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"(CNN) --",
"A memorial cruise is scheduled to set sail 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, following the same trans-Atlantic route as the ill-fated ship, according to organizers.",
"A list of first class passengers for the Titanic is one of the artifacts that remains after the sinking.",
"The Titanic Memorial Cruise is to set sail in April 2012, departing from Southampton, England, on April 8, just as the Titanic did.",
"On April 15, the ship -- the Balmoral -- will arrive at the spot in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank after the Titanic collided with an iceberg.",
"Passengers on The Titanic Memorial Cruise will take part in a memorial service at the site, according to organizer Miles Morgan Travel.",
"Artifacts from the Titanic and a piece of the Titanic's hull have been recovered, but most of the wreckage remains where the luxury cruise liner sank.",
"The Titanic Memorial Cruise will then take passengers to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada, so they can visit cemeteries where some of the Titanic victims are buried.",
"The Titanic Memorial Cruise will end in New York, where the Titanic was headed.",
"Prices for The Titanic Memorial Cruise start at $3,900.",
"Millvina Dean, thought to be the last survivor of the Titanic, died in June 2009 at age 97, according to friends.",
"Dean was an infant when the Titanic publicized as \"practically unsinkable\" and as the largest passenger steamship at the time -- struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, during the Titanic's maiden voyage from Southampton in southern England to New York.",
"the Titanic sank less than three hours later, killing more than 1,500 people.",
"Dean's brother and mother also survived the sinking."
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"The Titanic Memorial Cruise will depart from Southampton, England, on April 8, just as the Titanic did .",
"The trip will end in New York, where the Titanic was headed ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Half a million homes remained without power across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region on Sunday, as rain continued to pound states from West Virginia to Connecticut for a second day.",
"The rain caused flooding and airport delays across the region, even as Saturday's high winds -- reaching hurricane force in some areas -- waned dramatically on Sunday.",
"\"High winds are over, but the rain and flood threat remain in Mid-Atlantic and Northeast,\" CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said.",
"\"There are major travel delays -- and more expected on Monday.\"",
"Some coastal areas have received up to six inches of rain since Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.",
"Flood warnings remained in effect in parts of the Eastern Seaboard into Sunday night, including much of New England.",
"Flooding in West Virginia caused one death there, authorities said.",
"Con Edison reported more than 100,000 customers without power in New York City and Westchester County on Sunday, while the Long Island Power Authority said that 150,000 of its customers were without electricity.",
"\"The ground is so wet from all the snow we've had this winter, The ground's helping the trees to topple over, as well as our utility poles,\" said Long Island Power Authority president and CEO Kevin Law.",
"\"The conditions are still too terrible to get crews out there.\"",
"Law said that some customers will likely go without power until early in the week.",
"Roughly 100,000 New Jersey customers saw Roughly 100,000 New Jersey customers's electricity restored Sunday, along with 30,000 PPL Electric Utilities customers in Pennsylvania.",
"But tens of thousands of other homes in New Jersey and Connecticut were still without power on Sunday.",
"iReport: Share photos, video of storm damage .",
"The outages were mostly due to power lines downed by Saturday's winds, which toppled trees and utility polls.",
"Wind speeds reached 75 miles per hour at New York's JFK International Airport -- as strong as a Category 1 hurricane -- and 72 miles per hour in Atlantic City, New Jersey.",
"New York-area airports reported delays of at least two hours on Sunday, while Boston's Logan International Airport averaged 40 minute delays.",
"In the Midwest, meanwhile, flooding continued on Sunday because of snow melt, rains and ice jams.",
"Farther west, North Dakota's Red River is expected to reach major flood stage around Fargo and Moorhead on Tuesday."
