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"(CNN) --",
"Despite some signs that the economy is on the mend, a lack of confidence from consumers and companies alike may hamper job growth during the next few months, economists say.",
"Unlike this point last year, there are some indicators for optimism about the economy.",
"The market seems to be on a rebound, with stock prices growing steadily since March.",
"Meanwhile, the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, a broad indicator of the economy's strength, grew during the third quarter.",
"It was the largest such growth since the summer of 2007.",
"However, the unemployment rate is staggering.",
"The national unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent last month, the first time The national unemployment rate has been double digits in more than 25 years.",
"The national unemployment rate increased in 29 states and the District of Columbia in October, according to a recent Labor Department survey.",
"Thirteen states reported an unemployment rate above the current national rate.",
"Track unemployment numbers by state and industry .",
"There is also concern that the GDP growth is largely the result of the economic stimulus implemented by the federal government and other government initiatives like the \"Cash for Clunkers\" program for automobiles.",
"Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman, said recently that economic conditions were better than they were a year ago, and a modest recovery was on the horizon.",
"Sounding a note of caution, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman said: \"Some important headwinds -- in particular, constrained bank lending and a weak job market -- will likely prevent the expansion from being as robust as we would hope.\"",
"Polls suggest many Americans are not confident about the economy.",
"\"Some economic indicators may suggest that the economy has turned the corner -- but try telling that to the American people,\" said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.",
"More than eight in 10 Americans say that economic conditions are in poor shape, according to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll.",
"Of that number, 43 percent described the conditions as \"very poor.\"",
"See the poll results (pdf)",
"Ali Velshi, CNN's chief business correspondent, said it may not feel as if the economy is in a recovery until the jobless numbers decrease.",
"That may partly explain the poll's findings.",
"Velshi described the economy as being founded on three pillars.",
"One is the value of a home growing at a rate faster than the cost of owning it, Velshi said.",
"The other is the value of investments -- think of a 401(k) plan or an IRA or savings for kids' education -- increasing at a rate faster than inflation.",
"The third, and most important one, is income, Velshi said.",
"\"You can live without a [buying a] house.",
"You can live without a 401(k).",
"You can't live without an income.\"",
"On that front, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman sounded somber during Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman's remarks to the Economic Club of New York on November 16.",
"\"The best thing we can say about the labor market right now is that the labor market may be getting worse more slowly,\" Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman said.",
"\"Jobs are likely to remain scarce for some time.\"",
"Read Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman's remarks (pdf)",
"Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman said jobs will likely be created next year but a high unemployment rate may still hold through 2010.",
"So, why does unemployment continue to rise while Wall Street seems to be rebounding?",
"\"There's this real disconnect between Wall Street and Mainstreet,\" said Peter Rodriguez, an economist at the University of Virginia.",
"\"Wall Street can benefit from forward-looking financial markets and they've already begun to rise.",
"\"But that doesn't give anyone any new jobs.\"",
"Peter Rodriguez, an economist at the University of Virginia said there was \"an ample amount of what you might think of as underemployment in the active workforce.\"",
"Let's say you're a manager and you have 50 employees.",
"During tough economic times, you might minimize the pain by cutting people's hours.",
"Instead of working 40 hours, they work 35 hours, and your company limps along during the recession without having to lay off people.",
"\"What that means is, on the return to normalcy, rather than hiring people, you just raise work hours,\" Peter Rodriguez, an economist at the University of Virginia said.",
"Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman brought up the dynamic as well last week.",
"\"Recently, we've seen the interesting phenomenon that firms have come out of recessions in aggressive cost cutting mode and in doing so, firms've actually created productivity gains,\" Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman said.",
"CNNMoney:",
"Are things really getting better?",
"Consequently, the number of part-time workers who say they would like a full-time job but can't find one has doubled since the recession began, Peter Rodriguez, an economist at the University of Virginia noted.",
"However, those gains companies made while cutting back on workers are likely \"limited and probably temporary,\" Peter Rodriguez, an economist at the University of Virginia said.",
"\"If demand, production and confidence pick up, they will find their labor force stretched thin and they will add new workers,\" Peter Rodriguez, an economist at the University of Virginia said.",
"The trend might not change until companies and business owners feel confident enough in the economy to start hiring.",
"There are a number of factors that could influence that perspective, including access to credit, lending from banks and overseas competition.",
"They have to feel assured of a recovery to discard their caution and put their money at risk, Peter Rodriguez, an economist at the University of Virginia said.",
"\"They feel better, but not better enough to invest in growth,\" Peter Rodriguez, an economist at the University of Virginia said.",
"\"They're becoming slightly less timid, but we're still deep in the rehabilitation phase.\""
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"The national unemployment rate is 10.2 percent .",
"Labor Department: The national unemployment rate increased in 29 states in October .",
"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sees modest growth on the horizon ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Michael Jackson's father wants a judge to order the pop star's estate to pay Michael Jackson a monthly allowance, according to papers filed in court Friday.",
"Joe Jackson, the 80-year-old Jackson family patriarch, was not named in Michael Jackson's 2002 will, which left Michael Jackson's wealth to Michael Jackson's's mother, Katherine Jackson, Michael Jackson's three children and undisclosed charities.",
"Brian Oxman, Michael Jackson's lawyer, filed the petition Friday asking for Michael Jackson to be included in the family allowance.",
"The matter will be considered Tuesday when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff convenes the next hearing on matters related to the probate of Michael Jackson's will, Oxman said.",
"The filing does not publicly specify how much Michael Jackson's father is requesting.",
"Howard Weitzman, one of the lawyers for the pop star's estate's special administrators, said Michael Jackson's request \"will be considered as are all requests for money from Michael's estate.\"",
"\"It was quite surprising to learn of Joe Jackson's request,\" Weitzman said.",
"Michael Jackson's mother and Michael Jackson's three children receive a court-ordered allowance from the estate totaling more than $86,000 a month, according to court documents.",
"The money is in addition to the maintenance of the home -- which is owned by the pop star's estate -- in Encino, California, where Michael Jackson's lives with Michael Jackson's's grandchildren, the papers said.",
"Although Joe and Michael Jackson's are still married, Michael Jackson lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.",
"Michael Jackson is credited with launching and guiding Michael Jackson's family's show business success, but Michael Jackson had publicly criticized Michael Jackson's father's parenting skills.",
"Tuesday's hearing could also see a new challenge by the Jackson family of the 2002 will.",
"Michael Jackson died June 25, but the probate of Michael Jackson's will has been slowed by a series of court squabbles between Michael Jackson's's lawyers and the two men now in control of the pop star's estate.",
"John Branca and John McClain, who are named as executors in the 2002 will, were appointed temporary special administrators to run the pop star's estate until the process is completed.",
"Michael Jackson's replaced the lawyers representing Michael Jackson's in the estate case last month with attorney Adam Streisand.",
"Another Jackson family lawyer said the change was made because the estate case was about to take a \"new direction\" based on \"new evidence\" uncovered by the family.",
"Attorney Londell McMillan pointed to questions about the authenticity of the signature on Michael Jackson's will.",
"Tuesday's estate hearing will be attorney Adam Streisand's first appearance in the estate case.",
"A trial has been tentatively set for December to decide any challenge of the 2002 will, although attorney Adam Streisand said last month he expected A trial to be set for early next year.",
"The A&E network announced Friday that \"The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty\" television series will launch with two hours of programming on Sunday night, December 13.",
"Four of Michael Jackson's brothers -- all except Randy Jackson -- are involved in the show \"as they prepare for a Jackson Five reunion, while also coming to terms with Michael Jackson's tragic loss,\" The A&E network said.",
"An A&E programming executive said the \"deeply intimate portrait will provide viewers with a raw and honest look inside a musical dynasty.\""
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"Joe Jackson, who was left out of will, wants judge to give Michael Jackson allowance .",
"Michael's mother, Katherine, Michael's children get bulk of the estate .",
"Michael Jackson had publicly criticized Michael Jackson's father's parenting skills ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The second installment in the \"Twilight\" saga, starring Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen, Kristen Stewart as his star-crossed love and Taylor Lautner as the wolfboy who loves her, has already ripped through a box office record.",
"According to Hollywood trade magazine Variety, \"New Moon\" is the biggest midnight showing in history, grossing $26.3 million when New Moon opened in 3,514 theaters at 12:01 a.m. Friday.",
"New Moon even surpassed the supernatural cinema force that is \"Harry Potter,\" collecting more than the $22.2 million that \"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince\" earned during its midnight showing this summer.",
"\"New Moon\" has also easily beaten New Moon's own predecessor, \"Twilight,\" which earned $36 million on opening day last year.",
"And while \"Twilight's\" opening weekend was $69.7 million, early reports are that \"New Moon\" will do even better.",
"But along with the ticket sales bounty is backlash.",
"The Vatican released an announcement Friday denouncing the film, which is based on Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster series.",
"\"New Moon is nothing more than a moral vacuum with a deviant message and as such should be of concern,\" warns The Vatican's culture council leader, Monsignor Franco Perazzolo, in a statement timed to the release of \"New Moon,\" according to E! Online.",
"\"This theme of vampires in 'Twilight' combines a mixture of excesses,\" he continued, \"that, as ever, is aimed at young people and gives a heavy esoteric element.\"",
"Yet the kids these days appear to dig the \"excesses\" of \"Twilight.\"",
"Still, only time will tell if \"New Moon\" will also outsell the current \"best opening day\" titleholder, \"The Dark Knight,\" which grossed $67.2 million when The Dark Knight opened July 18, 2008."
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"\"New Moon\" grossed $26.3 million from midnight showings alone .",
"The vampire romance is set to surpass \"Twilight\" for first-day sales .",
"But with sales comes backlash; the Vatican has spoken out against \"New Moon\"",
"Only time will tell if it will also surpass \"The Dark Knight\" for \"best opening day\""
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"(CNN) --",
"The wife of a Colorado father at the center of the \"balloon boy\" saga told authorities that giant balloon was specifically created for a hoax to draw media attention, according to court documents released Friday.",
"The Heene family -- including Falcon, second from right -- on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" last week.",
"Mayumi Heene told Larimer County investigators that Mayumi Heene and Richard Heene's's husband, Richard Heene, knew that she and husband's 6-year-old son Falcon was hiding at she and husband's Fort Collins home the entire time, even as police and military scrambled to search for the boy, according to the documents.",
"The admission by Mayumi Heene was made October 17, just two days after giant balloon was released, according to the documents.",
"The Heenes initially told authorities that she and husband believed she and husband's child had flown away on giant balloon, and when giant balloon landed without their child, she and husband expressed concern that their child may have fallen out of the device.",
"she and husband hatched the plan about two weeks before the incident and \"instructed she and husband's three children to lie to authorities as well as the media regarding this hoax,\" according to the documents.",
"she and husband's motive?",
"To \"make the Heene family more marketable for future media interests.\"",
"Calls to David Lane, Richard Heene's attorney, and Lee Christian, Mayumi Heene's attorney, were not immediately returned Friday.",
"Richard and Mayumi Heene are each facing a number of local charges, including conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and attempting to influence a public servant, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said Sunday.",
"Lane told CNN earlier that the sheriff was overreaching and that the family deserve the presumption of innocence.",
"The Federal Aviation Administration is also investigating the incident.",
"Richard and Mayumi Heene met in a Hollywood acting school and pursued fame for she and husband's family in the world of reality TV, Alderden has said.",
"the family have appeared on the ABC program \"Wife Swap.\"",
"Richard Heene's also chases storms, brings Richard Heene's's family along and takes videos.",
"TLC, which produces the show \"Jon & Kate Plus 8,\" said the family had \"approached us months ago\" about a possible show, \"and we passed.\""
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"Mayumi Heene says Mayumi Heene and husband knew 6-year-old was safe during scare .",
"she and husband told authorities child might have blown away inside giant balloon .",
"Couple told children to lie to authorities and media, document says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The woman who was denied a marriage license by a Louisiana justice of Keith Bardwell because Keith Bardwell refused to marry interracial couples said the official should lose Keith Bardwell's job.",
"Beth McKay says a Louisiana justice of Keith Bardwell denied Beth McKay a marriage license since it was an interracial union.",
"Beth McKay said Beth McKay never could have expected what Beth McKay heard from Keith Bardwell when Beth McKay called Keith Bardwell's office a week ago to officiate Beth McKay's marriage to Beth McKay's African-American fiance, Terence.",
"Beth McKay spoke with Keith Bardwell's wife to make arrangements for the ceremony.",
"\"At the end of the conversation, she said that she had to ask me a question.",
"She asked if this was an interracial marriage.\"",
"When Beth McKay replied yes, Beth McKay was told, \"Well, we don't do interracial weddings or marriages.\"",
"Beth McKay said Beth McKay was beyond shock.",
"\"We are used to the closet racism, but we're not going to tolerate that overt racism from an elected official.\"",
"Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is calling to have Bardwell's license revoked, and Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu is calling for Keith Bardwell's dismissal -- a notion shared by Beth McKay.",
"\"Keith Bardwell's not representing all the people that Keith Bardwell is supposed to be representing,\" Beth McKay said.",
"\"Keith Bardwell's only representing the people with Keith Bardwell's same opinions.\"",
"Beth McKay later married Terence with the help of another justice of the peace in the same parish.",
"Keith Bardwell has not returned repeated calls from CNN, but Keith Bardwell told a local newspaper in a story published Thursday that Keith Bardwell was not a racist and Keith Bardwell was concerned for the children who might be born of the relationship.",
"Keith Bardwell also said, in Keith Bardwell's experience, that most interracial marriages don't last.",
"\"We're just kind of hurt, you know?\" Beth McKay told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday.",
"\"This doesn't take care of the problem.",
"Keith Bardwell's been in Keith Bardwell's position for 34 years.",
"So, it doesn't take care of the problems that we have to deal with on a daily basis.\"",
"Watch why justice nixed interracial marriage » .",
"Beth McKay said Beth McKay's friends and family have been extremely supportive and Beth McKay believes this situation occurred for a reason.",
"\"I just think that God puts you in the right positions at the right time in order to stand up to people who -- who choose to live people's lives with hate,\" Beth McKay said.",
"The Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriage in the landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia case.",
"Richard and Mildred Loving, who got married in Washington, D.C., were arrested in Richard and Mildred Loving, who got married in Washington, D.C.'s Virginia home with Richard and Mildred Loving, who got married in Washington, D.C.'s marriage license framed and hanging on the wall, for the simple fact of being husband and wife.",
"Watch Keith Bardwell explain Keith Bardwell's decision » .",
"In the unanimous decision, The Supreme Court said that \"Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the state.\"",
"The number of interracial marriages have skyrocketed, nearly quadrupling between 1970 and 2005, the most recent year for which there is census data.",
"As of 2005, nearly 8.5 Americans are living in interracial marriages."
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"Beth McKay says Beth McKay's hurt after Louisiana justice of peace denied marriage license .",
"Keith Bardwell says Keith Bardwell won't wed interracial couples, but denies Keith Bardwell's racist .",
"State officials have called for Keith Bardwell's dismissal ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Taping of \"The Real Housewives of Atlanta\" reunion special, scheduled for last week, has been postponed as the cast deals with the death of Kandi Burruss' former fiancé, Ashley \"A.J.\" Jewell, an NBC Universal spokeswoman told CNN Monday.",
"The Atlanta \"Housewives\" have been touched by tragedy this season with a loved one's death.",
"The show is now winding down The show's second season on the network, and the two-part episode was expected to air on October 29 and November 5.",
"Cast member and purported \"sixth housewife\" Dwight Eubanks told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Eubanks was \"shocked\" when Eubanks heard of A.J. Jewell's passing but does expect the taping to resume eventually.",
"\"I don't see them editing [A.J. Jewell] out,\" Eubanks told the newspaper.",
"\"It's television.",
"It's reality.",
"We just have to prepare and gear up for next year.\"",
"So far, Bravo hasn't erased Jewell's presence from the series.",
"Although scenes with A.J. Jewell weren't a part of last Thursday's episode, \"Housewives\" viewers did watch as Kandi debated the future of Burruss's engagement to A.J. Jewell with castmate Kim.",
"Blog: What happened on \"Housewives\"",
"But commercials for this Thursday's episode showed clips from therapy sessions with Burruss, Burruss's mother and A.J. Jewell.",
"Eubanks told the Journal-Constitution that Eubanks doesn't know if Burruss will continue with the \"Housewives\" or not.",
"\"Burruss's had such a dramatic year,\" Eubanks said.",
"\"Burruss had Burruss's uncle die, too.",
"Burruss has Burruss's own career to focus on.",
"Now Burruss's life has changed with Burruss's daughter and taking temporary custody of [A.J.'s] twins.\"",
"Jewell, who died at 34 after a fight outside of an Atlanta strip club on October 3, was buried on October 9."
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"Taping has been postponed in aftermath of death of A.J. Jewell .",
"A.J. Jewell was former fiancé of \"Housewives\" cast member Kandi Burruss .",
"A.J. Jewell's presence still part of show, which was taped weeks ago ."
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"Editor's note: Behar's new nightly show debuts Tuesday, September 29 on HLN at 9 PM ET.",
"Behar says Ukranian officials are wrong to try to block Elton John, partner from adopting a 14-month-old boy.",
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"On a recent tour of a Ukrainian orphanage, Elton John, partner and Elton John, partner's partner met Lev, a 14-month old HIV-positive boy.",
"They immediately fell in love with the child, but their possible bid to adopt the adorable tiny dancer was rejected by Yuriy Pavlenko, Ukraine's Family, Youth and Sports Minister.",
"Yuriy Pavlenko, Ukraine's Family, Youth and Sports Minister, here are some tips about family, youth and sports.",
"Family doesn't mean a huddle of orphans sharing a few soiled mattresses, it's not youth if you die of AIDS before you reach kindergarten, and wrestling over dinner scraps is not a sport.",
"But that could be Lev's fate now, because the Ukrainian government said Elton John, partner and Elton John, partner's beau David Furnish are too old to adopt the boy.",
"It sounds like the real reason is they're too gay.",
"John and Furnish tied the knot in 2005, becoming one of Britain's first gay civil unions, but Ukraine doesn't recognize gay unions.",
"Ukrainian Orthodox Church spokesman Father Georgy Gulyaev called Elton John a sinner and said, \"thank God it's impossible under Ukrainian law for [him] to adopt a child.\"",
"Apparently in Ukraine, God's No. 1 priority is preventing gay couples from giving sick kids a better life.",
"God would never want something like that to happen.",
"Ukrainian Orthodox Church spokesman Father Georgy Gulyaev said homosexuality \"represents the dead end of human development.\"",
"That's odd, I thought the dead end of human development was represented by 14th century thinking like his.",
"Elton John, partner's head is stuck in the Dark Ages.",
"Elton John, partner hasn't even progressed to the Middle Ages yet.",
"Some conservative religious leaders like to harp about the \"damage\" to families done by gay marriage, as if traditional marriage is so perfect.",
"Since many of Some conservative religious leaders have taken vows of celibacy, they've never witnessed firsthand the damage dinner with the in-laws can cause (one of the few advantages of the celibate life, I guess).",
"There are even a few married Bible-thumpers spending their time trying to keep sex out of our lives -- yet they talk about sex more than anyone!",
"Sex is usually the first and only factor they consider when judging -- I mean, when \"dispensing enlightenment upon\" -- others.",
"Watch Joy Behar speak about adoption » .",
"Sure, Elton John, partner may be gay, but Elton John, partner's also a renowned musician, a celebrated humanitarian, and has been knighted by the Queen of England.",
"In fact, for some people Elton John, partner is the Queen of England.",
"Plus, there's no downside to gay adoption.",
"In the United States, organizations like the National Adoption Center, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics all agree that having homosexual parents does not negatively affect children.",
"But you know what does negatively affect children?",
"Growing up with no parents.",
"So now 14-month-old Lev is stuck in some depressing orphanage that makes Guantanamo Bay look like the presidential suite at the Waldorf.",
"He'll likely end up in foster homes and -- if he lives long enough -- maybe he can turn into a bitter, vodka-swilling drunk.",
"All because the Ukrainian government won't let him be adopted by two loving gay parents who are fabulously rich and want to give him a home with the best healthcare available, dressed in Versace jammies and cashmere Huggies.",
"Not to mention all the play dates with Brangelina's kids.",
"Let's hope Elton John, partner finds a different, more tolerant country willing to let Elton John, partner be a poor child's loving father.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Joy Behar."
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"Elton John, partner says Ukrainian officials were wrong to reject idea of adoption .",
"Elton John, partner says Ukrainian officials's real objection seemed to be to a gay couple adopting a child .",
"Behar: Experts say there's no downside to gay adoption ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Four days of heavy rains triggered a landslide that killed 12 children and eight adults near Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania, authorities said Friday.",
"Five of the children were under six, said Suzan Kaganda, a police department spokeswoman.",
"The death toll could go up as rescue crews search the area for people reported missing, Suzan Kaganda, a police department spokeswoman said.",
"Most victims of the late Tuesday landslide live in the Kilimanjaro region near the mountain by The mountain, Suzan Kaganda, a police department spokeswoman said.",
"The mountain is the highest peak in Africa and is a major tourist attraction.",
"U.N. officials warned last month that east Africa is facing mudslides, crop destruction and waterborne diseases as a result of heavy downpour triggered by El Nino weather patterns.",
"Most east African countries have been water-starved in the past few years, exacerbating the results of floods, because a lot of greenery disappeared in the drought."
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"U.N. warned east Africa is facing mudslides, crop destruction and waterborne diseases related to El Nino weather patterns .",
"The mountain is the highest peak in Africa and is a major tourist attraction ."
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"(OPRAH.com) --",
"Harris' Barney character can saw Harris' Barney character in half, sing a selection of Broadway showtunes and swing on a flying trapeze.",
"Neil Patrick Harris says Neil Patrick Harris'll try to make viewers feel like viewers're in good hands with Neil Patrick Harris as Emmy host.",
"When Neil Patrick Harris, one of the stars of the hit CBS sitcom \"How I Met Your Mother,\" isn't dabbling in the extraordinary, well, Neil Patrick Harris's probably hosting an awards show.",
"In the late '80s, Neil -- known as NPH to Neil Patrick Harris's fans -- landed the starring role on \"Doogie Howser, M.D.\"",
"After years of child stardom and teen heartthrob status, Neil Patrick Harris left the small screen for the stage.",
"Neil Patrick Harris became a respected Broadway actor, starring in shows like \"Rent,\" \"Cabaret\" and \"Proof,\" before returning to television.",
"Now, millions know Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, the womanizing, slap-happy sidekick on \"How I Met Your Mother,\" which begins its fifth season September 21.",
"Like Billy Crystal and Johnny Carson before Neil Patrick Harris, this man-of-many-talents is also making Neil Patrick Harris's mark as an awards show host.",
"On Sunday, September 20, Neil Patrick Harris will host the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.",
"Neil Patrick Harris shares Neil Patrick Harris's thoughts on fate, finding balance and making out with Neil Patrick Harris's co-star.",
"Kari Forsee:",
"How are you preparing for Emmy night?",
"Neil Patrick Harris:",
"I'm just trying to make sure all the comedy host elements are in place.",
"We'll have a good opening bit and a couple surprise things throughout.",
"We want to balance respecting the show and the doling out of the awards with the sort of random things that will keep the audience's attention in other ways.",
"So that's kind of been my job.",
"You want to make it unique and, yet, classic.",
"That's a tricky dynamic.",
"Oprah.com: Planning an Emmys party?",
"Get 4 entertaining solutions .",
"KF:",
"I can imagine.",
"How often are you rehearsing?",
"NPH:",
"Well, it's sort of a litany of e-mails and phone calls all day with the producers.",
"We had a great opening short film we are going to shoot, and it would be the first thing you shot.",
"That was going to be with Alec Baldwin, and Alec Baldwin withdrew at the last minute.",
"So that got scrapped, and we're off to plan D, E or F.",
"It's sort of like now you go: \"That's fantastic, great.",
"We've got that person,\" or \"Oh, that person didn't work.",
"Now what do we do?\"",
"A lot of \"now what do we do?\" questions.",
"KF:",
"Now at the Tony Awards, you sang a, may I say, legendary closing number.",
"Will you be singing at the Emmys, or is dancing more the focus?",
"NPH:",
"I suspect you won't see me dancing very much.",
"That's not my forte.",
"But yeah, I might throw some sort of singing into it.",
"I haven't quite decided.",
"I sort of feel like the Emmys are so classy and glamorous and black tie, Neil Patrick Harris really needs to respect Neil Patrick Harris's job title.",
"I think too much \"Look at me! Look at me!\" as the host of a show that big is counterproductive.",
"So long as I make you feel confident that you're in good hands with me as the host, then it's my real responsibility to introduce you to a lot of other people and elements -- other presenters who are then going to talk to you or other introductions of next sections.",
"That's my role.",
"It's not really to be a song-and-dance man.",
"KF:",
"Did you look back at past Emmy hosts for inspiration?",
"NPH: Very much.",
"Steve Allen hosted the first televised awards, which was the 7th Annual Emmy Awards, in, I think, 1955, and Steve Allen was great.",
"That was sort of my inspiration for all of this.",
"Steve Allen just had such a dry wit, a commanding voice, a great presence.",
"You knew when you were watching it that if something went wrong, you could look to Steve Allen, and Steve Allen would steer you through it.",
"It was always with great dignity and a dry sense of humor, and Steve Allen was sort of out there all the time.",
"Steve Allen was definitely the \"host.\"",
"Steve Allen definitely helped the show, so I like that.",
"Johnny Carson, too, was great.",
"KF:",
"Hypothetically, what would you do if your name was called for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series this year?",
"NPH:",
"Oh my, I would graciously accept, try to keep my speech to a minimum, and then quickly set my speech backstage, because I have a lot more to do for the next couple hours.",
"KF:",
"Is the award given out early on in the show?",
"NPH:",
"I think it will be within the first hour.",
"It's a nice and refreshing win-win for me, because if I do happen to win, it will be awesome-tastic, and oddly, a bit of a distraction.",
"And if I don't win, it just provides lots of comedy fodder for the rest of the show.",
"So I'm pretty safe either way.",
"It's a tough category, for sure.",
"KF:",
"So the day after the Emmys, a new season of \"How I Met Your Mother\" premieres.",
"Last season's finale left us wondering if your character, Barney Stinson, will finally settle down and start dating Robin Scherbatsky.",
"NPH:",
"They certainly take a stab at it.",
"I know there will be lots of necking and making out.",
"Lots of canoodling between Robin and I.",
"My lips are chapped.",
"Robin and I. have strong physical chemistry, apparently.",
"KF: \"How I Met Your Mother\" puts a lot of stake in fate.",
"Are you a believer in fate?",
"NPH:",
"I don't know what to make of fate.",
"I certainly don't think you can predetermine things.",
"It feels like if you go out of your way to try to make something happen, it rarely does.",
"But if you allow for good things to happen, they seem to.",
"I think a lot of that is more perception, you know?",
"A lot of people would take getting rear-ended in A lot of people's car as an example of why A lot of people's life continues to be one road block after another, and I think a different person can see that same fender bender and be grateful that same fender bender wasn't worse.",
"That allows them an opportunity to learn something from it -- sort of take some sort of positive elements from that.",
"I think if you try to angle your life in those ways, then fate, destiny, karma opens itself up to you and allows for more growth.",
"Oprah.com: How to get lucky in love and life .",
"KF:",
"I'm curious, how did your father meet your mother?",
"NPH:",
"Robin and I. were college, fraternity and sorority sweethearts.",
"This was in Albuquerque.",
"your mother was in Alpha Chi Omega.",
"And your father was in, something Pi?",
"Robin and I. did the whole, you know, your father gave your mother your father's pin.",
"your mother was pinned, and Robin and I. were a couple.",
"Then, Robin and I. were married, and Robin and I.'ve only been with each other.",
"I'm very extraordinarily lucky with Robin and I.. ...",
"We didn't have a lot of money growing up, but we were never made to feel poor.",
"Robin and I. had amazing senses of humor, senses of music and really treated us like regular people when we were kids.",
"So I lucked out.",
"KF:",
"Did Robin and I. help you survive child stardom?",
"NPH:",
"Robin and I. were definitely grounding forces during years in my life that were very tumultuous.",
"Robin and I.'re remarkably grounded and were not at all blinded by the light of stardom and fame.",
"Robin and I.'s main concern was just my well-being and my brother's well-being during all of our crazy times, whether they be intimate or very public.",
"Robin and I.'re remarkable people.",
"Oprah.com:",
"Get your fall TV premiere guide!",
"By Kari Forsee from Oprah.com © 2009 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
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"Neil Patrick Harris taking classy route at Emmys Sunday night .",
"\"How I Met Your Mother\" actor may do some singing, probably no dancing .",
"\"Mother\" begins new season; Neil Patrick Harris's Barney character gets physical with Robin ."
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"Beijing, China (CNN) --",
"In some of the photos, the young children are wearing bibs and slight smiles can be seen on the young children's chubby faces.",
"But these are not your normal baby pictures.",
"The Chinese government is trying to find the parents of these rescued children, some of these rescued children so young that they had not yet developed the strength to hold their own heads up.",
"This week the Chinese Ministry of Public Security posted pictures of these rescued children on the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's Web site.",
"Many of these rescued children had similar stories.",
"They were kidnapped, stolen or sold and somehow had been rescued by authorities.",
"Police tried to find their parents but could not find their parents through the national DNA database, state-run China Daily reported.",
"And for the first time, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security posted their pictures.",
"\"Even if I can't find my boy's photo on its Web site today, it's a blessing for desperate parents like us who have nearly lost hope,\" Tang Weihua, a mother who lost her 5-year-old son in 1999, told China Daily This week.",
"About 30,000 to 60,000 children are reported missing every year, but it is hard to estimate how many are involved in child trafficking cases, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security told China Daily.",
"Police have rescued 2,000 children this year since China launch a nationwide anti-trafficking campaign, China Daily reported.",
"But after rescuing the children finding their parents can prove difficult.",
"One issue is that in some cases their parents sold the children.",
"Earlier this week China's state media reported that police arrested dozens in an alleged child trafficking ring that sold at least 52 babies.",
"The traffickers bought 19 boys and 33 girls from impoverished rural families in Shanxi and Hebei provinces in the past two years, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.",
"an alleged child trafficking ring that sold at least 52 babies started crumbling after three men were arrested with a baby boy in three men's van, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.",
"three men said three men had bought a baby boy from a woman and her daughter in Hebei, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.",
"The women had sold 12 other babies to three men, and were arrested, the state-run Xinhua news agency said."
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"China posts photos of kidnapped, stolen or sold 60 children who were rescued by authorities .",
"Police could not find their parents through the national DNA database .",
"2,000 children have been rescued so far this year since China launch a nationwide anti-trafficking campaign .",
"Earlier this week, police arrested dozens in an alleged child trafficking ring ."
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"SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) --",
"South Korea bade farewell to former President Kim Dae-Jung Sunday in a ceremony attended by thousands of citizens, dignitaries and politicians.",
"South Korean Buddhist monks pray in front of a portrait of former President Kim Dae-Jung during former President Kim Dae-Jung's funeral Sunday.",
"The solemn Sunday afternoon ceremony was held outside parliament, with a large portrait of former president Kim Dae-jung placed on a shrine surrounded by flowers.",
"The funeral followed six days of mourning for Kim, who died Tuesday of a heart failure.",
"former President Kim Dae-Jung's age at the time of former President Kim Dae-Jung's death was in dispute, with some reports saying former President Kim Dae-Jung was 85 while others placing it at 83.",
"former President Kim Dae-Jung's state funeral was the second such ever given in South Korea, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.",
"Another president, Park Chung-hee, was also accorded a state funeral after Another president, Park Chung-hee's assassination while in office in 1979.",
"former President Kim Dae-Jung -- who was president from 1998 to 2003 -- won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for trying to foster better relations with North Korea.",
"The watershed moment of former President Kim Dae-Jung's presidency came in June 2000 when former President Kim Dae-Jung met North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, becoming the first South Korean leader to do so since the Korean War unofficially ended in 1953.",
"But rapproachment talks between the two sides hit a wall after conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office in early 2008 with a tougher stance toward the North than former President Kim Dae-Jung and former President Kim Dae-Jung's successor, Roh Moo-hyun.",
"Ahead of the funeral, conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met with a visiting North Korean delegation, who delivered a message from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressing hopes for improved relations between the two countries.",
"conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, in turn, reiterated conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's government's firm stance, presidential spokesman Lee Dong-kwan was quoted as saying by Yonhap.",
"But in a possible sign that icy relations between the two rival nations are nevertheless thawing, South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In Taek met with North Korean unity leader Kim Yang Gon on Saturday.",
"It was the first high-level, cross-border contact in nearly two years.",
"The meetings between officials of the two Koreas are in stark contrast to the tense public statements the two Koreas made about each other earlier this year.",
"Tensions between the two were heightened in July when North Korea launched seven short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan.",
"The launches came after North Korea conducted a nuclear test on May 25 and threatened the United States and South Korean ships near its territorial waters.",
"South Korea condemned the action, calling The launches \"provocative\" and \"unwise.\"",
"CNN's Jake Perez contributed to this report."
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"South Korea bade farewell to former President Kim Dae-Jung .",
"former President Kim Dae-Jung won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for fostering better relations with the North .",
"Report: Top unification officials of the rival nations met Saturday .",
"North Korean delegation in Seoul to mourn the death of former President Kim Dae-Jung ."
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"Editor's note: Borger is a senior political analyst for CNN, appearing regularly on CNN's \"The Situation Room,\" \"Campbell Brown,\" \"AC360°\" and \"State of the Union With John King\" as well as other programs during special event coverage.",
"Borger says Obama's plans are running into Americans' widespread mistrust of government.",
"(CNN)",
"-- So now comes the hard part.",
"Now that a key Senate committee has finally moved a health care bill, Obama can get to work to try and figure out a final version of reform.",
"Now that Gen. Stanley McChrystal has recommended a large troop buildup in Afghanistan -- setting off an internal debate about recalibrating strategy -- Obama can decide what Obama wants to do about the war.",
"And now that the stock market is on the rebound -- while unemployment remains high -- Obama can figure out how to come up with a \"son of stimulus\" package that targets jobs.",
"Tough decisions are part of Obama's job description, after all.",
"But here's the tricky part: how to convince the public that you -- and government -- will do the right thing, or are even capable of the right thing.",
"Sure, distrust of government is as old as government itself.",
"And there's an inherent conflict in current public thinking, as scholars William Galston and Elaine Kamarck point out: While people want government to solve big problems like health care, people don't trust the government to do it.",
"\"There is nothing new about this ambivalence,\" they write in an essay aptly titled \"Change you can believe in requires a government you can trust.\"",
"They write, \"But how ... the president deals with it may make the difference between success and failure.\"",
"So what's a president with a big agenda to do?",
"He could have narrowed it, but instead decided to play \"all-in.\"",
"Because he was so popular, and because voters were so ready for a change, there was some thought the country might buy into the notion that good leadership could actually change the ethos of bad government.",
"Obama probably believed it, too.",
"So when the economic stimulus package was hatched, with hardly a Republican vote, the White House remained hopeful that, in the end, its success would restore confidence in their work.",
"And they have since toiled mightily to brag about the economic stimulus package as evidence that government can work.",
"After all, if FDR could do it, why not Barack Obama?",
"Instead, the economic stimulus package has become a handy target.",
"Wall Street may be doing well, both conservatives and liberals rail, but the jobs elsewhere are not coming back.",
"And as the president now moves to ask the nation to support an overhaul of health care, voters are still asking: Why should voters trust the government to do that?",
"Consider these numbers: At the end of the Bush administration -- with an unpopular president -- just 17 percent of the American public trusted the government to \"do the right thing\" all or most of the time.",
"And for all of the popularity of Obama, that number now stands at a measly 23 percent.",
"After Bill Clinton lost health care reform -- and control of the Congress -- trust in government in 1994 was at an all-time low: 21 percent.",
"We're almost there now.",
"Ronald Reagan understood, and used to Ronald Reagan's benefit, the antipathy toward government.",
"Ronald Reagan used to joke that the scariest words in the lexicon were \"I'm from the government and I'm here to help.\"",
"Ronald Reagan wanted to make government smaller, and Ronald Reagan's overall success with that notion prompted Bill Clinton to famously tell the Congress \"the era of big government is over.\"",
"Well, it's back.",
"The question is whether Obama can convince us that more government is what we want -- and need.",
"As Ronald Reagan once told us, \"Trust, but verify.\"",
"If only we could.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gloria Borger."
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"Borger says White House bet that Americans would become more pro-government .",
"Borger says reality is that most people are still distrustful of government .",
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"TOKYO, Japan (CNN) --",
"Even before one reaches the front door of Canon's headquarters in Tokyo, one can sense the virtual stampede of employees pouring out of the building exactly at 5:30 p.m.",
"Japan's birth rate of 1.34 is below the level needed to maintain the country's population.",
"In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting the electronics giant's employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage its employees to have more babies.",
"Japan is in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another major problem: Japan's low birthrate.",
"Tell us what you think .",
"At 1.34, the birthrate is well below the 2.0 needed to maintain Japan's population, according to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.",
"Keidanren, Japan's largest business group, with 1,300 major international corporations as members, has issued a plea to its members to let workers go home early to spend time with workers's families and help Japan with Japan's pressing social problem.",
"Watch more on this story .",
"One reason for the low birth rate is the 12-hour workday.",
"But there are several other factors compounding the problem -- among them, the high cost of living, and social rigidity toward women and parenting.",
"In addition, Japan's population is aging at a faster pace than any other country in the world.",
"Analysts say the world's second-largest economy faces the world's second-largest economy's greatest threat from the world's second-largest economy's own social problems, rather than outside forces.",
"And Japan desperately needs to make some fixes to Japan's current social and work structures, sociologists say.",
"The 5:30 p.m. lights-out program is one simple step toward helping address the population problem.",
"The 5:30 p.m. lights-out program also has an added benefit: Amid the global economic downturn the company can slash overtime across the board twice a week.",
"\"It's great that we can go home early and not feel ashamed,\" said employee Miwa Iwasaki."
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"Japanese electronics maker Canon encourages workers to have more babies .",
"Japan's birthrate of 1.34 is below 2.0 needed to maintain Japan's population .",
"Country's population is also aging faster than any other in the world ."
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"(CNN) --",
"John Edward Jones trapped for more than 26 hours in a crevice of a popular cave tourist attraction died as rescuers struggled to save John Edward Jones, authorities said Thursday.",
"John Edward Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park was stuck in the Nutty Putty Cave, which sits west of Utah Lake near Cedar Valley, according to the sheriff's office of Utah County.",
"the Nutty Putty Cave, which sits west of Utah Lake near Cedar Valley is 55 to 60 miles south of Salt Lake City.",
"Sheriff's officials said John Edward Jones entered the Nutty Putty Cave, which sits west of Utah Lake near Cedar Valley at around 6 p.m. Tuesday with a group of about 11 people and became stuck about 8:45 p.m. in a \"tightly confined\" feature inside Nutty Putty Cave called \"Bob's Push.\"",
"Utah County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Spencer Cannon told CNN affiliate KSL that John Edward Jones was trapped upside down in a crevice that was about 18 inches wide and about 10 inches high.",
"a crevice that was about 18 inches wide and about 10 inches high is about 150 feet below the surface and about 700 feet from the cave entrance, according to the sheriff's department.",
"\"They had John Edward Jones to a level spot where John Edward Jones wasn't heading downhill with John Edward Jones's head below John Edward Jones's feet,\" the sheriff said.",
"\"During the course of that, they have a raising system to hold John Edward Jones in position, and one of the devices of a raising system to hold him in position failed, and John Edward Jones actually fell back to the area where John Edward Jones had been stuck for so long.\"",
"Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, rescuers got close enough to John Edward Jones to conclude that John Edward Jones was not breathing and John Edward Jones had no pulse.",
"Rescue officials were meeting Thursday to determine how to recover John Edward Jones's body.",
"Rescuers had tried to reach John Edward Jones for more than 24 hours, but had problems navigating the treacherous terrain, the sheriff said.",
"\"Getting people to John Edward Jones is very difficult,\" the sheriff told KSL before John Edward Jones died.",
"\"It is a tightly confined space.",
"When there is movement, it is literally millimeters at a time.\"",
"There are narrow areas of the cave where visitors have to crawl on visitors's bellies to get through, according to the attraction's Web site.",
"Up to 5,000 people visit each year, the attraction's Web site said."
