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"Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) --",
"More than 37 million people visit Las Vegas each year for Las Vegas's glitz, glamour and lure of hitting a jackpot.",
"Yet few tourists ever see the dingy world beneath the bright lights: tunnel dwellings that have become home to those down on their luck.",
"Steve Dommer and Steve Dommer's girlfriend, Kathryn, live in the depths below the Vegas Strip.",
"Steve Dommer and his girlfriend, Kathryn created an elaborate 400-square-foot space, complete with a living room, bedroom, kitchen and workshop to fix bicycles.",
"Everything is elevated off the floor with wooden pallets or milk crates because of potential flooding.",
"Steve Dommer and his girlfriend, Kathryn's prized possession is a queen-sized bed, found in a Dumpster near the Palms Casino Resort.",
"\"I like to be able to come back and sleep as comfortably as possible,\" Steve Dommer said, patting Steve Dommer's bed.",
"By day, Steve Dommer scrounges for change above ground.",
"Steve Dommer's been living down below for two years.",
"Steve Dommer lost Steve Dommer's construction job because of an addiction to speed and heroin.",
"The couple is not alone in Las Vegas's tunnels.",
"\"Hundreds of people live in the city's tunnels,\" says journalist Matthew O'Brien.",
"journalist Matthew O'Brien has become an expert on the more than 300 miles of underground flood channels and its tunnel dwellers.",
"journalist Matthew O'Brien brought the homeless to light, first in articles for the alternative weekly newspaper, Las Vegas CityLife, and then in a book titled \"Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas.\"",
"journalist Matthew O'Brien noted the irony of one tunnel entrance near the famous \"Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas\" neon sign.",
"\"I just think the history of Vegas PR is to ignore the bad issues,\" journalist Matthew O'Brien said.",
"\"The instinct of Las Vegas -- and the county -- is to ignore stuff that can be construed as negative press and kind of highlight other things about Las Vegas.\"",
"The number of those living in the storm drains varies by the season, journalist Matthew O'Brien said.",
"the city's tunnels become damp and cold in the winter, but hundreds flock into the city's tunnels during the summer to escape the 100-degree desert temperatures.",
"\"It's much cooler than outside, about 20-25 degrees cooler, and that's one reason why someone would live or hang out in the city's tunnels,\" O'Brien said.",
"Armed with a black metal flashlight, journalist Matthew O'Brien took CNN on a tour of four tunnels.",
"Each tunnel was different; their heights ranged from 4 to 12 feet.",
"Some intersected underground; others had small openings to access parallel tunnels.",
"It was pitch black much of the time.",
"\"After you've done it a few hundred times like I have, you can walk down here without any light at all,\" said tunnel dweller Steve Dommer.",
"journalist Matthew O'Brien said journalist Matthew O'Brien's always \"a little bit on edge\" when journalist Matthew O'Brien climbs into the underground world.",
"\"You never know what to expect or what you're going to find down here,\" journalist Matthew O'Brien said.",
"If legend is to be believed, a troll armed with a crowbar combs the city's tunnels.",
"Even if it's not true, journalist Matthew O'Brien said, it still haunts journalist Matthew O'Brien.",
"\"A lot of the people ... have A lot of the people's own ghost stories about a friend who was murdered in the tunnels or someone who drowned and A lot of the people hear their voices late at night,\" O'Brien said.",
"\"It is true that you do hear some weird noises down here because of the acoustics.\"",
"Some of the channel floors are covered with dust, others mud, and, in one section, a foot of stagnant water.",
"There are sleeping bags and mattresses, some with makeshift canopies, but some with makeshift canopies seemed outnumbered by the trash, scraps of food, cockroaches and graffiti.",
"Upon hearing our footsteps, some vagrants scattered from their makeshift shelters, not knowing if we were marauders or the police who sometimes come through to chase the homeless out.",
"journalist Matthew O'Brien introduced us to a man known in these parts as \"Iron,\" who has lived in the flood channel system for six years.",
"Iron had sun-baked skin and wore a cap reading \"Jackpot!\"",
"Iron said Iron makes ends meet receiving tips for pumping gas or cleaning windshields at a nearby service station.",
"Iron lives near the entrance of a tunnel across the highway from the Excalibur and Luxor hotel-casinos.",
"\"You'd be surprised at night the view you have right here,\" Iron said.",
"\"People pay a lot of money in the suites to have views of the Strip.",
"I get it every night for free.\"",
"Iron sleeps about 10 feet from the entrance of a four-foot high tunnel.",
"It doesn't rain often.",
"But when it does, the floodwaters carry away anything in its path.",
"\"I live pretty simple now after replacing things for six years.\"",
"Over in another Vegas flood channel, a homeless man named Michael sat with a homeless man named Michael's bags packed ready to leave a homeless man named Michael's tunnel dwelling, about 200 feet from the entrance.",
"The 52-year-old said police came through two days earlier encouraging people to leave.",
"a homeless man named Michael sat on a mattress wearing khaki pants and a short-sleeve collared shirt.",
"a homeless man named Michael said crack cocaine abuse led a homeless man named Michael on a dark path into the storm drains.",
"a homeless man named Michael's hoping to leave soon.",
"\"After 30 years of wasting time and money, 30 years of drug use, I want my life back,\" a homeless man named Michael said.",
"\"I want to get up and lead a productive life again.\"",
"To that end, journalist Matthew O'Brien is helping.",
"That was one of journalist Matthew O'Brien's goals when journalist Matthew O'Brien began journalist Matthew O'Brien's journey -- to find a way to help the tunnel dwellers.",
"journalist Matthew O'Brien became partners with the charitable outreach organization HELP of Southern Nevada to form the \"Shine A Light\" foundation.",
"journalist Matthew O'Brien escorts social workers into the storm drains twice a month to offer assistance to the homeless.",
"They provide blankets, food, water and counseling.",
"According to journalist Matthew O'Brien, more than a dozen people who were living within the tunnels received housing in the past six months thanks to the partnership.",
"But journalist Matthew O'Brien said journalist Matthew O'Brien thinks Las Vegas could do much more to help.",
"\"I've always thought more should be done,\" journalist Matthew O'Brien said.",
"Iron, the homeless man with a city view, believes Las Vegas tolerates the tunnel dwellers because \"we're not hurting anybody.\"",
"\"The only thing getting hurt down here is ourselves and nobody else.\"",
"CNN's Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report."
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"\"I just think the history of Vegas PR is to ignore the bad issues,\" Matthew O'Brien says .",
"One man nicknamed \"Iron\" says the best thing is One man nicknamed \"Iron's view of Vegas Strip at night ."
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"(CNN) --",
"As hosts of the largest carnival in world football, the pressure is on for South Africa's national football team to ignite the imagination of local fans by performing well at the 2010 World Cup.",
"If Bafana Bafana is to succeed in their mission, conventional wisdom would be that coach Carlos Alberto Parreira will turn to coach Carlos Alberto Parreira's best players to deliver results.",
"However, despite firing in 31 goals in 77 appearances to become South Africa's all-time record goal scorer, McCarthy has had question marks hanging over McCarthy's participation for McCarthy's country come June.",
"The prolific striker, who plays for English Premier League side Blackburn Rovers, has only recently returned from a period of international exile, just the latest incident in a stormy history with South Africa's's football team.",
"McCarthy first angered Bafana Bafana fans by going into international retirement in 2002 aged just 25.",
"The reason?",
"Traveling to international games was hampering McCarthy's ability to play European football for Celta Vigo and, later, Porto.",
"\"The whole pattern was killing my career, that's why I quit international football,\" McCarthy told British newspaper The Independent in 2004.",
"\"African football needs the same calendar as Europe otherwise African football's best players are going to suffer.\"",
"McCarthy was talked into returning, only to quit again after the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations when the president of the South African FA, Mubarak Mahomad, made an uncomplimentary comment about McCarthy's performance.",
"That period of self-imposed exile lasted 20 months, until coach Carlos Alberto Parreira flew to Great Britain to talk to McCarthy, who was now at Blackburn Rovers.",
"But after coach Carlos Alberto Parreira quit to care for coach Carlos Alberto Parreira's sick wife, McCarthy fell out with replacement boss Joel Santana after McCarthy refused to play in two warm up matches last March.",
"Despite pleas from South African President Jacob Zuma, Joel Santana refused to pick McCarthy.",
"But a run of eight defeats in nine games, which saw the team slump to 86th on the FIFA rankings, Joel Santana was sacked.",
"With goals being South Africa's biggest problem, it was no surprise that coach Carlos Alberto Parreira made persuading McCarthy to return, for a second time, coach Carlos Alberto Parreira's top priority.",
"Sure enough, McCarthy returned to the fray last month against Japan.",
"The 32-year-old told local press: \"I want to start afresh and help Bafana do well in the World Cup finals.",
"It is every player's dream to play for his country... and I have matured.\"",
"\"In the past I was a loose cannon and I apologize if I was wrong [but] I am still the best at what I do - and that is scoring goals,\" McCarthy added.",
"Few could argue with McCarthy's record.",
"Born in Hanover Park, an impoverished township in Cape Town known for its high unemployment, poverty and gang-related violence, McCarthy escaped to become one of Africa's most successful football exports.",
"McCarthy started McCarthy's career in 1995 aged 18 with Seven Stars of Cape Town, where 27 goals in 29 games earned McCarthy a move to Cape Town Spurs who soon merged with Ajax Cape Town, a feeder side to their famous Dutch namesake.",
"McCarthy's potential was enough for Ajax Amsterdam to sign McCarthy.",
"Joining in 1997 McCarthy scored nine goals to help them win the Eredivisie in McCarthy's first year, which eventually attracted the attentions of Spain's Celta Vigo.",
"Although it didn't work out in Spain, McCarthy's move to Portugal's FC Porto was a roaring success.",
"In the 2003/04 season McCarthy helped Jose Mourinho's side win the UEFA Champions League with McCarthy memorably grabbing two goals in the second round defeat of Manchester United.",
"McCarthy moved to Premier League outfit Blackburn Rovers in 2006 and scored plenty of goals - McCarthy was in the top three league scorers in McCarthy's debut season - but first-team opportunities have been limited of late.",
"Yet ever since McCarthy made McCarthy's international debut in a 2-0 home defeat to Holland 1997, South Africa has been a different side with McCarthy in South Africa.",
"Gloom has followed South Africa's footballing exploits before this summer's World Cup.",
"But after McCarthy's most recent 'comeback', Bafana Bafana fans will hope that McCarthy can help put the dark days under Joel Santana firmly behind Bafana Bafana fans.",
"Hear what Benni has to say in CNN's coverage of the World Cup draw, live on Friday 4th December."
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"South Africa legend Benni McCarthy is part of CNN's World Cup Draw coverage, Friday 4th December .",
"McCarthy is Bafana Bafana's leading scorer with 32 goals, including two in their previous World Cup adventures .",
"McCarthy currently plays for Blackburn Rovers and has had spells with Ajax, Celta Vigo and FC Porto ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"It isn't clear whether the United States will ever be able to declare victory in Iraq, U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said Thursday.",
"U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno speaks to reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday.",
"\"I'm not sure we will ever see anyone declare victory in Iraq, because first off, I'm not sure we'll know for 10 years or five years,\" U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno told reporters at Pentagon.",
"About 123,000 U.S. troops are in Iraq now, and President Obama says all combat forces will be gone by the end of August 2010, leaving as many as 50,000 noncombat troops to advise and train Iraqi forces before leaving by the end of 2011.",
"U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno has said U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno wants to draw down the U.S. forces at a faster rate than planned if the security situation allows it.",
"On Thursday, U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno expected the number of U.S. troops to drop to 120,000 by the end of October, and to as few as 110,000 by the end of 2009.",
"\"What we've done here is we're giving Iraq an opportunity in the long term to be a strategic partner of the United States, but more importantly, be a partner in providing regional stability inside of the Middle East,\" U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said.",
"U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno also highlighted continuing security issues inside the country, saying Iraqi security forces have recently seized several \"very large\" caches of Iranian-made rockets and armor-piercing munitions known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs.",
"\"If you're training people ... in Iran to come back into Iraq, and you're providing people rockets and other things, I call that significant because it still enables people to conduct attacks not only on U.S. forces but on Iraqi civilians,\" U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said.",
"At a congressional hearing Wednesday, U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said the main threat to stability in Iraq are Arab-Kurd tensions, adding there has been difficulty bringing the two sides together for possible joint patrols.",
"\"We've had some very good meetings,\" he said.",
"\"But we still have some ways to go on that.\""
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"U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno makes remark to reporters at Pentagon .",
"About 123,000 U.S. troops in Iraq; could drop to 110,000 by January, U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno says .",
"U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno:",
"Iraqi security forces recently seized caches of Iranian-made weapons ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The mid-Atlantic region continued digging out Monday from the weekend's record blizzard, but snow-weary residents learned of a new winter storm due in the area on Tuesday.",
"The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning, with predictions of another 10 to 20 inches of snow, for northern Virginia and eastern Maryland, including the District of Columbia, beginning Tuesday afternoon and continuing through Wednesday.",
"\"A winter storm warning means significant amounts of snow are expected or occurring,\" said the statement from the weather service facility in Sterling, Virginia.",
"\"The combination of snow and strong winds will make travel very hazardous.\"",
"If as severe as predicted, the new storm would be the third major snowfall to hit the nation's capital and surrounding region in just over seven weeks.",
"In the weekend's record blizzard, a record 32.4 inches of snow fell on the nation's capital's Dulles International Airport over two days, breaking a January 7-8, 1996, record of 23.2 inches.",
"Federal workers in the nation's capital, with the exception of emergency employees, stayed home Monday and students in most schools in the nation's capital got a snow day.",
"Many residents who spent the weekend playfully making snowmen and hurling snowballs also grumbled as Many residents who spent the weekend playfully making snowmen and hurling snowballs shoveled hip-high snow from driveways.",
"\"The streets are pretty well covered,\" Kingsley Barreto said Sunday about Kingsley Barreto's subdivision in Gaithersburg, Maryland.",
"\"No cars coming in or out of here.",
"Hopefully everyone in the community has enough supplies to last everyone in the community for a little while, because it doesn't look like we're going anywhere anytime soon,\" Kingsley Barreto said in a post Kingsley Barreto submitted to iReport, a CNN Web site that allows people to submit information, pictures and videos.",
"Watch Kingsley Barreto's iReport on Kingsley Barreto's neighborhood .",
"Crews worked around the clock to clear roads and repair power lines, warning that it might take days to restore electricity to some customers from Pennsylvania to Virginia.",
"Two of Dulles' four runways were open Monday morning, and officials hoped to have a third open later in the day, said Courtney Mickalonis of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.",
"The situation there is \"getting back to normal,\" Courtney Mickalonis of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said.",
"But airport officials asked travelers not to go there without confirmed flights.",
"Reagan National Airport was scheduled to reopen at 10 a.m. Monday, with flights resuming on a limited basis, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said.",
"Travelers were urged to check with airlines on flight schedules before heading to Reagan National Airport.",
"Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport was open Monday, with limited service, spokesman Jonathan Dean said.",
"One of the two runways opened Sunday night, and some flights landed, spokesman Jonathan Dean said.",
"However, airport authorities expect carrier delays and cancellations because of the backlog.",
"Are you there?",
"Share your winter weather photos, video .",
"Airport crews were dealing with a refreeze from overnight, but officials intended to have both runways open by the end of Monday.",
"Amtrak canceled several trains Sunday after trees and power lines fell on tracks, the train service said.",
"Dozens of Greyhound bus trips in mid-Atlantic states also were canceled, the company said on the company's Web site.",
"And officials across the region advised drivers to stay off slick roads.",
"\"Everybody's just trying to clean up and get a little bit ahead of the game before the next round comes,\" said Michelle Timberlake, who lives on a farm in Boyce, Virginia, about two hours west of Washington.",
"The interior designer found The interior designer running through a mountain of snow when about 40 cows escaped from the pasture on The interior designer's husband's farm in search of food and shelter.",
"\"This was not what I imagined for The interior designer,\" The interior designer said Sunday, laughing about the experience.",
"CNN's Sarah Lee, Sarah Aarthun, Justin Lear and Rachel Rodriguez contributed to this report."
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"Federal workers, some students get snow day in nation's capital .",
"Washington's Reagan National Airport set to reopen .",
"A record 32.4 inches of snow fell on Dulles International Airport over two days .",
"Five more inches of snow expected in Washington-Baltimore area ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The space shuttle Discovery landed in California on Friday evening after bad weather near Kennedy Space Center forced it to wave off a landing in Florida.",
"The space shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base after a 13-day mission to the international space station.",
"\"Welcome home The space shuttle Discovery,\" mission control said after The space shuttle Discovery landed.",
"\"Congratulations on an extremely successful mission, stepping up science to a new level on the international space station.\"",
"The space shuttle Discovery touched down at 8:53 p.m. ET at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where NASA described the weather as \"pristine.\"",
"This may be the last California shuttle landing, because there are only six missions remaining on the NASA schedule, unless Congress gives the space agency more money.",
"Flight controllers prefer landings at Kennedy Space Center because of cost and schedule.",
"A California landing adds a week to the turnaround time before The space shuttle Discovery can be ready for another mission.",
"NASA has estimated it costs about $1.7 million to bring a shuttle home to Kennedy Space Center from California.",
"It rides cross-country piggy-back on a Boeing 747.",
"The space shuttle Discovery was initially scheduled to return to Earth on Thursday, but poor weather in central Florida forced a delay.",
"Watch the shuttle land in California » .",
"Both Florida landing opportunities Friday were canceled by \"a very deep moisture system that descended over the Florida spaceport,\" a NASA spokesman said.",
"The seven astronauts are wrapping up a 13-day mission to the international space station, where the crew made repairs and delivered supplies.",
"the crew executed three spacewalks and dropped off the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT treadmill, named after comedian Stephen Colbert.",
"comedian Stephen Colbert won an online poll conducted by NASA to name the newest space station compartment.",
"Instead, comedian Stephen Colbert and the space agency worked together to give the moniker to the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.",
"the newest space station compartment was given the name Tranquility.",
"While in space, mission specialists Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang installed an ammonia tank on the international space station.",
"The depleted tank assembly is being returned to Earth in the shuttle's cargo bay.",
"an ammonia tank is part of a cooling system that cycles 600 pounds of ammonia through the international space station to \"get rid of excess heat generated by the international space station's systems,\" NASA said.",
"Astronaut Nicole Stott remained at the international space station as a flight engineer, replacing astronaut Timothy Kopra, who returned home aboard The space shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist, according to NASA's Web site.",
"Another space icon is also coming home aboard the shuttle -- Buzz Lightyear.",
"The 12-inch Disney/Pixar action figure has been aboard the international space station for more than a year, according to NASA.",
"The 12-inch Disney/Pixar action figure went into space aboard The space shuttle Discovery in May 2008 as part of a joint initiative between Disney and NASA to encourage students to study math, science and technology.",
"Weather and technical problems delayed The space shuttle Discovery's launch three times before the mission began."
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"NEW: Mission control says mission took \"science to a new level\" on space station .",
"NEW: Shuttle lands in California, incurring additional cost to bring it home .",
"Florida landing for space shuttle called off because of bad weather ."
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"(CNN) --",
"About 11.6 million Africans have been forced from About 11.6 million Africans's homes by wars and other conflicts, according to the United Nations.",
"Next week in Uganda, leaders from across Africa will converge to tackle the issue.",
"Somali women at a camp for displaced persons.",
"Nearly half of the displaced people in the world are found in Africa, according to the United Nations.",
"\"Africa is the continent most affected by the scourge and tragedy of forced displacement,\" the the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement.",
"\"While refugee populations have declined in recent years, internal displacement continues to rise and the number of people uprooted from people's homes is mounting.\"",
"During the weeklong African Union summit that will start Monday in the capital, Kampala, leaders from across the continent are expected to sign a pledge to help the displaced across Africa, according to the U.N. agency for refugee issues.",
"The agreement \"would be the first legally binding international instrument on internal displacement having such broad regional scope,\" the U.N. agency for refugee issues said.",
"Aid agencies have blasted some African countries for failing refugees and internally displaced people.",
"Last month, Oxfam International released an explosive report accusing Kenya and Ethiopia of housing Somali refugees in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions.",
"Oxfam International said the Somali government also is abandoning the Somali government's internally displaced.",
"\"Somalis flee one of the world's most brutal conflicts and a desperate drought, only to end up in unimaginable conditions in camps that are barely fit for humans,\" said Robbert Van den Berg, a spokesman for Oxfam International in the Horn of Africa.",
"\"Hundreds of thousands of children are affected, and the world is abandoning the next generation of Somalis when they most need our help.\"",
"On a visit to a refugee camp in northern Kenya that houses Somalis, actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie called it \"one of the most dire\" Jolie had ever seen.",
"The camp -- which has facilities for about 90,000 -- houses 280,000 refugees.",
"\"The toilets are already overflowing,\" Jolie said last month.",
"\"There is not even enough space for trash dumps, so people are living amongst the garbage.\"",
"Kenyan officials have said Kenyan officials are working on a solution.",
"In neighboring Uganda, a government spokesman said it had taken steps to ensure displaced people and refugees have access to resources to become self-sufficient.",
"\"The numbers of displaced have drastically gone down,\" Fred Opolot said.",
"\"The government offers them relocation packages, including planting seeds, cooking items and building materials.\"",
"neighboring Uganda has followed international protocol, Fred Opolot said, noting that neighboring Uganda was chosen to host the African Union summit on refugees.",
"\"neighboring Uganda does not just set up camps; it builds facilities for camps,\" Fred Opolot said.",
"\"There may well be some African countries that have not followed protocols.",
"... the African Union summit on refugees will reassess the challenges they have and set up steps to ensure they follow international protocol.\""
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"Nearly half of the displaced people in the world are found in Africa .",
"Aid agencies have criticized some African countries for failing refugees ."
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"(CNN) --",
"For the first time in decades, the hunting of the gray wolf is legal again in the United States.",
"And that's a good thing for ranchers like Cindy Siddoway of Terreton, Idaho, whose sheep are threatened every day by wolves.",
"Gray wolves were taken off the endangered species list after Gray wolves's population rebounded.",
"\"We have worked very hard to protect what we have, and it's not very successful,\" she said.",
"\"It is devastating for us to put all of the money and the time and the genetics and work to produce a great product and then just have a great product half-eaten and left to die.\"",
"But wolf hunting isn't popular with everybody.",
"wolf hunting has become a controversy in Idaho, where the hunt began Tuesday, and in Montana, where the hunting of the gray wolf is scheduled to start September 15.",
"Environmental and animal rights groups are upset by a federal decision this year to remove gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains from the endangered species list, a move that opened the door to permitting the hunting of the gray wolf.",
"Environmental and animal rights groups are seeking an injunction in U.S. District Court in Montana to stop the hunting of the gray wolf.",
"Judge Donald Molloy is reviewing the case, and it's unclear when Judge Donald Molloy will rule.",
"After their population dwindled in the Rockies last century, in part because of practices like trapping, gray wolves were put on the endangered species list.",
"But their population has rebounded, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted the animals and determined that the populations would be healthy enough for hunts to be permitted in Idaho and Montana, which manage their population.",
"There are also gray wolves in Wyoming, but hunts are not permitted there because of the state's weak wildlife management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.",
"Opponents of the hunting of the gray wolf say their population is not large and healthy enough to allow hunting.",
"Melanie Stein, a Sierra Club spokeswoman, said that their population \"are just on the cusp of recovery and that we are almost there.\"",
"But she says the hunts represent \"a step backward and away from recovery\" of their population.",
"Defenders of Wildlife, one of several groups urging the court to stop the hunting of the gray wolf, detailed the ecological role of Gray wolves on its Web site.",
"\"In what is known as the cascade effect, wolves are exerting influence over a multitude of species within the park's ecosystem.",
"Elk, wary of the reintroduced top predator, have altered their grazing behavior.",
"\"With less grazing pressure from elk, streambed vegetation such as willow and aspen is regenerating after decades of overbrowsing.",
"As the trees are restored, the trees create better habitat for native birds and fish, beaver and other species.\"",
"Siddoway doesn't think the hunting of the gray wolf will make much of a difference right now because it is hard to kill the animals.",
"But the wolf attacks take the wolf attacks's toll.",
"For example, Gray wolves will kill Great Pyrenees guard dogs used to protect the herds.",
"When that happens, \"then we're open to prey from bears and everything else,\" Siddoway said.",
"\"We know that it's a problem, and we want to make sure ranchers can continue on with ranchers's livelihood,\" Stein said.",
"\"But there has to be some co-existence between wolves and other species.\"",
"Currently, ranchers and farmers can legally shoot a wolf ranchers and farmers see attacking ranchers and farmers's livestock, said Ed Bangs, wolf recovery coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.",
"There are also tools used to counter wolf attacks without hunting, Ed Bangs, wolf recovery coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.",
"wolf attacks include scare tactics, like shooting firecrackers out of a shotgun, or proper fencing.",
"\"All that stuff works for a little while in some instances for a short period of time and in some situations can be helpful.",
"But it isn't the silver bullet for wolf depredation,\" Ed Bangs, wolf recovery coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.",
"Ed Bangs, wolf recovery coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said these techniques work \"in conjunction with killing wolves.\"",
"There are state and private programs compensating ranchers who lose livestock because of attacks, but the money represents only part of what the livestock and the time dealing with the problem is worth.",
"\"The ranchers got the short end of the stick,\" Bangs said.",
"Officials say that up to 330 wolves in the states of Idaho and Montana may be killed during this public hunt.",
"In Idaho, the limit is 220 wolves, and in Montana, the limit would be 75.",
"Members of the Nez Perce tribe in Idaho can kill up to 35 wolves.",
"Ed Mitchell, spokesman for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, said three wolves have been taken in Idaho since the hunting season began.",
"There are more than 1,600 gray wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.",
"But Siddoway says \"there will never be enough\" for environmental groups to agree to the hunts.",
"CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl whose body was found last week, O'Neal's team confirmed Thursday.",
"Authorities believe the child, Shaniya Davis, was kidnapped, raped and murdered after being reported missing November 10.",
"whose body's body was found six days later on a roadside about 30 miles from whose body's hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina.",
"whose body's funeral was Sunday.",
"O'Neal said in a statement released by O'Neal's team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, that O'Neal was touched after seeing Davis' story on CNN sister network HLN's \"Nancy Grace\" show.",
"\"What happened to whose body was tragic.",
"I wanted whose body to have a funeral that would be as beautiful as whose body was,\" O'Neal said in the statement.",
"Corey Breece, of Rogers and Breece Funeral Home, told the Fayetteville Observer he wouldn't discuss the cost of whose body's service, but he noted a child's funeral \"averages around $4,500.\"",
"whose body's father, Bradley Lockhart, and his family had set up a trust fund to help raise money to pay for the service, according to the Fayetteville Observer.",
"Family friend Vaughn Eason told the paper any remaining money would be used for groups and charities working to assist abused and neglected children.",
"Police have charged Mario Andrette McNeill with kidnapping and said he also will face murder and child rape charges.",
"Preliminary autopsy results indicated whose body was asphyxiated, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told reporters last week, as authorities awaited final autopsy reports.",
"Davis' mother, Antionette Nicole Davis, has been charged with human trafficking and other offenses.",
"Police have said Police believe she was prostituting whose body.",
"O'Neal, as a volunteer for law enforcement agencies in recent years, has been active in causes that deal with domestic violence issues, mainly child-abuse cases."
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"Andrette McNeill charged with murder; girl's mother accused of prostituting her ."
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"To the delight of fans back home in Tokyo, Matsui drove in six of the New York Yankees' seven runs in their World Series-winning victory Wednesday and became the first Japanese-born player to win a series Most Valuable Player award.",
"For much of Matsui's career, Matsui was a star player for the Tokyo Giants.",
"Matsui's key role in the series highlights the close ties between American and Japanese baseball.",
"Playing in the New York Yankees''s new stadium, the successor to the \"House that Ruth Built,\" Matsui's performance brought to mind the key role that Babe Ruth played in the development of professional baseball in Japan, according to Robert Fitts, author of several books on Japanese baseball.",
"Robert Fitts became a student of Japanese baseball in 1993, when Robert Fitts's wife, an attorney, was transferred to Japan.",
"Robert Fitts, then working on Robert Fitts's Ph.D. in archaeology from Brown University, was looking for something to get Robert Fitts immersed in Japanese culture.",
"Robert Fitts wrote to 30 of the greatest Japanese ballplayers and was surprised to hear back from nearly all of the greatest Japanese ballplayers, with some sending gifts.",
"Robert Fitts's the author of \"Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game\" and of \"Wally Yonamine,\" a biography of the first Japanese-American to play professional football and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan",
"\"He was called the Jackie Robinson of Japan,\" Robert Fitts said.",
"Yonamine led the Japanese league in batting twice and won the MVP award as a center fielder for the Tokyo Giants.",
"CNN spoke with Fitts, who is based in New York, on Thursday.",
"CNN:",
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"Fitts:",
"It's wonderful for Japanese baseball, of course.",
"I would say that five years ago, maybe seven years ago, it would have been incredible, because people in America and in Japan weren't sure about the status of Japanese professional baseball.",
"Many Americans and some in Japan thought that Japanese baseball wasn't as good as American baseball. ...",
"Since then, Ichiro [Suzuki] came over, and Ichiro [Suzuki] set numerous Major League Baseball records.",
"And then Japan won both of the World Baseball Classics.",
"So Japan's baseball has already proven Japanese baseball to be of high caliber.",
"Most Americans, even if Most Americans don't know the history of Japanese baseball, recognize now that Most Americans play a very good game.",
"CNN:",
"In Japan, how significant is baseball?",
"Fitts:",
"It's the Japanese national sport.",
"It's been so since the 1890s.",
"Japan had no native team sports.",
"In the 1870s.",
"American and British teachers introduced team sports to Japan.",
"Cricket was introduced, along with rugby and baseball.",
"Baseball is the one that became the most popular.",
"In the 1890s, a Japanese high school team beat a team of American adults from the Yokohama Country Club.",
"a Japanese high school team beat them in three straight games.",
"It took on national importance.",
"Japan, of course, was opened up to Westerners in the 1850s by Commodore Perry.",
"The Western nations were far more advanced in technology, and Japan did a rapid modernization.",
"By 1890, Japan felt it was ready to join modern nations as an equal, but the Western powers weren't ready to accept Japan.",
"CNN:",
"How did the game develop after that?",
"Fitts:",
"The biggest change came with two tours.",
"The first was in 1931, an American all-star team whose big star was Lou Gehrig, and the bigger tour came in 1934.",
"Both of these tours were sponsored by the Yomiuri newspaper.",
"In 1934, they brought over what at the time was considered the greatest baseball team ever.",
"It included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Gehringer, Earl Averill, Lefty Gomez, Connie Mack was the manager, and we can't forget Mo Berg, the future spy [for the United States in World War II].",
"The '34 tour was significant for two reasons: The first is that relations between Japan and the U.S. were really rocky at that point.",
"There was a very significant treaty, the naval treaty, which limited the size of the major powers' navies.",
"For every five warships the U.S. and Britain could have, Japan was only allowed three.",
"Japan found this quite insulting, even though Japan had agreed to it in the 1920s.",
"When the greatest baseball team went over there, the Japanese people went crazy.",
"Half a million people turned out on November 2 for a welcoming parade in Tokyo for the greatest baseball team.",
"The '34 tour really did create a great deal of goodwill.",
"However, that ended quickly.",
"Within a month of the tour ending, Japan announced that Japan would not renew the naval treaty.",
"Several months later, in February 1935, an ultranationalist group tried to assassinate the president of the Yomiuri newspaper because the president of the Yomiuri newspaper brought over the greatest baseball team.",
"the president of the Yomiuri newspaper was wounded very seriously but survived.",
"CNN:",
"What was the importance of the tour for Japanese baseball?",
"Fitts:",
"the Yomiuri newspaper used the enthusiasm generated by The '34 tour to start the Yomiuri newspaper's own professional league.",
"The first team the Yomiuri newspaper created -- to play the American visitors -- was a Japanese all-star team called All-Nippon.",
"After The '34 tour, a Japanese all-star team called All-Nippon transformed into the Yomiuri [Tokyo] Giants.",
"CNN:",
"What was Babe Ruth's role?",
"Fitts:",
"Babe Ruth's was credited as the man who helped start Japanese [professional] baseball.",
"Babe Ruth's was just Babe Ruth.",
"Babe Ruth's sold out every game.",
"Babe Ruth's had just been released by the Yankees prior to The '34 tour.",
"Babe Ruth's hit over .300; Babe Ruth's led the Americans and Japanese for most home runs.",
"CNN:",
"How did Matsui become a baseball star in Japan?",
"Fitts:",
"Matsui was signed right after high school.",
"Matsui was the hero of the annual high school tournament.",
"Matsui's rookie year was 1993 with the Yomiuri [Tokyo] Giants.",
"Matsui spent much of '93 in the minors.",
"By 1994, Matsui became a true star, and Matsui was the face of the team from '94 till Matsui came over to the Yankees in 2003.",
"CNN:",
"How did people feel about Matsui coming to the New York Yankees'?",
"Fitts:",
"The vast majority of people were very happy for Matsui.",
"There was no sense of betrayal except for the true Giants fans.",
"This was very exciting news.",
"I was there when it happened.",
"This was a chance for Japan's most popular player to prove Matsui in the major leagues.",
"the New York Yankees' are a special team in Japan just like the New York Yankees' are in the U.S. the New York Yankees''re probably the most popular American team in Japan.",
"When [Hideo] Nomo first came over in 1995, I found the Japanese fans only cared about how the Japanese players did.",
"the Japanese fans were a fan of the Dodgers one day when [Hideo] Nomo pitched; the Japanese fans were a fan of the Angels when [Shigetoshi] Hasegawa pitched, but over time the Japanese fans became fans of different major league teams as the Japanese fans watched more major league baseball on TV.",
"CNN:",
"What have been the differences between the American and Japanese games?",
"Fitts:",
"There were real substantial differences from the 1940s even through the early 1990s.",
"... The Japanese would sacrifice bunt far more than the Americans (The Japanese still do but less than The Japanese used to).",
"Players didn't go first to third on singles often.",
"Players would play line drives on hops rather than trying to make a shoestring catch and risk giving up more bases.",
"It was a very conservative brand of baseball.",
"Since the ties have become closer, Japan's baseball has become more aggressive, more exciting, in my opinion.",
"There are still differences.",
"The Japanese really focus on practice and perfection of the technique.",
"That's something American players can learn from, and I think it helps explain the success of Matsui and Ichiro.",
"They're both dedicated players who practice many, many hours.",
"If you watch Matsui at the plate, Matsui's a very disciplined hitter.",
"Matsui's swing is very compact, very practiced, almost perfect.",
"Matsui rarely makes mental mistakes when Matsui's playing the field or running the bases.",
"CNN:",
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"Fitts:",
"I think the Japanese people would be very disappointed if Matsui doesn't remain a Yankee ... and I think most New Yorkers would be very disappointed, too.",
"Matsui's an extremely classy player and a classy individual.",
"CNN:",
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"Fitts: I'm a Phillies fan.",
"I grew up in Philadelphia.",
"I'm in mourning this morning, but at least it was Matsui who did the damage."
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"State police in Florida planned Monday to further investigate a single-vehicle crash involving pro golfer Tiger Woods, they said.",
"That followed a police announcement Sunday that Tiger Woods had canceled a third interview with investigators.",
"Tiger Woods suffered minor injuries in the accident, which occurred early Friday in Tiger Woods's luxury neighborhood near Orlando.",
"In a statement issued Sunday afternoon on Tiger Woods's Web site, Tiger Woods offered no details of Tiger Woods's wreck, except to say Tiger Woods had cuts and bruises and was \"pretty sore.\"",
"\"This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me,\" Tiger Woods said.",
"\"I'm human, and I'm not perfect.",
"I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again.\"",
"CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin spoke about why Tiger Woods might be delaying talking to police.",
"CNN: Why do you think Tiger Woods has canceled three interviews with police?",
"CNN senior legal analyst: Tiger Woods is under no legal obligation to speak with police.",
"The Fifth Amendment gives everyone an absolute right to refuse to talk to everyone.",
"Tiger Woods may be counting on the fact that if no new news emerges, everybody will move on.",
"CNN:",
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"CNN senior legal analyst: the police don't have a lot of options.",
"If someone doesn't want to talk to you, you as a police officer can't do anything about it.",
"In theory, the police could get a search warrant, but you need probable cause that a crime took place, and at this point, I don't see anything that would justify it.",
"CNN:",
"The Florida Highway Patrol says the delay is surprising because the accident is so minor.",
"What does Tiger Woods gain by not talking to them?",
"Toobin: Tiger Woods may not talk to them because there is possibly something unpleasant and embarrassing that Tiger Woods doesn't want to share with them, and Tiger Woods has that right.",
"Based on what is publicly known, Tiger Woods has a public relations problem much more than a legal problem.",
"Tiger Woods's arguably the most famous athlete in the world, and Tiger Woods's team's overall strategy is a gamble that Tiger Woods's general statement of responsibility won't be overtaken by events or other disclosures.",
"CNN:",
"Tiger Woods said today that Tiger Woods won't be attending Tiger Woods's golf tournament in California this week because of injuries sustained in the car crash, and has cancelled Tiger Woods's scheduled press conference as host of his golf tournament in California.",
"Does this fit in with the strategy you think Tiger Woods's team has adopted?",
"Toobin:",
"I think the decision not to attend his golf tournament in California shows how serious his golf tournament in California is, in Tiger's life as well as Tiger Woods's work.",
"Again, this is more a personal and business problem than a legal problem, but Tiger Woods needs to figure out a way to show the public what happened, or explain why Tiger Woods won't be talking about what happened.",
"Obviously Tiger Woods doesn't have that answer yet.",
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"A story in last week's National Enquirer alleged that Tiger Woods has been seeing a New York night club hostess.",
"a New York night club hostess has denied any affair with Tiger Woods to The Associated Press.",
"a New York night club hostess's also apparently retained attorney Gloria Allred.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Authorities in Alaska were working Friday to ensure public safety after a woman was mauled to death by animals -- most likely wolves.",
"The victim, Candice Berner, 32, was found dead Monday in the village of Chignik Lake, authorities said.",
"If the attack is confirmed, the attack would be the first fatal encounter with wolves on record in Alaska, said Megan Peters, spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers.",
"If officials determine which animals were responsible, authorities will try to find them and destroy them, Megan Peters, spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers said.",
"An investigation determined the death was \"non-criminal in nature,\" the Alaska State Troopers said in a news release, adding that \"it has been concluded that the animals most likely responsible for the attack are wolves.\"",
"Troopers were working with the Department of Fish and Game \"as it addresses public safety concerns regarding wolf activity close to the community of Chignik Lake,\" the Alaska State Troopers said.",
"Berner, a Pennsylvania native, moved to Alaska last year.",
"Chignik Lake is in the southwest part of Alaska, part of the Alaska Peninsula that shoots out from the mainland.",
"The community of about 105 residents is about 475 miles southwest of Anchorage.",
"Several Chignik Lake residents have reported recent encounters with wolves, some of Several Chignik Lake residents threatening, Megan Peters, spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers said.",
"Authorities saw a bloody trail where Candice Berner had been dragged off a road and wolf tracks near the body, Megan Peters, spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers said.",
"\"It's hard.",
"It's really hard.",
"I feel horrible, you know, empty,\" her father, Robert Berner, told KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska.",
"\"They said Candice put up a good fight,\" he said, \"and there must have been two, maybe three of them.\"",
"Berner described Berner's daughter as \"small and mighty,\" a woman who liked to box, lift weights and run, according to a dispatch in the Slippery Rock Herald, the newspaper in Candice Berner's Pennsylvania hometown.",
"Candice Berner was training for a race and could get into a meditative state when running, Candice Berner's father said.",
"Foul play has been ruled out, Megan Peters, spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers said.",
"Candice Berner was an itinerant special education teacher, according to CNN affiliate WTAE-TV of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.",
"Authorities listed Candice Berner's address as Perryville, Alaska, around 30 miles from where Candice Berner's body was found.",
"Candice Berner had arrived in Chignik this week to work at the school there, the Slippery Rock Herald said.",
"Candice Berner had been with the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District since August, schools official Rick Luthi said.",
"Candice Berner's co-workers last saw Candice Berner alive at the end of the workday Monday, schools official Rick Luthi told the newspaper.",
"\"Candice Berner had made the comment that Candice Berner wanted to get out and get some fresh air,\" schools official Rick Luthi said.",
"\"We assumed that that meant a run for Candice Berner, because Candice Berner had a habit of doing that whenever Candice Berner could.\"",
"Candice Berner's father was a professor and taught Candice Berner's first special education class, KTUU-TV said.",
"\"I felt like it was work worth doing, and I've always felt that way,\" Robert Berner said.",
"\"I thought Candice Berner would be able to handle it well, because Candice Berner has a tremendous tolerance for those who are different.\"",
"Residents in Candice Berner's hometown recalled an adventurous woman who loved the outdoors and longed to live in Alaska, WTAE said.",
"Patrick Grant, of Slippery Rock University's Special Education Department, told the station that Candice Berner returned home for grad school and that he last saw Candice Berner about 18 months ago.",
"\"Candice Berner cared about other people,\" Grant told WTAE.",
"\"Candice Berner cared about kids.",
"Candice Berner cared about how Candice Berner'd make a difference in the world.",
"That's why Candice Berner was there.",
"Candice Berner wanted to make a difference in the world.\"",
"Candice Berner was featured in Slippery Rock's winter 2010 journal, where Candice Berner talked about life in Alaska without television and having Candice Berner's groceries flown in.",
"Candice Berner also wrote a blog called \"Adventures of an Alaskan Bush Teacher,\" posting photos on it and writing about the wildlife -- particularly the wolves that lurked in the wilderness.",
"\"the attack affects all of us.",
"We're all deeply crushed by the attack,\" Grant said.",
"\"We're all deeply concerned about someone so young reaching such a tragic death, and we're all asking ourselves, 'What can we do?'",
"And I don't know what the answer is.\"",
"CNN's Greg Morrison and Dave Alsup contributed to this report."