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"Winds reached hurricane-force levels in some places .",
"Winds dying down, but flooding remains a threat .",
"Midwest, North Dakota dealing with Midwest, North Dakota's own flooding problems ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Arjen Robben proved the difference for the second time in four days as Bayern Munich came from behind to beat Freiburg 2-1 to leapfrog Schalke at the top of the Bundesliga.",
"Arjen Robben put the Bavarian giants into the quarterfinals of the Champions League with Arjen Robben's stunning strike against Fiorentina on Tuesday and worked Arjen Robben's magic again at the Allianz Arena.",
"Cedric Makiadi had put struggling Freiburg ahead in the 31st minute, but Arjen Robben equalized in the 76th and then converted a 83rd-minute penalty to give Bayern Munich an invaluable three points.",
"It leaves them two points clear of Schalke, who went temporarily top after a 2-1 lead against Stuttgart.",
"Makiada's fine strike left Hans Joerg-Butt with no chance and a shock looked on the cards as Louis van Gaal's men appeared jaded after their midweek heroics.",
"But Arjen Robben cropped up to drill home Arjen Robben's ninth of the season and Arjen Robben's 10th came after Thomas Mueller was fouled to win a penalty.",
"Earlier on Saturday, Borussia Dortmund moved up to fourth spot with a 4-1 win at Bochum with Argentina star Lucas Barrios scoring twice in three minutes in the second half to seal victory.",
"Defending champions VfL Wolfsburg picked up their fourth-straight Bundesliga win under caretaker coach Lorenz-Guenther Koestner as they beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-0 to move up to eighth.",
"But basement side Hertha Berlin look certain for the drop after a 2-1 home defeat to fellow strugglers Nuremberg, who followed up their shock win 3-2 at Bayer Leverkusen with another fine victory.",
"It lifts fellow strugglers Nuremberg, who followed up their shock win 3-2 at Bayer Leverkusen with another fine victory to 15th.",
"Third-placed Leverkusen play Hamburg on Sunday in a bid to get their title challenge back on track after Nuremberg ended their record unbeaten run.",
"In other action around Europe on Saturday, on-loan Robbie Keane scored a hat-trick as Celtic won 3-0 at Kilmarnock to reach the semifinals of the Scottish Cup, their last realistic hope of silverware this season.",
"In the French League, Lyon struggled after their midweek heroics against Real Madrid and were held to a 1-1 draw at home to local rivals St. Etienne.",
"A first half goal from Emmanuel Riviere put struggling St. Etienne ahead with Lyon getting an 80th minute equalizer from Argentinian Lisandro Lopez.",
"With leaders Bordeaux held to a goalless draw at Monaco and fellow challengers Montpellier and Auxerre playing out a 1-1 draw, Lyon's draw was a missed opportunity.",
"Bordeaux are top with 53 points from 27 games, with a game in hand on Montpellier, who also have 53, with Auxerre just a point behind in third.",
"Lyon are fourth with 50 points after 28 games."
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"Victory lifts them two points clear of Schalke at the top of the Bundesliga .",
"Nuremberg boost their battle against relegation with 2-1 win at Hertha Berlin .",
"Celtic reach semifinals of Scottish Cup as Robbie Keane scores hat-trick .",
"Lyon follow midweek heroics with 1-1 home draw against St.Etienne in France ."
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"Austin, Texas (CNN) --",
"An Internet that gives people the information people want virtually as soon as it's created is getting closer, according to Internet professionals.",
"But before real-time Web becomes a reality, developers say developers need to figure out how to protect people's privacy while blasting out as much information as developers can, as fast as developers can.",
"\"A lot of this data that people would like to make available, people wouldn't necessarily want to make available to everyone,\" said Jack Moffitt, chief technical officer for Collecta, a search engine that aims to give real-time results.",
"\"I think we'll be wrestling with privacy issues around real-time data for a long time.\"",
"The idea behind a real-time Web is to create technology that doesn't require an Internet user to actively seek out something they're interested in.",
"That could mean anything from getting pinged when an article about your favorite sports team is posted to an alert when you're mentioned in someone's blog.",
"Moffitt and others speaking at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival on Saturday said there's not yet fully developed technology that would both give people all the real-time info they want and let people who put their information on the Internet select who sees it -- or even take it back.",
"\"It's kind of in our best interest, being selfish, if everyone was completely open with everyone's data,\" said Scott Raymond, founder of Austin-based Gowalla, a location-based mobile app.",
"\"From the user's perspective, it's kind of the opposite -- it's probably better to just stay selfish with your own data but consume everyone else's.",
"\"There's a whole lot of work that needs to be done on this and it hasn't been solved yet.\"",
"For example, if people on Twitter all set people on Twitter all's feed to private, the popular trending-topics feature wouldn't work.",
