Seoul to Busan, comparable to the distance between Boston and New York.\"",
"Train corridors in the first nationwide program of high-speed intercity passenger rail service include: . • San Diego - Los Angeles - San Luis Obispo in California . • Oakland - Sacramento in California . • Portland - Eugene in Oregon . • Seattle - Portland in Washington and Oregon .",
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"• Philadelphia - Harrisburg - Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania .",
"• Springfield - East Northfield in Massachusetts .",
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"(CNN) --",
"News that the President won the Nobel Peace Prize has been as polarizing as his embattled healthcare reform plans.",
"After the President's win, Spanish newspaper El Pais published a cartoon showing the President as a black peace dove.",
"Minutes after News of the award broke, social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook were flooded with comments.",
"Half of the trending topics on microblogging site Twitter were about the prize and the U.S. President.",
"Opinion was largely divided on Twitter between those who think the President is a worthy recipient -- and those who question how the President won the award after just eight months in office.",
"Watch Internet reaction to news » .",
"Numerous tweeters said the President should refuse the award.",
"One, jester from London, UK, wrote: \"I think the President should give the award back until the President has achieved real world peace.\"",
"A sentiment shared by mzaher from Utrecht, who said: \"the President.",
"You have my support, love and respect, I just don't think you deserve a Nobel Prize yet.",
"If I were you, I would give it back.\"",
"However for Antwanp tweeting from Nacogdoches, USA, News of the award was \"a great day for the United States,\" while kmariiezy called News of the award a \"beautiful thing.\"",
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"Aaronmagner from Australia wrote: \"Filled with happiness and hope by the President's Nobel peace prize.\"",
"DAPdave from Holly Springs, North Carolina, sounded a note of caution with his tweet saying: \"I hope the President proves to us all that the President deserves the award.\"",
"Equally vocal were those who did not think the U.S. President deserved the accolade, the first awarded to a White House incumbent in 90 years.",
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"I am wondering what for?",
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"So far the President has accomplished virtually nothing!\"",
"While Michael Lipkin in Tehran, Iran, wrote: \"If the President deserves the award then so does every Miss America contestant who babbles about world peace.\"",
"Boston-based Marcela_Elisa wrote: \"Can someone explain?",
"I thought award was for accomplishments, not intentions.\"",
"Others like Mohammed, from Johannesburg, South Africa, point to the irony of awarding the award to someone who is presiding over two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"He wrote: \"So the President wins Nobel prize for literature for the President's books and not peace - cos last I heard Afghanistan is still a war zone.\"",
"While Poipoi91, from Paris, wondered if \"they couldn't find anyone else for the title.\"",
"Some users, such as nurdfighter joked that the award is \"a pathetic way of getting the President to visit Norway.\"",
"Meanwhile kzamri writing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, said: \"How can the President get the award hours before the U.S. is supposed to bomb the Moon?!\" in reference to NASA's attempt to crash a probe into the lunar surface a few hours after Obama's win.",
"Spain's leading newspaper El Pais published a cartoon by political cartoonist Forges depicting the President as a black peace dove holding an olive branch."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Obama met Monday night with Obama's national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan, White House announced.",
"It was the ninth meeting of Obama's war council to consider whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, as requested by the U.S. commander on the ground there.",
"White House made no statement after the meeting ended at 10 p.m. ET (0300 GMT).",
"the meeting included Vice President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, Afghanistan commanding Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and other senior officials, White House said earlier.",
"At the last war council meeting -- on November 11, Veteran's Day -- Obama pushed for revisions in proposed plans for troop increases to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government.",
"Obama would seek answers to the questions Obama posed on November 11 about \"not just how we get people there, but what's the strategy for getting people out,\" White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said before the meeting.",
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"One option calls for sending about 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in addition to the 68,000 already committed to the country, with other options involving variations of that plan, sources told CNN.",
"Before the meeting, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, told CNN that the decision-making process was approaching completion.",
"Petraeus emphasized the need to focus on the mission of ensuring that Afghanistan \"does not once again become a sanctuary or safe haven for al Qaeda and the kind of transnational extremists that carried out the 9/11 attacks.\"",
"The Obama administration has expressed concerns about Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's viability and has ratcheted up pressure to end corruption in order to combat an intensifying Taliban insurgency.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on a trip to Afghanistan last week to attend Karzai's inauguration after his recent re-election, reiterated the U.S. concerns in a dinner meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and encouraged Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to seize the \"clear window of opportunity\" before Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at a \"critical moment\" in Afghanistan's history.",
"The United States and other countries are increasing The United States and other countries's civilian presence in Afghanistan to bolster efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, the the U.S. special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, told reporters on Monday.",
"Asked about the corruption problem, Richard Holbrooke noted that some Afghan government ministers have \"extraordinary records\" of accomplishment.",
"The United States will work with some Afghan government ministers, while recognizing that years of civil war and social woes have weakened overall leadership capabilities in Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke said.",
"\"This is one of the main reasons The United States're increasing The United States's civilian role,\" Richard Holbrooke said.",
"\"And it's extremely delicate to get the mix right.",
"The United States want to help the Afghans help the Afghans.",
"The United States do not want to replace a sovereign government with internationals.\"",
"Republican opponents are pushing Obama to quickly agree to McChrystal's reported request for up to 40,000 additional troops in Afghanistan as part of a counterinsurgency strategy.",
"\"This won't be perfect or easy, but it will allow The United States's fighting men and women to leave Afghanistan with honor, and it will enable Afghans to build a better, more peaceful future,\" said a letter to Obama from 10 Republican senators sent on Veteran's Day."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- After 2,000 years of Christian prayer, many faithful still don't know how to pray effectively, Henderson says.",
"\"Most Christians pray out of crisis or pray a grocery list,\" Henderson said, making \"God a lifeline of last resort.\"",
"Henderson teaches that prayer should be about worshipping God, having a one-to-one relationship through prayer.",
"\"Every believer wants to be intimate with God and experience God's power in a personal way,\" he said.",
"\"Many are hungry to be more effective, because they haven't been taught.\"",
"Teaching is what sends Henderson across the country.",
"Henderson's on \"The Creative Prayer Tour,\" a series of workshops that will have stopped in 14 cities by year's end.",
"Henderson also is an author and head of a group called Strategic Renewal, based in Forest, Virginia, which aims to strengthen churches through worship-based prayer.",
"The prayer workshop was life-changing, said pastor Jeremy Johnson of Arcade Church in Sacramento, California.",
"pastor Jeremy Johnson of Arcade Church in Sacramento, California said the training helped turn pastor Jeremy Johnson of Arcade Church in Sacramento, California from an angry recovering alcoholic to a spiritual life pastor.",
"\"It changed my perspective on prayer from being ask, ask, ask to building a relationship with God,\" pastor Jeremy Johnson of Arcade Church in Sacramento, California said.",
"\"It went from God being a vending machine to actually having a relationship with God, acknowledging who God is as opposed to what God does.\"",
"Such is the demand for the prayer summits that Henderson speaks at 20 to 30 churches and to as many as 13,000 college students annually, he said.",
"Even pillars of the Christian faith struggle with prayer.",
"\"As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear,\" Mother Teresa told the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet in 1979, expressing Mother Teresa's concern about decades seemingly going by without Mother Teresa's prayers being answered.",
"Henderson cites God's Prayer in the sixth chapter of the book of Matthew as the blueprint for Christians, containing what could be called the four Rs of prayer.",
"Henderson breaks down the passage this way from the New Living Translation of the Bible: .",
"Reverence -- \"Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.\"",
"Response -- \"May your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven.\"",
"Requests -- \"Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us.\"",
"Readiness -- \"And don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.\"",
"God's Prayer is a simple invocation that is recited weekly at many Christian churches and comes from God's Sermon on the Mount, a compilation of God's teachings.",
"\"It's OK to use a set formula/pattern,\" according Cyndi McDonald, an associate minister at First United Methodist Church in Marietta, Georgia.",
"\"The disciples asked God how to pray, and he gave God's Prayer.\"",
"No matter how people pray, it's a part of American life, according to a recent poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.",
"a recent poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows that 75 percent of Americans of all faiths -- including Christians, Jews and Muslims -- report praying at least once a week, while 39 percent attend services weekly.",
"McDonald said the numbers could use some interpreting.",
"\"What do they mean by pray?",
"A quick blessing over a meal?",
"An hour spent in solitude?\" she asks.",
"For Henderson, the prayer statistics point to a yearning for God.",
"\"The hunger is there for a personal faith.",
"The hunger indicates a spiritual hunger that won't be satisfied,\" he said.",
"\"It's a personal thing and very real beyond the walls of church.\""
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Dalai Lama, accepting a human rights prize from a U.S. foundation Tuesday, chastised the United States for not fully addressing the economic divide between the United States's poorest and richest citizens.",
"Dalai Lama sits with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the awards ceremony on Tuesday.",
"\"Huge gap, rich to poor.",
"This is unhealthy,\" Dalai Lama said.",
"\"You have to think seriously about those less-privileged people.",
"those less-privileged people're also human beings.\"",
"The \"real greatness of America,\" Dalai Lama said, \"is your ancestors' principles,\" and Dalai Lama urged the United States to preserve your ancestors' principles.",
"\"When I think of the United States, I think of the idea -- concept of freedom, liberty, equality.",
"I think these are real human values,\" Dalai Lama said.",
"The inaugural Lantos Human Rights Prize, presented to Dalai Lama by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, honors Dalai Lama's commitment to ending global injustice.",
"Dalai Lama called the award, from the New Hampshire-based Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, \"a great privilege, especially because it is named after an individual I admired deeply.\"",
"Dalai Lama was referring to the late Rep. Tom Lantos, D-California, whom the New Hampshire-based Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice describes as a champion of human rights during his 27 years in Congress.",
"Lantos, who was the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, died of cancer in February 2008.",
"His image is on the large medal.",
"Before presenting the award, Pelosi said people continue to be inspired by Dalai Lama's messages of peace and nonviolence.",
"the large medal, the California Democrat said, contains the words \"The rights of one are the rights of all.\"",
"\"Dalai Lama is one of the most highly honored peacemakers of our time,\" she added.",
"Tuesday's program focused largely on the work of Lantos, who co-founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus about 20 years ago.",
"The name of the caucus has been changed to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and part of its mission is to \"promote, defend and advocate internationally recognized human rights norms in a nonpartisan manner,\" according to its Web site.",
"The group is a formal entity of Congress, said Howard Berman, D-California, who was at Tuesday's event.",
"Also at the ceremony was Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, who called Lantos \"an inspiration.\"",
"\"When he died we lost one of the better angels of our national conscience,\" McCain said.",
"According to the foundation, created by Lantos' daughter, Katrina Lantos Swett, the Lantos Prize is meant to focus attention on the \"often unsung heroes of the human rights movement.\"",
"its Web site says the Lantos Prize \"will be awarded on an annual basis to the individual or organization that best exemplifies the foundation's mission, namely, to be a vital voice standing up for the values of decency, dignity, freedom and justice in every corner of the world.\"",
"Dalai Lama is visiting Washington this week for a conference and to meet with Undersecretary for Global Affairs Maria Otero, who has just been named as President Obama's special coordinator on Tibet, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Monday.",
"Dalai Lama won't meet with Obama, who instead plans to visit with Dalai Lama after a presidential trip next month to China, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"The Dalai Lama and Tibet are dicey issues in Washington, since Beijing considers the Himalayan province a part of China and accuses the spiritual leader of advocating Tibetan independence.",
"Dalai Lama has repeatedly said Dalai Lama seeks autonomy for the region, not independence, and advocates the \"middle way\" of nonviolence.",
"China has ruled Tibet since 1951, a year after sending troops to \"liberate\" the region from what it said was serfdom under Dalai Lama.",
"Dalai Lama's emissaries have held sporadic talks with Chinese officials.",
"But the talks, encouraged by the United States and other countries, have failed to break the impasse.",
"In a 2007 trip to Washington, Dalai Lama met with then-President George W. Bush, who awarded him the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian honor.",
"Asked whether the lack of a meeting between the Dalai Lama and Obama represents a change in U.S. policy toward China or Tibet, Kelly said, \"I wouldn't necessarily read ... anything into the decision beyond what it is.\"",
"\"the United States's position regarding China is clear, that the United States want to engage China.",
"the United States think China is an important global player.",
"the United States also don't try and downplay some of the concerns that the United States have about China ... in the areas of human rights, religious freedom, and freedom of expression.\"",
"Dalai Lama won a Nobel Prize for advocating peace, but Dalai Lama has not been allowed to return to Tibet since fleeing Dalai Lama's homeland in 1959.",
"On Thursday and Friday, Dalai Lama is scheduled to participate in a conference called \"Educating World Citizens for the 21st Century.\"",
"On Saturday Dalai Lama is to spend the morning teaching on \"The Heart of Change: Finding Wisdom in the Modern World,\" an event organized by the Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture.",
"Dalai Lama then is slated to return to India before traveling to Japan, Australia and New Zealand."
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"The governing body of world football, FIFA, has turned down the request from the Irish Football Association (FAI) to replay FIFA's deciding World Cup play-off game against France.",
"The controversial match, that was played on Wednesday, has caused a diplomatic storm after French forward Thierry Henry admitted to illegally using Thierry Henry's hand to set-up the goal that gave Thierry Henry's team a 2-1 aggregate victory to seal qualification to the tournament.",
"But despite a letter sent to FIFA by the Irish Football Association (FAI), and calls from both the Irish prime minister Brian Cowen and Irish justice minister Dermot Ahern for the game to be replayed, the sport's organizing body has refused the request from the Irish Football Association (FAI) to replay their deciding World Cup play-off game against France.",
"In a statement on their official Web site FIFA stated: \"The result of World Cup cannot be changed and World Cup cannot be replayed.",
"As is clearly mentioned in the Laws of the Game, during matches, decisions are taken by the referee and decisions are final.\"",
"Irish football officials lodged an official complaint with FIFA on Thursday and sent a letter to the French Football Federation (FFF) in a bid to get World Cup reconvened.",
"The world's worst football injustices .",
"\"The governing body of world football have to step up to the plate and accede to our call for a replay,\" the Irish Football Association (FAI) chief executive John Delaney told reporters.",
"the Irish Football Association (FAI) pointed to a precedent set in 2005 when a World Cup qualifier between Uzbekistan and Bahrain was replayed after the referee was found to have committed a technical error in the application of the laws of the game.",
"But a FIFA spokesman said the precedent did not apply because the referee in the match \"saw the incident in question and simply failed to apply the proper rules\".",
"Irish prime minister Cowen raised the issue with French president Nicolas Sarkozy at a European Union (EU) summit in Brussels, where the two leaders were meeting to vote for the next president of Europe.",
"Irish prime minister Cowen told the Irish Independent newspaper: \"I didn't ask for a replay.",
"I said, you know: 'What do you think?' and he said: 'Look, I understand totally the sense of disappointment that you feel about World Cup.",
"I'm not trying to mix politics and sport in this respect.",
"We just had a chat.",
"[But] it's not going to be resolved by he and I.\"",
"Mr Sarkozy, however, said Mr Sarkozy did not want to get involved: \"I said to Brian Cowen, who is a friend of mine as you know, that I was sorry for them and how I was struck by the talent and vigor of the Irish team.",
"\"Now do not ask me to stand in for the referee of the game or the football decision -- be they in France or in Europe,\" Mr Sarkozy said.",
"\"What will be done will be done.",
"But leave me out of it, please.",
"And to be perfectly frank with you that is the sort of answer I want to give,\" Mr Sarkozy added.",
"Despite Mr Sarkozy's comments, French finance minister Christine Lagarde said French finance minister Christine Lagarde supported moves for a replay.",
"\"I think it's very sad.",
"I'm of course very happy that the French team will play in the World Cup, but I find it very sad that the French team did qualify with... you know... an act of cheating,\" French finance minister Christine Lagarde told RTL radio station.",
"The game between France and Ireland was one of six play offs played on Wednesday which decided the final 32 teams heading South Africa in 2010.",
"Video replays showed Thierry Henry used Thierry Henry's hand to stop the ball going out of play in extra-time, before Thierry Henry passed to William Gallas who booked William Gallas's nation's place with a headed goal.",
"The draw for next year's finals is due to be made in Cape Town on December 4."