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"Ahmet Turk, the co-chairman of their party -- known by their party's initials in Turkish, DTP -- made the announcement in a statement to the media Monday evening in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir.",
"Last Friday's closure by the Constitutional Court stripped Turk and fellow co-chair, Aysel Tugluk, of their parliamentary seats and banned them both from politics for the next five years.",
"The announcement that the remaining 19 elected lawmakers from their party would now resign in protest may exacerbate simmering tensions between the state and Turkey's minority of some 12 million ethnic Kurds.",
"\"The decision of the Constitutional Court might deprive a significant segment of Turkish voters from political representation,\" said a spokesman for the European Commission, in a dispatch from the French news agency AFP.",
"Earlier Friday, Turk denounced the court ban in a speech before a crowd of some 10,000 supporters in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, the unofficial political capital of Turkey's Kurds.",
"\"I know the mentality of the state and the politicians of this country,\" Turk said.",
"\"We did not expect anything different because they cannot tolerate the existence of the Kurds.",
"They cannot tolerate our identity.",
"They cannot tolerate our language.\"",
"After a speech, several hundred Kurds took to the streets, throwing stones and clashing with Turkish riot police, who retaliated by firing tear gas and water cannons.",
"The banning of the DTP came after more then a week of riots and clashes between police and Kurdish protesters in cities and towns across Turkey.",
"Tensions have rapidly escalated, amid reports that the jailed leader of the Kurdish separatist movement -- the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK -- was moved to a smaller prison cell, and after the PKK claimed responsibility for a deadly ambush last week that killed seven Turkish soldiers.",
"In Istanbul on Sunday, Kurdish protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails and clashed with police in a central commercial district.",
"At one point, gun- and club-wielding Turkish ultranationalists joined the fray.",
"Explosions of ethnic anger were not limited to Turkey's largest city.",
"In the eastern Turkish town of Malatya, Turkish nationalists were filmed scuffling with Kurdish demonstrators Sunday.",
"Police struggled to keep the two groups apart as they kicked and cursed at each other in the street.",
"Clashes also erupted on Monday in the coastal city of Adana and in the border town of Dogubayazit, Turkey's official Anatolian news agency reported.",
"Anatolian reported that nine demonstrators were detained and that one demonstrator and five police officers were injured in the Dogubayazit clash.",
"Signs identifying their party have been removed from the front of the 19th-century, four-story building where their party's Istanbul headquarters is located.",
"Two prior incarnations of their party have been shut down by Turkey within the last decade.",
"Mustafa Avci, the chairman of their party's Istanbul branch, said Turkey is forcing conflict on the country's Kurdish minority.",
"\"Turkey are forcing this on us,\" Avci said in an interview with CNN on Monday.",
"\"Therefore, Turkey are the ones who practice terrorism, not us.",
"...Those who want war are terrorists.\""
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"The autopsy on Corey Haim's revealed Corey Haim's's heart was enlarged and Corey Haim's's lungs were filled with water when Corey Haim's died, Corey Haim's's manager said.",
"Coroner told Corey Haim's's mother that Haim's mother's son suffered from pulmonary congestion, Haim's said.",
"Haim's said this was evidence that Corey Haim's's death was not caused by a drug overdose, but Brian Elias with the coroner's office said they are waiting for toxicology tests before deciding what killed Corey Haim's.",
"The 1980s teen movie actor, who struggled for decades with drug addiction, died early Wednesday after collapsing in the Los Angeles apartment Corey Haim's shared with Corey Haim's's mother, authorities said.",
"Longtime friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman asked Wednesday that people not \"jump the gun\" to conclude a drug overdose killed Corey Haim's.",
"Haim's, manager to both frequent co-star Corey Feldman and Haim, said Corey Haim's seemed to be winning Corey Haim's's battle against drug abuse in the weeks before Corey Haim's's death.",
"Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, early Wednesday, where Corey Haim's was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. PT (5:15 a.m. ET), said Ed Winter, Los Angeles deputy coroner.",
"Corey Haim's was in the apartment Corey Haim's shared with Corey Haim's's mother, Judy Haim, when Corey Haim's \"became a little dizzy, Corey Haim's kind of went to Corey Haim's's knees in the bedroom,\" Winter said.",
"\"Haim's mother's mom assisted Corey Haim's in the bed.",
"Corey Haim's became unresponsive.\"",
"Haim's mother's mother called paramedics to the apartment, which is between Hollywood Hills and Burbank, Ed Winter, Los Angeles County deputy coroner said.",
"Corey Haim's had suffered from flulike symptoms for two days, Ed Winter, Los Angeles County deputy coroner said.",
"\"We found no illicit drugs.",
"However, we did recover four of Corey Haim's's prescription meds at the location,\" Winter said, adding Ed Winter, Los Angeles County deputy coroner does not know what those drugs were.",
"Corey Haim's was \"weaned down to literally zero medications\" in the past two weeks by an addiction specialist, Haim's said on HLN's \"Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell\" on Wednesday.",
"The doctor \"put Corey Haim's on a new line of medications,\" Haim's said on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on Wednesday.",
"Haim's pleaded with people not to draw conclusions that Corey Haim's died from a drug overdose.",
"Haim's said that until the autopsy report is issued, \"nobody knows and nobody's going to know.\"",
"Watch Haim's talk about Haim's's friend's death on \"Larry King Live\" \"I know that there were symptoms that Corey Haim's was showing that expressed it could be a number of things,\" Haim's said.",
"\"This could have been a kidney failure.",
"This could have been a heart failure.\"",
"Haim's that said Corey Haim's's mother, Judy, told Haim's \"there were no signs of Corey Haim's overdosing.\"",
"Corey Haim's's death came as Corey Haim's's career was picking up, with Corey Haim's booking \"movie after movie,\" Heaslip said.",
"Corey Haim's's latest film is set for release soon, Haim's said.",
"Corey Haim's \"really became a man\" in recent months as Corey Haim's helped Corey Haim's's mother in Haim's mother's battle with cancer, Haim's said.",
"\"Corey Haim's's been there for Haim's mother, taking care of Haim's mother, being responsible,\" Haim's said.",
"Haim's said Haim's was angry about how Corey Haim's has been snubbed in recent years by the entertainment industry.",
"Corey Haim's was broke, without a car and living in a month-to-month rental apartment with Corey Haim's's mother, Haim's said.",
"\"We build people up as children, we put them on pedestals and then when we decide that they are not marketable anymore, we walk away from them,\" Haim's said.",
"Corey Haim's's most famous role was in the 1987 movie \"The Lost Boys,\" in which Corey Haim's appeared with Haim's.",
"Corey Haim's played the role of a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire.",
"In later years, the two friends -- who appeared in eight movies together -- struggled with drug abuse and went the two friends -- who appeared in eight movies together --'s separate ways.",
"the two friends -- who appeared in eight movies together -- reunited for a reality show, \"The Two Coreys,\" in 2007, but A&E Network canceled the program after slightly more than a year.",
"In a 2007 interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" Haim and Haim's discussed the two friends -- who appeared in eight movies together --'s battle with drugs.",
"Haim's told King that Haim's had gotten clean, but it took Corey Haim's longer.",
"Corey Haim's called Corey Haim's \"a chronic relapser for the rest of my life.\"",
"\"I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything,\" Corey Haim's said.",
"\"I mean, I have to be very careful with Corey Haim's as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around Corey Haim's consistently.\"",
"In 2008, Haim's told People magazine that Haim's would no longer speak to Corey Haim's until Haim's's former co-star got sober.",
"In a clip from \"The Two Coreys,\" Haim's and Haim's's wife, along with two other former teen stars, called on Corey Haim's in an effort to get Corey Haim's to admit Corey Haim's needed help, People magazine said.",
"The meeting followed an incident in which Haim, scheduled to film a cameo appearance in a direct-to-DVD sequel to \"The Lost Boys,\" appeared on the set \"clearly under the influence,\" People reported.",
"Haim's told King on Wednesday that Haim's renewed Haim's's contact with Corey Haim's in the past year because of the progress Corey Haim's made against Corey Haim's's addiction.",
"Corey Haim's was born December 23, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, according to a biography on Corey Haim's's Web site.",
"Corey Haim's made Corey Haim's's first television appearance in 1982 on the Canadian series \"The Edison Twins.\"",
"Corey Haim's's first film role was in the 1984 movie \"First Born.\"",
"Corey Haim's also won rave reviews for Corey Haim's's title role in the 1986 film \"Lucas.\"",
"Film critic Roger Ebert said of Corey Haim's at the time, \"If Corey Haim's continues to act this well, Corey Haim's will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor.\"",
"Following \"The Lost Boys,\" Haim and Feldman appeared in \"License to Drive\" and \"Dream a Little Dream.\"",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report."
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"It feels like it went by in the blink of an eye.",
"Tai Shan, the giant panda cub so many people have come to know and love, is about to board a flight to China.",
"\"It's very bittersweet.",
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"the National Zoo love having Tai Shan here,\" said Erika Bauer, curator at the National Zoo in Washington.",
"Tai Shan was born in the nation's capital, so you can confidently call Tai Shan a Washingtonian.",
"But Tai Shan is to be sent to China, under an agreement between the two nations, to help replenish the endangered species' numbers in the wild.",
"At 4½ years old, Tai Shan is more of a panda adolescent than a cub, but to Tai Shan fans, Tai Shan will always be Tai Shan fans's baby.",
"\"We watched Tai Shan as Tai Shan grew up and it's kind of sad to see Tai Shan go,\" said Kathleen Ryland of Highland, Maryland.",
"Kathleen Ryland of Highland, Maryland brought Kathleen Ryland of Highland, Maryland two children to say her two children's goodbyes to Tai Shan at a farewell party at the National Zoo Saturday.",
"Despite the snow falling on the panda exhibit, there were plenty of warm and fuzzy feelings about Tai Shan.",
"\"Tai Shan's so cute.",
"I'll miss Tai Shan,\" said Claire Ryland, 7.",
"It's often said that a visit to Washington is not complete without a stop at the National Zoo to see Tai Shan.",
"Over the years, some have even gone as far to say that Tai Shan was Washington's No. 1 resident -- even getting top billing over the president.",
"Tai Shan will leave for China on Thursday via the \"FedEx Panda Express.\"",
"Tai Shan'll be joined by Mei Lan - a 3-year-old panda born at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia.",
"Eventually, they will take part in a breeding program aimed at increasing the panda population.",
"Giant pandas are currently on the endangered list.",
"the National Zoo estimates that about 1,600 giant pandas are currently in the wild.",
"Bauer says that's all the more reason to say goodbye to Tai Shan.",
"\"It's very important to get Tai Shan into the breeding population to help conserve the species in general.",
"This is a very good day for Tai Shan,\" she said."
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"Barcelona's Brazilian forward Ronaldinho will miss most of the rest of the season after damaging a muscle in Barcelona ace Ronaldinho's right leg during training on Friday.",
"Barcelona ace Ronaldinho has had Barcelona ace Ronaldinho's least impressive season with Barcelona since joining them in 2003.",
"Barcelona announced that the injury would keep Barcelona ace Ronaldinho on the sidelines for about six weeks.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Get out the coats, boots, and shovels; people in some parts of the country are in for it this winter, according to The Farmer's Almanac.",
"Break out your winter gear --",
"The Farmer's Almanac is predicting a rough winter for large parts of the U.S.",
"The longtime periodical, published since 1818 and famous for The Farmer's Almanac's long-range weather predictions, is out with The Farmer's Almanac's annual winter forecast, which says Old Man Winter is really going to hammer folks in the Midwest and upper Great Lakes region with very cold and very snowy conditions.",
"The Farmer's Almanac puts it this way: .",
"\"A large area of numbingly cold temperatures will predominate from roughly east of the Continental Divide to west of the Appalachians.",
"The coldest temperatures will be over the northern Great Lakes and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.",
"\"But acting almost like the bread of a sandwich, to this swath of unseasonable cold will be two regions with temperatures that will average closer to normal -- the West Coast and the East Coast.\"",
"But don't let your guard down if you live along the East or West coasts.",
"Farmer's Almanac managing editor Sandi Duncan says no one will be immune to the rough weather this winter.",
"\"Even the areas that we say are going to be like the bread of the ice-cold sandwich are going to have bouts of stormy conditions.",
"There's no way it's going to be that mild of a winter,\" she says.",
"Nasty weather is also in the forecast for late in the season as winter moves toward spring.",
"\"We're actually predicting a possible blizzard in the northeast to the mid-Atlantic states sometime in February,\" Sandi Duncan says.",
"\"And it does look like the cool temperatures to the cold temperatures are going to hang on.",
"And spring does look kind of rainy.\"",
"The Farmers' Almanac gets pretty specific about that late-season blizzard forecast.",
"According to Sandi Duncan, \"February 12th-15th looks very stormy with blizzard conditions possible especially in New England but also going down to the mid-Atlantic coast.\"",
"The periodical says, \"While three-quarters of the country is predicted to see near- or below-average precipitation this winter, that doesn't mean there won't be any winter storms!",
"On the contrary, significant snowfalls are forecast for parts of every zone.\"",
"CNN's Ninette Sosa contributed to this story."
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"The Farmer's Almanac says the Great Lakes region and Midwest should expect bitterly cold weather .",
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"Millions of Californians will duck for cover Thursday morning in one of the largest earthquake drills in the world.",
"Elementary school students in Burbank, California, take part in last year's earthquake drill.",
"\"The Great California Shakeout\" will kick off at 10:15 a.m. at schools, museums, fire stations and other sites across the state.",
"More than 6 million people have registered to take part in the drill, sponsored by various state agencies.",
"About 5.5 million Californians participated in last year's earthquake drill, organizers said.",
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"Senior citizens at the Vallecito Mobile Home Park in Ventura County were among last year's participants.",
"Senior citizens at the Vallecito Mobile Home Park in Ventura County took cover for three minutes and some pretended to be injured so emergency workers could practice safety procedures.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Singer Kimberley Locke knows a thing or two about singing competitions.",
"\"American Idol\" finalist Kimberley Locke is the new co-host of \"Gospel Dream.\"",
"Having placed third during season two of \"American Idol\" -- just behind winner Ruben Studdard and runner-up Clay Aiken -- Singer Kimberley Locke is back in reality show action as the new co-host of \"Gospel Dream.\"",
"The Gospel Music Channel's talent search is going into The Gospel Music Channel's's fourth season, and Singer Kimberley Locke joins fellow host Mike Kasem (son of Casey Kasem) and the judges -- gospel artist J. Moss, Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams and industry executive Mitchell Solarek -- on the show.",
"Singer Kimberley Locke has worked steadily since Singer Kimberley Locke first burst onto the \"Idol\" scene in 2003.",
"Singer Kimberley Locke has modeled, served as a spokesperson for plus-sized clothier Lane Bryant and Jenny Craig and appeared on VH1's \"Celebrity Fit Club.\"",
"All the while, Singer Kimberley Locke has continued to pursue Singer Kimberley Locke's music.",
"Singer Kimberley Locke's \"8th World Wonder\" was a big hit, making the Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary charts.",
"Singer Kimberley Locke's had three dance chart No. 1s.",
"Singer Kimberley Locke recently spoke with CNN about the \"Gospel Dream,\" life after \"American Idol\" and the one reality show Singer Kimberley Locke really wants to appear on next.",
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"How did you get involved with \"Gospel Dream?\"",
"Kimberley Locke:",
"Funny enough, I've been wanting to do more hosting, and I had been talking to my manager about it.",
"They contacted me out of the blue, and I was like \"Oh, I put it out to the universe, and here it is.\"",
"CNN:",
"Are you a gospel music fan?",
"Singer Kimberley Locke: I am a gospel music fan.",
"Of course I grew up in the church singing gospel music.",
"I don't listen to as much as I used to, but I used to sing in a girl a cappella group and that's how we started, performing in church.",
"CNN:",
"Why do you think so many performers in the music industry come out of the church?",
"Singer Kimberley Locke:",
"I think a lot of people become stars in people's church.",
"... The church environment is so supportive.",
"When you are first starting out and learning how to sing in front of an audience, that's the kind of audience you want to be in front of.",
"Even if you mess up and you sound horrible, they kind of let you stand there and collect yourself while the pianist keeps playing.",
"Then they plow through it with you.",
"That's a part of the business, a professionalism that really comes in handy when you get to this level.",
"CNN:",
"You've had some experiences with singing competitions.",
"How is \"Gospel Dream\" different?",
"Singer Kimberley Locke:",
"It's different in that the contestants are very focused on where the contestants want to be and the type of music the contestants want to sing.",
"When you are on \"Idol,\" you are forced to fit into all of these different genres you may or may not want to do and you may or may not even be familiar with them.",
"The \"Gospel Dream\" contestants' direction is really clear and defined, so the contestants are picking songs that really speak to the contestants on a personal level.",
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"Singer Kimberley Locke: Life has been great post-\"Idol.\"",
"So many opportunities, so many things I would have never imagined.",
"Things that I didn't even associate with singing, like modeling, hosting, being a spokesperson, owning a restaurant.",
"It just opened so many doors.",
"CNN:",
"You were a plus-sized model and spokesperson for Lane Bryant, but now you are way too small to do that.",
"Singer Kimberley Locke: That really opened me up to bond with my fans.",
"I tell people I'm still a big girl at heart.",
"CNN: When is your next album coming out?",
"Singer Kimberley Locke:",
"I just started working on your next album.",
"We are in the very preliminary stages of putting together the concept of the record and we just compiled a bunch of songs to start listening to.",
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"I'm not really a big reality show fan.",
"I did \"Celebrity Fit Club\" because there was a purpose behind that in my wanting to lose weight.",
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"Orlando, Florida (CNN) --",
"Tiger Woods will be issued a careless driving citation for the crash outside Tiger Woods's home last week, but Tiger Woods will not face criminal charges, Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday.",
"Woods, 33, struck a fire hydrant and a tree with Tiger Woods's 2009 Cadillac SUV in Tiger Woods's luxury neighborhood near Windermere, Florida, early Friday, police said.",
"Upon conviction of careless driving, a moving violation, Tiger Woods faces a $164 fine and four points on his license, Maj. Cindy Williams of Florida Highway Patrol said.",
"\"Tiger Woods's status in no way impacted our investigation or conclusion,\" Williams said.",
"\"our investigation has determined that Tiger Woods is at fault in car crash.\"",
"Tiger Woods satisfied the requirements of Florida law regarding motor vehicle accidents by providing his driver's license, registration and proof of insurance to authorities, Williams said.",
"\"With the issuance of this citation, Florida Highway Patrol has completed Florida Highway Patrol's investigation into this matter,\" Williams said.",
"There was insufficient evidence to request a subpoena for medical information in the case, said Sgt. Kim Montes, an FHP spokeswoman.",
"There were no claims of domestic abuse.",
"Authorities have said Authorities don't have details on why Tiger Woods was driving away from Tiger Woods's home around 2:25 a.m. Friday.",
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"Police have said car crash was not alcohol-related.",
"Tiger Woods canceled plans to attend the Chevron World Challenge in Southern California \"due to injuries sustained in a one-car accident last week,\" according to a statement Monday from the golfer.",
"In a statement issued Sunday afternoon on Tiger Woods's Web site, Tiger Woods offered no details of Tiger Woods's accident except to say Tiger Woods had cuts and bruises and was \"pretty sore.\"",
"\"This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me,\" Tiger Woods said.",
"\"I'm human and I'm not perfect.",
"I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again.\"",
"Tiger Woods is a four-time winner of the tournament.",
"A knee injury kept Tiger Woods from competing last year.",
"\"I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at the tournament this week,\" Tiger Woods said.",
"\"I am certain it will be an outstanding event, and I'm very sorry that I can't be there.\"",
"People holding tickets for the event -- which runs Wednesday through Sunday -- can apply for full refunds starting next Monday, tournament officials said.",
"Ticketholders who do not ask for refunds can get a 20 percent discount when buying 2010 tickets, tournament officials said.",
"The annual charity event, which Tiger Woods hosts in Thousand Oaks, California, is a major fundraiser for the Tiger Woods Foundation, but it was not immediately clear how much money it would lose because of Tiger Woods's cancellation.",
"The incident has ended Tiger Woods's golf appearances until next season, according to a statement posted on his Web site.",
"The PGA Tour has ended for the year, but the first tournament of the 2010 season is just five weeks away.",
"At least one other charity event is scheduled, but it is not clear if Tiger Woods had planned to attend.",
"Tiger Woods has won the Masters tournament and the PGA tournament four times each, as well as three U.S. Open Championships.",
"Last week, a story in the National Enquirer alleged that Tiger Woods has been seeing a New York nightclub hostess.",
"a New York nightclub hostess denied having an affair with Tiger Woods when contacted by The Associated Press.",
"a New York nightclub hostess has retained Los Angeles lawyer Gloria Allred, who is know for handling high-profile cases, to represent a New York nightclub hostess.",
"Allred told CNN there were no immediate plans for a news conference, although Allred may soon release a written statement.",
"Windermere's mayor called on the news media to back away from the story, saying, \"Our residents would like to put this behind us.\"",
"\"It's time to move on,\" Mayor Gary Bruhn said.",
"\"Let Tiger Woods recover if Tiger Woods is injured, and let Tiger Woods get back to Tiger Woods's life, and let our residents get back to normalcy.\"",
"Tiger Woods's agent, Mark Steinberg, said the Florida Highway Patrol informed Florida Highway Patrol that further discussion with Florida Highway Patrol is both voluntary and optional.",
"\"Although Tiger realizes that there is a great deal of public curiosity, it has been conveyed to FHP that Tiger Woods simply has nothing more to add and wishes to protect the privacy of Tiger Woods's family.\"",
"Under Florida law, Tiger Woods is not obligated to give a statement about the crash.",
"Tiger Woods's attorney, Mark NeJame, handed over the required documents to the troopers Sunday at Tiger Woods's home, Montes said.",
"Investigators had sought possible surveillance tapes of car crash from neighbors, but none were found, Montes said.",
"In Tiger Woods's statement, Tiger Woods praised Tiger Woods's wife, Elin Nordegren, who Tiger Woods said \"acted courageously when Nordegren saw I was hurt and in trouble.\"",
"Nordegren told police Nordegren used a golf club to break out the rear window of the vehicle, and then pulled Tiger Woods from the SUV after Nordegren heard car crash from inside their home.",
"But Tiger Woods said, \"This is a private matter, and I want to keep it that way.\"",
"And, Tiger Woods added, \"The only person responsible for car crash is me.\"",
"Tiger Woods and Tiger Woods's wife have two children, a 2-year-old and a baby born in February.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Alan Duke, Ross Levitt and Marc Balinsky contributed to this report."
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"Tokyo, Japan (CNN) --",
"Toyota has added the brake systems of the latest Lexus hybrid vehicles to a growing list of problems with various models, Toyota said Friday.",
"Toyota said Toyota was checking the brakes on the Lexus vehicle model HS250h -- as well as a Japanese model called the Sai -- because they use the same system as that used on the 2010 Toyota Prius.",
"Toyota has announced no recall of these vehicles, however, and said Toyota has not received any complaints about the brakes from consumers.",
"But the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Thursday the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening a formal investigation into problems with the Prius, Toyota's fourth-best selling model in the United States and the best-selling model in Japan.",
"Toyota has acknowledged a software glitch that is causing problems with Toyota's braking.",
"Toyota said Toyota is looking further at the best way to repair the problem.",
"On Thursday, Ford announced that Ford was changing the software in the braking system for Ford's Fusion and Mercury Milan hybrids to correct an occasion glitch in the old software.",
"Ford said no injuries had been reported involving the problem.",
"The Fusion/Milan's issue seemed less serious than that of Toyota, said David Champion, the head of auto testing at Consumer Reports.",
"The the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation involves only 2010 model year Toyota hybrids, which went on sale in the middle of last year.",
"There are only 37,000 of those vehicles on the road, according to the agency.",
"The Prius, which is built in Japan, is not one of the eight models affected by two recent recalls -- covering several million vehicles -- to fix problems with sticking gas pedals.",
"All of those models were built at North American plants.",
"the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects investigation has received 124 reports from consumers about problems with the Toyota brakes, including four reports that involved crashes and two that resulted in injuries.",
"No fatalities have been reported.",
"Investigators have spoken with consumers and conducted preliminary field work.",
"Late Wednesday, Toyota President Akio Toyoda spoke with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, reassuring him that Toyota takes U.S. safety concerns seriously and puts safety at the top of Toyota's priorities, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's statement.",
"Toyota had only limited comment on the probe.",
"\"Toyota have heard about the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's intention to begin an investigation.",
"Toyota will cooperate fully with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's investigation,\" Toyota said in a statement.",
"Even if the solution ends up being a relatively simple and inexpensive software adjustment, the Toyota braking problems come at a bad time for Toyota, which has seen Toyota's prized reputation for quality and safety badly damaged by the recalls and the news attention given to them.",
"Toyota has estimated that the problem with the gas pedals will cost Toyota about 100,000 sales this year and $2 billion in repair costs and lost revenue.",
"Other experts say the problem could be more long-lasting if consumers who once trusted Toyota decide to shop elsewhere.",
"the problem is a \"disconnect\" in the vehicle's complex anti-lock brake system that causes less than a one-second lag before the brakes start to work, Toyota said Thursday.",
"At 60 mph, though, a vehicle will have traveled nearly another 90 feet before the brakes begin to take hold.",
"Toyota also said Toyota changed the braking system software in January for vehicles built since then.",
"But Toyota has yet to determine how to fix the brakes of vehicles already on the road.",
"CNN's Kyung Lah and CNNMoney.com's Peter Valdes-Dapena and Chris Isidore contributed to this report."
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"Toyota estimates the problem with gas pedals will cost Toyota $2 billion, 100,000 sales ."
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"(CNN) -- Environmental saviors can turn up in the most unexpected places.",
"For the answer to our global waste management crisis, we need only look as far as our back gardens, for example.",
"Forty million manure worms are being put to use in Sydney to treat Sydney's sewage.",
"That's what proponents of vermicomposting will tell us, anyway.",
"Vermicomposting is the art of composting using worms -- and it is worms, apparently, who could save us yet.",
"Worms are nature's waste disposal units.",
"Or rather, it is more accurate to call Worms waste renewal units, as Worms don't simply consume the waste -- Worms turn the waste into something far more useful: nutrient-rich compost.",
"Earthworms are by any definition incredible creatures -- particularly, in this context: The Eisenia foetida and Lumbricus rubellus, which are the two breeds of worm commonly used in vermicomposting, according to CityFarmer.org.",
"Not only can Earthworms eat Earthworms's own body weight in organic waste every day, but Earthworms actually remove -- or neutralize -- many of the toxins in organic waste in the process, according to The Ecologist.",
"There are a lot of Earthworms, too.",
"You will find as many as 1 million earthworms in just 1 acre of land, according to NatureWatch, as many as 1 million earthworms's population doubling in size every one-two months.",
"And as many as 1 million earthworms work hard -- 1 million worms will get through 10 tons of leaves, stems and dead roots in one year, ploughing 40 tons of soil in the process.",
"What they end up producing is ready-to-go plant soluble nutrients.",
"According to NatureWatch, earthworm castings have five times as much nitrogen, seven times as much phosphorous, 11 times as much potassium and 1,000 times more \"beneficial bacteria\" than the stuff the worm consumes in the first place.",
"Literally speaking, what goes in is far less valuable than what comes out.",
"Utilizing 'black gold'",
"It is no surprise why these worms' byproducts are often referred to as \"black gold,\" this knowledge being particularly pertinent at a time when nearly 40 percent of the world's agricultural soil has become \"seriously degraded,\" according to the UK Soil Association.",
"Worm compost: .",
"Just one pound of worms can turn 1.3 million pounds of raw manure into high quality fertilizer in around 60 days, according to ScienceDaily.",
"And plants love it.",
"Research has shown that plant yields experience a significant boost from vermicomposting, by as much as 40 percent for broccoli, 80 percent for tomatoes and as much as 259 percent for carrots, according to The Ecologist.",
"According to the World Waste Survey, compiled by Veolia Environmental Services, we generated at least 1.2 billion metric tons of municipal waste in 2004.",
"And a high proportion of that waste was organic matter which could have been composted.",
"Around 32 percent of the European Union's annual municipal waste (around 120 million tons) is food and garden waste, according to Waste Management World.",
"And 30 percent of U.S. waste could have been composted in 2000, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- representing 92 million tons of organic waste that otherwise sat rotting on a landfill, emitting methane into the atmosphere.",
"As local governments and companies grapple with the issue of how to safely dispose of waste, vermicomposting is finding new fans -- some in unusual places.",
"In Hong Kong, none other than fast-food chain McDonald's has signed up to a vermicomposting program that will have 80 million worms feasting on between 50 and 200 tons of organic waste a day, according to the Reuters news service.",
"McDonald's's aims to decrease the amount of waste McDonald's sends to Hong Kong's rapidly filling landfills by 80 percent, Reuters reports.",
"Other companies to have experimented with worm composting include Ikea in the U.S. state of Illinois, where, according to Treehugger.com, it is conducting vermicomposting trials.",
"If all goes well, it aims to use worm composting to boost its 70 percent recycling rates to 90 percent, the site says.",
"As it happens, we have had this knowledge for centuries.",
"Aristotle himself was even said to have called worms the \"intestines of the soil,\" according to The New York Times, which also points out that Cleopatra was another devotee, bestowing sacred status on them and ordering them protected.",
"Charles Darwin admired their land-tilling abilities so much that he wrote a book on them.",
"\"It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures,\" he mused, according to The New York Times.",
"Greenhouse gas emitters .",
"What Darwin, Cleopatra or Aristotle could not have known however, is that worms could also have the potential to save us from toxic waste.",
"Scientists in India have found that worms' digestive systems and regenerative abilities are so remarkable that they can actually absorb toxic materials yet expel toxic-free manure.",
"According to the Indian newspaper, India Together, researchers in Gujarat have found that worms can \"detox\" the organic parts of the industrial sludge which results from the effluent treatment of industrial or hazardous waste.",
"The method is ideal for industries -- such as paper, food processing, oil, textiles, dairy, distilleries and agro-chemicals -- where there is large enough organic components in the industrial sludge, Indian researchers say.",
"But even with vermicomposting, something that looks like one of the most environmentally sound ideas around, there's a downside -- and it's a rather large one.",
"It turns out that worms used in composting emit a greenhouse gas -- nitrous oxide -- which is hundreds of times more powerful than carbon dioxide.",
"Unfortunately, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, large-scale composting plants could be just as damaging to the environment as landfills of the same size, reports the UK's Telegraph newspaper.",
"\"The emissions that come from these worms can actually be 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide and 20 times more potent than methane,\" Telegraph quotes Jim Frederickson, an Open University research fellow.",
"\"In all environmental systems you get good points and bad points.\"",
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"Worm castings extremely nutrient rich; good for soil and plants .",
"30 percent of U.S. and EU total municipal waste could be composted .",
"McDonald's and Ikea using vermicomposting to meet environmental targets ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"The cost of the Pentagon's newest fighter jet will be more than double the original price, solidifying the F-35 joint strike fighter as the most expensive Pentagon weapons program ever.",
"At a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday, Pentagon's chief weapons buyers said numerous problems over the almost 10-year program have forced the cost of the F-35 aircraft to go from $50 million a jet in 2001 to about $113 million.",
"That cost overrun has also forced Pentagon to justify the almost 10-year program to Congress.",
"Outrage about the cost among the Senate panel was expected, including that from the chairman of the Armed Service Committee, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan.",
"\"the Armed Service Committee has been a strong supporter of the almost 10-year program from the beginning, however, people should not conclude that we're going to be willing to continue that strong support without regard to increased costs coming from poor program management,\" Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan said.",
"Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, the ranking member, had been pushing for a hearing on the almost 10-year program.",
"\"The taxpayers are a little tired of this, and I can't say that I can blame The taxpayers,\" McCain said.",
"\"It's a bit frustrating to hear the secretary of defense as short a time ago as last August to tell us that everything is OK,\" McCain said.",
"McCain was referring to a visit to the joint strike fighter assembly plant last year where Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said most of the high risk elements associated with JSF's developmental program were largely in the past, according to McCain.",
"Pentagon wants to buy more than 2,400 of the technologically advanced aircraft.",
"the almost 10-year program has had numerous technical problems, delays and slow productivity over the years, including an entire program restructuring in an attempt to reduce the skyrocketing cost.",
"Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Ashton Carter told the Senate panel that the almost 10-year program has fallen short on performance in the past few years.",
"\"That is unacceptable,\" Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Ashton Carter said.",
"Despite that, the almost 10-year program still enjoys strong support from service chiefs and congressional members because the almost 10-year program touches numerous states.",
"The F-35 program cost overrun triggered the Nunn-McCurdy law, which requires Pentagon to tell Congress of significant cost increases.",
"the Nunn-McCurdy law, which requires the Pentagon to tell Congress of significant cost increases forces Pentagon to justify continuing with the almost 10-year program.",
"Pentagon's director of cost assessment and program evaluation, Christine Fox, told the senators she expects Pentagon will officially notify Congress under the Nunn-McCurdy regulation by April 1.",
"the F-35 aircraft was designed to be the next generation fighter for the military and would have three variants.",
"The Navy would have one for The Navy's carrier fleet, the Marines would use the F-35 aircraft to replace the Marines's aging Harrier jump jet fleet and the Air Force would use the F-35 aircraft as the service phases out the F-16 and F-15 fighter jets.",
"The planes are being built by Lockheed Martin, and the almost 10-year program also has international partners who have been building parts for the aircraft.",
"More than 700 of them would be sold to international partners who have been building parts for the aircraft.",
"the F-35 aircraft is the largest weapons program ever and Gates has been counting on the F-35 aircraft, as there are no immediate alternative programs to the F-35.",
"Even with the delays and cost overruns, the first planes are expected to be put into service as early as 2012 for the Marine Corps.",
"But the Air Force and Navy are expecting the Air Force and Navy's first aircraft to be delivered by 2016, a two year delay for the Navy and a three year delay for the Air Force, according to Pentagon officials.",
"Even as the almost 10-year program tries to field an aircraft in less than two years, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official testified at the hearing that there are still no final costs associated with the almost 10-year program through the almost 10-year program's projected life ending in 2034.",
"\"To date, the department does not have a full, comprehensive cost estimate for completing the almost 10-year program,\" said Michael Sullivan, director of the acquisition and sourcing management team for Government Accountability Office (GAO)."