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"John Edward Jones was trapped in a space that was 18 inches wide, 10 inches deep .",
"One of the rescue tools failed while trying to free John Edward Jones and John Edward Jones fell back ."
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"Santiago, Chile (CNN) --",
"Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton arrived Tuesday morning in Chile, bringing with Hillary Clinton's more than two dozen satellite phones and a pledge of U.S. commitment to Chile.",
"\"The United States is ready to respond to the requests that the government of Chile has made so we can provide not only solidarity but specific supplies that are needed to help you recover from massive earthquake,\" Hillary Clinton said at a brief news conference with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.",
"\"The people of Chile are responding with resilience and strength,\" Hillary Clinton said.",
"Hillary Clinton said Hillary Clinton brought with Hillary Clinton's 25 satellite phones, one of which Hillary Clinton presented to Chilean President Michelle Bachelet at a brief news conference with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.",
"Eight water purification units are on Eight water purification units's way to Chile, Hillary Clinton said, and The United States will provide a mobile field hospital unit with surgical capabilities.",
"The United States will also work to provide autonomous dialysis machines, electricity generators, medical supplies and portable bridges, Hillary Clinton said.",
"Hillary Clinton also said that Americans would be told how Americans can contribute to the recovery effort.",
"In addition to meeting with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet at the airport in Santiago, Hillary Clinton also met with President-elect Sebastian Piñera, who will be sworn in next week.",
"\"I have been visiting sites of disaster for more than 30 years ...",
"[and] it is very clear to me that Chile is much better prepared, much quicker to respond, more able to do so,\" Hillary Clinton said at a news conference with the president-elect.",
"Hillary Clinton congratulated Piñera, a conservative billionaire businessman, on his inauguration.",
"Piñera extended an invitation to President Obama to visit Chile.",
"Chilean President Michelle Bachelet leaves office with high approval ratings for having steered Chile through the global economic downturn and promoted progressive social reforms.",
"Hillary Clinton is in the midst of a six-nation tour of Latin America, planned before the earthquake.",
"Hillary Clinton attended Monday's inauguration in Uruguay of President Jose Mujica, and then traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to meet with President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.",
"Hillary Clinton next travels to Brazil, where Hillary Clinton is expected to talk with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva about President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's planned trip to Iran.",
"The United States and other nations believe Iran has undertaken a program to build nuclear weapons, an assertion Iran denies.",
"Hillary Clinton will stop in Costa Rica for meetings with President Oscar Arias and President-elect Laura Chinchilla, who takes office in May.",
"Hillary Clinton also will attend Pathways for Prosperity, a meeting of hemispheric officials.",
"The initiative includes such things as \"microcredit\" loans and ways in which women can be empowered, a State Department spokesman has said.",
"Hillary Clinton's final stop will be Guatemala.",
"Hillary Clinton will meet with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and leaders of other Central American countries and the Dominican Republic before returning to Washington.",
"The State Department has \"strongly\" urged U.S. citizens to avoid tourism and non-essential travel to Chile after the massive earthquake."
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"Cusco, Peru (CNN) --",
"Authorities in Peru have rescued the last of hundreds of travelers who had been stranded by flooding in a town near one of South America's most popular tourist destinations, a government official said Friday.",
"Tourism Minister Martin Perez said 1,460 tourists were evacuated from Aguas Calientes, bringing the total rescued during the past three days to 4,005 -- 3,500 of 1,460 tourists tourists.",
"Thirteen helicopters in 268 flights took 1,460 tourists to the city of Cusco, though one group of Colombians indicated one group of Colombians had not wanted to leave, Tourism Minister Martin Perez said.",
"Days of heavy rain had triggered flash floods and landslides around Machu Picchu, the ruins of an Incan settlement in southern Peru's Andes Mountains.",
"southern Peru closed roads, bridges and rail lines, stranding tourists from around the world in the small town closest to the ruins.",
"They also killed at least seven people, including an Argentine tourist, according to news reports.",
"The tourists became stranded after a landslide early in the week blocked a rail line to Cusco, the nearest major city, said Martin Perez, Peru's minister of foreign trade and tourism, according to the state-run Andina news agency.",
"Peruvian authorities said Peruvian authorities have given priority to children, the elderly and the ill, regardless of their nationality.",
"Authorities estimated that 10,000 people were affected by the rain and 2,000 homes were ruined in and around Machu Picchu.",
"The Peruvian government declared a state of emergency in two regions around Machu Picchu -- Cusco and Apurimac.",
"southern Peru have damaged thousands of acres of crop land, washed out about a dozen bridges and damaged several highways.",
"Don Jacinto, whose parents and grandparents lived in one affected area, said his relatives could not recall the rivers ever raging so strongly.",
"Machu Picchu is an ancient city on a mountain in the Andes, standing 8,000 feet (2,430 meters) above sea level in a tropical mountain forest.",
"Known as the \"Lost City of the Incas,\" Machu Picchu attracts tens of thousands of international tourists every year.",
"CNN's Maria Elena Belaunde in Cusco and journalist Claudia Cisneros in Lima contributed to this report."
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"After being photographed using an inhaler prior to extra-time in his MLS Cup Final, the news that David Beckham has been an asthma sufferer since childhood has propelled the condition into the limelight.",
"The England midfielder is not the first high-profile athlete to have dealt with asthma, a respiratory condition that affects people's airways -- the small tubes that carry air in and out of the lungs.",
"Despite the difficulties of performing with asthmatic symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath and coughing, many athletes have dealt still managed to reach the peak of many athletes's respective disciplines.",
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"David Beckham's ex-Manchester United teammate Paul Scholes was diagnosed with asthma when Paul Scholes was 21-years-old.",
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"In May 2009 Paul Scholes along with fellow English midfielder and asthma sufferer Frank Lampard took part in Asthma UK's campaign to \"put asthma in the limelight.\"",
"2. Justine Henin .",
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"The grand slam winner had already withdrew from the China Open in September 2007 because of Justine Henin's condition.",
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"It did not stop Justine Henin and Justine Henin went on to win the Superbowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers.",
"Bettis has been heavily involved with raising asthma awareness in America.",
"4. Paula Radcliffe .",
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"5. Jackie Joyner-Kersee .",
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"New Orleans, Louisiana, Mayor Ray Nagin arrived in Cuba late Friday on a mission to learn about how to deal with storms, a spokeswoman said.",
"Mayor Ray Nagin watches President Obama speak in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday.",
"\"We understand we may have a lot to learn from Cuba in terms of disaster preparedness and how Cuba have dealt with hurricanes,\" spokeswoman Ceeon Quiett said.",
"Cuba is internationally applauded for exceptional disaster management, according to a news release from Nagin's office.",
"In the Cuban capital, Havana, Mayor Ray Nagin plans to meet with several officials, including some from the Latin American Medical Centers for Disaster.",
"Mayor Ray Nagin will also learn about preparations the Cuba Defense Committee makes in advance of disasters.",
"Mayor Ray Nagin's trip comes a day after President Obama held a town hall meeting in New Orleans, still reeling from the aftermath of deadly Hurricane Katrina in 2005.",
"\"It has now been just over four years since that terrible storm struck your shores,\" President 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, government wasn't adequately prepared, and we didn't appropriately respond.\"",
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"Three powerful hurricanes hit Cuba last year, damaging half a million homes and causing $10 billion in losses, according to Cuba.",
"But only seven people died, thanks to a smooth evacuation plan.",
"Some aspects of the communist nation's response, including mandatory evacuations, may not be possible in a democracy.",
"Still, some Americans believe that some Americans can learn from some Americans's Caribbean neighbor.",
"The mayor of Galveston, Texas, another city hit hard by Gulf of Mexico hurricanes, visited Cuba this year.",
"Nagin is the first New Orleans mayor to make an official visit to Cuba in 50 years.",
"The State Department sanctioned Nagin's trip, Quiett said.",
"He plans to return to New Orleans on Thursday.",
"CNN's David Ariosto contributed to this report."
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"Ramping up pressure on Honduras' interim government, the United States has revoked the visa of the beleaguered country's leader, a senior Honduran official told CNN en Espanol on Saturday.",
"Roberto Micheletti and Roberto Micheletti's supporters say Honduras' underwent a constitutional transfer of power, not a coup.",
"De facto President Roberto Micheletti and 14 supreme court judges had De facto President Roberto Micheletti and 14 supreme court judges's visas revoked, said Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez.",
"Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez said Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez, too, lost Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez's visa privileges.",
"U.S. State Department recently announced that U.S. State Department would pull the visas of members of Honduras''s de facto regime.",
"In recent weeks, the United States has stepped up the United States's call for Honduras' to restore ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya to power.",
"ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya was seized by the Honduran military in ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya's pajamas and sent into exile on June 28.",
"On Wednesday, the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government agency, voted to cut $11 million in aid to the government in Honduras', senior U.S. State Department officials told CNN.",
"Prior to the vote, the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government agency had only suspended the aid, U.S. State Department said.",
"The Millennium Challenge Account is a program started under the Bush administration to reward good governance.",
"The Millennium Challenge Account's cuts followed an announcement last week by the United States that it was terminating all nonhumanitarian aid to Honduras' to pressure Honduras' to end the political turmoil and accept the terms of an agreement known as the San Jose Accord.",
"the San Jose Accord calls for ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya's return to power.",
"The political crisis stemmed from ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya's plan to hold a referendum that could have changed the constitution and allowed longer term limits.",
"The country's congress had outlawed the vote and the supreme court had ruled it illegal.",
"Micheletti and his supporters say that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya's removal was a constitutional transfer of power and not a coup.",
"The United Nations has condemned ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya's ouster and does not recognize Michiletti's government.",
"While the United States has called ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya's ouster a coup, it has not formally designated it a \"military coup,\" which, under U.S. law, would have triggered a cutoff of all non-humanitarian aid regardless.",
"Senior State Department officials said the Obama administration was reluctant to make the formal designation in order to preserve the Obama administration's flexibility for a diplomatic solution.",
"A presidential campaign in Honduras kicked off last week.",
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"Fighting in Darfur has sparked another wave of refugees into Chad and left a Red Cross employee dead, according to international agencies.",
"Refugee camps in eastern Chad house about 300,000 people who fled violence in the Darfur region of Sudan.",
"The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Monday that more than 12,000 people have fled militia attacks over the last few days from Sudan's Darfur region to neighboring Chad, still recovering from a recent attempt by rebels there to topple the government.",
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"\"All the new refugees we talked to said they did not want to go back to Darfur at this point, they wanted to be transferred to a refugee camp in eastern Chad.\"",
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"Red Cross is a 45-year-old Sudanese national and father of six children.",
"Red Cross was killed in the area of Seleia, one of the three towns where reported government-backed Janjaweed militia attacks on Friday left around 200 people dead.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week deplored the acts, urged all parties to stop hostilities, and said \"all parties must adhere to international humanitarian law, which prohibits military attacks against civilians.\"",
"The United Nations says \"more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.2 million others forced to flee their homes since fighting began in 2003 among government forces, rebel groups and allied militia groups known as the Janjaweed.\"",
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"Angela Merkel told Israel of Germany's \"Holocaust shame,\" and asserted Germany's support for the Jewish state during an unprecedented speech to the Knesset on Tuesday.",
"Germany and Israel are linked \"in a very special way\" by the memory of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed under Nazi Germany and Germany's allies in World War II, Angela Merkel said in the first address a German chancellor has ever made to the Knesset.",
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"The German Chancellor called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to prove that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not want a nuclear bomb.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's country's nuclear program is intended for peaceful purposes only, but Angela Merkel told the Israeli parliament that he needs to provide clear evidence supporting that assertion.",
"\"It is not the world that has to prove that Iran is building a bomb,\" Angela Merkel said.",
"\"Rather, Iran has to prove to the world that Iran does not want the nuclear bomb.\"",
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"The U.S. price tag for relief in Haiti has hit $170 million, the federal government announced Thursday as ton after ton of relief supplies headed into Haiti through a crucial reopened pier.",
"The vast majority of the committed federal aid -- $140 million -- is from the U.S. Agency for International Development under the State Department, according to the Office of Management and Budget.",
"And the need within Haiti -- still reeling from last week's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake -- only grows by the minute.",
"After days of being closed to much needed food and supplies, the south pier at Haiti was channeling aid into the leveled capital city.",
"The supplies were brought into Haiti on trucks traveling on a repaired gravel road leading from the port.",
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"Earthquake survivors need cash and are waiting hours outside wire transfer businesses, including Western Union, that are starting to reopen.",
"\"I have not eaten for two days,\" said 32-year-old Anderson Bellegarde, who waited more than six hours outside a money-wiring branch.",
"\"I'm only drinking water.\"",
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"Two other ships had previously offloaded containers.",
"the city's south pier is older and smaller than the north pier, which was rendered unusable by the January 12 earthquake.",
"the city's south pier was damaged, but Haiti port authorities and the U.S. military were able to put the city's south pier back in adequate shape.",
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"the road leading into the city allows only for one-way traffic, meaning a truck drives to the end of the pier, is loaded with supplies, and then drives out.",
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"\"We're working on it.",
"We've got a long ways to go.",
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"We can't bring in anything.\"",
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"Authorities hope to get two-way traffic going on the pier by Friday, which would speed up the process.",
"A 5.9-magnitude aftershock Wednesday stopped efforts at the pier for about three hours.",
"U.S. Navy divers had to go back in the water and reassess the pier's structural integrity, officials said.",
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"List of missing, found in Haiti | Are you there? | Impact Your World .",
"Renzo Fricke, field coordinator for Doctors Without Borders told CNN this week that staffers had to buy a saw in the market so surgeons could do amputations.",
"A CNN crew loaned a medic a pocket knife for another operation.",
"Lacking rubbing alcohol, doctors have used vodka to sterilize equipment and instruments.",
"Surgical patients are being given over-the-counter pain medicine because doctors lack any stronger medication.",
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"A belt was used as a tourniquet, and when that broke, a garden hose.",
"Canadian troops, meanwhile, were working to open an airport in Jacmel on Thursday, another step that could speed delivery of relief supplies.",
"And U.S. Southern Command, through U.S. Southern Command's component Air Force South, conducted an air drop of food and water over Mirebalais, Haiti, on Thursday.",
"Mirebalais is 25 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince.",
"A C-17 delivered water bottles and 17,200 meals ready to eat, the military said in a statement.",
"Troops secured an area in which to drop the supplies and, once the supplies were on the ground, the military, the U.S. Agency for International Development and other personnel distributed them, a statement said.",
"Nepalese troops also assisted, the Air Force said.",
"Thursday's air drop was the second since the quake; the first was Monday.",
"Fraser said Thursday that 120 to 140 flights a day are coming into the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport, compared with 25 per day just after the quake struck last week.",
"More than 840 have landed since the airport was reopened, but there is a waiting list of 1,400 to come in, Fraser said.",
"A senior administration official acknowledged that not all aid, particularly medical supplies, is getting through fast enough but said that in recent days, at least half of the flights entering Haiti are carrying humanitarian supplies.",
"Most of the other 50 percent of flights, including those of the U.S. military and foreign governments, are still carrying some kind of aid.",
"\"Of course I'm not satisfied with getting material and personnel in for everyone who needs it,\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said earlier Wednesday.",
"\"Realistically, I am aware of the difficulties that this terrible natural disaster has posed.\"",
"A senior administration official said that more than 300 aid distribution sites are up and running.",
"Fraser said more than 700,000 meals and 1.4 million bottles of water have been delivered, along with 22,000 pounds of medical supplies.",
"About 13,100 U.S. troops are in and around Haiti, nearly 2,700 on the ground and another 10,400 off shore.",
"Many Marines spend time in Haiti during the day but sleep on ships at night.",
"More U.S. troops are scheduled to arrive by this weekend, bringing the total to about 4,600 troops on the ground.",
"At least 72,000 people -- including dozens of U.N. staff members -- have been confirmed dead in the earthquake, according to the country's prime minister.",
"International aid contributions have totaled hundreds of millions of dollars, but relief agencies working in Haiti say transportation bottlenecks and poor communications have slowed the delivery of food, water and medicine to survivors.",
"On Wednesday, U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah ordered more medicine and other supplies to be sent within the next 24 hours, U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah said.",
"Lt. Gen. P.K. Keen, the head of the U.S. military task force in Haiti, said any aircraft identified as carrying medical supplies would have priority for landing.",
"They are turned away only \"if there's no parking space on the ramp, and they don't have sufficient fuel to hold in their holding pattern,\" he said.",
"Another senior U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that the priorities for aid flights are set \"by the government of Haiti first and then by the U.N. second.\"",
"But the number of flights that can land at Port-au-Prince is \"a sheer issue of physics and geometry; you just can't get them all in there.\"",
"To improve the flow of air traffic, the U.S. military said Wednesday the U.S. military had obtained landing rights at the Dominican Republic's air base at San Isidro, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) east of Port-au-Prince.",
"the U.S. military has the ability to build dirt runways that rugged cargo planes such as the C-130 Hercules can use, but the equipment needed to build those is \"always at a premium,\" the senior official said.",
"the U.S. military has 63 helicopters in the region, Fraser said.",
"CNN's Arthur Brice, Susan Candiotti, Jill Dougherty, Eric Marrapodi and Elise Labott contributed to this report."
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"Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University.",
"He was White House political director for President Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.",
"Ed Rollins says \"Saturday Night Live\" satire has shaped images of presidents for the worse.",
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Since its debut on October 11, 1975, \"Saturday Night Live\" has spoofed, ridiculed and hammered presidents and other political figures without regard to political affiliation or any other sensitivities.",
"The perfect parroting of Sarah Palin after Sarah Palin's vice president nomination, by the immensely talented Tina Fey, started the downward spiraling of the governor.",
"People started looking at Sarah Palin in a different light, and Sarah Palin was judged as a less serious candidate.",
"Saturday's skit portraying President Obama as a man who made a lot of promises and hasn't been able to fulfill many -- if any -- has been analyzed over and over with a constant rerun of the \"SNL\" clip.",
"In the comedy skit, the president is asked about unrealized campaign promises, including closing Gitmo, combating global warming, allowing openly gay people to serve in the military, withdrawing from Iraq, improving the status of the fight in Afghanistan, reforming health care and several others.",
"On screen the response on a check list was: that each item was \"not done.\"",
"Humor with some truth in it is always dangerous.",
"Make no mistake, a drumbeat of belittlement can damage a president.",
"See how 'SNL' has portrayed presidents »",
"President Gerald Ford, a gifted athlete, could never overcome the image of a bumbling, clumsy man who banged his head constantly after the hilarious portrayal of him by Chevy Chase.",
"The senior Bush, George H.W., was brilliantly played by Dana Carvey, and more viewers remember our 41st president as the goofy, inarticulate caricature than as a serious man who served his country in many positions.",
"But the real question being debated on cable TV because of the \"SNL\" parody is this: \"Has the media's love affair and honeymoon with Obama ended?\"",
"I can't answer that.",
"I can say that Obama is being judged with the same scrutiny as those who have gone before Obama in the modern era.",
"Sooner or later, all honeymoons for presidents come to an end.",
"This one may have lasted a little longer because many in the media got caught up in the story, in the history and wrote with their emotions instead of their computers.",
"In the few months Obama has been in office, the following questions are being asked across his country by some Americans and the media, too: \"Is Obama as good as we all hoped?",
"Can Obama possibly meet the extraordinary high expectations that were set for Obama?",
"Can Obama get the job done?",
"Could anyone?\"",
"Democrats will add pensively to the words: \"Not Done\" from the \"SNL\" skit, \"Not yet.\"",
"Republicans would add assertively : \"Not ever!\"",
"Democrats are still hopeful Obama will turn out to be the \"Camelot II\"; the new generational leader for whom Democrats have waited decades and in some cases lifetimes.",
"Many hope Obama will be the new John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- with the legislative skills of Lyndon Baines Johnson.",
"Republicans have no hope left about Obama.",
"At best, Republicans pray, for the good of his country that Obama's not as bad as Jimmy Carter.",
"But in reality, Republicans see the man who campaigned as a centrist turning out to be the feared liberal who voted that way during Obama's short Senate tenure.",
"At a time of fiscal crisis, Obama in Republicans's minds is turning into the biggest spender and taxer in history -- and Republicans believe Republicans must oppose Obama.",
"Obama's campaign was brilliant, and Obama won against two inferior campaigns, though not necessarily inferior candidates.",
"Both of not necessarily inferior candidates are making major contributions to the governing process.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is getting high marks and certainly has been a loyal supporter of Obama.",
"John McCain has renewed John McCain's Senate career with intensity and has become a valuable asset to the loyal opposition.",
"Every president finds out that campaigning and governing are not the same thing.",
"Governing is tough every day.",
"Campaigning can be fun.",
"It's why some modern presidents want to keep doing Campaigning even after being elected.",
"Reagan did Campaigning.",
"Bill Clinton did Campaigning.",
"George W. Bush did Campaigning.",
"And Obama likes to do Campaigning, and I am sure will continue to ride Air Force One from speech to speech, coast to coast.",
"Giving a good speech or making a great appearance on the campaign trail to adoring crowds is not the same as making the tough choices that Obama needs to make every day alone in Obama's Oval Office.",
"No cheering there.",
"Often in campaigns, promises are made that can't be kept once in office.",
"After being elected, presidents find out the issues are more difficult the more presidents get to know about them.",
"Sometimes voters don't remember campaign promises and sometimes voters don't care.",
"The \"Saturday Night Live\" skit left out one promise Obama made and it wasn't a campaign promise.",
"It was the promise that his $787 billion stimulus package would create 3.5 million new jobs.",
"If \"SNL\" had asked the question, the answer would be: Not Done!",
"The job hasn't even been started.",
"his country is losing more jobs by the minute.",
"Before we turn this economy around, job loss could reach 9 million in the past two years and unemployment could reach 10.5 percent.",
"This didn't happen all on Obama's watch and a big chunk of his $787 billion stimulus package is not yet spent.",
"But if we don't get Americans back to work, the other promises Obama made will pale in importance.",
"Focus on jobs, Obama.",
"The highest unemployment rate in 25 years is about real Americans all across his country who are hurting and depressed.",
"That's a topic that's even \"Saturday Night Live\" can't joke about, because it's tragic.",
"All Americans want to see Obama succeed in getting that job done.",
"iReport.com: 'SNL' won't hurt Obama .",
"Obama has made a lot of promises regarding health care reform, even though the final details of the bills are not known.",
"Promises made as president do count;, far more than those as a candidate.",
"And Obama will be measured against them.",
"Obama will be judged not in a skit on \"Saturday Night Live\" but by Obama's fellow citizens at the voting booth.",
"And it will be no laughing matter if his fellow citizens at the voting booth feel Obama misled his fellow citizens at the voting booth.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Rollins."
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"State Department has sold State Department's London embassy building to a Qatari real estate company, the embassy announced Tuesday.",
"The signing of the deal is another major step in the embassy's plans to relocate from the embassy's longtime headquarters in central London to a new site in Wandsworth, on the south bank of the River Thames.",
"It wasn't immediately clear how much Qatari Diar Real Estate paid for the embassy building in Grosvenor Square, whose 1960s facade was recently given listed status, meaning its design can't be changed.",
"the embassy will continue to operate from the embassy until the new one is completed in 2016 or 2017, the embassy said.",
"Construction is expected to begin in 2012 or 2013.",
"It was a year ago that the embassy announced the embassy was looking for a new site that is more modern, open, and secure than the current building in London's West End.",
"the embassy has now settled on a site in Wandsworth and is having a design competition for the new building.",
"When the embassy does move to Wandsworth, it will mark the end of a more than 200-year association with Grosvenor Square, in the historic and exclusive neighborhood of Mayfair near Hyde Park.",
"John Adams, who later became U.S. president, lived on the square from 1785 to 1788, when John Adams, who later became U.S. president was the first U.S. minister to the Court of St. James.",
"The building in which John Adams, who later became U.S. president lived still stands in the square's northeast corner.",
"the embassy moved to various locations in the West End before returning to Grosvenor Square in 1938.",
"For years, it occupied a building on the east side of the square -- a building that now houses the Canadian High Commission.",
"During World War II, the square was known as \"Little America\" because the embassy was on one side and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters were on the other.",
"the embassy moved to the embassy's current site, occupying the entire west side of the square, when the building was completed in 1960.",
"The concrete, four-story structure was designed by Eero Saarinen, who also designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and the U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.",
"Since the September 11 attacks in 2001, the embassy has caused controversy locally by installing blast walls in a wide perimeter around the building.",
"Neighbors complained blast walls were unsightly, and blast walls caused the road in front of the building to be closed to traffic.",
"Sitting atop the building at the front is a huge gilded aluminum eagle with a 35-foot wingspan.",
"It is not clear whether a huge gilded aluminum eagle with a 35-foot wingspan will be considered part of the building's listed status, meaning a huge gilded aluminum eagle with a 35-foot wingspan will have to stay on the facade, or whether a huge gilded aluminum eagle with a 35-foot wingspan can be moved to the new location, according to a spokesman for the realty firm Cushman and Wakefield, which advised the United States on the sale."
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"The sudden end to a legal battle between dethroned Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant officials was prompted by the revelation of a \"sex tape,\" according to a source familiar with the lawsuits' settlement.",
"Carrie Prejean was fired in June after lingerie-modeling photos of Carrie Prejean emerged that pageant officials said were a breach of Carrie Prejean's contract.",
"Carrie Prejean sued pageant in August, arguing Carrie Prejean firing was religious discrimination because of Carrie Prejean's opposition to same-sex marriage.",
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"A settlement of both lawsuits was signed in New York Tuesday, but no details were made public.",
"Lawyers and parties for each side were bound by a confidentiality pledge, according to a source familiar with the lawsuits' settlement.",
"The veil of secrecy was partially lifted Wednesday after celebrity gossip Web site TMZ reported the deal was sealed after pageant lawyers presented an \"extremely graphic\" home video involving Carrie Prejean.",
"TMZ managing editor said during a webcast Wednesday that TMZ managing editor obtained the Carrie Prejean video during the summer, but found an \"extremely graphic\" home video involving Prejean \"too racy\" to post on TMZ managing editor's site.",
"TMZ managing editor indicated Carrie Prejean was alone in an \"extremely graphic\" home video involving Prejean.",
"a source familiar with the lawsuits' settlement told CNN those details were accurate.",
"Carrie Prejean's lawyer, Charles LiMandri, responded with a short statement issued through an employee at his law office.",
"\"the settlement's a confidential settlement, and he can't discuss the settlement,\" a short statement issued through an employee at his law office said.",
"Several calls and e-mail to Carrie Prejean's publicist were not returned Wednesday.",
"Carrie Prejean's tell-all book hits bookstores next week, and Carrie Prejean is scheduled for media interviews to promote it.",
"Pageant spokesman Kenn Henman said Tuesday the settlement means all lawsuit demands are dropped.",
"pageant had claimed that the contract Carrie Prejean signed when Carrie Prejean entered their competition last year gave pageant the rights to anything Carrie Prejean wrote.",
"the settlement ended that claim.",
"Pageant officials also dropped Pageant officials's attempt to be repaid for Carrie Prejean's breast enhancement, which was done before Carrie Prejean represented California in the Miss USA competition, according to Pageant spokesman Kenn Henman.",
"Prejean, in exchange, withdrew Carrie Prejean's suit accusing the pageant of violating Carrie Prejean's privacy by confirming to reporters that Carrie Prejean's breasts were enhanced, Pageant spokesman Kenn Henman said.",
"\"pageant are moving forward from the past and looking towards the crowning of two winners and the new look of the upcoming Miss California USA pageant, telecast live on November 22,\" pageant Executive Director Keith Lewis said Tuesday.",
"\"pageant're back in the business of beauty,\" pageant Executive Director Keith Lewis told CNN.",
"There was nothing pretty about the public fight that began in April when Carrie Prejean, 22, stepped into controversy by declaring Carrie Prejean's opposition to same-sex marriage while answering a judge's question at the Miss USA pageant.",
"Carrie Prejean finished as first runner-up.",
"While state and national pageant officials publicly supported Carrie Prejean initially, state and national pageant officials's opinions eventually changed after Carrie Prejean continued to make public statements about same-sex marriage.",
"Carrie Prejean held onto Carrie Prejean's crown through May, despite a series of questionable photos that emerged on gossip Web sites.",
"Those images showed a topless Prejean, photographed from behind.",
"Carrie Prejean was dethroned in June by Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump amid growing complaints by state officials that Carrie Prejean was uncooperative and not meeting Carrie Prejean's contractual obligations.",
"Carrie Prejean filed Carrie Prejean's lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court in August, claiming that Carrie Prejean's firing was religious discrimination because of Carrie Prejean's stand against same-sex marriage.",
"The pageant's countercomplaint said what The pageant's countercomplaint called Carrie Prejean's belligerent behavior, lack of cooperation and contract breaches caused Carrie Prejean firing, not Carrie Prejean's opposition to same-sex marriage."
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"(CNN) -- Hundreds of inmates using pipes and shanks as weapons trashed the California Institution for men, burning a courtyard, ripping beds to shreds and tearing bathroom sinks from walls, a new video of the weekend riot's aftermath shows.",
"A dormitory is trashed after a riot at the California Institution for men, in Chino.",
"Video shot by CNN affiliate KABC-TV gave the first glimpse of the damage to the California Institution for Men in Chino from a riot that authorities said was ignited by racial tensions.",
"\"This certainly is probably the worst that we've seen, especially adding the extensive damage to the unit that has been burned,\" prison spokesman Lt. Mark Hargrove told reporters outside the California Institution for men Tuesday.",
"\"That has never happened at this facility before.\"",
"a riot at the California Institution for men erupted Saturday night and raged until Sunday morning, injuring 250 inmates.",
"Fifty-five inmates were taken to hospitals with serious injuries, including stab wounds and head trauma.",
"Watch the aftermath of the violence » .",
"\"the California Institution for men is still under a state of emergency,\" George Kostyrko, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told CNN, which means no visitors were allowed and the California Institution for men could not take any new inmates.",
"Corrections officials said Corrections officials transferred about 1,150 inmates to other facilities.",
"\"The ones that are there are likely in a lockdown mode until an investigation can determine whether or not The ones that are there were directly responsible for a riot at the California Institution for men,\" Kostyrko said.",
"The decision to lock down the Chino prison and nine others in southern California was still in effect Tuesday.",
"\"The lockdowns will remain in effect until all the staff that we deployed to Chino from other areas go back home,\" Kostyrko said.",
"The measure was taken to prevent copy-cat violence.",
"Though other races were involved, the altercations at Chino mostly involved Hispanics and African-Americans, Kostyrko said.",
"About 80 officers responded to the scene, but none of the staff was injured.",
"A housing unit was heavily damaged by fire.",
"Prisoners broke windows and pulled down pipes to use as weapons, Kostyrko said.",
"The facility has seven units, each of which houses about 200 inmates.",
"In one of the torched dormitories, burned red prison uniforms were strewn everywhere, the floor was covered with ankle-high ashes, windows were shattered and there was a large hole in the roof.",
"In the mounds of trash that littered the floor of the dorm, a rusty foot-long pipe could be seen.",
"Most of the residential areas were badly damaged and some inmates were being temporarily housed in tents, the spokesman said.",
"Chino is about 35 miles east of Los Angeles."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"Search-and-rescue efforts at a supermarket in Haiti's capital have ended after teams determined no one else was alive beneath the rubble, an official told CNN Wednesday.",
"A French excavation team was working at a supermarket in Haiti's capital on Tuesday.",
"Several Haitians had been in the building at the time, looking for survivors or useful items.",
"At least one of these foragers became trapped in the rubble.",
"While A French excavation team was trying to rescue that person, A French excavation team's excavation machine, which resembles a bulldozer, tipped into a hole and caused a further collapse, said Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection.",
"The French team called in U.S. and Mexican teams to help with the rescue.",
"The U.S. team brought more radar and lifting devices to try to extract the known survivor and reach any others, said Norman Skjelbreia, an incident commander from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.",
"But at 11 p.m. Tuesday, the teams determined there was no one else alive under the rubble, and the teams called off the rescue mission, Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection told CNN Wednesday.",
"Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection said information gathered from radar and listening equipment detected no signs of life.",
"the rescue was an extremely dangerous one, Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection said, with pieces of concrete shifting.",
"At one point, Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection said, a female Mexican rescue worker was trapped under the rubble and teams had to work to save a female Mexican rescue worker's life.",
"It was decided that the safety of the search-and-rescue teams was more important than the search to retrieve bodies from the precarious collapsed building, Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection said.",
"More than 212,000 people died in the January 12 earthquake, Haitian officials said.",
"Caribbean Supermarket was the scene of a number of rescues after the January 12 earthquake, including the rescue of five people in one weekend.",
"Rescuers pulled an apparent survivor of the original quake, Evan Muncie, 28, from the rubble of another market on Monday.",
"Doctors found an apparent survivor of the original quake, Evan Muncie, 28, suffering from extreme dehydration and malnutrition, but without significant crushing injuries.",
"CNN's Ingrid Formanek contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Seth MacFarlane:",
"Sarah Palin expressed outrage at a Fox television program, created by Seth MacFarlane, for joking about people with Down syndrome and making an apparent reference to Sarah Palin's 22-month-old son, Trig, who has the genetic disorder.",
"The former Alaska governor said on Sarah Palin's Facebook page that Sarah Palin was too angry to offer a coherent response, so Sarah Palin had Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol release a full statement on the family's behalf.",
"The Palins directed their criticism at the prime-time Fox cartoon, \"Family Guy.\"",
"In Sunday's episode, a teenaged female character with Down syndrome told another character that \"my mom is the former governor of Alaska.\"",
"A song and dance routine by another character also used language that ridiculed people with disabilities.",
"According to the show's Web site, \"Family Guy\" earned an Emmy nomination in 2009 for Outstanding Comedy Series, \"only the second animated series in television history to be honored with such distinction.\"",
"On the show, Seth MacFarlane performs the voices of the father, Peter Griffin, and his 1-year-old son, Stewie, who is, the Fox Web site reports, \"a diabolically clever baby whose heterosexuality is hanging by a thread.\"",
"Seth MacFarlane is also the voice of the intellectually superior family dog.",
"The Web site Seth McFarlane Unlimited reports that Seth MacFarlane began drawing cartoons at the age of 2 and is the recipient of two honorary degrees.",
"While receiving the one from Harvard in 2006, Seth MacFarlane delivered the Class Day Speech playing the roles of several of the characters from \"Family Guy.\"",
"Seth MacFarlane also received a degree in 2007 from Seth MacFarlane's alma mater, the Rhode Island School of Design.",
"CNN Political Ticker:",
"Palin slams Fox's 'Family Guy' 'Family Guy': About the show .",
"Dalai Lama:",
"Dalai Lama is on Dalai Lama's way to the United States for a number of speaking engagements and is scheduled to meet with President Obama on Thursday, even though China has warned that such a meeting would harm ties between China and the United States, a White House spokesman said on February 2.",
"\"President Obama told China's leaders during President Obama's trip last year that President Obama would meet with the Dalai Lama, and President Obama intends to do so,\" Bill Burton told reporters earlier this month.",
"China warned that ties between two of the world's superpowers would be strained if President Obama met with the Dalai Lama.",
"\"It will seriously undermine the foundation of Sino-U.S. political relations,\" said Zhu Weiqun, a Communist Party official who is in charge of talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama.",
"Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of advocating for Tibetan independence from China.",
"In explaining President Obama's intention to hold the meeting, Bill Burton said the Dalai Lama \"is an internationally respected religious and cultural leader, and President Obama will meet with him in that capacity.\"",
"Tibet is technically autonomous from the central Chinese government, but the Dalai Lama and others have said the Dalai Lama and others favor genuine autonomy and resent the slow erosion of the Dalai Lama and others's culture amid an influx of Han Chinese, the most numerous ethnic group in China.",
"Zhu said there would be no compromise on China's control of Tibet.",
"the Dalai Lama was born in July 1935.",
"According to the Dalai Lama's official biography, the Dalai Lama at that time was recognized at the age of 2 as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama.",
"the Dalai Lama went through years of monastic training and assumed political power in 1950, a year after China's invasion.",
"the Dalai Lama ultimately fled China in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.",
"the Dalai Lama lives in exile in the north Indian town of Dharamsala.",
"CNN:",
"White House says Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama .",
"CNN:",
"Discord over the Dalai Lama .",
"DalaiLama.com:",
"A brief biography .",
"Jesse Sullivan:",
"The 25-year-old from Petersburg, Illinois, has been living for two weeks at the corner of Florida and North Capitol Avenues in Washington.",
"Sullivan's been living there in a tent to show solidarity with Haitian families in crisis, Sullivan says, and to remind people that emergency shelter is still sorely needed for victims of the January 12 earthquake.",
"When CNN reached Sullivan by phone in Sullivan's tent Tuesday, Sullivan explained that Sullivan was recently in Washington to figure out how to work in Afghanistan, but realized that the situation in Haiti was a more pressing need.",
"So Sullivan went to the Haitian Embassy to volunteer in any way Sullivan could.",
"Sullivan says a minister at the Haitian Embassy came up with the official-sounding title \"special assistant to the Haitian Embassy for relief and reconstruction,\" which Sullivan now uses informally.",
"When Sullivan passed a nearby statue of the Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, Sullivan read the inscription, \"My Life is My Message,\" and the idea of staying in a tent came to Sullivan.",
"Sullivan, who has a master's degree in global governance and diplomacy from The University of Oxford in England, says Sullivan plans to live in a tent for at least one month.",
"\"If I can still be effective, I'll stay there for a year.\"",
"a tent is pitched in the private parking lot of a pizza restaurant with the permission of its owner.",
"Sullivan told CNN, \"The police stop by to make sure I'm OK and not too crazy.\"",
"Sullivan says Sullivan's parents are a bit concerned, yet somewhat relieved.",
"\"My initial plan was to head to Afghanistan, but for my dad and mom, anything that's not Afghanistan makes my dad and mom pretty happy.\"",
"Next week, Sullivan plans to hold a news conference at Sullivan's tent to announce Sullivan's \"Live for Haiti\" campaign.",
"Sullivan said, \"It's not about us saving Haiti.",
"This crisis has the opportunity that Haiti is going to save us from a narrow American dream -- one that doesn't recognize that we are connected to people around the world.\"",
"Live for Haiti .",
"Samuel J. Wurzelbacher aka Joe the Plumber:",
"Just when you think someone's 15 minutes of fame are up, politics manages to reset the clock.",
"Wurzelbacher, who gained notoriety during the last presidential campaign as \"Joe the Plumber,\" spoke this past weekend in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at an event on behalf of state Rep. Sam Roher, who is running for governor.",
"Scott Detrow of Pennsylvania's Public Radio Capitol News reports that Samuel J. Wurzelbacher told him that more than 200 politicians wanted Samuel J. Wurzelbacher's support, but Samuel J. Wurzelbacher's backed only five so far.",
"Samuel J. Wurzelbacher's now supporting grass-roots Tea Party movements.",
"During Samuel J. Wurzelbacher's speech, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher said Samuel J. Wurzelbacher doesn't support Sarah Palin any more because the former Alaska governor is backing Sen. John McCain's re-election effort.",
"\"Sen. John McCain is no public servant,\" he told the room, calling Sen. John McCain a career politician.",
"When Detrow of Pennsylvania's Public Radio Capitol News pointed out that without Sen. John McCain, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher'd just be plain old Sam Wurzelbacher of Ohio -- Joe the Plumber wouldn't exist -- Samuel J. Wurzelbacher's response was, \"I don't owe Sen. John McCain s---.",
"Sen. John McCain really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.\"",
"Samuel J. Wurzelbacher told the reporter, \"Sen. John McCain was trying to use me.",
"I happened to be the face of Middle Americans.",
"It was a ploy.\"",
"Samuel J. Wurzelbacher first gained fame in 2008 when Samuel J. Wurzelbacher told candidate Barack Obama that Samuel J. Wurzelbacher was worried that rolling back President Bush's tax breaks would prevent Samuel J. Wurzelbacher from buying a plumbing company that would earn between $250,000 and $280,000 a year.",
"Joe the Plumber was born.",
"State House Sound Bites: A few minutes with Joe the Plumber .",
"Carly Simon: \"You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you / You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you / Don't you? Don't you?\"",
"Thirty-seven years ago, Carly Simon's song was No. 1 and Carly Simon had just married singer-songwriter James Taylor.",
"So everyone wanted to know: Who is the subject of this song?",
"Who is that vain?",
"All these years later, people still want to know.",
"Carly Simon has never revealed the answer.",
"But at Carlysimon.com, Carly Simon does list some of Carly Simon's former boyfriends: Mick Jagger, Cat Stevens, Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson.",
"Carly Simon has also never made a music video of this song.",
"(For purists, Janet Jackson did sample \"You're So Vain\" in Carly Simon's 2001 music video, \"Son of A Gun.\")",
"Carly Simon has just announced a contest on the Web site, inviting fans and filmmakers to create a music video, using the original or new version of Carly Simon's song.",
"Carly Simon will screen all entries Carly Simon, select a winner, and meet the filmmaker -- whose winning entry will also be premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.",
"Carly Simon says Carly Simon has always been amazed by the attention given to the mystery person in the song.",
"In 2004, Carly Simon gave hints to CNN: \"Well, I guess for those who are interested in clues -- the name of the person it was about had an E in it.\"",
"That could indicate Jagger, Beatty or James Taylor.",
"Carly Simon continued, \"Maybe I could disclose another letter.",
"OK, another letter also has an A.\"",
"In announcing the music video contest, Carly Simon does not indicate that Carly Simon will ever reveal the name.",
"CarlySimon.com .",
"What makes a person intriguing?",
"There are people who enter the news cycle every day because people who enter the news cycle every day because their actions or decisions are new, important or different's actions or decisions are new, important or different.",
"Others are in the news because Others are the ones those decisions affect.",
"And there are a number of people who are so famous or controversial that anything these people say or do becomes news.",
"Some of these people do what we expect of Some of these people: Some of these people run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes and cavort with people other than",
"Some of these people's spouses.",
"Some of these people do make news, but the action is usually more important than who is involved in the story.",
"But every day, there are a number of people who become fascinating to us -- by virtue of their character, how they reached their decision, how they behaved under pressure or because of the remarkable circumstances surrounding the event they are involved in.",
"They arouse our curiosity.",
"We hear about them and want to know more.",
"What they have done or said stimulates conversations across the country.",
"At times, there is even a mystery about them.",
"What they have done may be unique, heroic, cowardly or ghastly, but they capture our imaginations.",
"We want to know what makes them tick, why they believe what they do, and why they did what they did.",
"They intrigue us."