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"FIFA: \"The result of World Cup cannot be changed and World Cup cannot be replayed\"",
"French president Nicolas Sarkozy said: \"I was sorry for [Ireland] but do not ask me to stand in for the referee of the game\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"Uga VII, the University of Georgia mascot whose deeply furrowed face was a fixture at the school for more than a year, died early Thursday, University of Georgia said.",
"He was 4 years old.",
"Uga VII died of heart-related causes in Savannah, Georgia, according to Uga VII's owner, Frank \"Sonny\" Seiler.",
"Fans knew Uga VII had arrived when the white dog, sporting a spiked collar and red Georgia University jersey, made Uga VII's short strides along the football field's sidelines.",
"Uga VII made Uga VII's first appearance at the August 30, 2008, season opener, when University of Georgia faced off against Georgia Southern, University of Georgia said.",
"Uga VII was nearing the end of Uga VII's second season with the team, University of Georgia said.",
"Uga VII was preceded by Uga VII's father, Uga VI, the university's winningest mascot, who died of congestive heart failure.",
"\"This is a very sad day for the Seiler family but also for all Georgia people,\" said Damon Evans, University of University of Georgia director of athletics in a university news release.",
"\"Just as Uga VII's ancestors, Uga VII had captured the hearts of college football fans everywhere as the country's No. 1 mascot.",
"Uga VII had been truly embraced by all those who follow the University of Georgia Bulldogs across the country.",
"We will miss Uga VII dearly.\"",
"Uga VII's given name was Loran's Best, University of Georgia said.",
"Uga VII's death was unexpected.",
"\"We are all in a state of shock,\" Seiler said in a university news release.",
"\"We had no warning whatsoever.\"",
"A wreath will be placed on Uga VII's doghouse on the sideline, University of Georgia said.",
"There won't be a live mascot to take Uga VII's place at Saturday's game against Kentucky.",
"Officials have not decided who will replace the white bulldog, but the decision is expected next year, Seiler said.",
"Until then, fans and Seiler will mourn the loss of the school's favorite pooch.",
"\"Uga VII was 10-3 last year, which is not bad for a freshman,\" Seiler said.",
"\"Uga VII was not as active or mischievous as Uga VII's father but more distinguished.",
"Uga VII realized Uga VII's role when Uga VII put Uga VII's shirt on.",
"Uga VII was well-behaved and always appreciated the significance of Uga VII's role.\""
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"Editor's note: Ganji is a leading Iranian dissident and pro-democracy activist.",
"Ganji served a six-year sentence in Tehran's Evin prison for Ganji's reporting on human rights abuses in Iran.",
"The London-based human rights organization, Article 19, has described Ganji as the \"Iranian Vaclav Havel\" and Ganji has received more than a dozen human rights, press freedom and pro-democracy awards.",
"Ganji is the author of \"The Road to Democracy in Iran\" (MIT Press, 2008).",
"Ganji says Iran's leaders should be held to account for denying Iran's citizens its citizens's liberties.",
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"-- This week world leaders will gather in New York for the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.",
"While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be among world leaders, Iranians reject Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claim to leadership.",
"Iranians strongly oppose any meeting or recognition of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, especially by President Obama.",
"The pro-democracy movement in Iran today unanimously believes that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad enjoys Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's current position because Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was \"reappointed\" president after stealing several million votes in June 12 presidential election.",
"Popular protests against this state of affairs have been met with bullets from the Iranian regime.",
"Thousands were arrested and dozens were killed.",
"Opposition supporters have been tortured in jail and credible reports of rape have surfaced.",
"In recent years the Western media has not focused on the systematic human rights violations in Iran but rather on Iran's nuclear ambitions and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rhetoric toward Israel and the Nazi Holocaust.",
"Iranians are deeply upset by the general inattentiveness of the media and world leaders to their political protests.",
"If you listen to the democratic voices of Iranians and leaders of Iran's Green Movement there is a unanimous view that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's policies have severely undermined Iranian national interests and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inadvertently better served the interests of Israel.",
"Although the Iranian regime has been able to reassert control due to severe repression recent events have led to important social transformations in Iran.",
"Today there are many prominent names publicly opposing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"Many open letters have been circulated that for the first time directly criticize Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"U.S. policy under Obama has also played a constructive role.",
"The absence of military threats and new economic sanctions has given democracy activists more room to maneuver, posing new challenges to the Iranian regime.",
"In order to deal with this internal crisis Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's only option is to shift attention to Iran's relationship with the outside world -- the United States in particular.",
"By increasing verbal attacks on the West and exacerbating regional conflicts he hopes to draw the attention of both Iranians and the world away from the systematic violations of human rights in Iran.",
"Iran's nuclear ambitions should not be considered the primary weak point for the Iranian regime.",
"To a limited extent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disciples can manipulate the nationalist sentiment of Iranians around this issue.",
"The Achilles heel for the Iranian regime today is the widespread and systematic violations of human rights against the Iranian regime own people.",
"Greater exposure and scrutiny of this key issue will generate more popular discontent toward the leaders of Iran.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cannot maintain regime loyalty or acquiescence in the face of these massive human rights violations.",
"It is precisely these organized repressive measures that the International Criminal Court, in other contexts, has called \"crimes against humanity.\"",
"Although Iran, like the United States and Israel, are not members of the ICC, charges can be brought against the Iranian regime via the U.N. Security Council -- similar to the process that led to the arrest warrant for Omar Al Bashir, the leader of Sudan.",
"We in the Iranian human rights movement can document, with certification from a team of international lawyers, that leaders of the Iranian regime are guilty of crimes against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute that established the ICC.",
"Today, the people of Iran are in need of the moral and spiritual support from people around the world.",
"In the current circumstances the most important form of support would be to assist with the campaign of charging the leaders of Iran with \"crimes against humanity\" and to help disseminate this initiative so that this initiative becomes the main avenue of engagement with Iran by the international community.",
"We are seeking to place this issue at the top of the international agenda so that leaders of the Iranian regime will think twice before traveling abroad as well as to make it morally unacceptable for leaders of democratic countries to extend a hand to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"This article was translated by Nader Hashemi, Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver."
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"(CNN) -- This week on Inside Africa -- .",
"A photographer's powerful pictures cover the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.",
"Then, Nkepile Mabuse catches up with a World Cup legend spreading football excitement in South Africa.",
"And World Cup introduces us to a modest Angolan football squad and looks at the passion behind their play.",
"Violence in Congo .",
"the Democratic Republic of Congo has been embroiled in bloody conflict for more than a decade.",
"The violence has killed millions and displaced hundreds of thousands.",
"Photographer Peter Biro turned Photographer Peter Biro's lens on this grim reality when Photographer Peter Biro visited the Democratic Republic of Congo late last year.",
"And Photographer Peter Biro hopes Photographer Peter Biro's photos will shed light on one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.",
"Photographer Peter Biro shared with us, some of Photographer Peter Biro's pictures -- and the stories behind them.",
"Africa's buzz .",
"Over the next few months, some of football's biggest names will descend on South Africa, ahead of the FIFA World Cup.",
"And the sporting world was abuzz when Argentine coach Diego Maradona took Argentine coach Diego Maradona's turn touring the Democratic Republic of Congo.",
"Nkepile Mabuse caught up with the controversial football star in South Africa, where he remains a hero to many fans.",
"Football in Luanda .",
"While many of the continent's top players are in state-of-the-art stadiums, many footballers in Luanda still struggle to find a decent place to play.",
"David McKenzie visits an Angolan team getting the most out of their makeshift field.",
"Madonna's adoptions .",
"Celebrity charities and their causes can attract more attention to countries in need.",
"In Malawi, an American pop star's connection to the country has helped to do just that.",
"Madonna became more invested in Malawi when Madonna adopted two children there.",
"Alina Cho talked to Madonna about efforts to help other orphans in Malawi."
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"Dekker would be allowed to travel from July 1 of next year if Dekker fulfills certain requirements A Dutch court established for Dekker to sail.",
"In August, Dutch authorities placed Dekker under state care for two months, following Dekker's parents' refusal to prevent Dekker from undertaking the potentially dangerous voyage.",
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"Shin Fujiyama's's life has been highlighted by second chances.",
"Shin Fujiyama's's organization, Students Helping Honduras, has raised more than $750,000.",
"Born in a fishing village in Japan, Fujiyama, 25, recalls a childhood dominated by health concerns.",
"Doctors told Shin Fujiyama's's parents that Shin Fujiyama's had a hole in Shin Fujiyama's's heart and \"they didn't think I had lot longer to live.\"",
"But during a later visit to the doctor, Shin Fujiyama's says, Shin Fujiyama's's family learned a hole in his heart had closed.",
"\"Somehow I was cured and I became a normal kid,\" Shin Fujiyama's says.",
"\"And I had a second chance.\"",
"During Shin Fujiyama's's sophomore year at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Shin Fujiyama's volunteered in Honduras with a campus group and was struck by the extreme poverty Shin Fujiyama's saw -- barefoot children collecting cans and sleeping in the streets.",
"Shin Fujiyama's says Shin Fujiyama's realized Shin Fujiyama's could help give other children other children's own second chance.",
"Today, Shin Fujiyama's's organization, Students Helping Honduras, brings education and community projects to children and families in need through student service trips and fundraisers.",
"Do you know someone who should be a CNN Hero?",
"Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes .",
"\"Seeing Honduras and being able to make a difference really opened my eyes to a lot of things,\" Shin Fujiyama's says.",
"\"I saw such a great need.",
"I wanted to keep helping.\"",
"Shin Fujiyama's started by telling Shin Fujiyama's's friends about Shin Fujiyama's's experience and collecting spare change at Shin Fujiyama's's two campus jobs, but Shin Fujiyama's found that organizing other students didn't happen so easily.",
"\"When I had my very first meeting, I got all dressed up.",
"And only two people showed up,\" Shin Fujiyama's says.",
"\"I knew I had to keep fighting.\"",
"Shin Fujiyama's enlisted Shin Fujiyama's's younger sister, Cosmo, then a student at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, to the cause.",
"\"She's dynamite,\" Shin Fujiyama's says.",
"\"When she talks in front of a crowd, she can move mountains.",
"Knowing that she was behind it, I knew I could do anything.\"",
"Since 2006, the siblings' grass-roots campaign to help Honduras has grown to 25 campuses and raised more than $750,000 to fund projects, including the construction of two schools and the establishment of scholarships to help young women attend college.",
"Shin Fujiyama's says students are deeply committed to the organization because students are involved on every level: students raise money and then travel to Honduras to help build houses.",
"\"We make friends with all the kids, all the families -- no matter where we're from.",
"We've had people from all over the world come to Honduras with us.",
"And it's a great network we've made,\" Shin Fujiyama's says.",
"Watch Shin Fujiyama's and Shin Fujiyama's's group in action » .",
"While Shin Fujiyama's spends Shin Fujiyama's's summers in Honduras working alongside volunteers, Shin Fujiyama's spends a large portion of the year on the road visiting colleges to organize chapters and raise funds.",
"Cosmo Fujiyama, 23, lives in Honduras full time to coordinate the group's building efforts on the ground.",
"Students Helping Honduras is working with community members of Siete de Abril to build a new village.",
"Many of the families lost the families's belongings to Hurricane Mitch in 1998.",
"\"A lot of them are single mothers.",
"the families don't own the land.",
"the families live in cardboard houses.",
"the families don't have access to clean water [or] health care, and the families didn't have a school,\" Shin Fujiyama's says.",
"Fujiyama's group helped villagers purchase a new plot of land to rebuild.",
"Fujiyama's group's members have helped build 44 homes in the village that has been newly named Villa Soleada (\"Sunshine Village\").",
"The organization also is raising funds to build a water tower, an eco-friendly sanitation system and a library and to help provide electricity.",
"Watch Shin Fujiyama's describe how a new village came to be » .",
"For Fujiyama, who deferred medical school to dedicate Shin Fujiyama's to Shin Fujiyama's's mission in Honduras, the lifestyle is a far cry from private practice, but Shin Fujiyama's says Shin Fujiyama's loves what Shin Fujiyama's is doing.",
"Watch Shin Fujiyama's describe how a second chance and a trip to Honduras changed Shin Fujiyama's's life » .",
"\"I feel like Shin Fujiyama's're making a huge impact.",
"Some people might think that you have to be somebody famous or a millionaire or a doctor to do something,\" he says.",
"\"But Shin Fujiyama's're just everyday students -- people in their 20s.",
"Shin Fujiyama's can do so much.",
"Shin Fujiyama's've got so many things going for Shin Fujiyama's.",
"... It's just about leveraging what Shin Fujiyama's have.",
"And Shin Fujiyama's have done a great job at that.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out Students Helping Honduras and see how to help."
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"The campaign has grown to 25 campuses and raised more than $750,000 .",
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"Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Grace, Kara and Trichelle were created to fill a void for young black girls who for so long have been playing with dolls that don't look like them.",
"Stacy McBride-Irby, creator of New black Barbies, poses with New black Barbies.",
"New black Barbies have fuller lips, curlier hair and other features that the company says more accurately represent African-American women.",
"Some have cheered New black Barbies.",
"Others jeered them, saying they're not black enough.",
"\"I love the black Barbie.",
"It's about time,\" CNN iReporter Jua Simpson said on CNN's iReport, a user-generated news community.",
"\"But the hair is still a step backwards, since most of our hair is not straight and light brown.\"",
"Others disagree with critics who say New black Barbies should have had more natural black hairstyles, such as afros or braids.",
"\"Many people have criticized New black Barbies for either having hair that's too long or too straight, but I have long, straight hair that I straightened.",
"But it's my hair and a part of me,\" said Tanisa Zoe Samuel, an African-American iReporter from the Turks and Caicos, in the Caribbean.",
"\"Black women come in all shades, shapes and varieties that there is just no way to capture everyone with three dolls.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Samuel shares her thoughts on New black Barbies .",
"New black Barbies were created by Stacy McBride-Irby, an African-American who watched her daughter play with dolls and wanted to create a doll that looked more like her.",
"McBride-Irby said McBride-Irby has heard the criticism, but McBride-Irby also has received many kudos.",
"\"New black Barbies mean so much to McBride-Irby because New black Barbies did come from a positive place,\" McBride-Irby said.",
"\"her daughter loves New black Barbies.",
"I've had dads thank me for creating this line of dolls that represent dads's little girls.",
"New black Barbies are for girls all over the world.\"",
"This is not the first time Mattel has released an ethnic doll that drew criticism.",
"See photos of the black New black Barbies dolls » .",
"In 1997, Mattel collaborated with cookie maker Nabisco to create Oreo Fun Barbie.",
"The black version of the doll, which sported an Oreo-shaped purse, was criticized by some who noted that \"Oreo\" is a derogatory term in the black community.",
"The word is used to describe someone who is perceived as black on the outside and white on the inside.",
"For some, the talk about dolls is not just child's play.",
"Some think early play with dolls can affect a girl's self-esteem later in life.",
"Actress Nia Long, who appears in comedian Chris Rock's new documentary, \"Good Hair,\" recently talked about the issue on CNN.",
"\"Historically, the Afrocentric features have not been celebrated,\" Long said.",
"\"This makes us question the integrity of our beauty standard for ourselves.\""
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"Some have cheered New black Barbies; others have criticized them for being unrealistic .",
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"Temple Grandin sees Temple Grandin's autism as a gift, not a disability.",
"The professor at Colorado State University, who has become a prominent animal rights activist, spoke at the recent TED Conference in California about how people's brains work in different ways -- and how that's something that should be appreciated, not stigmatized.",
"Temple Grandin, for instance, thinks in pictures, \"like Google for images,\" Temple Grandin said.",
"Temple Grandin also grabs hold of details, a brain function Temple Grandin feels could help politicians.",
"\"I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world,\" Temple Grandin said.",
"\"We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.\"",
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"Temple Grandin's life also is the subject of a new HBO film, in which Temple Grandin's played by actress Claire Danes."