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"(CNN) --",
"The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid underwent neck surgery Friday after being injured with their daughter in a four-vehicle wreck in suburban Washington a day earlier, The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's surgeon said.",
"Since neck surgery, Landra Reid, 69, has been able \"to get out of bed, The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's pain is well-controlled and The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's able to swallow some,\" said Dr. Elizabeth Franco of Inova Fairfax Hospital.",
"The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can move The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's arms and legs, but is expected to go through physical therapy before being released in a few days, doctor said.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife broke The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's neck, a vertebra in The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's lower back and The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's nose, doctor said.",
"The couple's adult daughter, Lana Reid Barringer of McLean, Virginia, suffered a neck injury and facial lacerations, the senator's spokesman, Jon Summers, said Thursday.",
"Lana Reid was released from Inova Fairfax Hospital Thursday night.",
"The wreck occurred in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Fairfax County at 1:10 p.m., when the 2005 Honda Odyssey driven by the daughter began braking in stop-and-go traffic and was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer, according to a Virginia State Police report.",
"\"The impact forced the 2005 Honda Odyssey driven by the daughter to rear-end the vehicle in front of it, a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee,\" it says.",
"\"a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee was then forced into the next lane over where a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee struck a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt.\"",
"The drivers of the Jeep and Chevrolet also were taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital.",
"The drivers of the Jeep and the Chevrolet's injuries were not considered life-threatening.",
"The driver of the truck, Allan W. Snader, 59, of Ohio, was charged with reckless driving, a Virginia State Police report said.",
"He was not injured in the crash.",
"The tractor-trailer was carrying rolls of plastic.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid visited Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter shortly after hearing of the accident at 2:15 p.m., then returned to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office in the Capitol to work on health care legislation, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spokesman Jim Manley.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was back at Inova Fairfax Hospital later in the afternoon and stayed until midnight, then returned early Friday to be there for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife's surgery, Summers said.",
"Summers told reporters Landra Reid's recovery is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's top priority, but \"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's plans have not changed at all\" in Congress.",
"\"The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and I have been married for 50 years --",
"The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the love of my life,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement read by Summers at a news conference.",
"\"And I look forward to The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's making a quick recovery as soon as possible.\"",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife at Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada, during the mid-1950s.",
"The couple married in 1959 and had The couple's first child, Lana, two years later.",
"Three boys followed.",
"The couple has 16 grandchildren.",
"CNN Congressional Producer Ted Barrett and Brianna Keilar contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"James Cameron unveiled James Cameron's much-hyped, wildly-anticipated 3D sci-fi epic \"Avatar\" to audiences in full in London Thursday.",
"Here's what the critics are saying about the Oscar-winner's first outing since \"Titanic,\" the most successful film of modern times.",
"Todd McCarthy, Variety:",
"James Cameron sets his sights on creating another world entirely in \"Avatar,\" and it's very much a place worth visiting.",
"...delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back-to-nature theme that will play very well around the world...\"",
"Mike Goodridge, Screen International: ...once again takes cinema to a new level of remarkable spectacle ...",
"An epic film born entirely of James Cameron's imagination, \"Avatar\" uses tailor-made technology to create the most astonishing visual effects yet seen on screen and blends them seamlessly into a mythical sci-fi story about an ancient alien civilization fighting the encroaching human menace.",
"It's an unprecedented marriage of technology and storytelling which is on the whole remarkably successful.",
"Chris Hewitt, Empire:",
"It's been twelve years since \"Titanic,\" but James Cameron has returned with a flawed but fantastic tour de force that, taken on its merits as a film, especially in two dimensions, warrants four stars.",
"However, if you can wrap a pair of 3D glasses round your peepers, this becomes a transcendent, full-on five-star experience that's the closest we'll ever come to setting foot on a strange new world.",
"Wendy Ide, The Times: \"Avatar\" is an overwhelming, immersive spectacle.",
"The state-of-the-art 3D technology draws us in, but it is the vivid weirdness of Cameron's luridly imagined tropical otherworld that keeps us fascinated.",
"At times it verges on the tacky, like a futuristic air freshener advertisement with the color contrast turned up to the max.",
"The ethically accented orchestral score certainly doesn't help matters.",
"But mostly, it's a place of wonder full of exotically freakish animal composites -- iridescent lizard birds, hammer-headed rhinos -- and sentient vegetation.",
"\"Avatar:\" We shouldn't really be telling you this -- but it's good.",
"Mark Brown, The Guardian:",
"Perhaps most surprising was the politics.",
"At one stage the deranged general leading the attack, with echoes of George Bush, declares: \"Our survival relies on pre-emptive action.",
"We will fight terror with terror.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Australian Open champion Serena Williams has pulled out of next week's Paris Indoor Open due to a leg injury.",
"The world No. 1 picked up the problem on the way to winning the opening Grand Slam tournament for the fifth time last month, the French event's organizers said on Saturday.",
"Seventh-ranked Elena Dementieva will take the American's place as top seed, with Italian No. 12 Flavia Pennetta second and Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium third.",
"Williams has won the Paris title twice, beating former world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo in the final both times.",
"The Frenchwoman won it for a record third time last year but has now retired.",
"Meanwhile, last year's losing finalists the United States made a strong start without Williams in their Fed Cup first-round clash with France in Lievin on Saturday.",
"Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Alize Cornet 7-6 (9-7) 7-5 for her first singles win in the women's teams tournament, while Melanie Oudin beat debutant Pauline Parmentier 6-4 6-4 in the second rubber.",
"The winner of the tie will play either Serbia or Russia in the semifinals, with reverse singles on Sunday before the possibly decisive doubles.",
"Svetlana Kuznetsova gave Russia, beaten by Italy in last year's semifinals, a 1-0 lead when Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic 6-1 6-4.",
"But Jelena Jankovic, another ex top-ranked player, came from behind to level the tie by beating Alisa Kleybanova 4-6 6-4 6-0 as she won the last 11 games in a match lasting two hours and 18 minutes.",
"Pennetta helped defending Italy to end the day level 1-1 with Ukraine, beating Kateryna Bondarenko 7-5 6-3 after Francesca Schiavone lost the opening match 6-1 6-4 to the elder Bondarenko sister Alona in Kharkiv.",
"Alona's win was Ukraine's first at World Group level.",
"The winner of the tie will face either the Czech Republic or Germany in the last four, with that clash also tied at 1-1.",
"Anna-Lena Groenefeld put Germany ahead in Brno with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Lucie Safarova, but Petra Kvitova leveled for the hosts with a 6-4 6-4 win against Andrea Petkovic."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"A blast targeting a bus filled with Shiite religious observers in Karachi killed at least 12 people and another explosion in front of a hospital where attack victims were being treated killed six more Friday, a government official said.",
"Motorcycles were used in both assaults, police said, and they came during the Shiite observance of Arbaeen.",
"Sindh provincial health minister, Dr. Saghir Ahmed said that along with the 12 dead, 30 people were injured in the first blast.",
"The second blast happened in front of the emergency room at Jinnah Hospital, where doctors treated people from the first attack and people on stretchers were waiting to be taken in to the crowded facility.",
"Along with the six slain, five people were wounded.",
"The last deadly blast in Karachi took place late December during Ashura, when more than 40 people were killed."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"The prosecution cannot argue that sex was a motivation for doctors to give Anna Nicole Smith's the drugs that may have led to Anna Nicole Smith's's death, a judge ruled Thursday.",
"Howard K. Stern, right, companion of Anna Nicole Smith's, is one of three people charged in the case.",
"\"I'm just not buying that,\" Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry said.",
"The ruling came on the third day of a preliminary hearing for Howard K. Stern -- Anna Nicole Smith's's lawyer and companion -- and co-defendants Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, on charges stemming from the Playboy model and reality TV star's death.",
"Larry Birkhead, the father of Anna Nicole Smith's's now 3-year-old daughter, is set to testify Friday.",
"Deputy District Attorney Renee Rose told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry Deputy District Attorney Renee Rose wanted to present evidence that Eroshevich, a woman, had a sexual relationship with Smith, which was the doctor's \"motivation to continue providing excess medications\" to her.",
"The prosecution planned to present an expert witness who would say such a sexual relationship between a doctor and an addicted patient could compromise the care, Assistant District Attorney Sean Carney said.",
"Court documents released last month said investigators found photos of Eroshevich and Anna Nicole Smith's \"naked in the bathtub in intimate embraces,\" according to one sworn statement.",
"One affidavit referenced a video clip of Kapoor \"kissing and snuggling\" with Anna Nicole Smith's \"in a reclined position in a nightclub setting.\"",
"The three defendants are charged with an illegal conspiracy to prescribe, administer and dispense controlled substances to an addict.",
"Stern faces 11 felony counts, while the doctors were charged with six each.",
"Anna Nicole Smith's's death in a Hollywood, Florida, hotel on February 8, 2007, was ruled to be from \"acute combined drug intoxication,\" the Broward County, Florida, medical examiner said.",
"Anna Nicole Smith's's death came five months after the birth of Anna Nicole Smith's's daughter, Dannielynn, on September 7, 2006, and the sudden death of Anna Nicole Smith's's 20-year-old son, Daniel, three days later.",
"Anna Nicole Smith's's part-time body guard, Maurice Brighthaupt, was testifying Thursday morning when Rose brought up the possibility of a sexual relationship.",
"Brighthaupt, a full-time south Florida paramedic, said Smith was rarely paid for Smith's bodyguard services \"because they told me they didn't have much money at the time.\"",
"Smith helped Anna Nicole Smith's because Anna Nicole Smith's was like a sister, Smith said.",
"Smith testified that Smith had seen Stern giving Anna Nicole Smith's illegal drugs, which contradicted public statements Smith made in the months after Smith's death.",
"Smith said Smith changed Smith's story after having time to think about the events, but defense lawyer Steve Sadow suggested it was for money and revenge on Stern for an accusation he made against Smith.",
"Smith acknowledged that Smith was paid at least $150,000 for interviews by the \"Entertainment Tonight\" and \"Access Hollywood\" TV shows.",
"defense lawyer Steve Sadow pointed to an October 10, 2007, interview by CNN's Larry King in which Stern accused Smith of stealing photos of Anna Nicole Smith's and selling them to tabloids.",
"Smith began cooperating with the lead investigator, who Smith said Smith had been \"ducking,\" only days after Stern's CNN appearance.",
"But Smith denied revenge was Smith's motivation.",
"Before Anna Nicole Smith's's son's death, Anna Nicole Smith's was a happy, normal person, Smith said.",
"\"Anna Nicole Smith's knew Anna Nicole Smith's was the 'it',\" Smith said.",
"But in the five months after Anna Nicole Smith's's son's death and until Anna Nicole Smith's's own death, Anna Nicole Smith's was \"very weak\" and \"zombie-like,\" Smith said.",
"\"Anna Nicole Smith's just didn't want to deal with life after the death of Anna Nicole Smith's's son,\" Smith said.",
"Anytime Anna Nicole Smith's was able to sleep, Anna Nicole Smith's would dream of Anna Nicole Smith's's son and wake up crying, he said.",
"Nannies stayed with Dannielynn's infant around the clock at Anna Nicole Smith's's home in the Bahamas, while Anna Nicole Smith's slept through most of the days.",
"Anna Nicole Smith's would sometimes get up late at night and stumble around Anna Nicole Smith's's house cursing, Smith said.",
"\"Someone had to always keep an eye on Anna Nicole Smith's because Anna Nicole Smith's was very, very depressed,\" Smith said.",
"Other than medications, the only relief Anna Nicole Smith's got from Anna Nicole Smith's's pain was Dannielynn's daughter, Smith said.",
"\"The times when Anna Nicole Smith's'd get really depressed, that's when we'd bring Dannielynn to Anna Nicole Smith's to let Anna Nicole Smith's see the baby,\" he said.",
"Anna Nicole Smith's would constantly read what was written about Anna Nicole Smith's on the Internet, using a \"Google Alert\" to let Anna Nicole Smith's know when a story was published about Anna Nicole Smith's, Smith said.",
"Smith described Anna Nicole Smith's as \"manipulative\" when Anna Nicole Smith's wanted something.",
"\"Anna Nicole Smith's manipulated Dr. Eroshevich,\" Smith said.",
"Eroshevich, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, traveled to the Bahamas five or six times in 2006 to attend to Anna Nicole Smith's, Smith said.",
"They had a mother-daughter friendship, not a doctor-patient relationship, Smith said.",
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"\"She was very concerned that we needed to wean [Anna Nicole Smith's] off the medications,\" Smith said.",
"In earlier testimony, California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement Special Agent Danny Santiago testified investigators found 12 different prescription drugs, including dangerous opiates, in Anna Nicole Smith's's hotel room after Smith's death.",
"Seven of them were prescribed using Stern's name, although spelled \"Stearn,\" Narcotics Enforcement Special Agent Danny Santiago said.",
"A series of affidavits used by state investigators to obtain search warrants in their 2½-year inquiry was unsealed last month, revealing many details of the prosecution's case."
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"Ruling comes amid hearing concerning death of the Playboy model/reality TV star .",
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"(The Frisky) -- Valentine's Day can be one of the most depressing days of the year for singles, especially if you just went through a breakup.",
"It can be torture to watch couples exchange stuffed bears, chocolates and kisses.",
"So keep your heart on the mend by avoiding these seven spots couples flock to on Valentine's Day.",
"Movie theaters:",
"Please don't make yourself sit through the latest rom-com.",
"If you must see a flick, go to something unsentimental, like an action film that involves fighting and guns.",
"Though even those often have romantic secondary storylines.",
"2. Fancy restaurants: A nice dinner is a very typical V-Day date, especially since restaurants capitalize on Valentine's Day with specials involving free bubbly and a red rose on the table.",
"3. Landmarks:",
"For some reason, history seems to be tied to romance, and some duos make trips to sites like the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon, as if to say, \"We'll be together for as long as this thing's been around.\"",
"4. Beaches:",
"If you want to soak up some sunshine during Valentine's Day, go right ahead.",
"But you better have somewhere else to be by sunset, when pairs will start showing up at the shore.",
"5. Cafés, dessert bars, and chocolate shops:",
"Valentine's Day is often associated with sweet things, so stock up on chocolate the week before -- you don't want to stop anywhere that specializes in chocolate fondue.",
"The Frisky: He gives me a stuffed animal for every special occasion .",
"Lingerie stores: Do you really want to buy new bras when the store is decked out in hearts and lace?",
"Wait a week.",
"The Frisky: My 6 break-up lessons are helping .",
"7. Coupled friends' homes:",
"Unless you're house-sitting while your pals are on a romantic getaway, you're not welcome.",
"You will have no right to yell, \"Get a room!\" when they start necking because, well, you're in their room.",
"TM & © 2009 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Lonely singers should avoid spots where couples gather on Valentine's Day .",
"Romantic pairs tend to hang out on beaches and at landmarks .",
"Many couples can be found cuddling and kissing at restaurant and desert places .",
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"(CNN Student News) -- November 30, 2009 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"Afghanistan • Honduras • Dubai, United Arab Emirates .",
"Transcript .",
"THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN THIS COPY's FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR:",
"You are in the homestretch -- just a few weeks left to go before the holiday break.",
"And we'll help get you there.",
"I'm Carl Azuz; this is CNN Student News.",
"First Up: Troops in Afghanistan .",
"AZUZ:",
"Big announcement scheduled for tomorrow night: what President Obama plans to do about Afghanistan.",
"There are 68,000 U.S. troops there right now.",
"And you know President Obama's been meeting with advisors for weeks, trying to figure out how the U.S. should approach the war there.",
"President Obama says President Obama wants to get the decision right, but President Obama's been criticized for taking too much time to make the decision.",
"There is one thing that some critics and supporters of President Obama seem to agree on, though: that President Obama needs to talk about the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.",
"SEN. RICHARD LUGAR, (R), INDIANA:",
"President Obama needs to start by outlining the war we are in.",
"Now by that, I mean, the war not against the Taliban, Al Qaida, but what is, at least, the objective of continuing in Afghanistan or in any place?",
"That is basic.",
"SEN. JACK REED, (D), RHODE ISLAND:",
"President Obama has to speak to the American people, remind the American people why we're there, and also lay out a strategy, not just the reflexive response to a recommendation, but a strategy that involves protecting the homeland from Al Qaida.",
"Cyber Monday .",
"AZUZ:",
"Good news and bad news about Black Friday, that super shop-off right after Thanksgiving.",
"More Americans showed up in stores than last year -- good for business.",
"But More Americans were spending less money on average -- not good for business.",
"Still, online sales were on the up and up this year, and that could be a good sign heading into Cyber Cyber Monday, explained now by Errol Barnett.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO)",
"ERROL BARNETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT, ATLANTA:",
"Over the past decade Cyber Monday has become one of the biggest online shopping days of the year.",
"We typically see this on the Monday following Thanksgiving or in the days leading up to Christmas.",
"Huge spikes in online retail sales.",
"People want to avoid those long lines in-store so People head online to snap up some of the bargains.",
"So exactly how much are people spending?",
"Well take a look at the numbers here.",
"After last year's financial collapse, $536 million was spent online in the U.S. on the Friday after Thanksgiving.",
"On the Monday, you see it there, online sales swelled to $846 million and this year's numbers, they're still coming in, but you can expect them to go higher.",
"You see, even though a 1% drop in overall retail sales are predicted this year, comScore expects a 3% rise in online retail revenue for the months of November and December.",
"That's over last year, which should amount to almost $29 billion of retail sales.",
"Now that's good news, but it's not great news.",
"Typically we see at least a 20% jump for holiday retail sales.",
"From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Errol Barnett.",
"(END VIDEO)",
"Shoutout .",
"Time for Shoutout!",
"You're looking at a map of Central America.",
"Which of these countries is Honduras?",
"Is it A, B, C or D?",
"You've got three seconds--GO!",
"Honduras is between Guatemala and Nicaragua, and Honduras touches both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Honduras Voting .",
"AZUZ:",
"Sunday's vote was no ordinary election in Honduras.",
"Things there, still at a political standstill, months after President Manuel Zelaya was forced out of office in June.",
"President Manuel Zelaya was accused of trying to illegally change Honduras's constitution.",
"The country's Supreme Court says President Manuel Zelaya can't get power back until President Manuel Zelaya stands trial.",
"But Honduras's current leader, Roberto Micheletti, is hoping Sunday's vote will settle everything.",
"The U.S. also hopes it does; Argentina and Brazil say it won't.",
"Defying Demands .",
"AZUZ:",
"Iran is doing exactly what other countries don't want Iran to.",
"Iran is moving forward on building ten, new, nuclear facilities.",
"And the international community is afraid these things are gonna be used to make illegal, nuclear weapons.",
"Iran argues these things're only for nuclear power -- the Iranian Cabinet voting to approve construction just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency demanded that Iran stop working on another nuclear facility that it had kept secret.",
"Dubai Debt Crisis .",
"AZUZ:",
"Dubai:",
"Part of the United Arab Emirates: known for some of the most extravagant communities on the planet, could be in trouble.",
"A major developer there is in deep debt and wants more time to pay it off.",
"And some are wondering if some lavish property could become a white elephant, something that's more trouble than it's worth for Dubai.",
"Morgan Neill describes how all this could affect places far from the Middle East.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO)",
"MORGAN NEILL, CNN CORRESPONDENT, Dubai:",
"The party to open Dubai's Atlantis Hotel just over a year ago now seems like a mirage.",
"At an estimated cost of $20 million it boasted a guest list of the world's rich and famous.",
"Just two months after the Lehman shock, the dazzling extravagance seemed to say Dubai is immune, but the dazzling extravagance never was.",
"Dubai World, which owns Nakheel, the developer of the man-made tree-shaped Palm Jumeirah Island, has now requested a suspension of debt payments.",
"The move threatens to undermine confidence in a recent property recovery, and celebrities who bought homes there may find celebrities who bought homes there's property is suddenly worth a lot less.",
"Author Jim Krane says that while established developments should be fine, Dubai's other artificial island projects, The World and Palm Deira, could be in trouble.",
"JIM KRANE, AUTHOR, \"DUBAI CITY OF GOLD\":",
"It will take a special kind of investor and probably, you know, more robust economy for anybody to really build on one of those places.",
"I mean there is a lot more practical places to build than on one of these little islands in the world, so that could be a white elephant for a long time.",
"NEILL:",
"One of the firms, which has bought into the World, has confidence in Dubai's long-term story.",
"GILES BESWICK, SELECT PROPERTY:",
"I would disagree that it would be a white elephant.",
"I think it will be part of the continuing development of Dubai as a city, and a tourism center, and an investment center for many years to come.",
"NEILL:",
"But in the short term, the World's announcement has brought uncertainty and the prospect of a fire sale of assets to raise cash.",
"Whatever the fate of investments abroad, hopes that Dubai's inflated portfolio of luxury property was beginning to recover have been dashed.",
"NEILL, CNN, London.",
"(END VIDEO)",
"Shoutout Extra Credit .",
"Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"What does the German word \"Tannenbaum\" mean?",
"Is it: A) St. Nick, B) Wreath, C) Garland or D) Christmas tree Another three seconds -- GO!",
"Tannenbaum means Christmas tree -- and the tradition of the modern Christmas tree comes from Germany too!",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit!",
"Holiday Tradition .",
"AZUZ:",
"A band was reportedly playing \"O Tannenbaum,\" or \"Oh, Christmas Tree\" when the first family had the first family's own tree delivered over the weekend.",
"their own tree measures more than 18 feet tall and Dan Lothian shows us how their own tree's not grown just like any ol' tree.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO)",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE:",
"This is the baby here now.",
"We have to figure out how we're going to get this loaded.",
"Dan Lothian, CNN CORRESPONDENT:",
"For Eric and Gloria Sundback, this is a holiday tradition.",
"Growing a Christmas tree fit for a president.",
"ERIC SUNDBACK, CHRISTMAS TREE GROWER:",
"You're helping make a Christmas for the whole country.",
"Dan Lothian:",
"The West Virginia couple, both in their 80s, have grown four presidential Christmas trees - one for Jimmy Carter, two for Ronald Reagan and now this 18 1/2 foot Douglas fir destined for the Obama White House.",
"E. SUNDBACK:",
"What we really like this year is that it's going to a family.",
"The children are there.",
"a family is well knit.",
"LOTHIAN:",
"To provide their own tree, a farmer has to be crowned by the National Christmas Tree Association.",
"Then the Obama White House officials make a visit.",
"Gloria Sundback:",
"the Obama White House're looking for trees that have good form and for trees that have stronger branches because the Obama White House use a lot of decorations.",
"LOTHIAN:",
"And it takes a lot of hard work to grow that perfect presidential tree.",
"Careful pruning, experimenting to get the right mix of characteristics, and a little tough love.",
"E. SUNDBACK:",
"Gloria Sundback had a word when Gloria Sundback would get up in the morning and say, well, fellas, you want to be a Christmas tree now or are you going to wait until later and be toilet paper?",
"That gets their own tree growing.",
"LOTHIAN:",
"These college sweethearts who have been growing trees for 50 years are hoping to shake the Obama's hands when These college sweethearts who have been growing trees for 50 years drop off their own tree but then it's back to work.",
"E. SUNDBACK:",
"You don't want to let it go to your head because you have to come back out and work again.",
"G. SUNDBACK:",
"That's right.",
"LOTHIAN:",
"But These college sweethearts who have been growing trees for 50 years say These college sweethearts who have been growing trees for 50 years're happy knowing These college sweethearts who have been growing trees for 50 years's gift will bring joy to the first family.",
"E. SUNDBACK:",
"We hope These college sweethearts who have been growing trees for 50 years enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed Christmas as kids so if their own tree is good and These college sweethearts who have been growing trees for 50 years enjoy their own tree, that's what it's about.",
"(END VIDEO)",
"Before We Go .",
"AZUZ:",
"Well, for many of us, 'tis the season of feasting, and for students at Moline High School in Illinois, it didn't start with Thanksgiving dinner.",
"It started with Thanksgiving breakfast.",
"More than 120 students teamed up to devour over 600 donuts, roughly five donuts per student, all to help raise money for those less fortunate.",
"The girl who ate the most said the cause made it worth it, even if The girl who ate the most felt like barfing.",
"Goodbye .",
"AZUZ:",
"Plus, they had Thanksgiving dinner later on, something we urge students with weak stomachs: do-nut try this at home.",
"But do join us tomorrow, when we cook up a new edition of CNN Student News!",
"And if you haven't seen our 'office crib' on Facebook, you oughta go here: Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.",
"I'm Carl Azuz-- looking forward to seeing y'all tomorrow."
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"Observe how debt has wormed debt's way into an extravagant emirate .",
"Measure the effort that goes into growing the White House Christmas tree .",
"Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) --",
"Haim's's death is linked to an \"illegal and massive prescription-drug ring,\" California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.",
"California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office is investigating \"an unauthorized prescription under the former child star's name that was found during an ongoing investigation of fraudulent prescription-drug pads ordered from a vendor in San Diego.\"",
"\"These prescriptions are very recent, and These prescriptions involves Oxycontin and we're not talking just 40 pills, more than that,\" California Attorney General Jerry Brown said in an interview Friday with CNN Radio.",
"The announcement comes before coroner has ruled on what killed Haim, the 1980s teen movie actor who struggled for decades with drug addiction.",
"Haim, 38, died early Wednesday after collapsing in the Los Angeles apartment Haim's shared with Haim's's mother, authorities said.",
"\"Haim's's death is yet another tragedy linked to the growing problem of prescription-drug abuse,\" California Attorney General Jerry Brown said.",
"\"the growing problem of prescription-drug abuse is increasingly linked to criminal organizations, like the illegal and massive prescription-drug ring under investigation.\"",
"California Attorney General Jerry Brown said the illegal and massive prescription-drug ring under investigation uses stolen doctor's identities to order prescription-drug pads that are used to write counterfeit prescriptions.",
"\"The doctor whose name is printed on the form is usually unaware that whose name's or her identity has been stolen for this purpose,\" California Attorney General Jerry Brown said.",
"Haim's got two powerful drugs from a pharmacy 11 days before Haim's's death, according to a source with knowledge of the transaction.",
"Haim's's primary-care doctor did not know about the prescriptions and called a pharmacy two days later to find out what Haim's had been given, a source with knowledge of the transaction said.",
"California Attorney General Jerry Brown's announcement did not specify whether any of the prescription drugs found in Haim's's apartment after Haim's's death were illegally obtained.",
"Several prescription-drug bottles were taken from Haim's apartment, Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said Friday.",
"Although Several prescription-drug bottles indicated the drugs included Vicodin, Valium and Soma, no tests have been done to confirm what they are, he said.",
"Haim's had a prescription for the muscle relaxer Soma and the narcotic pain reliever Norco filled at a pharmacy on February 26, a source with knowledge of the transaction said.",
"Two days after Haim's personally picked up the drugs, Haim's's primary-care doctor called a pharmacy to ask about the prescriptions, a source with knowledge of the transaction said.",
"His primary-care doctor said that \"Haim's was not feeling well\" and His primary-care doctor needed to know what drugs had been prescribed for the actor, a source with knowledge of the transaction said.",
"The source, who worked at a pharmacy, asked not to be identified because a source with knowledge of the transaction's employer had not authorized a source with knowledge of the transaction to talk.",
"Haim's's manager, Mark Heaslip, and close friend Corey Feldman both said Haim's began seeing an addiction specialist two weeks before Haim's's death.",
"Tiffany Shepis, who was engaged to be married to Haim's last May, said on HLN's \"Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell\" that Haim's was taking large amounts of Valium and Vicodin during their yearlong relationship.",
"\"You're talking about a person that, at the time when I knew Haim's, you know, was ingesting 40 some-odd pills a day,\" Shepis said.",
"Although the autopsy showed Haim's's heart was enlarged and Haim's had fluid in Haim's's lungs, the coroner's chief investigator said a drug overdose has not been ruled out as the cause of Corey Haim's death.",
"\"You can have somebody with an enlarged heart and some other medical conditions, but you don't know if the actual cause of death is from illegal substances, medication or heart failure,\" Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said Friday.",
"Heaslip said Haim's heart was evidence that Haim's's death was not caused by a drug overdose, but Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter disputed that.",
"\"There were some preliminary findings and we agreed to let the mother know what those were,\" Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said.",
"\"It was explained to the mother that even though this is some preliminary findings that the doctor observed, there wouldn't be a final cause of death until the final toxicology tests are back.\"",
"The cause of death may not be determined for another six weeks, Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said.",
"Feldman, a longtime friend and frequent co-star, asked Wednesday that people not \"jump the gun\" to conclude a drug overdose killed Haim's.",
"Heaslip, manager to both Feldman and Haim, said Haim's had seemed to be winning Haim's's battle against drug abuse in the weeks before Haim's's death.",
"Haim's was \"weaned down to literally zero medications\" by an addiction specialist in the two weeks before Haim's's death, Haim said.",
"The doctor \"put Haim's on a new line of medications,\" Feldman said on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" Wednesday.",
"Haim's's death came as Haim's's career was picking up, with Haim's booking \"movie after movie,\" Haim said.",
"Haim's's latest film is set for release soon, Haim said.",
"Haim's's most famous role was in the 1987 movie \"The Lost Boys,\" in which Haim's appeared with Feldman.",
"Haim's played the role of a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire.",
"In later years, the two friends, who appeared in eight movies together, struggled with drug abuse and went the two friends, who appeared in eight movies together's separate ways.",
"the two friends, who appeared in eight movies together reunited for a reality show, \"The Two Coreys,\" in 2007, but A&E Network canceled the program after slightly more than a year.",
"In a 2007 interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" Haim and Feldman discussed the two friends, who appeared in eight movies together's battles with drugs.",
"Feldman told King that Feldman had gotten clean, but it took Haim's longer.",
"Haim's called Haim's \"a chronic relapser for the rest of my life.\"",
"\"I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything,\" Haim's said.",
"\"I mean, I have to be very careful with Haim's as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around Haim's consistently.\"",
"Haim's was born December 23, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, according to a biography on Haim's's Web site.",
"Haim's made Haim's's first television appearance in 1982 on the Canadian series \"The Edison Twins.\"",
"Haim's's first film role was in the 1984 American movie \"First Born.\"",
"Haim's also won rave reviews for Haim's's title role in the 1986 film \"Lucas.\"",
"Film critic Roger Ebert said of Haim's at the time, \"If Haim's continues to act this well, Haim's will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor.\"",
"After \"The Lost Boys,\" Haim and Feldman appeared in \"License to Drive\" and \"Dream a Little Dream.\"",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan and Jack Hannah contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"President Obama paid tribute Friday to seven CIA officers killed in Afghanistan in December, calling CIA \"American patriots who loved CIA's country and gave CIA's lives to defend it.\"",
"Obama delivered the remarks during a memorial service at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.",
"a memorial service at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia was closed to the media to protect the identities of undercover officers in attendance.",
"A transcript of Obama's speech was provided to members of the press.",
"\"There are no words that can ease the ache in your hearts,\" Obama told families, friends and co-workers of CIA.",
"\"But to CIA's colleagues and all who served with CIA -- those here today, those still recovering, those watching around the world, I say: Let CIA's sacrifice be a summons.",
"To carry on CIA's work.",
"To complete this mission.",
"To win this war and to keep their country safe.\"",
"A suicide bomber killed the CIA officers and contractors, as well as a Jordanian intelligence official, on December 30 at a U.S. base in Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan.",
"A suicide bomber was within seconds of being searched by security contractors when A suicide bomber detonated A suicide bomber's explosives, a former intelligence official with knowledge of the incident said in January.",
"Two of those killed were contractors with private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, a former intelligence official said.",
"CIA considers contractors to be officers.",
"Former CIA official Robert Richer called the bombing the greatest loss of life for the agency since the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed eight agents.",
"\"CIA are the story of America,\" CIA Director Leon Panetta said at Friday's service, according to the transcript.",
"\"CIA are the heart and soul of their country.",
"CIA's devotion to duty is the foundation of their country.\"",
"U.S. and Jordanian officials say the bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, had been recruited as a counterterrorism intelligence agent, despite concerns over his extremist views, and was being used in the hunt for a senior al Qaeda figure.",
"the bombing was \"a huge blow, symbolically and tactically,\" because the bombing eliminated so many CIA officers, who can take years to become ingrained in the region, said Reva Bhalla, director of analysis for Stratfor, an international intelligence company.",
"In addition, Reva Bhalla, director of analysis for Stratfor, an international intelligence company said, the bombing showed the ability of the Taliban to penetrate perhaps the most difficult of targets: a CIA base.",
"But CIA Director Leon Panetta issued a strong statement at a memorial service at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia Friday, assuring those in attendance that \"we will carry this fight to the enemy.\"",
"\"Our resolve is unbroken, our energy undiminished and our dedication to each other and to our nation unshakable,\" CIA Director Leon Panetta said."
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"South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sanford, said Monday that writing South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford much-anticipated memoir of South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford's husband's affair was a \"cathartic\" and \"cleansing\" experience.",
"In an interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford called \"Staying True\" -- which hit bookstores Friday -- \"an honest account of the values I hold dear.\"",
"It was South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford's husband Gov. Mark Sanford's loss of values that South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford blames on Sanford's much-publicized affair with an Argentine woman that was exposed by reporters after Sanford disappeared for several days last summer.",
"Staffers said Sanford was hiking the Appalachian Trail, but Sanford later admitted Sanford was actually visiting Sanford's mistress in Argentina.",
"\"It saddens me because I believed in Sanford and a number of people believed in Sanford,\" South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said Monday.",
"\"I still believe Sanford was a good person.",
"... Somewhere along the lines, Sanford got off track,\" South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said.",
"\"Sanford can get back on track, but it's too late for the marriage.\"",
"Jenny Sanford, who filed for South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford in December, said divorce could be final as early as the end of this month.",
"South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford found out about his much-publicized affair with an Argentine woman that was exposed by reporters after he disappeared for several days last summer in January 2009 when South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford discovered a letter South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford's husband had written to Sanford's mistress.",
"\"It was awful,\" South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said.",
"\"I literally was in shock.",
"My stomach felt gut-punched.\"",
"South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said there had been warning signs, but South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford \"never expected anything like this.\"",
"\"I felt in some respects that we had lost something that we would never get back,\" even as South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford initially considered staying with him, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said.",
"\"Nobody takes a 20-year marriage and decides in [a] snap minute to throw a 20-year marriage away,\" South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said.",
"\"I came to the decision very prayerfully and carefully over a number of months.\"",
"Sanford, 47, moved out of the governor's mansion with their four boys in June.",
"South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford has said through the entire ordeal that South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford's priority is The kids's children.",
"\"The kids are resilient, and we're back at home settling into a new, normal routine,\" South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said of The kids's sons, ages 11-17.",
"\"I feel like The kids're going to do great.\"",
"Asked whether South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford knows whether South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford's husband is still seeing the Argentine woman, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford doesn't know and doesn't want to ask.",
"\"I'm just moving on,\" South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said.",
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"The fallout from Adam Lambert's risqué American Music Awards performance keeps coming with \"Good Morning America\" canceling the singer's live performance scheduled for Wednesday morning.",
"ABC was flooded with more than 1,500 complaints, and ABC sent an e-mail to potential concert goers letting potential concert goers know that Adam Lambert would not be performing on Wednesday.",
"\"Given Adam Lambert's controversial live performance on the AMAs, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning,\" a spokesperson for ABC said.",
"\"The Early Show\" on rival network CBS was quick to announce that they have booked Adam Lambert to perform and discuss the controversy on Wednesday morning.",
"Adam Lambert shocked viewers with Adam Lambert's sexually suggestive dance sequence that included simulated oral sex as well as Adam Lambert kissing Adam Lambert's male keyboardist.",
"The Parents Television Council, a Media watchdog group, also attacked the show as vulgar and urged its members on Monday to contact ABC, Dick Clark Productions and the show's advertisers with complaints about the content.",
"\"Last night's 'American Music Awards' broadcast was nothing short of tasteless and vulgar.",
"Adam Lambert, the second-place finisher in last season's 'American Idol' competition, chose to treat American families to simulated oral sex and other demeaning behavior,\" the PTC posted on the PTC's Web site.",
"Melissa Henson, director of communications and public education for the PTC, said the PTC wasn't concerned about Adam Lambert's gay kiss.",
"the PTC's issue and focus are on the simulated oral sex, Henson said.",
"\"The gender has nothing to do with it,\" Henson said.",
"\"It would be true if it had been a woman's face that was thrust into Adam Lambert's crotch.\"",
"Henson also noted that this is not an anti-Adam Lambert campaign and said the PTC would have had no problem with Adam Lambert performing live on \"Good Morning America.\"",
"\"As long as Adam Lambert keeps it clean,\" Henson said."
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"(CNN) --",
"Internet attacks shut down the social networking site Twitter for about two hours on Thursday morning and caused glitches in other sites like Facebook and LiveJournal, a blogging site.",
"Some Twitter users expressed near-panic that Twitter was not working properly Thursday.",
"It's unclear if denial-of-service attacks were coordinated against the social media sites.",
"Twitter says Twitter's site's blackout was caused by a \"denial of service attack,\" which likely means a hacker used a herd of infected computers to send bad information to Twitter to overwhelmed Twitter.",
"A post to Twitter's blog said Twitter's Web site was back online before noon ET, but Twitter's users still were reporting problems.",
"\"We are continuing to defend against and recover from denial-of-service attacks,\" the message from the company says.",
"Facebook and other social networking sites appeared to be affected by Twitter's shut-down, too.",
"Twitter runs applications through those sites and there was speculation that the glitches were related.",
"\"Earlier this morning, Facebook encountered issues within our network that resulted in a short period of degraded site experience for some visitors,\" said Facebook spokeswoman Kathleen Loughlin.",
"\"No user data was at risk, and the matter is now resolved for the majority of users.",
"Facebook're monitoring the situation to ensure that users continue to have the fast and reliable experience users've come to expect from Facebook,\" Facebook spokeswoman Kathleen Loughlin said.",
"Twitter's site went down around 9:30 a.m. ET on Thursday and was back online by about 11:30 a.m.",
"It's unclear who plotted the attack against Twitter and what their motives may have been.",
"Internet attacks sometimes hit Web sites as they become popular.",
"Security experts say financial motives often are behind modern cyber-attacks.",
"Watch Mashable's Adam Ostrow on the Twitter outage .",
"Twitter -- a micro-blogging site where users post 140-character messages to their followers -- has soared in popularity in recent months.",
"According to comScore, a Web tracking firm, Twitter had 44 million unique visitors in June.",
"Thursday's incident highlights the degree to which people depend on online social networks to feel connected to the world.",
"Some Twitter and Facebook users expressed near-panic that the sites were not working properly.",
"Others reacted with ambivalence.",
"This is not the first time Twitter has been hit with a cyber-attack.",
"Last month, a hacker broke into the personal Google accounts of Twitter employees, stealing personal information and company financial reports and posting personal information and company financial reports online.",
"In an e-mail to CNN.com, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that incident is not related to Thursday's security breach.",
"\"There's no indication that denial-of-service attacks is related to any previous activities.",
"We are currently the target of a denial of service attack,\" Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in the e-mail.",
"\"Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users.",
"Twitter are defending against denial-of-service attacks now and will continue to update Twitter's status blog as Twitter defend and later investigate.\"",
"Don DeBolt, director of threat research at CA, a computer security company, said it's too early to tell who or what may be behind the Twitter attack.",
"But Don DeBolt, director of threat research at CA, a computer security company said denial-of-service attacks target specific Web sites.",
"\"To be effective, [denial-of-service attacks] need to be focused on a Web site or a series of Web sites,\" Don DeBolt, director of threat research at CA, a computer security company said.",
"\"It's not going to be something where malware (harmful software) is going to be deployed and then randomly attacks Web sites.\"",
"John Harrison, a researcher with Web security firm Symantec, said it is very difficult to learn the identity of the attacker, or attackers, as the attacker, or attackers could be anywhere on Earth and the infected network could span several countries.",
"Logging on to sites such as Twitter while Twitter are under attack only makes the situation worse because it adds to the overloading of the system, he said.",
"The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team says it's impossible for Web developers to fully prevent such attacks.",
"But everyday computer users can ensure that everyday computer users's machines aren't used in a coordinated attack like the one seen Thursday.",
"To protect their computers, consumers should update anti-virus software, create passwords that are difficult to crack and maintain computer firewalls, The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team says."