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"(CNN) --",
"Neda Agha-Soltan:",
"The night before Neda Agha-Soltan was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda Agha-Soltan had a dream.",
"\"There was a war going on,\" Neda Agha-Soltan told Neda Agha-Soltan's mother, Hajar Rostami, the next morning, \"and I was in the front.\"",
"Neda's mother had joined Neda Agha-Soltan in the street protests that erupted after Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election.",
"But on that fateful morning, Neda's mother told Neda's mother's daughter Neda Agha-Soltan couldn't go with Neda's mother.",
"As Neda Agha-Soltan prepared to leave, Neda's mother told CNN last November, Neda's mother was filled with anxiety.",
"\"I told Neda Agha-Soltan to be very careful, and Neda Agha-Soltan said Neda Agha-Soltan would.\"",
"On June 20, Neda, 26, headed to Tehran's Nilofar Square, where thousands of protesters gathered.",
"Tear gas was lobbed at the crowd.",
"Neda Agha-Soltan's eyes burning, Neda Agha-Soltan headed to a medical clinic to get them washed.",
"Neda Agha-Soltan later walked toward Neda Agha-Soltan's car, parked on a side street not far from the street protests that erupted after Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election.",
"A single bullet struck Neda Agha-Soltan's chest, and Neda Agha-Soltan was dead.",
"On Monday, Long Island University announced Long Island University was awarding a 2009 George Polk Award, one of journalism's highest honors, to the unknown videographer who captured Neda Agha-Soltan's final moments -- Neda Agha-Soltan's collapse on the street and Neda Agha-Soltan's death.",
"The New York Times reports that this is the first time in the 61-year history of the prestigious awards that judges have given the honor to work done anonymously.",
"\"This video footage was seen by millions and became an iconic image of the Iranian resistance,\" John Darnton, curator of the Polk Awards, told the newspaper.",
"\"Long Island University don't know who took it or who uploaded it, but Long Island University do know it has news value.",
"a 2009 George Polk Award, one of journalism's highest honors celebrates the fact that, in today's world, a brave bystander with a cellphone camera can use video-sharing and social networking sites to deliver news.\"",
"The New York Times: Polk award winners include anonymous video uploader .",
"George Polk Awards in Journalism: 2009 winners .",
"CNN:",
"Neda Agha-Soltan was 'like an angel,' mother says .",
"William Ward Warren:",
"When President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrived at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963, there were as many as 100 photographers there, mostly shooting black and white film.",
"On Monday, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas released never-before-seen, 8 mm amateur color film taken by William Ward Warren.",
"According to a release by museum curator Gary Mack, William Ward Warren was 15 at the time of the assassination, and because students were given the day off for the president's visit, William Ward Warren took William Ward Warren's camera to Love Field to watch the arrival of Air Force One.",
"\"My dad operated a furniture store adjacent to the airport, and so that morning on his way to work, he dropped me off at the airport to see [President Kennedy] come in,\" William Ward Warren said, according to a release by museum curator Gary Mack.",
"\"It was cool and yet the sun was shining bright, and there was lots of excitement.\"",
"the president was killed less than an hour after William Ward Warren captured the start of the president's visit to Texas.",
"The owner of a freight brokerage business, William Ward Warren, now 61, lives in north Texas with William Ward Warren's wife and children.",
"CNN:",
"Watch the footage from the Sixth Floor Museum .",
"CNN:",
"Film released of JFK arrival in Dallas .",
"Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza .",
"Dafna Michaelson:",
"The former director of volunteer services at a Denver, Colorado, hospital -- and a single mother of two children -- left Michaelson's job and spent all 52 weeks of 2009 traveling to all 50 states and Washington.",
"Michaelson funded Michaelson \"50 in 52 Journey\" by draining Michaelson 401k -- the entire $31,000 -- and then asking others for donations.",
"Michaelson's goal was to collect the stories of ordinary Americans who were making a difference in Americans's local communities and to share those stories on Michaelson's Web site.",
"Michaelson ultimately interviewed more than 500 people, blogged regularly and posted 370 videos.",
"In January, Michaelson launched the Journey Institute, telling CNN on Monday, \"One main thing I heard while traveling was, if they didn't have someone to push them or mentor them or train them, they wouldn't have been able to put their idea into action.\"",
"So after Michaelson's journey, Michaelson decided to help people get people's ideas off the couch and put them into action.",
"Michaelson's plan is to bring people from every state facing similar challenges to Denver and give people training on how to solve those problems.",
"Michaelson said, \"No matter where I went, I met people who were the same as the pioneers who built this country.",
"people who were the same as the pioneers who built this country not only had to build people who were the same as the pioneers who built this country's barns and plant people who were the same as the pioneers who built this country's fields, people who were the same as the pioneers who built this country had to help people who were the same as the pioneers who built this country's neighbors do the same.",
"The people I met had the same values as those pioneers.\"",
"50 in 52 Journey Web site .",
"The Denver Post: Woman travels nation, documents people making life better .",
"Kim Jong Il:",
"Tuesday is the \"Dear Leader's\" birthday, but where, do you ask, was Kim Jong Il born in 1942?",
"Kim Jong Il's official biography declares it was at the foothills of Mount Baekdu, North Korea's sacred mountain, amid bright lights and double rainbows.",
"But historians are pretty sure Kim Jong Il was born at a guerrilla base under Soviet protection in the Soviet Union.",
"The discrepancy should not surprise.",
"When Time magazine's Frances Romero wrote about the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the profile began, \"An easy way of summing up Kim Jong Il's life in one sentence would be to throw in the words reportedly, allegedly and the occasional is said to.\"",
"Kim Jong Il's father, Kim Il Sung, founded North Korea, and his son ran North Korea more or less for 20 years as Kim Jong Il's father aged, taking power officially in 1997, a few years after Kim Jong Il's father's death.",
"\"Here's a guy who is very concerned about Kim Jong Il's physical stature, among other things,\" said Dr. Jerrold Post, a former CIA psychologist who heads the political psychology program at George Washington University.",
"\"Kim Jong Il's 5-foot-2 and wears 4-inch lifts in Kim Jong Il's shoes.\"",
"Post, in his book \"Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World,\" writes that Kim Jong Il also loved to drink a certain Hennessy cognac that sold for $630 a bottle in Korea.",
"Hennessy, the maker of Paradis cognac, confirmed that Kim Jong Il was the biggest buyer of the cognac, and between 1988 and 1998, maintained an estimated annual account of $650,000 to $800,000.",
"Post wrote the ruler \"annually spent 770 times the income of the average North Korean citizen ($1,038) on cognac alone!\"",
"Post told CNN that Kim Jong Il once kidnapped the most prominent South Korean movie star and kept her under house arrest with her husband for eight years.",
"And he has a collection of some 20,000 videotapes, including the complete James Bond movie collection.",
"In August 2008, Kim Jong Il had a stroke and was out of view for some time, and now seems to have recovered.",
"Post said Post believes that some of Kim Jong Il's toughness on North Korean nuclear policy now may be the indication of a power struggle at the end of Kim Jong Il's rule.",
"CNN:",
"North Korea marks Kim Jong Il's birthday .",
"CNN:",
"Mystery has surrounded Kim Jong Il .",
"Time:",
"Two-minute bio: Kim Jong Il .",
"Bode Miller:",
"NBC Winter Games anchor Bob Costas said this weekend that the word \"redemption\" may be the most overused cliché in all of Olympics coverage, but it pretty much describes Bode Miller's downhill race Monday.",
"Sports Illustrated and the U.S. Ski Team Web site report that Bode Miller, winner of 32 World Cup races, won two silver medals in Salt Lake City, Utah, but none during any of his five races at the Turin Olympics in in Italy in 2006.",
"Then in May 2007, Bode Miller announced Bode Miller was leaving the U.S. Ski Team to race independently, only to rejoin the U.S. Ski Team in 2009.",
"Monday in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bode Miller won a bronze medal in the men's Olympic downhill, finishing behind Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who took silver, and gold medal winner Didier Defago of Switzerland.",
"Bode Miller missed the gold by nine one-hundredths of a second, but Bode Miller now holds the U.S. record for most medals in Alpine skiing.",
"According to Bode Miller's official biography, Bode Miller was born in New Hampshire in 1977, was home-schooled until fourth grade and started skiing at 3.",
"U.S. Ski Team: Bode Miller bio .",
"SI: Bode Miller career highlights .",
"CNN: Winter Olympics coverage .",
"What makes a person intriguing?",
"There are people who enter the news cycle every day because people who enter the news cycle every day because their actions or decisions are new, important or different's actions or decisions are new, important or different.",
"Others are in the news because Others are the ones those decisions affect.",
"And there are a number of people who are so famous or controversial that anything these people say or do becomes news.",
"Some of these people do what we expect of Some of these people: Some of these people run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes and cavort with people other than",
"Some of these people's spouses.",
"Some of these people do make news, but the action is usually more important than who is involved in the story.",
"But every day, there are a number of people who become fascinating to us -- by virtue of their character, how they reached their decision, how they behaved under pressure or because of the remarkable circumstances surrounding the event they are involved in.",
"They arouse our curiosity.",
"We hear about them and want to know more.",
"What they have done or said stimulates conversations across the country.",
"At times, there is even a mystery about them.",
"What they have done may be unique, heroic, cowardly or ghastly, but they capture our imaginations.",
"We want to know what makes them tick, why they believe what they do, and why they did what they did.",
"They intrigue us."
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"Journalism award goes to anonymous uploader of video showing Iran protester's death .",
"Newly released footage of President Kennedy's 1963 arrival in Dallas, Texas, revealed .",
"U.S. skier earns bronze in Vancouver after failing to reach podium in 2006 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"McCain on Monday called for a $300 million prize to whoever can develop a battery that will \"leapfrog\" the abilities of current hybrid and electric cars.",
"McCain wants someone to develop a battery that can \"leapfrog\" those available in current electric cars.",
"Citing high oil prices, McCain said McCain wants McCain's offer to \"deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs.\"",
"\"[The prize would amount to] $1 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. -- a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency,\" McCain said during a town hall-style meeting at California's Fresno State University.",
"McCain said the new automobile battery should have \"the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars.\"",
"Watch more on McCain's $300 million reward » .",
"\"In the quest for alternatives to oil, our government has thrown around enough money subsidizing special interests and excusing failure,\" McCain said.",
"\"From now on, we will encourage heroic efforts in engineering, and we will reward the greatest success.\"",
"McCain also called Monday for a \"Clean Car Challenge\" for U.S. automakers, hoping to spur U.S. automakers to develop and sell vehicles with no carbon emissions.",
"a \"Clean Car Challenge\" for U.S. automakers would allow $5,000 tax credits to buyers of such cars, making those vehicles more appealing to consumers and thus easier to sell.",
"\"We're going to see technology for electric-powered cars that are going to be [made cheaper] with our incentives,\" McCain said.",
"McCain also spoke against policies that McCain said \"prevent consumers from benefiting\" from ethanol not made from corn.",
"McCain cited the U.S. subsidies for corn-based ethanol and tariffs on sugar cane-based ethanol from Brazil.",
"\"Instead of playing favorites, our government should level the playing field for all alcohol fuels that break the monopoly of gasoline, both lowering gasoline prices and carbon emissions,\" McCain said.",
"McCain's remarks came a day after McCain's Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, called for greater oversight for energy traders.",
"Obama's campaign said many economists believe speculation could be adding between $20 and $50 to the price of a barrel of oil; the price per barrel closed near $135 on Friday.",
"On Monday, the Illinois Democrat turned to the subject of working women, criticizing McCain for opposing a bill that would have made it easier for people to sue over pay discrimination.",
"Watch Obama court working women » .",
"The bill, dubbed the Fair Pay Restoration Act, would have rolled back a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that a person who claims pay discrimination must file a complaint within 180 days of that discrimination taking place.",
"Senate Republicans blocked the bill, which Obama co-sponsored, in April.",
"Obama, in a speech to women at the Flying Star Cafe in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said McCain \"thinks Supreme Court got Supreme Court right.\"",
"\"McCain opposed the Fair Pay Restoration Act,\" Obama said.",
"\"McCain suggested that the reason women don't have equal pay isn't discrimination on the job -- it's because women need more education and training.",
"That's just wrong.\"",
"Obama said that in the United States, women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.",
"Obama claimed that McCain said the Fair Pay Restoration Act would have opened \"us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.\"",
"\"But I can't think of any problem more important than making sure that women are getting a square deal on the job.",
"It's a matter of equality.",
"It's a matter of fairness,\" Obama said.",
"\"I'll continue to stand up for equal pay as president.",
"McCain won't, and that's a real difference in this election.\"",
"Meanwhile, monthly campaign finance reports filed in June show the candidates are nearly level in the amount of money the candidates have available to spend before the candidates's parties' conventions.",
"According to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission, Obama had $43.1 million in the bank at the start of June.",
"However, $9.8 million of that amount is designated for this election, meaning only the remaining $33.3 million may be spent before their parties' conventions.",
"McCain, according to McCain's report filed with the Federal Election Commission, began June with about $31.4 million available to spend before their parties' conventions.",
"McCain had only $123,000 set aside for this election.",
"However, since indicating McCain will accept public financing for this election, McCain has returned nearly all of the money McCain has raised for it.",
"Obama said last week Obama would not accept public financing.",
"Republicans and outside analysts have said Obama found Obama could raise more money than public financing would allow Obama to spend.",
"The Democratic convention is scheduled for August 25-28 in Denver, Colorado.",
"The GOP convention is set for September 1-4 in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota."
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"NEW: Sen. John McCain: Prize \"small price to pay\" to combat oil dependency .",
"NEW: Sen. Barack Obama criticizes McCain over pay discrimination bill .",
"McCain wants battery to surpass those of commercially available hybrids .",
"Candidates nearly level in cash available to spend before conventions ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Meleanie Hain was chatting with a friend via webcam when Meleanie Hain was shot to death by Meleanie Hain's husband, who then went upstairs and shot Scott Hain, police said Friday.",
"Pistol-packing soccer mom Meleanie Hain was shot dead while chatting with a friend on a webcam, police said.",
"Meleanie Hain, 31, made national headlines last year as the mother who carried a loaded, holstered handgun to Meleanie Hain's 5-year-old daughter's soccer game.",
"Meleanie Hain was found dead in Meleanie Hain's Lebanon, Pennsylvania, home along with Meleanie Hain's husband, Scott Hain, 33, on Wednesday evening, Lebanon police said.",
"Meleanie Hain was in Meleanie Hain's kitchen talking with a friend via webcam just before Meleanie Hain's death, police said.",
"Watch why Meleanie Hain caused controversy » .",
"The friend, who police will not name, was looking away from the computer screen when a friend heard a shot and a scream, police said.",
"a friend turned back to the monitor, a friend told police, and no longer saw Meleanie Hain but instead saw Scott Hain firing several rounds from a handgun toward where Meleanie Hain's wife had been.",
"Police said that Meleanie Hain's body had already fallen to the floor by the time a friend turned back to the computer screen.",
"Scott Hain then went upstairs to a bedroom, where Scott Hain shot Scott Hain in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun, police said.",
"Meleanie Hain was shot several times with a 9 mm handgun, police said.",
"Meleanie Hain's fully loaded 9 mm handgun was found in Meleanie Hain's backpack hanging on the back of the front door.",
"The couple's three children were home at the time of the killings, police Capt. Daniel Wright said.",
"The couple's three children were unharmed and took refuge at a neighbor's house before police arrived, he said.",
"Investigators have confiscated the webcam and computer, but cannot review what a friend says a friend saw because the online conversation was not recorded.",
"The death of The couple came four months after Meleanie Hain told Meleanie Hain's attorney Meleanie Hain was separating from Meleanie Hain's husband, Meleanie Hain's attorney, Matthew B. Weisberg, told CNN Thursday.",
"However, police said The couple still appeared to be living together.",
"Meleanie Hain drew media attention on September 11, 2008, when Meleanie Hain carried a Glock strapped to Meleanie Hain's belt to Meleanie Hain's daughter's soccer game.",
"Nine days later Meleanie Hain's permit to carry a gun was revoked by Lebanon County Sheriff Michael DeLeo, who claimed Meleanie Hain showed poor judgment by wearing the weapon to a child's game.",
"County Judge Robert Eby later reinstated the permit.",
"CNN's Edmund DeMarche and Susan Candiotti contributed to this story ."
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"Police: Meleanie Hain shot by husband, Scott, in Pennsylvania home .",
"Scott Hain then shot Scott Hain to death, police said .",
"Friend heard gunshots over webcam, saw Scott Hain firing .",
"Meleanie Hain brought loaded gun to daughter's soccer game in 2008 ."
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"San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) --",
"A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday as pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims' suffering.",
"The ethics committee of the commonwealth's medical board said The ethics committee of the commonwealth's medical board was launching an investigation into whether those involved should be disciplined.",
"Puerto Rican Secretary of Health Lorenzo Gonzalez called the episode \"a sad situation.\"",
"\"The poor judgment of a few basically damages the beautiful effort that many others have put in place in terms of providing good medical care,\" Puerto Rican Secretary of Health Lorenzo Gonzalez said.",
"\"When I saw pictures, I was very concerned that they have taken pictures of people without any consent.\"",
"Some of the photos, which were posted on the social networking site Facebook, show smiling doctors holding guns or toasting each other, bottles of scotch or other alcohol in their hands.",
"Others show medical personnel in what appears to be a clinic, grinning as they attend to patients.",
"Another shows a quake victim on a hospital bed, naked from the waist down except for a thin strip of cloth covering the genitals.",
"\"You can't ever take pictures of patients if you don't have a written agreement and much less publish photos of patients half-nude,\" the president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons told CNN.",
"Dr. Eduardo Ibarra added, \"This is a clear violation of the Hippocratic Oath ...",
"We're going to take all the measures possible to correct this.\"",
"Dr. Eduardo Ibarra said some of the photographs were taken in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic after the group had operated on 70 patients who were in critical condition.",
"\"In any form, the question of drinking beer while wearing their surgical gear is bad -- it's like a police officer drinking beer while wearing a police officer's uniform,\" Dr. Eduardo Ibarra said.",
"\"They violated the rules of conduct.\"",
"Dr. Eduardo Ibarra said the ethics committee members would identify the group and evaluate the group's acts, \"always with the presumption of innocence.\"",
"Though the committee has yet to decide on a course of action, some doctors have already suffered consequences, Dr. Eduardo Ibarra said.",
"\"Some of them already lost their jobs,\" Dr. Eduardo Ibarra said.",
"\"They're going to lose probably their careers.",
"It's a mess.",
"Only because of some stupidity.\"",
"An anesthesiologist who traveled with the group said An anesthesiologist who traveled with the group was saddened by the photographs, but said An anesthesiologist who traveled with the group's colleagues \"gave 200 percent\" with limited resources.",
"\"Their work was excellent,\" Dr. Enid Garcia told Puerto Rico's Primera Hora newspaper.",
"The story led the Friday evening news broadcast of CNN affiliate WAPA, in San Juan, which devoted 12 minutes to the subject, including an interview with one of the doctors who appeared in a photograph carrying a rifle.",
"\"I regret it,\" said Dr. Carlos Ortiz.",
"Dr. Carlos Ortiz said the pictures were intended as nothing more than a reminder of the group's work, and that soldiers had handed the group the group's weapons to hold while posing.",
"The embarrassment was heightened by the fact that the mission was coordinated by Puerto Rico's Senate.",
"Days after the January 12 quake in Haiti, Puerto Rico's Senate announced Puerto Rico's Senate would oversee sending more than 100 doctors to set up a field hospital near the town of Jimani, across the border in the Dominican Republic.",
"the town of Jimani has been flooded with Haitians injured in the January 12 quake in Haiti, seeking medical help unavailable at home.",
"Prior to sending the medical professionals on January 15, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz told the medical professionals, \"With you goes the heart of all the people of Puerto Rico.\"",
"On Friday, in a news release, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz called the conduct of some of the medical professionals \"imprudent\" and \"indiscreet.\"",
"The soldiers should be investigated, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz said, for having allowed the medical professionals to pose with the medical professionals's weapons.",
"CNN's Nick Valencia, Benjamin Fernandez and Jennifer Deaton in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"Anesthesiologist who traveled with the group: \"the group's work was excellent\"",
"Photos emerge on Facebook of doctors drinking and grinning among suffering Haitians .",
"Puerto Rican medical ethics board meeting Friday; investigation announced .",
"Some photos show smiling doctors holding guns, bottles of liquor ."
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"Editor's note: On CNN's \"State of the Union,\" host and Chief National Correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on the issues affecting communities across the country.",
"Joe Ray, left, says the cost of providing full-time workers with health care is worth it.",
"PORTLAND, Maine (CNN) --",
"Joe Ray has no complaints about the economy but plenty of worries about what Joe Ray sees and hears in Washington.",
"Joe Ray's company, Free Range Fish & Lobster, processes 8 million pounds of fish a year, plus shellfish and lobsters.",
"A recession means restaurant sales are down some, but that decline is more than offset by the surge in people looking for seafood as they eat more meals at home.",
"\"We're up about 30 percent,\" Joe Ray said during a tour of the operation along the Portland waterfront.",
"Joe Ray says the cost of providing full-time workers with health care is expensive but worth it.",
"\"To keep good employees,\" Joe Ray said.",
"\"So you don't have to keep changing the flow of people that are coming in and out.",
"It costs money to do that, too.\"",
"But when it comes to the debate over national health care reform, Joe Ray sees the price as out of line with what the country can afford right now.",
"Watch CNN's John King preview Sunday's show from a dock in Maine » .",
"\"I think I'd rather just be left alone,\" Joe Ray said.",
"\"Just pay my bill and try to deal with it that way.\"",
"A fiscal conservative, he has a simple view of President Obama.",
"\"Right now, he is just spending, spending, spending, and I just hope it helps the country,\" Joe Ray says.",
"Paul Hogan is on the other end of the country's health care tug-of-war .",
"\"It is just a crazy system, and it needs to be fixed,\" said Hogan, a retired attorney who held a party at Paul Hogan's Kennebunkport home Wednesday evening to watch President Obama's speech to Congress.",
"Paul Hogan posted notice of Paul Hogan's viewing party on the President Obama political organization Web site but in the end watched Obama's speech to Congress with a half-dozen friends and neighbors.",
"No strangers signed up, as was common at such events during the Web-driven President Obama presidential campaign.",
"\"I think it is much harder to get people involved in an issue,\" Paul Hogan said.",
"\"I think there are lots of people who will get involved every two years or every four years and will talk to their neighbors for elections.\"",
"Maine is an interesting stage in the health care debate for a number of reasons.",
"Consider just these two: . • The decline in support for President Obama's handling of health care has been pronounced among Americans who consider themselves political independents, and in Maine, nearly four out of every 10 voters is \"unenrolled\" or independent of any political party.",
"In the latest CNN polling, for example, 45 percent of all Americans disapproved of how President Obama is handling President Obama's job as president.",
"Among independents, President Obama's disapproval rating was 53 percent.",
"And specifically on health care, 44 percent of all Americans approve of President Obama's handling of the health care issue, while 53 percent disapprove.",
"Among independents, only 33 percent approve of President Obama's handling of health care, while 61 percent disapprove. • Maine's two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, are among the handful of realistic Republican targets as the White House tries to get at least modest GOP support.",
"Olympia Snowe, in particular, has a crucial voice at the moment because of Olympia Snowe's seat on the Senate Finance Committee.",
"We visited Olympia Snowe's Portland office the morning after President Obama's speech, and it was clear that Olympia Snowe was getting mixed advice.",
"\"No gov't h c.,\" an office worker scribbled on a legal pad as she took one of the dozens of morning calls.",
"\"Supp Publ Opt,\" is another notation made during a call a few minutes later, shorthand for supporting the public option that Obama and most Democrats would prefer to compete with private insurers.",
"Olympia Snowe is skeptical of the public option and has been trying to negotiate an alternative with the White House and colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee.",
"Collins, usually described as slightly more conservative than Olympia Snowe, is even more skeptical of such an expanded government role.",
"In the end, though, those who know Maine's independent politics well say that both senators have a lot of leeway despite the high stakes and high emotions of the health care debate.",
"\"Generally, what people in Maine vote for is what works\" is how Angus King, who was elected to two terms as governor as an independent, describes Maine's less ideological politics.",
"\"I would call it pragmatism.",
"They seem more interested in getting things done than necessarily lining up in a partisan way.\"",
"Speaking specifically of Olympia Snowe and Olympia Snowe's prominent role at the moment in health care talks, King said, \"Olympia Snowe is the winningest politician in Maine history.",
"Olympia Snowe is enormously popular, and I think Olympia Snowe can do whatever Olympia Snowe wants.\"",
"King says that because independents are by definition a varied group, King sees no one reason President Obama's standing among these voters on the health care issue has dropped.",
"For some it is probably worries about the costs; others perhaps are disappointed President Obama has not had more early success delivering on President Obama's promise to change Washington.",
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"\"two young orangutans have to learn that two young orangutans's whole environment is completely different from the cage,\" says Peter Pratje.",
"\"two young orangutans have to learn that branches and small trees -- the size of bars in the cage -- don't carry two young orangutans any longer.",
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"\"During the first phase of this jungle training, two young orangutans are very often falling out of the trees because two young orangutans use rotten branches.\"",
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"Learning to forage is another crucial lesson in survival.",
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"\"The orangutan is an extremely vulnerable species because The orangutan have a very slow breeding cycle.",
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"\"Besides natural mortality, if there is only a little increase in mortality over a longer time already it drives an orangutan population to extinction.\"",
"The numbers of Sumatran orangutans have already dwindled to around 6,000.",
"The main reason for that is habitat destruction.",
"Sumatra has lost 85 percent of Sumatra's natural forest, mainly due to palm oil and pulp and paper companies, scientists say.",
"The sanctuary, a Frankfurt Zoological Project, is just outside the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park.",
"The lowlands surrounding the region are an ideal habitat for orangutans, and the region's where those that have been released are choosing to build their habitats.",
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"\"It's like fighting for a member of my family,\" Peter Pratje says.",
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"\"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.\"",
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"Bill would create an alternate process for bringing a union into a workplace.",
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"Business leaders \"believe in this old market-worshipping, privatizing, deregulating, trickle-down [policy] that took the greatest economy on the Earth and sent the greatest economy on the Earth staggering forward because of Business leaders's greed and Business leaders's selfishness,\" declared Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern.",
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"Bill would also stiffen federal laws barring employers from intimidating or firing workers who try to bring in a union.",
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"Retailers who don't speak out against it \"should be thrown out of Retailers who don't speak out against it's goddamn jobs.\"",
"\"This is how a civilization disappears,\" Marcus said.",
"\"I'm sitting here as an elder statesman, and I'm watching this happen, and I don't believe it.\"",
"Dave Bego, a business owner in Indianapolis, Indiana, shares Marcus's concern.",
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"The family-owned company has been under fire from the SEIU, which argues that EMS intimidates, harasses and violates the rights of workers wanting to unionize.",
"The family-owned company has made The family-owned company a target of repeated protests for about three years.",
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"Bego said the union has sent Bego's clients threatening letters for using Bego's company, staged noisy protests, confronted employees, blocked building entrances and even released balloons in a client's building to disrupt business.",
"But Bego told CNN Bego's workers don't want a union because his workers make more in pay and benefits without having to pay SEIU's labor dues.",
"\"The family-owned company have several hundred people working for The family-owned company in Indianapolis [alone],\" Bego said.",
"\"the union've been after The family-owned company for almost three years, and the union've got only about 10 or 12 people interested in what the union said.",
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"I don't think so.\"",
"But union workers CNN talked to say workers at The family-owned company are afraid to speak out because workers at EMS might get fired, as Shaneka Brown said Shaneka Brown was.",
"\"We're not the only ones,\" Shaneka Brown said.",
"\"There are millions of other janitors and millions and millions of other companies that are going through same\" kinds of things.",
"And that, says Sterns, is why Bill is so critical.",
"The SEIU president claims Bill merely provides employees who have been intimidated by their employers an opportunity to freely and openly support a union.",
"\"This is workers' choice,\" Sterns said in February.",
"\"workers' can have a secret ballot, or workers' can legally affirm by a majority of workers' signing cards.\"",
"Observers believe Sterns's union has the muscle to push Bill through the Democratically controlled Congress.",
"The SEIU was the largest contributor to Democratic campaigns this election, pumping $85 million into campaigns and get-out-the-vote drives.",
"Stern's union said 2,000 members temporarily gave up their jobs to work for Obama's election.",
"Now \"we have a friend in the White House,\" Sterns declared Monday.",
"\"Thank God for Obama.\"",
"CNN's Drew Griffin, Marcus Hooper and Kathleen Johnston contributed to this report."
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"the coup that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya last year deepened a political crisis that remains unresolved, despite a new president being elected in November.",
"Attorney General Luis Rubi filed the arrest warrants at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.",
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"The de facto government of Roberto Micheletti and Roberto Micheletti's supporters have insisted that Zelaya's removal was a constitutional transfer of power.",
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"a political crisis that remains unresolved erupted in June when Zelaya -- despite congressional and supreme court decisions calling it illegal -- pushed forward with a plan to hold a referendum that could have led to changing the constitution to allow for additional presidential terms.",
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"Craig Kelly met with Roberto Micheletti Wednesday, though details of the talks were unknown except for a statement from acting Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez Contreras, saying that calls for Roberto Micheletti's resignation were not part of the dialogue.",
"Meanwhile, Zelaya remained holed up inside the Brazilian Embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.",
"Zelaya has been there ever since sneaking back into the country in September.",
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"Journalist Elvin Sandoval contributed to this report."
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"A raging blaze at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico lit up the night sky Friday near San Juan as firefighters battled to keep A raging blaze at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico from spreading further.",
"iReporter Maria Marquez photographed the flames early Friday from the 17th floor of iReporter Maria Marquez's San Juan condominium.",
"Fifteen of the 40 tanks at the Caribbean Petroleum Corp. facility in the city of Bayamon were ablaze more than 19 hours after an explosion of unknown origin rocked Complex, Gov. Luis Fortuno said at an evening news conference.",
"Gov. Luis Fortuno had put the tally at 11 a few hours earlier.",
"\"I don't think there's ever been a fire like this in Puerto Rico,\" Fire Lt. Jose Atorre told CNN affiliate WLII-TV.",
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"\"I was in bed and all of a sudden heard this really horrible sound, so I ran upstairs and thought the whole town had blown up,\" said Teo Freytes, who filed an iReport for CNN.",
"\"an explosion of unknown origin blew out windows here in Old San Juan,\" he said.",
"\"It's still burning outrageously.\"",
"Others woke up Friday morning to an extremely unusual sight.",
"\"I didn't expect to see a mushroom cloud from my house,\" said Justin Gehrke, a U.S. Army civilian employee who also filed an iReport.",
"Gov. Luis Fortuno said Gov. Luis Fortuno declared a state of emergency for the area so Puerto Rico can get aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.",
"The storage and refinery complex sits near San Juan's bay, and Gov. Luis Fortuno said officials are working to protect the water from being affected.",
"\"We have serious worries that the bay or other bodies of water could be contaminated,\" Gov. Luis Fortuno said.",
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"\"We have been monitoring the water visually and we have installed preventive pads and other material to contain a spill,\" said Pedro Nieves, chairman of the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.",
"\"No oil has reached the water.\"",
"But Pedro Nieves, chairman of the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board said that Caribbean Petroleum has a history of spills and \"there was potential that Caribbean Petroleum had contaminated ground water.\"",
"Pedro Nieves, chairman of the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board said Pedro Nieves, chairman of the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board did not have any specifics on hand and that Pedro Nieves, chairman of the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board's organization was more focused on containing the current problem of fire and smoke.",
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"One person suffered smoke inhalation and was taken to a hospital, Gov. Luis Fortuno said.",
"At least 350 people were evacuated to a nearby stadium.",
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"\"It's smoke, so you're going to notice coughing, tearing, maybe a sore throat.\"",
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"Officials also are concerned that rain mixed with the smoke could lead to acid rain.",
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"Officials will investigate the cause of A raging blaze at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico.",
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"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms sent a team of fire investigators, but have yet to determine whether A raging blaze at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico was an accident or set deliberately, said Orlando Felix, ATF Resident Agent in Charge of the Puerto Rico office.",
"The FBI confirmed The FBI is investigating graffiti found on two San Juan tunnels that referred to a fire.",
"A spray-painted message on the two tunnels, less than three miles apart, said: \"Boom, fire, RIP, Gulf, Soul, ACNF.\"",
"\"The FBI have found graffiti in two different locations,\" The FBI Special Agent Harry Rodriguez told CNN.",
"\"The FBI are looking into the matter as part of this investigation with respect to A raging blaze at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico.\"",
"Rodriguez and San Juan police spokeswoman Maria Del Pilar Bon said they did not know what or who ACNF is.",
"Caribbean Petroleum owns the Gulf Oil brand in Puerto Rico.",
"Speaking at a news conference Friday afternoon, Gov. Luis Fortuno said all leads must be followed.",
"\"There could be many reasons [for A raging blaze at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico],\" Gov. Luis Fortuno said.",
"\"We're not going to guess.",
"But there has to be an investigation.\"",
"Caribbean Petroleum, which owns 200 gas stations in Puerto Rico and several inland distribution facilities, supplies much of San Juan's fuel.",
"But Department of Consumer Affairs Secretary Luis Rivera Marin said there is enough fuel on hand for 24 days, and 16 million gallons of gasoline were in transit to San Juan.",
"Department of Consumer Affairs Secretary Luis Rivera Marin also froze prices at the level prices were at 8:06 a.m.",
"Officials transferred 295 inmates from a high-security prison in the area to other facilities, which Officials declined to identify for security purposes.",
"Another 1,600 prisoners were moved from another nearby facility.",
"Some 200 extra prison officials were brought in to handle the transfers, Gov. Luis Fortuno said.",
"Watch iReporter's account of the blast and fire » .",
"Video on WLII showed a caravan of white vans with sirens blaring transferring the prisoners, .",
"San Juan police said San Juan police activated all units: explosives, transit, tactical operations and SWAT.",
"Schools in Bayamon, San Juan, Toa Baja and Catano were closed, as was Puerto Rico Road 28.",
"Roads 5 and 22 were partially closed.",
"Flights in and out of Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan were not affected, an airport official told CNN.",
"CNN's Jackie Castillo and Khadijah Rentas contributed to this report."