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"At a general court-martial Monday at Baghdad's Camp Victory, Army Pvt. James R. Bickerstaff pleaded guilty to attempted possession of child pornography and communicating indecent language to a child under 16.",
"An American soldier in Iraq also received a bad-conduct discharge.",
"An American soldier in Iraq was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, in August 2006 when An American soldier in Iraq \"engaged in a discussion with a 12-year-old girl in an attempt to initiate physical contact of a sexual nature,\" military said.",
"In April and May, An American soldier in Iraq downloaded pornographic videos to a personal laptop and an iPod and attempted to download child pornography, military said.",
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"(CNN) --",
"The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: \"Why are our kids so messed up?\"",
"\"Why didn't these students try to stop the crime?\"",
"\"What's happening in our schools?\"",
"These are fair questions, and commentators in the media have provided familiar answers.",
"The purported rape is another sad example of today's self-absorbed and uncaring youth.",
"It was the media's glorification of violence that caused it.",
"The horrific act shows how sociopathic brains develop.",
"But it seems as if the majority of commentators have settled on the idea that the Richmond students did nothing because of the \"bystander effect\": The more people involved in a criminal incident, the less likely any one of them will intervene to do something about it.",
"Unfortunately, this \"What's wrong with our children?\" approach leads to a dead end, because it results in a sweeping moral condemnation of the schools, families and students in this community.",
"These perpetrators committed a heinous act that should be widely condemned.",
"But a discussion that focuses exclusively on the immorality of these deviant young men does not provide solutions that prevent gang rape from happening.",
"Talking only about the bystander effect wrongly suggests that the vast majority of teens would not call for help.",
"Take Richmond.",
"Claims of depraved acts by a few kids have served to demonize an entire student community.",
"Rather than demonize all teenagers in Richmond High School, we should be asking another question: \"What can we do to prevent such heinous acts from happening?\"",
"The answer to that question leads to a wholly different kind of dialogue, one that may surprise.",
"It is primarily students, the reputed problem, who can best prevent acts of violence on campus.",
"Make no mistake about it.",
"The alleged two-hour-long gang rape on October 24 was an extreme form of school violence.",
"The alleged two-hour-long gang rape on October 24 unfolded not far from the gym where the school-sponsored homecoming dance, supervised by school staff and police officers, was being held.",
"And students, police say, largely perpetrated The alleged two-hour-long gang rape on October 24.",
"Research since the massacres at Columbine High School (1999) and Virginia Tech (2007) has taught us a lot about how to prevent such school violence.",
"Chief among them is that school staff and security should patrol campuses, especially violence-prone areas, during and after school events.",
"According to a CNN report, a friend of the alleged victim saw blatant failures in safety precautions.",
"a friend of the alleged victim said, \"I looked outside of the gym, and I saw 12 to 15 guys, sitting there, with no IDs.",
"The officers -- not only did The officers not check the IDs of those students or men sitting outside of of our campus, but the security officers who are employed here did no job of checking either.\"",
"Virtually all students and teachers at a school can identify these dangerous hot spots.",
"At Richmond, one such spot is \"a dark alley near the back side of Richmond,\" the site of the purported rape.",
"As CNN reported, school officials had even requested that video cameras and more lights be installed in the area, but they were never installed.",
"The alleged rapists and student bystanders probably knew that no one would be patrolling the area.",
"As important as campus patrols are in reducing campus violence, the most powerful form of prevention is believing that students can help stop crime from happening.",
"They didn't stop the purported rape at Richmond, a skeptic might say.",
"A possible reason is that they were not educated on how to stop it. .",
"Research shows us that students often know ahead of time when and where violence will flare up on campus.",
"Strong social networks and the widespread use of cell phones and text messaging rapidly convey such information.",
"This dynamic can fuel violence, as officials say it did at Richmond High School.",
"It can also prevent violence.",
"Thousands of potential school crimes, including violent ones, have been averted on campuses across the country because students alerted school officials before the crime occurred.",
"Students and families using a hot line in Colorado were credited with preventing more than 206 incidents of school violence from 2004-06.",
"As of summer 2009, this one hot line fielded 1,687 reports that resulted in crime prevention or intervention.",
"Alert students have also helped prevent replays of the tragedies that occurred at Columbine and Virginia Tech by tipping off school officials.",
"Several years ago, student reports stopped a Columbine-style massacre plot, employing bombs, napalm and automatic weapons, at a high school in Green Bay, Wisconsin.",
"This year, tips from students and alert teachers and police disrupted a student-massacre plot, featuring pipe bombs and firearms, at Hillside High School in San Mateo, California.",
"Since Columbine, school shootings have been averted in New Bedford, New York, and Covina, California, to name some others.",
"And at Richmond, it was an 18-year-old bystander, overhearing others talking about the incident, who reported the crime.",
"Unfortunately, the public is largely unaware of these frequently heroic acts by high school students and their teachers because they don't often get national media attention.",
"That lack of information has helped obscure the important roles that students and their responsive teachers play in preventing school violence.",
"But the evidence is clear.",
"Students who know what to do when they witness school violence, or when they have a strong sense of impending violence, will become anonymous heroes.",
"But they need to be taught what to do, which phone numbers -- including hot lines -- to call and which school officials or police department can be trusted to act on their reports.",
"Students also need to feel confident that Students can report trouble without fear of retribution from Students's peers or being called a snitch.",
"It is up to the teachers and administrators who run schools to teach the teachers and administrators who run schools's students these procedures.",
"the teachers and administrators who run schools need to convince students that they will listen and respond consistently to their reports of violence or possible violence.",
"Yes, local police need to develop trusting relationships with students and the overall community, or nothing will be reported.",
"But the job of preventing violence on campus belongs primarily, if not solely, to the schools.",
"Rather than wring our hands about the so-called immorality of today's students, we should embrace today's students as full partners in the prevention of violence on campus.",
"Morality is not the issue.",
"If students are educated on what to do when the threat of violence arises and are encouraged to follow the procedures, students can be trusted to do the right thing.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ron Astor."
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"Studies of school violence show ways it can be prevented, he says .",
"Astor: Training can prepare students to alert police and avert violence ."
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"Michelle Kehoe's plot to blame a stranger for killing Michelle Kehoe's sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut surviving boy's throat, then moved on to surviving boy's younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday.",
"Police found the 7-year-old covered in dried blood in the family van the morning of October 27, 2008, in a secluded area near a pond east of Littleton.",
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"Kehoe, of Coralville, Iowa, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and child endangerment causing serious injury.",
"Before Kehoe's first-degree murder trial, Michelle Kehoe's lawyers filed a notice of intent to present an insanity defense, according to court records.",
"Michelle Kehoe's lawyers chose to reserve her lawyers's opening arguments for the start of her lawyers's case.",
"Dressed in a blue and white striped blouse, Michelle Kehoe frowned as Michelle Kehoe listened to surviving boy's son's voice on an audio recording that was played Thursday in Kehoe's first-degree murder trial, occasionally bowing Michelle Kehoe's head.",
"surviving boy had locked surviving boy in the family van overnight after surviving boy's mother slashed surviving boy and surviving boy's younger brother the previous day and left him and his younger brother for dead, Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser said in Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser's opening statement.",
"Michelle Kehoe then walked to a nearby pond and attempted to kill Michelle Kehoe by slashing Michelle Kehoe's throat with the same weapon, a camouflage-handle Winchester hunting knife Michelle Kehoe bought the month before, Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser said.",
"When it became apparent Michelle Kehoe was not going to die, the prosecutor said, Michelle Kehoe staggered half a mile down the road to the nearest home and told a story Michelle Kehoe'd concocted weeks before of how a stranger abducted the family, killed Michelle Kehoe's sons and tried to kill Michelle Kehoe.",
"But when authorities went searching for a stranger, authorities instead found surviving boy's 7-year-old son in the car and his younger brother dead outside the driver's side.",
"\"Do you know where you're injured at?\" Deputy Stephen Peterson asked surviving boy in the recording.",
"\"Just my throat,\" surviving boy said.",
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"\"Michelle Kehoe.\"",
"surviving boy said surviving boy's mother also put duct tape over surviving boy's eyes, nose and mouth, but that surviving boy pulled them off after surviving boy's mother left surviving boy.",
"\"Michelle Kehoe was hurting my baby brother,\" surviving boy said.",
"Michelle Kehoe began plotting Kehoe's first-degree murder trial the month before with the purchase of the knife and the duct tape, Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser said.",
"Michelle Kehoe allegedly chose the date of the incident to coincide with when Michelle Kehoe's husband, Gene, was scheduled to take a yoga class, telling him they were going to visit Michelle Kehoe's mother at a nursing home in Sumner.",
"Police also say Police found signs of a cover-up at the scene, including pieces of a first-aid kit scattered around the scene and a handwritten note documenting Kehoe's first-degree murder trial, Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser said.",
"The note detailed how a stranger broke into the car when the family stopped at a gas station and forced the family to the area where the van was found.",
"Michelle Kehoe tried to fight a stranger off with pepper spray but a stranger knocked Michelle Kehoe unconscious, The note said, according to Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser.",
"Police said Michelle Kehoe later told Police Michelle Kehoe had written The note in the midst of Kehoe's first-degree murder trial to explain what had happened to those who would find the scene, according to Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser.",
"\"And the note, which you'll see, ends with, 'Oh no, here a stranger comes again...' \" Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser told the jury.",
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"Just as police were starting a manhunt in the killing of four people, Suspect Richard Ringold drove back to the crime scene in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Suspect Richard Ringold is accused of shooting five people in the home Suspect Richard Ringold lived in.",
"\"Suspect Richard Ringold was in the Dodge Intrepid that we told the media to look out for,\" said Gwinnett County police Cpl. Illana Spellman.",
"\"Suspect Richard Ringold pulled up and said Suspect Richard Ringold heard we were looking for Suspect Richard Ringold.",
"We handcuffed Suspect Richard Ringold.\"",
"The man, Richard Ringold 44, is accused of shooting five people in the home Suspect Richard Ringold lived in.",
"Two women and one man died at the residence near the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, Spellman said.",
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"Police were initially working on a theory that the shootings could have been related to an ongoing domestic violence issue, Spellman said.",
"It was believed that Suspect Richard Ringold was dating one of the women who lived in the home, Spellman said.",
"He was arrested on four counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault.",
"Gwinnett County is northeast of Atlanta.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Life goes on for people who jump out of airplanes, even a day after two fellow parachutists died when two fellow parachutists's canopies apparently became entangled.",
"Jumps continue at the Parachute Center, where two parachutists died Sunday.",
"On Monday, the Parachute Center near Lodi, California, was open, just like it is any other day.",
"The two jumpers who died Sunday had taken off from the parachute facility in central California.",
"\"Everybody's sad.",
"Everybody's unhappy,\" said Parachute Center owner Bill Dause.",
"\"But everybody here is here because they enjoy jumping.",
"Neither one of them would have wanted us to shut the doors,\" Parachute Center owner Bill Dause said, referring to the jumpers who died Sunday.",
"The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call for assistance at 12:53 p.m. Sunday, said Deputy Les Garcia.",
"The sheriff's spokesman confirmed there were two deaths, but referred questions to the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"\"the Federal Aviation Administration're investigating,\" said the Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor, adding that two investigators were on two investigators's way to the Parachute Center.",
"The inquiry could take months, Deputy Les Garcia said.",
"\"One of the main things the Federal Aviation Administration want to do is get a hold of a video that was supposedly taken,\" Deputy Les Garcia said.",
"the Federal Aviation Administration has purview over such issues as how the parachutes were packed -- by whom, when and how -- and whether weather conditions were correctly considered.",
"\"Obviously, in a situation like this, the Federal Aviation Administration certainly want to look at how the parachutes were packed,\" Deputy Les Garcia said.",
"\"But it's possible that what happened is beyond the Federal Aviation Administration's regulatory capability.\"",
"Deputy Les Garcia said Deputy Les Garcia could not identify two fellow parachutists.",
"\"The ID and notification of next of kin is pending,\" Deputy Les Garcia said, because \"one of two fellow parachutists has two names.\"",
"Parachute Center owner Dause and media reports have identified two fellow parachutists as two fellow parachutists and Barbara Cuddy.",
"two fellow parachutists were among eight parachutists from a competition team who jumped from an airplane at 9,000 feet to practice making a \"canopy-relative formation,\" a maneuver in which two fellow parachutists stacked parachutes near each other to form a wedge, Deputy Les Garcia said.",
"\"The last two individuals docking experienced canopy problems,\" Deputy Les Garcia said.",
"One jumper's chute rotated into another jumper's canopy and they smacked into a third parachutist, Deputy Les Garcia said.",
"a third parachutist managed to wriggle free, Deputy Les Garcia said, but the other two remained entangled and spiraled down from 5,000 feet.",
"They were unable to deploy their reserve chutes.",
"They landed in a vineyard, Deputy Les Garcia said.",
"One victim was dead at the scene and the other died at a local hospital, reports said.",
"Robby Bigley and Cuddy are listed on the United States Parachute Association Web site as national record holders for formation jumps.",
"Robby Bigley's record jump occurred this year and Cuddy's in 2007.",
"The jump team was preparing for a national competition in October.",
"According to the United States Parachute Association, there were 30 skydiving fatalities last year.",
"No figures were available for this year.",
"The most fatalities occurred in 1998, when 44 people died.",
"The fewest in recent years was in 2007, with 18, according to the United States Parachute Association.",
"Deputy Les Garcia said there have been previous fatalities at the Parachute Center, but Deputy Les Garcia did not elaborate.",
"\"We've been open for a long time,\" Deputy Les Garcia said."
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"The highly fortified International Zone in Baghdad came under fire the same day that VP Joe Biden paid a surprise visit, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.",
"VP Joe Biden talks to the media Tuesday in Baghdad's fortified International Zone.",
"VP Joe Biden was not injured, according to CNN's Chris Lawrence, who was traveling with VP Joe Biden.",
"But at least one round seems to have landed in the U.S. Embassy grounds, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill said.",
"The highly fortified International Zone in Baghdad houses the embassy and many government buildings.",
"Lawrence said Lawrence heard the blasts but saw no damage.",
"CNN's Cal Perry said he heard four loud \"booms.\"",
"Warning alarms were sounded, and security was stepped up in The highly fortified International Zone in Baghdad, which is informally known as the Green Zone.",
"It is not clear what weapons were fired or if VP Joe Biden was near the location where the rounds hit.",
"For security reasons, reporters traveling with VP Joe Biden are not allowed to report VP Joe Biden's location.",
"Watch as Lawrence reports on the attack » .",
"A U.S. military spokesman said A U.S. military spokesman could confirm only that one round hit, and A U.S. military spokesman said it did not land in The highly fortified International Zone in Baghdad.",
"\"Initial reports indicate one round of indirect fire impacted near The highly fortified International Zone in Baghdad, not in it,\" Lt. Col. Phillip Smith, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, told CNN.",
"But Lawrence told reporters that some sort of projectile landed in the east end of the embassy complex.",
"He said projectile was the reason for a \"duck-and-cover\" alarm that journalists traveling with VP Joe Biden heard during a briefing by top U.S. officials in Baghdad.",
"a \"duck-and-cover\" alarm that journalists traveling with Biden heard during a briefing by top U.S. officials in Baghdad sounded intermittently throughout almost the entire 35-minute briefing by Lawrence and the top U.S. general in Iraq, Ray Odierno, Lawrence said.",
"Odierno and Lawrence did not seem concerned, Lawrence said.",
"No one jumped up or tried to run out of the building.",
"Odierno and Hill paused if Odierno and Hill were talking when a \"duck-and-cover\" alarm that journalists traveling with Biden heard during a briefing by top U.S. officials in Baghdad sounded, and picked up when it stopped.",
"There was an \"all-clear\" as a briefing by top U.S. officials in Baghdad ended.",
"Lawrence said it is kind of unusual to get this type of attack now.",
"Lawrence said they used to happen 10 to 12 times a day, but now are few and far between.",
"VP Joe Biden's visit was widely reported on Iraqi television, Perry said.",
"VP Joe Biden is in Iraq to meet with the country's leaders and visit U.S. troops, VP Joe Biden's office said.",
"Journalists on the plane with the vice president were not told where Journalists on the plane with the vice president were going until after Journalists on the plane with the vice president were on the way.",
"VP Joe Biden was due to sit down with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, as well as Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and other officials.",
"VP Joe Biden was greeted at the airport at dusk by Gen. Odierno, Ambassador Hill and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.",
"Watch VP Joe Biden arrive in Iraq, greet troops » .",
"VP Joe Biden flew by helicopter to the International Zone.",
"VP Joe Biden, Hill, Odierno and Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg, who is traveling with VP Joe Biden, then went into a meeting.",
"Biden, Hill, Odierno and Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg, who is traveling with Biden did not speak to reporters.",
"This is VP Joe Biden's third trip to Iraq this year, after visits in July and January.",
"\"The president has asked VP Joe Biden to provide sustained, high-level focus from the White House on Iraq, and this trip is part of that mission,\" the White House said in a statement issued as VP Joe Biden arrived.",
"The United States is less than a year away from The United States's goal of withdrawing all combat troops from Iraq.",
"Hill has said the next 12 months are \"very critical\" to establishing security in Iraq, but the goal of withdrawing most U.S. troops by August 2010 is \"absolutely achievable.\"",
"VP Joe Biden said Odierno is \"optimistic\" that Iraqi forces will be ready in time to allow U.S. withdrawals to go ahead as planned, according to Lawrence.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report."
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"Rocket, mortar fire aimed at area was common in past, but has become much rarer ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Tennessee man -- accused in a fatal attack at a military recruiting center in Arkansas in June -- wants to plead guilty and claims to have ties to al Qaeda in Yemen in a letter Abdul Hakim Muhammad wrote to the judge presiding over Abdul Hakim Muhammad's case.",
"In the handwritten letter dated January 12, Abdul Hakim Muhammad said Abdul Hakim Muhammad did not want a trial and insisted 2009 recruiting center shooting was \"justified\" under jihad.",
"\"This was a jihadi attack on infidel forces that didn't go as plan,\" Abdul Hakim Muhammad wrote.",
"\"Flat out truth.\"",
"It was not immediately clear whether the judge, Herbert Wright Jr., would accept the plea.",
"Abdul Hakim Muhammad's lawyer, Claiborne Ferguson, called a letter he wrote to the judge presiding over his case \"highly inappropriate.\"",
"\"If my client had the intention of pleading guilty, it is misguided and misinformed as to Arkansas law,\" Claiborne Ferguson said from Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday.",
"\"He can't plead guilty to a capital crime.\"",
"That response is why Abdul Hakim Muhammad said Abdul Hakim Muhammad decided to bypass Abdul Hakim Muhammad's lawyer with a letter to Wright.",
"Abdul Hakim Muhammad wrote that Abdul Hakim Muhammad believed it was \"a lie\" that Abdul Hakim Muhammad could not plead guilty.",
"Muhammad, formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe, is charged with killing Pvt. William Long, 23, and wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18.",
"The attack happened on June 1 at a recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas.",
"In June, Abdul Hakim Muhammad pleaded not guilty to one count of capital murder and 16 counts of engaging in a terrorist act.",
"Before pleading not guilty, Abdul Hakim Muhammad waived Abdul Hakim Muhammad's Miranda rights and gave a video statement indicating political and religious motives, authorities said.",
"Abdul Hakim Muhammad \"stated that Abdul Hakim Muhammad was a practicing Muslim ... that Abdul Hakim Muhammad was mad at the U.S. military because of what the U.S. military had done to Muslims in the past,\" Detective Tommy Hudson wrote in a police report at the time.",
"Abdul Hakim Muhammad told police \"Abdul Hakim Muhammad fired several rounds at the soldiers with the intent of killing the soldiers,\" according to Detective Tommy Hudson's report.",
"In Abdul Hakim Muhammad's letter to the judge, Abdul Hakim Muhammad claimed Abdul Hakim Muhammad had links to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, a group that has claimed responsibility for the attempting bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.",
"\"Abdul Hakim Muhammad's lawyer has no defense,\" Abdul Hakim Muhammad wrote.",
"\"I wasn't insane or post traumatic nor was I forced to do 2009 recruiting center shooting.",
"Which I believe and 2009 recruiting center shooting is justified according to Islamic laws and the Islamic religion jihad -- to fight those who wage war on Islam and Muslims.\"",
"CNN's Charley Keyes contributed to a police report."