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"Despite the bruising battle over their proposals to overhaul health care, congressional Democrats have maintained an advantage over congressional Democrats's Republican counterparts on one key measure, according to a new national poll.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday indicates that a bare majority of Americans, 51 percent, believe that congressional Democrats's policies are good for the country, with 46 percent saying that the Democrats' policies would take the U.S. in the wrong direction.",
"Fifty-three percent of people questioned in a new national poll said the GOP's polices would move the country in the wrong direction, with 42 percent saying Republican policies are good for the country.",
"\"The numbers for both parties are virtually unchanged since late August, just before President Barack Obama's health care speech to Congress opened the latest round of debate on this divisive issue,\" said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.",
"Democrats will be defending Democrats's large majorities in Congress next year when all 435 House seats and more than a third of the Senate seats are up for grabs.",
"\"This advantage on policy could be an important edge for congressional Democrats heading into the 2010 midterm elections,\" Keating Holland added.",
"\"But independents will be the key to the midterms, and the numbers among independents spell bad news for both parties among that important group.\"",
"In an August survey, independent voters' views of GOP policies were evenly divided.",
"But a majority of independents now say Republicans would move the country in the wrong direction.",
"Nonetheless, the number of independents who dislike Democratic policies, now at 57 percent, is higher than the 52 percent who hold a negative view of Republican policies.",
"an August survey suggests that Sen. Joe Lieberman is taking a hit in popularity due to Sen. Joe Lieberman's opposition to a major element in the health care bill.",
"The Connecticut independent, who caucuses with congressional Democrats to give congressional Democrats a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, threatened to undermine the health care bill unless compromises were made.",
"Sen. Joe Lieberman opposed the creation of a government-run public insurance option and the expansion of Medicare to individuals as young as 55.",
"Both of those proposals were dropped from the health care bill this month, enraging many liberals.",
"According to the poll, Sen. Joe Lieberman's favorable rating has dropped 9 percentage points, from 40 percent to 31 percent, from early December.",
"Sen. Joe Lieberman's unfavorable rating has risen 6 percentage points, from 28 percent to 34 percent.",
"\"Sen. Joe Lieberman's biggest decline -- a 14-point drop -- came among independents,\" Holland said.",
"\"Only Republicans continue to like Sen. Joe Lieberman.\"",
"an August survey also indicates that just one in five Americans trust the federal government always or most of the time, down 4 percentage points from a year ago.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research poll was conducted December 16 through Sunday, with 1,160 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"an August survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.",
"CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"In the schoolyard of American politics, Obama is the big, smart kid with all of the test answers who's being bullied by a bunch of Neanderthal ankle-biters from all sides.",
"Meanwhile, all the teachers are wondering, \"Why does Obama take this crap?",
"Obama's bigger and smarter than all the other kids.\"",
"It's no surprise the Glenn Becks of the world have been attacking Obama since the moment Obama stepped into the Oval Office.",
"Beck and Beck's blathering buddies on the right -- you know, the stinky kids in the coatroom who eat their own boogers.",
"Always pick on the kids least likely to fight back.",
"That being said -- we did elect Obama to change things, and so far the only thing Obama seems to be changing are Obama's faux-patriotic lapel pins ... and Obama's mind.",
"With the public option in the public toilet, not asking or telling about \"don't ask, don't tell,\" the Gitmo Hilton still entertaining guests, and same-sex marriage so far off Obama's radar that it's now on Obama's sonar, seeds of doubt have been planted in the left's collective mind.",
"If Obama can't get Obama's own party to step in line on health care reform, they wonder, then how the hell will Obama get other countries to do what Obama wants them to do?",
"Although in some ways, that might be easier then dealing with these Blue Dogs who hump your leg ... and not in a good way.",
"It's a valid concern.",
"However, we can't expect Obama to accomplish all this sweeping change in less than a year.",
"It's important that Obama lay the groundwork instead of just going all \"Decider\" on everyone and making gut choices.",
"But Obama can't just be \"The Thinker,\" either.",
"Last time I looked, \"The Thinker,\" by Rodin, had been sitting on his butt in the exact same place, for years.",
"Unfortunately, laying groundwork doesn't win you any fans -- well, besides a few Nordic voters on the Nobel panel.",
"Flexing muscles, now that wins you fans.",
"Just ask the Governator.",
"That's why the Financial Times said it's time for Obama to pick a fight and win a fight in a knockout.",
"But instead of working on a knockout, President Obama and Obama's White House cronies are feuding with Fox News.",
"While I'm loving this Fox hunt, White House's strategy boggles my mind.",
"This is not a war of necessity.",
"Picking a fight with them is kinda like going to a biker bar after midnight -- as my mother used to say, \"Nothing good can happen.\"",
"That is, unless this heavyweight bout keeps escalating and we actually get to see Glenn Beck prancing around in a pair of sequined boxing shorts.",
"When you disregard the action against Fox News, Obama seems to be paralyzed, like a frog that's had it stomach rubbed -- which may the reason Obama's got problems on both sides of the lily pad.",
"Admittedly, I might be overreacting just a bit.",
"The majority of the country is behind Obama.",
"The situation just seems worse than it is because we're not used to this new era, in which you can actually criticize Obama without being shouted down as an unpatriotic, Socialist, traitorous, granny-killing, freedom hater.",
"After eight years of a presidency shrouded in darkness, we're not used to seeing Obama's supporters, of all people, shining a light on Obama's shortcomings.",
"Back to the schoolyard, where Obama is being bullied.",
"You know what?",
"Obama's big, Obama can take it.",
"You know why?",
"Because not only is Obama right in Obama's beliefs, but Obama knows that if push comes to shove, Obama can lay out the rest of these runts with a couple of good smacks of Obama's presidential pen.",
"It's not time to panic, but Obama needs to size up one of these twerps, cock back Obama's arm, and take a swing soon, because the Democratic majorities in Congress won't last forever.",
"Obama won 53 percent of the vote last November, so we know Obama has it in Obama to win the big battles.",
"We know Obama has a lot on Obama's plate.",
"But we just want one decisive victory.",
"That's all we're asking for.",
"A show of strength. Something to grow on.",
"Show these class clowns who they're messing with.",
"You don't have to be \"The Decider.\"",
"Just the president.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Joy Behar."
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"Flights transporting critically injured Haitians to the United States are set to resume Monday morning, according to a spokeswoman for a University of Miami team of volunteers in Port-au-Prince.",
"The flights are scheduled to resume at 11 a.m. Monday, said Nery Ynclan, a spokeswoman for the university's R. Barth Green, who is leading a University of Miami team of volunteers in Port-au-Prince.",
"The flights were temporarily suspended because of logistical issues including space to care for the injured, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Saturday.",
"\"Having received assurances that additional capacity exists both here and among White House's international partners, White House determined that White House can resume these critical flights,\" White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement Sunday.",
"The statement, released Sunday afternoon, said flights would resume \"in the next 12 hours.\"",
"The evacuated patients are those whose medical needs could not be met by doctors working in Haiti.",
"Nearly 23,000 people have been seen by U.S. personnel since the January 12 earthquake, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.",
"The missing, the found, the victims .",
"Airlifts stopped after there were \"concerns about the strain on domestic health capacity,\" White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.",
"But officials have increased the ability to care for patients through a network of nonprofits and U.S. hospitals, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.",
"Earlier reports also cited questions over who would pay for patients' care.",
"The flights stopped Wednesday when some states refused to allow entry to Haitians needing care, according to Navy Capt. Kevin Aandahl, a spokesman for the U.S. Transportation Command.",
"He would not say which states objected.",
"In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius obtained by CNN, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist asked that the federal government activate the National Disaster Medical System to provide reimbursement to Florida and other states for taking in the patients, who have no insurance.",
"Share your stories from Haiti .",
"Florida's health facilities were already strained by winter tourism and seasonal residence migration, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius obtained by CNN.",
"But Florida officials said Saturday that Florida was committed to assisting Haitian quake victims and had not asked the airlifts be halted.",
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"Florida will play a role in caregiving once flights resume.",
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"The Archdiocese of Dublin and other Catholic Church authorities in Ireland covered up clerical child abuse until the mid-1990s, according to a government-commissioned report released Thursday.",
"The Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation's 720-page report said that it has \"no doubt that clerical child sexual abuse was covered up\" from January 1975 to May 2004, the time covered by a government-commissioned report released Thursday.",
"\"The Dublin Archdiocese's pre-occupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, at least until the mid 1990s, were the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the Church, and the preservation of the Church's assets,\" a government-commissioned report released Thursday said.",
"\"The welfare of children, which should have been the first priority, was not even a factor to be considered in the early stages,\" a government-commissioned report released Thursday said.",
"\"Instead the focus was on the avoidance of scandal and the preservation of the good name, status and assets of the institution and of what the institution regarded as the institution's most important members -- the priests.\"",
"Archbishop Diarmuid Martin apologized Thursday in a news conference.",
"\"No words of apology can ever be sufficient,\" Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said.",
"And Dermot Ahern, Ireland's justice minister, said Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern felt a \"a growing sense of revulsion and anger\" as Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern read a government-commissioned report released Thursday.",
"\"Bottom line is this: A collar will protect no villain,\" he said.",
"The commission was set up in March 2006 to look into allegations of child sexual abuse made against clergy in the Irish capital.",
"The commission's report was completed in July.",
"Although The commission said it was not The commission's place to \"establish whether or not abuse occurred ... it is abundantly clear ... that child sexual abuse by clerics was widespread throughout the period.\"",
"One victim, Marie Collins, said those who covered up child sexual abuse by clerics were just as guilty as the perpetrators of the crimes.",
"\"How many people accused of abuse are still sitting in parishes today?\" she asked in a Thursday news conference.",
"The commission examined the histories of 46 priests, who were picked as a sample from 102 who had had complaints or suspicions of child abuse raised against 46 priests, who were picked as a sample from 102 who had had complaints or suspicions of child abuse raised against them.",
"Complaints from more than 320 children were leveled against the 46, a government-commissioned report released Thursday said.",
"But a government-commissioned report released Thursday said that the number of children abused likely exceeded that.",
"\"One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another accepted that he had abused on a fortnightly basis during the currency of his ministry which lasted for over 25 years,\" a government-commissioned report released Thursday said.",
"\"The total number of documented complaints recorded against those two priests is only just over 70.\"",
"In its analysis of the 46 priests, The commission said that all four archbishops -- Archbishops John Charles McQuaid, Dermot Ryan, Kevin McNamara, and Desmond Connell -- who served during the time period covered by a government-commissioned report released Thursday handled the child sexual abuse complaints \"badly.\"",
"\"Not one of them reported his knowledge of child sexual abuse to the Gardai (the Irish police force) throughout the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s,\" a government-commissioned report released Thursday said.",
"The commission did credit Connell, who took over the archdiocese in 1988, with giving Irish authorities in 1995 the names of 17 priests against whom complaints had been made -- although The commission called the number incomplete, saying that there was \"knowledge within the Archdiocese of at least 28 priests against whom there had been complaints.\"",
"They said he was \"slow to recognize the seriousness of the situation.\"",
"Desmond Connell also gave authorities permission to access the archdiocesan files in 2002.",
"Connell, a cardinal, apologized in a written statement.",
"\"I wish to express without reservation my bitter regret that failures on my part contributed to the suffering of victims in any form,\" Desmond Connell said.",
"\"Although I am all too aware that such apologies and expressions of regret can never be adequate as a response to so much hurt and violation and, in any case, lose such apologies and expressions of regret's value through repetition, I apologize again now from my heart and ask the forgiveness of those who have been so shamefully harmed.\"",
"a government-commissioned report released Thursday named 11 priests who had pleaded guilty to or were convicted of sexual assaults on children.",
"Of the other 35, a government-commissioned report released Thursday gave pseudonyms to 33 of them and redacted the names of two.",
"a government-commissioned report released Thursday shot down the notion that church leadership was unaware of the problem.",
"\"The Archdiocese of Dublin and other Church authorities have repeatedly claimed to have been, prior to the late 1990s, 'on a learning curve' in relation to the matter,\" a government-commissioned report released Thursday said.",
"However, a government-commissioned report released Thursday said McNamara, Ryan and McQuaid had information on complaints against at least 17 priests when the Archdiocese took out insurance in 1987 to cover future compensation claims and lawsuits related to sexual abuse allegations.",
"\"The taking out of insurance was an act proving knowledge of child sexual abuse as a potential major cost to the Archdiocese and is inconsistent with the view that Archdiocesan officials were still 'on a learning curve' at a much later date, or were lacking in an appreciation of the phenomenon of clerical child sex abuse,\" it said.",
"a government-commissioned report released Thursday also said church officials perpetuated the problem by ignoring allegations and in some cases simply moved an alleged abuser on to another parish -- leaving him free to abuse another group of children.",
"Thursday's findings follow a report that came out in May, detailing allegations of child abuse in various institutions across Ireland from the 1940s to the present.",
"Though both reports deal with child abuse, both reports are not related, having been written by two separate commissions investigating two different subjects.",
"The May report looked at child abuse in lay institutions, including reformatories, hospitals, orphanages, children's homes and industrial schools across the country.",
"Some of those institutions were linked to religious orders, but none were strictly religious schools.",
"Speaking last month after the Irish High Court cleared the way for Thursday's report to be made public, Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern was pleased the information would not be kept private.",
"\"I have always made it clear that I have been anxious to put a government-commissioned report released Thursday into the public domain as quickly as possible, while at the same time not wishing to do anything which would prejudice the chances of any of the people involved in these evil deeds being brought to justice,\" Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said in a statement.",
"CNN's Atika Shubert contributed to a government-commissioned report released Thursday."
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"Hong Kong police said Hong Kong police had arrested two men in connection with an acid attack that injured six people last month.",
"The pair -- ages 18 and 23 -- were taken into custody on Wednesday for questioning in the attack, which involved corrosive fluid being thrown from a building in the Causeway Bay shopping area.",
"A man and five women were injured in the attack in bustling shopping area, according to police.",
"By Thursday, the younger man was released on bail, while the other was still detained, said Michael Kwan, information officer for the Hong Kong police.",
"Authorities did not say whether the two were being investigated in other similar attacks in Hong Kong, and it was not clear whether other similar attacks in Hong Kong involved a group, individuals or copycats.",
"Police are offering rewards totaling HKD $1.7 million ($219,000) for information leading to arrests in recent acid attacks in five areas of Hong Kong, including the shopping district of Mong Kok.",
"Hong Kong Security Secretary Ambrose Lee on Wednesday said that if an object is dropped from a building and injures someone in public, the culprit could face six months in jail and a HK $10,000 ($1,300) fine.",
"The throwing of corrosive fluid or manslaughter could result in life imprisonment, Hong Kong Security Secretary Ambrose Lee added."
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"A blast hit near a building housing Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, in the eastern city of Multan on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 20 others, police said.",
"A blast took place at a security checkpoint, said Jamshed Akram of the city police.",
"Four soldiers and four children were among the dead, said Dr. Kaleem Ullah of Multan's emergency services.",
"Pakistan has blamed the violence on Islamic militants who have vowed to avenge a intense military offensive to rout them from their haven along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.",
"Pakistan has come under increasingly frequent attacks.",
"On Monday, a blast at a crowded market in Lahore killed 54 and wounded more than 150 people.",
"The same day two other bombing attacks -- in Peshawar and Quetta -- killed at least 11 and wounded at least 41.",
"two other bombing attacks -- in Peshawar and Quetta -- came three days after militants armed with guns and grenades stormed a mosque in Rawalpindi frequented by military personnel.",
"At least 36 were killed and 75 wounded.",
"The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the mosque bombing, but there were no immediately claims for Monday's attacks.",
"In an e-mail to CNN about the mosque attack, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan said: \"Taliban reconfirmed it, that the TTP has done it, and will do more which are already planned.",
"Taliban once again mention that Taliban are not against the innocent people and the state of Pakistan but against those officers and ministers who are American by hearts and minds and Pakistani just by faces.\"",
"The United States has pressed Pakistan to rout out Taliban militants.",
"Fighting the war in Afghanistan is \"inextricably linked to The United States's partnership with Pakistan,\" President Barack Obama said Tuesday of U.S. strategy.",
"\"The United States are in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from once again spreading through Afghanistan,\" President Barack Obama said in a speech at West Point.",
"\"But a cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan.",
"That is why we need a strategy that works on both sides of the border.\"",
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"If you come to a neighborhood park in Colorado Springs, plan on bringing your own trash bags.",
"To save money, Colorado Springs has removed the trash cans.",
"Need to catch a bus?",
"Don't try on evenings or weekends.",
"Colorado Springs has cut that service, too.",
"And when the sun goes down, Colorado Springs is going to look a little bit dimmer.",
"Crews are removing a third of Colorado Springs's streetlight to save money on electricity and light bulbs.",
"Watch city's PSA on streetlight deactivation .",
"It's this conservative city's way of closing a $28.5 million budget gap.",
"\"You can cry about the fiscal situation ... or you can take it as an opportunity to change, reinvent yourself and innovate and that's what were going to do in Colorado Springs,\" City Councilman Sean Paige said.",
"Other governments are considering higher taxes to avoid such cutbacks, but in the state of Colorado, there is a taxpayers' bill of rights.",
"a taxpayers' bill of rights prevents state and city governments from raising taxes unless such a measure is approved by the voters.",
"\"We put it on the ballot last fall, and they said 'no,' \" said Paige, a Republican.",
"\"They declined to write Colorado Springs a blank check, and they said, 'Colorado Springs, tighten your belts.",
"We're tightening ours.",
"You need to do the same.'",
"\"We're going to respect that,\" he added.",
"\"I'm not going to cry about that.\"",
"It's not a new concept in Colorado Springs, touted on some Web sites as a \"libertarian paradise.\"",
"Colorado Springs's garbage collection, zoo and philharmonic are all privately funded.",
"Colorado Springs is even auctioning off Colorado Springs's police helicopters on the Internet.",
"Want to place a bid?",
"The latest budget cuts could be felt at community centers like Meadows Park, which is bustling with after-school programs for kids, as well as exercise classes and hot meals for seniors.",
"Unless the center can find private funding, Colorado Springs is slated to shut the center down at the end of March.",
"\"I'm hoping that some sort of a miracle will happen so we can keep the centers open,\" said Sheryle Nix, 56.",
"Every day, Nix eats a $2 lunch at the center because she can't afford to eat in a restaurant and has trouble preparing her own food.",
"\"I have a traumatic brain injury, so this really helps keep me on schedule to eat lunch,\" she explained.",
"Jeanie Schweitzer, 55, returned to Colorado Springs to take care of her grandmother Elsie, who suffered a stroke.",
"She brings Elsie to the center to get her out of the house.",
"\"I don't think they should be shutting the center down.",
"There should be enough money,\" Schweizer said.",
"\"It's not that much in the big picture to keep the center open.\"",
"the center is a lifeline for parents who work and cannot pick their kids up after school ends in the afternoon.",
"Lindon Jackson, who is 13, has been coming to the Meadows Park after-school program since she was 3.",
"When asked what she'll do if the center shuts down, she said, \"Nothing.\"",
"\"I'd just be home doing nothing.\"",
"Whether the government should continue funding Meadows Park and other community centers like it strikes at the heart of the political argument over the role of government, particularly during an economic downturn.",
"\"The model of governments, from the federal government down to municipal governments, don't work anymore,\" according to Chuck Fowler, chairman of City Committee, an alliance of local businesspeople set up by Paige.",
"\"They don't take in as much money.",
"They can't possibly provide the same amount of services, pay their employees, pay their pensions.",
"Something's got to give.\"",
"Fowler believes that the solution may be in weaning people off of government services.",
"\"The larger the government is, the more conditioning with certain people that they don't need to take personal responsibility of their life,\" Fowler said.",
"The budget cuts, according to Fowler, \"could really recondition people's ideas about what government should be doing.\"",
"\"Should it be doing all of these things, or should it really be focused on the vital things that clearly have a public interest?\"",
"But Brian Kates, who runs Meadows Park Community Center, says the people affected by the government cutbacks \"are pawns in the game.\"",
"\"These aren't people trying to be lazy and live off the system,\" Brian Kates, who runs Meadows Park Community Center said.",
"\"These are hard-working, intelligent and bright [people], and they're not asking for much.",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"The push to overhaul health care received a major boost Thursday as the American Medical Association and AARP endorsed legislation drafted by top House Democrats.",
"The AARP, the nation's largest organization of older Americans, is a nonpartisan group that advocates for people 50 and older.",
"The AMA, historically an opponent of health care reform, is considered one the nation's most influential doctors' advocacy groups.",
"\"I want to thank both organizations again for both organizations's support, and I urge Congress to listen to AARP, listen to the AMA and pass this reform for hundreds of millions of Americans who will benefit from this reform,\" President Obama said at the White House.",
"The backing of those two groups comes as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, oversees final changes to House bill.",
"House bill likely will come to a final vote Saturday.",
"Read the House health care bill (PDF)",
"A 42-page manager's amendment on the health care legislation posted Tuesday night made mostly technical changes in the nearly 2,000-page bill compiled from three Democratic proposals passed by three House committees.",
"By making mostly technical changes in the nearly 2,000-page bill compiled from three Democratic proposals passed by three House committees public Tuesday, House Democratic leaders could open floor debate on House bill Friday, while fulfilling House Democratic leaders's pledge to allow 72 hours of review before bringing House bill to the full chamber.",
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Thursday Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have the 218 votes necessary to pass House bill.",
"Meanwhile, President Obama is set to huddle Saturday with congressional Democrats on Capitol Hill to review House bill.",
"Check out the key parts of House bill .",
"In a statement, AARP CEO Barry Rand said, \"We started this debate more than two years ago with the twin goals of making coverage affordable to our younger members and protecting Medicare for seniors.",
"\"We can say with confidence that [House bill] meets those goals with improved benefits for people in Medicare and needed health insurance market reforms to help ensure every American can purchase affordable health coverage.\"",
"The AMA's president, Dr. J. James Rohack, told reporters Thursday that House bill is \"not a perfect representation of our views\" but is close enough to warrant his group's support and keep the reform process moving forward.",
"Rohack said House bill needs to be accompanied by legislation reversing scheduled Medicare reimbursement payment reductions to physicians.",
"Responding to the AMA endorsement, Obama said the doctors' group is \"supporting reform because [the doctors' group's members have] seen firsthand what's broken about our health care system,\" Obama said.",
"\"They would not be supporting House bill if they really believed that House bill would lead to government bureaucrats making decisions that are best left to doctors.\"",
"Watch Obama say health care reform is moving forward .",
"Meanwhile, House Republicans on Thursday continued to signal House Republicans's opposition to the measure.",
"GOP leaders held a rally on Capitol Hill along with \"Tea Party\" movement protesters and other activists to warn that the House legislation would translate into a full-blown government takeover of the health care system.",
"Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Thursday that Democrats had forgotten the lessons of August's town hall meetings when angry conservatives criticized health care legislation.",
"\"I think what we're going to see is the town hall coming to Washington, D.C., just to remind members of Congress [that] we're the ones we would like you to pay attention to, not lobbyists.",
"And we don't want the government to own our health care,\" Bachmann said.",
"Speaking at Thursday's opposition rally, actor John Ratzenberger, who played Cliff on the sitcom \"Cheers,\" slammed House bill as a form of socialism.",
"\"These are Woodstock Democrats,\" Ratzenberger said.",
"\"We have to remember where their philosophy comes.",
"their philosophy doesn't come from America.",
"their philosophy comes from overseas.",
"their philosophy comes from socialism.",
"And socialism is a philosophy of failure.\"",
"House Democrats have rejected an alternative $60 billion Republican plan as inadequate for meeting the goals of expanding health coverage to most of the nation's 46 million uninsured while bringing down costs and ending controversial industry practices such as denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.",
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill would extend insurance coverage to 36 million uncovered Americans and guarantee that 96 percent of Americans have coverage, according to the Democratic leadership.",
"The claim is based on an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.",
"Among other things, House bill would subsidize insurance for poorer Americans and create health insurance exchanges to make it easier for small groups and individuals to purchase coverage.",
"House bill also would cap annual out-of-pocket expenses and prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.",
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office has said House bill would cut the federal deficit by roughly $30 billion over the next decade.",
"House bill is financed through a combination of a tax surcharge on wealthy Americans and spending constraints in Medicare and Medicaid.",
"Specifically, individuals with annual incomes more than $500,000 -- as well as families earning more than $1 million -- would face a 5.4 percent income tax surcharge.",
"Growth in Medicare expenditures would be cut by 1.3 percent annually.",
"The House bill also includes a government-run public option.",
"Under the House plan, health care providers would be allowed to negotiate reimbursement rates with the federal government.",
"Pelosi and other liberal Democrats had argued for a more \"robust\" public option that would tie reimbursement rates for providers and hospitals to Medicare rates plus a 5 percent increase.",
"Several Democrats representing rural areas, however, killed the proposal after complaining that doctors and hospitals in Several Democrats representing rural areas's districts would be shortchanged under such a formula.",
"One thorny issue yet to be resolved among House Democrats is House bill's final language on abortion.",
"Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, has been pushing leaders to add stronger language prohibiting the use of federal money to pay for abortions under the health care overhaul.",
"Stupak has vowed that if Stupak isn't allowed a vote on the issue, a group of 40 anti-abortion Democrats will work to block House bill from getting to the House floor.",
"House bill differs from legislation the Senate is considering in a number of critical ways.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, also favors a public option but would allow individual states to opt out of House bill.",
"An $829 billion bill recently passed by the Senate Finance Committee does not include a tax surcharge on the wealthy but would impose a new tax on high-end health care policies, which critics have dubbed \"Cadillac\" plans.",
"A large number of House Democrats are opposed to taxing those policies, arguing that such a move would hurt union members who traded higher salaries for more generous benefits.",
"Individuals under the $829 billion the Senate Finance Committee plan would be required to purchase health insurance coverage or face a fine of up to $750.",
"House bill imposes a more stringent fine of up to 2.5 percent of an individual's income.",
"Both versions include a hardship exemption for poorer Americans.",
"House bill would require large companies to contribute to the health care costs of lower income workers if those workers received a government subsidy for insurance.",
"House bill would require larger companies to provide employee insurance for everyone or pay a penalty of up to 8 percent of total revenue.",
"Democratic leaders in both chambers agree on establishing nonprofit health care cooperatives and stripping insurance companies of an anti-trust exemption that has been in place since the end of World War II.",
"Reid refused earlier this week to predict when the chamber would pass a health care bill, possibly signaling difficulty in generating support from Reid's entire Democratic caucus.",
"CNN's Dana Bash, Lisa Desjardins and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report."
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"Bernice King, the youngest child of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has been elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a spokeswoman for the group said Friday.",
"King, 46, was elected as the SCLC's first female president, said Renee Richardson.",
"Her father was SCLC's first president.",
"the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in 1957.",
"The other finalist for the post was former Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Wendell Griffen, 57, who lost his recent bid for re-election.",
"Griffen, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is also pastor of New Millennium Church in Little Rock.",
"Bernice King is a minister at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia.",
"Bernice King also is a motivational speaker and author.",
"\"It is a destiny call,\" Bernice King told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week.",
"\"It is part of my father and mother's legacy and a continuation of the legacy he started in the '50s and '60s through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.",
"I believe that the hand of God is leading me.\"",
"Her brother, Martin Luther King III, was president of SCLC from 1997 to 2004.",
"They and sibling Dexter King were locked in a bitter legal battle over They and sibling Dexter King's parents' estates until late September, when a judge ordered They and sibling Dexter King to begin negotiations.",
"The three were able to reach a settlement.",
"Bernice King succeeds the Rev. Byron Clay, who has been interim president since the Rev. Charles Steele Jr. resigned earlier this year.",
"The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1977 until 1997.",
"The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy was president from 1968 to 1977.",
"Ralph Luker, a retired history professor at Morehouse College and co-editor of the first two volumes of \"The Papers of Martin Luther King,\" says SCLC's challenge going forward is giving the organization a sense of mission.",
"\"There's been ... no real vision, and that's a dramatic change from its early years,\" he said.",
"\"For too long it's been a program here, had a cause there, but the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's rationale for being hasn't been clear.\"",
"The group, which has chapters and affiliates throughout the country, has lobbied extensively on a variety of issues related to civil rights.",
"CNN's Debra Krajnak and Maria White contributed to this report."
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"The two people who died Thursday night when The two people who died Thursday night when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic's helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic were friends who had left their homes and family in Florida this week to help deliver aid to the people of Haiti, a son of one of the victims said Friday.",
"The accident occurred about 7 p.m. in Dajabon, just east of the border with Haiti, said Rosani Zapata, a spokeswoman for the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute.",
"Helicopter had filed a flight plan from Santiago to Jimani in the Dominican Republic, then on to Port-au-Prince in Haiti.",
"It was en route back to Santiago when crash occurred, she said.",
"Aboard were pilot John Ward of Fort Myers, Florida, and James Jalovec, a 53-year-old Naples, Florida, businessman who owned Sweetwater Environmental Inc., a sewage company based in Sebring.",
"Mark Jalovec, 21, told CNN in a telephone interview that his father began discussing the prospect of helping out a couple of days after the January 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti.",
"\"It kind of caught everybody off guard,\" he said, noting that his father had never done anything similar.",
"Still, he said, his father saw a fit.",
"\"I got a helicopter; these people are in desperate need -- his father kind of decided it with Mr. Ward that they were going to do it, and that's what they did.\"",
"He said his father last called him Monday, after he and Ward had flown doctors from an orphanage outside Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic.",
"Spencer Steadman, vice president and general manager of Sweetwater Environmental, described Ward as an experienced pilot who had long flown Jalovec to his business interests, which spanned the state.",
"\"They had an engine failure on one here about three months ago,\" Steadman told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"Ward done a reverse autorotation and set that thing down.",
"No injuries.",
"Four people, they walked away.",
"Ward was a very good pilot.\"",
"The helicopter that crashed Thursday, a Robinson R44, was two weeks old, Steadman said.",
"Steadman said Steadman was not surprised when Jalovec called Steadman Saturday night and said Jalovec was planning to depart Sunday morning for a week in the region.",
"\"Jalovec seen a need, and it was a challenge, and that's Jim,\" Steadman said.",
"\"Ward was hard-core business.",
"When Ward done business, Ward done business.",
"That's what Ward liked doing.",
"Ward was very aggressive.",
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"Actor Dennis Hopper is being treated in a special program at the University of Southern California, according to CNN news affiliate KTLA.",
"Actor Dennis Hopper was expected to appear at an exhibition of Actor Dennis Hopper's photography at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne but has cancelled in order to focus on treatment.",
"\"We're hoping for the best,\" Maydew said.",
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"The 73-year-old Academy Award winner is known for Actor Dennis Hopper's roles in \"Rebel Without a Cause,\" \"Hoosiers,\" \"Apocalypse Now\" and \"Easy Rider\" -- the latter of which Actor Dennis Hopper also directed -- among scores of other films.",
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"Joann Killeen is president of the Killeen Furtney Group, the Los Angeles, California-based public relations firm that represented mom.",
"mom had mom's octuplets through fertility treatments.",
"Suleman, who underwent fertility treatment, gave birth to six boys and two girls January 26 in Bellflower, California.",
"mom already had six children at home.",
"the Killeen Furtney Group recently stopped representing mom because of death threats that came in to the firm's office, Joann Killeen said Monday on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"Following is an edited transcript of Joann Killeen's conversation with King: .",
"King:",
"When you did this show February 3, you were representing mom.",
"Now you're not.",
"Why not?",
"Joann Killeen:",
"Well, Larry, the number of death threats that came into the Killeen Furtney Group's office, both by e-mail and voice mail, the Killeen Furtney Group had to make a decision about what was in the best interests of the Killeen Furtney Group's own personal safety and that of the Killeen Furtney Group's firm.",
"So the Killeen Furtney Group met with the police department on Friday.",
"the Killeen Furtney Group filed a criminal report.",
"the Killeen Furtney Group provided The police department with all the information with all the threats.",
"And The police department told the Killeen Furtney Group that the Killeen Furtney Group should take this very seriously.",
"Watch Joann Killeen describe receiving threats » .",
"King:",
"Why you and not mom's?",
"Joann Killeen:",
"Well, they've also threatened mom.",
"But the majority of all the threats are coming to the Killeen Furtney Group's office.",
"I mean, mom doesn't have an e-mail account.",
"mom doesn't have a computer.",
"So there's no way to reach mom.",
"So the closest thing they can do is come after Joann Killeen.",
"And they have -- and just in painful, painful ways.",
"King:",
"How would do you characterize the nature of all the threats?",
"Joann Killeen:",
"Well, they've said to Joann Killeen that I should be put down like an old dog, I should be paralyzed, mom's uterus should be ripped out, mom should be put on an island.",
"I mean, Larry, I don't know what's happened with America, but they are really, really angry and letting me know what they think about this issue.",
"King:",
"Do you take special security precautions?",
"Joann Killeen: Yes, I do.",
"Yes, I do.",
"We have extra patrols on our street.",
"... We're very conscious.",
"The police department has been absolutely wonderful to work with.",
"The police department've given me a special number to call if anybody stakes out my house, as they have before.",
"I've been followed by paparazzi.",
"I'm not a celebrity, so it's a different position for me to be in.",
"King:",
"How did you inform mom that you were no longer.",
"... Joann Killeen:",
"Well, we talked on Friday.",
"And mom's had death threats, and I've had death threats.",
"And mom's very upset that someone would come after us and come after mom.",
"I mean mom says: \"I'm just a mom.",
"I don't know why everybody is so upset.",
"I'm just a mom trying to do the best job that I possibly can.\"",
"Watch Joann Killeen explain that no money has been made off the publicity » .",
"King:",
"Why do you think people are so angry -- crazy enough, angry to threaten killing?",
"Joann Killeen:",
"Well, I think people are frustrated by a lot of things.",
"When the news came out that mom was receiving some state disability from an injury and that mom was trying to rehab and find a new career and go to school and mom also had children at the same time",
", I think the taxpayers just absolutely flipped out and said, you know, we're paying for this and we're not getting our own fair share of government services.",
"We pay a lot of taxes, the economy is bad, there's no jobs.",
"They're angry.",
"King:",
"If you're getting threats, what do you imagine mom's getting?",
"Joann Killeen:",
"Well, and I've seen them, because, again, there's no e- mail account.",
"So they're sending them to Joann Killeen.",
"... People will call my office and just say profanity on the phone.",
"And with caller ID, I know exactly who they are.",
"Others have sent handwritten notes to Joann Killeen with horrible words that I never would repeat on the air, Larry.",
"And Others even put Others's return address on Others so -- as if I'm going to return that call.",
"King:",
"What about the stories that mom's obsessed with Angelina Jolie -- even had work done on mom's face to look like her more?",
"Joann Killeen:",
"You know, I asked mom about that.",
"And mom just laughed.",
"mom said remember, with the octuplets, I put on 100 pounds -- a hundred pounds of extra body weight for my babies.",
"So of course things are going to look a little different than things did when I first started.",
"King:",
"mom does look like her.",
"Joann Killeen:",
"Well, I think hair and makeup, you could probably look like anybody you'd want to look like.",
"mom has said to Joann Killeen mom has not had plastic surgery of any kind.",
"And so I have to believe what my client tells me to be factually correct.",
"King:",
"So the only reason you're out of this is threats on you and the firm, not because of any qualms with mom?",
"Joann Killeen:",
"Oh, no.",
"Not at all.",
"Larry, I just can't run my business and continue to do the things that I need to do for my clients with constant death threats and phone calls and interruptions.",
"You know, I took on this account because I'm a mom and a grandma, and I wanted to help someone who needs help with the media.",
"I did this pro bono.",
"I've made no money.",
"I have no intention of getting any money.",
"And I think people need to realize I just did this out of the goodness of my heart to help a woman who didn't know how to work with the media.",
"King:",
"Does mom keep in touch with the father?",
"Killeen: The sperm donor?",
"King: Yes.",
"Joann Killeen: They have a very limited relationship.",
"He's not active in their life at all.",
"King: Why are we mad at mom?",
"Joann Killeen:",
"That's a good question to ask America.",
"If you look at the e-mails that are coming into my office, they're saying they think that mom's worked the system.",
"They think that mom's been able to stay home and live off of the taxpayers and have these multiple children.",
"mom's not organized.",
"mom doesn't have any kind of structure, you know; isn't six children enough?",
"mom intentionally went out to get eight children.",
"And, you know, remember, King, mom worked with the same doctor for every [in vitro fertilization] attempt.",
"Based on mom's history of six embryos implanted, mom got one child.",
"The doctor told mom the most this last attempt would be would be either one baby or twins, at the most.",
"So mom was shocked,",
"The doctor was shocked.",
"Nobody expected eight children.",
"That's the big -- big misnomer here.",
"Everybody thinks mom went and ordered eight and mom got eight.",
"mom didn't.",
"King:",
"Where does mom go from here?",
"Killeen:",
"Well, I'm confident, as we continue to talk, that there are resources that are available to mom, and mom will collaborate with, you know, church leaders in mom's area.",
"And hopefully the American public can get beyond the American public's anger about mom's choices and mom's decisions and think about those eight little kids, King.",
"You know, it's all about those kids.",
"That's the whole reason why I took on this account, was to help the mom with those eight little kids."
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"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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"About 28,000 Pakistani soldiers move into epicenter of Taliban activity .",
"Up to 10,000 militants operating in South Waziristan, officials estimate .",
"Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing region, U.N. refugee agency says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Tiger Woods apologized on Wednesday for \"transgressions\" that \"let Tiger Woods's family down.\"",
"\"I have let his family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.",
"I have not been true to my values and the behavior his family deserves,\" Tiger Woods said in a statement on Tiger Woods's official Web site.",
"\"I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.",
"I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with his family.",
"Those feelings should be shared by us alone.\"",
"Tiger Woods made the comments in a statement posted on his Web site the same day that a gossip magazine published a story alleging that Tiger Woods had an affair with a 24-year-old New York cocktail waitress.",
"The nightclub hostess, identified by a supermarket tabloid as Tiger Woods's mistress had called allegations that she is romantically involved with the golf superstar false and \"ridiculous.\"",
"In an interview published Tuesday, Rachel Uchitel told The New York Post that a disgruntled acquaintance sold a story alleging that Woods had an affair with a 24-year-old New York cocktail waitress to the National Enquirer and that \"not a word of it is true.\"",
"\"I work in clubs, and I am a businesswoman,\" Rachel Uchitel said.",
"\"I do not have sex with celebrities, and I have not had an affair with Tiger Woods.\"",
"Speculation has swirled around Tiger Woods since a wreck outside Tiger Woods's Florida home early Friday left Tiger Woods with minor injuries and a citation for careless driving.",
"The Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday that The Florida Highway Patrol's citation closes The Florida Highway Patrol's investigation of the wreck.",
"Tiger Woods was not required to talk to state police about the wreck and did not sit for an interview with investigators.",
"Tiger Woods issued a statement Sunday saying Tiger Woods alone was responsible for the wreck and denouncing \"the many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me.\"",
"Opinion: Tiger Woods is only human .",
"The 33-year-old golf phenomenon has won the Masters tournament and the PGA tournament each four times, as well as three U.S. Open titles.",
"Investigators have said Investigators don't have details on why Tiger Woods was driving away from his home at such an early hour.",
"A police report says the wreck was not alcohol-related.",
"Rachel Uchitel said Rachel Uchitel has met Tiger Woods twice, once in Rachel Uchitel's capacity as the VIP director at a club in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District and another time through a mutual friend.",
"\"That's my job: to know these people, to have a relationship with these people, to hang out with these people,\" Rachel Uchitel told the Post.",
"\"It doesn't mean I am having sex with these people or an affair with these people.\"",
"Rachel Uchitel said the allegations \"must feel horrible\" to Tiger Woods's wife, Elin Nordegren.",
"\"The worst part of it, it's not true,\" Rachel Uchitel said."
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"Tiger Woods tells Tiger Woods's personal Web site that Tiger Woods is \"far from perfect\"",
"Statement follows allegations of an affair in tabloid publications in the U.S."