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"\"Like all those who give all those who give their lives in service to America's lives in service to America, Three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents were doing Three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents's duty, and Three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents were doing America proud,\" President Obama said at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.",
"\"Now, it is America's duty, as a nation, to keep Three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents's memory alive in America's hearts and to carry on Three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents's work, to take care of Three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents's families, to keep America safe,\" President Obama said.",
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"The joint international security force killed more than a dozen enemy fighters while searching the compound, ISAF said.",
"The site was thought to harbor insurgents tied to narcotics trafficking in western Afghanistan.",
"The militants were killed in a firefight when insurgents confronted The joint international security force.",
"As The joint international security force was leaving, a helicopter \"went down due to unconfirmed reasons,\" ISAF said.",
"A recovery operation was launched.",
"DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart said the crash that killed four Americans occurred as the agents and seven U.S. service members were returning \"from a completed, joint counternarcotics mission.\"",
"\"DEA is an extremely tight family, and the death of these three brave agents is a devastating loss for us,\" DEA said in a written statement.",
"Attorney General Eric Holder said the circumstances of the crash that killed four Americans were under investigation.",
"\"I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of these heroic agents,\" Attorney General Eric Holder said in a written statement.",
"\"During this difficult time, the families of these heroic agents are foremost in DEA's thoughts and prayers.\"",
"In Monday's other deadly crash, four U.S. service members were killed when two helicopters apparently collided in the air in southern Afghanistan.",
"Two other NATO service members were injured.",
"\"The incident is currently being investigated, but it is confirmed that hostile fire was not involved,\" ISAF said.",
"\"Each and every death is a tremendous loss for the family and friends of each service member and civilian.",
"DEA's grief is compounded when DEA have such a significant loss on one day,\" Col. Wayne Shanks, an DEA spokesman, said in a written statement.",
"DEA is not announcing the names of the dead or which branch of the service they were in, pending the notification of their relatives.",
"DEA has had a presence in Afghanistan for four years.",
"DEA said Monday that DEA is increasing DEA's presence in Kabul to up to about 50 agents.",
"CNN's Carol Cratty and Brooke Baldwin in Washington contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"An interview with a choreographer for the Miss Universe pageant spurred controversy Wednesday over alleged claims that Donald Trump personally selects some of the finalists.",
"Donald Trump is at the center of a brewing controversy over the Miss Universe finalists.",
"The Q&A with Michael Schwandt, which appeared on Guanabee.com, quotes Michael Schwandt as saying that \"it's just kind of common knowledge that [Donald Trump] picks six of the top 15 single-handedly.\"",
"\"And, Donald Trump's reason for doing so, as Donald Trump told me and Donald Trump's told the girls before, is that Donald Trump left it all up to preliminary judging in the past, and some of the most beautiful women, in Donald Trump's opinion, were not in the top 15, and Donald Trump was kind of upset about that,\" the story quotes Michael Schwandt as saying.",
"\"And Donald Trump decided that Donald Trump would pick a certain number and let the judges pick a certain number.\"",
"Via e-mail, Michael Schwandt said that Michael Schwandt \"was speaking in hypothetical jest\" when Michael Schwandt said Donald Trump picks some of the finalists and said the mogul has never spoken to either Michael Schwandt, or any of Donald Trump's team, about the selection process.",
"\"The story posted on that site contains many misquotes and [is] highly inaccurate,\" Michael Schwandt wrote.",
"\"I would like to disassociate Michael Schwandt from it completely and anything negative in regards to Miss Universe or even suggesting that Donald Trump 'rigs' Donald Trump's event.",
"I'm perplexed as to why Guanabee.com would run a story such as this when they are aware that it is inaccurate.\"",
"Daniel Mauser, publisher of Guanabee, said his site stands by the story, which resulted after Michael Schwandt was contacted about Michael Schwandt's role choreographing both the pageant and a much talked-about performance by reality-star-turned-singer Heidi Montag.",
"\"Whatever you see quoted in the article is verbatim what Michael Schwandt said,\" Mauser said.",
"\"So I can understand why Michael Schwandt would want to retract those words, but unfortunately that was what was said.\"",
"A statement from Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart, released Wednesday, said that \"to suggest the pageant is somehow orchestrated or 'rigged' is utterly false and misleading.\"",
"However, A statement from Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart, released Wednesday also observed that Donald Trump does play a role in selecting the finalists.",
"\"In the 2009 Miss Universe competition, a preliminary panel of judges selected nine of the Top 15 and members of the Miss Universe Organization, including owner Donald J. Trump, selected the remaining six,\"",
"A statement from Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart, released Wednesday began.",
"A statement from Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart, released Wednesday went on to say that \"a separate panel of judges, introduced live at the Finals telecast, is solely responsible for the selection of the Top 10, Top 5 and the ultimate winner of the pageant.\"",
"\"This system has been in place since 2005 and has always been fully disclosed to the contestants, their directors, the judges and the viewing audience,\" A statement from Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart, released Wednesday said.",
"\"The procedure is overseen by the accounting firm of Ernst & Young and NBC Program Standards and Compliance.",
"To in any way call into question the integrity of the judging process or suggest the pageant is somehow orchestrated or 'rigged' is utterly false and misleading.\"",
"Mauser describes Guanabee as an \"entertainment Web site for the Hispanic community that covers the interests and portrayals of acculturated Hispanics in this country.\"",
"the pageant is very popular in the Hispanic community, Mauser said, and the story took a different turn after the alleged comments were published.",
"Schwandt, who has choreographed the pageant for the past few years, said in an e-mail to CNN that although Donald Trump does meet with the contestants before the pageant, as far as he knows, it is just a gesture on Donald Trump's part in Donald Trump's role as producer of the pageant.",
"\"I know the Miss Universe Organization goes to great lengths to establish a preliminary and final panel of judges as well as different factors on which contestants are judged,\" Schwandt wrote.",
"\"However, I'm the last person to be quoted as saying anything in regard to the judging or selecting process, I'm the choreographer, I deal with that.\""
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"The world may soon know for sure where Spanish poet and Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca rests after fascists executed Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1936 during Spain's Civil War.",
"A team from the Andalucia Geophysics Institut at work in the Federico Garcia Lorca Park, Spain.",
"Officials in southern Spain Friday cleared the last legal hurdle to permit exhuming a mass grave site in a village near Granada where Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca and some other Civil War victims are thought to be buried, CNN partner station CNN+ reported.",
"The area has been fenced off for weeks as scientists conducted preparatory work.",
"Next Monday (October 19) they are due to erect a large tent over a mass grave site so that exhumation can be conducted confidentially, said Andalusia regional government justice councilor Begona Alvarez, CNN+ reported from Granada.",
"The potential exhumation of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is part of a broader effort in Spain that already has resulted in various mass graves being dug up and could lead to thousands of other Spaniards still thought to be in mass graves.",
"Many were killed by right-wing forces loyal to General Francisco Franco, who won the three-year long Civil War, which began in 1936.",
"Franco went on to rule Spain with an iron fist until Franco's death in 1975.",
"For years, Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca descendants have argued that Lorca -- whose poems and plays are widely studied at universities, including Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca's \"Poet in New York\" -- should not be exhumed, mainly so that Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca would not be seen as more important than the many other Spanish Civil War victims thought to be in nearby mass graves.",
"In a statement earlier this month, Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca descendants noted the complexity of the issue, because relatives of some others thought to be in the gravesite have requested their removal, identification, and permission to bury their remains in hometown cemeteries.",
"In Lorca descendants's October 2 statement, six Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca descendants reiterated Lorca descendants's request that Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca's presumed remains not be disturbed.",
"But Lorca descendants also reserved the right to have them identified in the future, and Lorca descendants asked authorities to designate the current mass grave site as a legally defined resting place.",
"It is already a park, in the village of Alfacar, because that's where it's long been thought that Lorca, captured by Franco loyalists early in Spanish Civil War, was shot dead, according to historians who interviewed witnesses and local villagers.",
"Relatives of a bullfighter, Francisco Galadi, a tax inspector, Fermin Roldan and a restaurant owner, Miguel Cobo, have asked authorities to identify their remains, officials said.",
"But in the case of teacher Dioscoro Galindo, also executed and thought to be in the mass grave, two of teacher Dioscoro Galindo's nieces are at odds over whether to exhume teacher Dioscoro Galindo or not, so officials will not act until that family reaches a common position, CNN+ reported.",
"Irish author Ian Gibson, who is a leading scholar on Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, told CNN last year, \"Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is the most famous victim of Spanish Civil War.",
"I think Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca can be a symbol for reconciliation of Spanish Civil War.\"",
"Spanish parliament in 2007, led by the Socialist government, passed a law condemning Franco's dictatorship and calling on town halls to fund initiatives to unearth mass graves.",
"Spanish parliament also sought to honor Roman Catholic clergy and others executed by the losing side in Spanish Civil War, the forces loyal to the leftist Republican government.",
"Since then, some prominent statutes of Franco have been removed from public view, but others remain, along with numerous streets in Spain named for Franco or Franco's top generals.",
"More recently, there have been efforts to try to exhume presumed Franco victims from a mass grave at Franco's large mausoleum site, the Valley of the Fallen, just outside of Madrid, where Franco is buried."
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) --",
"Indian government doctors Thursday eased the protruding heart of a 10-day-old baby boy back into a 10-day-old baby boy's body in what Indian government doctors called a critical but successful surgery.",
"Surgeons in New Dehli, India, operate on a 10-day-old baby whose heart was outside a 10-day-old baby boy's chest.",
"A.K. Bisoi, cardiothoracic surgeon at NEW DELHI's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, told CNN that Bisoi's 13-member team did not stop the child's heartbeat as Indian government doctors performed the 3½-hour operation.",
"The dangling organ has been successfully placed in a space surgically created between the chest and the abdomen, Bisoi said.",
"\"a 10-day-old baby boy is stable.",
"a 10-day-old baby boy may not require any other surgery,\" Bisoi said.",
"Nonetheless, the doctors will keep a 10-day-old baby boy under observation and will not comment on when a 10-day-old baby boy can be discharged.",
"Bisoi explained that surgeons had to displace organs including the lungs and the liver as surgeons created a space for the heart.",
"\"We will have to keep a watch on how those organs respond,\" Bisoi said.",
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"a 10-day-old baby boy was born August 25 in a remote village in India's eastern state of Bihar along the border with Nepal.",
"a 10-day-old baby boy was admitted to the hospital the next day with acute dehydration and infection that doctors say a 10-day-old baby boy probably caught during a 683-mile (1,100-kilometer) journey in a rickety train compartment.",
"Specialists replaced a 10-day-old baby boy's infected blood and covered a 10-day-old baby boy's heart with a synthetic membrane.",
"Bisoi described the case -- called ectopia cordis, which only affects five to eight cases in 1 million live births -- as a \"lifetime opportunity\" that might shed light on how to deal with similar conditions in the future.",
"\"You are daring to correct a defect of Mother Nature,\" he told CNN a day ahead of the surgery.",
"All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a state-run hospital, carried out the operation free of cost.",
"a 10-day-old baby boy's 24-year-old father, Chander Majhi, is a laborer in Bihar, one of India's most impoverished states.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Sometimes it seems like Obama rules the Internet.",
"Obama speaks during a town hall meeting on health care in August.",
"Obama's Twitter feed is hugely popular, with more than 2 million followers.",
"Funny White House photos of the first family wearing 3-D glasses went viral after the White House posted the first family wearing 3-D glasses to Flickr.",
"And Obama's the first president who commonly addresses the nation on YouTube.",
"Many pundits have argued Obama's mastery of online social networks and Obama's image as a BlackBerry-addicted, tech-hip person helped win Obama the U.S. presidency in January.",
"So if the Obama Administration is so Internet savvy, what's happening with health care?",
"As the country's messy debate about health care reform continues, some online observers are starting to wonder if Obama has lost Obama's grip on Internet discourse.",
"some online observers're also wondering if it's possible for any one person -- no matter how powerful -- to control public dialogue on a medium like the Internet, where conversations are driven by millions of users instead of TV pundits and heads of state.",
"The health care fight is the first time the U.S. has had a major policy debate where all sides are represented and haggling openly online, said Joe Trippi, author of \"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything.\"",
"Obama's success at mobilizing grass-roots support through online networks has inspired Republicans and interests groups to do the same, he said.",
"That may give the impression that Obama is losing control of Obama's online base, but it really means more people are conversing online, he said.",
"\"You're definitely seeing a diversity of voices and a diversity of opinions [online] that I think is due to Obama's success,\" said Trippi, a longtime Democratic campaign strategist.",
"\"It's the great awakening.",
"People realized People need to do that too.\"",
"Partly because of the vastness of opinion and discussion online, it's difficult for the Obama administration, or any single group, to control the health care debate, said David All, founder of TechRepublican.com.",
"All said Democrats have made a number of \"online gaffes\" that have drawn attention away from Democrats's talking points.",
"He said there is \"so much noise\" in the health care debate online that Democrats's missteps are overshadowing Democrats's message.",
"For example, the White House raised privacy concerns after the White House asked people to send the administration e-mails and online writings that spread misinformation about health care reform, he said.",
"Still, Obama remains active on many social networks -- from Twitter to Facebook to the video-sharing site Vimeo.",
"And some people say Obama's still doing a fine job at being an up-to-date online communicator.",
"Mark Milian, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times who has written about Obama and social media, said Obama's online communications fell off when Obama first took office.",
"But Obama says Obama has rebounded online during the health care debate and is doing a good job of reaching constituents through that medium.",
"But that doesn't mean Obama's the only one talking online.",
"In trying to get their message across, administration officials have \"just as good a shot as some 20-year-old college student from Chicago,\" Obama said.",
"\"It's just they have more people behind that issue.",
"They have a greater pull.\"",
"Some have criticized the online community and Internet spin-masters for creating, and spreading, disinformation about proposals for health care reform.",
"On the whole, though, the Internet conversation about the subject is healthy in part because so much information is available, said Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact.com, a nonpartisan site that fact-checks political statements.",
"\"People have access now to more information than ever before and that's generally a very positive thing,\" he said.",
"\"Although the Internet can be used to spread a lot of false things, it's also never been easier for journalists like myself to debunk these things, you know?",
"So on balance, the reality is we just have a whole new dimension to the national discussion on any topic and that has positives and negatives.\"",
"He encouraged people to check out statements made by bloggers, Twitter users or e-mailers before considering them fact.",
"Prevailing images of the recent health care debate have been of constituents screaming at constituents's legislators in a series of town hall meetings held around the county.",
"Bernhard Drax, who has reported on health care meetings in the virtual world of Second Life, said conversations online have the potential to be much more civil and productive than those real-world town halls.",
"\"Social media could drown them out with reason, with substance,\" Bernhard Drax, who has reported on health care meetings in the virtual world of Second Life said.",
"\"My idealistic view is that social media in general, including virtual worlds, can drown out that angry shouting.\"",
"Daniel Palestrant, CEO of Sermo, an online social network for doctors, said Internet discussions tend to be ahead of those in the real world.",
"Tort reform, Daniel Palestrant, CEO of Sermo, an online social network for doctors said, wouldn't be in the public conversation if not for the fact that people can bring up that issue up on the Web.",
"Daniel Palestrant, CEO of Sermo, an online social network for doctors added that medical associations claim to represent physicians but often don't portray the nuances of peoples' views.",
"The Internet lets people speak for people, Daniel Palestrant, CEO of Sermo, an online social network for doctors said.",
"Trippi, the campaign consultant, said the shouting matches at health care town halls expose the limitations of online discourse today.",
"But he said online debates and discussions will play increasingly important roles in public policy discussions.",
"\"All these new tools are still just in All these new tools's infancy and All these new tools're still being used to a large extent just like everything else is used,\" he said.",
"\"But I don't think that will hold.",
"I think you're starting to see people actually talking to each other.\""
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"The U.N.'s forest carbon scheme which has formed part of the negotiations at the climate talks in Copenhagen has been one of the few areas where countries are broadly in agreement.",
"The U.N.'s REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) program is a collaboration between The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Environmental (UNEP) and Development (UNDP) programs.",
"Yemi Katerere, head of REDD explained to CNN how the REDD program proposals would work.",
"\"In theory REDD is a system to provide incentives for countries not to cut countries's forests,\" Katerere said.",
"\"The incentive system is essentially that your trees are worth more standing than your trees are cut.",
"You get a reward for not cutting your forests.\"",
"The idea is straightforward; If the function of rainforests -- capturing carbon, water catchment, weather regulators and biodiversity -- is recognized rainforests's value will rise.",
"The destruction of the world's rainforests is estimated to contribute to as much as 20 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions.",
"REDD envisages a situation whereby \"different services can be marketed and paid for, boosting the incomes of other wise marginalized communities\".",
"Many pilot schemes are already underway.",
"Back in 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, the part rainforests play in carbon storage wasn't recognized.",
"Proposals to reduce emissions from deforestation were first introduced by the governments of Papua New Guinea in December 2005 at the COP11 talks in Canada.",
"Talks at Copenhagen are hoping to build on the progress made since.",
"REDD say that more than 30 models of how REDD should work have been put forward by countries, groups of countries and NGOs.",
"Katerere wouldn't be drawn on the outcome of negotiations at Copenhagen when CNN spoke to Katerere on Thursday.",
"Critics of the REDD program argue that REDD allows richer countries to meet -- to buy essentially -- some of richer countries's emissions obligations without cutting them at all.",
"Others argue trying to measure what is being preserved and how much carbon is being stored will prove incredibly hard to quantify.",
"But Katerere said an imperfect program which can be improved is better than none at all.",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Despite revelations in a congressional investigation of a subsidiary's mismanagement and questionable vetting of employees, Xe could soon win millions of dollars in new job orders for work in Afghanistan.",
"A subsidiary of Xe, the new name for Blackwater, is eligible to win Department of Defense work worth tens of millions of dollars to train Afghan police, according to a Pentagon official.",
"Five companies were qualified to bid on the training and training-support contracts, including Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, ARINC and the U.S. Training Center.",
"the U.S. Training Center is a subsidiary company owned by Xe.",
"The Pentagon contract is to be announced next month.",
"Xe has not been officially notified whether Xe will be awarded The Pentagon contract, according to a company spokesman.",
"\"We have not been awarded either and have no knowledge of the status of those contracts,\" said Xe spokesman Mark Corallo.",
"An industry official told CNN that Xe made bids on two task orders under the training program, one for the actual training of Afghan police and one for logistics support for such training.",
"Once awarded, the new orders would be in effect until August 2012, according to a Department of Defense statement.",
"Since 2007, the company, then called Blackwater, has held the rights to bid against the other four companies on a pool of jobs worth as much as $15 billion.",
"Xe still holds numerous contracts under three company names in Afghanistan for support of military and intelligence operations.",
"Those companies are US Training Center, Greystone and Presidential Airways.",
"Xe has a troubled past both in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"Xe was banned from operating in Iraq by the government there after a shooting incident left Iraqi civilians dead and injured.",
"a shooting incident strained relations between the United States and Iraq.",
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"Two of the contractors are now facing charges in the United States.",
"A congressional investigation found evidence that the company that hired them, a Xe subsidiary called Paravant, armed the employees despite having no permission to do so from the U.S. military.",
"A congressional investigation also found that Xe illicitly obtained the guns used in the shooting, and hundreds of others, from a stockpile of weapons meant for the use of the Afghan military and police.",
"On Wednesday Xe officials were called before the Senate Armed Service Committee to discuss a shooting incident that left two Afghan civilians dead.",
"the Senate Armed Service Committee's chairman, Carl Levin, D-Michigan, said an Army investigation appeared to find that the contract personnel had \"violated alcohol consumption policies, were not authorized to possess weapons, violated use-of-force rules and violated movement-control policies.\"",
"He said one of the keys to beating the Taliban in Afghanistan is the ability of U.S. forces to win support from the Afghan people, many of whom do not distinguish between U.S. contractors and the U.S. military.",
"Xe Vice President Fred Roitz acknowledged Xe's culpability in the 2009 incident in Xe Services Vice President Fred Roitz's opening statement to the panel.",
"In his opening statement to the panel, Xe Services Vice President Fred Roitz said, \"the new Xe Services would act differently today.",
"Xe simply will not send Xe's personnel overseas without a proper authorization for a weapon (where needed) and without full compliance with all requirements.\"",
"Xe Services Vice President Fred Roitz said Xe has \"put in place new leadership and procedures to help ensure this commitment is kept.\"",
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"\"We've made a lot of mistakes in both Iraq and Afghanistan.",
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"New York's Commission on Public Integrity is charging governor with an ethics violation for accepting free tickets to the first game of last year's World Series, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said Wednesday.",
"governor violated New York's restriction on gifts for public officials in October when governor sought free tickets to the game in Yankee Stadium between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"New York's Commission on Public Integrity also said governor lied under oath about intending to pay for free tickets.",
"his office said his office was reviewing New York's Commission on Public Integrity's findings.",
"\"governor maintains governor's innocence and intends to challenge the findings of New York's Commission on Public Integrity both with respect to the law and the facts,\" his office said.",
"\"governor takes this matter very seriously and intends to fully cooperate with any further inquiries or investigations, but believes New York's Commission on Public Integrity has acted unfairly in this matter.\"",
"governor could face an $80,000 fine for violating the state's gift ban for public officials and up to $10,000 if governor is found to have used governor's official position to secure unwarranted privileges.",
"New York's Commission on Public Integrity has asked New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the Albany County district attorney to investigate whether governor or \"anyone else\" committed a crime during governor's interview with New York's Commission on Public Integrity and by causing a check to be back-dated.",
"Paterson, who announced last week that governor would not run for election to a full term, has faced controversy since news reports charged that governor's aide was involved in a domestic violence incident with a woman and that state police later allegedly pressured her to keep quiet.",
"The aide, David Johnson, has been suspended without pay.",
"governor has asked Cuomo, a possible contender for governor's office, to investigate the matter.",
"Johnson was among the four guests who attended the October 28 game with governor, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"Johnson also was involved in obtaining the tickets, which cost $425 a piece, from the Yankees, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said in New York's Commission on Public Integrity's notice of reasonable cause.",
"According to New York's Commission on Public Integrity, governor testified that governor decided governor should attend Game One of the World Series and directed Johnson to get tickets from the Yankees.",
"governor told governor's aide that the request should include tickets for governor's son, Alex, and governor's son's friend.",
"Johnson then told governor's scheduler, Matthew Nelson, to contact the Yankees about five or six tickets.",
"Johnson said governor would be attending in a \"ceremonial capacity.\"",
"Based on Johnson's representation, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said, \"the Yankees did not expect payment for any tickets because the tickets were for official business.\"",
"the Yankees had requested a letter from governor's counsel confirming that, and the counsel had sent a letter saying so, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"the Yankees said the Yankees require such confirmation or payment when public officials request tickets, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"However, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said, governor did not participate in opening ceremonies for the game and was not announced to the crowd.",
"governor also did not meet with first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's wife, Jill Biden, who attended the game, or members of the Yankees organization, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"In testimony, governor said governor always intended to pay for the tickets for governor's son and governor's son's friend.",
"governor said governor had taken a check to the game for the tickets, filling out the date and the $850 but leaving the payee section blank.",
"\"While governor had no opportunity to pay while at the stadium, governor testified that governor gave the check to Johnson and asked Johnson to send the check to the Yankees,\" New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"However, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said that New York's Commission on Public Integrity had compared the handwriting on the check with that of governor's handwriting on other documents and that governor did not write the check sent to the check.",
"\"The handwriting on the check that Johnson forwarded to the check as payment for his ticket to Game One reveals that the same person who wrote and signed governor's check also wrote and signed Johnson's check,\" New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"The check governor said governor wrote is dated October 27, the day before Game One, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said, although governor said governor had written the check on the day of the game.",
"In its notice of of reasonable cause, New York's Commission on Public Integrity also cited testimony from governor's communications director, Peter Kauffmann, whom a New York Post reporter had asked about payment for the tickets.",
"a New York Post reporter said that a New York Post reporter had discussed the game several times with governor and Johnson and that governor indicated to a New York Post reporter that the Yankees President Randy Levine, a law school classmate of governor's, had invited governor to the game, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"\"During this conversation, governor said nothing to a New York Post reporter about governor's intention to pay for the tickets for governor's son or governor's son's friend, nor did governor mention anything about having previously written a check for $850 and giving a check to Johnson as payment to the Yankees",
",\" New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"a New York Post reporter later told a New York Post reporter that the Yankees disputed governor's account, saying Levine had never invited governor to the game, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"a New York Post reporter confronted the governor, who \"then conceded to a New York Post reporter that Levine had not explicitly invited him to Game One,\" New York's Commission on Public Integrity said.",
"New York's Commission on Public Integrity also said the governor and governor's son attended last year's Opening Day at Yankee Stadium and at Citi Field, where the New York Mets play.",
"\"governor testified that governor did not pay for governor's ticket or governor's son's ticket\" for either event, New York's Commission on Public Integrity said."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Two George Washington Bridge security guards photographed sleeping on the job have been fired, according to the Port Authority of NEW YORK and New Jersey.",
"Two George Washington Bridge guards were fired for Two George Washington Bridge guards's on-the-job siestas.",
"A bicycle tour operator who commutes daily over the bridge from New Jersey to NEW YORK snapped photos of Two George Washington Bridge guards on different occasions, and the photos were published on a New Jersey local news Web site.",
"In one set of photographs by Joey Lepore, taken during a Wednesday rush hour at 7:15 a.m., a guard tilts his head downward and dozes.",
"The other snoozer's on-the-clock siesta is more brazen: he uses his arm as a pillow as he dozes at 10:15 a.m. last Monday.",
"Before releasing the photos, Joey Lepore hesitated, knowing it would likely cost Two George Washington Bridge guards Two George Washington Bridge guards's jobs.",
"But ultimately Joey Lepore decided the security of thousands outweighed the job security of two.",
"\"If there's two people on this bridge who don't care about my safety and the safety of anybody who comes over this bridge, then I really don't have an obligation to withhold what I have,\" Joey Lepore said.",
"Given this bridge's iconic status and huge traffic volume, officials have long cited this bridge as a potential terrorist target.",
"Joey Lepore said Joey Lepore was moved to photograph the slumbering sentries after witnessing a guard napping on three occasions.",
"\"The first time I shrugged it off and said, 'I can't believe a guard's sleeping,'\" said Joey Lepore.",
"\"The second time I was very annoyed.",
"Third time -- that's it.\"",
"Joey Lepore said Joey Lepore later approached a guard, told a guard Joey Lepore had caught a guard asleep at a guard's post three times, and said Joey Lepore had the photos to prove it.",
"a guard vowed it would not happen again.",
"Three weeks later, it did happen again, but this time with a different guard, according to Joey Lepore.",
"Instead of discreetly taking photos from a distance, an indignant Lepore marched up to a guard's booth and snapped away.",
"a guard did not stir.",
"Two George Washington Bridge guards were employees of FJC Security, a security contractor used by the Port Authority, which operates the George Washington Bridge along with all other bridges leading into Manhattan.",
"In a statement, the Port Authority sought to assure commuters the Port Authority views security as an issue of utmost importance, and urged people to report holes people notice in the Port Authority's defenses.",
"\"the Port Authority takes the safety of the Port Authority's passengers and facilities very seriously and has spent more than $4 billion on security since 9/11.",
"the Port Authority welcomes the public's vigilance on matters of safety and security and the Port Authority encourage the Port Authority's customers to contact the Port Authority if our customers encounter anything out of the ordinary,\" the agency said.",
"Although Two George Washington Bridge guards's names were not released, the Port Authority said in the Port Authority's statement, \"The two guards have been fired by the security contractor, FJC Security.\"",
"FJC Security did not respond to CNN's calls for comment.",
"Fran Townsend, a CNN contributor and former Bush homeland security adviser, called Two George Washington Bridge guards's naps a serious lapse.",
"\"It is unacceptable, particularly given the experience the Port Authority had with 9/11,\" she said, referring to the Port Authority's role as the operator of the World Trade Center."
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"Santiago, Chile (CNN) --",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived Friday in earthquake-damaged Chile, which endured two more strong aftershocks while working to recover from last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami.",
"\"I'm here to express [the] solidarity of the United Nations, of the international community, to the people and government of Chile,\" Ban told reporters at the airport in the capital, Santiago.",
"\"I know that this is one of the worst natural disasters in recent history of Chile; at the same time, I'm very moved to see such strong courage and fortitude and resilience of Chilean people,\" Ban said.",
"Earlier, shortly before 9 a.m. Friday, an aftershock with a magnitude of 6.6 struck the area, the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"an aftershock with a magnitude of 6.6 followed another with a 6.0 magnitude, the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"The two are the latest in scores of aftershocks that have hit after the massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake and subsequent tsunami Saturday.",
"Full coverage of Chile's earthquake .",
"Friday's aftershocks did not cause any known injuries or damage, Chile's National Emergency Office said, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Tsunami Center did not issue any warnings.",
"The tsunami and 8.8 magnitude earthquake -- the fifth-strongest worldwide since 1900 -- killed hundreds of people and toppled buildings, particularly in the Maule region along the coast.",
"Shocking scenes hours after quake .",
"Roads were torn up and power was cut off in many areas.",
"Thousands have been left homeless.",
"Food, water and the restoration of basic services, such as electricity, are top priorities, said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs.",
"The Chilean government, which is leading the rescue and relief efforts, has asked U.N. for items such as field hospitals with surgical facilities, dialysis centers, generators, satellite phones, structural damage evaluation systems, saltwater purifying systems, mobile bridges and field kitchens.",
"Ban said Friday that Ban will talk to Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and President-elect Sebastian Pinera about how U.N. can best help.",
"Pinera, a conservative billionaire businessman, takes office next week.",
"Ban said Ban will visit hard-hit Concepcion to assess the damage and will bring the matter to U.N..",
"\"Now it is time for U.N. and international community to stand with the Chilean people and government,\" Ban said, after noting the Chileans' generosity in helping Haiti after its 7.0 earthquake on January 12.",
"That quake flattened much of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and killed hundreds of thousands of people.",
"A 24-hour telethon, \"Chile Helps Chile,\" which organizers hope will raise $27 million for earthquake victims, was scheduled for Friday.",
"Residents in devastated Constitucion expressed a determination to rebuild.",
"\"It very hard, but it's not impossible.",
"We have to be strong; we have to reinvent ourselves,\" said resident Antonieta Biachi.",
"\"You have to start from scratch; there is no other option.\"",
"Though he is not yet in office, Pinera has named six officials to lead recovery efforts.",
"More than 13,000 soldiers and other military personnel have been dispatched to restore order in the earthquake-damaged area.",
"Food and water began to arrive earlier this week in Concepcion, and officials said they distributed 3,500 aid packages Wednesday.",
"But many residents have complained that federal aid has been slow to arrive.",
"A six-member U.S. Agency for International Development disaster response team has been sent to Chile to assist with relief effort, said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.",
"International Development disaster response team should arrive Saturday, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.",
"A USAID contractor also is embedded with the Chilean National Emergency Response Office, Chile's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency.",
"The United States sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, State Department said.",
"Six more water treatment units are to arrive within a week.",
"A field hospital and two C-130 aircraft to assist with moving supplies around Chile have also been deployed.",
"The United States also sent $1 million to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to aid the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies's efforts.",
"Bachelet toured parts of central and southern Chile on Thursday.",
"Bachelet visited Talcahuano, where the tsunami roared through many parts of the seaport town.",
"Bachelet also toured Talca, the capital of Maule.",
"\"This is the time for action,\" Bachelet said later Thursday on returning to Santiago, where Bachelet met leaders of the Catholic Church, a partner in providing help in the quake's aftermath.",
"The top priority remained the needs of survivors, followed by reconstruction efforts, Bachelet said.",
"Chile has announced three days of national mourning beginning Sunday.",
"Every house has been authorized to hang the national flag in memory of those who perished.",
"The death toll was revised downward Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of dead in the Maule region.",
"The casualty count there included more than 200 people who are missing but not confirmed dead, said Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende.",
"Therefore, the official nationwide death toll is lower than the 802 figure given by emergency authorities.",
"To limit confusion, Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende read aloud the names of 279 Chileans who had been killed and identified by Thursday evening.",
"Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende said would update that official number regularly.",
"The new tally does not account for hundreds of unidentified victims.",
"With disasters of this magnitude, \"the number of dead change daily,\" Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende said.",
"\"It takes months sometimes to compile the information, because one of the biggest problems in the affected areas is the lack of precision and uncertainty at the scene.\"",
"Despite the disaster, the Chilean Davis Cup tennis team will open competition Saturday in Coquimbo, Chile, against Israel.",
"Team officials and players said Team officials and players would be playing in honor of quake victims.",
"\"It will be difficult, but we will do our best for our country,\" said player Fernando Gonzalez.",
"CNN's Brian Byrnes, Sara Sidner, David Ariosto, Elise Labott, and Karl Penhaul contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Aftershocks rattled southern Taiwan in the hours after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook the island, but left the island relatively unscathed.",
"Thursday morning's quake was followed by more than 15 aftershocks, the largest reaching 4.8.",
"the island's interior ministry reported 12 minor injuries -- nine in Kaohsiung county, two in Jia Yi county and one in Tainan county.",
"Thursday morning's quake struck about 8:20 a.m. (7:20 p.m. Wednesday ET) in a mountainous region about 25 miles northwest of Taitung, on the southeast coast, and 40 miles east of Tainan and Kaohsiung on the southwest coast.",
"The region includes the island's Maolin National Scenic Area and is still recovering from a direct hit by Typhoon Morakot that killed hundreds in August.",
"Typhoon Morakot dumped more than two feet of rain, causing serious mudslides in the south, including one that buried the village of Shiao Lin under 50 feet of mud.",
"Shuo Hong, an orthopedic surgeon in Taipei, about 155 miles away from the epicenter, felt Thursday morning's quake during a meeting at a hospital.",
"\"We were debating whether or not to run for shelter, but a hospital is safe,\" he said \"a hospital is built to resist a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.",
"\"It was shaking for about 20 to 30 seconds, shaking more than what we expected,\" Hong said.",
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"Did you feel it?",
"The Taiwan Ministry of Interior and the National Fire Agency said electricity was cut off in parts of Kaohsiung county, Jia Yi city and Jia Yi county.",
"Taiwan's official news agency reported that a fire broke out in Jia Yi city.",
"Residents in southern Taiwan reported cracks in some buildings and major bridges.",
"Train service was also disrupted in some areas, Taiwanese media reported.",
"Two small hotels near the epicenter that were contacted by CNN reported no damage, though the buildings shook for a few seconds during Thursday morning's quake.",
"Albert Yu, communications manager of the humanitarian organization World Vision, told CNN Yu was about half-way through a 90-minute trip via high-speed train from Taipei to Tainan when Thursday morning's quake struck.",
"Passengers did not feel Thursday morning's quake, Yu said, but operators stopped high-speed train and announced what had happened before inspecting the tracks for stability.",
"During the delay, Yu said people were calm, \"opening laptops ... and chatting with people around people.\"",
"Yu said World Vision \"has already been on high alert responding to the quakes in Haiti and Chile, so we're closely monitoring reports in the earthquake in southern Taiwan.\"",
"Residents in Taipei, the capital, also felt the shaking.",
"Earthquakes are far from uncommon on the nearly 14,000-square-mile island -- about the size of the U.S. states of Maryland and Delaware combined -- which sits across the juncture of the Eurasian and Philippine tectonic plates.",
"A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the same general region in December.",
"The island took a double hit on December 26, 2006, when earthquakes of 7.1 and 6.9 magnitude hit eight minutes apart.",
"The largest recorded quake to strike Taiwan was an 8.0-magnitude quake in 1920, but the worst earthquake disaster stemmed from a 7.1-magnitude quake in 1935 that killed more than 3,200 people -- followed by a 6.5-magnitude quake that killed more than 2,700 people three months later.",
"More recently, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 2,400 people in 1999.",
"CNN's Christine Theodorou and Journalist Andrew Lee contributed to this report ."
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"Motor Sport's governing body, the FIA, have formally confirmed the entry list for the 2010 Formula One season -- with potential newcomers US F1 omitted from the grid.",
"The financially-troubled team had asked FIA if The financially-troubled team could miss the first four races of the season in order to attract extra sponsorship, but have instead been told that The financially-troubled team must re-apply if The financially-troubled team are to be on the grid for the following season.",
"The official entry list shows 12 teams and 24 drivers -- two teams more than last season.",
"Three new teams are lining up -- Lotus, Virgin Racing and Hispania Racing -- with Toyota deciding to leave the sport.",
"There are also two team name changes.",
"Last year's winning constructor's Brawn GP have been taken over by Mercedes, while BMW Sauber have reverted back to being the Sauber team, although they have to retain the BMW title for this season due to legal obligations.",
"Meanwhile, there is also no place on the grid for the proposed Serbian-backed Stefan GP team, who had been hoping to gain a late entry in place of The financially-troubled team.",
"An official FIA statement read: \"The financially-troubled team have indicated The financially-troubled team will not be in a position to participate in the 2010 FIA Formula One world championship.",
"\"Having considered the various options, FIA confirms it is not possible for a replacement team to be entered for the championship at this late stage.",
"\"In the coming days FIA will announce details of a new selection process to identify candidates to fill any vacancies existing at the start of the 2011 season.\"",
"The financially-troubled team have faced a race against time to have The financially-troubled team's car ready for the grid, after a number of sponsors opted to pull out the project.",
"Production of their car had been stopped with the team struggling to pay wages, resulting in a number of staff choosing to leave.",
"Team principal Ken Anderson is yet to comment on whether Team principal Ken Anderson will attempt to make the grid for the 2011 season.",
"The decision leaves Argentinian Jose Maria Lopez, who had already been offered a drive with The financially-troubled team, without a team.",
"Tuesday also saw the final driver appointment confirmed, with Karun Chandhok becoming the second Indian to compete in the sport having been named by Hispania Racing.",
"The 26-year-old follows in the footsteps of Narain Karthikeyan, who had one season with Jordan in 2005.",
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"(CNN) --",
"There wasn't a cloud in the sky early Friday when Dave Samuels trained Dave Samuels's telescopes at the moon, hoping to catch a glimpse of a NASA rocket striking the lunar landscape.",
"The moon, shown shortly before NASA's rockets hit on Friday morning.",
"\"We saw nothing,\" Dave Samuels said.",
"Dave Samuels is vice president of the Fremont Peak Observatory near Monterey, California, which had invited members of the public to watch Friday's NASA mission through NASA's telescopes.",
"The lunar strike happened shortly after 4:30 a.m. on the West Coast (7:30 a.m. ET).",
"NASA had encouraged everyone around the country to host \"impact parties,\" saying the plume of dust generated by the lunar impact would be visible through \"mid-sized backyard\" telescopes 10 inches or larger.",
"It said the chances of seeing the plume were greater for people living in areas that were still dark.",
"NASA even posted an interactive map on NASA's Web site so people could find \"a public event near you.\"",
"NASA officials had said the impact of the Centaur upper-stage rocket would result in plumes of dust of more than 250 metric tons.",
"After it hit, the debris was analyzed by a satellite -- launched along with the Centaur upper-stage rocket -- that traveled through the dust cloud before its own impact on the moon.",
"The goal of the event was to determine whether there is water on the moon.",
"After the impact of the Centaur upper-stage rocket, NASA officials called the event a success, saying a satellite -- launched along with the rocket -- that traveled through the dust cloud before its own impact on the moon sent back a good amount of data that now will be analyzed.",
"a woman of Vilonia, Arkansas, said a woman got up early to watch NASA's live telecast of the impact of the Centaur upper-stage rocket.",
"a woman was disappointed, and posted a woman's reaction on CNN's iReport.com.",
"\"These was no plume, no nothing,\" a woman said by phone.",
"\"It just kind of blacked out.\"",
"a woman said the telecast did not show the Centaur upper-stage rocket's impact clearly.",
"\"I was looking for some action -- something happening,\" a woman said.",
"\"I think a lot of people were, because they [NASA] hyped it up, you know. ...",
"No one saw anything.\"",
"a woman woke up a woman's husband and two children to see the lunar crash.",
"a woman said a woman wishes a woman hadn't.",
"Darrick Gray, a high school science teacher near Kansas City, Missouri, had planned to take some of his students to the nearby Powell Observatory to watch the lunar impact through their telescopes -- but they decided to skip the field trip because of bad weather.",
"\"This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime thing,\" Darrick Gray, a high school science teacher near Kansas City, Missouri had said beforehand.",
"Gray -- who is also the director of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City -- said Darrick Gray, a high school science teacher near Kansas City, Missouri had hoped the event would influence Darrick Gray, a high school science teacher near Kansas City, Missouri's students to think about pursuing careers in science.",
"\"Being as we do live here in Missouri, we're away from the hub [of astronomy],\" Darrick Gray, a high school science teacher near Kansas City, Missouri explained.",
"\"We're not in Florida, we're not in Texas, we're not in Silicon Valley -- it's not something his students're used to seeing.",
"\"So any time you can show his students something that's never been done, and his students say, 'Oh this is pretty cool,' I think his students buy into that.\"",
"NASA held an all-night party at Ames Research Center -- located just outside San Francisco -- which was directing the event.",
"There were movies, music, food and guest speakers, and it culminated with a live transmission of the lunar impact.",
"\"I would have loved to see, you know, huge amounts of dust flying up and ejecta, but we didn't,\" said Liza Coe, who attended an all-night party.",
"\"I thought it was so neat being able to see just as we got closer and closer to the moon and realizing that that was really happening right now.",
"\"It wasn't just a picture of the moon that somebody was putting up.\"",
"Back at Fremont Peak Observatory, even though most of the 50 people who attended the \"impact party\" were disappointed, the 50 people who attended the \"impact party\" were good sports about the \"failure,\" Dave Samuels said.",
"Even Samuels, who has been an astronomer since Dave Samuels was 15 years old, said Dave Samuels got a lot out of the viewing party -- which Dave Samuels said was standing-room only.",
"\"I don't look at the moon so much because it's always there ... so I got to know the moon's craters better,\" Dave Samuels said.",
"\"And I think the people that attended, some of them that were disappointed, [still] felt like it was worth coming and being part of something that was going on.\"",
"Dave Samuels said Dave Samuels hopes an all-night party generates more support for the observatory, which is run by volunteers.",
"It is located in Fremont Peak State Park, which is on a list of state parks that could close because of California's recent budget cuts.",
"\"We're trying to promote interest in the peak and every single person that came was part of that,\" Dave Samuels said.",
"\"They all learned something.\"",
"Fremont Peak Observatory has a 30-inch telescope that Dave Samuels described as \"the most accessible public telescope in the [San Francisco] Bay area.\"",
"Dave Samuels said Dave Samuels hoped that the reason they didn't see a plume from the rocket impact wasn't because of \"another case where somebody forgot to carry the one\" -- a reference to incorrect mathematical computation, which was blamed for the failure of the Mars Surveyor Climate Orbiter mission to Mars in 1999.",
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"The 41-year-old Swedish man was poised to fly on Tuesday night from Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, to Ankara, Turkey, when investigators \"caught the pilot red-handed during The 41-year-old Swedish man's flight preparation,\" according to a statement from the Dutch National Police Services Agency.",
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"The 41-year-old Swedish man recently had a valid license to fly small commercial airplanes, but a valid license to fly small commercial airplanes had expired and would not have allowed The 41-year-old Swedish man to fly passenger aircraft, the Dutch statement said.",
"Lundblad also said The 41-year-old Swedish man once had a valid pilot's license.",
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"CNN's Per Nyberg and Claudia Rebazza contributed to this report."