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"Abdul Hakim Muhammad accused of killing soldier, wounding another on June 1 in Little Rock, Arkansas ."
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"A helicopter crashed into a building in Panama City on Thursday, killing 11 of the 12 people aboard, including Chile's federal police chief, a Panamanian government official said.",
"Incident occurred during the afternoon in a commercial zone of Panama City as A helicopter was carrying several Panamanian police officials and six members of a group from Chile.",
"They had been attending a regional forum in the city of Colon, a Panamanian government official said.",
"Witnesses said a rotor blade hit a three-story building, causing A helicopter to fall in a ball of fire.",
"Several people on the ground were burned, and the building -- which houses a clothing store -- also caught fire.",
"Watch emergency workers at the scene » .",
"It took firefighters hours to control the flames and to keep the blaze from spreading to other buildings.",
"\"The principal problem is the smoke and the toxic gases; that's what makes the work more difficult,\" said Cecilio Lasso, one of the firefighters.",
"Chilean police chief Gen. Jose Alejandro Bernales and his wife were among the dead, a Panamanian government official said.",
"A delegation from Chile was expected to arrive late Thursday to help identify the bodies.",
"No cause was immediately identified for the crash.",
"\"It's an old but well-maintained helicopter,\" said Daniel Delgado Diamante, minister of government and justice.",
"\"It was in good shape.",
"Of course, now there will be a process of validating that.\"",
"The Chilean government has declared three days of mourning."
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"NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) --",
"Raymond J. Clark III, charged with murder in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, was smart, amiable and loved Raymond Clark III's dog, say those who knew Raymond Clark III.",
"Raymond Clark III was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le.",
"One researcher said One researcher often went by the lab in the Yale School of Medicine building where Yale graduate student Annie Le was found strangled and stuffed in a wall.",
"One researcher worked with Raymond Clark III, One researcher said, and thinks the police may have the wrong man.",
"\"He's a nice man, always,\" he said.",
"Clark, 24, the same age as Yale graduate student Annie Le, was a technician in the school of medicine's Animal Resources Center.",
"While Le, who was pursuing a doctorate in pharmacology, conducted experiments on mice, Raymond Clark III took care of the rodents and cleaned the rodents's cages.",
"Police will not say whether Raymond Clark III and Yale graduate student Annie Le were acquainted or why they homed in on Raymond Clark III after Yale graduate student Annie Le went missing September 8, less than a week before Yale graduate student Annie Le was scheduled to marry a Columbia University graduate student who was Yale graduate student Annie Le's college sweetheart.",
"Watch police announce arrest » .",
"\"Clark and Le work in the same building, passed in the hallways,\" New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said of Yale graduate student Annie Le and Raymond Clark III.",
"\"Anything beyond that, I won't talk about.\"",
"Though details of the investigation are scant, police said police arrested Raymond Clark III on Thursday and charged Raymond Clark III with Yale graduate student Annie Le's murder after collecting more than 250 pieces of evidence.",
"Raymond Clark III was an honor student at Branford High School in suburban New Haven.",
"Raymond Clark III graduated in 2004, and according to Branford High School in suburban New Haven's yearbook, Raymond Clark III was a member of the Asian Awareness Club Raymond Clark III's senior year.",
"High school friend Lisa Heselin remembers Raymond Clark III \"as a jokester, kind of a class clown,\" High school friend Lisa Heselin said.",
"\"Everybody knew Raymond Clark III.",
"Everybody liked Raymond Clark III.\"",
"High school friend Lisa Heselin and others who knew Raymond Clark III in high school are shocked that Raymond Clark III was arrested in connection with Yale graduate student Annie Le's murder, High school friend Lisa Heselin said.",
"Watch what acquaintances say about Clark » .",
"\"acquaintances can't believe it, and then, of course, you're reminiscing, like, 'Oh my God, remember when we went over to his house and we all hung out?'",
"You don't expect somebody you grew up with to be involved in something like this,\" Heselin said.",
"Maurice Perry, who said he has been friends with Raymond Clark III since first grade, told CNN on Thursday night that he doesn't believe Raymond Clark III's longtime pal is guilty.",
"\"This is not the Raymond Clark that I know,\" he said.",
"\"I've known Raymond Clark III so long, I just can't picture Raymond Clark III doing something like this.\"",
"Asked if he ever knew Raymond Clark III to be violent, Perry replied, \"Not at all.",
"I've known Raymond Clark III to be outgoing, happy, athletic, fun.",
"Violent, not at all.\"",
"Most of Raymond Clark III's current neighbors in Middletown, about 30 miles northeast of New Haven, said they moved in after Raymond Clark III or knew Raymond Clark III only in passing.",
"Many said Raymond Clark III shared the second-floor apartment with Raymond Clark III's girlfriend and a dog.",
"Police said Raymond Clark III drove a Ford Mustang, which was seized as evidence.",
"Neighbor Ashley Rowe described Raymond Clark III as \"decent\" and said Raymond Clark III asked a lot of questions when Raymond Clark III spoke to people and wanted to know people's full names and where people were from.",
"Neighbor Ashley Rowe also remembered the first time Neighbor Ashley Rowe met Raymond Clark III's dog.",
"\"Raymond Clark III's dog was very excited and Raymond Clark III was just like, 'Oh, don't worry.",
"a dog's friendly.'",
"You could pet a dog,\" Neighbor Ashley Rowe said.",
"\"Pretty much, Raymond Clark III just loved Raymond Clark III's dog and Raymond Clark III walked around with Raymond Clark III's dog all the time.\"",
"Police arrived at Raymond Clark III's apartment Tuesday night to collect DNA samples and released Raymond Clark III into the custody of Raymond Clark III's lawyer early Wednesday.",
"Neighbors say Neighbors didn't see Raymond Clark III return to the second-floor apartment.",
"See investigation's timeline » .",
"Raymond Clark III was arrested early Thursday at a Super 8 motel in nearby Cromwell.",
"There were reports that Raymond Clark III was scheduled to wed Raymond Clark III's roommate and girlfriend, Jennifer Hromadka, also a lab technician in Yale's Animal Resources Center, in December 2011.",
"CNN could not confirm the report, and an Internet wedding page purportedly announcing the impending nuptials had been taken down Thursday.",
"Hromadka's MySpace page was private as of Tuesday evening, but several media outlets reported she had posted messages about Raymond Clark III last year after hearing a \"rumor of a fling.\"",
"\"Raymond Clark III, if you don't know Raymond Clark III, has no interest in any of the other girls at [the Yale Animal Resources Center] as anything more than friends,\" she reportedly wrote.",
"She said Raymond Clark III had a \"big heart\" and tried to see the best in people, even if Raymond Clark III didn't always make the best decisions.",
"\"Raymond Clark III is a bit naive, doesn't always use the best judgment, definitely is not the best judge of character, but Raymond Clark III is a good guy,\" she reportedly wrote.\"He thinks everyone deserves a second chance and has a hard time hurting people's feelings, and it takes Raymond Clark III getting burned to learn.\" Watch reporter, profiler discuss case » .",
"Perry, Raymond Clark III's friend since first grade, said Clark hadn't spoken to Raymond Clark III in some time, but would send Raymond Clark III a letter.",
"\"I have always wanted to catch up with Raymond Clark III, but I didn't want this to happen for me to try to find out how Raymond Clark III was doing,\" Clark said.",
"Raymond Clark III is being held on $3 million bond, Lewis said, but Lewis would not provide details of what prompted Raymond Clark III's arrest or whether DNA linked Raymond Clark III to Le's murder.",
"Lewis said Raymond Clark III's arrest warrant was sealed, so Lewis was prohibited from discussing the evidence.",
"Yale President Richard Levin said the school's administration is \"relieved\" by the news of an arrest, but warned, \"We must resist the temptation to rush to judgment.\"",
"CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Mary Snow, Tom Foreman and Larry King contributed to this report."
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"Another friend says she remembers Raymond Clark III \"as a jokester, kind of a class clown\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"A 7-year-old boy from El Paso, Texas, was gunned down across the border in the violent city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office told CNN Tuesday.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez had been visiting Raul Xazziel Ramirez's father in Ciudad Juarez on Friday evening when unknown gunmen fired on the vehicle at a roundabout, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"At least 18 rounds from a 9 mm weapon were shot at the white 2000 Geo Tracker driven by Raul Xazziel Ramirez's dad, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"The father, Raul Ramirez Alvarado, 35, died in the driver's seat.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez escaped from the vehicle, but was apparently shot in the back, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez's body fell forward in front of the vehicle.",
"The shooting happened just before 8 p.m. Friday.",
"No arrests had been made as of Tuesday, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez was a third-grader at Glen Cove Elementary School in El Paso, Ysleta Independent School District spokeswoman Patricia Ayala told CNN.",
"\"It's a senseless tragedy that we're trying to come to terms with,\" Ysleta Independent School District spokeswoman Patricia Ayala said.",
"According to El Paso County records, Raul Xazziel Ramirez was just three weeks shy of Raul Xazziel Ramirez's eighth birthday when Raul Xazziel Ramirez was killed.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez lived with Raul Xazziel Ramirez's aunt and uncle in El Paso, Ysleta Independent School District spokeswoman Patricia Ayala said.",
"It was the first semester that Raul Xazziel Ramirez was registered with the district.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez's classmates were spared the details of Raul Xazziel Ramirez's death, but the school was nonetheless shocked at Raul Xazziel Ramirez's passing.",
"Grief counselors were made available for both students and teachers, Ysleta Independent School District spokeswoman Patricia Ayala said.",
"More than 2,200 killings have been recorded this year in Ciudad Juarez, out of a population of approximately 1.5 million people.",
"A bloody turf war between warring drug cartels that started last year has made Ciudad Juarez one of the most violent in the world.",
"According to statistics from local prosecutors, Ciudad Juarez records about 10 murders a day.",
"The bloodiest month this year has been September, with 476 killings reported.",
"The violence has not spilled over significantly across the border to El Paso, but as Friday's shooting showed, the pain of one of the sister cities is shared by the other.",
"Because of the ongoing investigation, spokesman Arturo Sandoval declined to say whether drug cartel activity was suspected in the killings of Raul Xazziel Ramirez and his father, but added that at least 90 percent of Ciudad Juarez's homicides are drug-related.",
"Raul Xazziel Ramirez was not the youngest victim slain this year.",
"In early 2009, a 3-year-old girl was killed together with a 3-year-old girl's father inside a vehicle that was targeted, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said."
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"Raul Xazziel Ramirez was killed Friday along with Ramirez's father in Ciudad Juarez.",
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"More than 2,200 slain this year in Ciudad Juarez; Raul Xazziel Ramirez was not the youngest ."
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"Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) --",
"The tragic death of a trainer at Sea World last week revived a number of long simmering questions.",
"While we still grapple with \"how did this happen?\" the central question for many revolves around the role of large mammals -- like Tilikum the killer whale -- in zoos and aquariums: Should large mammals -- like Tilikum the killer whale -- be there or not?",
"Animals in zoos, aquariums and museums play an important and powerful part in our cultural and formal educational processes.",
"Humans are inherently interested in nature.",
"We are not very far removed from a time when being knowledgeable about nature was vital to life; you either knew how to find your dinner or you were dinner.",
"Today, with well over 50 percent of our populations living in cities, we are rapidly becoming divorced from the realities of the animal world.",
"The dialogue we see in the media, read on blogs and hear in conversation makes it clear that many people have lots of ideas about what's happening in our natural world, much of it not correct.",
"This lack of knowledge is concerning in a world beset by environmental problems, where species are disappearing at an alarming rate.",
"We need people to understand the changes taking place in our natural systems and appreciate that each of our actions has an impact.",
"More interest and knowledge, not less, is essential.",
"Zoos and aquariums provide access and a vital connection to the world of wildlife and our environment, helping to foster an understanding of nature and how it works, and an appreciation for why it matters.",
"Most professionally operated zoos and aquariums, such as those accredited by the Canadian or American Associations of Zoos and Aquariums, are dedicated to increasing engagement and raising awareness and participation in conservation issues.",
"Most professionally operated zoos and aquariums, such as those accredited by the Canadian or American Associations of Zoos and Aquariums conduct active programs that aid species survival, research and conservation, both at Most professionally operated zoos and aquariums, such as those accredited by the Canadian or American Associations of Zoos and Aquariums's public display facilities and in the field.",
"The Vancouver Aquarium has operated our Marine Mammal Rescue (MMR) program since the mid 1960s.",
"Each year, hundreds of marine mammals are rescued from situations of distress and rehabilitated by The Vancouver Aquarium's dedicated team of staff and volunteers, led by The Vancouver Aquarium's veterinarian.",
"Their goal is to return marine mammals to good health so they can be released back to the ocean.",
"The Vancouver Aquarium has not had killer whales on exhibit since 2001.",
"However, The Vancouver Aquarium's orca research continues in the field with experts working off the British Columbia coast to observe and study social interaction, behaviors, migrations, and feeding patterns.",
"The Vancouver Aquarium do have beluga whales, including two calves born recently.",
"Belugas are ideally suited to an aquarium environment.",
"two calves born recently's births have allowed researchers to study the social structure of a beluga family, and in collaboration with the University of British Columbia we have conducted beluga vocalization studies since 2002 to understand contact calls and other forms of communication between these beautiful and communicative animals.",
"As our visitors see beluga whales and learn about these creatures's communication, natural history and the challenges these creatures face due to climate change in the Arctic, a unique chain is created, moving from initial amazement of observing these creatures to the inspiration to care about these creatures and finally to take action, in large or small ways, to protect these creatures's future by conserving these creatures's natural environment.",
"We see our role as more important now than ever before.",
"The time of simply displaying animals merely as curiosities is, thankfully, over.",
"Our aquarium, and many others like it, represents often the only -- and the best -- opportunity for urbanites (particularly youth) to establish a connection with the natural world of animals.",
"Sadly, many of us will never experience the joy and wonder of encountering animals in animals's natural habitat.",
"But can get learn about animals up close and personal in a modern and reputable aquarium or zoo.",
"If you have had the good fortune to spend time in such an institution, and have seen the sense of awe and wonder on the faces of youngsters meeting a sea otter, for example, for the first time, you'll know what this is all about.",
"What's more, having access to, and learning about, Tilikum and other whales in aquariums and marine parks since such amazing creatures were first displayed in the mid-1960s, has totally changed people's perceptions about them.",
"Before then, killer whales were feared, termed \"wolves of the sea\", and even had a bounty on killer whales's heads in some places; being able to see killer whales personally helped spark people's curiosity and interest.",
"The resulting change in public perception was dramatic and swift, leading to killer whales's protection by the U.S. government in the 1970s under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.",
"Today, most people revere killer whales and understand a great deal more about the challenges this species faces around the world -- with overfishing depleting this species's food supply, the impacts of climate change and pollution threatening this species's environment and this species's ultimate survival.",
"With so many changes confronting nature and the animals that make it their home, human understanding and appreciation is critical.",
"Animals that people are privileged to see in professional zoos, aquariums and similar institutions are vital to engagement, inspiration and conservation.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dr. John Nightingale."