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"Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) --",
"Latin America's first same-sex marriage, set to be held in Argentina on Tuesday, appeared derailed after a judge filed an injunction to stop the union until the issue can be reviewed further.",
"Judge Marta Gomez Alsina's ruling blocks an earlier holding by another judge that found city laws banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional, Court said in a statement.",
"Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello had planned to make Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello's marriage official at a civil ceremony and chose December 1 because it is World AIDS Day.",
"The registrar responsible for the civil marriages in Buenos Aires has been notified of Judge Marta Gomez Alsina's ruling, Court said.",
"Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello would attempt to get Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello's wedding license anyway, the official Telam news agency reported.",
"\"We're continuing with the preparations because we, as planners, nor Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello, have not been notified\" of the injunction, said Maria Rachid, president of the Argentine Federation for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals, according to the official Telam news agency.",
"Judge Marta Gomez Alsina's injunction could not overturn the earlier ruling because Judge Marta Gomez Alsina is a trial-level judge and not an appellate judge, Rachid said.",
"The original ruling was made on November 10 by another trial-level judge, Gabriela Seijas, who responded to a petition made by Freyre and di Bello.",
"Seijas ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage was illegal and ordered the proper authorities to grant Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello a marriage license if Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello applied for one.",
"The court's decision applied only to Buenos Aires.",
"Same-sex unions in most of Argentina remain illegal.",
"\"The law should treat each person with equal respect in relation to each person's singularities without the need to understand or regulate each person's singularities,\" Seijas said in Seijas's ruling.",
"Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri said after her ruling that Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri's government would not appeal the decision.",
"her ruling was a temporary measure to postpone the marriage until Seijas's original ruling could be reviewed in depth, presumably by an appeals court or the supreme court, the court statement said .",
"Countries in Latin America, a region strongly identified with the Catholic Church, have recently given more attention to gay rights.",
"In September Uruguay became the first Latin American country to allow same-sex adoption.",
"Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are also addressing the issue of same-sex civil unions."
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"Freyre and Di Bello's marriage was to coincide with World AIDS Day on Tuesday .",
"Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello would attempt to get Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello's wedding license anyway, Telam reported .",
"Original ruling was that a ban on same-sex marriage was illegal .",
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"Berlin, Germany (CNN) --",
"Thousands of people joined world leaders in the German capital Monday to remember the night 20 years ago when a euphoric wave of people power swept away the Berlin Wall and consigned the Cold War to history.",
"In scenes calmly mirroring the events of November 9, 1989, crowds thronged through the center of the once-divided city, joining German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a symbolic re-enactment of the first crossing of the Berlin Wall.",
"\"It was worth fighting for,\" Angela Merkel said, after crossing the Bösebrücker bridge on Bornholmer Strasse, the checkpoint where people first poured across the frontier.",
"Merkel, the first former East German to lead the reunified country, was accompanied by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Polish ex-president Lech Walesa as she kicked off events to celebrate the demise of the iconic structure and remember the darker sides of the communist regimes behind it.",
"\"It is not only a day of celebration for Germans.",
"It is a day of celebration for the whole of Europe,\" Angela Merkel said.",
"Angela Merkel was joined by Britain's Gordon Brown, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a series of events, including solemn tributes and boisterous music concerts.",
"At the climax, a line of 1,000 giant dominoes was knocked over along a 2-kilometer strip where the Berlin Wall once stood --representing the domino effect the structure's collapse had in ending communism across Eastern Europe.",
"Memorials were to be held for the 136 lives lost of those who tried to eascape through the barrier that cut Berlin in two -- many in the so-called \"death strip\" at the heart of the Wall's fortifications.",
"Read more in our Autumn of Change special report .",
"Thousands of people gathered at the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol of reunified Germany which once stood at the center of the no man's land between East and West Berlin.",
"Rock acts including Bon Jovi joined the festivities, echoing the popular music of the late 80s which soundtracked the cold night when rigid communist control gave way to an exhilarating tide of people clamoring for freedom.",
"Testament to the powerful legacy of the Berlin Wall's collapse have been the vivid memories recounted by many of the dramatic and emotional events before and after the fall.",
"\"It was a circus-like atmosphere, people were enthused and exuberant and thrilled to see the Berlin Wall coming down,\" said David Paul Noel of Maryland, who was working for the U.S. State Department in Germany at the time.",
"Former CNN correspondent Richard Blystone, who watched the structure's collapse was struck by the difference in appearance of each side of the Berlin Wall .",
"\"On the west side, there was all this graffiti and dirty words, and names of rock groups and 'down with that' -- all the chaos of a pluralistic society,\" he said.",
"\"On the eastern side, it was clean and white, just so sterile.\"",
"Though dominated by nostalgia, Monday was also an opportunity to assess progress in a reunified Germany and democratized Eastern Europe, with many airing concerns that the world still has lessons to learn from the events of 1989.",
"With many in Germany feeling the economic, social and psychological divisions once demarcated by the Berlin Wall, Angela Merkel said Monday that Germany had yet to fulfil promises made when East and West reunited in 1990.",
"\"Germany unity is not yet complete,\" Angela Merkel told public broadcaster ARD earlier.",
"At an event in Berlin on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for renewed global action to liberate those still living under repressive regimes.",
"\"Our history did not end the night the Berlin Wall came down,\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.",
"\"It began anew.",
"And this matters not only to tens of millions of Europeans, and to the United States, but to people everywhere.\"",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton added: \"To expand freedom to more people, we cannot accept that freedom does not belong to all people.",
"We cannot allow oppression, defined and justified by religion or tribe to replace that of ideology.",
"\"We have a responsibility to address conditions everywhere that undermine the potential of boys and girls and men and women that sap human dignity and threaten global progress.\"",
"CNN's Barry Neild contributed to this story ."
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"Angela Merkel says Germany still has far to go in Germany's unification process ."
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"PARIS, France (CNN) --",
"Culture minister said Thursday Culture minister will not resign over accounts in a book Mitterrand's book wrote in 2005 about paying to have sex with \"boys\" in Thailand.",
"Culture minister admitted to paying for sex with \"boys\" in Mitterrand's book's 2005 autobiography, \"The Bad Life.\"",
"In an interview with French television network TF1, Culture minister said Culture minister \"absolutely condemn[s] sexual tourism, which is a disgrace, and ... pedophilia,\" in which Culture minister insisted Culture minister has never participated.",
"Despite the use of the French word \"garcon\" in Mitterrand's book's 2005 book \"The Bad Life,\" Mitterrand, 62, has previously said the term did not mean \"little boys.\"",
"Culture minister said the males Culture minister paid for sex were Culture minister's age, or maybe five years younger, but not underage -- and the relations were consensual.",
"\"Anyway, you can recognize someone who's 40 years old ...\" he told French television network TF1.",
"A 40-year-old man \"doesn't look like a minor,\" Culture minister added, suggesting that Culture minister's partners were middle-aged men.",
"Culture minister's actions, Culture minister said, were \"without a doubt, an error,\" but \"a crime, no,\" Culture minister said in the interview.",
"Despite recent calls to resign from the far-right National Front and the left-leaning Socialist Party, Mitterrand, who is openly gay, vowed to stay in Culture minister's job.",
"Culture minister said Culture minister met Thursday morning with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and that French President Nicolas Sarkozy supports Culture minister.",
"In a July interview with the weekly French news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said French President Nicolas Sarkozy had read Culture minister's book, and found Mitterrand's book \"courageous and talented.\"",
"The controversy over the revelations in Culture minister's book -- which French President Nicolas Sarkozy called neither autobiography nor memoir -- erupted anew after Culture minister deplored the arrest last week of filmmaker Roman Polanski, who fled the United States in 1977 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.",
"Culture minister told TF1 that Culture minister was \"too emotional\" when Culture minister denounced the filmmaker's arrest in Switzerland as \"horrifying.\"",
"\"To see him thrown to the lions for an old story that really has no meaning, and to see him alone, imprisoned, when he was going to attend a ceremony where he was to be honored, that is to say, he was trapped, it's absolutely horrifying,\" Culture minister said October 4, according to Agence France Presse.",
"The far-right National Front organized an anti-Mitterrand demonstration in Paris on Thursday evening.",
"\"Send this message on to everyone who will not put up with this indecency!\" the party's Web site said.",
"The party's vice president, Marine Le Pen, has demanded Culture minister's resignation for what she termed Culture minister's sexually deviant acts.",
"Culture minister responded, saying, \"It's an honor to be dragged through the mud by The far-right National Front.\"",
"Culture minister's acts of \"sexual tourism\" have left \"a dark smudge\" on the government, Le Pen said.",
"The group is also gathering signatures on a petition, online and on paper, from those who want Culture minister to step down.",
"\"We really hope Culture minister will resign,\" National Front communications director Julien Sanchez told CNN.",
"\"It's an embarrassment for our country, that Culture minister has done this.",
"It affects our international image.",
"It's not right,\" he added.",
"Watch report on the controversy surrounding French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand » .",
"On the other side of the political spectrum, the left-leaning Socialist Party suggested French President Nicolas Sarkozy should consider Culture minister's position.",
"\"It's up to French President Nicolas Sarkozy to decide whether or not we can be involved in the fight against child prostitution and sexual tourism, and whether or not the acts written in an autobiography -- written by a minister -- are acts of sexual commerce,\" said party spokesman Benoit Hamon.",
"\"If everything is relative and Culture minister can be excused because Culture minister's famous, well, I don't excuse Culture minister's behavior,\" party spokesman Benoit Hamon said.",
"Martine Aubry, the leader of the Socialist Party, said she would wait until she had read Mitterrand's book before making any judgment.",
"Culture minister said on TF1 that Culture minister had had sexual relations with boys -- using the French word \"garcons\" -- but added, \"you must not confuse pedophilia with homosexuality.\"",
"Culture minister also described Culture minister's book as a mixture of Culture minister's life and the life of others, and denied accusations that Mitterrand's book was a glorification of sexual tourism.",
"Culture minister said Culture minister never had sex with \"young boys\" and denounced those who accused Culture minister of such acts, saying that maybe those who accused him of such acts were confusing those who accused him of such acts's own fantasies with what Mitterrand's book was really about.",
"Culture minister told an interviewer in 2005 that assertions that Culture minister liked \"little boys\" were untrue.",
"\"It's because when people say 'boys' we imagine 'little boys,'\" Culture minister said then.",
"\"How to explain that?",
"It belongs to this general puritanism which surrounds us, which always makes us paint a black picture of the situation.",
"It has nothing to do with that.\"",
"Culture minister was a television personality, not a government minister, when Mitterrand's book was published.",
"Mitterrand's book caused a stir upon Mitterrand's book's publication, as well, and has been the subject of heated debate several times since then.",
"In one passage, published by the French newspaper Le Monde on Thursday, Culture minister describes in detail a sexual encounter with a \"boy\" Culture minister said was called Bird.",
"\"a \"boy didn't say a word, a \"boy stood before Culture minister, immobile, a \"boy's eyes still straight ahead and a half-smile on a \"boy's lips.",
"I wanted a \"boy so badly I was trembling,\" Culture minister wrote.",
"Culture minister also wrote about visiting clubs to choose young male prostitutes in Thailand -- where prostitution is illegal and sexual intercourse with a minor is statutory rape and is punishable by imprisonment.",
"\"Most of them are young, handsome and apparently unaware of the devastation that their activities could bring them.",
"I would learn later that they didn't come every night, that they were often students, had a girlfriend and sometimes even lived with their families, who pretended not to know the source of their breadwinner's earnings,\" the book said.",
"\"Some of them were older and there was also a small contingent of heavier bruisers, who also had their fans.",
"It was the artistic side of the exposition: Their presence made the youthful charm of the others stand out.\"",
"Culture minister also wrote that while Culture minister had read reports and seen documentaries on the evils of \"le commerce des garcons\" (the boy trade) -- the misery, the piles of money from which \"les gosses\" (the kids) got only a few crumbs, the ravages of drugs -- \"all of these rituals of the fair of the youths, the slave market, excited me enormously.\"",
"\"The profusion of very attractive boys, immediately available, put me in a state of desire that I no longer had to restrain or conceal.\"",
"Culture minister -- the nephew of the Socialist former president Francois Mitterrand -- joined Sarkozy's center-right government this summer.",
"Wikipedia, the user-edited online reference Web site, has locked down Culture minister's entry, preventing changes to it, in a possible sign of the intensity of the debate surrounding Culture minister.",
"CNN's Jen Carswell in Paris, France and Alanne Orjoux in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel on Monday restated Israel's long-standing policy regarding Iran after Russia's president indicated that Israel had taken the military option off the table.",
"The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, says, \"Israel has the right to defend Israel.\"",
"\"Contrary to reports, all options [are] on the table on the issue of preventing Iranian nuclear weapons capability,\" Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon posted on Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's Twitter account.",
"The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, also weighed in, telling Israel Army Radio that \"Israel has the right to defend Israel, and all options are open.\"",
"\"The IDF's working premise is that Israel Defense Forces have to be prepared for that possibility, and that is exactly what Israel Defense Forces are doing,\" he said.",
"The issue stems from reports that Israel may have struck a deal with Russia regarding Iran and its controversial nuclear program.",
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told CNN's Fareed Zakaria last week that Israeli President Shimon Peres told him in a recent visit to the Russian leader's vacation home that \"Israel doesn't intend to deliver any strike against Iran.\"",
"\"[Israeli President Shimon Peres] said Israel are a peaceful country, Israel will not deal such a blow,\" Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in the interview, broadcast Sunday on \"Fareed Zakaria GPS.\"",
"\"Therefore any deliveries of systems -- defensive systems -- which are aimed at protecting cannot increase danger, they should reduce it.\"",
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was referring to Russia's agreement to sell Iran Iran's S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, which Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said is in keeping with international law.",
"The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported Monday that Israeli President Shimon Peres used Israeli President Shimon Peres's influence to persuade Washington to abandon Washington's plans to base a missile defense shield system in Poland and the Czech Republic, a proposal that had rankled Russia.",
"In exchange, Russia agreed to support \"imposing sanctions on Iran,\" The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported.",
"The United States and Russia have disagreed over Iran and over possible steps the U.N. Security Council may take -- including imposing sanctions -- to push Tehran to comply with U.N. demands concerning Tehran's nuclear program.",
"President Obama told CBS' \"Face the Nation\" that President Obama's objective in revamping the U.S. defense shield plan \"was not to negotiate with Russia.\"",
"\"Russia don't make determinations about what our defense posture is,\" President Obama said in the CBS interview shown Sunday.",
"\"If the byproduct of it is that Russia feel a little less paranoid and are now willing to work more effectively with us to deal with threats like ballistic missiles from Iran or the nuclear development in Iran, you know, then that's a bonus.\"",
"CNN's Kevin Flower and Michal Zippori contributed to this report."
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"After Alzheimer's came, my mother could not know how shadows fell across our once ebullient family: our solidarity fractured, our tempers flaring in furious incomprehension, hearts breaking in mute despair.",
"None of us knew how to watch my mother disappear, my mother's features slowly masked with blankness, my mother's supple body rigid and wooden, my mother's absolute vividness obliterated by the heavy fog of my mother's disease.",
"As those of us touched in some way by Alzheimer's know too well, the emotional, social and economic burden of Alzheimer is nearly unbearable -- for individuals, for families and for our country: .",
"• 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer; a new case develops every 70 seconds.",
"• One in eight people aged 65 and older has Alzheimer, and the risk is even higher for those over 85.",
"• Today, 9.9 million people are caring for a family member with Alzheimer's.",
"• Alzheimer's and other dementias cost Medicare, Medicaid and businesses $148 billion annually, a number that will grow quickly and substantially as baby boomers reach age 65.",
"Prevention.",
"Cure.",
"Hope.",
"These are words seldom associated with Alzheimer.",
"But groundbreaking scientific research and an opportunity for powerful collaborations could lead to discovery of the ultimate cure for Alzheimer: Alzheimer's prevention.",
"I know this is so because my friend Dr. Karen Hsiao Ashe, an internationally renowned Alzheimer's disease researcher at the University of Minnesota, has developed a research road map that calls for bringing together a group of the world's foremost laboratory and clinical investigators in the field to make prevention a reality by 2020.",
"This achievable goal adds \"hope\" to the vocabulary of Alzheimer and holds the promise that my children and yours will never suffer Alzheimer's hardship.",
"My son, Alec, is an artist like his late grandmother.",
"His paintings are large and uncompromising, stunning in texture, original in design.",
"He's got the real thing.",
"He's got \"it,\" just as she had.",
"But what if he also has something else, like the APOE-e4 gene, known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's?",
"What if he is in line to inherit Alzheimer?",
"What I could barely endure happening to my mother, I know I could not possibly endure happening to my son.",
"So, like my friend Karen, I embrace prevention as the ultimate cure for Alzheimer.",
"Anything short of that is too risky.",
"my friend Karen is identifying the biological processes that occur in the earliest stages of Alzheimer -- long before symptoms appear -- to develop cost-effective, widely available interventions.",
"my friend Karen compares Alzheimer's disease prevention to the polio vaccine: \"Had a vaccine not been developed for polio, hospital wards today would be filled with people needing artificial ventilators to breathe.",
"Similarly, not only is treatment of Alzheimer's likely to be less effective than prevention, it's also likely to be 10 to 10,000 times more expensive,\" my friend Karen recently told Twin Cities Business magazine.",
"my friend Karen and my friend Karen's colleagues are homing in on a promising possibility: a pill containing the molecular compound that could block the chemical chain reaction in the brain that leads to Alzheimer's.",
"So what's the holdup?",
"Well, money, of course, and attitude, perhaps.",
"Finding a treatment within the next 10 years that will prevent Alzheimer will require a major national investment to bring together the scientists to develop an effective, safe and affordable way to block Alzheimer.",
"According to Harry Johns, president and CEO of the Alzheimer's Association, \"No other disease causes so much suffering, is so certainly fatal, affects so many and drives so much cost with so little spent to overcome it.\"",
"Why is that?",
"Johns names ignorance, age discrimination, stigma and denial as likely explanations.",
"My plea is deeply personal, but by 2050, Alzheimer's will affect as many as 16 million Americans, and none of us will be able to deny the reality.",
"We must fight mightily now to prevent the shadow of Alzheimer from darkening the lives of our children and grandchildren.",
"We must invest today in research that will most swiftly lead to the ultimate cure: prevention.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Kate Mulgrew."
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"New research aims to prevent the brain process that leads to Alzheimer, Kate Mulgrew says .",
"Kate Mulgrew: Nation must commit money, attention to developing a promising treatment ."
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"Five people were killed and 10 critically injured Saturday when a minivan crashed on I-10 near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, state police said.",
"Fifteen people were in the minivan, said Trooper Russell Graham, and only two were wearing seat belts.",
"Among the dead were children as young as 3 years old, Trooper Russell Graham said.",
"\"the minivan blew out a tire and the driver lost control,\" Trooper Russell Graham said.",
"The vehicle \"sideswiped a box truck and then ran off the road into the left median, overturned multiple times and finally came to rest upright on the eastbound side of I-10,\" Trooper Russell Graham said.",
"The one person in a box truck was not injured.",
"Crash shut down I-10 in both directions shortly after 12:15 p.m. (1:15 p.m. ET); one lane in each direction was opened about two hours later.",
"Alcohol and drugs were not suspected factors in the crash, but blood was drawn from the driver -- one of the fatalities -- to confirm, Trooper Russell Graham said.",
"Crash came soon after the Louisiana Legislature passed a law requiring riders in every seat to be buckled up.",
"\"This is an example of why we implemented that law,\" Trooper Russell Graham said.",
"\"It's very frustrating for us to come out here and see children dead,\" Trooper Russell Graham said."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sales of Michael Jackson's albums have gone through the roof since the news of Michael Jackson's death.",
"Michael Jackson's albums took the top 15 slots on Amazon.com's top 50 album downloads.",
"On Friday, Michael Jackson was enjoying the commercial revival that had been eluding Michael Jackson in recent years, due to a lack of new material and public interest.",
"Michael Jackson albums took top 15 slots on Amazon.com top 50 album downloads.",
"The story was the same on iTunes where Michael Jackson's albums dominated seven out of the ten top slots on the site.",
"The 25th anniversary reissue of Michael Jackson's 1982 album, \"Thriller,\" which is the top selling album of all time, is at the top spot on Amazon.com.",
"It was followed by a special reissue of 1979 album \"Off the Wall\" and 1987 album \"Bad.\"",
"Michael Jackson's last studio album \"Invincible,\" which Michael Jackson released in 2001 came in at number 10, perhaps reflecting the public's preference for Michael Jackson's earlier work.",
"On European online music retailer Play.com sales of Michael Jackson's 10 most popular albums increased by a staggering 7,860 percent.",
"Meanwhile, searches on Michael Jackson are up 8,900 percent and total downloads on the site have increased 5,167 percent.",
"The public's unprecedented rush to buy Michael Jackson's albums has been likened to the the reaction when other music icons like Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra died.",
"\"There are an awful lot of people that think Michael Jackson's contribution to music was huge, and as an artist Michael Jackson was so talented -- even though Michael Jackson was such a complicated artist, particularly towards the end of Michael Jackson's life,\" Stuart Rowe Chief Operating Officer of Play.com told CNN.",
"\"People want some kind of memento.",
"People want to appreciate and listen to Michael Jackson's music again, and mark Michael Jackson's passing by listening to it all again.\"",
"According to Rowe because of their quality, many of Michael Jackson's albums are perennial bestsellers, and while there was also some increase in interest in Michael Jackson's music because of Michael Jackson's sold out 50-date London tour which was scheduled to kick off in mid-July.",
"\"But nothing like the effect of the news,\" said.",
"\"It's taken this for Michael Jackson's music to be brought to a whole new generation of people.\"",
"Five of Michael Jackson's solo albums -- \"Off the Wall,\" \"Thriller,\" \"Bad,\" \"Dangerous\" and \"HIStory,\" are among the top-sellers of all time, according to Michael Jackson's label Sony Music.",
"During Michael Jackson's career, Michael Jackson sold an estimated 750 million records worldwide, released 13 No.1 singles.",
"\"There's the whole sort of grieving of a superstar which the general public will go through worldwide,\" said Rowe.",
"\"You will hear a lot more Michael Jackson being played over the next few weeks.\""
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"Online retailer Play.com reported Michael Jackson album sales increased by 7,860 percent .",
"Five of Michael Jackson's solo albums are among the top-sellers of all time .",
"Play.com: Fans want to mark Michael Jackson's passing by listening to all Michael Jackson's music again ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A second runner missing since Monday was found alive near a ravine on a rugged mountain trail in Southern California hours after her running partner was found, an Orange County Sheriff's spokesman told CNN.",
"Runner Maria \"Gina\" Natera-Armenta, 34, is severely dehydrated and in serious condition, officials said.",
"Authorities and fellow runners had been looking for Maria \"Gina\" Natera-Armenta, 34, and her brother-in-law, Fidel Diaz, 50, since Monday.",
"Fidel Diaz was found about 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, but the search for Woman continued as police questioned Fidel Diaz.",
"Orange County Sheriff's officials, searching the area by helicopter, eventually spotted Woman waving from the ravine, which was about five miles from Orange County Sheriff's's command post, Orange County Sheriff spokesman Lt. Jim Amormino.",
"\"Woman was lying in the area,\" Amormino said.",
"\"Woman did see helicopter before, but didn't have enough energy to get up.\"",
"Woman is in serious condition, and was severely dehydrated when Woman was found, Amormino said.",
"Woman is currently in the intensive care unit at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California.",
"Maria \"Gina\" Natera-Armenta and Fidel Diaz had set out at 5:30 a.m. Sunday.",
"According to Maria \"Gina\" Natera-Armenta and Fidel Diaz's spouses, Maria \"Gina\" Natera-Armenta and Fidel Diaz planned to do an eight- to 10-hour run on a remote mountain trail in the Cleveland National Forest near San Diego.",
"But it wasn't until Monday night that their spouses individually reported to police that the two were missing.",
"Natera-Armenta and Diaz are ultrarunners, devotees of an endurance sport in which it's common to trek and run for many hours over rugged terrain.",
"Woman is an experienced ultrarunner and was a top finisher at a 100-mile race in San Diego."
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"NEW: Spokesman: Woman found when helicopter spotted Woman waving .",
"Police: California runners leave at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, reported missing Monday .",
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) --",
"Italian mafia boss used Italian mafia boss's pet crocodile to threaten people and extort money, authorities said.",
"The caiman was 1.1 meters long (3.6 feet), the Italian Forest Service said.",
"Italian mafia boss kept animal on a terrace of Italian mafia boss's home near Naples and fed animal live rats and rabbits, according to LAV, an Italian animal rights group.",
"Authorities discovered animal during a search for weapons at his home near Naples's home, LAV said.",
"animal was found on September 18 but the news was only made public Wednesday, LAV said.",
"animal was 1.1 meters long (3.6 feet), the Italian Forest Service said, and was capable of pulling off a man's limb with one bite.",
"animal lived atop Cristofaro's condominium in Caserta, less than an hour northeast of Naples, the Italian Forest Service said.",
"Italian mafia boss used animal to intimidate people, notably entrepreneurs, to pay Italian mafia boss more money, Italy's ANSA news agency reported.",
"animal is of a type known as a caiman, commonly found in Latin America.",
"animal is protected under the Washington Convention, which regulates the international trade of endangered animals, and is considered too dangerous to own as a pet, the Italian Forest Service said.",
"Police charged Italian mafia boss with illegal possession of animals, ANSA said.",
"It was not clear whether he had been arrested.",
"the Italian Forest Service is now holding the reptile at an animal center near Rome, ANSA reported.",
"Cristofaro, who the Italian Forest Service said comes from a mafia family, already had a criminal record for weapons-related charges, resisting police, and extortion, ANSA reported.",
"Authorities found a flak jacket during a search of his home near Naples's house, the Italian Forest Service said.",
"It was not the first time the Italian Forest Service discovered an illegal crocodile at someone's home, the Italian Forest Service said.",
"In August 2008 in Naples, authorities found a 2-meter-long (6.5-foot-long) crocodile at the home of a man known for drug dealing, authorities said.",
"CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"An eight-hour hostage standoff ended late Wednesday when disabled man wheeled disabled man out of a Virginia post office and was taken into custody, according to the mayor of Wytheville.",
"Initially, authorities reported five people -- three postal workers and two customers -- were taken hostage after a man entered a Wytheville, Virginia, post office about 2:30 p.m. and fired a gun.",
"But Mayor Trent Crewe said police later believed disabled man was holding fewer than five people and that they have accounted for people they thought could have been inside.",
"\"Apparently they ran as it was unfolding and we didn't know that for a while,\" Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"An unidentified witness told CNN affiliate WDBJ that An unidentified witness, a fellow window clerk and the postmaster were in Virginia when disabled man entered, but he, a fellow window clerk and the postmaster quickly fled.",
"An unidentified witness added that An unidentified witness's supervisor was one of the hostages.",
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"Mayor Trent Crewe said Mayor Trent Crewe did not know exactly how many hostages had been in Virginia.",
"No one was reported hurt, Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"disabled man is disabled, Mayor Trent Crewe said, adding that police told him disabled man entered Virginia pushing a wheelchair.",
"It was unclear what the purpose of a wheelchair is, Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"There were reports disabled man had a \"device,\" and it appeared that disabled man's car, parked outside Virginia, was equipped with some type of device as well, Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"He did not elaborate on what the device could be.",
"\"The police authorities have told me The police authorities are acting on the assumption there is an explosive device of some kind in some location,\" Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"\"There is a bomb squad, in fact more than one bomb squad on site, but we cannot confirm any explosives.\"",
"The surrounding area of downtown Wytheville has been evacuated within a three- to four-block radius, Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"The suspect asked for pizza but made no other demands, U.S. Postal Inspection Service spokesman Peter Rendina said.",
"disabled man's motive was unclear, Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"disabled man had not identified disabled man but disabled man has told police disabled man has a military background, Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"Police have yet to confirm whether disabled man has military training, Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"Agents with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also on scene, Mayor Trent Crewe said.",
"Wytheville is a small town in southwestern Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.",
"Wytheville has a population of just over 8,000.",
"CNN's Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report."
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"disabled man entered Wytheville, Virginia, post office and fired a shot, mayor says ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"The United Kingdom will send an additional 500 troops to Afghanistan in early December, bringing British contingent in Afghanistan to more than 9,500, UK's Brown announced Monday.",
"\"We must address the terrorist threat at the terrorist threat's source,\" UK's Brown told lawmakers, adding: \"Our task is to prevent the Taliban from giving Al Qaeda ... safe haven.",
"\"Instability in Afghanistan can only increase the risk of conflagration where the rest of the world can least afford it.\"",
"UK's Brown regularly links British security to events in Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying attacks on London and other British targets have been planned in South Asia.",
"UK's Brown announced in October the decision in principle to boost force levels, but said certain conditions -- including proper equipment for the British troops and more troop commitments from other countries -- had to be met first.",
"The United Kingdom has the largest contingent in Afghanistan after the United States.",
"The figure of 9,500 does not include special forces, said Brown, who declined to say exactly how many are there, but indicated it is more than 500.",
"UK's Brown's announcement coincided with the news that a British soldier was killed by an explosion in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where troops have been entrenched in heavy combat with Taliban insurgents since July 2006.",
"The soldier, from the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, died as a result of injuries sustained in the Babaji area, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.",
"Britain has lost more than 200 service personnel in Afghanistan since the start of fighting in 2001.",
"More than 100 were lost in the past year."
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"Virender Sehwag plundered the second-fastest Test double hundred as India piled on an incredible 443-1 off just 79 overs on the second day of the deciding third match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.",
"Virender Sehwag reached 284 off only 239 balls at stumps on Thursday -- the third-highest individual score in one day's play -- for Virender Sehwag's sixth double ton, a record for India, and is poised to become the first player to complete three triple-centuries.",
"India, seeking a victory which would take the No. 1 Test ranking above South Africa and seal a 2-0 series victory over second-placed Sri Lanka, have already achieved a first-innings lead of 50 runs.",
"The tourists had resumed on 366-8 with Angelo Mathews unbeaten on 86, but the all-rounder fell one run short of Angelo Mathews's maiden Test century when Angelo Mathews was run out by the narrowest of margins following a throw by Sachin Tendulkar.",
"When wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni lodged the bails, replays showed that Angelo Mathews's bat was over the line -- but not grounded -- thus he departed as ninth man out for 99 off 131 balls.",
"Young left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha then claimed Young left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha's third wicket to go with the four that Young left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha's senior partner Harbhajan Singh claimed on Monday as Sri Lanka were all out for 393, 27 minutes into the day's play.",
"That brought Virender Sehwag and inexperienced opener Murali Vijay to the crease, and they launched a blistering attack on the Sri Lankan bowlers putting on 221 in just 39 overs.",
"Vijay, playing only his second Test, was finally trapped leg before wicket by spinner Rangana Herath, having made 87 off 121 deliveries, with 10 fours and a six.",
"The explosive Sehwag, who made 131 in India's innings victory in Kanpur, then found another solid partner in Rahul Dravid, who calmly fed him the strike in his patient 62 off 121 balls.",
"Virender Sehwag passed three figures from 101 deliveries and then raced to Virender Sehwag's second century off just 67 -- the only man to pass that milestone quicker is New Zealand's Nathan Astle, who took 153 balls against England in 2002.",
"\"I missed out on a double-century in the last Test in Kanpur and I wanted to make amends,\" Virender Sehwag told reporters.",
"\"I batted the best way I thought was possible.",
"\"I was cautious at the start because I did not want to give the opposition any chances as I had done in the two previous matches.",
"I thought I would bide my time, see off the new ball and then take my chances.\"",
"Virender Sehwag hit 40 boundaries and seven sixes, and was particularly hard on Sri Lanka's veteran world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who has struggled all series.",
"The 37-year-old, who has taken 788 Test wickets, conceded 119 runs off his 20 overs.",
"\"Sri Lanka's veteran world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who has struggled all series is a big challenge and when playing a quality bowler like Sri Lanka's veteran world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who has struggled all series you have to attack early, otherwise Sri Lanka's veteran world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who has struggled all series will dominate,\" Virender Sehwag said.",
"\"I thought rather than let Sri Lanka's veteran world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who has struggled all series dominate, I would attack Sri Lanka's veteran world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who has struggled all series from the start and keep Sri Lanka's veteran world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who has struggled all series on the back foot.\"",
"Meanwhile, Pakistan stumbled to 161-6 on a shortened first day of the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington.",
"Daryl Tuffey celebrated Daryl Tuffey's comeback after a five-year absence with two wickets as Daryl Tuffey replaced injured strike bowler Shane Bond, while captain Daniel Vettori took 3-42 with his left-arm spin as bad light ended play early.",
"Imran Farhat and Salman Butt put on 60 for the first wicket but then fell in quick succession along with captain Mohammad Yousuf as Vettori snared two wickets in three balls.",
"Australia fast bowler Brett Lee has had elbow surgery in a bid to save his career.",
"The 33-year-old needed an operation to correct a damaged ligament after twice breaking down this year amid fears he would have to retire, and is not expected to be fit again before March.",
"The player, who missed the Ashes defeat to England, has taken 310 Test wickets in 76 matches and 324 one-day scalps in 186 appearances."
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"(CNN) --",
"A mysterious X-shaped pattern of space debris seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was probably two asteroids that collided, scientists said Tuesday.",
"The object, called P/2010 A2, was discovered in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research sky survey, or LINEAR, on January 6, NASA said.",
"The shape, and the streamers of dust shooting off of it, were photographed by Hubble on January 25 and 29, according to NASA.",
"Astronomers have long thought asteroid belt is being ground down because of collisions, but such a head-on crash had never been seen before.",
"\"If this interpretation is correct, two small and previously unknown asteroids recently collided, creating a shower of debris that is being swept back into a tail from the collision site by the pressure of sunlight,\" said principal investigator David Jewitt, from the University of California at Los Angeles.",
"At first, astronomers thought what astronomers saw might be a main belt comet, a rare case of a comet orbiting while in asteroid belt.",
"But the images taken by Hubble revealed the complex X-pattern of filamentary structures near the object's nucleus.",
"Jewitt said the filaments are made of dust and gravel.",
"Some of the filaments are being swept back by radiation pressure from sunlight, creating the long, straight dust streaks, Jewitt said.",
"The nucleus of the presumed boom is 460 feet in diameter, NASA said.",
"Asteroid collisions happen fast, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 mph, or five times faster than a rifle bullet."