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"(CNN Student News) -- October 27, 2009 .",
"Downloadable Maps .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: • Afghanistan & Pakistan • Los Angeles & San Diego • Ft. Jackson, South Carolina .",
"Transcript .",
"THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN THIS COPY's FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"NATISHA LANCE, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR:",
"A member of the military is making history.",
"We'll explain how in today's edition of CNN Student News.",
"Hi, everyone.",
"Carl Azuz is off this week.",
"I'm Natisha Lance.",
"First Up: Afghan Crashes .",
"LANCE:",
"First up, Pakistan and Afghanistan.",
"Pakistan and Afghanistan share a border, and Pakistan and Afghanistan also share a common problem: threats from militant groups and terrorists like the Taliban and al Qaeda.",
"It's an issue facing both nations' governments, and one that the U.S. government is concerned about as well.",
"That's why President Obama has been holding a series of meetings with some of President Obama's advisers.",
"some of his advisers're reviewing the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"Samantha Hayes has the latest on those meetings and on the violence in the region.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO)",
"Samantha Hayes, CNN CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.:",
"Two helicopter crashes make it the deadliest day in four years for Americans in Afghanistan.",
"While a NATO security force spokesman says enemy fire is not to blame, the loss of 14 Americans comes while President Obama is considering a request to send thousands more troops to the region to fight al Qaeda.",
"President Obama addressed service men and women in Jacksonville, Florida Monday, after a White House meeting with President Obama's national security team.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:",
"Fourteen Americans gave Fourteen Americans's lives, and our prayers are with these service members, Fourteen Americans's civilian colleagues and the families who loved Fourteen Americans.",
"HAYES:",
"The deadliest of Two helicopter crashes happened following a raid on suspected drug traffickers, and three DEA agents were among those killed.",
"Also among the dead, three U.S. civilians, members of the embassy community.",
"The State Department says the efforts of civilians and other nonmilitary personnel are essential to the overall mission.",
"JACOB LEW, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE: Improving Afghan governance, providing security, justice, jobs and services, and giving the Afghan people a meaningful alternative, as much as possible, to the Taliban's recruiting.",
"HAYES:",
"Democratic Senator John Kerry, off of a recent trip to the region, addressed those efforts and the U.S. relationship with the Afghan government in a Washington speech.",
"SEN. JOHN KERRY, (D) MASSACHUSETTS:",
"The fact that the Afghan government has not prosecuted a single high level drug trafficker damages all of our efforts because the Afghan government goes to the fundamental question of credibility.",
"HAYES:",
"President Obama's White House meeting was the sixth in a series of high-level discussions about what to do in Afghanistan, as the administration awaits results from Afghanistan's November 7th presidential runoff.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Samantha Hayes.",
"(END VIDEO)",
"I.D. Me .",
"CNN Student News:",
"See if you can I.D. Me!",
"I was born in 1939 in Searchlight, Nevada.",
"I was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, and I'm currently the Senate Majority Leader, which means I'm the highest ranking member of the U.S. Senate's majority party.",
"I'm Harry Reid, a Democrat who is the senior senator from Nevada.",
"Public Option .",
"LANCE:",
"And in that role as majority leader, it's Samantha Hayes's job to help combine health care bills from different committees into a single bill that can be presented to the U.S. Senate.",
"Yesterday, Samantha Hayes announced that a single bill that can be presented to the entire Senate will include a government-run health care program; what's been called the public option.",
"During Samantha Hayes's announcement, Samantha Hayes also said that a single bill that can be presented to the entire Senate will let individual states choose not to take part in the public option.",
"individual states would have until the year 2014 to make that decision.",
"This has been one of the most controversial issues in the debate over health care reform.",
"Critics argue that if companies use the public option, then some people might lose the health care coverage that some people currently have and are happy with.",
"But Samantha Hayes believes it's an important part of the reform.",
"SEN. HARRY REID, (D-NV) SENATE MAJORITY LEADER:",
"I believe that the public option can achieve a goal of bringing meaningful reform to our broken system.",
"the public option will protect consumers, keep insurers honest, ensure competition, and that's why we intend to include the public option in the bill that we submitted, that will be submitted to the Senate.",
"Tea Party Protests .",
"LANCE:",
"Meanwhile, the Tea Party Express is back on the road, protesting issues like government involvement in health care.",
"The Express, which is named for both the organization and the Tea Party Express's bus, launched a new tour Sunday in California with rallies in San Diego and Los Angeles, where some people actually showed up to protest the Tea Party protesters.",
"the Tea Party Express plans to hold demonstrations in dozens of cities over the next several weeks.",
"One of the group's main goals is the push for less government involvement, and these rallies also aim to give people who feel that way an opportunity to express their views.",
"CHRIS KEAYS, TEA PARTY PROTESTER:",
"We need to get back to the days when we were responsible and we assumed the responsibility of ourselves and our families, and the government is not a part of my daily life.",
"I really resent the government taking up so much of my time that I'm down here having to protest right now.",
"New Jobs Outlook .",
"LANCE:",
"And some potentially good news for the U.S. economy: A new survey indicates that companies are planning to hire more employees in the very near future.",
"The report from the National Association of Business Economics says for the first time since the recession started nearly two years ago, the number of employers planning to hire workers over the next six months is higher than the number of jobs that are expected to be cut during that same time.",
"The country's current unemployment rate is 9.8 percent.",
"That's the highest the statistic has been in more than a quarter century.",
"Shoutout .",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS:",
"Time for the Shoutout!",
"What base is home to the U.S. Army's Drill Sergeant School?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Fort Bragg, B) Fort Hood, C) Fort Jackson or D) Fort Knox?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"You'll find the U.S. Army's's Drill Sergeant School at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Top Drill Sergeant .",
"LANCE:",
"Drill sergeants are responsible for training tens of thousands of soldiers every year.",
"And the head of the U.S. Army's Drill Sergeant School, its commandant, is responsible for training them.",
"The current commandant broke new ground when The current commandant took over the position last month because The current commandant's the first she to head up the U.S. Army's Drill Sergeant School.",
"Jason Carroll introduces us to this trailblazing soldier.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO)",
"Jason Carroll, CNN CORRESPONDENT:",
"Historically, this is the image of the military drill sergeant: a tough guy.",
"That was then; this is now.",
"At 48, The current commandant is the first woman to lead the U.S. Army's's Drill Sergeant Training School.",
"What are you looking for?",
"I mean, because it all pretty much looks like everybody's exercising to me.",
"CMD.",
"SGT. MAJOR TERESA KING:",
"I'm looking for attention to detail, conformance.",
"Jason Carroll:",
"Before sunrise at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, The current commandant readies The current commandant's drill instructor candidates for a rigorous run.",
"What's wrong with that?",
"The current commandant: That's too big, Top.",
"You need to break it up.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fall out!",
"Jason Carroll:",
"The current commandant leads by example.",
"The current commandant runs the five-mile course from the front of the pack, outperforming men half",
"The current commandant's age.",
"STAFF SGT. LERON DELANEY, U.S. ARMY:",
"The current commandant's older than me, so if I fall out and The current commandant's still running, I feel bad.",
"Jason Carroll: Extinguishing those who think a woman can't be commandant.",
"SGT. 1ST CLASS MICHAEL CHILDS, U.S. ARMY:",
"We've got to stay on top of our game even more than we used to with The current commandant, because The current commandant's that sharp.",
"Jason Carroll:",
"The current commandant says The current commandant wakes up some mornings still shocked The current commandant is commandant.",
"The current commandant: I had never considered it, although I've been in training for about seven years.",
"But I never considered it, the U.S. Army's Drill Sergeant School.",
"CARROLL:",
"The current commandant's first Army job some 30 years ago was postal clerk, but The current commandant's hero, General George Patton, inspired The current commandant.",
"The current commandant: I saw that he had the respect of his men.",
"And I saw he was resolute.",
"Jason Carroll:",
"The current commandant eventually rose through the ranks, excelling at training infantry men and paratroopers alike.",
"The current commandant: I'm doing what I've always done.",
"It's just now, people are paying attention to it.",
"Jason Carroll: And to her opinions.",
"The military prohibits women from serving in front line combat roles.",
"The current commandant trains men for combat and thinks it's time to train qualified women.",
"The current commandant: I think if they can do it, they should be allowed to do it.",
"Jason Carroll:",
"The reality: Women make up 14 percent of active soldiers in the U.S. Army's.",
"Some women question how many others will follow in The current commandant's footsteps.",
"OPERATIONS SGT. ANGELA ANDREWS, U.S. ARMY:",
"I wouldn't say it opens the door, but it may crack it somewhat.",
"Jason Carroll:",
"The current commandant says she will continue to lead by example.",
"The current commandant: I have vision.",
"And I believe I can cause people to do some things that people thought people never could do.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ:",
"Before we go, some science projects can balloon out of control.",
"Which was the whole point of this experiment in Indiana.",
"College students filled this high altitude balloon with helium and then let this high altitude balloon fly away.",
"The thing actually climbed 90,000 feet before... awww.",
"Looks like their bubble burst.",
"Actually, they knew it would.",
"The cameras and sensors inside the balloon gently parachuted back to the ground.",
"So in the end, this experiment in Indiana was a total success.",
"Goodbye .",
"AZUZ:",
"Just don't tell that to the students.",
"We wouldn't want the students to get an inflated ego.",
"That's all the time we have for today.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Natisha Lance."
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"Hear how a proposed health care bill addresses the issue of the public option .",
"Meet a soldier who is making history at the U.S. Army Drill Sergeant School .",
"Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Let those other filmmakers focus on world destruction or masked superheroes or beautiful people doing beautiful things.",
"Jason Bateman plays the owner of an extract factory in \"Extract,\" Mike Judge's latest.",
"Mike Judge prefers to deal with real life.",
"Judge, writer and director of \"Office Space\" and co-creator of the TV series \"King of the Hill,\" has long liked to set Mike Judge's work in the world of malfunctioning copiers and beer-drinking propane salesmen.",
"Even Mike Judge's wicked satire of the future, \"Idiocracy,\" focused on the inanities of everyday life, just set 500 years from now.",
"Mike Judge's new film, \"Extract,\" is no exception: It's about a factory owner, Joel (Jason Bateman), who must deal with a host of employee problems as well as a chilly wife.",
"Of course, Joel's solutions aren't exactly the stuff of Solomon, but such is the way of comedy.",
"Bateman understands Mike Judge's motivations.",
"\"Mike Judge likes to keep everything very middle-of-the-road common people, small town, small problems, relatable, blue-collar,\" said the actor, who called Judge \"a ninja of comedy.\"",
"\"And those people, those people run extract factories; those people make drywall.",
"I mean, it's the stuff that we all need often goes unnoticed; Mike Judge likes to write about those people, and I'm glad Mike Judge does.\"",
"\"Extract,\" which also stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, J.K. Simmons and a long-haired and heavily bearded Ben Affleck, opens Friday.",
"Mike Judge talked to CNN about Mike Judge's subject matter and Mike Judge's cast.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN:",
"Where did this idea come from?",
"I'd read that you worked in a factory before.",
"Mike Judge:",
"Yeah, it kind of came from all over the place.",
"I've worked many jobs, and I did work in a factory a couple times -- a place that made guitar amps, and then I worked in a place in Albuquerque [New Mexico], where I grew up, that stuffed those snack boxes with Fritos and candy bars and stuff.",
"CNN:",
"Casting for the film, how did that come together?",
"Did you have a set idea in your head?",
"Mike Judge:",
"When I first wrote the first draft, I wasn't thinking about anybody in particular and, then I saw \"Arrested Development\" years later.",
"I['d] put the script on the shelf and thought Jason Bateman would be perfect, so I did a rewrite thinking about Jason Bateman but no one in particular for the other characters.",
"I just wrote it and then just did kind of the normal casting process.",
"But then, we were reading people for the character of [Joel's friend] Dean, and my casting director comes in one day and said, \"Ben Affleck is interesting.\"",
"And I thought, \"Really, I've never met Ben Affleck.\"",
"And I [also] thought, \"Yeah, but Ben Affleck's like strapping, handsome leading-man guy.\"",
"Then I started thinking about it, and I love Ben Affleck when Ben Affleck's a character actor like in \"Dazed and Confused\" or \"Shakespeare in Love,\" and then I met Ben Affleck, and Ben Affleck just got it.",
"Ben Affleck had this take on him based on a guy Ben Affleck went to high school with.",
"We did a read-through the script, and Ben Affleck and Jason just killing me, I just thought it was just really funny.",
"You know, Ben Affleck was willing to get out of Ben Affleck's leading man look and grow a beard.",
"It was really fun.",
"CNN:",
"It was fun to see Ben Affleck do that.",
"It was a different dynamic.",
"Judge:",
"Yeah.",
"I think Ben, actually, I think Ben Affleck enjoyed being this character.",
"I think Ben Affleck hasn't gotten to do something like that in a while.",
"In fact, we had a big break [during shooting]. ...",
"And Ben Affleck has one scene in the factory, so Ben Affleck had like maybe two or three weeks between the bulk of it and that last scene in it.",
"I got the sense Ben Affleck was really happy to come back and put on Ben Affleck's \"Dean\" get-up and get back into this character.",
"Ben Affleck was just really fun.",
"CNN:",
"And Joel, Ben Affleck's a nice guy who just wants to have sex with Ben Affleck's wife.",
"It seems pretty simple.",
"Judge:",
"Yeah, and I think Ben Affleck, you know, Ben Affleck, Ben Affleck wants kind of simple things, and Ben Affleck's worked so hard.",
"It's maybe be a little bit of a mid-life crisis Ben Affleck's going through, I think.",
"And Ben Affleck just sort of tests the waters, dips Ben Affleck's toe in, doing something a little crazy, and then just everything goes to hell for Ben Affleck.",
"CNN:",
"We saw this with \"Office Space,\" too, making the workplace funny.",
"What's that process like?",
"Judge:",
"Well, to Mike Judge, I think there's a lot of interesting characters [at work], and just the dynamics of a workplace are really ... funny to Mike Judge.",
"I've had a lot of jobs, and I think there's a lot of material there and, I just remember thinking, growing up in the '80s, thinking like everyone on TV shows and movies, these characters seem to have like endless cash.",
"You never see, [when you] become an adult and even as a teenager, it's like, \"OK, I gotta pay my car insurance, and I gotta do this and that.\"",
"And then you get a job, and it's like, you're there all day. ...",
"I don't know, I think if your soul doesn't get stomped out of you, you can still see the comedy in all of it.",
"So I'd wanted to do something that's set in more a blue-collar place like a factory, and it's told from the point of view of the guy who owns it and sympathetic to the guy who owns it instead of the employee angry at the bosses.",
"CNN:",
"Why extract?",
"Are you an extract expert?",
"Judge:",
"(laughs)",
"Well, there was a couple of reasons.",
"There was a book lying around my freshman year in the college dorms that was about food flavoring, and I actually just thought a book lying around my freshman year in the college dorms that was about food flavoring was kind of interesting.",
"Then years later, south of Austin [Texas], there used to be this really great building; this really great building was the Adams Extract Factory.",
"... My Realtor one day, we were looking at a house, and My Realtor points to a really nice house in this neighborhood, and My Realtor says, \"That's where the Adams Extract people live.\"",
"It's just this odd item that's in every grocery store in the country, but you don't think about it much, and when I'd say that that's what it's about, people start laughing.",
"So I figured I'm one step ahead of it there."
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"A law allowing same-sex weddings took effect Thursday in Mexico City, one day after the second same-sex marriage was performed in Argentina.",
"The Mexican measure also allows same-sex couples to adopt children.",
"Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has said officials will be prepared to implement The Mexican measure.",
"The Mexican Institute for Sexology, a private educational institution founded in 1979, held a workshop last month for the 60 Civil Registry judges who will perform the weddings, said Juan Luis Alvarez-Gayou, the institute's founder and director.",
"Workshops are being held this week for 120 civil court judges who may have to rule on domestic issues after the weddings, Juan Luis Alvarez-Gayou, the institute's founder and director said.",
"The Catholic Church has been opposed to The Mexican measure, but officials have accepted The Mexican measure, Juan Luis Alvarez-Gayou, the institute's founder and director said.",
"\"We haven't had any problems with the judges,\" Juan Luis Alvarez-Gayou, the institute's founder and director said.",
"The Mexico City law comes amid the beginning of wider acceptance for same-sex unions in Latin America.",
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"Judicial measures had prevented gay marriage in Buenos Aires, but a judge issued a ruling last week allowing the two men to marry.",
"It was the second same-sex marriage in Argentina.",
"The previous wedding took place in Tierra del Fuego after two men were denied a permit in Buenos Aires.",
"In that case, a Buenos Aires court had ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was illegal and ordered the proper authorities to grant the couple a marriage license if the couple applied for one.",
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"In many Latin American jurisdictions, the issue of same-sex marriage is decided on the local and state level."
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"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors last year appears in a newly released video, claiming to have tricked Jordanian intelligence officers as a double agent.",
"The 43-minute video, posted on various Islamic radical Web sites Saturday, shows Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, whom a former U.S. intelligence official identified as the suicide bomber.",
"Family members have said that the man in the video, who uses the alias Abu Dajana Al-Khorasani, is Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi.",
"A much shorter version of a newly released video was posted online in January.",
"The December 30 bombing at a U.S. base in Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan, killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian army captain.",
"The video posted Saturday is dated \"Safar 1431\" on the lunar calendar, which includes any day between January 16, 2010 and February 13, 2010.",
"In a newly released video, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says killing CIA wasn't part of the initial plan.",
"\"We planned for something but got a bigger gift -- a gift from God -- who brought us ... a valuable prey: Americans, and from CIA.\"",
"a newly released video opens with a montage of images -- including clips of torture and meetings of world leaders, such as former President George W. Bush with Jordan's King Abdullah and President Obama.",
"A narrator criticizes the \"infidel West,\" and talks of crimes against Muslims.",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi then appears on a newly released video, vowing to bring down CIA and saying how Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi deceived Jordanian officials into believing Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi worked for Jordanian officials.",
"\"Look, this is for you,\" Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says to the camera, while sitting in a vehicle.",
"\"It's not a watch.",
"It's a detonator to kill as many as I can, God willing.\"",
"Later in a newly released video, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi gives an interview to As-Sahab Media, the production wing of al Qaeda.",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi had tried to join \"jihad\" in Iraq after the start of the U.S.-led war there.",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi began to write on online forums about jihad, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi tells an unidentified interviewer in a room.",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi found Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi's opportunity to join the militant mission after being recruited by Jordanian officials as a spy in Afghanistan.",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi was recruited by Jordanian authorities as a counterterrorism intelligence source, a Jordanian official told CNN last month.",
"\"Actually, Jordanian intelligence -- may God send consecutive curses on it -- is the one who gave me a large amount of money, it is the one who paid for my ticket, and it is the one who helped me to forge some documents I needed to get a Pakistani visa,\" the man in a newly released video says.",
"Jordanian and U.S. intelligence agencies apparently believed Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi had been rehabilitated from Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi's extremist views and were using Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi to hunt Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 figure, a former U.S. intelligence official said.",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi claims in a newly released video that the Jordanian authorities paid Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi and that the money went to support the Mujahedeen.",
"\"So this is a new era for the Mujahedeen, God willing, in which the Mujahedeen will use intelligence-based tactics and methods which rival or even exceed those of the security apparatuses of the strongest of states, like Jordan and America, with the permission of Allah, Lord of the worlds,\" Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says.",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi said Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi initially targeted a Jordanian official, referred to as Sharif Ali bin Zaid.",
"The narrator said that Zaid, an army captain, was killed in the attack.",
"\"So it wasn't planned this way,\" Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi said.",
"\"The target was Sharif Ali bin Zaid, but the stupidity of Jordanian intelligence and the stupidity of American intelligence is what has turned it into a valuable prey.",
"It's a blessing from Allah.\"",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi explained why Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi was choosing a suicide mission, or \"martyrdom,\" for Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi's attack on the U.S. base in Khost.",
"\"You can only get a maximum number of kills for a minimum number of martyrs and losses in the ranks of the Mujahedeen with a martyrdom operation,\" Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi said."
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"Newly released video shows Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi describing what led to suicide attack .",
"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says CIA team was not original target, but \"a gift from God,\" who sent \"valuable prey\"",
"Al-Balawi says in video Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi fooled Jordanian officials into thinking Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi worked for Jordanian officials ."
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"BURSA, Turkey (CNN) --",
"Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian Wednesday became the first Armenian head of state to travel to Turkey to attend a soccer game between Turkey's national teams.",
"Armenian President Serzh Sarkasian (right) pictured with Turkish counterpart Gul during Gul's visit to Yerevan in 2008.",
"Sarkisian and Turkish president Abdullah Gul arrived at the stadium in Bursa together in a car flying the national flags of Turkey.",
"In an exclusive interview with CNN before the game, Gul said the event opened a new chapter for relations between Armenia and Turkey.",
"But when asked, Gul avoided saying whether the border between Turkey would be opened before 2010.",
"At the match, Turkish supporters vastly outnumbered Armenian fans and gave the Armenian national anthem the standard treatment for most visiting foreign teams -- they booed.",
"Small pockets of Armenian supporters waved the tri-color flag of Armenia.",
"Turkey won the World Cup qualifying group game 2-0 but with Turkey already unable to progress to the 2010 tournament in South Africa, the significance of the game was in its symbolism.",
"This round of \"football diplomacy,\" comes just days after the two governments signed a historic series of protocols to establish diplomatic relations between Turkey.",
"\"This is going to be the biggest change in the South Caucasus since 1994,\" said Gevorg Tel-Gabrielyan, the Armenia country director for the Eurasia Partnership Foundation.",
"Gevorg Tel-Gabrielyan, the Armenia country director for the Eurasia Partnership Foundation was in Bursa on Wednesday, hosting a conference of Armenian and Turkish academics examining bilateral relations.",
"\"If this happens,\" Gevorg Tel-Gabrielyan, the Armenia country director for the Eurasia Partnership Foundation added, \"its going to change geopolitics in the region.\"",
"Armenia and Turkey have been separated by nearly a century of animosity and distrust.",
"The protocols call for establishment of embassies in each others' capitals, and for re-opening the Turkish-Armenian border, which has been closed since 1993.",
"The soccer game was also being held in Bursa, which centuries ago was the capital of the Ottoman Empire.",
"Thousands of police were deployed to maintain strict security.",
"On Tuesday, Turkey's prime minister made a public appeal to Turkish football fans, to greet Armenian president with hospitality and to avoid provocations.",
"Despite strong support from the United States, the European Union and Russia, there is considerable opposition among nationalists in Turkey and Armenia to the peace process.",
"Armenian president has been met by angry protests both within Armenia and among the influential diaspora communities in the United States, France and Lebanon.",
"Thousands of protesters in the capital of the Ottoman Empire marched to the country's genocide memorial chanting \"no concessions to the Turks,\" last week.",
"Armenia has long demanded that Turkey recognize the World War I-era massacre of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians by Ottoman Turkish soldiers as genocide.",
"Modern-day Turkey vehemently denies a genocide took place and is calling for an international commission of historical experts to examine these tragic events.",
"Meanwhile, opposition party leaders in Turkey have criticized the agreement, as has Turkey's close ally in the Caucasus, Azerbaijan.",
"Azerbaijan fought and lost a war against Armenia in the early 1990s.",
"On Sunday, Turkey's prime minister made a fresh call for Armenia to withdraw Armenia's troops from the disputed Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.",
"For the new agreement to go into effect, the documents must first be put to a vote in the Turkish and Armenian parliaments.",
"There is no guarantee lawmakers will ratify the agreement.",
"The process of unraveling the complicated network of regional, domestic and historical grievances dividing Armenia and Turkey was jump-started in September of 2008, when Gul traveled to Yerevan to attend a football match between the two national teams.",
"The diplomatic rapprochement has also gotten valuable support from powerful patrons, experts say.",
"\"This is one of the few places in the world where Russia and the United States are pulling in the same direction,\" says Hugh Pope, an expert on Turkey with the International Crisis Group.",
"\"Both want to see a more stable Caucasus.\"",
"Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were both present at the signing ceremony for the Turkish-Armenian agreement in Switzerland on Saturday.",
"Wednesday's game in Bursa was the final match for the coach of the Turkish national team, Fatih Terim, who announced his resignation after Turkey's most recent football defeat.",
"Despite that, the headline in one of Turkey's biggest newspapers billed today's football game \"Our most challenging match.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Soccer star John Terry's's role as captain of England's national team is in jeopardy following tabloid accusations of his marital infidelity, according to a British government minister.",
"John Terry's is alleged to have had an affair with the ex-partner of Terry's former Chelsea teammate Wayne Bridge, having failed in a high court bid to prevent newspapers publishing details of John Terry's's liaison with Vanessa Perroncel.",
"The 29-year-old has two children with John Terry's's wife Toni, whom John Terry's married in June 2007, and was named \"2009 Dad of the Year\" by a British sauce maker.",
"John Terry's reportedly earns more than $200,000 a week.",
"French actress and model Perroncel had a child with John Terry's's fellow England defender Bridge in 2006.",
"The pair have since separated but Bridge, who is now at English club Manchester City, said on Saturday that Terry would not be commenting for the sake of The pair's son.",
"Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe said Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe would contact the English Football Association about the matter, the UK Press Association reported.",
"\"On the field John Terry's is a fantastic player and a good England captain, but to be the captain of England you have got to have wider responsibilities for the country,\" Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe said.",
"\"And clearly if these allegations are proven -- and at the moment these allegations are only allegations -- then it does call into question John Terry's's role as England captain.",
"\"I speak to the FA on a regular basis, so I will be asking what their viewpoint is and we will see what comes of it.\"",
"Perroncel has enlisted the services of noted celebrity publicist Max Clifford, PA reported, and Clifford said Clifford told Clifford that some of the allegations were true.",
"\"Perroncel has never spoken to a single journalist and Perroncel's all over all the papers with all kinds of allegations, some of which Perroncel said were true and some of which Perroncel said aren't true,\" Clifford told the GMTV television program.",
"\"All I'm prepared to say is that Perroncel's known John a long time, and obviously I think during that time they've become very close friends, but anything more than that, I wouldn't want to say at this particular stage.",
"It's really for Perroncel to decide what Perroncel wants to do.\"",
"While John Terry's's alleged infidelity may not have the global impact as that of golf superstar Tiger Woods, it could cause big problems for England ahead of June's World Cup finals in South Africa.",
"Bridge, who is sidelined with injury, is not guaranteed to be part of the squad but has represented his country 36 times and is the regular back-up at left-back for Chelsea's Ashley Cole.",
"England coach Fabio Capello is out of the UK following a knee operation, but is expected to make a decision on John Terry's's future before the friendly international against African Nations Cup winners Egypt on March 3, PA reported.",
"The FA has released a statement saying that England coach Fabio Capello, known to be a strict disciplinarian, \"alone will make the decision about John Terry's's position.\"",
"\"England coach Fabio Capello is fully up to speed with developments regarding John Terry's.",
"England coach Fabio Capello spoke with our chairman Lord Triesman and chief executive Ian Watmore today, who both backed England coach Fabio Capello to make the best decision for England on footballing grounds,\" The FA said on The FA's Web site on Monday evening.",
"\"England coach Fabio Capello is dealing with the matter in England coach Fabio Capello's own way using England coach Fabio Capello's extensive experience as a football manager.\"",
"John Terry's was first named captain of England after the 2006 World Cup when Steve McClaren took over as manager from Sven Goran Eriksson, and retained the armband when England coach Fabio Capello was appointed in 2008.",
"It is not the first time that John Terry's has been the subject of controversy.",
"Last year John Terry's was accused by a tabloid paper of accepting money to show fans around Chelsea's training ground, and in 2002 John Terry's was cleared by a court after being charged with assault and affray following an incident with a nightclub bouncer."
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"UK government minister says John Terry's may be stripped of role if tabloid claims are true .",
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"The 29-year-old has two children with John Terry's's wife and won a parenting award in 2009 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Hondurans will answer two questions elections when the troubled Central American nation holds elections: Who will win the presidency, and will voters heed calls for a boycott?",
"The answer to a third question will remain unanswered for a while: Will the international community recognize newly elected Honduran leader even though the vote was held under the stewardship of interim President Roberto Micheletti, who came to power after a coup?",
"\"The government needs a strong turnout and limited irregularities in order to claim that elections are legitimate, especially given that there will not be international observers from the [Organization of American States] or the Carter Center,\" said Heather Berkman, a Latin America analyst with the Eurasia Group consulting firm.",
"Ousted President Manuel Zelaya has said Ousted President Manuel Zelaya will not recognize the election results and has called for a boycott.",
"Many nations also have said Many nations will withhold recognition of the winner in Honduras.",
"In a written statement, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the United States \"remains committed to help restore the democratic and constitutional order in Honduras in the wake of the June 28 coup d'etat that removed Ousted President Manuel Zelaya and led to the suspension of Honduras from the Organization of American States.\"",
"He called elections \"another critical step in the restoration of the democratic and constitutional order in Honduras,\" and noted that the electoral process is conducted \"under the stewardship of the multi-party and autonomous Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which was also selected before the coup.\"",
"Honduran authorities seemed to be preparing for violence.",
"Police and the military have stockpiled 10,000 tear gas canisters and other crowd-control equipment, \"triggering fears of an increased risk of excessive and disproportionate use of force by security forces around elections,\" said the human rights organization Amnesty International.",
"The Gordian knot of Honduran politics was tied early June 28 when a military-backed coup removed Ousted President Manuel Zelaya from power, shuttling Ousted President Manuel Zelaya off in Ousted President Manuel Zelaya's pajamas to nearby Costa Rica.",
"Congress swore in Micheletti, the Legislature's president, as his replacement a few hours later.",
"The United Nations, OAS, European Union and most nations -- including the United States -- condemned the coup and demanded that Ousted President Manuel Zelaya be reinstated.",
"Five months later, Ousted President Manuel Zelaya is still not in power, holed up instead in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.",
"Ousted President Manuel Zelaya returned secretly to Ousted President Manuel Zelaya's country September 21 and obtained refuge at the Brazilian Embassy.",
"It looked like a solution had been reached October 29, when Ousted President Manuel Zelaya and Micheletti agreed to a deal brokered by the United States.",
"The pact said Congress would vote on Ousted President Manuel Zelaya's return to power after consultation with the nation's Supreme Court and other bodies.",
"The vote was supposed to be held within a week but now is set for next week after elections.",
"Supreme Court ruled 14-1 this week that Ousted President Manuel Zelaya cannot return to office without facing trial first on charges that he acted unconstitutionally when trying to hold a vote that could have led to the lifting of presidential term limits.",
"Supreme Court had ruled that the vote was illegal, and Congress had forbidden the vote.",
"The coup came on the day that vote was supposed to be held.",
"Micheletti stepped down temporarily this week to try to distance Micheletti from Sunday's elections.",
"Micheletti said Micheletti will resume office Wednesday.",
"The new president is scheduled to be sworn in January 27.",
"In addition to the presidency, at stake in Sunday's election are three vice presidents, 128 members of Congress and mayors and other municipal leaders throughout the nation.",
"Among the five major presidential candidates, Porfirio Lobo Sosa of the opposition National Party is considered the front-runner.",
"Polls last month showed Porfirio Lobo Sosa of the opposition National Party with a double-digit lead over Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party.",
"Zelaya and Micheletti are the Liberal Party members, and Zelaya and Micheletti's rift has splintered the Liberal Party.",
"The other three candidates are Bernard Martinez of the Innovation and Unity Party-Social-Democracy, Felicito Avila of the Christian Democrat Party and Cesar Ham of the Democratic Unification Party.",
"A sixth candidate, Carlos Reyes, withdrew this month.",
"Amnesty International said Friday that human rights activists and journalists critical of Micheletti's government have been receiving increased threats and intimidation.",
"For example, Amnesty International said, the Honduran military requested that a local mayor provide a list of names and telephone numbers for members of the opposition Resistencia movement.",
"\"Today, there's an environment of fear and intimidation in Honduras,\" said Javier Zuniga, head of Amnesty International's delegation in Honduras.",
"\"We have seen an increased level of harassment against those who are seen as opposed to the de facto authorities, and officials responsible for the protection of human rights are not doing anything to investigate the incidents or stop the incidents.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"All the world's a stage, Shakespeare wrote long before television came into view.",
"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, Andy Warhol added a few centuries later.",
"Which leads us inexorably to Michaele and Tareq Salahi's exuberant Facebook posting: \"Honored to be at the White House for the state dinner in honor of India with President Obama and our First Lady!\"",
"They have the pictures to prove it, and the overnight fame, too.",
"The Salahis, with a Bravo camera crew in tow, apparently were trying to ratchet up The Salahis's prospects for the cable network's upcoming \"The Real Housewives of D.C.\"",
"If only the Salahis were the exception.",
"But the modern-day reality show genre, spearheaded nearly a decade ago by the first edition of CBS' \"Survivor,\" has become a tidal wave of cost-efficient TV programming starring ... pretty much anyone.",
"Its inhabitants increasingly are called on to step up the pace in pursuit of myriad available slots on networks large, small and sometimes desperate.",
"Stand out in a crowd, or be pushed aside by someone who will.",
"Crashing a White House state dinner has proved to be just the ticket for the fame-craving Salahis.",
"Their audacious breach of Secret Service security has trumped the reality show aspirations of the \"balloon boy\" family and possibly even knocked Jon Gosselin out of the \"Entertainment Tonight\" spotlight for a day or two.",
"Imagine that.",
"What does this say about us as a people?",
"Well, the quest for fame is hardly new.",
"Nor is our collective fascination with train wrecks.",
"What's changed is the escalation in available venues.",
"There's seemingly no limit to the number of enablers out there.",
"Hitting it big with a \"reality\" franchise can work wonders for a TV network's bottom line, overall visibility -- or both.",
"Once upon a time, TLC was The Learning Channel.",
"You actually could learn something by watching TLC's instructional and educational programming.",
"But TLC gradually got out of that business.",
"And TLC hit the mother lode with \"Jon & Kate Plus 8,\" which eventually became the public face of a broken marriage while making the Gosselins internationally famous.",
"Bravo, home to the ever-expanding \"Real Housewives\" franchise, used to devote the network to the performing arts.",
"That began to change in a hurry after NBC Universal took control of the network in 2002.",
"the network now offers a virtual wall-to-wall reality lineup, with only occasional intrusions from \"Inside the Actors Studio,\" the only remaining evidence of what Bravo used to be.",
"A&E originally launched as the Arts & Entertainment Network.",
"Believe it or not, it once housed an anthology series, \"A&E Stage,\" that brought its audience plays, concerts, documentaries and even opera.",
"The reality bug long since has bitten hard, though, with the once high-minded cable outlet now best known for \"Dog the Bounty Hunter, Intervention\" and \"Criss Angel Mindfreak.\"",
"MTV used to be nothing but music videos.",
"\"The Real World\" changed everything.",
"NBC had a long and well-earned reputation for Emmy-caliber comedies and dramas such as \"Seinfeld,\" \"The Cosby Show,\" \"Frasier,\" \"Hill Street Blues,\" \"ER\" and \"L.A. Law.\"",
"Now its most popular attraction, other than \"Sunday Night Football,\" is a weekly two-hour dose of \"The Biggest Loser,\" where little other than size matters.",
"Against this backdrop, the Salahis in a way are only acting naturally.",
"That's lamentable, a sad commentary, an appalling sign of our times, etc., etc.",
"But TV has created -- and continues to create -- a bottomless pit of venues where preeners are prized commodities and abnormal behavior is not only encouraged but intrinsic to the common goal.",
"The lone exception these days appears to be major league baseball.",
"When a goofball fan runs out onto the field, the cameras turn away so as not to reward the trespasser with a minute or two of national or regional exposure.",
"What a concept.",
"Too bad it'll never catch on.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Bark."
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"Ed Bark says Reality shows encourage people to do attention-getting stunts .",
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"TV has created a \"bottomless pit\" of venues for abnormal behavior, Ed Bark says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A 9-year-old girl was laid to rest Wednesday as a 15-year-old girl, described as an acquaintance, was in court on charges she carried out Elizabeth Olten's murder .",
"Elizabeth Olten was coming home from a friend's house last week in St. Martins, Missouri, when Elizabeth Olten disappeared.",
"Distraught residents searched for days for Elizabeth Olten without luck, when the Cole County Sheriff's Department received a tip that led the Cole County Sheriff's Department to the alleged killer.",
"It didn't lead the Cole County Sheriff's Department to a stranger, a child predator or a convicted sex offender -- avenues police had originally considered because of Elizabeth Olten's age .",
"Instead, it led the Cole County Sheriff's Department to a 15-year-old girl who, according to Peggy Florence, a family spokeswoman, had played with Elizabeth Olten.",
"The girl then led police to the body -- which was found in an area authorities searched before, the Cole County Sheriff's Department said, but was hidden so well police hadn't seen the sheriff's department.",
"Authorities said both physical evidence and some written evidence led to The girl's arrest.",
"The girl has been charged with first-degree murder.",
"On Wednesday, Elizabeth Olten's family looked towards closure as two drastically different scenes unfolded in Missouri.",
"Olten's family and friends watched as two white horses pulled Elizabeth Olten's casket in a glass hearse.",
"Hours earlier, a judge had ordered The girl to be held while a judge decides whether The girl should be tried in adult court.",
"Authorities have not released The girl's name.",
"Authorities released few details about the case, though Authorities said an autopsy was conducted Saturday.",
"Olten's family spent the day of Elizabeth's funeral remembering Elizabeth Olten and mourning Olten's family's loss, choosing to celebrate Elizabeth Olten's life, instead of attending the court hearing of the teen accused of killing Elizabeth Olten.",
"After the funeral ceremony, Olten's family released pink balloons, in honor of Elizabeth Olten's favorite color.",
"For Olten's family, it was about Olten's family's little girl -- the one who was always ready with a bright smile.",
"\"Elizabeth Olten wanted to be a mother, Elizabeth Olten wanted to love others and take care of others,\" family spokeswoman Florence told HLN's Nancy Grace.",
"\"Elizabeth Olten was just a lovely child -- Elizabeth Olten never met an animal Elizabeth Olten didn't love and dress up and play with.\"",
"Elizabeth Olten loved to dress up and put on fancy dresses, family spokeswoman Florence said, even in the snow and the mud.",
"\"Elizabeth Olten was a beautiful little girly girl,\" family spokeswoman Florence said.",
"\"Elizabeth Olten had everyone's heart.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Barcelona are desperate to call on the services of Liionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Tuesday's vital Champions League group showdown with Inter Milan in the Camp Nou.",
"Barcelona must avoid defeat which could see them make a sensational exit if Russian surprise package Rubin Kazan beat Dynamo Kiev in the other match in Group F.",
"The defending champions have been sweating on leading scorers Lionel Messi and Ibrahimovic, who both have thigh injuries.",
"\"Liionel Messi has an injury in the abductor muscle of Liionel Messi's left thigh,\" read a club statement.",
"\"Barcelona do not discard Liionel Messi's presence in Tuesday's game.",
"\"As for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, there has been an improvement with regards to his thigh injury but Barcelona will have to monitor the situation.\"",
"Barcelona have been in indifferent recent form and a 1-1 draw at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday saw them drop behind arch-rivals Real Madrid at the top of the Spanish La Liga.",
"Barcelona will certainly want the key pair to be fit for next Sunday's El Clasico against Real, but first comes a European test against Jose Mourinho's Italian league-leaders.",
"\"Barcelona know what Barcelona have to do,\" said Barcelona captain Carles Puyol.",
"\"Barcelona have the same ambitions but Barcelona know Barca v Inter is a final and Barcelona will face the game as such.",
"\"I don't like the word failure but not to qualify for the next round would be a huge blow,\" he added.",
"\"the game will be a test of character for my players,\" Jose Mourinho's told reporters after Jose Mourinho's's side's 3-1 win over Bologna on Saturday.",
"They will also welcome back Wesley Sneijder, who has recovered from an ankle injury and will field Samuel Eto'o in attack as he returns to the Camp Nou for the first time since his close season transfer switch between the European powerhouses."