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"\"LHC is back,\" the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced triumphantly Friday, as LHC resumed operation more than a year after an electrical failure shut it down.",
"Restarting the Large Hadron Collider -- the $10 billion research tool's full name -- has been \"a herculean effort,\" CERN's director for accelerators, Steve Myers, said in a statement announcing the success.",
"Update: First collisions at LHC on Monday .",
"Experiments at LHC may help answer fundamental questions such as why Albert Einstein's theory of relativity -- which describes the world on a large scale -- doesn't jibe with quantum mechanics, which deals with matter far too small to see.",
"Physicists established a circulating proton beam in LHC's 17-mile tunnel at 10 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) Friday, CERN said, a critical step towards getting results from LHC.",
"\"It's great to see beam circulating in LHC again,\" said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.",
"\"We've still got some way to go before physics can begin, but with this milestone we're well on the way.\"",
"Located underground on the border of Switzerland and France, LHC has been inching towards operation since the summer.",
"LHC reached LHC's operating temperature -- 271 degrees below zero Celsius -- on October 8 and particles were injected on October 23.",
"Now that a beam is circulating, the next step is low-energy collisions, which should begin in about a week, CERN said.",
"High-energy collisions will follow next year.",
"LHC has been dogged by problems.",
"LHC made headlines early this month when a bird apparently dropped a \"bit of baguette\" into LHC, making LHC shut down.",
"The incident was similar in effect to a standard power cut, said spokeswoman Katie Yurkewicz.",
"Had LHC been going, there would have been no damage, but beams would have been stopped until LHC could be cooled back down to operating temperatures, spokeswoman Katie Yurkewicz said.",
"LHC achieved LHC's first full-circle beam last year on September 10 amid much celebration.",
"But just nine days later, the operation was set back when one of the 25,000 joints that connect magnets in LHC came loose and the resulting current melted or burned some important components of LHC, Myers said.",
"The faulty joint has a cross-section of a mere two-thirds of an inch by two-thirds of an inch.",
"\"There was certainly frustration and almost sorrow when we had the accident,\" Myers said.",
"Now, \"people are feeling a lot better because we know we've done so much work in the last year.\"",
"Mark Wise, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, said Wise's just as excited about the results that will come out of LHC as Wise was last year and views the accident as a delay rather than a devastating event.",
"Wise noted that Tevatron, the collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, has also had the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois's share of failures but is generally considered to work just fine.",
"\"It's a horribly complicated piece of equipment, it's not like there's not going to be problems along the way,\" Wise said.",
"\"They will surmount those problems.\"",
"LHC will probably be in operation more than 20 years, Myers said.",
"But it won't be that long before scientists could potentially discover new properties of nature.",
"The as-yet theoretical Higgs boson, also called \"the God particle\" in popular parlance, could emerge within two or three years, Myers said.",
"Evidence of supersymmetry -- the idea that every particle has a \"super partner\" with similar properties in a quantum dimension (according to some physics theories, there are hidden dimensions in the universe) -- could crop up as early as 2010.",
"For some theoretical physicists such as Wise, finding the Higgs boson and verifying every prediction of the Standard Model of physics would be the worst outcome.",
"He wants LHC to deliver surprises, even if that means no Higgs.",
"\"When push comes to shove, the name of the game is 'what is nature,' and we're not going to know until our experimental colleagues tell us,\" Wise said.",
"ATLAS and CMS are the general-purpose experiments designed to find the Higgs boson and other rare particles that have never been detected before.",
"ALICE, another experiment, will explore the matter that existed some 10 microseconds after the Big Bang, said John Harris, professor of physics at Yale University and national coordinator of ALICE-USA.",
"At that time, there was a \"hot soup\" of particles called quarks and gluons at a temperature of around 2 trillion degrees above absolute zero, John Harris, professor of physics at Yale University and national coordinator of ALICE-USA said.",
"Although these particles have never been directly seen, these particles are theoretically the building blocks of the bigger particles -- protons, neutrons and electrons -- that form the universe as we know the universe.",
"CNN's Elizabeth Landau contributed to this report."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Health officials on Friday reported a slight decrease in H1N1 flu activity nationwide.",
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 43 states now have widespread flu activity, compared with 46 states last week and 48 states at the beginning of November.",
"\"It's still much greater than we would ever see at this time of year,\" Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a news conference.",
"Schuchat added that while some parts of the country are seeing a small decline in flu cases, other areas, including Maine and Hawaii, have seen a bit of a surge.",
"It's too early to know if the worst is over in terms of the flu season, Schuchat said.",
"\"Even though we saw a little bit of a decrease this week, it is still higher than the peak activity in many years,\" Schuchat said.",
"Flu season doesn't usually start until December.",
"But when the H1N1 virus emerged in April, the spread of the flu never stopped, effectively stretching last year's flu season into the new one.",
"CDC also said 21 more deaths from H1N1 in children were reported in the past week, bringing the official toll of confirmed pediatric H1N1 deaths in the United States to 171.",
"Schuchat said the number doesn't reflect the true picture.",
"\"CDC believe the estimates CDC provided last week give a better picture of the full toll that the H1N1 virus has taken in the first six months of the pandemic,\" Schuchat said.",
"last week CDC reported that CDC estimated 540 children had died from complications of the H1N1 virus so far.",
"In an effort to limit further spread of the H1N1 virus as millions of Americans begin traveling for the holidays, CDC has launched a public awareness campaign.",
"Schuchat urged everyone to take simple precautions.",
"\"Travel only when you are well,\" Schuchat told reporters.",
"\"Wash your hands often.",
"... Cover your cough and sneeze with tissues or with your sleeve. ... And get vaccinated against flu, particularly if you're in a targeted population.\"",
"Watch why Santa wants a flu shot .",
"More people will be able to get vaccinated, according to CDC, because more vaccine continues to be available.",
"States have been able to order a total of 54.1 million doses of H1N1 vaccine so far, Schuchat said.",
"\"That number is 11 million doses more than we were at a week ago.\"",
"In response to a report from Norway that a couple of people died from a mutated form of the H1N1 virus, Schuchat said CDC is aware that the mutated form had been identified, but that H1N1 vaccine and antiviral medications still are effective against H1N1.",
"Some cases of H1N1 that show resistance to the antiviral Tamiflu have been identified in North Carolina and Wales.",
"But Schuchat said Tamiflu-resistant influenza viruses have been \"quite rare\" so far.",
"Tamiflu doesn't cure flu, but can reduce symptom severity and duration of illness by about a day if taken within the first day or two of getting sick."
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"(CNN) --",
"Judith Boutelle plopped Judith Boutelle down on Wednesday and prayed for a helicopter -- the only way out of town.",
"Judith Boutelle's one of the hundreds of tourists stranded by days of heavy rain near Machu Picchu, in the mountains of southern Peru.",
"The rain triggered mudslides that blocked a rail line leading out of a city near the ruins.",
"Authorities have evacuated many by helicopter, but bad weather has posed challenges for Authorities.",
"\"There's stress,\" Judith Boutelle said by phone to CNN, \"but we're comfortable.\"",
"Judith Boutelle and Judith Boutelle's husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois -- went to Peru to see Machu Picchu.",
"She and her husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois --'ve been stuck in a town near Machu Picchu for the last three days, waiting for choppers to whisk She and her husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois -- out.",
"News reports say the rain and floods have killed at least seven people in the region, including a tourist from Argentina.",
"An estimated 10,000 people have been affected by the rain and 2,000 homes have been ruined in and around Machu Picchu, authorities said.",
"James Fennell, spokesman of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, told CNN the Peruvians are saying about 2,000 people need to be evacuated from the region.",
"Several hundred tourists have been stranded in Aguas Calientes, a town at the base of popular tourist attraction.",
"There also have been reports of stranded people on the Inca Trail, a popular hiking trail that leads to Machu Picchu.",
"Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said Wednesday that the elderly, children and pregnant women have priority for evacuation.",
"Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez denied reports of preferential treatment for foreigners, saying 103 of 475 tourists evacuated Tuesday were Peruvian.",
"Watch iReport account of Peru flooding .",
"Quoted by state media, Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said authorities were planning to evacuate 120 tourists an hour but need \"the weather's help.\"",
"Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said authorities could evacuate 840 tourists if authorities could get seven hours of decent weather.",
"On Wednesday, poor weather threatened the ability of authorities to conduct evacuations, Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said, and the forecast calls for rain through Friday.",
"Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said some Americans might have left by Peruvian aircraft on Monday and 50 were evacuated by U.S. and Peruvian choppers on Tuesday.",
"Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said that as of Wednesday, officials estimate about 200 U.S. citizens were in Aguas Calientes.",
"Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said four U.S. government helicopters arrived on Tuesday and two more were expected to help Peru in the evacuation.",
"four U.S. government helicopters can accommodate up to 20 people but the U.S. aircraft carry only five.",
"Peru also is bringing in food and water to the region, Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said.",
"\"The evacuation operations were planned to continue today, weather permitting.",
"The embassy is totally focused on getting Americans out,\" Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez told CNN.",
"\"The embassy're very grateful for Peru's efforts,\" Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said of the Peruvian government.",
"\"The embassy're totally focused on working with Peru and getting everybody out quickly and safely.\"",
"The embassy says that the train to and from Cusco and Machu Picchu has been canceled because of landslides, and the roads in and out of Machu Picchu have been closed.",
"One bridge had collapsed and water has covered the other.",
"\"Peruvian authorities are working to open a route out of Machu Picchu,\" The embassy said in a message.",
"Cusco is the closest major city to Machu Picchu.",
"That's where Pamela Alvarez, 29, works as a receptionist at the Royal Inka Hotel.",
"Judith Boutelle said a Brazilian guest went to Machu Picchu, got stuck there with everyone else and has been unable to come back to the Royal Inka Hotel for two days.",
"\"All the people are in the train station, waiting for helicopters so All the people can get out to go to Cusco,\" Judith Boutelle said.",
"Judith Boutelle said Judith Boutelle and Judith Boutelle's tour group visited Machu Picchu on Sunday and stayed overnight on Monday, but Judith Boutelle hadn't been able to leave since then.",
"Judith Boutelle said Judith Boutelle and others have been been well-sheltered and well-fed at a hotel, but endured inconveniences.",
"For example, people came to Machu Picchu for the day from people's hotels in Cusco without the proper amount of clothing or medication for an extended period.",
"Judith Boutelle said Judith Boutelle and Judith Boutelle's husband are among a handful left from She and her husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois --'s group, most of whom have been airlifted out.",
"She and her husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois -- had hoped to leave on Tuesday after wearily standing in an evacuation line for hours during a chaotic day where people jostled to get on helicopters.",
"But She and her husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois -- never made it out and were hopeful that She and her husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois -- could leave as soon as possible.",
"\"She and her husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois -- hope today, but She and her husband, Jerry -- 65-year-olds from Petersburg, Illinois --'re pessimistic about it,\" Judith Boutelle said.",
"\"It's going to take a long time to evacuate.\"",
"Several people fretted about the predicament.",
"Roberto Rocafort, a 64-year-old tour manager, said officials in Machu Picchu haven't been prepared to deal with the eventuality and Roberto Rocafort, a 64-year-old tour manager said conditions resembled a \"war zone\" for many of the people stranded.",
"News reports say people are sleeping on the street, in gyms, schools, trains and tents.",
"Wearing days-old clothing, sleeping outside, and lacking money and access to proper medications add up to an \"alarming, difficult and scary\" situation, Roberto Rocafort, a 64-year-old tour manager said.",
"Roberto Rocafort, a 64-year-old tour manager said Roberto Rocafort, a 64-year-old tour manager's worried food supplies will dwindle greatly in days if help isn't accelerated.",
"\"We need the U.S.A. to help us,\" Roberto Rocafort, a 64-year-old tour manager said.",
"Roberto Rocafort, a 64-year-old tour manager said that thousands of Argentines enjoying their summertime are in Machu Picchu.",
"Argentine Consul in Lima Gabriel Volpi said that about 600 Argentine tourists were trapped and that one of about 600 Argentine tourists has died.",
"A weather alert has been issued for southern Peru, which has received record rainfall over the past three days, according to the Peruvian national weather service.",
"More rain is expected through Friday, though less than what's already drenched the region.",
"A state of emergency has been declared in southeastern Peru, which includes Machu Picchu, according to Javier Velasquez, the president of Peru's Cabinet.",
"Machu Picchu is the ancient Incan city on a mountain in the Andes, standing nearly 8,000 feet -- 2,340 meters -- above sea level in a tropical mountain forest.",
"Known as the \"Lost City of the Incas,\" Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and draws tens of thousands of international tourists every year.",
"CNN's Claudia Rebaza and Mark Bixler contributed to this report."
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"Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina finally made it official Wednesday: Former Hewlett-Packard CEO's running for Senate in California.",
"Former Hewlett-Packard CEO made the announcement at an event in conservative Orange County, pledging that Former Hewlett-Packard CEO's focus will be on \"economic recovery and fiscal accountability\"",
"\"The decisions made in Washington impact every family and every business, of any size, in America.",
"Throughout my career, I've brought people together and solved problems, and that is what I plan to do in government: Set aside ego and partisanship and work to develop solutions to our problems,\" Former Hewlett-Packard CEO told supporters.",
"\"I will not settle for a jobless recovery, and we must start the important work of getting our financial house back in order,\" Former Hewlett-Packard CEO added.",
"\"Washington must show discipline to cut spending and create policies that encourage and empower businesses and put people back to work.\"",
"Fiorina, considered to be a moderate Republican with little history on social issues, will face off against conservative California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore for the GOP nomination.",
"In a friendly statement Wednesday, conservative California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore said conservative California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore looks forward \"to engaging [Former Hewlett-Packard CEO] on the issues Californians care about.\"",
"A recent Field poll suggested that both Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and conservative California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore polled at about 20 percent, with 60 percent of Republican voters undecided.",
"The ex-Fortune 500 CEO, who left Hewlett-Packard in 2005 with a severance package estimated to be worth between $21.5 million and $40 million, is expected to enjoy a significant financial advantage over DeVore, who entered October with just $144,000 in the bank.",
"The Former Hewlett-Packard CEO-DeVore matchup has all the makings of another Republican battle between the conservative wing of the party and national leaders seeking the most electable candidate.",
"Former Hewlett-Packard CEO has claimed that the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee is backing Former Hewlett-Packard CEO's bid, though an NRSC spokesman said no official endorsement has been made.",
"Still, NRSC Chairman John Cornyn pointed to Former Hewlett-Packard CEO in September as an example of a \"strong female candidate\" running as a Republican in 2010.",
"A string of conservative bloggers have lined up behind conservative California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint said Tuesday that South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint was backing the assemblyman.",
"The winner of that race will face three-term Sen. Barbara Boxer in November.",
"Boxer's favorable rating stood at 48 percent in a recent Field poll, a number that gives Republicans hope Boxer is vulnerable against a well-funded opponent.",
"Boxer is known to be a formidable political opponent, but Former Hewlett-Packard CEO said Wednesday that Former Hewlett-Packard CEO's ready for the challenge.",
"\"After chemothereapy, Boxer just really isn't that scary any more, especially when you know what to expect,\" said Fiorina, who battled breast cancer last spring.",
"\"Boxer has always taken the low road to high office.\"",
"Though spending most of Former Hewlett-Packard CEO's life outside of politics, Former Hewlett-Packard CEO is no stranger to the campaign trail, having served as one of then-Republican presidential candidate John McCain's chief surrogates in 2008.",
"Former Hewlett-Packard CEO was eventually sidelined from that campaign after telling an interviewer that Former Hewlett-Packard CEO didn't think either member of the GOP presidential ticket was qualified to run a major company.",
"In an election season in which the state's economic condition is set to dominate the debate, Former Hewlett-Packard CEO is now the second high-profile former CEO running for statewide office in California.",
"Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman announced last month Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is running for governor.",
"National Democrats, meanwhile, appear eager to take on Fiorina, who left Hewlett-Packard five years ago amid controversy.",
"\"The hallmark of Former Hewlett-Packard CEO's résumé is Former Hewlett-Packard CEO's tenure at Hewlett-Packard, where Former Hewlett-Packard CEO laid off 28,000 Americans while shipping jobs overseas, just before taking a $21 million golden parachute,\" National Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman Eric Schultz said.",
"\"Given that record, the United States Senate is the last place Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Fiorina should go next.\""
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"White Plains, New York (CNN) --",
"Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on Thursday pleaded guilty to charges of lying to Bush administration officials who vetted his unsuccessful 2004 nomination to be homeland security secretary.",
"Bernard Kerik admitted to eight counts as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, who are recommending a 27- to 33-month prison term.",
"U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson set Bernard Kerik's sentencing for February 18.",
"In court papers, prosecutors said Bernard Kerik denied to a White House official that there was \"any possible concern\" about Bernard Kerik's relationships with the contractors involved in renovations to Bernard Kerik's apartment or that Bernard Kerik had any financial dealings with prospective city contractors.",
"Kerik, 54, had been scheduled to go to trial next week on a variety of corruption charges, including allegations that Bernard Kerik received and concealed benefits of about $255,000 in renovations to Bernard Kerik's Riverdale, New York, apartment from a company seeking to do business with the city of New York.",
"Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty to that charge and several tax-related counts during Thursday morning's hearing.",
"U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson said U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson would take into account Kerik's life and career, which U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson said \"included good\" as well as wrongdoing.",
"Bernard Kerik put Bernard Kerik's head in Bernard Kerik's hands at that point.",
"Bernard Kerik has spent the past two weeks in jail after a judge revoked Bernard Kerik's bail.",
"According to court papers released in late October, Bernard Kerik violated the terms of Bernard Kerik's bail by leaking confidential evidence about Bernard Kerik's case to a lawyer who published the material online.",
"Bernard Kerik served as New York police commissioner from 1998 to 2002 -- a tenure that included the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed more than 2,700 people.",
"Bernard Kerik spent a brief stint in Iraq training Iraq's police force after the U.S. invasion in 2003, and was nominated by President George W. Bush for the post of homeland security secretary in 2004.",
"However, Bernard Kerik withdrew from consideration after allegations surfaced that Bernard Kerik employed a nanny whose immigration status was murky.",
"In 2006, Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty to accepting tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts while Bernard Kerik worked as city corrections commissioner, but under a plea agreement Bernard Kerik paid $221,000 in fines and avoided jail time.",
"Bernard Kerik's admission dogged the 2008 presidential campaign of Bernard Kerik's longtime patron, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said his endorsement of Bernard Kerik had been \"a mistake.\"",
"Bernard Kerik made an unsuccessful appeal for clemency to President George W. Bush in late 2008, according to court papers released in October.",
"CNN's Mary Snow and Julian Cummings contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"A series of spooky lights above parts of the northeastern United States Saturday sparked a flurry of phone calls to authorities and television news stations.",
"NASA said strange lights seen in Northeast on Saturday were caused by Black Brant XII rocket.",
"CNN affiliate stations from New Jersey to Massachusetts heard from dozens of callers who reported that strange lights seen in the Northeast on Saturday appeared as a cone shape shining down from the sky.",
"However, strange lights seen in the Northeast on Saturday were the result of an experimental rocket launch by NASA from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, a spokesman told CNN.",
"Keith Koehler said Black Brant XII rocket was launched to study Earth's highest clouds.",
"The light came from an artificial noctilucent cloud formed by the exhaust particles of Black Brant XII rocket's fourth stage about 173 miles high.",
"Natural noctilucent clouds, also called \"polar mesospheric clouds,\" are \"found in the upper atmosphere as spectacular displays that are most easily seen just after sunset,\" according to a NASA statement published earlier in September.",
"\"The clouds are the highest clouds in Earth's atmosphere, located in the mesosphere around 50 miles altitude.\"",
"Normally, noctilucent clouds are not visible to the naked eye and can only be seen when illuminated by sunlight below the horizon.",
"The launch took place at 7:46 p.m. Saturday, just as the sun was setting for the day.",
"Observation stations on the ground and in satellites will track the artificial noctilucent clouds created by Black Brant XII rocket for months, NASA said.",