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"NASA says LINEAR survey saw apparent crash, Hubble telescope photographed The collision .",
"The collision appeared as a giant \"X\" shape, with trails of dust and gravel .",
"Astronomers think crashes are shrinking asteroid belt, but none had been viewed .",
"Asteroid collisions happen fast -- 11,000 mph, NASA says ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"The Dominican consul general Wednesday rejected the claim from an American church leader that This woman thought This woman's paperwork was in order when This woman attempted to take 33 Haitian children out of the country, saying he had told This woman it was not.",
"\"I warned This woman, I said as soon as you get there without the proper documents, you are going to get into trouble, because they are going to accuse you, because you have the intent to pass the border without the proper papers and they are going to accuse you with kids trafficking,\" Carlos Castillo said Carlos Castillo told the group's leader, Laura Silsby, during a meeting Friday.",
"Four hours later, This woman and nine other Americans were turned back from the border.",
"Silsby and nine other Americans were arrested and taken to a jail in Port-au-Prince.",
"\"This woman knew what This woman was trying to do was not legal,\" Carlos Castillo said.",
"A CNN reporter attempted to get reaction to Carlos Castillo's comment from the jailed Americans, but Silsby and nine other Americans would not discuss the matter, responding to questions by singing \"Amazing Grace\" and praying.",
"Told earlier that many of the children had living parents, This woman said, \"I did not know that.\"",
"This woman added, \"In our hearts, our intention was to help children that had been orphaned or abandoned by their parents.\"",
"But the interpreters the group had used said the conversations between This woman and the parents in the Haitian town of Calebasse made clear to them that This woman must have been aware of the children's status.",
"Full coverage of Haiti earthquake aftermath .",
"SOS Children's Villages, an Austrian charity, said that it has determined that at least two-thirds of the children are not orphans.",
"Authorities on Wednesday questioned a Haitian police officer who works at the Dominican Embassy about whether he provided illegal paperwork to This woman and the other Americans to facilitate Silsby and nine other Americans's efforts as alleged by interpreters who had translated for Silsby and nine other Americans.",
"interpreters who had translated for the Americans told CNN Silsby and nine other Americans met at least twice last week with the officer, at the embassy and consulate.",
"\"He told Silsby and nine other Americans that he could help, and he was helping Silsby and nine other Americans with some paper,\" said interpreter Steve Adrien.",
"\"We did not meet him in a police station, but in the street in a car.\"",
"Silsby and nine other Americans met again with the man in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, near the Dominican Embassy, the translator said.",
"Isaac Adrien, Steve's brother and another of interpreters who had translated for the Americans, said the group came away from the meeting with a document from the embassy that Silsby and nine other Americans took with Silsby and nine other Americans to the border Friday in Silsby and nine other Americans's unsuccessful attempt to cross.",
"iReport: How you can help .",
"A Haitian lawyer representing Silsby and nine other Americans told reporters that the arrests themselves were illegal and that Silsby and nine other Americans's clients had only been trying to help.",
"Silsby and nine other Americans are to appear Thursday before the attorney general.",
"The group, New Life Children's Refuge, said the group was rescuing abandoned children by moving abandoned children to the Dominican Republic, where the group was building an orphanage.",
"At least some of the group are members of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho.",
"Several residents of the village of Calebasse, more than an hour from Port-au-Prince, told CNN they voluntarily handed over their children after Silsby told them she would give them a better life.",
"Pastor Jean Sainvil told CNN Pastor Jean Sainvil rounded up 20 children from a camp in the Delmas neighborhood of the capital.",
"\"I just got the word out that I am going to look for some children to be going with a group of missionaries,\" Pastor Jean Sainvil said.",
"Some of those who responded apparently included parents.",
"\"One of them turned five children over,\" Pastor Jean Sainvil said.",
"Pastor Jean Sainvil said no money changed hands.",
"the group has no experience running an orphanage, has not registered as an international adoption agency and has not filed with the U.S. government as a nonprofit.",
"Church pastor Clint Henry was unfazed.",
"\"I believe that the kind of knowledge that it takes to begin an organization that works that way was in place,\" Church pastor Clint Henry told CNN.",
"\"The kind of employees that it takes to successfully run an orphanage, those were going to be hired.\"",
"The matter drew attention Wednesday from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.",
"\"It was unfortunate that, whatever the motivation, that the group took matters into the group's own hands,\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.",
"The number of Haitian orphans taken to the United States -- those whose approval and paperwork had been in the bureaucratic pipeline at the time of the disaster -- stands at 578, with 44 others processed and awaiting transportation, said U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.",
"CNN's Dan Simon in Meridian, Idaho; Karl Penhaul in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Jill Dougherty in Washington; and Fionnuala Sweeney in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"Laura Silsby, 9 other Americans turned back from border with 33 Haitian children .",
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"Haiti and Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's entire body trembles as The 27-year-old Iraqi woman speaks about The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's impending execution.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman thinks of the gallows room, the noose around The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's neck and that moment when The 27-year-old Iraqi woman will take The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's final breath.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman is sentenced to die by hanging in connection with the killing of three relatives.",
"\"My life is meaningless,\" The 27-year-old Iraqi woman said, choking on The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's tears.",
"\"I can't think of anything else.",
"The other women, we try to help each other, but we cannot escape the reality that we are on death row and they can take us at any second.\"",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman is sentenced to die in connection with the slayings of three relatives in January 2005.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman looks pale and frail, The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's face sallow, The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's eyes bloodshot.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman shakes with each sob, anxiously twisting a tissue in The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's hands.",
"We first met The 27-year-old Iraqi woman in spring 2007, at al-Kadhimiya Women's Prison in Baghdad.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman had been on death row for about two years, and The 27-year-old Iraqi woman was terrified.",
"Watch a tearful plea from death row » .",
"\"I don't sleep at all on Wednesdays,\" The 27-year-old Iraqi woman said then.",
"\"I stay up from morning until night, because that's the day they pick for executions.\"",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman was sentenced to death by hanging for being an accessory to murder in the killings of The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's uncle, aunt and cousin -- slayings that The 27-year-old Iraqi woman says were carried out at her uncle, aunt and cousin's home by The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's husband-to-be, who remains on the loose.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman maintains that The 27-year-old Iraqi woman is innocent, and there are disturbing questions about The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's conviction.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman has now been moved a step closer to death: to Baghdad's maximum-security prison, where there are more than 500 prisoners waiting to be executed.",
"It's the same facility where Saddam Hussein was hanged in December 2006.",
"CNN was not allowed to film The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's face inside the prison.",
"During the interview, the wardens also seemed to make motions to try to stop CNN from broaching the subject of The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's allegation that The 27-year-old Iraqi woman had only confessed under torture.",
"The day of the killings is seared into The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's mind.",
"\"I think about The day of the killings every day, every hour.",
"I wake up with The day of the killings in my head,\" The 27-year-old Iraqi woman said.",
"\"It's the reason I am here.\"",
"There was a point in time when The 27-year-old Iraqi woman was happy, when The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's life had meaning and joy.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman had a fiancé, Saif Ali Nur, in winter 2004.",
"\"I was so happy at the time, when Saif asked for my hand in marriage,\" The 27-year-old Iraqi woman remembered bitterly.",
"\"I thought that Saif was honest, that Saif did not lie to me.",
"It all happened in just two months.\"",
"At first, The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's family didn't approve of the romance, but her family eventually relented.",
"One day, The 27-year-old Iraqi woman says, Saif duped The 27-year-old Iraqi woman into taking Saif to The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's wealthy uncle's house.",
"Saif locked The 27-year-old Iraqi woman in the kitchen and, The 27-year-old Iraqi woman says, shot The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's uncle, aunt and cousin.",
"Then, Saif turned the gun on The 27-year-old Iraqi woman.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman says Saif stole less than $1,000 after threatening to kill The 27-year-old Iraqi woman and The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's family if The 27-year-old Iraqi woman went to the authorities.",
"The Iraqi police picked The 27-year-old Iraqi woman up the next day, after Saif dumped The 27-year-old Iraqi woman in front of The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's house and disappeared.",
"\"There was nothing that made me suspect that this was a guy who would do something like this,\" The 27-year-old Iraqi woman said.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's filled with regret that The 27-year-old Iraqi woman fell in love with Saif.",
"\"And now I am here in prison, and Saif is out on the streets, happy.\"",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's parents sold everything to pay for The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's defense.",
"her family swear The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's innocent.",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman says The 27-year-old Iraqi woman was tortured by The Iraqi police into confessing that The 27-year-old Iraqi woman went to The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's uncle's house with the intent to steal.",
"\"The Iraqi police kept beating me, and The Iraqi police told me, 'Say whatever The Iraqi police want you to say, and do not say anything else, and say yes, I was an accomplice to this crime.'",
"Although I had nothing to do with this crime.",
"Finally, The Iraqi police made me sign a blank piece of paper, and The Iraqi police filled a blank piece of paper out afterwards.\"",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman was tried and convicted in a single day: August 15, 2005.",
"Court documents obtained by CNN read that \"the court discussed the case file with The 27-year-old Iraqi woman and The 27-year-old Iraqi woman said that all that The 27-year-old Iraqi woman had confessed came as a result of duress and torture.\"",
"Under Iraqi law, the court should have investigated The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's claim that The 27-year-old Iraqi woman confessed under torture.",
"But it did not.",
"After learning of The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's case from CNN, former Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said Tuesday former Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih spoke with the Iraqi Presidency Council, which promised to look into the matter.",
"former Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih also said former Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih had spoken separately with top Iraqi officials, including Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and urged for a new trial.",
"Human rights groups say Samar's case is just one of many in which justice has failed.",
"And Human rights groups say that what makes implementing capital punishment even more disturbing is that the Iraqi judicial system does not guarantee a fair trial.",
"Amnesty International issued a report Tuesday saying that at least 1,000 prisoners sit on Iraq's death row and that Iraq now has one of the highest execution rates in the world.",
"The report says Iraq's court system does not meet international standards and that authorities \"provide very little information on executions, and some have been carried out secretly.\"",
"According to a Western official with in-depth knowledge of the Iraqi judicial system, Iraq's judicial failures are \"rooted in the legal culture rather than the law.",
"... the legal culture remains heavily confession-based, a situation exacerbated by the frequently imperfect investigative skills of the police, judicial investigators and investigative judges.\"",
"In his years in Iraq, a Western official with in-depth knowledge of the Iraqi judicial system says a Western official with in-depth knowledge of the Iraqi judicial system observed judges taking payments in exchange for certain decisions and the physical abuse of suspects, either as an end in itself or to \"encourage\" confessions.",
"\"It is my firmly held opinion that Iraq should immediately reinstate the moratorium on executions,\" a Western official with in-depth knowledge of the Iraqi judicial system said.",
"\"There are serious problems plaguing the administration of justice in Iraq in criminal cases, and this fact is widely acknowledged by the Iraq judges, prosecutors and defense counsel.\"",
"The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority abolished capital punishment in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003.",
"But the death penalty was reinstated in August 2004, shortly after the government was handed back to Iraqis.",
"Iraq's Ministry of Justice maintains that the judicial system is \"fair and just.\"",
"Local organizations like the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq have for years been fighting to get the death penalty abolished in Iraq, especially when it comes to flawed trials and women being put to death.",
"But Local organizations like the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq struggle against a government that turns a deaf ear.",
"\"I wish there was some kind of response.",
"But the response is totally passive.",
"the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq've reached a degree of despair,\" said Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq.",
"\"As a human rights organization in Iraq, the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq find that the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq need some backup from abroad to put pressure on our government as a first step to stop the executions of these women, some of whom we know are innocent.\"",
"But even as doubts surface about many convictions in Iraq, there are signs that the pace of executions is picking up.",
"Over the past two months, Mohammed's group says, between two and four women were executed.",
"\"two and four women were taken out of the extreme-protection prison,\" Mohammed said.",
"\"It is a very scary story for us, because if it starts with a few women in a jail cell ... it could happen to hundreds, thousands of people later on.\"",
"As for The 27-year-old Iraqi woman, The 27-year-old Iraqi woman doesn't sleep, haunted by the image of The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's body that could be hanging lifeless -- plagued by the gut-wrenching fear of death that consumes The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's nights and most of The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's days.",
"\"Every night, I stay up thinking that if tomorrow comes, who will be next?",
"Me?",
"Or The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's friend sitting next to me?\"",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman sobbed.",
"\"I will never trust a man again.",
"I will never love anyone again.",
"I just want to stay with my parents.\"",
"The 27-year-old Iraqi woman feels betrayed, both by the man The 27-year-old Iraqi woman once loved and by a judicial system that is about to send The 27-year-old Iraqi woman to The 27-year-old Iraqi woman's death.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Ministry of Justice maintains that judicial system is \"fair and just\""
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"Seattle, Washington (CNN) --",
"Nearly 10 years ago, Maurice Clemmons pledged to make a fresh start.",
"\"I come from a very good Christian family and I was raised much better than my actions speak,\" Maurice Clemmons said in a clemency application brief to then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in 2000.",
"\"I'm still ashamed to this day for the shame my stupid involvement in these crimes brought upon my family's name.\"",
"Maurice Clemmons was 27.",
"Maurice Clemmons'd spent the past 11 years in an Arkansas prison, convicted of offenses including robbery, burglary, theft and taking a gun to school.",
"Maurice Clemmons was facing a 95-year sentence.",
"A decade later, Maurice Clemmons is the subject of an intense manhunt in Washington state, suspected in the deaths of four Lakewood, Washington, police officers who were shot to death Sunday as they met in a coffee shop before starting their shifts.",
"Authorities have said Maurice Clemmons is believed to have entered the Forza Coffee Company and opened fire on the officers with no warning.",
"Police tracked Maurice Clemmons to an east Seattle home Sunday night, but after a standoff that stretched to nearly 12 hours, they entered the home and found that he was not there.",
"In 2000, Maurice Clemmons told Arkansas that the crimes occurred when Maurice Clemmons was 16, had just moved to Arkansas from Seattle and had fallen in with the wrong crowd.",
"\"Where once stood a young 16-year-old misguided fool ... now stands a 27-year-old man, who has learned through the 'school of hard knocks' to appreciate and respect the rights of others,\" his petition to Arkansas said.",
"Arkansas commuted Maurice Clemmons' sentence in 2000, citing Maurice Clemmons's young age at the time of sentencing, making Maurice Clemmons eligible for parole.",
"It was granted in July 2000, after Maurice Clemmons told Arkansas parole officials that Maurice Clemmons \"just wants the opportunity\" and \"is not the same person Maurice Clemmons was when Maurice Clemmons came in,\" the documents said.",
"\"It was not something I was pleased with at the time,\" said Larry Jegley, who prosecuted Maurice Clemmons for aggravated robbery and other charges in Pulaski County, Arkansas, regarding the commutation.",
"\"I would be most distressed if this is the same guy.\"",
"In 1989, as Maurice Clemmons was being prosecuted, Maurice Clemmons demonstrated violent behavior; Maurice Clemmons hid a piece of metal in Maurice Clemmons's sock at a pretrial hearing, and before the start of another hearing Maurice Clemmons grabbed a padlock off Maurice Clemmons's holding cell and threw a padlock at a court bailiff.",
"Maurice Clemmons missed and instead struck Maurice Clemmons's mother, who had come to bring Maurice Clemmons clothes.",
"In Maurice Clemmons's 2000 brief to Huckabee, Maurice Clemmons said Maurice Clemmons's mother had died while Maurice Clemmons had been in prison, providing Maurice Clemmons with further motivation to turn Maurice Clemmons's life around.",
"\"I have never done anything good for God, but I've prayed for him to grant me in his compassion the grace to make a start,\" Maurice Clemmons said.",
"\"Now, I'm humbly appealing to you for a brand new start.\"",
"But after receiving a second chance, Maurice Clemmons was apparently unable to stay on the right side of the law, according to documents and authorities in Arkansas and Washington.",
"Arkansas parole board documents show that Maurice Clemmons was back in prison by September 2001.",
"The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that Maurice Clemmons was arrested for aggravated robbery and theft and taken back to prison on a parole violation.",
"The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said Maurice Clemmons was not served with the new arrest warrants for the robbery and theft charges until Maurice Clemmons was paroled three years later in 2004.",
"Maurice Clemmons's attorney argued that the robbery and theft charges should be dismissed because too much time had passed, and prosecutors complied.",
"Arkansas went on to become a 2008 Republican presidential candidate and has not ruled out a second try for the White House in 2012.",
"In a statement Sunday night, Arkansas's office said Maurice Clemmons's commutation was based on the recommendation of the parole board that determined that Maurice Clemmons met the conditions for early release.",
"Read the clemency documents for Maurice Clemmons .",
"\"Maurice Clemmons was arrested later for parole violation and taken back to prison to serve Maurice Clemmons's full term, but prosecutors dropped the charges that would have held Maurice Clemmons,\" the statement said.",
"\"Should Maurice Clemmons be found responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington state.\"",
"During Arkansas's candidacy, Arkansas faced criticism in the case of convicted rapist Wayne DuMond, who was paroled in 1999.",
"DuMond had been sentenced to life for raping a 17-year-old girl.",
"In Arkansas's first term as governor, Arkansas expressed support for DuMond's release in a letter to him.",
"Less than a year after DuMond's release, DuMond was accused of raping and murdering Carol Shields of Kansas City, Missouri.",
"DuMond was convicted in 2003 and died in prison in 2005.",
"Shields' mother, Lois Davidson, said in 2007 that Shields' planned to campaign against Arkansas.",
"Maurice Clemmons is believed to have moved to Washington in 2004.",
"The Pierce County Sheriff's Department said in a statement that Maurice Clemmons was recently charged in the assault of a police officer and rape of a child.",
"County court records posted online show that Maurice Clemmons spent several months in jail and was released on $150,000 bail Tuesday, days before the shootings.",
"For a while after moving to Washington, Maurice Clemmons ran a pressure-washing and landscaping business.",
"The license for a pressure-washing and landscaping business expired last month, according to the secretary of state, with whom businesses have to register.",
"In recent months, Maurice Clemmons has displayed increasingly erratic behavior, the Seattle Times reported.",
"In May, Maurice Clemmons punched a sheriff's deputy in the face, the paper said.",
"In another incident, Maurice Clemmons had relatives undress, telling relatives that families need to be \"naked for at least five minutes on Sunday,\" the newspaper said, citing a sheriff's department incident report.",
"Maurice Clemmons also believed that Maurice Clemmons was Jesus and could fly, a deputy wrote, based on conversations with family members.",
"The night before the shootings, Maurice Clemmons had threatened to kill police officers, but authorities did not learn of the threats until after the shooting, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told \"Good Morning America.\"",
"\"There's not going to be a big motive other than he was upset about being incarcerated and was going to go gunning after cops in general,\" Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.",
"CNN's Mary Snow contributed to this report."
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"Then 27, Maurice Clemmons had spent 11 years in prison for robbery, burglary, theft .",
"Maurice Clemmons is suspected in Sunday's shooting deaths of four police officers .",
"Incident may be \"result of a series of failures,\" says ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee's office ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the Pacific near American Samoa, triggering towering tsunami waves that gushed over American Samoa and leaving at least 22 people dead.",
"The tsunami wave hit right in the middle of the harbor of Pago Pago, the capital.",
"American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono, speaking from Hawaii, said Tuesday's quake ranked \"right up there with some of the worst\" disasters on American Samoa.",
"American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono said about 50 people had been treated for injuries so far but American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono expected that number to rise.",
"Tuesday's quake hit the small cluster of South Pacific islands early Tuesday morning.",
"By evening, Laumoli, standing outside the LBJ Tropical Medican Center morgue in the capital of Pago Pago, confirmed 22 deaths.",
"\"I thought it was the end of the world,\" said Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services.",
"\"I have never felt an earthquake like that before.\"",
"Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services feared more fatalities would turn up as rescue workers were still trying to access parts of the island severed by damaged infrastructure.",
"Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services said people in outlying villages on one end of American Samoa have been cut off because the main bridge was washed away.",
"\"Two or three villages have been badly damaged,\" Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services told CNN International.",
"Listen to Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services speak about the impact of the quake and tsunami » .",
"American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono cited extensive damage to roads, buildings and homes, and said American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono had spoken to the military about mobilizing reserve forces for assistance.",
"The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, canceled tsunami watches and warnings for American Samoa about four hours after the earthquake hit.",
"However, a tsunami advisory is still in effect for for the coastal areas of California and Oregon.",
"Watch report on end of tsunami warning » .",
"The Japan Meteorological Agency also activated a tsunami advisory along The Japan Meteorological Agency's eastern coast.",
"The precautionary alert means that the height of a possible tsunami wave would be less than a foot and a half.",
"President Barack Obama \"declared a major disaster exists in American Samoa\" late Tuesday and ordered federal aid to supplement local efforts.",
"The declaration makes federal funding available to affected individuals.",
"The tsunami waves hit right in the middle of the Pago Pago harbor, the capital, said Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center.",
"The water devastated the village of Leone.",
"Watch a resident talk about what happened » .",
"\"The wave came onshore and washed out people's homes,\" Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center said.",
"The same happened on the hard-hit east and west sides of American Samoa, Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center said.",
"The quake generated three separate tsunami waves, the largest measuring 5.1 feet from sea level height, said Vindell Hsu, a geophysicist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.",
"Preliminary data had originally reported a larger tsunami.",
"Officials in American Samoa issued a clear call and were focusing on assessing the damage, Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center said.",
"Reports of damage were still emerging, but a bulletin from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the waves \"may have been destructive along coasts near the earthquake epicenter and could also be a threat to more distant coasts.",
"Authorities should take appropriate action in response to this possibility.\"",
"Tulafono, the governor, was on his way back home Tuesday night on one of two U.S. Coast Guard C-130 transport planes flying to American Samoa with aid.",
"Coast Guard also will transport more than 20 officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to American Samoa, said John Hamill, external affairs officer for FEMA in Oakland, California.",
"The FEMA team will include a variety of debris experts, housing experts, members of the Corps of Engineers, and other disaster relief specialists, John Hamill, external affairs officer for FEMA in Oakland, California said.",
"American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono told reporters Tuesday that it was hard being away from home when disaster came calling.",
"It was a time, American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono said, for families to be together.",
"Those who experienced the massive quake described it as a terrifying event.",
"Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center was standing in a parking lot when Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center's sports utility vehicle began rocking left and right.",
"\"You could hear the rattling of the metal\" of a large chain link fence around the lot, Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center said.",
"\"It shakes you because you know something else is coming,\" Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center said.",
"CNN's Augie Martin, Mariano Castillo, Moni Basu, Tess Eastment and Nick Valencia contributed to this report ."
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"U.S. sending plane with aid, officials to help American Samoa .",
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"A Georgia man accused of screaming racial slurs while beating an African-American female Army reservist outside a restaurant was released from jail on bail Wednesday, Clayton County, Georgia, authorities said.",
"authorities said Troy Dale West Jr. was released on a $320,000 bond.",
"Attorney Kip Jones, who represents alleged victim Tashawnea Hill, said a judge Tuesday ordered Troy Dale West Jr. placed under house arrest, and Troy Dale West Jr. was fitted with an ankle monitor.",
"Troy Dale West Jr. also was told to surrender Troy Dale West Jr.'s passport, have no contact with Hill and stay out of Clayton County, where Hill lives, the lawyer said.",
"West, of Poulan, Georgia, faces one count of aggravated assault, two counts of battery, two counts of disorderly conduct, false imprisonment and cruelty to children for allegedly beating Hill outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant September 9, according to a Clayton County Court online docket.",
"Hill was with her 7-year-old daughter when the alleged incident occurred at the entrance to the restaurant, which is in Morrow, Georgia.",
"West, 47, was arrested on misdemeanor charges after the alleged incident, but Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson took the case to a grand jury asking for more serious charges.",
"Hill, 35, said the alleged incident occurred after Hill warned Troy Dale West Jr. to be careful, after almost hitting Hill's daughter with the restaurant door as Hill was leaving.",
"Troy Dale West Jr., according to a police report, admitted striking Hill \"after Hill spit on me and accused me of trying to hit Hill's daughter with a door.\"",
"Hill denied the accusations, saying Hill did nothing to provoke the alleged incident.",
"Hill told police that West, who is white, yelled racial epithets at Hill during the alleged incident.",
"Police said witnesses confirmed Hill's account.",
"Morrow is a racially diverse city in the southeast suburbs of Atlanta, with a population of about 4,900, according to the 2000 census.",
"CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report."
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"Obama on Thursday called on business leaders from the private sector to generate ideas that will \"accelerate job creation\" and stimulate investment in the United States.",
"\"While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately, true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector,\" Obama told attendees of the at the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth.",
"More than 100 CEOs, small-business owners, business leaders, mayors and academics attended.",
"\"We don't have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis.",
"It is only when the private sector starts to reinvest again; only when our businesses start hiring again and people start spending again and families start seeing improvement in families's own lives again, that we're going to have the kind of economy that we want,\" Obama said.",
"The summit took place amid allegations from members of Obama's own party that the White House and the Democratic congressional leadership are not doing enough to help the unemployed.",
"Critics called The summit nothing more than a publicity stunt, and some are threatening to organize a march on Washington of jobless Americans if efforts to get more aid fail.",
"\"Obviously, there's something that's not getting through to them,\" said Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois.",
"\"We'll get the American people involved.",
"You know, I can see a day, unless we get some real cooperation and real help, I can really see a day where there will be a jobless march on Washington.\"",
"Rush and Reps. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, and Candice Miller, R-Michigan, chair the new congressional Jobs Now Caucus, which is made up of 112 Democrats and 17 Republicans.",
"Proposals being floated by members of the caucus include redirecting stimulus and TARP money to jobs programs and pressing for a new jobs bill, which they're careful not to call a \"stimulus.\"",
"The summit also fell on the eve of the release of the government's November unemployment report.",
"The nation is expected to have lost another 114,000 jobs, with unemployment remaining at 10.2 percent, the highest in 26 years, according to a survey by economists.",
"Yet Obama projected a positive tone as Obama recounted some of the day's discussions, on topics from clean energy and tax incentives to the export market, and the overlap among them.",
"\"When we were in the infrastructure session, there was a strong emphasis on needing to plan not just for existing road projects, but also, how do we think about the fact that, in the future, we need a cleaner transportation industry?\"",
"Obama said.",
"\"When we were in the clean energy session, there was an emphasis on how do we get small businesses and small contractors to get certified and get the financing needed to move forward and take advantage of these clean energy sector opportunities,\" Obama said.",
"\"There's a lot of overlap between all these different breakout sessions that we engaged in,\" Obama said.",
"\"We're going to have to figure out how to break out of these silos and integrate these strategies if we're going to be able to get the most bang for the buck.\"",
"Coinciding with the jobs forum, organized labor and religious leaders in several cities sponsored events featuring unemployed and underemployed people to raise the public profile of the issue.",
"Events were held in Dayton, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; and Sacramento, California, on Wednesday, and in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday.",
"CNN's Jessica Yellin and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report."
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"The pilot and co-pilot of a small cargo jet were killed when The pilot and co-pilot of a small cargo jet's aircraft crashed short of the runway while landing at an airport in suburban Chicago, Illinois, local authorities said.",
"The Learjet 35A was on Learjet's final approach into Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Illinois, when Learjet went down about 1:30 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration reported.",
"Learjet crashed into a forest preserve about a mile south of the runway and ended up in a river, said Jay Reardon, the head of a multi-agency firefighting task force that responded to the crash.",
"The two-man crew was found dead at the scene, Jay Reardon, the head of a multi-agency firefighting task force that responded to the crash said.",
"No emergency was declared before the crash.",
"\"To our knowledge, everything appeared normal up until Learjet was reported down by the tower at Chicago Executive Airport,\" Jay Reardon, the head of a multi-agency firefighting task force that responded to the crash said.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board has begun The National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of the crash.",
"There was no immediate indication of the cause, The National Transportation Safety Board senior investigator Pam Sullivan said.",
"\"It's way too early to even start narrowing down what could or could not happen,\" NTSB senior investigator Pam Sullivan said.",
"The flight was operated by Royal Air Cargo, a Waterford, Michigan-based carrier that operates a fleet of small jets to deliver \"time-sensitive\" freight, airport spokesman Michael Standard said.",
"Jay Reardon, the head of a multi-agency firefighting task force that responded to the crash said Learjet appeared to be empty when Learjet went down.",
"Learjet was en route to Atlanta, Georgia, from Pontiac, Michigan, with a stop in Chicago, according to private Web sites that track air travel.",
"There was no immediate comment from the company."
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"From anti-apartheid activist to climate change champion, Kumi Naidoo is a man born to make a change.",
"Kumi Naidoo's the new International Executive Director of environmental action group Greenpeace, and Kumi Naidoo takes on Kumi Naidoo's role on the eve of the critical climate talks in Copenhagen.",
"The 44 year-old grew up in Johannesburg and had an early introduction to the world of activism.",
"\"I was defiantly the product of the society I was born in, which was apartheid South Africa...",
"I do think that many of us who might have exceptional or out-of-the-ordinary backgrounds are not because we ourselves are exceptional people but because we were born in context of adversity and been able to somehow rise above that adversity,\" Kumi Naidoo told CNN.",
"Kumi Naidoo was arrested numerous times for civil disobedience against the apartheid regime during the 1980s.",
"Kumi Naidoo eventually left for the UK in 1987 and earned a doctorate in political sociology at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.",
"After Nelson Mandela was released in 1990, Kumi returned to South Africa and worked with and founded a number of civil society NGOs.",
"Until last year Kumi Naidoo was for 10 years the General Secretary of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.",
"One of the first high profile campaigns Kumi Naidoo worked on was Make Poverty History in 2005 that gained widespread coverage and a number of celebrity supporters.",
"After several years in the anti-poverty movement, Kumi Naidoo has come to see that struggle against poverty and combating climate change are two-sides of same coin.",
"Since becoming head of Greenpeace in November, Kumi Naidoo is focused on using Kumi Naidoo's skills as an activist to move issues from the fringes into the mainstream.",
"\"[Another] feature of activism is being able to choose the right tools and tactics for the right moment...",
"If you can win through dialogue and engagement then that's great but sadly those with power in both government and business do not have the propensity to do the right thing unless those with power in both government and business are pushed and that's why you have to have tools like non-violent direct action,\" Kumi Naidoo told CNN.",
"Connecting individuals to ideas and in turn connecting ideas to a greater audience is one of the things Kumi Naidoo is hoping to achieve in Copenhagen.",
"\"I don't want history to judge us as sleepwalking into a crisis when all the scientific evidence is saying that we have to stop and take notice of the way that we are living on this planet.",
"\"I feel that right now we are all at risk and being severely judged by future generation.\"",
"Watch Kumi Naidoo on CNN's African Voices on Saturday, December 12, 11.30 and 18.30 GMT and Sunday, December 13, 17.00 GMT ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"The relatives of five British sailors whose boat apparently drifted into Iranian territorial waters last week voiced relief Wednesday as their sons arrived at a yacht club in Dubai.",
"David Young, father of sailor Oliver Young, said the families met briefly Wednesday morning with Britain's foreign secretary and his staff, who earlier told relatives that Iran was releasing the men.",
"\"the parents did say to everybody in there, and to people in Bahrain, and to people in Tehran who have been working on this how much the parents appreciated their efforts, how well they've handled the situation and how glad the parents are to see the parents's boys home,\" Young said.",
"The parents appeared at a news conference held in front of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.",
"Young had said Young was able to speak to sailor Oliver Young's son briefly Monday on a cell phone belonging to one of the other men.",
"Young said Young was reassured that the men were being treated well.",
"The British government identified the other sailors as Olly Smith, Sam Usher, Luke Porter and Dave Bloomer.",
"The Times of London said sailor Oliver Young and Luke Porter are 21 years old, Usher is 26, Smith is 31, and Dave Bloomer is believed to be in his 60s.",
"Dave Bloomer is from Dublin, Ireland, the paper said, and apparently has dual citizenship.",
"Iran's navy detained the men November 25 as the men's racing yacht traveled from Bahrain to Dubai for a competition.",
"Iranian authorities said Iranian authorities released the men after determining that the men had accidentally wandered into the country's waters, the semi-official Fars news agency said.",
"the men had told relatives that the men's boat became disabled and was hard to steer.",
"Young said sailor Oliver Young's son told Young the group was tense when the Iranians first picked the men up, but then everything was \"cool.\"",
"Another sailor said the men were temporarily blindfolded.",
"the men and the men's yacht were towed into international waters Wednesday, and representatives from the company that owns the boat, Sail Bahrain, met the men to bring the men ashore in Dubai.",
"Early Wednesday, after receiving the call that Luke's son, Luke, and Luke's crewmates were going to be freed, Young spoke informally to reporters near Young's home.",
"\"It was all fairly nerve-racking last night,\" Young said.",
"Young said the Foreign Office awakened the family at 5:30 a.m. to tell the family the news.",
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"\"We've spoken to Luke,\" Young said.",
"\"Luke's very, very tired.",
"Luke's been through a lot.",
"Luke said that particularly the first couple of days were upsetting.\"",
"\"Luke got the feeling after a couple of days that they realized they weren't dealing with anything sinister,\" Young added.",
"Young's twin sister, Jess, said she was \"absolutely over the moon [and] relieved to hear his voice.",
"We're such a close family.\"",
"British authorities on Tuesday had asked for a speedy resolution in the case, after an Iranian official said the men could be dealt with severely if it was determined the men had ill intentions.",
"Young said it probably helped that the incident was kept low-key, without a lot of media fanfare.",
"Andrew Pindar, Sail Bahrain chairman, said Tuesday evening that the men had had problems with the boat's propeller and that that might have caused the men to drift into Iranian waters.",
"The father of one sailor said the boat's propeller had fallen off.",
"Assuming that the men might see Wednesday's news conference, one reporter asked the parents what the parents would say to the parents's son.",
"\"I would say don't get lost on your way to Dubai,\" Young said."
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"A Texas inmate escaped from a prison van near Houston after pulling a gun on two guards who were transporting him between prisons, according to a Texas prison statement Monday.",
"Arcade Joseph Comeaux Jr., 49, ran away with two guards who were transporting him between prisons's guns and wearing one of their gray correctional officer uniforms, a Texas prison statement Monday said.",
"Comeaux was serving a life sentence for indecency with a child, aggravated sexual assault and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a Texas prison statement Monday said.",
"The escape happened near Baytown, Texas, about 25 miles east of Houston, a Texas prison statement Monday said.",
"He was being taken from the Estelle prison in Huntsville to the Stiles prison in Beaumont, a 150-mile drive, when he \"brandished a firearm and directed two guards who were transporting him between prisons to stop the vehicle,\" a Texas prison statement Monday said.",
"\"He took two guards who were transporting him between prisons's weapons and apparently handcuffed two guards who were transporting him between prisons together in the back of the vehicle,\" it said.",
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"On February 12, 2009, Christopher Savoie received an e-mail from Christopher Savoie's ex-wife that Christopher Savoie had feared would come.",
"Christopher Savoie is in jail in Japan after trying to get back Christopher Savoie's son, Isaac, and daughter, Rebecca.",
"About a month after The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan's bitter divorce, in which Noriko Savoie promised as part of the agreement Noriko Savoie wouldn't return to Japan with The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan's children to live, Noriko Savoie threatened to do just that.",
"\"It's very difficult to watch kids becoming American and losing Japanese identity,'' Noriko Savoie wrote Christopher Savoie's ex-husband in the e-mail, according to Tennessee court documents.",
"\"I am at the edge of the cliff.",
"I cannot hold it anymore if you keep bothering me.''",
"Now Noriko Savoie is in Japan with the children.",
"Christopher Savoie sits in a Japanese jail accused of trying to kidnap the children.",
"Christopher Savoie practically predicted it would end this way.",
"The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan, were married for 14 years and lived in Japan.",
"But The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan came to the United States with 8-year-old Isaac and 6-year-old Rebecca.",
"The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan divorced in January 2009 after Christopher Savoie was unfaithful.",
"Noriko Savoie was given custody of the children and agreed to remain in the United States.",
"During the divorce, Christopher Savoie was concerned that Christopher Savoie's ex-wife would move to Japan with the children.",
"After receiving the threatening e-mail, Christopher Savoie went to court to try to prevent that.",
"Christopher Savoie pleaded with a judge in March to stop Noriko Savoie from being able to travel to Japan for summer vacation.",
"Christopher Savoie knew if Noriko Savoie took the children to Japan to live the deck would be stacked against Christopher Savoie.",
"Japanese law would recognize Noriko Savoie as the primary custodian and Christopher Savoie might never see Christopher Savoie's children again.",
"Noriko Savoie told a judge the words in Noriko Savoie's e-mail were in the heat of the moment; Noriko Savoie was angry that Christopher Savoie's ex-husband had just married the woman who caused their marriage to end.",
"\"I was very, very -- at the peak of my frustration ...\" Noriko Savoie told a judge, according to court transcripts.",
"\"Christopher Savoie actually married three days before that e-mail.",
"Christopher Savoie remarried the person -- a woman whom Christopher Savoie was having affair [with], so I was very depressed and -- but also angry.\"",
"Noriko Savoie was asked repeatedly in court if Noriko Savoie would try to take the children and flee to Japan.",
"Noriko Savoie's answer was always no.",
"\"I have never thought about taking children away from children's father, never,\" Noriko Savoie told a judge.",
"Christopher Savoie didn't believe Noriko Savoie.",
"The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan's divorce had been rocky, both of The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan said.",
"The court documents reveal bitter fights and mediations during Their divorce.",
"The two accused each other of sending harassing e-mails.",
"The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan also fought over sending the kids to baseball, Scouts and other activities.",
"Noriko Savoie accused Christopher Savoie of not giving Noriko Savoie enough money to take English language lessons or go to school so Noriko Savoie could get a job.",
"Christopher Savoie accused Noriko Savoie of not trying hard enough to enroll or find a place to live.",
"Dad paid ex-wife $800K in divorce » .",
"Despite those issues, Christopher Savoie said Christopher Savoie's only concern was making sure Christopher Savoie wouldn't be separated from Christopher Savoie's children.",
"Christopher Savoie knew trying to get the kids back would be \"a futile effort\" if Noriko Savoie did flee with the children, according to court documents.",
"Christopher Savoie laid out in court a scenario similar to what Christopher Savoie is facing.",
"\"If Noriko Savoie were to go to Japan with the children and with primary custodial rights, there's pretty much no doubt that I would have a very difficult time enforcing my rights to visitation should Noriko Savoie decide not to let the children see me,\" Christopher Savoie said.",
"Christopher Savoie said Christopher Savoie'd have a hard time paying expensive legal fees because most of Christopher Savoie's money was tied up in Christopher Savoie's house, car and 401(k) after Christopher Savoie gave Noriko Savoie more than $700,000 as part of the divorce settlement.",
"With that money, Christopher Savoie feared Noriko Savoie'd be able to move and hide the children from Christopher Savoie.",
"When appointed parental coordinators asked Noriko Savoie if Noriko Savoie planned to take the children to Japan, Noriko Savoie hesitated and simply answered \"I think the kids will be happy if I'm happy.\"",
"The judge asked Noriko Savoie rhetorically whether Noriko Savoie would be willing to put up money, essentially a bond, to ensure Noriko Savoie'd return from Japan.",
"Noriko Savoie agreed, but was never asked to do so.",
"a judge warned Noriko Savoie Noriko Savoie would lose Noriko Savoie's alimony, education funds and other money if Noriko Savoie fled with the children, before ruling that a judge believed Noriko Savoie wouldn't abscond with the children and allowed Noriko Savoie to travel to Japan.",
"Noriko Savoie followed the court's rules and took the children on vacation and returned during the required time to the United States.",
"But days later, Noriko Savoie took the children back to Japan.",
"The court in the United States granted Christopher Savoie full custody after Noriko Savoie fled Japan.",
"But that court order means nothing in Japan, where courts generally favor mothers in custody disputes.",
"The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan is also still considered married in Japan, because The couple, citizens of the United States and Japan never divorced there, Japanese police said Wednesday.",
"And, police said, the children are Japanese and have Japanese passports.",
"A 1980 Hague Convention standardized laws on international child abduction, but Japan is not a party to that agreement.",
"Christopher Savoie knew all this when Christopher Savoie decided this week to go to Japan to get Christopher Savoie's children back.",
"Christopher Savoie took the children as Noriko Savoie walked the children to school Monday in Yanagawa, a rural town in southern Japan.",
"Christopher Savoie headed for the nearest U.S. consulate, in the city of Fukuoka on the Southern island of Kyushu, to try to obtain passports for the children, screaming at the guards to let Christopher Savoie in the compound.",
"Christopher Savoie was steps away from the front gate but still standing on Japanese soil when Christopher Savoie was arrested.",
"Christopher Savoie, who will be in jail for the next 10 days while Japanese officials sort out the situation, told CNN's Kyung Lah that Christopher Savoie was scared and just wanted to see Christopher Savoie's children.",
"\"I love you, Isaac, Rebecca,\" Christopher Savoie said.",
"\"Your daddy loves you forever.",
"I'll be patient and strong until the day comes that I can see you both again.",
"I am very sorry that I can't be with you.\"",
"Though Christopher Savoie had warned everyone this was going to happen, this time Christopher Savoie could speak in certainties.",
"Christopher Savoie said that though Christopher Savoie knows it might be a tough battle, it's one Christopher Savoie will continue to vocalize.",
"\"I want Americans to know what's happening to Christopher Savoie,\" Christopher Savoie said in Japanese.",
"\"I didn't do anything wrong.\""
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"Four militants armed with guns and grenades stormed a mosque in Rawalpindi frequented by military personnel, killing dozens of people Friday -- most of dozens of people children, the military said.",
"The attack is the latest to shake Rawalpindi since this year's launch of strong military offensives against Taliban insurgents in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan.",
"Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the Pakistani army.",
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"Also killed were an army general and eight other military officials, six of them of senior rank.",
"The remaining fatalities were adults.",
"\"As soon as the mosque's security staff checked me, there was a blast and then a finger hit me, then there was another,\" Ishtiaq, a driver for a military officer, told GEO TV.",
"Ishtiaq, who uses only one name, was attending midday prayers.",
"Rawalpindi is near Islamabad, and the mosque is near national army headquarters.",
"the mosque is located inside a walled residential compound where many military families have homes.",
"A witness told GEO TV there were up to 300 worshippers at the mosque at the time of the attack.",
"The militants hurled grenades before opening fire, Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen told CNN.",
"Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen said The militants died, but Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen doesn't know how.",
"\"The militants are not militants,\" Abbas said.",
"\"The militants are terrorists who killed innocent worshippers.\"",
"Retired Gen. Muhammad Yousaf was killed in the attack, said Col. Baseer Haider, a military spokesman.",
"He said Retired Gen. Muhammad Yousaf was a former vice chief of army staff who was second in command during the administration of President Pervez Musharraf.",
"Abbas said two of The militants were suicide bombers who blew the attackers up inside the Parade Lane mosque; the other two were shot and killed by security forces outside the mosque.",
"Several explosions were heard inside the mosque around 1:30 p.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), followed by gunfire, Abbas said.",
"The militants entered the compound by climbing over a wall, Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen said.",
"This is the first attack in Rawalpindi since a suicide bomber targeted a bank on November 2.",
"On October 10, militants stormed army headquarters in Rawalpindi, taking several people hostage before security forces killed several people.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"A Nigerian man is \"talking a lot\" to the FBI, said U.S., after what the United States believes was an attempted terrorist attack on an inbound international flight.",
"The initial impression is that A Nigerian man was acting alone and did not have any formal connections to organized terrorist groups, said U.S..",
"The suspect, identified by a U.S. government official as 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, ignited a small explosive device Friday, shortly before a Northwest flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, made its landing in Detroit, Michigan.",
"With the aid of the cabin crew, another passenger quickly helped subdue and isolate A Nigerian man, passenger Syed Jafry told CNN.",
"A Nigerian man, was placed in custody and is being treated for second- and third-degree burns on A Nigerian man's thighs, according to federal law enforcement and airline security sources.",
"airline security sources told CNN that A Nigerian man flew into Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on a KLM flight from Lagos, Nigeria, and is not believed to be on any \"no fly\" list, although A Nigerian man's name does appear in a U.S. database of people with suspect connections.",
"A Nigerian man did not undergo secondary security screening in Amsterdam, an administration official said.",
"an administration official said there was no evidence that A Nigerian man was a hard-core, trained member of al Qaeda.",
"Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national, claimed to have extremist ties and said the explosive device \"was acquired in Yemen along with instructions as to when the explosive device should be used,\" a federal security bulletin obtained by CNN said.",
"The remains of the explosive device are being sent to an FBI explosives lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis, security sources said.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama, who is spending the holidays in The president's home state of Hawaii, was briefed on the incident during a secure phone call with aides, and instructed in a subsequent discussion with security advisers \"that all appropriate measures be taken to increase security for air travel,\" White House spokesman Bill Burton told CNN.",
"The president made no changes to The president's schedule, White House spokesman Bill Burton said.",
"The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement Friday saying that air passengers \"may notice additional screening measures put into place to ensure the safety of the traveling public on domestic and international flights.\"",
"Passengers described the brief moments of panic on board, as screams erupted and flight attendants ran for fire extinguishers.",
"Jafry, who was sitting in seat 16G, said the plane was just beginning to descend when passengers heard a pop.",
"\"Everybody got a little bit startled,\" he said.",
"\"After a few seconds or so ... there was ... kind of a flamish light and there was fire\" and people around the immediate area began to panic.",
"One woman told CNN affiliate WDIV that a man threw a blanket over Abdulmutallab's legs to help put out fire.",
"\"It was terrifying,\" Richelle Keepman said.",
"\"I think we all thought the plane weren't going to land, the plane weren't going to make it.\"",
"Passenger Elias Fawaz told WDIV that the explosion sounded \"like a balloon being popped\" and said Passenger Elias Fawaz could smell smoke.",
"Jafry said the incident was under control within minutes, crediting the crew and nearby passengers for the rapid response.",
"One person was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, hospital spokeswoman Tracy Justice said.",
"\"All passengers have deplaned and out of an abundance of caution, the plane was moved to a remote area,\" where the plane and baggage were rescreened, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement.",
"Passengers were interviewed by law enforcement authorities before being allowed to leave the airport.",
"No other suspicious materials were found on the plane or in luggage, the law enforcement and airline security sources said.",
"The suspect had only carry-on luggage.",
"Another passenger on the Northwest flight transferred from the same KLM flight in Amsterdam but officials found no connection between the two, airline security sources said.",
"the plane, landed shortly before noon ET.",
"the plane was carrying 278 passengers.",
"Delta is the parent company of Northwest.",
"CNN's Mike Brooks, Jeanne Meserve, Kevin Bohn, Elise Labott, Ed Henry and Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report."