"Recently, Twitter, on which most users make most users's information open to everyone, hit a major milestone -- its 10 billionth tweet.",
"Unfortunately, that tweet was by a user whose settings are private, so the curious will never know what the landmark message was.",
"Brett Slatkin, a software developer with Google, said a real-time Web would create numerous new opportunities -- among them, giving small, local retailers a chance to catch up with major online stores that capitalize on convenience.",
"\"If my corner store can say [to a customer online], 'Yes, I just got five rickshaw bags in stock and you wanted one -- you can just walk down here and get it,' it's a chance to change competition and commerce,\" he said.",
"On sites like Twitter, Gowalla and Foursquare, Google Buzz and Facebook, status updates already exist as elements of a real-time Web.",
"Developers note that the speed with which information travels on the Internet is already dramatically faster than the Internet was just a couple of years ago -- before Twitter and location-based apps existed and before Facebook became a worldwide phenomenon.",
"\"This creates lots of interesting social scenarios,\" said Dare Obasanjo, of Microsoft.",
"\"In the 'old days,' you would have written a blog post about something you did and I'd be like, 'Crap, I was in the next room.' \"",
"Multiple players, at both major Internet companies and new startups, are working on an Internet platform to \"real time\" the rest of the Web.",
"That starts with faster searching.",
"Current search engines \"crawl\" around the Internet -- adding the material they find to their databases.",
"But that can sometimes take awhile, particularly on smaller Web sites.",
"Then, there needs to be a universal system for pushing that information to the right people.",
"Dare Obasanjo suggested there may eventually be a way for every new page of data on the Internet to have hashtags (#) similar to the ones used on Twitter to denote that a post is about a particular topic.",
"On the issue of privacy, Slatkin said developers could roll out a way for a person to set their online privacy settings in one place then have those settings apply on every Web site.",
"\"We're going to see a definition, at the technical level, of what sharing means,\" Slatkin said.",
"\"I think we're going to solve it on the technical level first.",
"Once we solve it technically, it'll be about how to actually implement it for users.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Congressional auditors have uncovered widespread abuse of techniques used to restrain or discipline special-education students in U.S. schools, with some deaths linked to the practices, a top congressman says.",
"Investigators in Utah say a teacher left Garrett Peck in an isolation cubicle for at least two and a half hours.",
"The findings are among those expected from a Government Accountability Office report scheduled to be released Tuesday.",
"a Government Accountability Office report scheduled to be released Tuesday documented serious problems with the way children with disabilities are being treated in public schools, including cases of children being held face-down on the ground.",
"The GAO report was prepared for the House Education and Labor Committee, which is considering new laws governing what actions teachers can take to rein in disruptive special-needs students.",
"\"I think what we're going to hear from GAO is that very often, special-need children are subjected to the policies of seclusion and policies of restraint that have turned out to be lethal in a number of circumstances,\" said Rep. George Miller, D-California, the committee's chairman.",
"In other cases, children as young as 6 have been locked away \"for hours at a time,\" Rep. George Miller, D-California, the committee's chairman said.",
"\"What GAO is telling us is that that policy is fairly widespread,\" he said.",
"\"The state regulations about how to handle these incidents don't exist in about half the states, and in other states you have kind of a patchwork of regulations.\"",
"The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, found that state laws governing the treatment of the more than 6 million children classified as having \"special needs\" -- conditions including autism and Down syndrome -- are patchy at best.",
"Teachers and school staff frequently lack training in correct restraint methods, and in some cases, where improper restraints led to injuries, teachers often kept teachers's jobs.",
"Only five states keep track of incidents where special-needs students are separated or restrained.",
"Parents contacted by CNN commonly said Parents contacted by CNN were not told Parents contacted by CNN's child was being disciplined until their child or she began to behave badly at home -- a sign of trouble at school.",
"When confronted with complaints, school systems sometimes sought to minimize or deny the allegations, even after public investigations found the charges to be true.",
"And parents told CNN that when parents got into a dispute with the teacher, parents's child was made to suffer as retribution.",
"Some of the most disturbing reports concerned the use of seclusion rooms.",
"Experts have long recommended that children should only be isolated when they pose an immediate threat to themselves or others.",