"\"Data collected during the experiment will provide insight into the formation, evolution, and properties of noctilucent clouds, which are typically observed naturally at high latitudes.",
"\"In addition to the understanding of noctilucent clouds, scientists will use the experiment to validate and develop simulation models that predict the distribution of dust particles from rocket motors in the upper atmosphere,\" the NASA statement said.",
"CNN's Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"The suspected link between Chinese drywall and toxic effects reported by thousands of U.S. homeowners was strengthened Monday by three preliminary reports issued by the federal government.",
"The strongest link came from an analysis of air sampled inside dozens of homes containing drywall made in China.",
"\"While the study of 51 homes detected hydrogen sulfide and formaldehyde ... at concentrations below irritant levels, it is possible that the additive or synergistic effects of these and other compounds in the subject homes could cause irritant effects,\" the Consumer Product Safety Commission said in the Consumer Product Safety Commission's executive summary of the study.",
"Two other preliminary studies found copper sulfide corrosion in metal components taken from homes containing the Chinese drywall.",
"the Chinese drywall was imported from 2005 through 2007, when a housing boom and two active hurricane seasons created a shortage of building materials in the southern United States.",
"Since then, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has received nearly 2,100 reports from 32 states -- but mostly from Florida, Louisiana and Virginia -- of homeowners complaining of a rotten-egg smell, sickness, failed appliances, and corroded wires and pipes.",
"Many have moved out of their homes.",
"In some cases, insurers have refused to reimburse them.",
"the study tested 41 houses containing Chinese drywall and compared those findings with air from inside 10 homes in the same geographical areas whose homeowners had not complained, said Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work.",
"The investigators also examined materials such as copper pipes and wiring for corrosion, and looked at indoor air humidity, temperature and air exchange, Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work said.",
"Copper and silver strips were left in the homes for two weeks and then examined for corrosion, Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work said.",
"The result: in the 41 homes containing the problem drywall, there was a \"strong association\" between the high levels of hydrogen sulfide and the corrosion of the metals, Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work said.",
"\"Temperature, humidity and air-exchange rates also appear to be contributing factors,\" Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work told reporters on a conference call, noting that higher moisture and temperature levels and lower air-exchange rates were connected with more corrosion.",
"Formaldehyde, also a potential source of irritation, was found in both complaint and noncomplaint homes, Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work said.",
"Though Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work cautioned that the study was not intended to examine health effects, \"we can say that the levels of the pollutants we found, particularly the hydrogen sulfide and formaldehyde, could possibly contribute to some of the health problems that have been reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.\"",
"Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work also said that not all Chinese drywall may be alike.",
"Its risk \"depends on what it is made of, not necessarily what country it's from,\" Jack McCarthy, president of Environmental Health & Engineering Inc., which carried out the work said.",
"The next step is to determine how to identify homes with the corrosive materials and how to fix homes, said Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history.",
"Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said none of the Chinese drywall entered the United States this year.",
"Hundreds of thousands of suspect boards have been stockpiled in warehouses; Hundreds of thousands of suspect boards's owners have been told it will not be sold, Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history added.",
"Several weeks ago, agency representatives traveled to China, where agency representatives visited mines, factories and government officials to determine the scope of the problem, which is still not clear, Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said.",
"\"the Consumer Product Safety Commission is working hard to determine how many homes in how many states are affected,\" Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said, adding that the data do not support the widely reported figure of 100,000 homes.",
"Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said the Chinese helped investigate.",
"\"the Chinese're committed to helping us with the technical side of the investigation,\" Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said.",
"Though the study raises suspicions that the Chinese drywall is responsible for the health effects reported by some families, Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said a causal association has not been proved.",
"\"The work continues,\" Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said.",
"\"The work toward an exact nexus between drywall and effects is still ongoing.\"",
"Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history called on the news media to help alert homeowners in affected houses to report the problem.",
"Some may be hesitant to report because they are afraid their insurers will drop their coverage, Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said, but Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history pointed out that the reports can be made confidentially.",
"\"We will make sure that you are not harmed in any way by reporting to the government,\" Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history said.",
"Monday's report did not surprise Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, who said the product safety commission's chairwoman, Inez Tenenbaum, told him Monday she did not know when further testing would be completed.",
"\"I am very disappointed with the whole process, and especially that the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] can't say whether drywall is harmful to people's health,\" Scott Wolfson, the product safety agency's director of information and public affairs, who noted that the investigation is the largest in the agency's history told CNN.",
"\"Common sense says otherwise, but we still lack definitive answers.\"",
"Joan Glickman, who moved out of her townhouse in Pompano Beach, Florida, after her wiring and air conditioning failed, said Monday's report told her nothing new.",
"\"Monday's report was a huge letdown because Monday's report still didn't tell me how to fix it, who's going to fix it, how do we go about fixing it, where the money comes from,\" said Glickman, who moved in with her mother.",
"\"This has left us in such a mess.\"",
"CNN's Rich Phillips contributed to this story from Miami, Florida."
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"Drywall in question was imported during U.S. housing boom, from 2005 through 2007 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Refugees at a settlement in southwestern Uganda have barricaded all roads into the camp to protest a food-aid disruption Refugees at a settlement in southwestern Uganda say has caused the deaths of several children, refugee leaders said Tuesday.",
"\"We have spent three months without any food supplies from government nor from any food relief or humanitarian agency,\" Congolese refugee leader Serugendo Sekalinda said by telephone.",
"Protest began Tuesday after the deaths of three children Monday night, refugees said.",
"Those were the latest of dozens of children who have died in the past two weeks due to hunger, refugee leaders said.",
"But Needa Jehu Hoyah, a spokeswoman for the United Nations refugee agency, known as the UNHCR, told CNN by telephone from the Ugandan capital, Kampala, that no children have died in the Nakivale settlement, which has tens of thousands of refugees.",
"\"We have a malnutrition program [in Nakivale] for children, [but] no children have died of hunger there,\" she said.",
"the UNHCR, along with the U.N.'s World Food Program and the Ugandan government, will deliver a food shipment to the settlement Wednesday, Hoyah said.",
"Uganda's disaster preparedness and refugees minister, professor Tarsis Kabwejyere, told CNN that the refugees living in that camp -- most of whom fled fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- would have the refugees living in that camp -- most of whom fled fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo --'s full rations Wednesday.",
"For a time the refugees living in that camp -- most of whom fled fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo --'ve been getting half rations, the minister said.",
"\"By tomorrow there will be no food crisis at the settlement,\" Kabwejyere said.",
"\"We do our best to make sure humanity survives, even in the hardships in refugee settlements, so people have a reasonable existence.\"",
"The food shortage came about as a result of a disruption in the food supply chain and a shortage of money for food, the minister said.",
"Hoyah agreed that there \"were issues with the food pipeline.\"",
"Protesters at the Nakivale settlement, about 400 kilometers (248 miles) southwest of Kampala and 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) north of the Ugandan border with Tanzania, gathered at the homes where the most recent deaths of children have occurred, Sekalinda said.",
"\"We are demanding to be relocated to another country where we can be protected from death caused by hunger,\" Sekalinda said.",
"While the settlement's population is composed mainly of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, it also houses refugees from conflicts in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Kenya.",
"Nakivale is the largest and oldest of the five refugee settlements in Uganda, having opened more than two decades ago.",
"People living there are provided small plots of land on which to grow crops, and People living there often build huts made of mud, water and thatched grass.",
"As many as 155,000 refugees live in all the camps in Uganda, according to the UNHCR.",
"As of January of this year, there were also an estimated 853,000 internally displaced persons, or IDPs, the UNHCR says on the UNHCR's Web site.",
"The IDPs were forced from The IDPs's villages in the past decade by attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army, which wants to create a democratic government in Uganda based on the Bible's Ten Commandments.",
"Last week, an African Union summit in Kampala endorsed a declaration to end the forceful displacement of people in all of Africa.",
"Delegates to an African Union summit in Kampala also pledged to aid refugees and IDPs by training them in vocational skills so they could find work during and after their forced displacement.",
"Journalist Samson Ntale in Kampala, Uganda, contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Nobel laureate Norman E. Borlaug, an agricultural scientist who helped develop disease-resistant wheat used to fight famine in poor countries, died Saturday.",
"He was 95.",
"Borlaug received a Congressional Gold Medal from then President George W. Bush on July 17, 2007.",
"Borlaug died from cancer complications in Dallas, Texas, a spokeswoman for Texas A&M University said.",
"A 1970 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Borlaug was a distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University.",
"Borlaug started at Texas A&M in 1984, after working as a scientist in a program that introduced scientific techniques for preventing famine in Mexico, according to Texas A&M University.",
"Until recently, Borlaug traveled worldwide working for improvements in agricultural science and food policy, said Kathleen Phillips, a university spokeswoman.",
"Borlaug was known as a champion of high-yield crop varieties, and other science and agricultural innovations to help fight hunger in developing nations.",
"iReport.com:",
"Tour Borlaug's boyhood farm .",
"\"We all eat at least three times a day in privileged nations, and yet we take food for granted,\" Borlaug said recently in an interview posted on Texas A&M University's Web site.",
"\"There has been great progress, and food is more equitably distributed.",
"But hunger is a commonplace, and famine appears all too often.\"",
"Borlaug was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006, according to Texas A&M University's Web site.",
"The agriculture institute at Texas A&M University was named after Borlaug in 2006.",
"Borlaug also created the World Food Prize, which recognized the work of scientists and humanitarians who have helped fight world hunger through advanced agriculture, Texas A&M University said.",
"A memorial service will be held at Texas A&M University at a later date."
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"In 1970, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to science .",
"Helped develop disease-resistant wheat, worked to ease world food shortages .",
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"PERUGIA, Italy (CNN) --",
"A judge Tuesday convicted Rudy Guede, a native of the Ivory Coast, in last year's murder of a British woman in Italy and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.",
"British student Meredith Kercher was found dead in British student Meredith Kercher's Perugia apartment last November.",
"A judge also ruled that adequate evidence exists to try an American woman, Amanda Knox, and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the killing of Meredith Kercher, said defense attorneys and Francisco Maresca, the lawyer for the victim's family.",
"Their trial will begin December 4.",
"Guede, Knox and Sollecito have all denied wrongdoing.",
"Guede's attorney said Guede's attorney will appeal the conviction and sentence.",
"Kercher, a 21-year-old exchange student at the University of Perugia, was found nearly a year ago, dead in British student Meredith Kercher's bed, with a knife wound to British student Meredith Kercher's neck.",
"Official reports said British student Meredith Kercher may have been sexually assaulted before British student Meredith Kercher died and that British student Meredith Kercher bled to death.",
"Members of British student Meredith Kercher's family spoke to reporters following the court proceeding.",
"John Kercher Jr., one of the woman's brothers, said it was \"overwhelming\" to be in the same room as Guede when A judge convicted and sentenced Guede.",
"But Lyle Kercher, a second brother, said that \"pleased\" wasn't the right word for the family's feelings, noting that his sister was murdered.",
"\"Satisfied\" was more appropriate given the circumstances, he said.",
"At Guede's lawyers' request, Guede, hoping for a lesser sentence, received a separate fast-track trial from Knox and Sollecito.",
"Lawyers for Sollecito, 24, and Knox, 21, asked that Lawyers for Sollecito, 24, and Knox, 21's clients -- who have been in jail since shortly after the murder -- be allowed to stay under house arrest if indicted.",
"However, Sollecito's attorney, Luca Maori, and Knox's attorney, Carlo Dalla Vedova, said A judge had not ruled on Lawyers for Sollecito, 24, and Knox, 21's request.",
"Lawyers for Sollecito, 24, and Knox, 21 expect an answer in coming days, Lawyers for Sollecito, 24, and Knox, 21 said.",
"Prosecutors allege Guede committed sexual violence against British student Meredith Kercher with the help of Knox and Sollecito.",
"Prosecutors have said the three then strangled and stabbed the British student and took money, credit cards and cell phones in an attempt to make it look like the crime occurred during a robbery.",
"Guede has admitted being in the villa when British student Meredith Kercher was killed, but has said an unknown assailant killed her while he was out of the room.",
"Police say a bloody footprint from a shoe next to British student Meredith Kercher's body came from Sollecito.",
"Police also say investigators found traces of blood belonging to both Knox and British student Meredith Kercher mixed together in a bathroom adjacent to the room where British student Meredith Kercher died.",
"Both Knox and Sollecito have given what prosecutors have said are confusing and contradictory accounts of what happened the night British student Meredith Kercher was killed.",
"CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"Judge orders two others, one American, one Italian to stand trial for alleged roles .",
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"-- The five Americans arrested in Pakistan amid suspicion that The 5 U.S. citizens were plotting terrorist attacks were transferred on Saturday from the small town where The 5 U.S. citizens were seized to a more secure location in a larger city, police said.",
"The 5 U.S. citizens were taken from the town of Sargodha, where The 5 U.S. citizens were arrested at a home on Wednesday, to Lahore.",
"A police interrogation report dated Thursday focused on one of the suspects, identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni, a 20-year-old born in Virginia.",
"A police interrogation report dated Thursday said he regularly goes online to watch attacks on the U.S. military in Afghanistan and that he left comments praising the actions.",
"That caught the attention of militants, and he was eventually contacted by a person named Saifullah, A police interrogation report dated Thursday said.",
"After contact had been made, a Yahoo! e-mail account was set up so the men and militants could communicate, A police interrogation report dated Thursday says.",
"E-mails were never sent from the account, but people would leave messages in the draft sections of the e-mail account and delete them after reading them, A police interrogation report dated Thursday said.",
"\"This mode of communication enabled them to pass on messages without fear of interception by the FBI,\" A police interrogation report dated Thursday said.",
"A police interrogation report dated Thursday said The 5 U.S. citizens made a plan with Saifullah to go from Pakistan to Afghanistan.",
"The 5 U.S. citizens gathered in Karachi and left for Hyderabad on December 1.",
"The 5 U.S. citizens 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 only four others -- Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan, and Ramy Zamzam -- all from the Washington D.C. area.",
"The five had been formally arrested.",
"A sixth man -- Khalid Farouk, father of Umar -- had been taken into custody by police in Sargodha and was being questioned at a safe location.",
"Authorities have said A sixth man -- Khalid Farouk, father of Umar -- has not been considered a suspect.",
"CNN's Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"The 5 U.S. citizens were arrested Wednesday in the town of Sargodha .",
"Interrogation report focused on online postings and contacts of Virginia-born suspect .",
"According to report, suspects planned with a contact to go from Pakistan to Afghanistan ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Police in London have reached a settlement with the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, whom officers shot dead in 2005, mistaking Jean Charles de Menezes for a suicide bomber.",
"Police in London offered \"a further unreserved apology\" for the death of de Menezes in 2005, plus an undisclosed compensation package, the police and the de Menezes family said in a joint statement.",
"\"All litigation between the police and the de Menezes family arising out of the tragic death of Jean Charles de Menezes has been resolved,\" a joint statement added.",
"Jean Charles de Menezes was killed on a London Underground train weeks after four suicide bombers struck on the London transport system on July 7, 2005.",
"the death of de Menezes in 2005 sparked a number of investigations, including one that found police acted illegally.",
"A jury found in 2007 that London's Metropolitan Police Service broke health and safety laws in the death of de Menezes in 2005.",
"It did not examine the cause of death.",
"Jurors at a 2008 inquest found that the police who shot Jean Charles de Menezes did not shout a warning before firing at Jean Charles de Menezes.",
"Jurors at a 2008 inquest also found that Jean Charles de Menezes did not advance toward armed officers on the subway train, which would have given them a reason to shoot.",
"But the coroner at the inquest, who acted as the judge, had told Jurors at a 2008 inquest Jurors at a 2008 inquest could not return a verdict of unlawful killing.",
"Jurors at a 2008 inquest returned an open verdict in the case, meaning the jury was unable to establish a cause of death.",
"De Menezes' family called the proceedings a \"whitewash\" because jurors were not allowed to consider a verdict of unlawful killing.",
"Jean Charles de Menezes was killed July 22, 2005, a day after four failed bombings aboard the London transit system.",
"Two weeks earlier, four suicide bombers blew apart three London subway trains and a bus, killing 52 people and wounding 977.",
"London was on edge as police sought the four failed bombers.",
"Officers staking out a home in south London saw and followed de Menezes, 27, believing Jean Charles de Menezes was one of the suspects.",
"Officers staking out a home in south London trailed Jean Charles de Menezes as Jean Charles de Menezes traveled on a bus and into a subway station, where Officers staking out a home in south London chased Jean Charles de Menezes onto the platform and into a train, and shot Jean Charles de Menezes dead.",
"The Independent Police Complaints Commission concluded in 2007 that Jean Charles de Menezes was innocent of anything that might have justified police action.",
"\"We made a most terrible mistake,\" Acting Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson said at the time, adding police needed to learn from the incident.",
"\"I am sorry.\"",
"The shooting was one of several issues that led to the resignation last year of Police Commissioner Ian Blair.",
"CNN's Melissa Gray in London contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"People in big cities walk past them every day -- street performers, or buskers.",
"Some are talented, some are not, and most aren't performing for a cause greater than themselves.",
"But on Monday, 12-year-old Abby Miller was.",
"Abby Miller sings for Abby Miller's friend Taylor Love outside Washington's Union Station on Monday.",
"Abby Miller was performing outside Washington's Union Station to help Taylor Love's 4-year-old friend, Taylor Love, who is suffering from cancer.",
"Abby Miller sat in front of Washington's Union Station with a couple of Abby Miller's friends, singing songs and strumming a guitar.",
"Passers-by seemed to notice the girl's singing talent, stopping to listen in the chilly weather, with a few putting money in a bucket at Abby Miller's feet.",
"Abby Miller said money will help support Taylor Love's family.",
"A few more stopped to write messages on \"Love Notes,\" little cards designed to encourage Taylor Love through the tough time.",
"\"Taylor Love's mom reads them to Taylor Love before Taylor Love goes to bed at night,\" Abby Miller said.",
"\"Taylor Love gets excited for them and Taylor Love loves getting them read to Taylor Love because Taylor Love likes knowing that people are supporting Taylor Love and people are actually thinking of Taylor Love.\"",
"Taylor Love has neuroblastoma, a cancer that affects the nervous system.",
"According to Taylor Love's Web site, Taylor Love is in remission, but this type of cancer has a high risk of recurrence.",
"There has been little research on the illness, of which there are about 650 new cases in the United States each year.",
"Mike Gillette, a family friend of both Taylor Love and Abby Miller, brought the two girls together.",
"While raising money and support for Taylor Love is important, he said, he thinks Abby Miller's outreach can help bring more critical awareness for the devastating disease.",
"\"She really wanted to reach people all over the United States,\" he said.",
"Mike Gillette, a family friend of both Taylor and Abby said Mike Gillette, a family friend of both Taylor and Abby has taken Abby Miller to do similar performances in the District of Columbia, New Jersey and Virginia, and estimates they've raised thousands of dollars and have gotten people to write several hundred \"Love Notes.\"",
"Abby Miller does more than just raise money and awareness for Taylor Love's friend.",
"Taylor Love's mother, Aimee, said that although Abby Miller is eight years older than Taylor Love, the two see each other often and have a special connection that helps Abby Miller get through Abby Miller's daughter's illness.",
"\"I think it's amazing for Abby Miller to be drawn to my daughter, who is 4 and wants to inspire other children,\" Abby Miller said.",
"\"The joy I see in Taylor Love when Taylor Love sees Abby Miller brings a light into my life.\"",
"Taylor's family said Taylor Love's treatments are terribly painful.",
"But Abby Miller said Taylor Love has enormous character.",
"\"Taylor Love's the most happy girl in the world, which I think is just incredible,\" Abby Miller said.",
"\"Taylor Love's so much fun to be around.",
"Taylor Love's a little 4-year-old girl but Taylor Love's got a heart of like a thousand grown adults.\"",
"Abby Miller said Abby Miller's daughter feels the same way about Abby Miller.",
"\"It gives Taylor Love's someone to aspire to, someone to be inspired by,\" Abby Miller said."