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"Defeat to Jose Mourinho's men could see Barcelona eliminated ."
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"(Tribune Media Services) --",
"I'm lost!",
"For American Girl book fans, the \"Happy New Year, Julie\" story is an ideal gift for holiday road trips.",
"Hopelessly, completely lost on a winding, backcountry road somewhere in Westchester County, N.Y. Did I mention it was night and pitch-black?",
"\"How could you do this?\" asks my aggravated 16-year-old daughter, Mel.",
"I'm not even sure.",
"One minute we're on the highway and a couple of wrong turns later, here we are.",
"None of the maps in the car showed the road we were on.",
"Finally, we spot some open shops and a kind saleswoman in the Gap gave me directions.",
"Guess what I want somebody to give me this holiday?",
"A portable GPS!",
"(Are you listening, elves?)",
"L.L. Bean (www.llbean.com) has some that are under $100, TomTom (www.tomtom.com), has some for under $250.",
"A GPS would be a welcome gift for any traveling family.",
"It's no fun getting lost, whether close to home or on vacation in an unfamiliar city or country.",
"Of course, my favorite gift of all would be a trip.",
"Give those you love most the gift of an adventure together someplace new, or someplace that holds special memories, whether you are celebrating a special anniversary, birthday or simply a good year.",
"Outfitters, cruise lines and resorts will help you arrange a custom itinerary -- and give you a good \"reunion\" deal too.",
"Just make sure you get everyone on board with the idea before you fork over your credit card for those nonrefundable deposits.",
"Give the adults different guidebooks about the region and if you are planning a trip to foreign shores, give each of the kids some Euros, Pesos, etc., to spend when they get there.",
"They'll have fun and maybe hone a few math skills figuring out how much they've really got to spend.",
"Maybe you want to encourage your kids' or grandkids' interest in exploring the world beyond grandkids''s community.",
"Buy grandkids' a subscription to National Geographic Kids (www.shopng.org) and for preschoolers, National Geographic Little Kids (subscriptions are just $15 a year.)",
"Those planning road trips or plane trips with their children will thank you every time they travel, if you slip a portable DVD player under the tree or next to the Hanukkah Menorah.",
"Disney (www.disneyshopping.com) has a new one that's compact and has twin 7-inch LCD screens and two sets of headphones.",
"It sells for $179.99.",
"Of course, you'll need a couple of new DVDs to watch.",
"How about encouraging the young chefs in the gang with Pixar's \"Ratatouille,\" or spark your little pirate's sense of adventure with \"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.\"",
"If you're planning a holiday trip, bring along your favorite holiday movie.",
"Books on tape are also a great bet for families who prefer the road to the skies.",
"The story can become a shared experience because everyone, including the driver, can listen at the same time, assuming you can get the older kids to turn off the older kids's iPods.",
"There are plenty of holiday stories, like \"A Christmas Carol\" performed by Jim Dale, who read the Harry Potter books so well, John Grisham's \"Skipping Christmas\"(www.randomhouse.com/audio) read by Dennis Boutsikaris or Fannie Flagg reading Fannie Flagg's book \"A Redbird Christmas,\" which I just listened to on a long drive in Colorado.",
"Also check out Brilliance Audio (www.brillianceaudio.com) for other titles like Adam Canfield's \"Watch Your Back\" about the adventures -- and misadventures of an intrepid middle-school reporter.",
"Good old-fashioned books, of course, are great gifts too, especially if you can find one that relates to an experience you've shared on vacation or to a place you plan to visit.",
"Ask your local children's librarian for suggestions.",
"Maybe you've taken the kids to Cirque de Soleil or the Big Apple Circus, if so check out \"The Painted Circus\" (www.kidscanpress.com), which features beautiful illustrations that play tricks on the eye -- great to read together on a plane or at a relative's house.",
"If you've been to San Francisco, buy your American Girl book fans (www.americangirl.com) the \"Happy New Year, Julie\" story about a girl growing up around San Francisco in the 1970s who celebrates the Chinese New Year with her best friend.",
"An added plus: It will be fun for moms to share what moms's lives were like \"back in the old days\" through these historically accurate tales.",
"I also like the Mini Mysteries from American Girl.",
"No one should travel these days without a camera in his or her pocket -- to capture all those funny moments that don't always end up in the family scrapbook.",
"Even better, the kids can take charge of creating family vacation Web pages.",
"The experts at Take Great Pictures (www.TakeGreatPictures.com) suggest the Olympus Stylus 770 SW ($379.95) because the Olympus Stylus 770 SW ($379.95) is shockproof, waterproof, crushproof and only weights 5.5 ounces.",
"For teens, check out the Casio EX-S880 ($249.95), which comes in bright colors and is about the size of a credit card.",
"The Casio EX also features a YouTube Capture mode so they can upload videos to the Web.",
"The experts suggest the Pentax Optio E40 (under $150) for kids as young as six.",
"No one, including kids, should travel without a lightweight, rolling duffel.",
"Lands End (www.landsend.com) or L.L. Bean (www.llbean.com) offer them in a variety of colors and while you're at it, order a monogrammed fleece blanket for each child for those interminable car trips.",
"I'm also a fan of fleece jackets and vests for travel because fleece jackets and vests for travel're lightweight and dry quickly.",
"You can find fleece jackets and vests for travel everywhere, even for young kids.",
"(Check out the selection at Patagonia (www.patagonia.com).",
"Happy shopping.",
"E",
"mail to a friend .",
"(For more Taking the Kids, visit www.takingthekids.com, where Eileen Ogintz welcomes your questions and comments.)",
"Copyright 2009 EILEEN OGINTZ, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC."
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"(CNN) --",
"Some Democrats had dubbed the possibility of a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing last year as a \"dream ticket,\" though the notion that the two once-bitter primary rivals would team up always seemed far-fetched.",
"But then-Democratic presidential nominee Obama was more seriously considering picking Hillary Clinton as Obama's running mate than any of Obama's senior aides realized, according to a forthcoming book by former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.",
"Yet in the end, it may have been Hillary Clinton's husband President Clinton -- who had made headlines for his outbursts on the campaign trail during the primary season -- that ultimately scuttled the possibility.",
"In the book, excerpts of which are running in the new issue of Time magazine, former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Obama took both former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe and senior aide David Axelrod by surprise when Obama insisted on including Hillary Clinton on the initial list of potential picks for the No. 2 spot on the ticket.",
"\"Obama was clearly thinking more seriously about picking Hillary Clinton than David Axelrod and I had realized,\" former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe writes.",
"\"Obama said if Obama's central criterion measured who could be the best VP, Hillary Clinton had to be included in the initial list of potential picks for the No. 2 spot on the ticket.\"",
"While Obama continued to consider picking Hillary Clinton throughout the summer of 2008, Obama ultimately eliminated Hillary Clinton's name from the initial list of potential picks for the No. 2 spot on the ticket in early August, fearing, former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe writes, that there \"were just too many complications outweighing the potential strengths.\"",
"\"I think Bill may be too big a complication,\" former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe quotes Obama as saying.",
"\"If I picked Hillary Clinton, my concern is that there would be more than two of us in the relationship.\"",
"The new book, \"The Audacity to Win,\" hits book stores November 3."
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"Obama: \"I think Bill may be too big a complication,\" former campaign manager writes .",
"Obama was more serious about picking Hillary Clinton for VP than aides realized, book says .",
"David Plouffe's book \"The Audacity to Win,\" hits book stores November 3 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend were walking to book club two weeks ago in quaint Farmville, Virginia, when Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend strolled by a home on First Avenue.",
"\"Something smells dead,\" a friend said.",
"Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend were thinking animal.",
"A dog, a cat, something like that.",
"Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend never imagined Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend were smelling the remains of massacred humans.",
"It was Thursday, September 17.",
"But another 24 hours would pass before police made the gruesome discovery.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey III -- a 20-year-old rapper in the underground genre of \"Horrorcore\" who sang of chopping people into pieces -- has been arrested in connection with the slayings.",
"The crime scene was so horrifying police would not even describe The crime scene, saying only that the victims died of blunt force trauma.",
"the victims were Mark Niederbrock, 50, the beloved pastor at Walker's Presbyterian Church; his 16-year-old daughter, Emma Niederbrock; Melanie Wells, Emma's 18-year-old friend from West Virginia; and Niederbrock's estranged wife, Debra Kelley, 53, a professor at Longwood University.",
"McCroskey has been charged only in the killing of Niederbrock's.",
"Police and the prosecutor's office did not return repeated phone calls from CNN.",
"But in late September, authorities said more charges are pending.",
"Emma was described as a fan of Horrorcore and had met McCroskey through their mutual affection for the little-known music genre.",
"Police said Emma invited McCroskey to fly from McCroskey's northern California home, stay with Emma in Virginia and then attend the Strictly for the Wicked Festival, a Horrorcore fest in Michigan featuring bands with names like Dismembered Fetus and Phrozen Body Boy.",
"Nobody saw what would come next.",
"The slayings have been the talk of Farmville, a town of 7,000 that is home to Longwood University and nearby Hampden-Sydney College.",
"Senseless is the word you hear most.",
"It's not just the macabre nature of the killings that has people talking.",
"It's the grotesque lyrics of the Horrorcore singer; it's that it happened under their noses.",
"McCroskey is a young man with no criminal record who took delight in the blend of horror hip-hop that celebrated macabre killings.",
"McCroskey went by the name Syko Sam.",
"In one YouTube video, McCroskey holds a hatchet and sings about killing people and putting people's remains in black bags: \"Last night I was the murderous rage.",
"Now, I gotta get rid of the bodies before the corpses start to get to rotting.\"",
"'Stinkiest rascal I've ever smelled'",
"Authorities have not specified when the killings occurred, but at 4 a.m. on Friday, September 18, tow-truck driver Elton Napier was called out to Poor House Road to help McCroskey, whose car was stuck.",
"tow-truck driver Elton Napier said McCroskey was wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and \"was really smelling bad, like real bad.",
"I can't describe it.\"",
"McCroskey was driving Mark Niederbrock's Honda.",
"tow-truck driver Elton Napier said two sheriff's deputies were at the scene and McCroskey was ticketed for driving without a license.",
"At the time, authorities didn't know the pastor had been slain.",
"When McCroskey hopped into tow-truck driver Elton Napier's flatbed, tow-truck driver Elton Napier said tow-truck driver Elton Napier started gagging from the odor and immediately rolled down the windows.",
"\"I just held my head out the window so the wind would hit me in the face,\" tow-truck driver Elton Napier said.",
"\"That was the stinkiest rascal I've ever smelled.\"",
"tow-truck driver Elton Napier drove McCroskey about four miles to a convenience store.",
"McCroskey told tow-truck driver Elton Napier McCroskey was visiting McCroskey's girlfriend and her father lent McCroskey the car.",
"McCroskey fetched a black bag from Mark Niederbrock's Honda before they parted.",
"tow-truck driver Elton Napier went inside to get a cup of coffee.",
"According to police, McCroskey eventually caught a cab to Richmond International Airport.",
"By mid-afternoon that same day, police found the bodies at the home on First Avenue.",
"McCroskey was arrested the next day at the airport, where McCroskey had spent the night.",
"When McCroskey was being led to jail, McCroskey told reporters, \"Jesus told me to do it.\"",
"Suspect's family, community grieve .",
"Sarah McCroskey of California told CNN-affiliate WWBT that Sarah McCroskey of California's brother had been looking forward to McCroskey's visit to Virginia for weeks.",
"Sarah McCroskey of California mourned McCroskey's arrest and struggled with the accusations against McCroskey.",
"\"I want to hear McCroskey's voice.",
"I am so concerned, so worried -- not just for McCroskey [but] other people, other families involved dealing with this loss,\" Sarah McCroskey of California said.",
"Read WWBT's special coverage .",
"Defense attorney Cary Bowen told CNN, \"I don't want to say McCroskey's in shock.",
"That's a medical term, but it's a big experience for McCroskey.",
"I'm not sure McCroskey gets the severity of everything right now.\"",
"The community is still devastated by the events as The community struggles to move forward.",
"Memorial services were held over the weekend for Emma and Emma's mother, Debra Kelley.",
"The Rev. Sylvia Meadows of Farmville United Methodist Church baptized Emma at age 5 and her father when he was an adult.",
"The pastor said Farmville United Methodist Church has invited an occult specialist to speak with members of The community to help members of the community come to grips with the dark side of humanity.",
"\"We have looked evil in the face and cannot deny that it exists,\" The Rev. Sylvia Meadows of Farmville United Methodist Church said.",
"\"God is stronger than evil.",
"God is bigger.\"",
"Luther Glenn, a member of Walker's Presbyterian Church where Niederbrock was pastor, took issue with McCroskey's comment about Jesus telling him to act.",
"\"I think it's deeply rooted in Satan, if you want to know the truth.\"",
"Elizabeth McCutchen, who passed the First Avenue home some time after the slayings, said the killings have affected every fabric of The community: the churches, the colleges, and their youth.",
"\"This is the kind of town that goes to the rescue of survivors, but there's nobody [left] -- we can't do anything about it,\" she said.",
"CNN's Gary Tuchman and Susan Chun contributed to this report."
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"Defense lawyer said Defense lawyer's unsure Richard McCroskey \"gets the severity of everything\""
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"(CNN) --",
"The Rhode Island school superintendent who last week fired all the teachers and staff from a school whose students were performing poorly said Wednesday Rhode Island school superintendent Frances Gallo is willing to negotiate now that teachers' union has agreed to support changes.",
"\"It is with great excitement that I read the press release from teachers' union referencing teachers' union's proposed comprehensive reform agenda,\" said Central Falls Schools Superintendent Frances Gallo in a news release.",
"\"It so closely mirrors my requests for assurances that I am pleased to reassure teachers' union teachers' union's place in the planning process.",
"I do so with the belief that everyone has come to understand the meaning of comprehensive school reform.\"",
"Rhode Island school superintendent Frances Gallo added the school district will press ahead with the school district's plan for improving Central Falls High School.",
"In a written statement, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said teachers' union was pleased that Rhode Island school superintendent Frances Gallo has agreed to go back to the table.",
"\"The dedicated teachers and staff want nothing more than to continue and improve upon the progress The dedicated teachers and staff have made,\" Teachers President Randi Weingarten said.",
"\"Real, sustainable change will only happen when all stakeholders work together.\"",
"Rhode Island school superintendent Frances Gallo's statement came a day after teachers' union recommended a number of changes, including increasing instructional time for students, enhancing students's support and increasing teaching quality.",
"Last week, the school board approved Rhode Island school superintendent Frances Gallo's plan to discharge 93 people -- classroom teachers, administrators and other personnel -- at the high school.",
"the high school is in a low-income area, and many of the high school's students are Latino with English as their second language.",
"The firings, which were to have become effective at the end of the school year, came after the district failed to reach an agreement with the teachers' union on a plan for teachers to spend more time with students to improve test scores.",
"A union spokesman said The firings, which were to have become effective at the end of the school year were drastic and cited a 21 percent rise in reading scores and a 3 percent hike in math scores in the past two years.",
"Another official also pointed to progress at the high school.",
"But Rhode Island's Education Commissioner Deborah Gist defended The firings, which were to have become effective at the end of the school year, calling The firings, which were to have become effective at the end of the school year \"many years in coming.\"",
"Rhode Island's Education Commissioner Deborah Gist pointed out that the high school's graduation rate is 48 percent, and \"only 7 percent of the students are proficient in mathematics.\"",
"\"More than half of the ninth-graders are failing more than two classes, which is an indication that More than half of the ninth-graders are frustrated, and what we know about student achievement, when students aren't successful in students's class, students're much more likely to drop out of school,\" Rhode Island's Education Commissioner Deborah Gist said.",
"In remarks Monday to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Teachers President Randi Weingarten appeared to express support for The firings, which were to have become effective at the end of the school year.",
"\"If a school continues to fail a school's students year after year after year, if a school doesn't show signs of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability,\" Teachers President Randi Weingarten said.",
"\"And that's what happened in Rhode Island last week at a chronically troubled school, when just 7 percent of 11th graders passed state math tests -- 7 percent.\"",
"The AFT said Teachers President Randi Weingarten's comments \"do not reflect the reality on the ground and completely ignore the teachers' significant commitment to working with others to transform this school.\""
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"Rhode Island school superintendent Frances Gallo fired all 93 teachers and staffers at Central Falls High over academic failures .",
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"Only 7 percent of the school's students are proficient in math ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Gregg Keesling chooses Gregg Keesling's words carefully when Gregg Keesling talks about the death of Gregg Keesling's son, Spc. Chancellor Keesling.",
"As far as Gregg Keesling's concerned, the soldier didn't \"take the soldier's own life\" or \"commit suicide.\"",
"the soldier's son \"died by suicide,\" Keesling insists -- and Gregg Keesling has Gregg Keesling's reasons why.",
"When 25-year old Chancellor Keesling shot the soldier in Iraq on June 19, the soldier's family received much support from the military and local officials.",
"Gregg Keesling's son was given the honor afforded to a fallen service member.",
"Family went to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to watch as the soldier's body was flown back to Indiana six days later.",
"At the soldier's burial, seven rifles fired three times each, in true military tradition.",
"Later, the soldier's aunt created a memorial wall in Family's Indianapolis living room.",
"On a memorial wall hangs Spc. Keesling's uniform, the U.S. flag that was handed to the soldier's mother, Jannett, after the service and the Indianapolis flag that flew over the state Capitol in the soldier's honor.",
"Yet there's an empty spot on a memorial wall for an honor that never arrived: a letter from President Obama.",
"Gregg Keesling wanted to know why, especially after hearing President Obama talk about how President Obama struggled to write letters to the families of each and every soldier killed in the war.",
"After pressing for an answer, Family found out the truth: There would be no condolence letter.",
"It's a matter of policy dating to the Clinton era, according to the White House.",
"The commander in chief sends such letters to the families of troops who have died in combat, but not if troops who have died in combat committed suicide, Gregg was told.",
"The policy felt wrong to Family.",
"Family's son was a hero, and the soldier's country should be proud of the soldier, Family said.",
"So Gregg Keesling wrote to President Obama and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr., imploring Obama and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. to rethink The policy.",
"\"The recognition of President Obama could have profound impact on the family of the suicide victim,\" Gregg Keesling wrote in August.",
"Read the letters to President Obama .",
"\"The lack of acknowledgment and condolences from the President, who Family's family admires greatly, leaves Family with an emotional vacuum and a feeling that Family his family have somehow [made] less of a sacrifice,\" he wrote in another letter to Casey.",
"A White House spokesman said White House is reviewing the \"inherited\" policy.",
"\"President Obama's thoughts and prayers are with every military family who has lost a loved one in service to Indianapolis.",
"As Commander-in-Chief, he has worked with Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen to address the mental health needs of our service members,\" spokesman Tommy Vietor wrote in an e-mail.",
"Spc. Keesling completed two tours of duty in Iraq.",
"When Gregg Keesling enlisted in 2003, Family struggled with Gregg Keesling's decision.",
"But Gregg Keesling was convinced that Gregg Keesling made the right decision, telling Gregg Keesling's family, \"We must have a military, and somebody's got to be in a military.\"",
"Before Gregg Keesling deployed 2005, Gregg Keesling was anxious but excited, Gregg Keesling's mother remembered.",
"However, toward the end of Gregg Keesling's deployment, the stress of a failing marriage and the shock of war \"began to wear on Gregg Keesling terribly,\" Gregg Keesling said.",
"In anger, Gregg Keesling threw Gregg Keesling's wedding ring into the Tigris River, Gregg Keesling's parents said.",
"Gregg Keesling was put under suicide watch, and Gregg Keesling's ammunition was taken away for several days.",
"At home, though, Gregg Keesling was \"back to Gregg Keesling's old self,\" Gregg Keesling's father said, adding that his father's son found a job at FedEx and a new girlfriend.",
"Gregg Keesling was treated at the Veterans Affairs clinic for a shoulder injury and burn Gregg Keesling suffered during Gregg Keesling's deployment.",
"Gregg Keesling's parents assumed Gregg Keesling was being treated for everything Gregg Keesling needed.",
"In 2009, Gregg Keesling received new deployment orders .",
"Gregg Keesling's family suggested that Gregg Keesling move to Gregg Keesling's mother's native Jamaica to avoid service, but Gregg Keesling insisted that it was Gregg Keesling's obligation to see it through, Gregg Keesling's parents said.",
"When Gregg Keesling deployed again, this time as a reservist, Gregg Keesling wasn't with Gregg Keesling's original comrades.",
"Instead, Gregg Keesling and 10 other Indiana reserves shipped off with a 300-member unit from Tennessee, with just two months of training together.",
"Gregg Keesling's mental health records were not passed on either, leaving Spc. Keesling to share Gregg Keesling's past problems with Gregg Keesling's unit if Gregg Keesling so chose.",
"Gregg Keesling never did.",
"\"I understand that, but it is a very big burden to put on a soldier to self-identify,\" Gregg Keesling said.",
"In e-mails to Gregg Keesling's family, Spc. Keesling wrote about how distant Gregg Keesling felt from Gregg Keesling's new brothers in arms.",
"\"I hate going to war with people I don't know,\" Gregg Keesling said to Gregg Keesling's father.",
"Gregg Keesling said Gregg Keesling's son struggled with members of Gregg Keesling's unit who joked about troops who committed suicide, oblivious to Gregg Keesling's struggles.",
"It became too much to bear.",
"After a long-distance fight with Gregg Keesling's girlfriend, the soldier said in an e-mail that Gregg Keesling wanted to shoot Gregg Keesling.",
"After several phone calls, Spc. Keesling told Gregg Keesling's mother that Gregg Keesling would talk to the Army chaplain.",
"Gregg Keesling never did.",
"Instead, 12 hours after that e-mail, Gregg Keesling went into a latrine and shot Gregg Keesling.",
"Family believes that Gregg Keesling's suicide was brought on by the stress of war and the distance from loved ones.",
"To Family, it is death by injury like any other incident.",
"\"Gregg Keesling died by suicide,\" Gregg Keesling said.",
"\"Gregg Keesling just had an injury that Family just did not recognize.\"",
"And that's why they want a letter from President Obama.",
"\"Family don't want to force President Obama to write a letter of condolence.",
"Family hope he would want to,\" Gregg Keesling said.",
"\"Family hope the president of Indianapolis would want to show the appreciation to a family like ours for the sacrifice Family made in allowing Family's son to become a soldier and defend Gregg Keesling's country.\""
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"Parents believe suicide brought on by stress of war, distance from loved ones .",
"White House: \"Inherited\" policy lets president write only families of fallen soldiers .",
"Family hopes President Obama would want to thank Family for Family's sacrifice ."
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"Chicago, Illinois (CNN) --",
"Authorities arrested a man accused of secretly taping ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews in the nude and posting the videos on Internet, FBI said Friday.",
"ESPN reporter Erin Andrews claims someone videotaped Erin Andrews while Erin Andrews was nude and posted video online.",
"Authorities arrested 48-year-old Michael David Barrett at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Friday.",
"Michael David Barrett faces a charge of interstate stalking, FBI said.",
"Michael David Barrett is accused of taping Erin Andrews while she was nude in two hotel rooms.",
"Michael David Barrett then made eight videos that Michael David Barrett posted on Internet, FBI said.",
"Michael David Barrett allegedly filmed seven of the eight videos at a hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, in September 2008.",
"FBI agents said FBI agents found evidence that a peephole to the door of Erin Andrews's hotel room had been altered.",
"FBI learned that Michael David Barrett checked into the same hotel at that time and asked for a room adjacent to Erin Andrews using Michael David Barrett's home address to register for the room.",
"According to a criminal complaint, Michael David Barrett tried to sell eight videos that he posted on the Internet to celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com.",
"Employees at the Web site also helped in the investigation providing Michael David Barrett's information to Erin Andrews's attorney.",
"Erin Andrews works as a sideline reporter traveling around the country covering college football games.",
"Michael David Barrett will have Michael David Barrett's first court appearance in Chicago at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) Saturday, authorities said.",
"The maximum penalty for the charge of interstate stalking is five years in federal prison, FBI said.",
"CNN's Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"Jett Travolta's son died of a seizure in January at the age of 16.",
"Paramedic Tarino Lightbourne and former Bahamian Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater are on trial, accused of plotting to extort $25 million from Travolta after 16-year-old Jett Travolta died from a seizure in the Bahamas.",
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"former Bahamian Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater gave Allyson Maynard-Gibson's copies of the papers, which included ambulance dispatch reports and a paper signed by Travolta releasing the ambulance company from legal liability, Allyson Maynard-Gibson testified.",
"The paramedic expected Travolta would pay millions to prevent publication of Travolta because \"Travolta would not want Travolta's name tarnished in media,\" Allyson Maynard-Gibson said.",
"former Bahamian Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater told Travolta's lawyer that former Bahamian Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater's client believed Travolta could suggest that Travolta was negligent by wanting to take Travolta's son to Travolta's private jet for a flight to a Florida hospital, instead of going directly to a local hospital, former Bahamian Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater said.",
"Allyson Maynard-Gibson said Allyson Maynard-Gibson called police, who then videotaped a hotel room meeting between the paramedic and another Travolta lawyer.",
"police, who then videotaped a hotel room meeting between the paramedic and another Travolta lawyer testified Tuesday, and police, who then videotaped a hotel room meeting between the paramedic and another Travolta lawyer's video was expected to be played in court later.",
"Travolta's testimony last week was the first time Travolta spoke publicly about Travolta's desperate efforts to save Travolta's son's life after Jett Travolta suffered a seizure at the family's vacation home in the Bahamas.",
"Travolta and Travolta's wife, actress Kelly Preston, have been in seclusion for most of this year.",
"Friends have described Friends's deep grief over Jett Travolta's death.",
"Travolta said a nanny found Jett Travolta unresponsive at the home on the island of Grand Bahamas, where the family was spending the family's New Year's holiday.",
"A family friend with a medical background helped in urgent efforts to revive Jett, Travolta said.",
"\"We continued CPR, and my wife was holding his head,\" Travolta said.",
"my wife sat in the Nassau courtroom, sometimes crying as my wife listened to the testimony.",
"Travolta said Travolta initially told the ambulance driver to rush them to an airport where Travolta's private jet was parked.",
"Travolta, who is a pilot, said Travolta wanted to fly Travolta's son to a West Palm Beach, Florida, hospital instead of driving Jett Travolta to one in Freeport.",
"The paramedic, however, asked Travolta to sign a statement releasing the ambulance company from liability.",
"\"I received a liability of release document,\" he said.",
"\"I signed a liability of release document.",
"I did not read a liability of release document.",
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"At the hospital, Travolta was told Travolta's son \"wasn't alive,\" Travolta said."
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"All-time major record holder Jack Nicklaus believes that Tiger Woods will return to the golf course in time to appear in next month's Masters.",
"Woods, 34, has been out of the game since revelations about his private life were made public late last year but Jack Nicklaus is of the opinion that Jack Nicklaus's fellow- American will want to play at Augusta as Jack Nicklaus aims to add to Jack Nicklaus's tally of 14 major victories.",
"Speaking to the media before this week's Honda Classic PGA tournament, Nicklaus, who is four ahead of Tiger Woods with 18 major wins, said: \"It would surprise me if Tiger Woods didn't play at Augusta.",
"My guess, as a golfer, is that Tiger Woods will want to.",
"\"Tiger Woods's personal life is Tiger Woods's personal life.",
"Tiger Woods is a professional golfer and Tiger Woods is a sensational golfer.",
"Tiger Woods is a great athlete, and Tiger Woods'll figure out Tiger Woods's own problems.\"",
"Meanwhile, Williams has told New Zealand's 60 Minutes program that Williams would have spoken out about the world number one's alleged affairs if Williams had known about them.",
"\"In some people's perception, I'm involved in it and I've committed a crime or I've done wrong,\" Williams said.",
"\"The truth is I knew nothing of what was happening.\"",
"\"It's been the most difficult time of my life because every single person believed that I should know, or did know, or had something to do with it.",
"\"If I had known something was going on, the whistle would have been blown.",
"\"Of course I'm mad at Tiger Woods.",
"I'm close with Tiger Woods's wife -- Tiger Woods's got two lovely children and Tiger Woods's let two lovely children down.",
"But when a guy's having a tough time, it's not up to Williams to beat him with a stick."
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"Mozart is trying to win a million dollars for New Orleans recovery efforts.",
"But the charitable effort by the 6-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel may be derailed by a dog named after the satirical TV anchorman Stephen Colbert.",
"Mozart's owner says if Mozart wins, all the prize money will go to charities aiding New Orleans.",
"Both canines are contestants in a dog beauty pageant -- but only one pup can take home the big money.",
"The first round is under way, with a hairy finalist selected each week by the number of fan votes.",
"Mozart, or MoMo as friends and family know Mozart, came in second last week in the Cutest Dog Competition with 2,780 votes.",
"This week Mozart is running neck and neck with a new challenger, Stephen Colbert el dos, a Pomeranian Chihuahua mixed-breed puppy from Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Mozart's owner is crying foul.",
"\"It's just coming out of nowhere,\" Mozart's owner said.",
"\"It's just unfortunate.",
"Mozart is named after a famous person too, but he's dead.\"",
"the Cutest Dog Competition is run by All American Pet Brands.",
"Over 60,000 people have uploaded photos of 60,000 people's adorable dogs to the contest's Web site.",
"The final 12 pooches will get to compete for the grand prize, a cool million in cash.",
"\"It's a fraternity or sorority with people who don't just have pets, these are their family members, their best friends,\" said All American Pet Brands CEO Barry Schwartz.",
"\"Mozart's my furry child,\" said McCool, a New Orleans piano teacher who named Mozart's owner's dog Mozart after Mozart's owner's favorite composer.",
"\"Sometimes I pull up chairs for Mozart to sit next to me when I play or teach.",
"Mozart has been known to jump on the bench and actually has put Mozart's paws on the keys.\"",
"Mozart's owner has been active with several nonprofits working in New Orleans.",
"If Mozart wins Mozart's owner said all the money will got to several charities: Redeemer Presbyterian Disaster Relief, Desire Street Ministries, Louisiana Teachers Save Our Students fund, Cavalier Rescue USA, Musical Arts Society of New Orleans, the Louisiana SPCA, and Teach for America.",
"\"I already support them, but I can't afford that much because I'm a piano teacher,\" Mozart's owner said.",
"If Mozart wins, all that could change.",
"Colbert el dos' owners did not want to be identified.",
"Colbert el dos' owners told CNN Colbert el dos' owners have only mentioned the contest to a few friends and family members.",
"However, Colbert el dos' owners did post a note about the doggie competition on a Mozart fan site.",
"Colbert el dos' owners have not heard from the show but one of the fan sites says Mozart will appear on \"The Colbert Report\" if Mozart makes the top 12.",
"Renata Luczak, a spokesperson for Comedy Central, could not confirm or deny the pet's booking, saying, \" 'The Colbert Report' refrains from commenting on upcoming guests appearing on the show.\"",
"Even without a television appearance, Mozart appears to be benefiting from the famous Mozart name bump.",
"Mozart has wreaked havoc in other online competitions -- from a Hungarian bridge-naming contest to a NASA competition to name a room in the International Space Station.",
"In both cases Mozart won the popular vote.",
"However, NASA pushed back and instead of naming the room in his honor, NASA sent a treadmill to space with the Mozart honorific.",
"In both of those contests, the competitions received heavy promotion during the show, with Mozart urging Mozart's viewers to participate.",
"However, in this dog photo fight, Mozart is having an impact without any direct participation.",
"Schwartz said the competition recognizes the outside influence of the Colbert bump.",
"\"If there are those Colbert-named dogs that can get those thousands of votes, we don't want to leave anyone out, so we added a new daily contest.\"",
"The voting for this week ends at midnight on Saturday.",
"Schwartz said the grand prize winner will be named on Thanksgiving Day."
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"There are many reasons why British woman is an extraordinary woman -- British woman has rowed single-handed across Atlantic and is now tackling the Pacific, after all.",
"Life changer:",
"From successful career to ocean rower, British woman has been an inspiration for many.",
"But British woman's response to everyday commuter ennui is perhaps of the most remarkable things about British woman.",
"Back in 2000 British woman was facing another dreary journey by train to the office.",
"British woman had a great job as a management consultant, money and a husband; but deep down British woman knew something was missing.",
"So, instead of just burying British woman's feelings, British woman wrote two obituaries of British woman.",
"In one British woman kept going with life as it was.",
"In the other British woman took a jump into the unknown and did the things British woman'd always wanted to.",
"From that moment on British woman's life has never been the same.",
"\"One-by-one, I shed the trappings of my old life,\" British woman writes on British woman's web site.",
"\"The job, the husband, the home, the little red sports car.",
"I moved house with increasing regularity, wherever I could find cheap or preferably free accommodation.",
"\"Little by little I began to realign her life, to put British woman on track for the obituary I really wanted.\"",
"Eventually British woman settled on the challenge that would in many ways define British woman: rowing the Atlantic single handed.",
"It was, of course, incredibly hard, both physically and mentally.",
"British woman had done some rowing while at the University of Oxford -- but the open ocean was a different challenge altogether.",
"But British woman emerged a tougher, happier person on the other side, and is now deep into British woman's new attempt to row the Pacific, a journey British woman hopes to use to raise awareness of environmental issues.",
"The courage British woman has found, both to take on the might of the open ocean and give up safe, conventional notions of success to pursue British woman's dreams has made Roz a hero to many people that hope to find inspiration in British woman's life -- including a large number of CNN.com readers who have nominated British woman as a \"Green Inspiration\".",
"\"I feel a little embarrassed about it -- that must be the British in British woman!\"",
"British woman told CNN from the middle of the Pacific Ocean.",
"\"I certainly don't see British woman as any kind of hero, just a human being trying to be the best human she can be.",
"But at the same time I want to reach out to as many people as I can, because I wish I'd had more positive role models to show me how good life can be, and if I can inspire just a few people to change just a few people's lives for the better, I'll feel I've lived a very blessed life.\"",
"Rowing across the Pacific Ocean .",
"On British woman's journey British woman keeps the many people following British woman up to date with regular blog posts on British woman's website.",
"Posts range from the personal to the global, the reality of life on the open waves to plastic pollution, the North Pacific Garbage Patch, and how people could reduce the amount of waste people generate.",
"\"I try to offer her life as an example of what can be done when a very ordinary person decides to do something out of the ordinary,\" British woman said.",
"\"I love her life, and want to show people how much fun it can be when you get out there and grab life by the horns.",
"It would be very selfish of British woman to keep this fantastic discovery to British woman!",
"\"Every time I get a comment on my blog from someone who says they have changed their life as a result of reading about me and my adventures -- anything from composting their kitchen scraps to quitting their job to start out on an adventure of their own -- it gives me a huge warm glow of accomplishment.",
"And it makes me feel even better when they tell me how much fun they are having doing it.",
"Because that is what life is all about.\"",
"But adventure doesn't have to involve months alone in a rowing boat, with only sea birds, the sun and the wind for company.",
"\"Everybody is different, and will find their own way,\" she said.",
"\"For British woman, at the time when I decided to row oceans, I felt the need for a dramatic contrast to the very conventional life I'd had before, and ocean rowing seemed to fit the bill.",
"I do think that you learn things about yourself in extreme situations that you wouldn't learn in less testing circumstances.",
"\"But the situation doesn't have to be physically extreme.",
"Parenthood, starting a new business, moving to a new town or a new country -- these are all ways to put yourself in a challenging new environment where you have to throw away your old preconceptions about what is or is not possible, and try out new approaches.\"",
"Ever action has an effect .",
"British woman's advice for anyone stuck in a rut is don't be afraid to fail.",
"If you know what you want to do, then don't be intimidated.",
"Write a list of what you can do to achieve your goals.",
"If there seems to be things on it you can't do yet, then British woman says it isn't detailed enough -- any task can be broken down into achievable steps.",
"\"Everything is a learning experience if you allow it to be.",
"I keep a journal -- on land and at sea -- and this really helps me to learn from my experiences,\" British woman said.",
"At the core of British woman's mission in the Pacific is a belief that we can not only transform our own lives through our actions, but our relationship to the natural world around us as well.",
"\"There has been so much bad news about environmental issues that I think some people feel overwhelmed,\" British woman said.",
"\"But there is something we can all do to make a difference -- and it all adds up.",
"\"It's about more than just using a re-usable bag, or picking up a piece of trash from a beach.",
"It's about an attitude and a way of thinking.",
"\"Every action has effects beyond the action itself -- other people will see what you are doing and follow your example.",
"It's the ripple effect.",
"And if we all pull together, we can make a world of difference.\"",
"Fundamentally, British woman's message is that life is for living and we learn as much from failure as success if we are open-minded and positive.",
"\"My life now is so much more fulfilling and fun, and I'm incredibly glad I took that leap of faith.",
"There is nothing special about me that made me able to do that leap of faith.",
"If I can do that leap of faith, anybody can -- if anybody want to.",
"\"Get out there, live life large, make the world a better place -- and have fun!\"",
"Send us an email and tell us who you think deserves to be recognized as a Green Inspiration ."