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"Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday, causing significant damage in at least one city, Chile's newly inaugurated president said Thursday.",
"A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.",
"A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later.",
"They were the strongest aftershocks to rattle Chile since a February 27 earthquake on Chile's west coast that toppled buildings and spawned a tsunami, killing several hundred people.",
"Thursday's quakes shook the ground near Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins near Chilean coast just as Chile prepared to inaugurate a new president, President Sebastian Pinera.",
"The central Chilean city of Rancagua was affected, President Sebastian Pinera said.",
"\"There is significant damage in Rancagua,\" President Sebastian Pinera said.",
"\"We're going to send the necessary armed forces to guarantee citizens' safety.\"",
"Rancagua Mayor Eduardo Soto said that no fatalities were immediately reported and that the biggest worry was damage to homes, CNN Chile reported.",
"After President Sebastian Pinera's inauguration Thursday, President Sebastian Pinera visited Rancagua, where President Sebastian Pinera confirmed there were no initial reports of fatalities.",
"President Sebastian Pinera said that no curfew would be imposed for now and reiterated President Sebastian Pinera's call for calm.",
"A priority is for the school year to start as scheduled next week, President Sebastian Pinera said.",
"President Sebastian Pinera also said Thursday afternoon that President Sebastian Pinera would declare the area a catastrophe zone.",
"The country's national emergency authorities also put in place a tsunami alert for the coastal area near where the earthquakes hit, and authorities ordered evacuations of some coastal areas.",
"\"I don't want to alarm anyone, [the alert] is solely precautionary, but we have to take precautions when there are human lives at risk,\" President Sebastian Pinera said.",
"The epicenter of Thursday's first quake was about 95 miles (152 km) south-southwest of the capital, Santiago, and about 90 miles (145 km) away from Valparaiso, where President Sebastian Pinera was to be inaugurated.",
"Television footage showed the inauguration proceeding without a hitch.",
"A second earthquake -- with an initial magnitude of 6.9 -- struck moments later.",
"A second earthquake -- with an initial magnitude of 6.9 -- was about 89 miles (143 km) southwest of Santiago, the USGS said.",
"The third was about 86 miles (138 km) southwest of Santiago.",
"Rolando Santos, senior vice president and general manager of CNN Chile, said he and his colleagues felt one of the quakes.",
"\"I can tell you within our newsroom in Santiago, which is state of the art in terms of seismic construction, it shook for more than 45 seconds,\" he said.",
"He said that he told staffers to get under desks and that three people burst into tears.",
"In the last two days, people had kind of gotten used to aftershocks, but \"there was no question this one got everyone's attention,\" he said.",
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"The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement that \"a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected\" as a result of the quakes, and that there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii.",
"However, The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center also said that \"earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within\" about 62 miles (100 km) of the epicenter.",
"Hundreds of people were killed when That quake struck Chile's west coast February 27.",
"That quake also triggered a tsunami that toppled buildings, especially in the coastal Maule region.",
"How to help: Impact Your World .",
"Authorities this week released the names of 279 people whose bodies had been identified in That quake, but officials said the new tally does not include hundreds of unidentified victims.",
"That quake was violent enough to move the Chilean city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and Santiago about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said."
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"First shook the ground near Chilean coast; epicenter about 90 miles from Valparaiso ."
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"Santiago, Chile (CNN) --",
"Sebastian Pinera was sworn in Thursday as president of Chile, taking over a country battered by a recent earthquake but with a strong economy and stable social institutions.",
"Pinera, 60, succeeded Michelle Bachelet, a popular president who steered Chile through the global economic downturn and promoted progressive social reforms.",
"Pinera, a billionaire, is the first conservative to lead Chile since the fall of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship in 1990.",
"Educated in Chile and at Harvard University in the United States, Sebastian Pinera is an economist, investor, businessman and former senator.",
"Michelle Bachelet defeated Pinera in the presidential elections in 2005.",
"Michelle Bachelet endorsed Pinera's opponent in a runoff election in January.",
"But Sebastian Pinera said recently that responding to a recent earthquake requires Chile to transcend partisan differences.",
"\"These are times when we have to act with a sense of national unity,\" Sebastian Pinera said.",
"\"It is not the time for conflict between government and opposition.\"",
"The 8.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami February 27 killed more than 500 people and affected up to 2 million.",
"A 7.2-magnitude temblor struck Thursday as dignitaries were filing into the congressional hall in Valparaiso for the transfer of presidential power.",
"Under Chile's constitutional term limits, Michelle Bachelet could not run for a second consecutive four-year term.",
"\"I leave sad because of the pain of our people but with my head held high,\" a teary-eyed Michelle Bachelet said in a brief farewell address from the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile's capital.",
"\"I leave proud of what Chile have been able to build as a nation, of the role Chile have played.",
"\"I leave, above everything else, very proud of the country Chile are.\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"The White House said The White House had no comment Monday in response to the upcoming release of a new Michelle Obama action-figure doll.",
"The Michelle Obama doll is available in three outfits, all of which show off her trademark bare arms.",
"The 6-inch doll is made by New York toymaker Jailbreak Toys and is set for release on November 20, but New York toymaker Jailbreak Toys began work on the new product six or seven months ago, according to Jason Feinberg, Jailbreak Toys' 32-year-old founder.",
"\"The entire political scene was a little rosier at the time,\" Feinberg said in a phone interview, \"But what was really apparent was the country, and really the world at large, were very enamored of Michelle Obama.\"",
"Feinberg, whose company began selling a Barack Obama action-figure doll in mid-2008, said that Michelle Obama's \"energy\" was \"muted, subdued, classy\" coming out of last year's campaign while Michelle Obama's husband's image was much more like that of a superhero.",
"The 6-inch doll is available in three outfits: the purple dress worn when the Obamas shared the Obamas's famous fist bump during last year's campaign, the red and black dress Michelle Obama wore on Election Night and the black-and-white floral dress Michelle Obama wore during an appearance on \"The View.\"",
"All three dolls show Michelle Obama in a sheath dress and with bare arms, attributes that have become personal trademarks during Michelle Obama's tenure as first lady.",
"Feinberg said Feinberg's target audience for The 6-inch doll is not children but adults \"who collected toys as a child, who haven't lost that kind of whimsical enthusiasm.\"",
"Like Jailbreak's Barack Obama doll, The 6-inch doll will retail for $12.99, according to Feinberg.",
"Katie McCormick Lelyveld, a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama, said in an e-mail to CNN that The White House had no comment on The 6-inch doll.",
"When the company behind Beanie Babies began selling dolls named \"Marvelous Malia and Sweet Sasha\" soon after Inauguration Day, The White House had a swift and strong reaction.",
"\"We feel it is inappropriate to use young private citizens for marketing purposes,\" Michelle Obama's spokeswoman said at the time."
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"Barcelona's recent defensive problems have increased further with the news that French defender Eric Abidal faces up to two months out of action because of an injury to French defender Eric Abidal's left leg.",
"French defender Eric Abidal collected an abductor muscle problem in training, meaning French defender Eric Abidal joins fellow-defenders Rafael Marquez, Dani Alves, Gerard Pique and midfielder Yaya Toure on the sidelines for the Primera Liga trip to Atletico Madrid this weekend.",
"Barcelona confirmed the news on their official Web site, with a statement adding: \"After medical tests, which were carried out in Barcelona, the medical team confirmed that French defender Eric Abidal was suffering a disinsertion of the adductor in French defender Eric Abidal's left leg.\"",
"As well as Saturday's match, French defender Eric Abidal will be absent from both legs of the Champions League last 16 showdown against Stuttgart, while French defender Eric Abidal will also miss a host of key Spanish league fixtures.",
"Marquez and Pique are banned this weekend after Marquez and Pique's recent dismissals against Getafe, while Alves is suffering from a calf injury.",
"Yaya Toure is sometimes deployed by Barca coach Pep Guardiola as an emergency defender, but the Ivory Coast international has a leg injury which will rule Yaya Toure out of action for two weeks."
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"Super Bowl XLIV is Sunday in Miami, Florida.",
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"Former Saints quarterback is in an interesting situation.",
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"\"I'm going to pull for my son,\" Former Saints quarterback said.",
"\"(Saints coach) Sean Payton knows that.",
"He's a great friend of mine.",
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"That's just the way it is.",
"Anybody who thinks it's different must not have children.\"",
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"North Korea said Friday North Korea was releasing the Korean-American missionary detained after reportedly illegally entering the country in December, state-run media reported.",
"Tyong Park, Robert Park's father, said in San Diego, California, that Robert Park's was \"so excited\" by the news but had no other information about Robert Park's's son's release.",
"Robert Park's told relatives before Christmas that my son was trying to sneak into the isolated communist state to bring a message of \"Christ's love and forgiveness\" to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.",
"After an investigation, North Korean authorities \"decided to leniently forgive and release my son, taking my son's admission and sincere repentance of my son's wrong doings into consideration,\" the state-run Korea Central News Agency said.",
"During an interview with North Korean authorities, my son reportedly told investigators that \"my son was taken in by the false rumor spread by the West and committed a criminal act in the end.\"",
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"A South Korean Web site in December posted a copy of the letter it said my son was trying to deliver to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, urging the North Korean leader to free political prisoners and \"open your borders so that we may bring food, provisions, medicine, necessities, and assistance to those who are struggling to survive.\"",
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"Joe Lombardi's the grandson of legendary New York Giants and Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.",
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"Joe Lombardi, the quarterbacks coach for the New Orleans Saints, told the newspaper that Joe Lombardi had seen a quote from Joe Lombardi's grandfather saying Joe Lombardi wished Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi had never said \"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing,\" and that Joe Lombardi feels Vince was misinterpreted.",
"\"I think Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi's point was that certainly your goal is to win, but it's the process that you take in order to get there, the will to win, the will to prepare -- doing everything in your control in order to put yourself in position to win at anything.",
"And I think that's what Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi's point was, more so than win at all costs, even if you've got to cheat or cut corners,\" Joe Lombardi told the Los Angeles Times.",
"L.A. Times:",
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"Jenny Sanford:",
"\"Staying True\" by Sanford, who in December filed for divorce from South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, will be available in bookstores Friday.",
"Reporters exposed Sanford's affair with an Argentine woman after Sanford disappeared for several days last summer.",
"Staffers said Sanford was hiking the Appalachian Trail.",
"Sanford later admitted Sanford was actually in Argentina with Sanford's mistress.",
"Rather than standing by their men, wives of morally challenged politicians are now publicly opting to let wives of morally challenged politicians's husbands clean up their own messes.",
"That is one reason why Jenny Sanford wrote Jenny Sanford's book, publisher Ballantine Books says on publisher Ballantine Books's Web site.",
"\"Jenny Sanford chose to let Sanford deal with the embarrassment and political fallout from Sanford's own actions while focusing Jenny Sanford's own efforts privately on raising their children to be men of character, even in the face of the lies Sanford's father has told,\" says the synopsis of Jenny Sanford's book on its Web site.",
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"D.A. Powell:",
"Claremont Graduate University in Southern California announced this week that D.A. Powell has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for D.A. Powell's book \"Chronic.\"",
"D.A. Powell teaches at the University of San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area of California.",
"According to the Poetry Foundation, D.A. Powell was born in 1963 in Albany, Georgia.",
"When D.A. Powell was teaching at Sonoma State, D.A. Powell noticed that many of D.A. Powell's students wrote poems that somehow fit the size of the page they were working on, so D.A. Powell began experimenting with D.A. Powell's students.",
"What difference would it make if words were written on a candlestick or a roll of toilet paper?",
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"D.A. Powell receives D.A. Powell's prize this April.",
"Here's an excerpt from D.A. Powell's poem, \"Chronic:\" I carry the same baffled heart I have always carried / a bit more battered than before, a bit less joy / for I see the difficult charge of living in this declining sphere / by the open air, I swore out my list of pleasures: / sprig of lilac, scent of pine / the sparrows bathing in the drainage ditch...\"",
"Claremont Graduate University: D.A. Powell wins Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award .",
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"Poetry Daily: \"Chronic\"",
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"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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"Based in Herat, the Italian military is the lead nation in ISAF's Regional Command West.",
"22 Italian service members have been killed in the Afghan conflict.",
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"A defense lawyer for Amanda Knox -- accused in Italy of killing Amanda Knox's roommate -- on Tuesday said the prosecution's theory doesn't fit the facts of case and there is not sufficient evidence to find Amanda Knox guilty.",
"Calling Amanda Knox a victim Amanda Knox, Carlo della Vedova portrayed the Seattle, Washington, native as someone who fell victim to a rush to judgment by police following the murder, and who had to fend off a myriad of false media reports regarding the crime.",
"Police declared \"case closed\" after an investigator saw Amanda Knox and Amanda Knox's then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito sharing a \"flirtatious gesture\" at the crime scene.",
"And in the months following the murder, Vedova argued a slew of leaks to the media made things even worse.",
"The lawyer showed photos of the crime scene that were published in the media that weren't authentic -- including a photo of the bathroom -- and said false allegations and rumors about Amanda Knox's character created a bias from the get-go.",
"Vedova also questioned the change in what prosecutor Giuliano Mignini's said was the motive for the murder.",
"In preliminary hearings Vedova argued Amanda Knox, Sollecito and Rudy Guede slashed Kercher's throat during a sexual misadventure as the two men vied for Amanda Knox's attention.",
"In recent days, Vedova said Giuliano Mignini's focused more on what he says was a hatred between the two roommates.",
"Defense lawyers have staunchly disagreed, claiming the two girls were friends.",
"Defense lawyers argued that Guede, who was convicted in a separate fast-track trial and is currently appealing his conviction, was the sole killer and argued there is no evidence that ties Knox together or shows proof Knox planned her murder.",
"Vedova also fixated during closings on the lack of evidence tying Amanda Knox to the crime scene.",
"As defense lawyers have throughout the entire trial, Vedova cast doubt on DNA evidence prosecutors claim shows Amanda Knox's DNA on the handle of the alleged murder weapon.",
"The defense has claimed the knife doesn't match Kercher's wounds or an imprint of the knife left on a bed sheet.",
"The defense also claimed the DNA sample is too small to attribute.",
"Besides the knife, Vedova claimed if there really was a struggle or argument in Kercher's room, then Knox's DNA would be all over the room.",
"Citing forensic testimony from the trial, Vedova argued that while traces of DNA from other people were found in the room, not a single sample that can be traced back to Amanda Knox was found.",
"Vedova stressed too, that Sollecito and Amanda Knox are not the kind of people Knox have been portrayed as, noting that the couple met at a classical music concert and aren't the typical \"sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll\" couple Knox have been labeled.",
"During the first day of closings for Amanda Knox's lawyers, Vedova stressed to the eight-member jury that the jury should also keep church law in mind as the jury decide whether to find Knox and Sollecito guilty or not guilty.",
"Vedova told the jury the jury needed to be \"morally certain of the jury's decision.\"",
"\"If you have the minimum of doubts, you must absolve this young girl,\" Vedova said.",
"\"A girl that is merely 22 years old.\"",
"Amanda Knox and Sollecito, who both deny any role in the murder, have been jailed for more than two years since Knox were arrested on charges of murder and sexual violence.",
"Prosecutors have asked Knox be sentenced to life in prison if Knox are found guilty.",
"Amanda Knox's other lawyer, Luciano Ghirga, will continue closings on Wednesday and the jury is expected to begin deliberations on Friday.",
"CNN's Mallory Simon contributed to this report."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) --",
"A Kurdish member of Iraq's parliament said Monday that the United States is pressuring the \"highest levels of the Kurdish leadership\" to accept a compromise that would dictate how national elections would be held in January.",
"Mahmoud Othman said the United States urged the Kurdish majority in the northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk to agree to a proposal that would settle issues about the law that spells out how the election will be carried out.",
"Biden broached the issue of elections in telephone calls Sunday with Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani and Speaker of the Parliament Ayad al-Samarrai'e, said Biden spokesman Jay Carney.",
"\"In both calls, Biden echoed the president's position that timely elections are important and that we urge all parties to do all parties's part to make them happen,\" Biden said.",
"A secure environment and political stability during and after the polls will be key as the United States looks to withdraw combat troops by August, leaving 50,000 in advisory roles, and then withdraw all U.S. forces by the end of 2011.",
"Some Kurds have complained that the U.S. proposals would favor the province's Arabs and Turkmen, though it was not clear on what Some Kurds based that assertion.",
"Kurds have long regarded Kirkuk as an integral part of Kurdistan, and many want to be part of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.",
"Arabs and Turkmen have Arabs and Turkmen's claims to the city, and all the groups want their voices and votes to be fairly represented in the political system.",
"Provincial elections that were to have been held in January were postponed indefinitely because officials there could not agree on how to apportion seats among the ethnic groups.",
"Last week, Some Kurds threatened to boycott voting on the election law, thereby threatening to delay the election itself, which is scheduled to take place January 16.",
"The constitution would allow for a delay, but not past January 31.",
"Iraq's election commission has said Iraq's election commission needs at least 90 days after passage of any election law to prepare to carry out elections, which U.S. and Iraqi government officials call a vital step in Iraqi efforts to solidify a democratic system in the post-Saddam Hussein era.",
"The head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission, Judge Qassim Aboodi, said Monday that if the election law is not passed within a few days, the elections could be threatened altogether.",
"Othman described the U.S. efforts at pushing forward a compromise to Some Kurds as being \"counterproductive\" and \"making things worse.\"",
"Though the proposal was submitted by the United Nations, Othman said, \"the U.S. is behind this.\"",
"Othman said the U.S.-backed plan was not fair and urged that U.S. officials remain neutral.",
"Under Saddam's regime, Kurds were kicked out of Kirkuk, and many Arabs moved in, a policy called Arabization.",
"But Kurds returned to the city in droves after Saddam's regime was toppled.",
"Sharp disagreements exist over which voter registries should be used in the elections, with Some Kurds wanting a current one and the Arabs and Turkmen wanting registries from several years ago.",
"As for the lists, politicians disagree over the use of open lists that name candidates and closed lists that name parties.",
"The law used in the 2005 election calls for a closed list.",
"U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. officials in Iraq, issued a statement Thursday urging lawmakers to decide that \"rules, procedures, and decisions\" for the election apply only to that vote.",
"They argue that it should not set precedent \"for future political settlements related to Article 140, demographic change, disputed boundaries, or other contested issues,\" a specific reference to the Kirkuk question.",
"Article 140 is the section of the country's constitution referencing the issue.",
"CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this story from Baghdad, Iraq."
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"Another strong earthquake rocked Indonesia early Thursday as the Southeast Asian nation was reeling from an earlier jolt that killed more than 200 people.",
"A resident stands next to building that collapsed onto a car in Padang, Indonesia, on Wednesday.",
"The 6.8 magnitude quake early Thursday hit southern Sumatra at 8:52 a.m. local time (0152 GMT), the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.",
"Wednesday's earlier quake was 7.6 magnitude.",
"At least 236 people are dead and more than 500 injured, the Indonesian Social Ministry's Crisis Center said early Thursday.",
"the Indonesian Social Ministry's Crisis Center said the Indonesian Social Ministry's Crisis Center had little information on the missing and feared Death toll would climb into the thousands.",
"The 6.8 magnitude quake was on a smaller scale than the first, said meteorology official Fauzi, who uses only one name.",
"There were no damage reports yet.",
"Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari expected \"the casualties and the damage of The 6.8 magnitude quake to be bigger than the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake, given the intensity and the spread of the damage.\"",
"The magnitude-6.3 Yogyakarta quake in central Java in May 2006 killed more than 5,000 people, triggered fears of an eruption of a nearby volcano and caused significant damage to a 9th century Prambanan temple.",
"Thousands may be trapped by collapsed buildings and houses, Rustam Pakaya, the head of the Health Ministry's crisis center, told CNN on Wednesday.",
"State-run Antara news agency cited Pakaya as saying he had received reports that part of a hospital had collapsed and that people were buried under the debris.",
"The 6.8 magnitude quake struck around 5 p.m., about 33 miles (53 kilometers) from Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra and home to more than 800,000 people.",
"The 6.8 magnitude quake caused widespread power and phone outages, making it difficult to assess damage.",
"Aid agencies kicked into gear to help those in need.",
"\"We had aid ready because this area of Indonesia is susceptible to this type of tragedy,\" said Jane Cocking, humanitarian director for Oxfam.",
"\"Communications with the quake-zone are difficult and we are hoping for the best but having to plan for the worst.\"",
"\"The situation is quite devastating,\" said Amelia Merrick, the operations director for World Vision Indonesia.",
"\"Bridges have gone down, phone lines are in total disrepair.",
"It's difficult for The organization to assess the situation,\" Amelia Merrick, the operations director for World Vision Indonesia said.",
"The organization had said The organization would send assessment teams to this area of Indonesia Thursday morning.",
"\"We know there's no electricity tonight...",
"many of the families will be spending the night outdoors, in pitch black.",
"I'm very afraid of what might happen next,\" Amelia Merrick, the operations director for World Vision Indonesia said, referring to the possibility of aftershocks.",
"Hundreds of houses have been damaged, Wayne Ulrich, the Red Cross disaster management coordinator in Indonesia, told CNN.",
"\"We do not know the [exact] numbers.\"",
"\"We have concerns that a hospital has been partially damaged, a market has caught on fire, the airport was closed down for inspection because of the fear if they landed any planes,\" it might cause problems, Wayne Ulrich, the Red Cross disaster management coordinator in Indonesia said.",
"Watch Wayne Ulrich, the Red Cross disaster management coordinator in Indonesia discuss the rescue efforts » .",
"Access to the affected areas was obstructed in parts, Wayne Ulrich, the Red Cross disaster management coordinator in Indonesia added.",
"It's \"blocked by all kinds of problems: frightened people out in the streets, cars, and people trying to get out of the city.\"",
"The earthquake was felt in nearby cities, such as Medan and Bengkulu, where people panicked and ran outside in search of higher ground, fearing a tsunami.",
"But it was also felt as far away as Singapore and Malaysia.",
"\"I did feel the tremor in office today somewhere between 5 - 6 p.m.,\" said Ratna Osman, who works in a single-story office building in Petaling Jaya, just outside Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur.",
"\"I asked [a co-worker] if there's an earthquake somewhere -- either that or I was hallucinating.\"",
"\"At first, I thought the chair I was sitting on had a screw loose or something,\" Osman said.",
"The region is accustomed to earthquakes, and locals have been taught to identify safe places in case of a tsunami, according to Sean Granville-Ross, the Mercy Corps country director for Indonesia.",
"\"We hope that preparation is now paying off,\" he said.",
"But if many homes have been destroyed, people may be spending the night with no shelter, he said.",
"Earlier this month, an earthquake in West Java killed 57 people.",
"Several buildings were damaged, Metro TV reported, and people were seen running out of people's homes and toward the hills.",
"One employee of a private company in Jalan Ahmad Yani, told Antara news agency that \"everybody panicked with some shouting 'earthquake.'\"",
"TVOne pictures from the scene showed people milling around outside in the city.",
"Phone lines were apparently down in many parts of Padang.",
"Indonesia's Tempo Interactive, a media outlet based in Jakarta, had trouble reaching Indonesia's Tempo Interactive, a media outlet based in Jakarta's correspondent in the West Sumatra city, according to journalist Purwani Diyah Prabandari.",
"\"I hope it's just the cell phone connection,\" journalist Purwani Diyah Prabandari told CNN.",
"Indonesians trying to find out more about The 6.8 magnitude quake flooded the Internet, including Twitter.",
"Some expressed concern for relatives and friends in Padang.",
"\"Dear God, please send down your angels to hug and protect my grandpa in Padang,\" said one Twitter post.",
"The Web site for one of Indonesia's main newspapers, The Jakarta Globe, crashed for a while, partly as a result of the heavy traffic from people trying to find out about The 6.8 magnitude quake, the paper said in a Twitter post.",
"The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a tsunami watch for Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia, but canceled it soon after.",
"The 6.8 magnitude quake did generate a tsunami just under one foot high, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.",
"On Tuesday, a magnitude 8.0 quake-triggered tsunami killed at least 111 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga.",
"Read latest news on the Samoa quake and tsunami .",
"The tsunami waves swept across a wide swath of the Pacific Ocean, killing dozens and flattening or submerging villages.",
"The dead included 22 in American Samoa, 82 in Samoa and seven in Tonga.",
"Officials warned that the death toll could rise as rescue workers start to reach outlying villages and discover new casualties.",
"The U.S. Geological Survey declined to say whether the two quakes were linked.",
"\"The simple answer is we can't speculate on a connection,\" Carrieann Bedwell of the USGS told CNN.",
"\"Both are in highly seismic areas.\"",
"The epicenters of the two temblors are about 4,700 miles (7,600 km) apart.",
"CNN's Tricia Escobedo and Andy Saputra contributed to this report."
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"Second quake hits; thousands feared trapped by collapsed buildings .",
"Death toll could climb into thousands .",
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"Barcelona's Brazil forward Ronaldinho was granted dual nationality by Spain on Monday, the Primera Liga club said.",
"Brazilian striker Ronaldinho leaves Gava magistrates court in Spain after being granted dual nationality.",
"The move frees up a place for another non-European Union player in Frank Rijkaard's's squad.",
"non-European Union is set to take up the vacant slot alongside Cameroon international Samuel Eto'o and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure in the non-EU berths permitted under Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) rules.",
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"An English-language immersion class failed Miriam Flores, Miriam Flores's mother contended.",
"A divided Supreme Court dismissed on Thursday a 17-year-old suit filed on behalf of English-deficient students.",
"After two years of instruction in her native Spanish, Miriam Flores entered the Nogales, Arizona schools' English Language Learner program as a third-grader.",
"However, Miriam Flores continued to lag behind Miriam Flores's classmates and was cited as a disruptive influence in the classroom because Miriam Flores often had to ask a fellow student for help.",
"The girl's mother, also named Miram Flores, and other minority parents claimed school officials in Nogales, a border town about 70 miles south of Tucson, did not provide enough money to get English-deficient students up to speed in writing and reading comprehension.",
"In 2000, a federal judge agreed, concluding Arizona violated the Equal Educational Opportunities Act, and ordering Arizona to rework Arizona's plan and increase funding.",
"The English Language Learner (ELL) program was then placed under federal oversight.",
"On Thursday, a divided Supreme Court dismissed the 17-year-old lawsuit, but ordered a federal judge to review whether Nogales officials are \"providing equal opportunities\" to mainly Spanish-speaking students in the community.",
"Arizona maintained the federal court injunction delayed Arizona's plans to fix the system.",
"Arizona maintained Arizona has provided enough resources to improve Arizona's ELL program, allowing Arizona to end federal oversight.",
"\"Injunctions of this sort bind state and local officials to the policy preferences of state and local officials's predecessors,\" wrote Justice Samuel Alito for the majority.",
"Some legislators claim a 2006 state law essentially eliminated long-standing funding inequities.",
"But parents say officials continue to drag their feet when it comes to complying with an appropriate classroom model for non-English-speaking students.",
"Arizona says Arizona increased more than twofold the amount of money Arizona spends per non-English-speaking pupil, and that Arizona has complied with the No Child Left Behind Act, the sweeping public classroom accountability act passed in 2002 that ties federal education funding to improvements in measurable student achievement.",
"The current dispute has pitted the GOP-led state legislature and the school superintendent against the Democratic governor and attorney general, along with civil rights and teacher groups.",
"Justice Samuel Alito said a federal law guaranteeing equal opportunity in public schools \"is a vitally important one, and our decision will not in any way undermine efforts to achieve that goal.\"",
"Justice Samuel Alito added that if state officials ultimately prevail in state officials's reform efforts, \"it will be because state officials have shown that the Nogales School District is doing exactly what this statute requires -- taking appropriate action to teach English to students who grew up speaking another language.\"",
"Justice Samuel Alito was backed by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.",
"But in a lengthy dissent -- parts of which were read from the bench -- Justice Stephen Breyer said the ruling was \"misguided,\" calling the ruling \"a mistaken effort to drive a wedge between review of funding plan changes and review of changes that would bring the state into compliance with federal law.\"",
"He was backed by Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter.",
"The divided court seemed poised to issue a narrow ruling, fact-specific to the ELL plan in Nogales.",
"But groups on both sides of the issue asked the high court for broader guidance on settling state-federal conflicts involving institutional reform mandates, especially those involving disadvantaged groups.",
"Such political turf battles often end up in the courts, and can lead to decades of federal oversight, such as the fight over school desegregation beginning in the 1950s.",
"Against that backdrop is the continuing fight over immigration and the responsibility of states to fund the education of illegal immigrants and their children.",
"Miriam Flores is now an adult and a student at the University of Arizona.",
"The cases are Horne v. Flores (08-289) and Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives v. Flores (08-294)."
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"A massive search and rescue mission continued late Friday for nine people who may have plunged into chilly Pacific water off the Southern California coast after a Coast Guard plane and a Marine helicopter collided.",
"\"We're still in the search and rescue phase.",
"We are not standing down from that at this point,\" Coast Guard Capt. Thomas Farris told reporters at a news conference.",
"\"We have every hope that we'll be able to find survivors.\"",
"The search will continue, Farris said, \"Until I stop.\"",
"The Coast Guard plans to continue The search at least throughout Friday night and Saturday morning, Petty Officer Henry Dunphy of the San Diego Coast Guard told CNN.",
"The Coast Guard C-130 plane and Coast Guard's seven crew members had been searching for a missing person when Coast Guard collided Thursday with a Marine helicopter, with a two-person crew, on a military training exercise, Farris said.",
"None of the names of those on either aircraft has been released.",
"A pilot reported seeing a fireball about 7:10 p.m. Thursday near the crash site.",
"The crash occurred about 16 nautical miles (18 miles) off the coast, near San Clemente Island, said Cpl. Michael Stevens of U.S. Marine Air Station Miramar in San Diego.",
"Helicopters, cutters and patrol boats, aided by the Navy, were scanning a 644-square-mile area for survivors, said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joseph Castillo.",
"Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joseph Castillo earlier said an investigation \"to determine what exactly happened\" was beginning.",
"an investigation \"to determine what exactly happened will be done in \"lockstep\" with the Marine Corps, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joseph Castillo said.",
"A large debris field has been located, and debris has been collected, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joseph Castillo said.",
"\"debris is what you'd expect, I think, from a midair collision,\" Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joseph Castillo said.",
"The two Marines on the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton chopper were one of four helicopter crews involved in the training exercise, Stevens said.",
"The Coast Guard plane had been on a search mission for a couple of days before Thursday's crash.",
"\"They were searching for a possible person in the water who was reported to have gotten in a dinghy and attempted to row to Catalina [Island],\" Farris said.",
"\"We were searching in that area because of the drift that would have naturally occurred after that event.\"",
"With water temperatures in the 60s, Farris earlier Friday estimated survivability could be up to 20 hours.",
"The missing person the Coast Guard members were searching for prior to the collision is still missing, Farris said.",
"CNN's Sonya Hamasaki and Larry Shaughnessy contributed to this report."
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"Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was released on bail Thursday after being arrested on suspicion of domestic assault.",
"The 62-year-old was arrested near his home in southern England on Wednesday and spent the night in police custody before being released.",
"\"I can confirm that there was an incident last night and that Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was arrested,\" a spokesman for Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood said, adding that the musician did not have any further details.",
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"police have not stated who filed the assault complaint .",
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"The assault charge follows Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood's highly publicized divorce last month from Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood's wife of 24 years, Jo, on grounds of adultery.",
"The divorce settlement set Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood back an estimated £6.5 million ($10.7 million).",
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"President Obama said Tuesday that the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan is part of a strategy to reverse the Taliban's momentum and stabilize Afghanistan's government.",
"\"There is no imminent threat of the country's government being overthrown, but the Taliban has gained momentum,\" President Obama said at the U.S. Military Academy.",
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"President Obama said President Obama'd begin sending the additional troops \"at the fastest pace possible\" starting in early 2010 \"with a goal of starting to withdraw forces from Afghanistan in July 2011.\"",
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"Senior administration officials said Tuesday that President Obama has a goal of withdrawing most U.S. forces by the end of President Obama's current term, which ends in January 2013.",
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"It will be the second increase of U.S. forces in the war-torn Islamic country ordered by President Obama since President Obama took office in January.",
"In President Obama's speech Tuesday, President Obama said President Obama's strategy had three objectives: . • Deny al Qaeda a safe haven . • Reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow Afghanistan's government . • Strengthen Afghanistan's security forces and government .",
"the additional troops was one way to achieve these, President Obama said.",
"Other strategies will include holding Afghan government leaders accountable for corruption, focus assistance on areas that could help the lives of Afghans, and securing Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.",
"\"We are in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from once again spreading through Afghanistan.",
"But a cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan.",
"That is why we need a strategy that works on both sides of the border,\" President Obama said.",
"President Obama said President Obama rejected the option of committing more forces for an undefined mission of nation-building without any deadlines.",
"\"I reject this course because this course sets goals that are beyond what we can achieve at a reasonable cost, and what we need to achieve to secure our interests,\" President Obama said.",
"\"Furthermore, the absence of a timeframe for transition would deny us any sense of urgency in working with the country's government.",
"It must be clear that Afghans will have to take responsibility for Afghans's security, and that America has no interest in fighting an endless war in Afghanistan.\"",
"President Obama rejected analogies with the war in Vietnam that divided America in the 1960s and 1970s.",
"\"Unlike Vietnam, we are joined by a broad coalition of 43 nations that recognizes the legitimacy of our action,\" President Obama said.",
"\"Unlike Vietnam, we are not facing a broad-based popular insurgency.",
"And most importantly, unlike Vietnam, the American people were viciously attacked from Afghanistan, and remain a target for those same extremists who are plotting along Afghanistan's border.\"",
"President Obama said America has no interest in occupying Afghanistan.",
"\"We will support efforts by the country's government to open the door to those Taliban who abandon violence and respect the human rights of their fellow citizens,\" President Obama said.",
"\"And we will seek a partnership with Afghanistan grounded in mutual respect -- to isolate those who destroy; to strengthen those who build; to hasten the day when our troops will leave; and to forge a lasting friendship in which America is your partner, and never your patron.\"",
"President Obama spoke to an audience of West Point cadets, staff and guests in outlining President Obama's strategy that President Obama has deliberated for months, meeting several times with President Obama's national security team.",
"President Obama recognized that some in the audience had fought in Afghanistan, and some would be deployed in the future.",
"\"As your commander in chief, I owe you a mission that is clearly defined, and worthy of your service,\" President Obama said.",
"the additional troops \"will increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight,\" President Obama said.",
"\"And the additional troops will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Afghans.\"",
"President Obama also said President Obama is asking NATO allies to provide more troops, and that President Obama is \"confident that there will be further contributions in the days ahead.\"",
"\"Our friends have fought and bled and died alongside us in Afghanistan,\" President Obama said.",
"\"Now, we must come together to end this war successfully.",
"For what's at stake is not simply a test of NATO's credibility -- what's at stake is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world.\"",
"The new troop deployment would increase the total U.S. commitment to roughly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, bolstered by more than 40,000 NATO forces.",
"Obama, whom Republicans had accused of \"dithering\" over the decision, concluded The new troop deployment needs to be accelerated to knock back the Taliban, the senior officials said.",
"The push for a speedy deployment is surprising because White House officials who defended President Obama's slow pace of coming to a decision had said the Pentagon wouldn't be able to get new troops to Afghanistan that quickly.",
"A Pentagon official noted that, under the new strategy, President Obama is \"trying to do it faster\" than the 12-month timeline initially requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.",
"McChrystal wrote in a report in August that a \"failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.\"",
"The Pentagon official said President Obama's six-month timeline for sending the additional troops is \"very aggressive\" and will be challenging for the military to fulfill.",
"A Pentagon official expressed confidence, however, that the military would successfully carry out the order.",
"Opponents of an increased U.S. troop deployment complain that the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is corrupt and an unreliable partner.",
"President Obama spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for an hour by videoconference Tuesday to discuss the deployment decision, according to a White House statement.",
"\"President Obama also emphasized that U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan are not open-ended and must be evaluated toward measurable and achievable goals within the next 18 to 24 months,\" a White House statement said.",
"Share your views on President Obama's Afghanistan decision .",
"The decision to send the additional troops carries significant political risk for Obama, who will announce the deployment decision nine days before President Obama travels to Oslo, Norway, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.",
"President Obama's liberal base, which helped President Obama win last year's presidential election, opposes another troop deployment to Afghanistan.",
"In addition, the deployment, expected to cost an extra $30 billion a year, comes amid high unemployment as the economy emerges from a recession.",
"That concerns Democrats and Republicans faced with competing domestic priorities such as health care reform and job creation.",
"U.S.-led troops first 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 the Taliban leadership escaped the onslaught.",
"the Taliban 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 so far claimed the lives of more than 900 Americans and nearly 600 allied troops."