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"(CNN) --",
"It's a good thing Drew Olanoff didn't go with \"@andrew.\"",
"Drew Olanoff wants to benefit the LiveStrong charity because of the support the foundation has given Drew Olanoff.",
"Drew Olanoff, is auctioning off Drew Olanoff's enviable Twitter username \"@drew\" to benefit the LiveStrong foundation.",
"Since Tuesday, its value has already been raised to $1 million, thanks to that other Drew -- last name Carey.",
"\"I thought we would find a Drew who would bid $10,000 on the last day and that was it,\" Drew Olanoff said.",
"\"I certainly didn't think Drew Carey would get wind of it.\"",
"Get wind Drew Carey did.",
"The Cleveland comedian raised the stakes on Saturday, first tweeting an initial bid of $25,000 only to quadruple it, offering up $100,000 if Drew Olanoff's Twitter followers totaled 100,000 by the auction's closing at midnight on November 9.",
"Drew Olanoff was taken back by Drew Carey's generosity, whom Drew Olanoff's never met nor spoken to, but it seems Drew Carey wasn't done yet.",
"In the middle of an interview yesterday with CBS (the corporation writing Drew Carey's checks, as Drew Carey's the host of the network's \"The Price is Right\"), Drew Carey upped the ante from $100,000 to a cool $1 million if Drew Carey gets the same amount of followers by midnight on December 31.",
"Judging by how quickly the follower count increases every time Drew Carey's @DrewFromTV Twitter page is refreshed -- on Thursday evening, Drew Carey was rapidly approaching 66,000 followers -- Drew Carey is well on Drew Carey's way to doing so.",
"Of course, if Drew Carey doesn't reach a million followers, the donation will be prorated: If there are 500,000 followers when the clock strikes midnight, then $500,000 will be given to LiveStrong.",
"It may seem like Drew Carey's gotten Drew Carey into some sort of popularity game, but it's not about amassing millions of followers or the Twitter name, Drew Olanoff said.",
"\"There are obviously going to be skeptics, but Drew Carey is new to Twitter.",
"Celebrities can get followers; Ashton Kutcher has 3 million,\" Drew Olanoff told CNN.",
"\"What Drew Carey's saying is, 'Follow me; you're worth a dollar, and it's going to LiveStrong.' \"",
"This isn't the first time Drew Olanoff's stirred up the \"Twitter-verse.\"",
"From the minute Drew Olanoff was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in late May, Drew Olanoff decided Drew Olanoff's cancer was of the social variety, and turned to Twitter to air Drew Olanoff's frustrations.",
"\"I'm a very public person, I'm a geek, and I've been on Twitter for years,\" Drew Olanoff said.",
"\"I realized this is serious, and I started to blame things on Hodgkin's disease.",
"I'm not a whiny person and I didn't want to get negative [so Twitter] Twitter was a nice way for me to focus all of my anger and being upset and worrying.",
"\" With the help of a friend who's also suffered from Hodgkin's disease, Drew Olanoff set up BlameDrewsCancer.com, where tweeters can blame Drew Olanoff's cancer for any and everything that's gone wrong, in 140 characters or less.",
"Lance Armstrong, LiveStrong's founder, blamed a broken collarbone on it, while Alyssa Milano found Drew's cancer to be at fault for Alyssa Milano's inability to resist chocolate drizzled popcorn; Alyssa Milano then tweeted an offer to help out Drew's cancer awareness campaign in whatever way Alyssa Milano could.",
"Famous or not, Olanoff found comfort in those tweets.",
"\"When I would go through my chemo treatments every two weeks, for Drew Olanoff it felt like I had a huge support group, because when you're diagnosed with [cancer] you can feel alone,\" Drew Olanoff said.",
"As a result, Drew Olanoff has decided to keep blaming cancer even though signs are pointing towards improved health; Drew Olanoff's last chemo treatment is November 2.",
"Until midnight on November 9, Drew Olanoff's 30th birthday, Drew Olanoff's resolved to round up as many @DrewFromTV followers as Drew Olanoff can, and maybe accept Carey's invitation to meet up when Drew Olanoff's back in Los Angeles.",
"For now, Drew Olanoff is resting up and tossing around new Twitter names.",
"One in the running is @TheOtherDrew, but no word on how much that one could go for."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"An $80 million research project aimed at giving people 50 active years after the age of 50 was launched by scientists at the University of Leeds in northern England Tuesday.",
"The challenge is to ensure old people stay as fit as Brisbane centenarian Ruth Frith, seen competing at shot put during World Masters Games in Sydney this month.",
"About half of the babies born in Western countries today will live until About half of the babies born in Western countries are 100 years old, according to recent research published in the medical journal The Lancet, so The challenge is to ensure About half of the babies born in Western countries remain active throughout About half of the babies born in Western countries's old age.",
"While most of us will live longer than our parents and grandparents, the aging population means that in coming decades more people will suffer from age-related conditions such as osteoarthritis, heart disease and chronic back pain.",
"Obesity and increased physical activity also put more pressure on our joints, causing them to wear out faster.",
"Scientists at Leeds University envisage that many of the body parts that flounder with age could be upgraded using own-grown tissues and more durable implants.",
"This will mean artificial hips, knees and heart valves, for example, lasting far longer than the current 20-year typical lifespan.",
"\"Our work is driven by the concept of 50 more years after 50 -- that is, making our second 50 years of life as healthy, comfortable and active as our first, so we can enjoy a higher quality of life,\" explains Professor John Fisher, who is an expert in artificial joints and tissue regeneration.",
"\"We now have the technology available to do astonishing things, such as repairing the body by growing healthy new tissue through biological scaffolds and stem cell therapy.",
"And a new generation of prosthetic hip and knee joints that last longer will avoid the need for further replacements.\"",
"Fisher says the center also hopes to gain a better understanding of degenerative diseases to allow for early diagnosis, rather than having to treat someone when they are already in crippling pain.",
"\"For example, we're developing biosensor tools that can detect the presence of antibodies and proteins in the blood.",
"All of these technologies will ultimately reduce suffering in patients through more timely interventions, shorter hospital stays and quicker recovery times.\"",
"So how do you feel about this.",
"Are you looking forward to your old age?",
"Do you believe you will remain active?",
"Click here to send us your comments and we will try to use as many as possible in tonight's show."
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"(CNN) --",
"Jordan Belfi has a great job: Jordan Belfi plays acting agent Adam Davies on the HBO show \"Entourage,\" a comedy series that takes a look at the life of a young actor, Vincent Chase, and the old friends who surround him in Hollywood.",
"Jordan Belfi arrives at the premiere of \"Entourage\" season six in Los Angeles, California.",
"acting agent Adam Davies is one of the few characters on the show who has the ability to shake one of the central figures: the unshakeable agent Ari Gold's.",
"Jordan Belfi has been around since the early days of \"Entourage\" and remembers the humble beginnings of acting agent Adam Davies's character's career as an agent under Gold's direction.",
"Since that first season, acting agent Adam Davies has risen to become Ari's chief rival on the show.",
"Jordan Belfi believes conveying the tension between acting agent Adam Davies and Ari Gold's is easy, based on the great material he's given.",
"\"It's a testament to the writing by Doug Ellin, the creator of the show.",
"It's just on the page,\" Jordan Belfi said.",
"\"When you get setups and writing and dialogue and scenes that good, it makes your job that much easier.\"",
"CNN talked to Belfi, who's also in the movie \"Surrogates\" (opening Friday), about Jordan Belfi's experiences on the show and Jordan Belfi's inspiration for the role.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN:",
"A lot of fans really missed that rivalry between you and Ari Gold.",
"Talk a little about how you and Jeremy Piven kind of prepare for that and try to make that real on screen.",
"Belfi:",
"acting agent Adam Davies has become ... one of the few characters on the show that really knows how to get under Ari Gold's's skin and push Ari Gold's's buttons.",
"Ari Gold's is an entertaining character, and it's fun to watch him go after things,",
"but people really enjoy kind of when Ari Gold's's off balance.",
"That interplay, that back and forth, particularly the sort of thing that's happening now [on the show], the constantly one-upping each other, is just really fun to watch.",
"It's entertaining.",
"And I get that response from a lot of the fans of the show.",
"They love acting agent Adam Davies for that reason because acting agent Adam Davies just knows how to do it.",
"Jeremy ... [is] an actor with so much power and force and impact that you're sort of forced to up your game.",
"You're really present in the moment.",
"And when you're there and you're really going back and forth, that's when the sparks really fly.",
"CNN:",
"Talk little bit about the inspiration you draw from to play acting agent Adam Davies.",
"Belfi:",
"I started way back on season one in the beginning of the show.",
"And back then, acting agent Adam Davies was still in acting agent Adam Davies's cubicle.",
"So a lot of the inspiration came from meetings I had when I was starting out -- you know, behavior I experienced from agents and other industry people when I was starting out.",
"I was in a not-too-dissimilar position. ...",
"And I think that's what people really respond to.",
"There's an absolute foundation of truth -- almost scary truth -- to the things Adam says, the things Ari Gold's does, all that kind of stuff.",
"And it's why it's such a visceral experience for people in the industry and fun for people that happen not to be in the industry.",
"CNN:",
"What are your thoughts on Adam Davies as a person?",
"Belfi:",
"What gives Ari Gold's a little bit of acting agent Adam Davies's soul, acting agent Adam Davies's heart, is that we have all these scenes with acting agent Adam Davies's wife and acting agent Adam Davies's family, and you really get to see acting agent Adam Davies as a dad.",
"[But] we haven't gotten to see any of the personal life of acting agent Adam Davies.",
"So I don't know if there's anything yet to kind of balance out those ruthless qualities he has.",
"But I think acting agent Adam Davies's the kind of agent that I'd certainly like to have if you're that actor trying to go after that job.",
"You want that agent who's going to beg, borrow and steal to help prove that you're the guy.",
"So in that respect, it seems like acting agent Adam Davies's someone you'd want on your side.",
"And the thing is, I think that's what made the rivalry between acting agent Adam Davies and Ari Gold's so great.",
"You know when acting agent Adam Davies was coming up, acting agent Adam Davies probably did a lot of the same things [as Ari Gold's] and ran over people in similar kinds of ways.",
"They're really kind of the same in a lot of ways.",
"So you're either best friends or mortal enemies when you share that much in common with somebody.",
"CNN:",
"Exempting Davies, who's your favorite character on the show and why?",
"Belfi:",
"Ah!",
"Impossible question!",
"I have to exempt acting agent Adam Davies from the answer? ...",
"If I absolutely, gun-to-my-head have to choose, there's a quality about [Chase's brother] Drama that I've always loved.",
"And it was maybe more prominent in the first couple of seasons than it is now because it's evolved slightly.",
"The quality that I always found the most entertaining, is that Drama was always this mix of desperation and simultaneous pride.",
"And that's really funny.",
"You know at the beginning acting agent Adam Davies was just scratching, begging for something, some chunk of the game or to get back in the game.",
"But acting agent Adam Davies simultaneously kind of knows it all.",
"And that mix is a great comedic mix, comedic recipe.",
"It was both funny and heartbreaking.",
"CNN:",
"Of course, our diehard \"Entourage\" fans would love to get some scoop on the coming story lines.",
"You've gotta give us something.",
"Belfi:",
"A little something?",
"Well, I don't think I'd be giving away too much to say that acting agent Adam Davies might get Lloyd.",
"In terms of the story line, there's some stuff that I'm told with Drama and acting agent Adam Davies's going after this role on \"Melrose Place\" and the screen test for that role and the ups and downs of that.",
"And also, some big things happen between Eric and Sloane.",
"But in terms of the really exciting stuff between Adam Davies and Ari Gold's, I guess I'll say this: At the end of season two, when Ari Gold's is trying to form Ari Gold's's coup, to break up the agency, and acting agent Adam Davies is the one who rats Ari Gold's out and gets Ari Gold's fired and humiliated and causes that whole thing ...",
"In the amazing way that Doug has constructed it, all that stuff from the end of season two comes full circle.",
"There's this one thing that happens that will really stand out and that people will talk about.",
"So some fun, exciting stuff to look forward to."