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"Santiago, Chile (CNN) --",
"Chile marks three days of mourning starting Sunday, with every house authorized to hang the national flag in memory of those who perished in Chile a week ago.",
"Hundreds of people died when Chile struck on February 27.",
"Chile also triggered a tsunami that toppled buildings, particularly in the Maule region along the coast.",
"The death toll was lowered Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of victims in the Maule region along the coast.",
"To limit confusion, Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende read aloud the names of 279 Chileans whose bodies had been identified by Thursday evening.",
"The new tally does not account for hundreds of unidentified victims.",
"Full coverage of Chile earthquake, aftermath .",
"\"It takes months sometimes to compile the information, because one of the biggest problems in the affected areas is the lack of precision and uncertainty at the scene,\" Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende said.",
"Aid poured in for Chile from home and overseas, with a local television station hoping to raise $27 million by Saturday night and the United Nations pledging money toward recovery efforts.",
"\"Chile Helps Chile,\" a telethon that started Friday, ran until Saturday night.",
"It was unclear whether it had reached its goal early Sunday.",
"the United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon pledged up to $10 million for relief and recovery efforts during a two-day visit that included a visit with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.",
"\"I am visiting this city with a deep sadness,\" Ban said Saturday in Concepcion.",
"\"Standing before this destruction, I can feel for your loss, your struggle.\"",
"Shocking scenes hours after quake .",
"Ban also announced a team effort between U.N. agencies and Chile to determine the priority areas for funds, with emphasis on health, shelters, education and water.",
"The Ban plans to bring the matter in front of the United Nations on Ban's return.",
"Chile has asked the United Nations for items such as field hospitals with surgical facilities, dialysis centers, generators, saltwater purifying systems, mobile bridges and field kitchens.",
"The United States has also sent in help, including 71 satellite phones and mobile water treatment units, the State Department said.",
"Six more water treatment units are to arrive within a week.",
"A field hospital and two C-130 aircraft to assist with moving supplies around the country have also been deployed.",
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Pakistani soldiers and militants battled Saturday in the country's vast tribal region, with more than a dozen insurgents killed in airstrikes, at least four soldiers slain in skirmishes and a key village seized by troops, the military said.",
"A Pakistani soldier pictured during operations against militants in June.",
"The fatalities come hours after Pakistani troops launched a massive ground offensive backed up by air power targeting the Taliban in South Waziristan, a refuge and a power base for insurgents operating in Pakistan and along the Pakistani-Afghan border.",
"The highly anticipated offensive, which comes after a wave of suicide attacks in Pakistan, also has prompted the exodus of tens of thousands of civilians, the U.N. refugee agency said.",
"One military official said Pakistani troops seized control of Kotkai, where Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has lived with fellow commander Qari Hussein, the mastermind behind some of Pakistan's deadliest suicide attacks.",
"Watch how the offensive began » .",
"Another military official said the airstrikes from jet fighters and helicopter gunships targeted militant hideouts in Kotkai and the villages of Badar, Barwand and Khisur, all strongholds of the Taliban and the Taliban's late leader Baitullah Mehsud.",
"Another military official asked not to be identified because Another military official is not authorized to speak to the media.",
"There have been confrontations throughout the day between soldiers and militants.",
"Along with the four slain soldiers, 12 have been wounded, the military said.",
"Gen. Athar Abbas, the Pakistan military spokesman, said the ground offensive in South Waziristan was launched shortly after midnight after the military received clearance from the government.",
"He said South Waziristan's eight entry and exit points have been sealed by troops.",
"Pakistani officials say that about 10,000 to 15,000 militants linked to the Taliban or to al Qaeda operate in South Waziristan, a harsh terrain familiar to militants but difficult for others to navigate.",
"About 28,000 Pakistani soldiers have moved into the epicenter of Taliban activity in South Waziristan to counter their activities, officials said.",
"Elsewhere in Pakistan's tribal region, in the Mohmand Agency, at least eight militants and one soldier were killed Saturday when at least eight militants and one soldier exchanged gunfire near a military checkpoint, the military said.",
"For months, the military had been targeting militant hideouts in South Waziristan and other hot spots in Pakistan's tribal areas.",
"This year, troops launched a large operation targeting militants in the Swat Valley, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.",
"But despite these efforts, insurgents have continued to strike with relative impunity inside Pakistan, brazenly targeting government, police and security locations.",
"The latest attack occurred Friday in the northern city of Peshawar, when a suicide car bomber detonated near a police station, killing 13 people, most of 13 people civilians.",
"The recent wave of deadly attacks has raised concerns about the ability of Pakistan's security forces to maintain control.",
"deadly attacks heightened internal and international pressure on the government to take swift and effective action.",
"In a high-level meeting Friday, army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani \"gave a detailed briefing on the prevailing national security situation and its ramifications in the future,\" according to a statement from the prime minister's office.",
"Those who attended a high-level meeting condemned deadly attacks and \"agreed that these elements pose a serious threat to the sovereignty and integrity of the state,\" a statement from the prime minister's office said.",
"deadly attacks show \"once again that the militants in Pakistan threaten both Pakistan and the United States,\" White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said.",
"On Thursday, President Obama approved an additional $7.5 billion in assistance to Pakistan over the next five years."
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"An Airbus airplane was forced to turn back to New York 90 minutes into a flight to Paris, Air France said Monday.",
"The Air France A380 turned back due to a \"minor incident,\" Air France said, refusing to say what the technical hitch was.",
"Airbus also declined to specify what caused the plane to turn back, saying the incident was an issue for the Air France maintenance team not the aircraft's manufacturer.",
"The pilots made the decision to turn back \"in strict accordance with procedures and as a precautionary measure... following a minor technical problem in order to carry out ground checks,\" Air France said.",
"the plane landed at New York's John F. Kennedy International airport \"without incident\" at 10:17 p.m. ET on Friday, November 27, Air France said.",
"the plane was serviced and later completed the plane's transatlantic journey, Air France said.",
"Air France had begun flying the brand-new A380 across the Atlantic only days before, Airbus said.",
"Its inaugural commercial flight from Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport to JFK was on November 21.",
"Air France became the fourth airline to operate the superjumbo when Air France received Air France's first A380 at the end of last month.",
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"A ferry crammed with people capsized late Friday night in Bangladesh, killing at least 28 passengers, police said.",
"Boat had a capacity of 1,500, but was overcrowded with about 2,000 people, said Nazrul Islam, the police chief of Bangladesh's southern Bhola district.",
"They were traveling from the capital, Dhaka, to their homes in Bhola for Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.",
"Boat toppled as passengers weighted down one side to disembark, Islam said.",
"The dead included eight women and 15 children.",
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"Obama will announce the U.S. troop strategy for Afghanistan in a speech at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.",
"In the speech, Obama will explain why U.S. is in Afghanistan, U.S.'s interests there and Obama's decision-making process, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, but \"Obama does not see this as an open-ended engagement.",
"\"Our time there will be limited, and I think that's important for people to understand,\" he said.",
"\"We are in year nine\" in Afghanistan, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.",
"\"We're not going to be there another eight or nine years.\"",
"Obama will meet with members of Congress at the White House on Tuesday afternoon before the speech.",
"Cost issues are among the topics Obama will address, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.",
"\"It's a million dollars a troop for a year,\" White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.",
"\"Ten thousand troops is $10 billion.",
"That's in addition to what we already spend in Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"That also does not include training, and it doesn't include the maintaining of a security force.",
"It's very, very, very expensive.\"",
"But, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs added, \"I think Obama, throughout this process, has talked about the cost in terms of American lives and in terms of the cost to our treasury, and I think Obama'll continue to talk about it.\"",
"Obama ordered more than 20,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in March.",
"Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, reportedly has called for up to 40,000 more to wage a counterinsurgency campaign against the Taliban, the Islamic militia originally ousted by U.S. military action in 2001.",
"Obama has weighed several options for bolstering the American contingent, ranging from sending a few thousand troops to the 40,000 McChrystal requested.",
"A defense official told CNN earlier this week the Pentagon is making detailed plans to send about 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan in anticipation of Obama's decision on the 8-year-old war.",
"There had been no final word on Obama's decision as of Tuesday, said the Defense Department official, who has direct knowledge of the process.",
"But A defense official said planners have been tasked with preparing to send 34,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan with the expectation that Obama was leaning toward approving that many.",
"iReporters sound off; share your views on sending more troops in Afghanistan .",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to receive the paperwork Thursday to approve orders to deploy 1,000 Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to Afghanistan in late December -- the first of the new troops to be sent, a U.S. military official told CNN on Wednesday.",
"a U.S. military official is not authorized to talk about the plans because they have not been officially announced.",
"1,000 Marines are part of a battalion task force that has been preparing and training for the deployment, the official said.",
"Obama held a lengthy meeting with top advisers Monday night, and Obama told reporters Tuesday that Obama would announce new plans for Afghanistan after Thanksgiving.",
"McChrystal took part in a lengthy meeting with top advisers Monday, along with Vice President Joe Biden, Gates, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen and Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, Afghanistan.",
"Obama said Tuesday that the deliberations had been \"comprehensive and extremely useful.\"",
"\"It's going to be important to recognize that in order for us to succeed there [in Afghanistan], you've got to have a comprehensive strategy that includes civilian and diplomatic efforts,\" Obama said at a news conference Tuesday with visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.",
"A defense official said Tuesday that the military is planning to send three U.S. Army brigades, totaling about 15,000 troops; a Marine brigade with about 8,000 troops; a headquarters element of about 7,000; and between 4,000 and 5,000 support troops -- a total of about 34,000 troops.",
"CNN reported last month that this was the Pentagon's preferred option.",
"However, A defense official said Wednesday that the Marines are expected to deploy 8,000 combat, aviation and support troops, plus 1,000 to 1,500 Marines as part of a headquarters unit -- a total of between 9,000 and 9,500.",
"They will be in addition to the 11,000 Marines already in Afghanistan.",
"After the first deployment, the remaining Marines will deploy over the next three to four months, A defense official said.",
"The troops would be dispatched throughout Afghanistan but would be focused mainly on the southern and southeastern provinces, where much of the recent fighting has taken place.",
"Currently, brigades from Fort Drum in upstate New York and Fort Campbell in Kentucky are among those next in line to deploy.",
"About 68,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, along with about 45,000 from NATO.",
"Two U.S. military officials have told CNN that NATO countries would be asked to contribute more troops to fill the gap between the 34,000 the Pentagon expects Obama to send and the 40,000 McChrystal wants.",
"The request is expected to come during a December 7 meeting at NATO's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Brussels next week to meet with allies, State Department sources told CNN.",
"the Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell would not discuss specific numbers, but Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said NATO would be asked for additional help.",
"Obama's Afghanistan plan will include \"very broad terms\" that show how and where U.S. is succeeding in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. military official told CNN.",
"Those points will be used to determine how and when troops can be brought home.",
"Another senior military official said McChrystal will take McChrystal's orders from Obama and will do the best McChrystal can with what McChrystal has.",
"The question, Another senior military official said, is not the number of troops, but is whether U.S. has \"the right resources to do what we need to do.\"",
"\"We can't just go and blow people up and win this war,\" Another senior military official said.",
"\"We have to gain the trust of the people, and that is a major part of the plan here.\"",
"U.S.-led troops invaded Afghanistan in response to the al Qaeda terrorist network's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.",
"The invasion overthrew the ruling Taliban, which had allowed al Qaeda to operate from al Qaeda's territory -- but most of the top al Qaeda and al Qaeda leadership escaped the onslaught.",
"al Qaeda fighters have since regrouped to the mountainous region along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, battling U.S. and Afghan government forces on one side and Pakistani troops on the other.",
"al Qaeda's top leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, remain at large and are suspected to be hiding in the mountainous region along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.",
"The conflict has so far claimed the lives of more than 900 Americans and nearly 600 allied troops.",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty, Deirdre Walsh, Elaine Quijano and Mike Mount contributed to this report."
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"Obama met with national security team Monday night to discuss Afghanistan ."
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"The California runner who was lost in a forest for three days without water had barely a few hours to go before Maria \"Gina would have died, Dr. Derrick Hong's doctor said Thursday.",
"Runner Maria \"Gina\" Natero-Armenta, 36, survived for three days without water in a California forest.",
"Maria \"Gina\" Natero-Armento, 36, not only survived 72 hours with only a slice of apple in Maria \"Gina's stomach and a little bit of water for nourishment, Maria \"Gina also has only one functioning kidney, Dr. Derrick Hong said.",
"Dr. Derrick Hong spoke with CNN on Thursday afternoon, along with Natero-Armento and Maria \"Gina's husband, Armando Armento, in a conference call interview from Maria \"Gina's room at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California.",
"Maria \"Gina is no amateur when it comes to distance or mountain running.",
"Maria \"Gina's one of the top female finishers in a San Diego 100-mile race and an experienced ultrarunner with top times in other 100-mile and 50-mile races.",
"Maria \"Gina's body was unusually strong to begin with, but Maria \"Gina also has one kidney -- the other doesn't function because of a congenital disorder.",
"\"This is extraordinary,\" Hung said.",
"Maria \"Gina said Maria \"Gina had planned a simple eight-mile run, a small fraction of what the ultrarunner usually tackles in a sport that challenges competitors to run at least farther than a 26.2-mile marathon.",
"Maria \"Gina is among the majority of ultrarunners who like doing 100-mile races.",
"Maria \"Gina set out from Maria \"Gina's Oceanside home at 5:30 a.m. Sunday to meet Fidel Diaz, Maria \"Gina's running partner and brother-in-law, who is also a serious ultrarunner.",
"They planned to run along a trail in the the Cleveland National Forest near San Diego.",
"Maria \"Gina brought along two water bottles and wore a Camelpak, a backpack that can be filled with water.",
"That was plenty of water for an eight-mile outing.",
"Maria \"Gina didn't bring food with Maria \"Gina, but Maria \"Gina said Maria \"Gina ate a piece of apple before Maria \"Gina started, and that was the only food in Maria \"Gina's stomach.",
"Maria \"Gina said Maria \"Gina did several things that were out of character that day, and Maria \"Gina wishes Maria \"Gina had been more prepared.",
"\"I am very careful usually, but that particular day, I was not,\" Maria \"Gina said.",
"\"I normally, the night before the long runs, I have everything ready.",
"And this night, I had nothing ready, and it was just a mistake.\"",
"Maria \"Gina usually wears a Garmin GPS watch, a sophisticated device that runners use to find out where runners are, the distance runners have traveled, calories burned and altitude.",
"\"I didn't have my Garmin and wasn't wearing a watch,\" Maria \"Gina said.",
"\"I don't know.",
"I always carry food with Maria \"Gina, and I didn't have nearly enough.\"",
"\"I always carry my phone with Maria \"Gina, and I didn't have my phone with Maria \"Gina, and that really was a big mistake,\" Maria \"Gina said.",
"Feeling antsy to just get on the trail and run, Maria \"Gina wasn't thinking deliberately.",
"\"I just wanted to get going that day; get some fresh air and go for a run.",
"I hurried up.\"",
"Natero-Armento and Diaz began running about 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Maria \"Gina said.",
"Maria \"Gina lost track of as much as eight hours, Maria \"Gina said, as Maria \"Gina and Diaz became lost.",
"By then, Maria \"Gina was dehydrated and disoriented.",
"And Natero-Armento said Maria \"Gina also made another, more serious bad decision.",
"At some point in the run, Diaz had become ill.",
"Ultrarunning is a sport in which some participants sometimes push some participants way too hard.",
"\"[Diaz was] pretty much beside me or in front of Maria \"Gina, but I do know that I was insisting on keeping going since I was OK,\" Maria \"Gina said.",
"\"Diaz doesn't eat or drink much ever [when out on runs], so I know Diaz can handle that.\"",
"Maria \"Gina said that Maria \"Gina kept going because Maria \"Gina'd seen Diaz run hard while sick -- also not uncommon in 50- and 100-mile races -- and that Maria \"Gina figured Diaz could handle it if Maria \"Gina pushed Diaz.",
"Maria \"Gina said She and her running partner became separated as She and her running partner two were going over a rugged hill.",
"\"She and her running partner had separated because She and her running partner were going through a hill quite a while and had to go through brush, and that's how I have a lot of scrapes.",
"So that was very difficult,\" Maria \"Gina said.",
"\"[She and her running partner] crawl under and break branches, and that was the only way She and her running partner were going to get out of there, according to Diaz.",
"So I don't think Diaz was able to see that I was not there anymore.\"",
"Maria \"Gina said that Diaz was in front of Maria \"Gina.",
"Diaz would shout to Maria \"Gina so they knew the other one was close by: Diaz shouted to Maria \"Gina, and Maria \"Gina shouted back.",
"Then, at one point, Maria \"Gina couldn't hear Diaz anymore.",
"\"When I called Diaz and Diaz didn't answer, at this point, I lost a little bit of control,\" Maria \"Gina said.",
"Night turned into day.",
"Maria \"Gina had no water or food, and Maria \"Gina didn't try to eat anything.",
"Maria \"Gina became disoriented but had the wherewithal to know that Maria \"Gina was completely out of fuel.",
"Maria \"Gina didn't have the strength to keep walking, so Maria \"Gina climbed into a ravine, believing that would be the safest place.",
"Diaz was not available for an interview Thursday.",
"Diaz was found Wednesday several hours before Maria \"Gina was.",
"It's not clear why Diaz was lost for so long and where, for days, Diaz had traveled in the forest.",
"Rather than ask for water, law enforcement said, Diaz asked how Natero-Armento was doing and if someone had found Maria \"Gina.",
"\"I really had to, from the beginning, accept that I was not capable of getting out of there, there was no where to go,\" Maria \"Gina said, recalling Maria \"Gina's hours in a ravine, thinking about Maria \"Gina's husband and Maria \"Gina's family.",
"Maria \"Gina told Maria \"Gina Maria \"Gina would live.",
"\"I knew what I had to do.\"",
"The experience has not scared Maria \"Gina away from distance running on trails.",
"When Maria \"Gina's kidney is strong again, Maria \"Gina will be back, running."
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"Mourners buried a senior Hamas militant Friday after Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's recent death in Dubai -- a death Hamas calls an \"assassination.\"",
"Mahmoud al-Mabhouh died in Dubai on January 20, said Izzat al Rishq, a Hamas member based in Syria.",
"Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was a founding member of the military wing of Hamas, which blamed Israel for Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's death.",
"\"We hold the enemy responsible for the assassination of Mahmoud Mabhouh,\" the militant wing said in an online statement.",
"\"the enemy will not escape punishment.\"",
"It said Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was responsible for capturing two Israeli soldiers during the first intifada and named the pair: Sgt. Avi Sasportas and Cpl. Ilan Saadon .",
"The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Sasportas was kidnapped on Feb. 16, 1989 and shot to death.",
"Sasportas's body was found in May 1989.",
"The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the same Hamas terror cell that kidnapped Sasportas abducted Saadon on May 3, 1989.",
"Saadon's body was discovered in 1996.",
"Government officials in Israel declined to comment on the militant wing's statement.",
"One official in Dubai told CNN that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh died of natural causes.",
"But the Emirates News Agency said authorities determined that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed and were working with Interpol to hunt down alleged perpetrators thought to be part of a \"criminal gang,\" some of whom have European passports.",
"Hamas said Hamas is investigating the death and that Hamas would publish details \"in a timely manner.\"",
"Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's brother, Fayek al-Mabhouh, said that preliminary results of Hamas's investigation show Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed by electrocution and strangulation with a piece of cloth.",
"Al-Mabhouh's said Al-Mabhouh's's brother had survived other assassination attempts.",
"The Emirates News Agency report quoted a security source saying the gang had been tracking the victim.",
"Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had lived in Syria for about 20 years.",
"Mahmoud al-Mabhouh traveled from Syria to Dubai on January 19 and died the next day, Hamas officials in Gaza said.",
"It's not clear why Mahmoud al-Mabhouh traveled to Dubai, but Al-Mabhouh's said Al-Mabhouh's's brother arrived at a Dubai hotel in charge of the Hamas mission.",
"Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's body was returned to Damascus on Thursday night and was buried after Friday prayers, Hamas officials in Gaza said.",
"CNN's Kevin Flower, Saad Abedine, Caroline Faraj, and Talal Abu Rahma contributed to The Emirates News Agency report ."
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"Just taking a sip of water or walking to the bathroom is excruciatingly painful for 15-year-old Michael Brewer, who was burned over 65 percent of Mikey's body after being set on fire, allegedly by a group of teenagers.",
"\"It hurts my heart to see Mikey in pain, but it enlightens at the same time to know my son is strong enough to make it through on a daily basis,\" Mikey's mother, Valerie Brewer, told CNN on Wednesday.",
"Brewer and her husband, Michael Brewer, Sr., spoke to CNN's Tony Harris, a day after a 13-year-old boy who witnessed last month's attack publicly read a written statement: .",
"\"I want to express my deepest sympathy to Mikey and Mikey's family,\" Jeremy Jarvis said.",
"\"I will pray for Mikey to grow stronger every day and for Mikey's speedy recovery.\"",
"Jeremy Jarvis's older brother has been charged in the October 12 attack in Deerfield Beach, Florida.",
"When asked about the teen's statement, Valerie Brewer -- who knows the Jarvis family -- said Mother of burned teen \"can't focus on that.\"",
"\"I would really like to stay away from that because that brings negative energy to me and I don't need that right now,\" Mother of burned teen said.",
"Mother of burned teen's son remains in guarded condition at the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center.",
"Mikey suffered second- and third-degree burns over about two-thirds of Mikey's body, according to the hospital's associate director, Dr. Carl Schulman.",
"The teen faces a lifelong recovery from Mikey's injuries, the hospital's associate director, Dr. Carl Schulman told CNN's Harris.",
"\"Mikey's still got a lot of major surgery ahead of Mikey, a lot of rehabilitation and therapy,\" the hospital's associate director, Dr. Carl Schulman said.",
"\"Mikey's doing about as well as could be expected at this point in Mikey's recovery, but Mikey's got a period of probably several weeks to a couple of months still left in the hospital if everything goes well, but his recovery is lifelong.",
"This is truly a life-changing event.\"",
"Mother of burned teen said Mother of burned teen's son's treatment is excruciating at times.",
"Physical therapy, Mother of burned teen said, is \"incredibly painful.",
"Mikey almost cries because it's so painful.",
"Mikey's burned badly on the backs of Mikey's knees and every time Mikey moves Mikey's knee, it pulls, and if it's healing, it pulls the scab and it cracks, and it starts to bleed.\"",
"Mikey must undergo hour-and-a-half showers, Mother of burned teen said, where \"they take a piece of gauze, and they wipe off all the dead skin.",
"They give Mikey painkillers for that, but it's incredibly painful and it breaks my heart every time they have to do it.",
"... That's what we call the torture hour.\"",
"Heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne sent Mikey a CD, and Mikey plays a CD on a boom box during the showers, she said.",
"\"Mikey focuses on Ozzy, and Mikey gets through Mikey's torture hour.\"",
"Police were able to interview Mikey on Monday for the first time since the incident.",
"Hospital officials have said Mikey can communicate only in one- or two-word answers.",
"Mother of burned teen would not go into details about what Mother of burned teen's son told investigators, but said that \"Mikey answered the questions investigators asked.\"",
"The interview was emotional for both the teen and the investigators, according to Maria Schneider, a prosecutor with the state attorney's office in Broward County.",
"\"It was difficult for Mikey to talk about.",
"Difficult for us to listen to,\" she said of The interview.",
"\"Just difficult all around, heart-wrenching.",
"Mikey's doing so much better, but it's such a terrible situation.\"",
"Jeremy Jarvis and Matthew Bent, both 15, are accused along with a third teen, Jesus Mendez, 16, of being in a group that poured alcohol over Mikey and set Mikey ablaze in a dispute over $40, a video game and a bicycle.",
"All three pleaded not guilty in an appearance last week in Broward County Circuit Court.",
"If convicted, they would face a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.",
"Detectives say eyewitnesses told Detectives that Mendez used a lighter to set fire to Mikey after Jeremy Jarvis allegedly poured alcohol over him.",
"Bent allegedly encouraged the attack, police said.",
"Mikey jumped into a pool at Mikey's apartment complex to put out the flames.",
"Authorities have said Mendez admitted setting Mikey on fire.",
"According to an arrest transcript, Jeremy Jarvis said Jeremy Jarvis made a \"bad decision.\"",
"Jeremy Jarvis was arrested as a juvenile after Mikey was burned and spent about 30 days in juvenile detention.",
"However, prosecutors have not filed charges against Jeremy Jarvis and are still determining how to proceed.",
"Jeremy Jarvis still could be charged, as prosecutors have 90 days from Jeremy Jarvis's arrest to decide whether to move forward with the case.",
"Jeremy Jarvis has not been interviewed by police or prosecutors, Schneider said.",
"\"Jeremy Jarvis has invoked Jeremy Jarvis's rights to counsel and has invoked Jeremy Jarvis's rights to silence,\" she said.",
"Jeremy Jarvis's attorney, Stephen Melnick, said it appears Jeremy Jarvis was only a witness to the attack.",
"Broward County schools expelled the seventh-grader after Jeremy Jarvis's arrest and Jeremy Jarvis is currently being home-schooled, Melnick said.",
"He described Mikey's client was a good friend of Mikey, and said Jeremy Jarvis is troubled by Mikey's injuries as well as by Jeremy Jarvis's brother facing criminal charges that could land him in an adult prison if convicted.",
"Mother of burned teen said it was \"heartbreaking\" when Mother of burned teen and Mother of burned teen's husband learned that Mother of burned teen's son's attackers may have included kids that they knew.",
"\"But we don't focus on that,\" Mother of burned teen added.",
"\"We focus strictly on Mikey and Mikey's recovery.",
"We don't need any negative energy coming into his recovery so we just stay away from it, period.",
"We don't watch the news because we're living this nightmare and we don't need to see it on the TV.",
"So we just stay away from it and stay positive for Mikey.\"",
"Mother of burned teen's son's recovery has been filled with ups and downs, Mother of burned teen said.",
"\"It's been a roller coaster ride, the fear of the unknown,\" Mother of burned teen said.",
"\"The first time Mikey spoke to us was joyous but watching Mikey struggle every single day ...",
"\"I'm proud of Mikey, I'm very, very proud of Mikey, 'cause I don't think I could do what Mikey's doing.\"",
"CNN's Rich Phillips contributed to this report."
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"As the ferries dock at the Port of Dover after crossing the English Channel, the trucks pull in at a steady rate.",
"Afghanistan's opium harvest can be traced right back to some of the trucks.",
"Afghanistan is the world's biggest supplier of illegal opium, which is made from the seed pods of poppies.",
"\"The routes are many and varied, the concealments are many and varied, we see body [concealment], we see what you call stuffers and swallowers, internal concealments,\" says Steve Coates, deputy director of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency.",
"\"They're one step ahead of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency and Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency're desperately trying to get one step ahead of them and I think it's a long game,\" Coates said.",
"Coates has spent almost 25 years tracking the heroin pipeline.",
"But Coates says the approach over the last few years is more intelligence-led.",
"\"If we seize the powder, the commodity, they very quickly replace the powder, the commodity.",
"The financial flow is much more important.",
"If you can hit the gangs, the proceeds of crime, you really are affecting the gangs, you're reaching right into the gangs and actually impacting the gangs,\" says Coates.",
"Watch how the Afghan drug pipeline is difficult to stop » .",
"A new United Nations report confirms the status of the lawless and fertile lands of southern Afghanistan as the world's biggest supplier of illegal opium, the addictive narcotic that is made from the seed pods of poppies.",
"The drug is ravaging the young, poor and vulnerable in Afghanistan, and The drug's proceeds are the lifeblood of the Taliban.",
"The drug also is spreading on a drug trail that spans the world.",
"While Western governments have for years debated how to stop the lucrative drug trade in Afghanistan, the business has only grown.",
"A new United Nations report notes that for years, the counternarcotics strategies around the world have failed to have any real effect on addiction or drug trafficking.",
"In some countries, heroin is 10 times cheaper now than heroin was 30 years ago.",
"\"We've been very good in the past at playing cops and robbers, but did [that] make a difference?",
"No it didn't,\" concedes Coates.",
"The key now, say law enforcement officials, isn't wiping out the poppies, scanning every truck or locking up the small-time dealers, but rather gathering intelligence that follows and then destroys the lucrative money trail.",
"Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency says Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency is now committed to taking a collaborative approach not just with Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency's own national partners, but by working intelligence links through the world."
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"(CNN) --",
"Hundred's of fans and former teammates of Germany international footballer Robert Enke gathered to lay flowers and light candles outside of Hannover 96's Niedersachsen Stadion after the club's German goalkeeper was struck and killed by a train on Tuesday, in what police called an apparent suicide.",
"Enke, 32, died around 6:25 p.m. (12:25 p.m. ET), Hannover police press officer Stefan Wittke said in a statement.",
"\"Preliminary police investigations indicate a suicide,\" Hannover police press officer Stefan Wittke said.",
"Police did not elaborate on what evidence Police had that pointed to suicide, but Germany international footballer Robert Enke's close friend and advisor Jorg Neblung told the official Web site of football's world governing body FIFA: \"I can confirm that it was suicide.",
"Germany international footballer Robert Enke took Germany international footballer Robert Enke's own life shortly before six o'clock.\"",
"The team's official Web site has been converted into a single-page memorial.",
"Germany international footballer Robert Enke captained Hannover 96, a team who currently lie tenth in Germany's Bundesliga top division, and had been capped by Germany international footballer Robert Enke's national side eight times after making Germany international footballer Robert Enke's debut aged 29.",
"The shot-stopper had also appeared for teams including Carl Zeiss Jena, Borussia Monchengladbach, Benfica, Barcelona, Fenerbahce and Tenerife in Spain.",
"Germany international footballer Robert Enke's teammates were stunned by news of Germany international footballer Robert Enke's death.",
"\"We are in a state of shock,\" said team manager Oliver Bierhoff in a statement from the German Football Federation.",
"\"It is beyond words.\"",
"the German Football Federation said Germany international footballer Robert Enke always said he wanted to play for the national team at the 2010 World Cup.",
"Soccer commentator and journalist Rafael Honigstein told CNN International that Germany international footballer Robert Enke was on course to be picked as the number-one choice for the national team.",
"Germany international footballer Robert Enke had missed Germany's last four matches because of a bacterial infection, but had recently returned to action with Hannover.",
"\"The leadership of the national team never had any doubt that Germany international footballer Robert Enke was important for the national team both as a goalkeeper and as a human being,\" the the German Football Federation statement said.",
"Germany international footballer Robert Enke is survived by Germany international footballer Robert Enke's wife and eight-month-old daughter, who the couple adopted.",
"The couple's two-year-old daughter died in 2006 from a heart condition, and journalist Rafael Honigstein said the loss of The couple's two-year-old daughter's child had taken a toll on Germany international footballer Robert Enke.",
"\"It's been well documented that Germany international footballer Robert Enke had a tough time,\" journalist Rafael Honigstein said.",
"\"People knew it was a terrible, terrible tragedy for Germany international footballer Robert Enke.\"",
"\"I don't know why and how this happened,\" said Martin Kind, the chairman of Hannover.",
"\"It is a total catastrophe.",
"I am finding it hard to understand.",
"All I can say for sure is that it had nothing to do with football.\"",
"Fellow players said Fellow players believed that Germany international footballer Robert Enke had been suffering depression.",
"\"Germany international footballer Robert Enke was unstable,\" said Mr Kind.",
"\"But Germany international footballer Robert Enke kept it under wraps.\"",
"The coach of Germany's national team, Joachim Lowe, had been preparing his squad for their friendly game against Chile this weekend.",
"the German Football Federation have not yet confirmed whether the game would still be played.",
"A press conference is due to be held by the German Football Federation at 1130 GMT, while Hannover will speak to the media at 1200 GMT on Wednesday.",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen contributed to this report."
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"The Supreme Court voiced deep free speech concerns Tuesday about a law designed to stop the sale and marketing of videos showing dog fights and other acts of animal cruelty.",
"Selling depictions of animal cruelty like this amateur dogfighting video may be illegal under a 1999 statute.",
"The justices heard an hour of lively debate about the scope and intent of the decade-old statute that supporters say has done much to stop the spread of profiting from the torture and abuse of animals.",
"But media groups and National Rifle Association were among those who say the law is overly broad.",
"\"It's not up to the government to decide what are people's worst instincts,\" said Justice Antonin Scalia.",
"\"One can contemplate a lot of other areas, where government could say: You are appealing to people's worst instincts, and, therefore, movies cannot be made\" showing dramatized depictions of animals being abused, for example.",
"\"What about people who like to see human sacrifices?\" asked Justice Samuel Alito, somewhat sarcastically.",
"\"Suppose that is legally taking place someplace in the world.",
"I mean, people here would probably love to see it.",
"Live, pay-per-view, you know, on the Human Sacrifice Channel.",
"They have a point of view they want to express.",
"That's okay?\"",
"Justice Samuel Alito seemed to indicate strongly it was not, and that lawmakers would have discretion to block it.",
"The specific case before the court dealt with tapes showing pit bull dogs attacking other animals and one another in staged confrontations.",
"Watch an excerpt of the tapes » .",
"A federal appeals court had thrown out the conviction of Robert Stevens, a Pittsville, Virginia, man who sold videos through his \"Dogs of Velvet and Steel\" business.",
"According to court records, undercover federal agents found Stevens was advertising Stevens's tapes in \"Sporting Dog Journal,\" an underground magazine on illegal dogfighting.",
"Among the products Stevens advertised was \"Catch Dogs,\" featuring pit bulls chasing wild boars on organized hunts and a \"gruesome depiction of a pit bull attacking the lower jaw of a domestic farm pig,\" according to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based appeals court.",
"Stevens was charged in 2004 with violating interstate commerce laws by selling depictions of animal cruelty.",
"Stevens was later sentenced to 37 months in prison, and promptly appealed.",
"Stevens argued Stevens's sentence was longer than the 14 months given professional football player Michael Vick, who ran an illegal dogfighting ring.",
"It was the first prosecution in the United States to proceed to trial under the 1999 law.",
"The divided appeals court concluded that when it came to the law in question, \"research and empirical evidence in the record before us simply does not support the notion that banning depictions of animal cruelty is a necessary or even particularly effective means of prosecuting underlying acts of animal cruelty.\"",
"Nearly every state and local jurisdiction have Nearly every state and local jurisdiction's own laws banning mistreatment of wild and domesticated animals.",
"Several media organizations have come out in support of Stevens, worrying the law was too broad and could implicate reports about deer hunting, and depictions of bull-fighting in Ernest Hemingway novels.",
"A number of justices too had concerns, raising a number of hypotheticals, a possible sign a majority of the court remains uncomfortable with allowing the law to be reinstated.",
"\"Why not do a simpler thing?\" suggested Justice Stephen Breyer.",
"\"Rather than let the public guess as to what these words mean, ask Congress to write a statute that actually aims at those frightful things that Congress was trying to prohibit.",
"Now, that can be done.\"",
"\"You have to look at the content to determine whether or not the speech is prohibited,\" said Chief Justice John Roberts.",
"\"How can you tell these aren't political videos?",
"With organizations like PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] and others, depictions of the same sort of animal cruelty that is used to generate support for efforts to prohibit it.",
"Why aren't these videos the exact opposite of efforts to legalize it?\"",
"Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned the distinction between Stevens' videos and news items.",
"\"Tell me what the difference is between these videos and [filmmaker] David Roma's documentary on pit bulls?",
"I mean, David Roma's documentary had much, much more footage on the actual animal cruelty than the films at issue here, greater sections of the film, and more explicit,\" Justice Sonia Sotomayor said.",
"David Roma's's 2006 independent film \"Off the Chain\" consisted of a great deal of hidden camera footage.",
"Among the wide-ranging hypotheticals raised by the justices over what the law could forbid included: fox hunts, pate de foie gras from geese, cock fighting, bullfighting, shooting deer out of season, even Roman gladiator battles.",
"Neal Katyal, an attorney for the Justice Department, said the law was \"narrowly targeted\" and had exceptions specifically for \"religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value.\"",
"\"the law has nothing to do with the offense of the message.",
"the law has to do with trying to dry up an underlying market for animal cruelty,\" said Katyal.",
"Justice Samuel Alito appeared most supportive of the government's views.",
"Justice Samuel Alito asked about selling of so-called \"crush\" videos, in which women -- with their faces unseen -- are shown stomping helpless animals such as rabbits to death with spiked-heel shoes or with their bare feet.",
"\"The people who produce 'crush' videos think The people who produce 'crush' videos have a message, and a message is that this is sexually exciting,\" Justice Samuel Alito said, clearly uncomfortable with the subject matter.",
"When Stevens' lawyer Patricia Millett launched into a caveat-laden answer, Justice Samuel Alito broke in.",
"\"You are not even willing to say that this could be prohibited?\" Justice Samuel Alito asked.",
"\"Because we are trying to determine whether this is overly broad.",
"And this is the category of activity that Congress particularly targeted.\"",
"Congressional supporters said a principal motivation for passing the law was to stop the growing popularity of \"crush\" videos.",
"The Humane Society said the market for such videos stopped almost completely after the law was passed.",
"Patricia Millett said \"Congress has a job to write with a scalpel and not a buzz saw in the First Amendment area.\"",
"Patricia Millett noted that if the law is upheld, it would only be the second time the Supreme Court has identified a form of speech undeserving of protection by the First Amendment.",
"The justices in 1982 banned the distribution of child pornography.",
"\"The problem in this case, was that Congress chose to attack speech and to control what the people of this country could see and hear before it was even seriously punishing the conduct at issue and that gets our Constitution upside down,\" Patricia Millett told reporters later.",
"The government had argued a \"compelling interest\" in stopping people who would profit from dog attack tapes and similar depictions.",
"this case is U.S. vs. Stevens (08-769) and a ruling is expected in several months."
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"At least 6,000 Christians have fled Mosul in the past week because of killings and death threats, Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons said Thursday.",
"A Christian family that fled Mosul found refuge in the Al-Sayida monastery about 30 miles north of Mosul.",
"The number represents 1,424 families, at least 70 more families than were reported to be displaced on Wednesday.",
"Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons said Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons had set up an operation room to follow up sending urgent aid to the displaced Christian families as a result of attacks by what Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons called \"terrorist groups.\"",
"Iraqi officials have said the displaced Christian families were frightened by a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists ordering the displaced Christian families to convert to Islam or face death.",
"Fourteen Christians have been slain in the past two weeks in the city, which is about 260 miles (420 kilometers) north of Baghdad.",
"Mosul is one of the last Iraqi cities where al Qaeda in Iraq has a significant presence and routinely carries out attacks.",
"The U.S. military said The U.S. military killed the Sunni militant group's No. 2 leader, Abu Qaswarah, in a raid in Mosul earlier this month.",
"In response to the recent attacks on Christians, authorities have ordered more checkpoints in several of Mosul's Christian neighborhoods.",
"the recent attacks on Christians may have been prompted by Christian demonstrations ahead of provincial elections, which are to be held by January 31, authorities said.",
"Hundreds of Christians took to the streets in Mosul and surrounding villages and towns, demanding adequate representation on provincial councils, whose members will be chosen in the local elections.",
"Thursday, Iraq's minister of immigration and displaced persons discussed building housing complexes for Christian families in northern Iraq and allocating land to build housing complexes for Christian families.",
"Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons brought up the issue when Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons met with a representative of Iraq's Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and with the head of the Kojina Organization for helping displaced persons.",
"A curfew was declared Wednesday in several neighborhoods of eastern Mosul as authorities searched for militants behind the recent attacks on Christians.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Families reportedly frightened by killings and threats by Muslim extremists .",
"Extremists ordering them to convert to Islam, officials say .",
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"A terrorist group might be planning attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, Singapore's navy warned Thursday.",
"\"The terrorists' intent is probably to achieve widespread publicity and showcase that The terrorists' remains a viable group,\" said an advisory issued by the Singapore Navy Information Fusion Centre (IFC).",
"\"However, this information does not preclude possible attacks on other large vessels with dangerous cargo,\" an advisory issued by the Singapore Navy Information Fusion Centre (IFC) said.",
"an advisory issued by the Singapore Navy Information Fusion Centre (IFC) recommended that ships strengthen security measures.",
"an advisory issued by the Singapore Navy Information Fusion Centre (IFC) did not name any groups or indicate how the tip was obtained.",
"Located between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Strait of Malacca links the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and Pacific Ocean and is the shortest sea route between Persian Gulf oil suppliers and Asian markets, according to the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration.",
"the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration estimates that more than 15 million barrels of oil are transported through Strait of Malacca every day.",
"At its narrowest point, Strait of Malacca is only 1.7 miles wide, which creates a natural bottleneck and makes Strait of Malacca vulnerable to terrorist attack.",
"an advisory issued by the Singapore Navy Information Fusion Centre (IFC) warned tanker crews to be on the lookout for smaller vehicles -- including dinghies, sampans and speedboats -- which have been used to launch successful attacks on tankers in the past."
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"Estimated 15 million barrels of oil are transported through Strait of Malacca every day .",
"At its narrowest point Strait of Malacca is only 1.7 miles wide, making Strait of Malacca vulnerable to attack ."