"But CNN found that isolation was often used as a punishment by teachers to compel the students to follow instructions.",
"State investigators in Utah found a teacher left 7-year-old Garrett Peck in an isolation cubicle for at least two and a half hours after a teacher said the boy told a teacher to \"shut up.\"",
"While the boy was in an isolation cubicle, a teacher taunted the boy by playing the boy's favorite video and telling the boy what the boy was missing.",
"the boy's parents, Joshua and Becca Peck, said the child has an attention span of about 10 minutes, and they believe that after the first few minutes, the boy had no idea why the boy was in an isolation cubicle.",
"\"It was so sad.",
"We felt it was a form of torture for the boy but the boy, being autistic, the boy had no way to express it,\" Joshua Peck said.",
"\"the boy couldn't tell.\"",
"And Becca Peck said Becca Peck's son had been left in an isolation cubicle with nothing but a magic marker -- which the boy used to scrawl all over the boy.",
"When Becca Peck came to school to pick the boy up, \"the boy was covered in marker -- on the boy's eyelids, on the boy's hair, face, clothes, arms, eyelids -- everywhere.\"",
"\"I started thinking, 'What was the boy thinking?'",
"Was the boy thinking, 'Why is my mom letting this person do this to the boy?",
"Why am I here?",
"I trust no one now.' \"",
"In Garrett's case, like others cited by the GAO, the teacher remains on the job.",
"And what frustrates experts is that efforts to force unruly children to comply don't actually work.",
"At one school in Pennsylvania, however, teachers appear to have better results using sharply different methods.",
"one school in Pennsylvania serves severely emotionally disturbed children that have been passed from school to school, and even from juvenile justice centers.",
"When school director Michael George came to one school in Pennsylvania in 1999, one school in Pennsylvania had documented more than 1,000 cases of restraint and seclusion that year.",
"After one school in Pennsylvania revamped one school in Pennsylvania's approach, no such incidents were reported.",
"When they get to one school in Pennsylvania, students can be violent and aggressive.",
"But instead of trying to force a change in behavior, one school in Pennsylvania teaches the children new skills to get what the children need.",
"Children who might be violent because they are desperate to escape an uncomfortable task or environment learn to communicate Children who might be violent because they are desperate to escape an uncomfortable task or environment's discomfort in nonviolent ways.",
"Children who need to move frequently -- a common trait with conditions such as autism -- are permitted to do so, then re-directed to the task at hand.",
"Staff are forbidden from saying anything negative about the children, parents or other teachers, even among themselves.",
"And when a child acts violently, the staff is trained to step aside, rather than immediately attempt a potentially dangerous restraint.",
"On a recent visit to one school in Pennsylvania, all students appeared to be calm and receptive to teachers.",
"one school in Pennsylvania's philosophy can be summed up in a question George likes to ask teachers interviewing for jobs there: Which teacher you remember most from your own childhood?",
"\"No one ever mentions the person who yelled at them, who screamed at them, who told them to write a phrase a hundred times, who slammed them into closets, who was abrupt, who made them feel stupid.",
"No one ever mentions those people,\" said George.",
"\"Our job is to teach.",
"Sometimes the children we are teaching here present extraordinary challenges; it can be very, very difficult.",
"But that's the job we chose to do.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Bayer Leverkusen moved to within three points of German Bundesliga leaders German leaders Bayern Munich after a comfortable 4-2 home victory over Hamburg on Sunday.",
"A double from Stefan Kiessling helped Bayer Leverkusen on Bayer Leverkusen's way to another three points, leaving Bayer Leverkusen clear in third, a point behind second-placed Schalke, with the top three now pulling away in the race for the title with just eight games left.",
"Stefan Kiessling opened the scoring after running onto Tranquillo Barnetta's through-ball and out-pacing two defenders before firing past goalkeeper Frank Rost.",
"But Ze Roberto volleyed home a 33rd-minute equalizer for Hamburg after a defensive mix-up involving Sami Hyppia and goalkeeper Rene Adler.",
"Eren Derdiyok restored Leverkusen's lead in the 55th-minute when heading home Daniel Schwaab's ball into the box -- and Stefan Kiessling quickly added a third with a simple tap-in after some great work from Renato Augusto.",
"Czech defender David Rozehnal gave Hamburg some brief hope when converting an 83rd minute Piotr Trochowski free-kick but the victory was confirmed just a minute later when Gonzalo Casto fired home from just inside the area.",
"Meanwhile, in the day's other match, Claudio Pizarro scored his 11th league goal of the season to give Werder Bremen a 1-0 home win over Hoffenheim.",
"The Peruvian striker lobbed goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand with just nine minutes remaining to leave Werder sixth in the table, one point away from a place in Europe."