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"When the earth started to shake on January 12, Rocher Joseph-Michelet's was in Rocher Joseph-Michelet's's tiny, one-room apartment, composing lyrics for the upcoming Carnivale in Port-au-Prince.",
"Rocher Joseph-Michelet's ran out the door to find an entire two-story building, crumbling and falling in Rocher Joseph-Michelet's's direction.",
"\"They break down.",
"I fell down, I was on my back,\" Rocher Joseph-Michelet's said.",
"In heavily-accented English, peppered with American slang, Rocher Joseph-Michelet's described how Rocher Joseph-Michelet's was all-but buried under the rubble... and then rescued by members of Rocher Joseph-Michelet's's hip-hop group.",
"\"Thanks to God, thanks to my friends,\" Rocher Joseph-Michelet's said.",
"\"I'm so proud it's them come to save me.\"",
"Rocher Joseph-Michelet's is better known by Rocher Joseph-Michelet's's stage name \"MRJ.\"",
"Rocher Joseph-Michelet's is a member of a neighborhood hip-hop group called Sekte Atis Lib, or S.A.L.",
"They are six childhood friends from the same poor neighborhood who rap in Creole.",
"Rocher Joseph-Michelet's escaped the earthquake with minor injuries.",
"Many other residents of Rocher Joseph-Michelet's's neighborhood weren't so fortunate.",
"\"Two days after the disaster, we [carried] 39 dead bodies... from here to the central cemetery,\" said Gaby Guerrier, the manager of the band.",
"He spoke while standing on a rooftop which offered a view of a devastated urban landscape of collapsed and dangerously sagging cinderblock apartment buildings.",
"The members of S.A.L. have been forced to abandon The members of S.A.L.'s homes in this tightly-packed community of concrete houses and narrow alleyways.",
"\"It's too dangerous, nobody wants to live in concrete houses again,\" said Guerrier's younger brother Panarothy, also known as the rapper named \"Next.\"",
"He led CNN on a tour, past a large wall mural showing S.A.L.'s name in jagged graffiti, to the sprawling, fetid camp where the band, their families, and some 4,500 other displaced Haitians now live.",
"The artists have helped each other build crude shacks out of plywood and rusting metal sheeting, along a winding dirt alleyway The artists have playfully nick-named \"Big Man Street.\"",
"Twenty-one year old Geffrard Jonel, a.k.a. Fame, has already decorated the walls of his hut with posters of soccer teams and music groups.",
"He said he and three others slept in the tiny room, along with some unwanted visitors.",
"\"Rats!\" he yelled, to peals of laughter from the rest of the group.",
"Despite the unbearable conditions, spirits among the band's members appeared remarkably high.",
"\"If you get angry with it, you get angry at God,\" said the manager, Gaby Guerrier.",
"\"The artists are not more important than those people who are dead.",
"God just leave The artists alive.",
"The artists thank God for that.\"",
"Perhaps because of this infectious optimism, 25-year-old \"Next\" has been appointed the leader of a camp association, representing all 4,500 residents.",
"\"If I have a problem, I'll come to Next,\" said one resident named Levi Lazard.",
"\"Because Next is the one that can make the people listen to Next.\"",
"On the day CNN visited, Next and about ten other colleagues had just completed construction of a sandbag platform to house a large water bladder and distribution system donated by Irish aid organization Concern.",
"Residents with buckets and jugs were already lining up for a taste of fresh water.",
"\"We want to make the people, the survivors live better,\" Next explained.",
"Next then issued an appeal for other aid organizations to come and help the community.",
"\"We need something else specially for the children,\" Next said.",
"\"We need to make a place for the children for education.",
"There's no school.",
"It's destroyed.\"",
"Three weeks after the earthquake, residents of this camp were stripping away vegetation and small trees from the surrounding area, and the air was thick with the sound of hammers and saws as people worked to construct new ramshackle homes.",
"Before the earthquake, only one member of S.A.L. had a full-time job, working at a juice factory.",
"The others were unemployed artists, filming music videos on shoe-string budgets, all victims of Haiti's impoverished economy.",
"Since the disaster, The others have carried corpses, cared for wounded friends and relatives, and become leaders of The others's displaced and desperate community.",
"The others are also trying write new lyrics, to explain this life-changing ordeal.",
"\"This is a revolution of nature,\" said MRJ, who survived the two-story building collapse.",
"MRJ and Rocher Joseph-Michelet's's colleagues then delivered a memorable a cappella performance amid shelters made of bed sheets and sticks where hungry children wailed.",
"\"All the parks have become home to most,\" Rocher Joseph-Michelet's chanted in Creole, as the sun set over smoking campfires.",
"\"We have to mobilize to overcome this crisis.",
"Hopefully now the system will reboot.",
"The time for the people has come.",
"Solving the problems will take time.",
"But we're not going anywhere.",
"We need to deal with this crisis at the grass roots.\""
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"A defense lawyer for Amanda Knox made an impassioned plea to the jury Wednesday as the high-profile case neared the high-profile case's conclusion.",
"Amanda Knox is the American student accused of killing Amanda Knox's British roommate, Meredith Kercher, at the villa they shared in Italy.",
"\"The defense suffer at the memory of Meredith.",
"But The defense look at the future of Amanda Knox,\" Amanda Knox said in Amanda Knox's defense summation.",
"\"Meredith was my friend,\" he quoted Amanda Knox as saying, rejecting the notion that Amanda Knox hated Meredith's roommate, who was fatally stabbed in November 2007.",
"Prosecutors say Meredith died during a twisted sex game in which Amanda Knox taunted Kercher, and two men -- Amanda Knox's then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 26, and acquaintance Rudy Guede -- sexually assaulted Amanda Knox.",
"The prosecution says a knife found in Sollecito's house had Amanda Knox's DNA on the handle and Meredith's on the blade, among other pieces of evidence.",
"But Amanda Knox rejected the accusations against Amanda Knox on Wednesday.",
"Amanda Knox attacked the way police and prosecutors had treated the defendant, giving police and prosecutors a symbolic \"red card\" -- a referee's sign in soccer that a player is being expelled from the game for breaking the rules.",
"Amanda Knox concluded an emotional oration -- sobbing as Amanda Knox came to the end -- by asking the judge and jury to acquit Amanda Knox, because Amanda Knox's mother asked Amanda Knox to request it, because Amanda Knox's family asked it.",
"Knox's father, Curt, said Wednesday Amanda Knox had been a victim of \"character assassination,\" and expressed hope Amanda Knox would be found not guilty.",
"Members of Kercher's family have declined repeated CNN requests for comment on the high-profile case.",
"But prosecutor Giuliano Mignini accused the defense of \"lynching\" the Italian police who worked on the high-profile case.",
"prosecutor Giuliano Mignini defended the work of the police and the credibility of the prosecution witnesses as prosecutor Giuliano Mignini responded to Amanda Knox's arguments Wednesday.",
"And prosecutor Giuliano Mignini called again for life sentences for Amanda Knox and Sollecito if they are found guilty.",
"Italy does not have the death penalty.",
"The jury is expected to begin deliberations on Friday, after the prosecution completes the prosecution's summary.",
"Another Amanda Knox attorney on Tuesday said the prosecution's theory doesn't fit the facts of the high-profile case and there is not sufficient evidence to find Amanda Knox guilty.",
"Calling Amanda Knox a victim Amanda Knox, Carlo della Vedova said the police had rushed to judgment following the murder, leaving Amanda Knox to fend off a myriad of false media reports regarding the crime.",
"The lawyer showed photos published in the media, purportedly showing the crime scene, that weren't authentic -- including a photo of the bathroom -- and said false allegations and rumors about Amanda Knox's character created a bias from the start.",
"Carlo della Vedova also questioned the change in what prosecutor prosecutor Giuliano Mignini said was the motive for the murder.",
"In preliminary hearings, prosecutor Giuliano Mignini argued Amanda Knox, Sollecito and Guede slashed Meredith's throat during a sexual misadventure as the two men vied for Amanda Knox's attention.",
"In recent days, prosecutor Giuliano Mignini has focused more on what prosecutor Giuliano Mignini says was a hatred between the two roommates.",
"Defense lawyers have staunchly disagreed, claiming the two women were friends.",
"Ghirga on Wednesday said the two had gone to a chocolate festival together days before Meredith was killed.",
"The defense has argued that Guede, who was convicted in a separate fast-track trial and is currently appealing his conviction, was the sole killer.",
"The defense has said there is no evidence tying the three suspects together or proving the three suspects planned Meredith's murder.",
"Carlo della Vedova also focused during closing arguments on the lack of evidence tying Amanda Knox to the crime scene.",
"As defense lawyers have throughout the entire trial, Carlo della Vedova cast doubt on DNA evidence that prosecutors claim shows Amanda Knox's DNA on the handle of the alleged murder weapon.",
"The defense has said the knife doesn't match Kercher's wounds or an imprint of the knife left on a bedsheet, and the DNA sample is too small to be conclusive.",
"During the first day of closing arguments for Amanda Knox's lawyers, Carlo della Vedova stressed to the eight-member jury that they should also keep church law in mind as they decide whether to find Knox and Sollecito guilty or not guilty.",
"Carlo della Vedova told the jury they needed to be \"morally certain of their decision.\"",
"\"If you have the minimum of doubts, you must absolve this young girl -- a girl that is merely 22 years old,\" Carlo della Vedova said.",
"Amanda Knox and Sollecito, who both deny any role in the murder, have been jailed for more than two years since Knox and Sollecito, who both deny any role in the murder were arrested on charges of murder and sexual violence.",
"Knox and Sollecito, who both deny any role in the murder's trial began in January.",
"CNN's Mallory Simon contributed to this report."
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"Amanda Knox sobs as Amanda Knox tells the jury Amanda Knox is innocent and has been mistreated .",
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"I asked a knowledgeable environmentalist earlier this week: \"How big a story is the CRU scandal in your community?\"",
"\"The what?\"",
"\"The e-mails hacked at the Climate Research Unit at [the British] East Anglia University?\"",
"\"Ah.\"",
"He smiled.",
"\"It says something that I didn't immediately recognize what you were talking about.",
"I suppose on my side we'd take the same view that the Pentagon took of Abu Ghraib: a few bad apples on the night shift.\"",
"Meanwhile, on the right, the story is the biggest scandal since the leak of the Pentagon Papers.",
"Seemingly unperturbed by the CRU embarrassment, President Obama will shortly jet to Copenhagen to pledge reductions in U.S. carbon emissions.",
"The Democratic majority in Congress continues to work on a cap-and-trade bill.",
"At the same time, Gallup has recorded an amazing 20 point drop since summer 2008 in the number of Republicans who believe that global warming is occurring.",
"Among Republican conservatives, the drop is slightly smaller -- 13 points -- but that's because so few of Republican conservatives believed in the reality of global warming in the first place.",
"It used to be said that we were all entitled to our own opinions, but not entitled to our own facts.",
"No more.",
"In modern America, we choose our facts to fit our opinions.",
"Michael Barone drove this point home in a 2008 column for the magazine of the American Enterprise Institute: .",
"Americans' views of the economy are increasingly a function of voting behavior or party loyalty, rather than the other way around.",
"In early 2006, a time of vibrant economic growth, 56 percent of Republicans said the economy was excellent or good, while only 28 percent of independents and 23 percent of Democrats agreed.",
"Maybe Republicans were just doing better than Democrats?",
"No -- the partisan divergence held true among Republicans and Democrats even of the same income level.",
"The same effect showed up in reverse in the 1990s.",
"Under President Clinton, Democrats were more likely to assess the economy positively than were Republicans of the same income level.",
"Media critics often blame cable, talk radio and blogs for isolating the public into self-satisfied information communities.",
"And for sure, Fox News, MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh and the Daily Show have done good business serving niche markets.",
"But it's a real question: What is cause and what is effect?",
"Maybe customers always wanted to have customers's pre-existing opinions confirmed.",
"Notice how often 19th century newspapers had names like the \"Clay County Whig\" or the \"Jacksonville Democrat.\"",
"What were these old county papers if not the Fox News and MSNBC of these old county papers's day?",
"The whole global warming debate has been distorted from the start by intellectual self-ghettoization.",
"Suffused by self-righteousness, the East Anglian scientists felt entitled to twist the evidence and delete the counter-evidence.",
"iReport: Share your thoughts on climate change .",
"But it also helped that they felt sure they would not be caught.",
"They had defined their community in a way that excluded skepticism, that defined skeptics as the enemy, as liars, as Holocaust deniers.",
"Private e-mails and documents allegedly from the servers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, a world-renowned center on the study of climate change, are thought to have been leaked by hackers.",
"Everything important about global warming remains disputed: . How fast is it happening?",
"How much of it is attributable to human activity?",
"How dangerous is it?",
"How much should we pay to avert or mitigate it?",
"Who should do the paying?",
"How are to begin to reach conclusions if we cannot even agree on the rules of discussion?",
"The most famous public document on global warming calls The most famous public document on global warming \"An Inconvenient Truth\" -- and yet that document itself is filled with untruths, on every subject from sea levels to polar bears.",
"(polar bears are doing fine, populations at record levels in the Canadian Arctic.)",
"In his first book, \"Earth in the Balance,\" former Vice President Al Gore wrote that human consciousness itself may be the most important obstacle to environmental improvement.",
"former Vice President Al Gore spoke more accurately than former Vice President Al Gore knew.",
"The global warming controversy has been pervaded from the start by the human instinct to divide the world into \"us\" and \"them\" -- and then believe only the news we hear from \"us.\"",
"Global warming advocates can see this weakness in Global warming advocates's opponents.",
"It was the same weakness in themselves that led the advocates themselves to cheat and twist and betray scientific standards and public trust.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
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"Australian pilot landed a company plane in the ocean off Darwin on Friday, in a water landing that prompted comparisons to last month's landing of a US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River.",
"Australian pilot has been compared to U.S. hero Chesley B. \"Sully\" Sullenberger, pictured above.",
"Australian pilot also encountered problems shortly after takeoff.",
"a company plane was carrying the pilot and five passengers when a company plane went down shortly after leaving Darwin International Airport, said Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.",
"All those aboard were unhurt and managed to walk to shore, Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said.",
"Pictures showed the men from a company plane soaked and carrying bags and equipment as they walked through the water.",
"\"It's essentially a good story,\" Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said.",
"The ATSB is deciding whether to investigate, Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said, and the cause of the incident is still unknown.",
"a company plane was on a company plane's way to the town of Maningrida, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Darwin, according to a company plane's owner, Australian information technology company CSG.",
"Watch the plane ditch in Darwin Harbor » .",
"\"We would like to congratulate Australian pilot following all emergency landing and evacuation procedures and Australian pilot's very professional handling of the situation,\" a Australian information technology company CSG statement said.",
"Darwin is in Australia's Northern Territory, on the coast of the Timor Sea.",
"The city's airport is near the water.",
"a company plane's trajectory took it over the water, giving Australian pilot limited opportunities to ditch a company plane on land, Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said.",
"Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the ocean was a safer option for landing than the beach, where the firmness of the sand was unknown.",
"\"Personally, I think the decision was appropriate,\" Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said.",
"Australian media dubbed the captain of the Darwin plane \"Sully Lite,\" comparing him to the captain of the US Airways Airbus jet that landed safely in the Hudson.",
"Pilot Chesley B. \"Sully\" Sullenberger was hailed as a hero for landing a company plane safely and ensuring that all 155 people on board survived.",
"Asked about the comparisons, Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the connection was tenuous.",
"\"The correlation for a water landing is as close as a water landing gets,\" he said."
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"Thomas Beatie says Thomas Beatie is expecting a second child.",
"Thomas Beatie, a married man who used to be a woman, has told America's ABC News that after giving birth to Susan on June 29 Thomas Beatie did not go back on the male hormone testosterone so Thomas Beatie could have another baby.",
"\"I feel good,\" Thomas Beatie told ABC News' Barbara Walters.",
"\"I had my checkups ...",
"And everything is right on track.\"",
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"Thomas Beatie was born a woman but underwent hormone therapy before Thomas Beatie was legally declared a man.",
"Thomas Beatie had a mastectomy but kept Thomas Beatie's female reproductive organs when Thomas Beatie underwent a sex change in the late 1990s.",
"Thomas Beatie and Nancy decided He and Nancy wanted to start a family and Thomas Beatie underwent artificial insemination late last year.",
"Barbara Walters said on Barbara Walters's television talkshow, \"The View,\" that Thomas Beatie had revealed Thomas Beatie's second pregnancy to Barbara Walters during an interview for a documentary to air on U.S. television Friday night.",
"Thomas Beatie spoke to Barbara Walters about Susan's birth, which was not via Caesarean section.",
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"It sparked a worldwide media frenzy."
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"Dead man was of dark complexion and dressed in blue jeans and a red and dark blue long-sleeved shirt, police told CNN.",
"Police said Dead man possibly froze to death and suffered a shortage of oxygen at high altitude, but did not provide a definite cause of death pending an autopsy.",
"A mechanic found the body in the landing gear bay, which was impossible to enter from the cabin, the airport said.",
"The Boeing 777, Delta Flight 59, which departed New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at 12:53 p.m. ET Saturday arrived at the airport at 4:46 p.m. local time Sunday, the airport said.",
"\"Delta is fully co-operating with the Japanese authorities, and there is (an) on-going investigation which is being led by the Japanese authorities.",
"Delta has not issued an official statement at this time,\" a Delta representative told CNN.",
"CNN's Junko Ogura and Ayesha Durgahee contributed to this report."
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"All Cedric wanted was lunch.",
"A 14-year old student in a special education classroom in Texas, Cedric was living with a foster family because of a history of neglect, including malnutrition.",
"But on this day in 2002, Cedric's teacher tried to punish Cedric by withholding food, despite the abuse Cedric had suffered as a young child.",
"Cedric's teacher delayed Cedric's lunch for hours to discipline Cedric for refusing to do Cedric's work.",
"When Cedric wouldn't comply, Cedric's teacher put Cedric in a face down restraint and sat on Cedric in front of Cedric's classmates.",
"Cedric said repeatedly that Cedric could not breathe.",
"Cedric died minutes later on the classroom floor.",
"Cedric's tragic story isn't an isolated case in America's schools today.",
"According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, over the last 20 years there have been hundreds of allegations of school personnel using restraint and seclusion in abusive ways on children.",
"It's happening disproportionately to students with disabilities, often at the hands of untrained staff.",
"Many of these students bear haunting physical and emotional scars.",
"And in a number of cases, students have died.",
"It's difficult to believe, but there are no federal laws to prevent this from happening.",
"Local newspapers recount bone-chilling stories of schoolchildren tied to chairs, or with schoolchildren's mouths taped shut, sometimes locked in dark closets, or pinned to the floor for hours at a time.",
"If parents treat parents's kids this way, it's considered a criminal offense.",
"But unlike in hospitals and other institutions that receive federal taxpayer funding, there are no federal protections against these abusive practices when these abusive practices happen in schools.",
"The Children's Health Act of 2000 regulates how and when restraint and seclusion can be used in medical settings and community facilities.",
"But classrooms, where students spend the majority of students's day, are exempt.",
"In the absence of a federal standard, state protections for kids are all over the map.",
"Many states have no regulations whatsoever.",
"Children are left vulnerable and staff untrained.",
"Restraint and seclusion techniques should be used only as a last resort, when someone is in imminent danger of physical injury and there are no alternatives.",
"Without proper training, staff can be hurt and students, especially small children, are at risk.",
"Yet the GAO and news reports confirm that these practices are used frequently, often as discipline, when students aren't physically aggressive.",
"While there is no centralized reporting, data from the few states that do track incidents paints a troubling picture.",
"In the 2007-2008 school year in California alone, GAO reports, there were more than 14,300 cases of restraint, seclusion and other \"emergency interventions.\"",
"We don't know how many of these merited real emergencies.",
"In one California case, Paige, a young girl with Asperger's syndrome, was restrained in class because she was wiggling her loose tooth.",
"Her mother, who had never consented to physical interventions, had no idea restraint was regularly imposed until her daughter came home with bruises.",
"As parents, when we send our children to school, we expect our children will be safe from danger.",
"And when the very people we entrust with our children's well-being inflict this type of abuse, it's not just the victims and their families who suffer.",
"It hurts the victims's classmates, who witness these terrifying events.",
"It undermines the vast majority of teachers and staff who are trying to give students a quality education.",
"It's a nightmare for everyone involved.",
"The easy answer here would be to blame teachers.",
"But it would be the wrong one.",
"Ultimately, the root of this problem has been our system-wide failure to provide direction and enforcement.",
"As long as school systems continue to lack the tools school systems need to create good policies and properly train staff, these incidents will continue.",
"The solution is a balanced approach to make classrooms safe for students and teachers.",
"With that goal in mind, on Wednesday we are introducing legislation to finally ensure that schools in every state have the resources schools in every state need to prevent inappropriate restraint and seclusion.",
"Our bill would set minimum safety standards in schools, similar to the protections children already receive in other institutions, so that states can ensure appropriate school district policies.",
"the law would limit physical restraints or locked seclusion to situations involving imminent danger, and require staff to be trained in administering these practices.",
"the law would outlaw mechanical restraints, such as strapping kids to chairs, and prohibit restraints that restrict breathing.",
"the law will increase transparency and oversight, so we will finally know just how widespread these practices are, and provide the Secretary of Education with tools to enforce the law.",
"And the law would give schools the support schools need to equip schools's staff to handle difficult situations in the most positive manner possible.",
"In a time of deep partisan divide, some may wonder what prompted strange bedfellows -- a member of Democratic leadership and a member of Republican leadership -- to team up.",
"It's as simple as this: Schools are places for our children to learn, grow, and thrive.",
"As a nation we must do better.",
"It's time to ensure that no child in this country suffers the same fate as Cedric.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of U.S. Reps. George Miller and Cathy McMorris Rodgers."
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"No federal laws prevent this, they say, and it happens disproportionately to special ed kids .",
"They say students, teachers, classmates are all harmed by abuse, with lasting effects .",
"Miller, McMorris Rodgers: New law would train teachers, limit restraint, provide oversight ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will not be reinstated as head of state, an overwhelming majority of the Honduran congress voted Wednesday.",
"In an hours-long process, 111 lawmakers voted in favor of a motion not to return Zelaya to office.",
"A majority of 65 votes in the 128-member body was required to reject his reinstatement.",
"Zelaya was removed from office in a military-led coup on June 28 and replaced by congressional leader Roberto Micheletti.",
"On Wednesday, lawmakers voted one by one and addressed the chamber as lawmakers cast lawmakers's vote, making for a slow process.",
"The vote was a key part of a U.S.-brokered pact that representatives for Zelaya and congressional leader Roberto Micheletti signed October 29, giving the Honduran congress the power to decide Zelaya's fate.",
"The United States expressed disappointment Thursday over the latest rebuff to The United States's diplomatic efforts to end the political crisis in Honduras.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela continued to call on Honduras to allow Zelaya's return and to create a unity government in the interim period before the new president takes office next month.",
"\"The United States are disappointed by this decision since The United States had hoped the [Honduran] Congress would have approved his return,\" U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela said in a conference call with journalists in Washington.",
"\"The United States's policy since June 28 has been consistently principled.",
"It has condemned the coup d'etat and continued to accept Zelaya as the democratically elected and legitimate leader of Honduras throughout the political crisis in Honduras.\"",
"The United States continues to call for Honduras to engage in national reconciliation and creation of a truth commission to investigate the political crisis in Honduras, in addition to the unity government.",
"\"The absence of democratic, constitutional order is the unacceptable status quo,\" a senior U.S. administration official said on the conference call, remaining anonymous under the ground rules of a conference call with journalists in Washington and because of the sensitivity of the situation.",
"\"The election is a step toward a day where Honduras will have an electorally legitimate government in place.\"",
"Zelaya, who says Zelaya does not recognize The election, also has said Zelaya would not accept the post even if the Honduran congress voted Zelaya back in.",
"Accepting the job, Zelaya said, would legitimize the coup.",
"Many nations said before The election Many nations would withhold recognition if Zelaya were not returned to power.",
"Some countries, such as The United States, Colombia and Costa Rica, have said Some countries, such as the United States, Colombia and Costa Rica will recognize Lobo.",
"Others, such as Argentina, Brazil and Spain, have said they will not.",
"Despite the diplomatic pressure from abroad, lawmakers were voting the will of the people, Congressman Juan Angel Rivera Tabora said.",
"\"History will judge us, and I'm certain History will judge us positively,\" Congressman Juan Angel Rivera Tabora said.",
"\"the Honduran congress didn't make this problem.",
"this problem came to us.\"",
"Those voting against Zelaya echoed those sentiments.",
"After the coup, the same body voted to install Micheletti as interim president.",
"Wednesday vote only happened because the agreement between the two sides called for Wednesday vote, many lawmakers repeated.",
"Zelaya's supporters argued that the coup was an illegal act that only restitution could heal.",
"the Honduran congress sought opinions from the nation's Supreme Court and other bodies before holding the vote.",
"the nation's Supreme Court ruled last week that Zelaya cannot return to office without facing trial on charges that Zelaya acted unconstitutionally when Zelaya tried to hold a vote that could have led to the removal of presidential term limits.",
"the nation's Supreme Court ruled before the coup that the vote was illegal and the Honduran congress had forbidden the vote.",
"the coup came on the day the term-limits vote was to have been held.",
"Micheletti and his supporters have insisted that Zelaya's removal was a constitutional transfer of power, not a coup.",
"But the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union and most nations -- including the United States -- condemned the coup and demanded that Zelaya be reinstated immediately.",
"Zelaya wasn't.",
"Zelaya, who was flown out of Honduras while still in Zelaya's pajamas on the day of the coup, has been staying at the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras' capital since secretly returning to Honduras September 21."
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"Vote part of U.S.-brokered pact between Zelaya, de facto President Roberto Micheletti .",
"Zelaya was removed as president in June 28 military-backed coup .",
"Hondurans elected a new president, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, on Sunday ."
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"(CNN) --",
"the virus has been confirmed in a sample taken from a pig that was displayed at the Minnesota State Fair, the first time the virus has been found in a U.S. pig, Department of Agriculture said Monday.",
"Department of Agriculture quickly issued a statement saying the food supply is safe.",
"\"Department of Agriculture have fully engaged Department of Agriculture's trading partners to remind our trading partners that several international organizations, including the World Organization for Animal Health, have advised that there is no scientific basis to restrict trade in pork and pork products,\" Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement saying the food supply is safe.",
"\"People cannot get this flu from eating pork or pork products.",
"Pork is safe to eat.\"",
"The announcement came three days after health officials announced that three pigs that were displayed during the Minnesota State Fair had tested positive in a preliminary test for the virus.",
"Final results on the other two pigs have not been announced.",
"\"This, of course, may be the first indication that it is present in some swine here in the United States,\" Gene Hugoson, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, told reporters in a conference call on Friday.",
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture National veterinary services laboratories conducted the confirmatory testing on the sample collected at the fair, held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, between August 26 and September 1.",
"Further testing is ongoing.",
"three pigs that were displayed during the fair showed no signs of sickness and were apparently healthy, the officials said.",
"The samples collected were part of a joint University of Iowa and University of Minnesota research project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine whether animals at such events had the infection.",
"\"Like people, swine routinely get sick or contract influenza viruses,\" Vilsack said.",
"The misconception that the virus, sometimes called the swine flu, could be contracted through eating pork has hurt sales of the meat in the wake of the expanding pandemic.",
"This year's crowd of 1.79 million attendees was a record.",
"Though an outbreak of H1N1 was reported among a group of 4-H'ers who had attended the fair, officials said it was unlikely officials contracted the virus from the animals, since few of officials had contact with the pigs.",
"The report came as no surprise to experts, since herds in other countries, including Argentina, Canada, Ireland and Norway, have been infected with H1N1.",
"Pigs that do get sick with H1N1 typically recover from it, officials said.",
"officials said the display animals likely were sent to slaughter.",
"Even if they were slaughtered while still infected, that would not be an issue for anyone eating the meat, said Dr. Jeff Bender, co-director of the University of Minnesota Center for Animal Health and Food Safety.",
"\"This virus is not in muscle tissue, so if these animals were slaughtered or processed there would be no risk to the public.\"",
"A vaccine to protect swine from H1N1 is under development but is not yet commercially available, one official said."
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"First time the virus has been found in a U.S. pig, Department of Agriculture says .",
"Pork and pork products still safe to eat, Agriculture Secretary says .",
"Three pigs on display at Minnesota fair tested positive in preliminary H1N1 test ."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"A 19-year-old prostitute working in an apartment that doubles as a brothel said A 19-year-old prostitute working in an apartment that doubles as a brothel has up to eight clients a day.",
"A woman awaits customers at a Beijing barber shop in 2008.",
"Sex workers also ply Sex workers's trade in barber shops.",
"Working in the southern boom city of Shenzhen, a special economic zone just north of Hong Kong, she told CNN she worries about getting AIDS, but has her own prevention measures.",
"\"I always use condoms or take an injection.",
"The medicine can prevent sexually transmitted diseases,\" she said.",
"\"Some girls do not use prevention measures, but we don't talk about that in public.\"",
"This young woman, who would not give her name, is part of a group that Chinese and international health authorities are concerned could potentially spread HIV and AIDS in the world's most populated country, so officials have stepped up efforts to educate them about the virus and dispel misconceptions about so-called \"injections\" that can prevent infection.",
"\"I think sex work is probably one of the most important factors for the potential of HIV spreading in Asia and also in China.",
"There is no doubt about it,\" said Bernhard Schwartlander, UNAIDS China Country Coordinator.",
"\"One of the things that we have seen in China is that knowledge about HIV/AIDS is very low in the general population and certainly also in the sex work industry.",
"That is a big, big problem,\" Schwartlander said.",
"It is estimated that some 700,000 people are living with HIV in China and there are about 50,000 new infections every year, according to the Chinese government and UNAIDS.",
"The U.N. agency believes a significant number of those new infections include sex workers.",
"Prostitution is officially illegal in China, but very loosely addressed by China.",
"It is estimated that there are between two and four million sex workers in China.",
"As China's economy has boomed, so has the sex industry, especially in prosperous cities like Shenzhen.",
"Many clients flock there from Hong Kong which is just an hour away, some of Many clients businessmen with money to spend.",
"Condom use in China can range anywhere from about 20 percent to 80 percent, according to UNAIDS.",
"\"There are misconceptions.",
"People think that People can avoid HIV infections by taking a pill.",
"People think that People are not at risk for HIV infections because People don't know anybody (who has HIV), because you can't see HIV, you can't touch HIV.",
"And clearly, this is something that we have to change very rapidly,\" Schwartlander said.",
"Historically, HIV and AIDS have been taboo topics in China, another reason awareness can be so low.",
"Prevention in the gay community has also been difficult because of traditional stigmas against homosexuality.",
"But the Chinese government is now conducting educational campaigns to inform higher risk groups, including sex workers, about how to prevent the transmission of HIV.",
"\"After years of these campaigns, we found out through survey that condom use is constantly increasing, especially in urban areas, the condom use can reach 70 percent or even up to 80 percent,\" said Hao Yang, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Chinese Health Ministry's Disease Prevention and Control Bureau.",
"But other areas are proving difficult.",
"In rural parts of China, the proportion of condom use among sex workers is less than 50 percent, Hao Yang, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Chinese Health Ministry's Disease Prevention and Control Bureau said.",
"\"When we go to investigate in rural areas, the proportion of people with this knowledge (of AIDS prevention) is still very low,\" Hao Yang, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Chinese Health Ministry's Disease Prevention and Control Bureau said.",
"\"In addition to that, the proportion of change in their activities is also very low, which means that the condom use rate is still low.\"",
"About one in 200 sex workers nationwide currently has HIV, Schwartlander said.",
"But in one part of Yunnan province in China's far southwest, seven percent of the sex workers -- or as many as 14 in every 200 -- have HIV, according to UNAIDS.",
"\"The sex workers living in remote areas and rural areas have played an important role in AIDS spreading.",
"We do not have a precise figure for the proportion that sex workers make up in it (the spread of AIDS), but we can say that sex workers are making up a significant proportion,\" Hao Yang, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Chinese Health Ministry's Disease Prevention and Control Bureau said.",
"The government has a long-term plan to educate the general public and to strengthen intervention in the high-risk populations, particularly sex workers, Hao Yang, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Chinese Health Ministry's Disease Prevention and Control Bureau said.",
"When HIV initially began to spread in China, infections were concentrated among people who injected drugs, Schwartlander said.",
"Campaigns among this group have been effective, while infections among other groups have risen.",
"One of those groups, Hao Yang, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Chinese Health Ministry's Disease Prevention and Control Bureau said, was men having sex with men, which accounts for 5.9 percent of infections, according to the Chinese Health Ministry.",
"A majority of the infections are concentrated among drug users, men having sex with men, and sex workers and their clients, Schwartlander said.",
"\"Society and communities have been able to curb the spread of HIV, also in sex work, and that is what we have to do,\" Schwartlander said.",
"As China's economy grows, it is likely the sex industry will as well.",
"Current estimates show that some 30 to 50 million people are at significant risk for HIV infection, Schwartlander said.",
"\"China is a society which is in quite a significant transition.",
"There is a huge increase in disparity of income between the rich and the poor, and all these are very well-known factors that drive the sex industry forward,\" Schwartlander said.",
"\"Clearly, in China, I think that the sex industry is a rising industry.",
"We will see an increase in the number of sex workers due to these factors in the future.\"",
"A 22-year-old prostitute in Shenzhen, who did not want to give her name, said she knows the risk but needs the work.",
"\"AIDS is the number one killer for my job.",
"I cannot let this disease destroy my life.",
"This is only a short-term business.",
"I don't have any relatives in Shenzhen and can't borrow any money.",
"I can only rely on myself.\""
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"Some people in China believe injections or a pill can prevent infection .",
"Some 700,000 people have HIV in China; about 50,000 new infections yearly .",
"About one in 200 sex workers nationwide currently has HIV .",
"As China's economy has boomed, so has the sex industry ."
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"Mecca, Saudi Arabia (CNN)",
"-- The Hajj, an obligatory pilgrimage for Muslims, began this year on Wednesday with two twists: thinner crowds and heavy rain.",
"A rare rainstorm inundated pilgrims in Mina, flooding tents and making conditions miserable for the 2.5 million pilgrims performing the ancient rituals, according to Isha Sesay, CNN's correspondent there.",
"The tents, where pilgrims plan to spend the night in prayer and contemplation, were leaking and flooding, giving rise to fears of disease, Isha Sesay reported.",
"Isha Sesay said, however, that the several hours of rain was not likely to stop any of the pilgrims from performing the rituals.",
"\"They've saved for years to get here,\" Isha Sesay reported.",
"\"This is a blessing.",
"They're not going to let rain get in the way.\"",
"iReporter witnesses heavy rain near his home .",
"She said no incidents had been reported among the dimished number of pilgrims.",
"Officials said the swine flu could be keeping pilgrims from the fifth pillar of Islam, which requires devotees to journey to the holy city of Mecca at least once in their lifetime.",
"Saudi's Hajj Ministry said Wednesday that 40 percent fewer Saudi pilgrims are participating in the ancient rituals this year, largely due to fears of disease, though a greater number of international visitors had come.",
"\"Concerns about the spread of H1N1 may have affected the turnout but we are confident of all measures in place to increase monitoring of cases and awareness about how one can protect himself or herself,\" said Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabbeeah, the Saudi health minister.",
"A teenager and three elderly people have died of the swine flu at the Hajj.",
"The victims were a 17-year-old Nigerian female and a Sudanese man, an Indian man and a Moroccan woman who each were 75 years old.",
"Many of the 2 million pilgrims have been arriving days and weeks ahead of the Hajj, which coincides with flu season.",
"The rituals of the five-day event began Wednesday.",
"But with fewer visitors, businesses are feeling the pinch this year.",
"Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi said Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi has slashed prices of the gold Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi sells in Mecca's Al-Ghaza market.",
"\"Business is lower than last year,\" Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi said.",
"\"I think swine flu fears combined with high gold prices are turning people away from spending.\"",
"Another merchant, Fahd al-Qraishi, said a normal 20 percent profit has dropped to 5 percent.",
"Hajj observed in Second Life .",
"The Hajj Ministry reported, however, a 17 percent increase in the number of international pilgrims, some of whom are enjoying discounted rates at hotels including the Hilton Makkah.",
"Then there was the real damper.",
"Mecca resident Khaled Nemary said Mecca resident Khaled Nemary had not seen so much rain in a quarter-century.",
"And the forecast?",
"Showers through Friday.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed and Daniela Deane contributed to this report."
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"Huge downpours flood tents in Mina .",
"Ministry says there are 40 percent fewer Saudi pilgrims this year .",
"With fewer visitors, merchants report less business .",
"No incidents reported among pilgrims ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The father of a 6-year-old girl, one of four relatives who police say were killed by another family member on Thanksgiving Day, said it was \"unbelievable\" how a tip from a television viewer brought about the arrest of the suspect.",
"\"Before the show even came on, Paul was being surrounded by the people behind me,\" Jim Sitton said Tuesday in Jupiter, Florida, standing in front of police officers.",
"Paul Michael Merhige is accused of fatally shooting Paul Michael Merhige's twin sisters, Sitton's 6-year-old daughter Makayla -- Merhige's cousin -- and a 79-year-old aunt at a family home in Jupiter, Florida, on November 26.",
"One of Paul Michael Merhige's sisters was pregnant.",
"Police said Paul Michael Merhige also wounded two other family members during the shooting rampage.",
"A viewer of the television show \"America's Most Wanted\" recognized descriptions of Paul Michael Merhige and Merhige's car and called police.",
"Officers responded to a tip from a television viewer late Saturday, surrounding a small motel in the Florida Keys and taking Paul Michael Merhige into custody.",
"Jim Sitton said a tip from a television viewer came in from a promotional announcement before the show aired, not the show itself.",
"The couple at the hotel who called police went outside and lifted a tarp to look at Paul Michael Merhige's license plate and verify it was the vehicle sought, Jim Sitton said.",
"\"So many people don't make the call, and they made the call,\" Jim Sitton said.",
"\"The monster's in a cage and now we can get out of protective mode and begin the process of healing.\"",
"Jim Sitton said Jim Sitton's not \"jumping for joy\" at the arrest, \"because our daughter's room is still empty.",
"There's dresses and shoes in there that will never be worn again.\"",
"While the arrest won't bring Jim Sitton's daughter back, Jim Sitton said, \"this is the first step toward justice.",
"... If there's anyone that deserves the death penalty, it would be someone who would go and execute my 6-year-old daughter while my 6-year-old daughter is sleeping in my 6-year-old daughter's bed.\"",
"Paul Michael Merhige made a first appearance in court on Sunday.",
"Paul Michael Merhige is charged with four counts of premeditated murder and attempted first-degree murder.",
"Paul Michael Merhige's next court appearance is February 1.",
"Paul Michael Merhige is being held without bond at the Palm Beach County jail.",
"\"America's Most Wanted\" host John Walsh told reporters Walsh got involved in the case after Walsh's wife called Walsh and told Walsh his wife had been seeing news reports on it, and pushed Walsh to air information on the suspect, who had been at large since Thanksgiving.",
"\"I really believed that the public would make the difference,\" said Walsh, who met with the Sittons on Tuesday, according to the AMW Web site.",
"Walsh said Jim Sitton's home had been under police protection and Jim Sitton had patrolled his home nights with a shotgun since the incident.",
"Walsh also said Paul Michael Merhige deserves the death penalty.",
"\"Paul Michael Merhige killed four people, including a pregnant woman.",
"Paul Michael Merhige needs to pay.\"",
"He cautioned the media to be gentle with the Sittons, saying, \"these are decent, wonderful, good people that are getting ready to go through hell.\"",
"Walsh has been involved in assisting crime victims since Walsh's 6-year-old son, Adam, was abducted and killed in 1981.",
"According to its Web site, \"America's Most Wanted\" has helped find more than 1,050 fugitives and bring home more than 50 missing children in its 22 years on the air."
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"Dad of slain girl, 6, says arrest of relative is first step towards justice .",
"Viewer tip led to arrest of suspect in fatal Thanksgiving shooting .",
"Paul Michael Merhige was arrested Saturday at motel in Florida Keys .",
"Couple who called police lifted tarp to check license plate on Paul Michael Merhige's car ."
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