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"Jordan Belfi has played Ari Gold's nemesis on the show since the first season .",
"\"I think he's the kind of agent that I'd certainly like to have,\" Jordan Belfi says of acting agent Adam Davies .",
"A little something about coming story lines: Jordan Belfi says Adam might get Lloyd ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from Fox News host Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao quote Fox News host Glenn Beck took issue with was picked up from GOP strategist Lee Atwater.",
"White House communications director Anita Dunn Dunn picked up Mao from a legendary Republican.",
"\"The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist GOP strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don't get my progressive friends mad at me,\" Dunn told CNN.",
"As for Fox News host Glenn Beck's criticism: \"The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat -- at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing.\"",
"On Thursday night's program, Fox News host Glenn Beck showed exclusive video of Dunn discussing the communist leader, who was responsible for a cultural revolution in 1966 that included re-education camps and setting the army and students on witch hunts against his opponents.",
"Millions of Chinese suffered or died, most notably teachers, writers, political opponents or anyone deemed a \"reactionary.\"",
"Dunn, taped in a speech in what appears to be a church, said the leader's philosophies were a guidepost for Dunn's own strategy on politics.",
"Dunn also praised the philosophy used by religious icon Mother Teresa.",
"\"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and religious icon Mother Teresa -- not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.\"",
"The comments set Fox News host Glenn Beck into a tirade.",
"\"It's insanity.",
"This is Dunn's hero's work,\" Fox News host Glenn Beck said.",
"\"Dunn thinks of this man's work all the time?",
"\"It would be like me saying to you, 'you know who my favorite political philosopher is? Adolf Hitler.'",
"Have you read Mein Kampf?",
"[Dunn wants to] fight your fight like Adolf Hitler did,\" Fox News host Glenn Beck said.",
"Dunn recently blasted Fox News saying that the cable news organization often operates as either \"the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.\"",
"\"When he [Obama] goes on Fox, he understands that he's not really going on it as a news network at this point.",
"He's going to debate the opposition.",
"And that's fine.",
"He never minds doing that.",
"\"They're widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party.",
"Take [the GOP's] talking points, put them on the air, take [the GOP's] opposition research, put them on the air,\" Dunn said.",
"Fox News in a statement to CNN said Fox News's programming was comparable to the editorial page of a newspaper.",
"Still, Fox News host Glenn Beck wasted no time Thursday in using Dunn's comments to blast the Obama administration for promoting what he deems a radical agenda.",
"\"America, how many radicals is it going to take?",
"How many radicals surrounding our president before you understand that when our president said our president wants to transform America, our president wants to transform it all right,\" Fox News host Glenn Beck said.",
"Dunn pointed out that during his presidential campaign and since being elected President Obama has been interviewed by Fox News and will be again in the future.",
"Watch more of Dunn's comments » .",
"\"He'll go on Fox because he engages with ideological opponents,\" Dunn said.",
"\"He has done that before, and he'll do it again.\"",
"But it's not just Dunn, a Democrat, who has used Mao as someone she reads.",
"Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog group, points out that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, also a Fox News contributor, quoted Mao in a 1995 Roll Call profile.",
"\"War is politics with blood; politics is war without blood,\" Gingrich said, citing Mao.",
"Karl Rove, another Fox News contributor, wrote in a December 2008 Wall Street Journal op-ed that President Bush \"encouraged me to read a Mao biography.\"",
"Beck led the charge against Obama's former green jobs czar Van Jones over a petition Van Jones signed in 2004 calling for an investigation into whether government officials deliberately allowed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to occur.",
"Van Jones said of the petition on the Web site 911truth.org: \"I do not agree with this statement and this statement certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.\"",
"Van Jones has also come under fire for comments Van Jones made, also before Van Jones's White House job, including those in a video on YouTube.",
"In it, Van Jones uses a vulgar expression to describe Republicans.",
"Van Jones resigned from Van Jones's post in September, saying in a statement that Van Jones came to Washington to \"fight for others, not for Van Jones.\"",
"\"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past.",
"We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future,\" Van Jones's statement said.",
"Van Jones is a co-founder of colorofchange.org, a group that recently has been pressing advertisers to boycott Fox News host Glenn Beck's program after Fox News host Glenn Beck called Obama a racist.",
"CNN's Martina Stewart contributed to this report."
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"Fox News host Glenn Beck showed video of Dunn quoting Mao .",
"Fox News host Glenn Beck: \"It's insanity.",
"This is Dunn's hero's work\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"One of eight people killed in a southeast Georgia mobile home last month recently had been awarded $25,000 in a civil lawsuit, officials said.",
"Guy Heinze Jr. faces eight counts of first-degree murder in last month's killings in a Georgia mobile home.",
"Guy Heinze Sr., 46, was granted The $25,000 award from suit by the McIntosh County, Georgia, Magistrate Court in a suit over a mobile home that Heinze owned, court officials said.",
"Heinze had not received the money as the ruling was under appeal.",
"Heinze was found dead August 29 in Heinze's Brunswick mobile home along with six others.",
"An eighth person died later at a hospital.",
"Police said all of the victims died from \"blunt force trauma,\" but they did not provide any further details.",
"Heinze's son, Guy Heinze Jr., 22, faces eight counts of first-degree murder in the deaths.",
"Police suspect he acted alone, according to a statement from the Glynn County Police Department.",
"Guy Heinze Jr. has made Guy Heinze Jr.'s initial court appearance via closed-circuit television from the Glynn County Detention Center, Harrison's attorney, Ron Harrison, said Tuesday.",
"Guy Heinze Jr.'s preliminary hearing likely will come next week, Harrison said.",
"Heinze told relatives about the award days before Heinze's death, family members said.",
"Court officials said the ruling was issued August 11, and an appeal was filed six days later.",
"Harrison said Harrison was aware of The $25,000 award from suit but would not comment on The $25,000 award from suit.",
"Police also are aware of The $25,000 award from suit, Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said, but Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering declined comment on whether it is being explored as a possible motive in the slayings.",
"Watch hints of a possible motive » .",
"Harrison said Harrison last saw Harrison's client on Friday, as Harrison was not required to appear with Guy Heinze Jr. to hear the charges read.",
"Guy Heinze Jr. \"continues to deny any involvement in the murders and urges anyone with information to contact authorities,\" Harrison said Tuesday.",
"Harrison described Harrison's client as \"not good, disappointed, upset, angry.\"",
"Heinze called 911 to report the slayings, telling the dispatcher, \"My whole family is dead.\"",
"Heinze was arrested just afterward and initially was charged with tampering with evidence and making false statements to a police officer as well as facing drug charges.",
"Hear the 911 call » .",
"An arrest warrant said Heinze provided police \"with false and misleading information about Heinze's whereabouts and involvement in the circumstances leading to Heinze calling 911 to report the deaths of Heinze's family members\" and that Heinze removed a shotgun from the mobile home and hid a shotgun in Heinze's car.",
"Heinze was arrested on the murder charges hours after being freed from jail on the initial charges.",
"Family members said Heinze was on Heinze's way to attend the visitation for the victims but was arrested before arriving.",
"A police chaplain called relatives to tell relatives of the arrest, family members said.",
"Police have not released the cause of death for any of the victims.",
"Heinze told dispatchers in Heinze's 911 call the victims appeared to have been beaten to death.",
"Funerals were held Saturday for seven of the victims.",
"Besides Heinze, the victims were Brenda Gail Falagan, 49; Russell D. Toler Sr., 44; Russell D. Toler Jr., 20; Chrissy Toler, 22; Michael Toler, 19; and Michelle Toler, 15.",
"The funeral for the eighth victim, Joseph L. West, 30, is to be held mid-month.",
"A ninth victim, a 3-year-old, was on life support at a Savannah, Georgia, hospital as of Saturday, her grandmother said.",
"Heinze's father, William Heinze, told CNN affiliate WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, at the funerals that he doubted Heinze's grandson was responsible for the deaths.",
"\"We want to know what really happened,\" he said.",
"\"The police may think The police know what happened, but we want to really know the truth.\"",
"Brunswick is about 300 miles southeast of Atlanta on Georgia's Atlantic coast.",
"CNN's Ashley Hayes, Sean Callebs and Chris Youd",
"contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police have arrested a man whose DNA linked Walter E. Ellis to the bodies of nine women killed over 21 years, officials said at a news conference Monday night.",
"Walter E. Ellis, was arrested after police matched a DNA swab taken from Walter E. Ellis last week to the victims.",
"Walter E. Ellis, was arrested after police matched a DNA swab taken from Walter E. Ellis last week to DNA left on the bodies of nine women killed since 1986.",
"Police said eight of The women were prostitutes and one was a runaway involved with drugs.",
"They were all killed within a 3-square-mile area of Milwaukee's north side.",
"\"This case was solved with shoe leather and science,\" Milwaukee Police Chief Edward A. Flynn said.",
"\"Continuing advances in DNA technology have enabled us to link these homicide cases, and it was good police work pursuing numerous leads that led to the arrest of a suspect.\"",
"The homicides occurred between 1986 and 2007, police said.",
"See where the bodies of nine women killed since 1986 were found » .",
"Walter E. Ellis was charged Monday with two counts of first degree murder relating to two of the deaths: 41-year-old Joyce Mims, who was killed in 1997, and 28-year-old Ouithreaun Stokes, who was killed in April 2007.",
"Police said more charges are likely.",
"It wasn't immediately clear whether Walter E. Ellis had obtained an attorney.",
"Police said other victims linked to Walter E. Ellis through DNA were: Tanya L. Miller, killed in 1986; Deborah L. Harris, killed in 1986; Sheila Farrior, strangled in 1995; Florence McCormick, strangled in 1995; Irene Smith, killed in 1992; Carron D. Kilpatrick, killed in 1992, and Jessica Payne, killed in 1995.",
"Flynn told CNN it was hard for investigators to discern a geographic pattern for the homicides.",
"In the 20-year period, more than 2,000 slayings occurred in Milwaukee, Flynn said -- 200 of more than 2,000 slayings in the same area where the bodies were found.",
"Another challenge investigators faced was the developing technology of DNA evidence.",
"The technology in 2009 far exceeds that available in 1986 or even 2002, Flynn said.",
"It was only this year that police were able to link the nine homicides with the same DNA pattern.",
"Even then \"we did not have anyone to match our DNA profile against, until we were able to get [Walter E. Ellis'] toothbrush,\" Flynn told CNN.",
"A Wisconsin law passed in 2000 mandated the DNA collection from convicted felons.",
"Walter E. Ellis was released from prison in 2001 without having Walter E. Ellis's DNA sample collected, Flynn said.",
"Because Walter E. Ellis's name had surfaced in the investigation and because Walter E. Ellis was also listed in two FBI databases, authorities decided to investigate Walter E. Ellis further and were able to obtain the search warrant that allowed authorities to collect Walter E. Ellis's DNA from Walter E. Ellis's toothbrush, the police chief said.",
"News of Walter E. Ellis's arrest shocked those who knew Walter E. Ellis.",
"\"That was just my ex-boyfriend,\" his former girlfriend, Chanita, told CNN affiliate WISN-TV.",
"Chanita asked that Chanita's last name not be used.",
"\"I didn't know nothing about nothing like this.",
"I'm getting shivery now cause you're talking about some strangling stuff.",
"Lord have mercy on me.",
"I'm just a wreck right now.",
"I can't believe this.",
"I'm trembling in here.",
"I'm shakin'.\"",
"Chanita said Chanita dated Walter E. Ellis for four years.",
"\"I can't believe it.",
"This is a shock,\" Chanita told WISN.",
"\"I got like goose bumps on my arms instantly when you told me that.",
"I'm like no way -- not Walter -- I can't see Walter E. Ellis hurting nobody.\"",
"For relatives of the victims, News of Ellis' arrest brought mixed emotions.",
"\"I knew they was gonna get Walter E. Ellis, I knew it,\" Patricia Donald, best friend of victim Deborah Harris, told WISN.",
"\"Finally Walter E. Ellis can't hurt nobody anymore.\"",
"For her and others, like Sandy Farrior, whose daughter Sheila was linked to Walter E. Ellis, it was news that helped bring closure.",
"\"Late justice is better than no justice,\" he told WISN.",
"In addition to advances in DNA technology, officials attributed the break in the case to the repeated investigation of cold cases by the Milwaukee Police Department's Homicide Task Force Cold Case Unit.",
"Although Mims and Stokes were strangled about a decade apart, similar DNA on Mims and Stokes's bodies helped lead police to a suspect.",
"Watch where cops got DNA sample » .",
"Mims was found strangled and lying on Mims's back wearing only socks on June 20, 1997, in a small closet near a living room in Milwaukee, according to court documents.",
"Police found DNA on Mims's body, but there were no matches in the system, court documents show.",
"On April 27, 2007, Stokes was found strangled, partially clothed and lying face down in a living room in Milwaukee, according to court documents.",
"When lab technicians tested the DNA found on her body, lab technicians found the DNA directly matched the DNA found on Mims.",
"On August 29 of this year, armed with a search warrant, police took a toothbrush and razor from Walter E. Ellis's home.",
"Testing showed the DNA found on Mims and Stokes was a match to Walter E. Ellis, according to court documents.",
"Walter E. Ellis has been charged at least 10 times with varying offenses ranging from violent crimes to property crimes between 1981 and 1998, though some of the charges were dismissed, online court records in Wisconsin show.",
"Walter E. Ellis was sentenced to five years in state prison after Walter E. Ellis pleaded no contest to a reckless injury charge in 1998.",
"None of the victims linked to Walter E. Ellis was killed during the time Walter E. Ellis was in jail.",
"However, two men were charged in slayings later linked to Walter E. Ellis, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.",
"Curtis McCoy was charged in October 1994 with killing Kilpatrick, but Curtis McCoy was later acquitted by a jury, the newspaper reported.",
"the newspaper also said Chaunte Ott, who was convicted of killing Payne, served 13 years in prison before being released in January, after DNA analysis showed semen found on the girl's body was not his.",
"CNN's Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report."
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"Walter E. Ellis charged in two killings and more charges likely, police say .",
"Police chief hails arrest: \"This case was solved with shoe leather and science\"",
"The women were killed between 1986 and 2007 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Somali pirates demanded a $7 million ransom for a British couple kidnapped aboard their yacht last week, a British agency said Friday.",
"British government says British government won't pay.",
"\"British government will not make substantive concessions for hostage takers, including the payments of ransom,\" the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.",
"Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were snatched last week from the couple's yacht in the Indian Ocean, had been held aboard a Singaporean cargo ship hijacked by pirates.",
"the couple have been moved to a hijacked Spanish ship that pirates have stocked with more supplies and armed men, a local journalist in contact with pirates said Friday.",
"pirates moved them to the Spanish vessel after elders in the Somali town of Haradhere refused a pirate request to allow the Chandlers ashore, the journalist said.",
"the journalist's identity is not being disclosed for security reasons.",
"After hours of negotiation, the couple spoke with Rachel Chandler's brother, Stephen Collett, on Friday -- a phone conversation that was videotaped by CNN's British affiliate ITN.",
"In the conversation, Rachel Chandler's confirmed only that the couple had been moved from a Singaporean cargo ship hijacked by pirates, but not the couple's current location, the network reported.",
"\"the couple're managing.",
"pirates tell the couple that the couple're safe and that the couple shouldn't worry and that if the couple want anything, pirates will provide it in terms of food and, you know, water,\" an emotional Rachel Chandler's told Collett.",
"\"pirates're very hospitable people",
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"Physically the couple're fine; physically, the couple're healthy.\"",
"Rachel Chandler's spoke slowly and carefully in the interview: .",
"\"the couple are here.",
"the couple are fine,\" Rachel Chandler's told Collett.",
"\"the couple know nothing here.",
"It is nice to speak to Collett.",
"I can only say the couple are well and that's as far as I can say.\"",
"Collett read a message to pirates, asking pirates to release Collett's sister and her husband to show \"your compassionate nature.\"",
"ITN reporter Angus Walker noted that Rachel Chandler's's tone sounded more strained than during the couple's conversation Thursday, when Rachel Chandler's laughed at one point and sounded more relaxed.",
"In the couple's Thursday conversation, Rachel Chandler's told ITN that men with guns had boarded the couple's yacht, demanding money and taking everything of value.",
"Rachel Chandler's spoke later with the BBC's Somali Service, reportedly saying, \"We are well and being looked after OK.\"",
"Rachel Chandler's said they were being fed and \"food is OK at the moment.\"",
"The pirates abandoned the couple's yacht, the 38-foot Lynn Rival, which the British Royal Navy found drifting in international waters Thursday.",
"the couple set off from the Seychelles islands on October 21 bound for Tanzania, according to the couple's blog.",
"A distress beacon was activated on October 23, according to naval officials.",
"Britain's Foreign Office said Britain's Foreign Office has been in close contact with the couple's family.",
"Pirates have been very active off the east coast of Africa in the past several years, operating out of lawless Somalia.",
"Two vessels were attacked the day after the couple set sail.",
"One of Two vessels -- a cargo ship -- was successfully boarded and seized off the Seychelles islands, while the other fought off its attackers near the Kenyan coast.",
"Thursday, pirates attacked and boarded a Thai-flagged fishing vessel about 200 miles north of the Seychelles islands, according to the European Union Naval Force.",
"Attacks in the region 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 October 21.",
"From January 1 through 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 this year's attacks, Somali pirates successfully hijacked 32 vessels and took 533 hostages.",
"Eight people were wounded, four were killed and one is missing, the International Maritime Bureau said."
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