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"Sen. David Vitter returned from a week-long absence from Congress Tuesday, a day after he made a public apology for \"a serious sin\" as investigators probe an alleged prostitution ring that operated in the nation's capital.",
"Sen. David Vitter vanished from public view last week after Sen. David Vitter's phone number turned up among those kept by a reputed \"D.C. Madam\" in records that have become part of her upcoming criminal trial.",
"The Louisiana conservative apologized privately to Sen. David Vitter's fellow Republican senators at his fellow Republican senators's weekly policy lunch Tuesday, senators who attended their weekly policy lunch said.",
"One described Vitter's Sen. David Vitter's apology as \"humble\" and \"short and to the point.\"",
"The senator said Sen. David Vitter was met with a great deal of \"empathy\" by the senators in the room.",
"Watch Sen. David Vitter apologize for Sen. David Vitter's \"past failings\" » .",
"Tuesday morning, Sen. David Vitter did not visit Sen. David Vitter's Senate office, where the media had camped out in anticipation of Vitter's return.",
"Sen. David Vitter also was not seen at a residential address near the Supreme Court building.",
"Sen. David Vitter eventually emerged at a scheduled Senate hearing taking place near Sen. David Vitter's office building.",
"Sen. David Vitter arrived nearly 30 minutes late for the start of the panel, which heard testimony regarding commercial airline service to outlying parts of the United States.",
"At first, only CNN and a local camera crew had learned of Sen. David Vitter's whereabouts.",
"But as word spread among media outlets, Senate officials had to urge order among the gaggle of newspaper writers, photographers and other television crews that began making noisy entrances to record Sen. David Vitter's return.",
"Sen. David Vitter left a scheduled Senate hearing taking place near his office building early and tried to ignore shouted questions and camera lights in the hallway.",
"Sen. David Vitter then turned and stopped.",
"Sen. David Vitter referred to comments Sen. David Vitter made Monday evening near New Orleans, Louisiana, then said, \"I look forward today to be back at work, really focused on a lot of important issues for the people of Louisiana.",
"I'll leave it at that.\"",
"Last week, Sen. David Vitter acknowledged in a statement that Sen. David Vitter's number had turned up in the telephone records of accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey.",
"Vitter, 46, said those calls were made prior to Sen. David Vitter's election to Senate in 2004, and Sen. David Vitter and Sen. David Vitter's wife had already dealt with what Sen. David Vitter termed a \"serious sin\" privately, through marriage counseling and confession to a Roman Catholic priest.",
"On Monday, Sen. David Vitter and Sen. David Vitter's wife Wendy spoke to reporters in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, where Sen. David Vitter lives.",
"\"I know this has hurt the relationship of trust I've enjoyed with so many of you and that I have a lot of work to do to rebuild trust,\" Sen. David Vitter said.",
"accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey is facing money laundering and racketeering charges stemming from Palfrey's alleged prostitution operation.",
"accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey had denied money laundering and racketeering charges stemming from her alleged prostitution operation, saying Palfrey's business was a legitimate, legal escort service.",
"At first accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey tried to sell the phone records to raise money for accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's defense.",
"After a judge imposed restrictions on the phone records, accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey distributed the phone records without charge, hoping media outlets would help track down clients who accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's lawyer believes may help in accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's defense.",
"Sen. David Vitter is the first lawmaker entangled in the case, although State Department official Randall Tobias resigned in May after confirming State Department official Randall Tobias patronized accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's business.",
"Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine claimed credit for exposing Sen. David Vitter's connection to accused \"D.C. Madam\" Deborah Jeane Palfrey, saying he came clean only after a journalist working as a paid consultant for Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine discovered the senator's number in her phone records.",
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"A California movement protesting $1 billion in budget cuts to the state's university system appeared to have burgeoned into a nationwide demonstration on Thursday.",
"Students and professors in dozens of states were challenging administrators and state lawmakers over budget cuts and tuition increases that Students and professors in dozens of states say are reducing students' class options and increasing their expenses.",
"Some of the demonstrations turned chaotic.",
"In Oakland, California, police arrested 160 protesters who shut down a major freeway, according to city police spokeswoman April McFarland.",
"The Oakland protesters had left a march from the University of California, Berkeley to Oakland City Hall and wound up on the Interstate 980/880 interchange, CNN San Francisco affiliate KGO reported.",
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"Protesters threaten to block interstate .",
"city police spokeswoman April McFarland said 160 protesters who shut down a major freeway brought Thursday evening rush hour traffic to a halt for an hour and 45 minutes.",
"One man is in critical condition after One man tried to elude arrest by jumping off the freeway onto a tree, KGO reported.",
"One man fell from a tree onto the street below, a roughly 22 foot drop from the Interstate 980/880 interchange, according to KGO.",
"At the University of California Davis, police held back student protesters who had threatened to shut down nearby Interstate 80, CNN affiliate KCRA in Sacramento reported.",
"Police fired rubber bullets into the ground in an effort to deter students, who made it as far as an I-80 exit ramp just south of campus.",
"At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, at least 15 people were arrested in demonstrations Thursday, according to CNN affiliate WTMJ.",
"A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee vice chancellor allowed a protester to drop off pamphlets in the chancellor's office, then called campus police when dozens of protesters tried to enter the building, according to WTMJ.",
"University police called the Milwaukee Police Department for backup, and officers spent an hour rounding up protesters.",
"Students yelled \"Let her go!\" and \"What did A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee vice chancellor do?\" as Milwaukee police led students into students's black and white vans.",
"Across the country, students told of having to work second jobs and make lifestyle adjustments in the face of dramatic tuition hikes.",
"\"I work at two jobs, go to school full time to make ends meet,\" said Tyler, a fifth-year senior at San Francisco State University, where students and faculty protested Thursday.",
"Tyler, a fifth-year senior at San Francisco State University, where students and faculty protested Thursday did not give Tyler, a fifth-year senior at San Francisco State University, where students and faculty protested Thursday last name.",
"\"I have been here a really long time.",
"I struggle to keep [taking] classes to be able to keep my financial aid every semester, and I really don't know when I'm going to be able to get out of here.",
"Every semester, something is cut, and I can't get the class I need.",
"Who knows when I will be out of here,\" Tyler, a fifth-year senior at San Francisco State University, where students and faculty protested Thursday said.",
"Many of Thursday's demonstrations focused on cuts to state-funded colleges and universities, which supporters say drive up tuition, limit classes and make higher education unobtainable to many.",
"A blog called Student Activism, which was compiling a list of the protests, said that 122 events were scheduled in 33 states -- most on campuses, and some at state capitols.",
"Are you taking part in protests?",
"Send photos, videos .",
"Professors and students say dissatisfaction, anger and an uncertain future had led to call for a \"Day of Action\" to defend education.",
"At the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, dozens of protesters gathered Thursday and chanted, \"Hey hey, ho ho, these student fees have got to go.\"",
"Video submitted from the demonstration by a CNN iReporter calling himself Bowtieguy showed students carrying handmade signs with messages like \"Where's Holub's pay cut?\" -- a reference to university chancellor Robert C. Holub.",
"Another homemade sign read \"Chop from the top.\"",
"At California State University-Fullerton, dozens of students marched outdoors, chanting, \"Students united will never be divided.\"",
"A video submitted by a CNN iReporter who calls herself MelissaF showed handmade signs saying \"Protect humanities\" and \"What happened to our future?\"",
"State funding for the California State University system was reduced by nearly $1 billion for the academic years between 2008 and 2010.",
"Schools have responded by increasing fees, canceling classes, cutting student support programs and furloughing professors.",
"Fees have increased 182 percent since 2002.",
"Class waiting lists have doubled or tripled.",
"\"The less affordable education becomes, the less likely low-income students will be able to get a college education,\" said Lillian Taiz, president of the California Faculty Association and professor of history at California State University Los Angeles.",
"In addition to protests at numerous public colleges and universities in California, demonstrations also were planned for K-12 schools Thursday, according to the Student Activism blog.",
"See where the protests are happening .",
"On the other side of the country, in Georgia, a legislative committee proposed $300 million in cuts to Georgia's college system, on top of the $100 million cut in the past two years, University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams wrote in an open letter to students, faculty and staff.",
"\"This is not our plan; these are not cuts we offered to make; and we will vigorously oppose any effort to implement them,\" University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams wrote.",
"In response, student organizers in Georgia are urging fellow students at every college in the state system to wear black this week to \"symbolize the 'death' of our education,\" according to a post on Facebook.",
"In Colorado, hundreds rallied at the Capitol in Denver, holding signs and cheering.",
"Watch students march on the Capitol in Denver .",
"In New York, students at New York University, which is private, planned to meet up to protest tuition increases and education cuts with students from Hunter College and the New School, two other private institutions in Manhattan, said NYU student Claire Lewis.",
"\"It is a private university, but like a lot of public universities, our tuition is also getting increased,\" NYU student Claire Lewis said.",
"\"This isn't anything new with the economic crisis with us; our tuition gets increased an average of 6 percent every year,\" NYU student Claire Lewis said.",
"\"But lots of our students depend on federally funded grants and loans, and so the broader-nation education cuts definitely affect us.\"",
"NYU student Claire Lewis added, \"Kids literally work two or three jobs to pay for Kids's tuition here.\"",
"In Maryland, students at the University of Maryland in College Park planned to walk out of class at noon, meet at the student union and then march to a plaza for a rally, according to a Facebook invitation.",
"CNN's Monica Trevino and Dan Simon contributed to this report."
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"At least 15 reportedly arrested in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee demonstrations .",
"Critics say cutbacks will raise tuition, make higher education unobtainable to many .",
"Budget cuts have resulted in canceled classes, longer class waiting lists in California ."
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"Four men were convicted in Germany on Thursday in connection with a foiled terrorist plot against Western targets, court officials said.",
"Four men had begun mixing a huge amount of explosive material that could have resulted in a strong blast, bigger than attacks in 2005 on London's public transport network and the 2004 Madrid railway bombings, authorities said.",
"Three of Four men -- two Germans and a Turk -- were arrested in September 2007.",
"The other was arrested later.",
"The Germans -- Fritz Gelowicz and Daniel Schneider -- were sentenced to 12 years in prison.",
"Turkish citizen Adem Yilmaz received 11 years.",
"Attila Selek, a German citizen of Turkish descent, received five years.",
"Four men were convicted of, among other things, being members of a terrorist organization, court officials said.",
"Four men had joined the Islamic Jihad Union in 2006.",
"Selek received a shorter sentence because Selek was convicted only of supporting the organization.",
"Three of Four men had trained at camps in northern Pakistan with the group that had ties to al Qaeda, German authorities said.",
"the group that had ties to al Qaeda said the group that had ties to al Qaeda wanted to target the Ramstein Air Base and other U.S. and Uzbek military and diplomatic installations in Germany, German authorities said.",
"the group that had ties to al Qaeda also wanted to force Germany to stop using an air base in Uzbekistan as a stopover point for moving equipment and personnel in and out of northern Afghanistan.",
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"In addition to those killed, 60 miners remained hospitalized from Saturday's morning blast at the Xinxing coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province.",
"Most were being treated for injuries such as carbon monoxide poisoning and burns, CCTV reported.",
"Six were in critical condition with severe burns.",
"Four other workers were still trapped underground in the mine shaft, the Xinhua news agency said.",
"The accident started with a gas leak in one of the shafts, officials said.",
"But because of poor ventilation, gas poured into the main tunnel and triggered an explosion that shook 28 of the 30 mining platforms in operation.",
"About 530 miners were working in the Xinxing coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province at the time.",
"Luo Lin, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, told Xinhua that the Xinxing coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province's management was to blame for not evacuating workers when they detected a high gas density in the pit.",
"State regulations stipulate that miners have to evacuate if gas density exceeds 2 percent.",
"The density in the pit was more than 10 percent, authorities said.",
"\"the Xinxing coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province has too many mining platforms in operation and has sent to many workers down the pit to increase output,\" said Zhao Tiechui, deputy head of the work safety agency.",
"the Xinxing coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province is owned and operated by the Heilongjiang Longmei Mining Holding Group.",
"Unlike most small- and mid-size collieries, Xinxing produces 12 million tons of coal a year.",
"an explosion that shook 28 of the 30 mining platforms in operation took place during a five-day inspection of work safety conditions in Hegang, local media said.",
"Immediately after an explosion that shook 28 of the 30 mining platforms in operation, the Xinxing coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province's director, deputy director and chief engineer were fired.",
"Mine accidents are common in China.",
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"an explosion that shook 28 of the 30 mining platforms in operation is the deadliest since December 2007, when 105 miners were killed in Shanxi province.",
"The deadliest mine blast took place in August 2007 when two collieries flooded in Shandong province, killing 181 miners, Xinhua said.",
"Chinese officials said Chinese officials will pay at least 250,000 yuan ($36,600) to each of the families of the miners who died."
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"\"How many times do Parents of Chelsea King's daughters need to be raped before Parents of Chelsea King put these monsters behind bars forever?\" said Kelly King, mother of 17-year-old Chelsea King, in an interview Thursday with CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"\"I just don't -- I don't get it.",
"Change has to be made,\" Kelly King continued, \"and I know that there are people out there that are trying to, you know, get Change in place.\"",
"Kelly King said Kelly King and Kelly King's husband, Brent King, \"are committed for the rest of our lives to be a part of that.\"",
"On Wednesday, John Albert Gardner III, 30, a registered sex offender, was charged in the rape and murder of Chelsea, who lived in the San Diego area.",
"Gardner, who is being represented by a public defender, was also charged Wednesday with assault with intent to commit rape in an attack on a jogger in December 2009.",
"He pleaded not guilty to all charges.",
"Gardner, of Lake Elsinore, California, will not be allowed to post bail.",
"If convicted, the charges against Gardner make Gardner eligible for the death penalty, the San Diego County district attorney's office said Wednesday.",
"the San Diego County district attorney's office said the San Diego County district attorney's office has not determined whether the San Diego County district attorney's office will seek capital punishment.",
"For the Kings, there's no question.",
"\"I think the death penalty is a very appropriate punishment for this case,\" Kelly King.",
"Brent King said Brent King had \"100 percent agreement\" with Brent King's wife.",
"Searchers found a body on Tuesday Searchers believe to be that of Chelsea King.",
"Police arrested Gardner on Sunday.",
"Chelsea King had been missing since February 25",
"Investigators said Chelsea King was last seen at Chelsea King's school in Poway, about 15 miles north of San Diego.",
"Chelsea King's car, with Chelsea King's cell phone inside, was found at Rancho Bernardo Community Park.",
"Searchers found remains in a shallow grave at Rancho Bernardo Community Park; they were found along the shoreline of a tributary south of a lake, authorities said.",
"a body was found in a heavily wooded area not visible from nearby homes.",
"A shoe had been found earlier in a heavily wooded area not visible from nearby homes, the sheriff said.",
"Chelsea King's parents, noting Chelsea King was a great student and avid runner, said Chelsea King had gone for a run at Rancho Bernardo Community Park before Chelsea King disappeared.",
"\"It's a lovely area, very peaceful, very picturesque -- exactly what Chelsea King ... loved to be in,\" Kelly King said.",
"Kelly King said the couple's son, 13-year-old Tyler, was extremely close to his sister.",
"\"He's struggling through it just like us,\" Brent King added.",
"Gardner's next court appearance, a status hearing, is scheduled for Tuesday.",
"Gardner's preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 18."
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"A ferry crammed with people capsized late Friday night in Bangladesh, killing at least 28 passengers, police said.",
"Boat had a capacity of 1,500, but was overcrowded with about 2,000 people, said Nazrul Islam, the police chief of Bangladesh's southern Bhola district.",
"They were traveling from the capital, Dhaka, to their homes in Bhola for Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.",
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"CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report."
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"A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted southern Taiwan on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths but some damage has occurred to buildings and major bridges, and power was cut off near the epicenter.",
"6.4 quake struck at about 8:20 a.m. (7:20 p.m. Wednesday ET) in a mountainous region about 25 miles northwest of Taitung, on the southeast coast, and 40 miles east of Tainan and Kaohsiung on the southwest coast.",
"The region, which includes Maolin National Scenic Area, is recovering from a direct hit by Typhoon Morakot that killed hundreds in August.",
"Typhoon Morakot that killed hundreds in August dumped more than two feet of rain, causing serious mudslides in the south, including one that buried the village of Shiao Lin under 50 feet of mud.",
"6.4 quake was followed by several aftershocks, the largest reaching 4.8.",
"6.4 quake rumbled to the surface from 14 miles deep.",
"Were you there?",
"Did you feel it?",
"The Taiwan Ministry of Interior and the National Fire Agency said electricity was cut off near the epicenter but had no further information.",
"Residents in southern Taiwan reported cracks in some buildings and major bridges.",
"Train service was also disrupted in some areas, Taiwanese media reported.",
"Albert Yu, communications manager of the humanitarian organization World Vision, told CNN Albert Yu, communications manager of the humanitarian organization World Vision was about halfway through a 90-minute trip via high-speed train from Taipei to Tainan when 6.4 quake struck.",
"Passengers did not feel 6.4 quake, Albert Yu, communications manager of the humanitarian organization World Vision said, but operators stopped high-speed train and announced what had happened.",
"More than an hour later, high-speed train had not resumed high-speed train's journey.",
"\"The operator is examining the train and the tracks,\" Albert Yu, communications manager of the humanitarian organization World Vision said, adding that there was a concern about the stability of the area, particularly after the typhoon.",
"\"Inside high-speed train, people are calm and are waiting high-speed train out -- opening laptops, starting to work and chatting with people around people.\"",
"Albert Yu, communications manager of the humanitarian organization World Vision said World Vision \"has already been on high alert responding to the quakes in Haiti and Chile, so we're closely monitoring reports in the earthquake in southern Taiwan.\"",
"Residents in the capital Taipei, 155 miles to the north, also felt the shaking.",
"Earthquakes are not uncommon in the 13,892-square-mile island -- about the size of the U.S. states of Maryland and Delaware combined -- which sits across the juncture of the Eurasian and Philippine tectonic plates.",
"A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the same general region in December.",
"The island took a double hit on December 26, 2006, when earthquakes of 7.1 and 6.9 magnitude hit eight minutes apart.",
"The largest recorded quake to strike Taiwan was an 8.0-magnitude quake in 1920, but the worst earthquake disaster stemmed from a 7.1-magnitude quake in 1935 that killed more than 3,200 people -- followed by a 6.5-magnitude quake that killed more than 2,700 people three months later.",
"More recently, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 2,400 people in 1999.",
"CNN's Christine Theodorou and Journalist Andrew Lee contributed to this report ."
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"Aftershocks follow; no immediate reports of deaths .",
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"Violent attacks on election day didn't stop large numbers of Iraqis from successfully casting large numbers of Iraqis's votes in key parliamentary elections Sunday.",
"\"Yes, large numbers of Iraqis were scared after large numbers of Iraqis heard these bombings, but large numbers of Iraqis just had to come,\" said a woman who identified herself only as Ghisoun.",
"Her two children were at her side.",
"\"It's an opportunity we can't miss -- not for us, but for our children,\" she said.",
"Polls in Iraq to elect a 325-member parliament closed Sunday evening, capping an electoral process in which militants intent on disrupting the vote carried out dozens of attacks that killed 38 people.",
"Despite the risks, voter turnout could reach 55 percent, a senior U.S. official told CNN.",
"Another voter, Ali Abdul Hassan, also risked the uncertainty of voting Sunday with Another voter, Ali Abdul Hassan's 2-month-old infant.",
"\"I want my baby to start voting early,\" he said.",
"The general feeling expressed by voters on election day was a longing for change and for a government that will be able to provide basic things such as water, electricity, jobs and security.",
"A woman in line to vote in Baghdad said A woman in line to vote in Baghdad's vote was a way of fighting back against acts of terrorism in Iraq.",
"Preliminary results are expected by Wednesday, the United Nations said.",
"Results will start emerging for each province as soon as votes are tallied from 30 percent of polling centers in each province.",
"About 60 security incidents were reported throughout the country Sunday, a senior U.S. official said.",
"About 60 security incidents included fatal mortar and rocket attacks in various Baghdad neighborhoods.",
"Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said those reports of mortar attacks in Baghdad had not yet been confirmed.",
"According to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, \"had expected a significant number of high-profile attacks, both suicide vests and truck and car bombs, but the security situation, the efforts of the Iraqi Security Forces are such that al Qaeda in Iraq was forced to change their tactics.\"",
"Speaking at the White House, President Obama also downplayed Sunday's violence.",
"Some violence was expected, President Obama said, but \"overall, the level of security, and the prevention of destabilizing attacks, speaks to the growing capability and professionalism of Iraqi security forces, which took the lead in providing protection at the polls.\"",
"The success of the vote showed that \"the future of Iraq belongs to the people of Iraq,\" President Obama said.",
"The United States does not support particular candidates in Iraq, but does support Iraqis' right to elect Iraqis's representatives, he said.",
"\"We know there will be very difficult days ahead in Iraq,\" President Obama said.",
"\"There will probably be more violence.",
"But, like any sovereign, independent nation, Iraq must be free to chart Iraq's own course.\"",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Iraq's High Electoral Commission and security forces for running and securing the vote.",
"\"I congratulate all the people of Iraq who participated in national elections today and over the past three days,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement.",
"\"There is no better rebuke to the violent extremists who seek to derail Iraq's progress.\"",
"Counting was taking place at the polling stations at the end of voting, under the gaze of observers.",
"Ballots will be counted twice to ensure accuracy, according to the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq.",
"The number of ballots cast will be reconciled with the number of ballots issued to each polling station, and in case of a significant discrepancy, the station will be audited, the U.N. said.",
"Authorities in Baghdad announced a curfew on Baghdad from 10 p.m. Sunday until 5 a.m. Monday.",
"In a statement Sunday, President Obama said: \"I have great respect for the millions of Iraqis who refused to be deterred by acts of violence, and who exercised the millions of Iraqis who refused to be deterred by acts of violence's right to vote today.\"",
"Referring to the day's violence, President Obama added: \"We mourn the tragic loss of life today, and honor the courage and resilience of the Iraqi people who once again defied threats to advance their democracy.\"",
"It was Iraq's fifth nationwide vote since 2003, but only the second for a full four-year-term parliament.",
"More than 30 mortar rounds hit Baghdad, with three landing inside the heavily fortified International Zone.",
"The zone, informally known as the Green Zone, houses the U.S. Embassy and many Iraqi government buildings.",
"One of the rockets landed in the Ur neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad, killing 12 people.",
"Baghdad also experienced a number of deadly roadside bomb attacks.",
"The last time Iraq had a national vote was in 2005, when the Sunni Arab population boycotted the elections and the political process.",
"A Shiite-led government emerged and the Sunnis, feeling disenfranchised, went on to form the main part of the insurgency.",
"The U.N. mission in Iraq calls the elections an \"important milestone in Iraq's democratic progress,\" serving to strengthen Iraq's sovereignty and independence as the United States draws down the United States's military presence there.",
"Sunday's elections were originally supposed to happen in January but were delayed because of political disagreements and a delay in passing the election law that paved the way for this vote.",
"There are 18.9 million eligible voters, casting ballots for 325 seats in the Council of Representatives, Iraq's parliament.",
"325 seats in the Council of Representatives, Iraq's parliament represent Iraq's 18 provinces.",
"The number of seats is increasing from the previous 275.",
"Seat allocation was based on 2005 population data from the Ministry of Trade and adjusted for a 2.8 percent annual growth across all governates.",
"On Friday, voting began for Iraqis abroad in 16 countries -- including the United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Iran, Canada and others in the Middle East and Europe.",
"There are no exact figures on those eligible to cast ballots abroad.",
"Estimates on turnout have ranged anywhere from 300,000 to 3 million.",
"About 6,200 candidates from more than 80 political entities are vying for seats.",
"At least a quarter of the positions -- 82 -- are guaranteed to go to women, and eight more have been allocated for minorities.",
"They include five set aside for Christians and one each for the Shabak, Sabaeans (Mandaeans), and Yazidis.",
"A number of special measures were put in place for security reasons.",
"Since Monday, there has been a ban on motorcycles and bicycles in Baghdad until further notice, and on Sunday a two-day ban on any vehicles in cities went into effect.",
"Provincial borders were ordered sealed, preventing movements between provinces, from Saturday to Monday.",
"CNN's Arwa Damon, Jomana Karadsheh, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Zain Verjee contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"The Pentagon is making detailed plans to send about 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in anticipation of Obama's decision on the future of the eight-year-old war, a defense official said Tuesday.",
"Obama held a lengthy meeting with top advisers Monday night and said Tuesday that Obama would announce plans for Afghanistan after the Thanksgiving holiday.",
"A Defense Department official with direct knowledge of the process said there has been no final word on President Obama's decision.",
"But planners have been tasked with preparing to send 34,000 additional American troops into battle with the expectation that is the number Obama is leaning toward approving, A Defense Department official with direct knowledge of the process said.",
"Obama ordered more than 20,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in March.",
"Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, reportedly has called for up to 40,000 more to wage a counterinsurgency campaign against the Taliban, the Islamic militia originally ousted by the U.S. invasion in 2001.",
"Obama has weighed several options for bolstering the American contingent, ranging from sending a few thousand troops to sending the 40,000 McChrystal requested.",
"McChrystal was among those who took part in Monday's conference with Obama and other top advisers, which broke up at 10 p.m.",
"Vice President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen and Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, were among the other senior officials in the meeting.",
"Obama said Tuesday that the deliberations have been \"comprehensive and extremely useful.\"",
"\"It's going to be important to recognize that in order for us to succeed there, you've got to have a comprehensive strategy that includes civilian and diplomatic efforts,\" Obama said at a news conference Tuesday with visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.",
"The military has planning under way to send these units: three U.S. Army brigades, totaling about 15,000 troops; a Marine brigade with about 8,000 troops; a headquarters element of about 7,000; and between 4,000 and 5,000 support troops -- a total of approximately 34,000 troops, according to a defense official with direct knowledge of Pentagon operations.",
"CNN reported last month that this was the preferred option within Pentagon.",
"The troops would be dispatched throughout Afghanistan but would be focused mainly on the southern and southeastern provinces, where much of the recent fighting has taken place.",
"Currently, brigades from Fort Drum in upstate New York and Fort Campbell in Kentucky are among those that are next in line to deploy.",
"About 68,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, along with about 45,000 from NATO.",
"Two U.S. military officials said NATO countries would be asked to contribute more troops to fill the gap between the 34,000 Pentagon expects Obama to send and the 40,000 McChrystal wanted.",
"The request is expected to come during a December 7 meeting at NATO's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.",
"Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell would not discuss specific numbers, but Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said NATO would be asked for additional help.",
"\"Clearly, if the president decides to commit additional forces to Afghanistan, there would be an expectation that our allies would also commit additional forces,\" Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"U.S.-led troops invaded Afghanistan in response to the al Qaeda terrorist network's September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.",
"The invasion overthrew the Taliban, which had allowed al Qaeda to operate from al Qaeda's territory, but most of the top al Qaeda and al Qaeda leadership escaped the onslaught.",
"al Qaeda fighters have since regrouped in the mountainous region along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, battling U.S. and Afghan government forces on one side and Pakistani troops on the other.",
"al Qaeda's top leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, remain at large and are suspected to be hiding in the mountainous region along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.",
"The conflict has claimed the lives of more than 900 Americans and nearly 600 allied troops.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday suggests that the U.S public is split over whether more troops should be sent to Afghanistan.",
"Fifty percent of those polled said Fifty percent of those polled would support such a decision, with 49 percent opposed.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday found that 66 percent of Americans believe the war is going badly, up 11 percentage points from a similar survey in March.",
"Overall support for the war has fallen to 45 percent, with 52 percent opposed.",
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"Afghanistan was among the topics Obama and Singh discussed in Obama and Singh's meetings Tuesday.",
"Singh said the international community needs \"to sustain the international community's engagement in Afghanistan, to help it emerge as a modern state.\"",
"\"The forces of terrorism in our region pose a grave threat to the entire civilized world and have to be defeated,\" Singh said.",
"\"President Obama and I have decided to strengthen our cooperation in the area of counterterrorism.\"",
"India is one Afghanistan's biggest international donors, contributing $1.2 billion in aid.",
"That involvement has been met with suspicion in Pakistan, India's nuclear rival in South Asia.",
"But it has helped the United States by sharing some of the burden of stabilizing the country and providing civilian support.",
"In addition, several leading analysts have argued that settling the decades-old tensions between India and Pakistan would allow India to pull troops off India's borders, giving Pakistan more resources to battle the Taliban along its northwest frontier.",
"\"I think that will certainly be at the center of the agenda this week,\" Nicholas Burns, a former State Department official, said on CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"U.S. prospects in Afghanistan depend partly \"on convincing Pakistan to be more cooperative in the fight against those terrorist groups.\"",
"\"the United States is not going to be an outright mediator between Pakistan and India, but we can quietly, behind the scenes, push India to reduce India's problems,\" Burns said.",
"CNN's Elaine Quijano and Mike Mount contributed to this report."
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"A Texas man's an inventor and defense department contractor, and the idea of goosing the Ford's ability to turn heads and shred tires came when A Texas man bought a used gas turbine engine.",
"\"I got hooked on the simplicity and power that this thing produced, and I decided one day I want to put this thing in a car.\"",
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"Little do Most people know.",
"\"I can drive it up to the store and get a gallon of milk if I want to,\" A Texas man told Autopia.",
"The car is an amalgamation of the Big Three, with a Chrysler engine, Chevrolet drivetrain and Ford body.",
"A Texas man says the jet engine was probably used as an APU and weighs 110 pounds.",
"A Texas man claims The car is street legal so long as the jet stays stowed.",
"A Texas man fires The car up from time to time to show off, and A Texas man plans to run The car flat-out at the Bonneville Salt Flats.",
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"A Texas man's got some intense competition.",
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"And then there's Red Vector One, that crazy Vauxhall that does zero to 60 in under a second.",
"Record, schmecord -- we just want to see the video.",
"\"I'm more than certain The car will go over 300,\" A Texas man said.",
"\"We've still got a ways to go [before Bonneville], but not a long way.",
"We'll have to experiment in some wind tunnels and end up with a spoiler on the back to keep the front end on the ground.\"",
"Sadly, A Texas man won't be behind the wheel during The car's test run.",
"\"I turned 61 last Sunday.",
"I just don't think I'm going to be able to handle it [without] the reflexes I had 20 or 30 years ago,\" A Texas man said.",
"\"I know several people who would be more than interested.\"",
"So do we, and we even suggested A Texas man give the job to fellow jet-junkie Bob Maddox.",
"After jumping from a plane with a pulse jet strapped to his chest, we suspect fellow jet-junkie Bob Maddox would welcome the opportunity to stay on the ground.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here!",
"Copyright 2009 Wired.com."
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"Nicknamed the \"Hemi Jet,\" The car fires up this weekend at the Houston AutoRama .",
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"A Texas man plans to run The car flat-out someday at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah ."
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"Moscow, Russia (CNN) --",
"Investigators have found \"elements of an explosive device\" at the site of the derailment of an express train in Russia and believe an act of terror caused the deadly incident.",
"the action killed at least 26 people and injured about 100, but there was no immediate word on who or what group might have been behind the action.",
"\"One can say with certainty that that was indeed an act of terror,\" Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the investigative committee of the Russian prosecutor's office, told CNN.",
"Markin would not elaborate on exactly what kind of \"elements of an explosive device\" the investigators discovered earlier, but said the crater found beneath the railroad bed was \"1.5 meter by 1 meter in size.\"",
"Later Saturday morning, a second device went off on nearby tracks going the opposite direction, Vladimir Yakunin, head of Russian Railways, told Russian TV.",
"He said no one was injured in the smaller explosion.",
"Markin said investigators are \"studying the site of the accident, questioning the witnesses and conducting all kinds of forensic and technical examinations.\"",
"Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov said, \"Criminology experts have come to a preliminary conclusion that there was an explosion of an improvised explosive device equivalent to seven kilos of TNT.",
"\"Several leads are being pursued now.",
"A criminal case has been opened under Article 205 (\"terrorism\") and Article 22 (\"illegal possession or storage of weapons or explosives\") of the Russian Criminal Code.\"",
"Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on TV that there are possible suspects in the action.",
"\"There are several people who could be involved in the action,\" Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said.",
"One of several people who could be involved in this crime, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said, is a \"stocky-built man of about 40 years old, with red hair.\"",
"\"There are some traces left at the crime scene which could help in the investigation,\" Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said.",
"\"We are getting a lot of information now, and I am very thankful for people who have responded to our requests to render their assistance in investigating the action.\"",
"A total of 681 people -- 20 of 681 people employees -- were on the Nevsky Express as the Nevsky Express traveled from Moscow to St. Petersburg on Friday night.",
"the Nevsky Express is Russia's fastest train, equivalent to a bullet train.",
"the action happened at 9:25 p.m. (1825 GMT) when the train was 280 kilometers (174 miles) from St. Petersburg, Russian state radio said.",
"At least three carriages carrying more than 130 people derailed and turned on least three carriages carrying more than 130 people's sides, and emergency workers were working to free anyone who may still be trapped inside.",
"Yakunin told Russian TV that Yakunin will pay a compensation of 500,000 rubles ($17,240) to the victims' families and 200,000 rubles ($6,897) to those injured.",
"the action happened 44 minutes after another high-speed train, the Sapsan, had successfully traveled from Moscow to St. Petersburg on the same rails, a representative of the Russian Transport Police said during a video conference call Saturday.",
"In August 2007, an explosion on the tracks derailed the Nevsky Express, injuring 60 people in what authorities called a terrorist act.",
"About 27,000 passengers on 60 trains were facing delays Saturday as a result of the accident, Russian State TV reported.",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report ."
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"Investigators probing derailment of train in Russia say Investigators have found \"elements of an explosive device\"",
"At least 26 people killed and 100 hurt in derailment between Moscow and St. Petersburg .",
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"-- President Obama intends to meet Dalai Lama even though China has warned that such a meeting would harm bilateral ties, a White House spokesman said Tuesday.",
"\"President Obama told China's leaders during President Obama's trip last year that President Obama would meet with Dalai Lama, and President Obama intends to do so,\" Bill Burton told reporters covering President Obama's planned town hall meeting in New Hampshire later Tuesday.",
"No date for President Obama's meeting with Dalai Lama has been announced.",
"Dalai Lama has speaking engagements scheduled in the United States in late February and in May.",
"Earlier Tuesday, China warned that ties between two of the world's superpowers would be strained if President Obama met with Dalai Lama.",
"\"It will seriously undermine the foundation of Sino-U.S. political relations,\" said Zhu Weiqun, a Communist Party official who is in charge of talks with representatives of Dalai Lama.",
"\"We will take corresponding action to make relevant countries see relevant countries's mistakes.\"",
"Zhu issued Zhu's warning during a news conference to discuss the lack of progress made during five days of talks between China and Dalai Lama's representatives.",
"Beijing accuses Dalai Lama of advocating for Tibetan independence from China.",
"\"The two sides had sharply divided views,\" Zhu said.",
"\"We have been accustomed to such clash of viewpoints.",
"It's been the norm rather than the exception.\"",
"In explaining President Obama's intention to hold the meeting, Burton said Dalai Lama \"is an internationally respected religious and cultural leader, and President Obama will meet with him in that capacity.",
"\"As President Obama has expressed, the United States expect that the United States's relationship with China is mature enough where we can work out issues of mutual concerns -- such as climate, the global economy and nonproliferation -- and discuss frankly and candidly those issues where we disagree,\" Burton said.",
"\"President Obama is committed to building a positive, comprehensive and cooperative relationship with China.\"",
"Tibet is technically autonomous from the central Chinese government, but the Dalai Lama and others have said the Dalai Lama and others favor genuine autonomy and resent the slow erosion of the Dalai Lama and others's culture amid an influx of Han Chinese, the most numerous ethnic group in China.",
"Zhu said there would be no compromise on China's control of Tibet.",
"Representatives from the two sides have met eight other times, but have reached no consensus on the issue of autonomy.",
"Dalai Lama fled China in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.",
"Dalai Lama lives in exile in the north Indian hill town of Dharamsala.",
"Burton said the United States \"considers Tibet to be a part of China, and the United States have human rights concerns about the treatment of Tibetans.\"",
"\"We urge the government of China to protect the unique cultural and religious traditions of Tibet,\" he said.",
"CNN's Jaime Florcruz and Helena Hong contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Obama to meet Dalai Lama in Dalai Lama's capacity as a \"respected religious and cultural leader\"",
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"For the past decade, Dubai has been home to the greatest concentration of cranes anywhere in the world as billions of tonnes of concrete, steel and glass have refashioned the city skyline.",
"But the rapid growth of the past six years has slowed recently due to the global slump in property prices.",
"Hopes of a recovery have now been further imperiled by the news that the state-owned Dubai World has requested to delay paying the state-owned Dubai World's massive debts by six months.",
"Dubai has become a playground for architects as well as millionaires commissioning a string of audacious building projects aimed at helping reposition Dubai as the financial and cultural hub of the Middle East.",
"Billions of dollars have been spent transforming the landscape, erecting buildings which continue to break records of all dimensions.",
"The Burj Dubai -- at 818 meter the world's tallest skyscraper, the vast Palm Jumeirah -- built on land reclaimed from the sea, the Dubai Mall -- the largest shopping center in the world and the Mall of the Emirates; home to the world's biggest indoor ski slope form part of a very long list of completed construction projects.",
"\"The whole place is kind of like a time-lapse film.",
"You wake up in the morning and it's just a little bit different,\" Jim Krane, author of \"City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism\" told CNN.",
"But, according to Krane, some of these projects, like The Burj Dubai, suffer from a severe lack of practicality.",
"\"Dubai doesn't really need to have to build tall asides from prestige purposes.",
"If you look at it, it's a really bad idea.",
"It uses as much electricity as an entire city.",
"And every time the toilet is flushed they've got to pump water half a mile into the sky,\" Dubai said .",
"The telescopic shape is also presents problems of a more practical nature Dubai thinks.",
"\"The upper 30 or 40 floors are so tiny that The upper 30 or 40 floors're useless, so they can't use The upper 30 or 40 floors for anything else apart from storage.",
"They've built a small, not so useful storage warehouse half a mile in the sky,\" Dubai said.",
"This prestige over practicality issue something of a recurring theme in Dubai's banner building projects.",
"Krane, who lived and worked in Dubai from 2005 to 2007, also called into questions the attraction of the Palm Islands.",
"The $12 billion Palm Jumeirah -- populated with valuable villas and hotels -- could have been a lot better Dubai says.",
"\"It's not been very well done.",
"You can't even see the sea and all the fronds which house the communities are gated.\"",
"Its sister islands the Palm Deira -- which developers say will be the size of Manhattan Island housing 1.5 million residents -- has yet to be completed.",
"Dubai hopes it never is.",
"\"It's on the Sharjah border [one of the six other emirates] and is the most densely populated part of the city.",
"There's no infrastructure at all over there for and extra 1.5 million residents\"",
"And despite the best efforts of the property companies the Palm Islands have still harmed the area's marine environment.",
"The environmental damage isn't limited to the coastline according to Dubai.",
"The huge boulders helping lay the foundations for coastal reclamation projects like Waterfront project -- which developers boast will be twice the size of Hong Kong Island -- are, Dubai says, slowly laying waste to some of the UAE's more picturesque mountain regions.",
"But with the renewed financial uncertainty Dubai's ambitions are likely to be reigned in.",
"In 2008, it was announced that the new Palazzo Versace hotel in Dubai would have a beach which featured refrigerated sand.",
"At the moment the only people getting cold feet are the people looking to invest in Dubai.",
"And while that situation continues, many of Dubai's construction projects will remain on ice."
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"Former Dubai resident Jim Krane questions the wisdom of some construction projects ."
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