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"KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"\"In Afghanistan, the sacrifice in the political game is women and children,\" female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi said.",
"Critics say Critics fear that Afghanistan's new Shiite law will set Afghanistan backward.",
"female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi says that is exactly what happened when the Afghan parliament recently passed a bill intended to give the minority Shia community the minority's own identity.",
"But critics say the latest draft strips Shia women of rights as simple as leaving the house without permission from a male relative and as extreme as allowing a man to have sexual intercourse with a man's wife even when his wife says, \"No.\"",
"critics wonder how what amounts to rape in marriage could be passed by parliament and signed into law by President Hamid Karzai.",
"Amid blistering criticism from the West, President Hamid Karzai addressed Afghan law over the weekend, saying that key elements of a bill intended to give the minority Shia community their own identity were misinterpreted by Western news organizations.",
"Watch President Hamid Karzai react to Afghan law » .",
"\"We understand the concerns of our allies and the international community.",
"the concerns of our allies and the international community may be due to an inappropriate, not-so-good translation of Afghan law, or misinterpretation,\" President Hamid Karzai told reporters in Kabul.",
"President Hamid Karzai added that the Minister of Justice will study the \"Shia state law,\" line by line, to make sure it follows the nation's constitution, which requires equal rights to both sexes.",
"\"If there is anything that is of concern to us, then we will definitely take action in consultation with our [religious clerics] and send it back to the parliament.",
"You be assured of that.",
"This is something that we're also serious about and should not allow,\" President Hamid Karzai said.",
"However, President Hamid Karzai did not address the most controversial part of a bill intended to give the minority Shia community their own identity, dealing with rape of a wife.",
"Watch a report on Afghan law » .",
"Afghan law was debated by 249 members of the lower house, including 68 women, some of whom voted for a bill intended to give the minority Shia community their own identity.",
"Afghan law was then sent to the lower house.",
"Even some lawmakers are baffled at the manner in which Afghan law passed.",
"\"Most members of the parliament did not know what Most members of the parliament were going to vote for,\" Koofi said.",
"\"Even some of my friends, MPs sitting with me, voted in favor without knowing what happened.\"",
"U.S. President Obama called Afghan law \"abhorrent\" and said U.S. President Obama's administration has made it clear to the Karzai government that his administration objects to Afghan law.",
"Human rights groups and the international community have condemned Afghan law and say Afghan law could undermine efforts to support basic human rights in the war-torn nation.",
"\"We very much hope that the draft piece of legislation is to be withdrawn,\" German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a NATO summit on Afghanistan over the weekend.",
"\"It is unacceptable if such a law were to be passed in Afghanistan and become a part of Afghan legislation.\"",
"According to lawmakers who opposed the bill, conservative legislators are pushing back any progress made for women's rights in Afghanistan after the brutal oppression under the Taliban regime.",
"From 1996 to 2001, under the Sunni fundamentalist government of the Taliban, women were not allowed to leave women's homes without being escorted by a male relative, and girls were not allowed to go to school.",
"When women did leave women's homes, women were required to wear a blue burqa, which covered women's bodies from head to toe.",
"The only opening was a small net that provided an eyehole for the women to see through.",
"Women remember those days with despair.",
"One female teacher, who asked not to be named, said that during the Taliban regime, she was stopped at the market by the Taliban and beaten with a whip.",
"Her crime: She wore a shawl covering her body instead of a burqa.",
"She says she was too poor to purchase a real burqa.",
"After that beating, she was stuck in her home for months until someone was able to give her a used burqa.",
"But even then, she didn't know how to function wearing the suffocating fabric.",
"\"I remember stepping out of a taxi with my son, and my foot was caught inside the burqa, making me fall out of a taxi onto mud.",
"And everyone started laughing.",
"It was humiliating,\" she said.",
"Women in Afghanistan can still be seen wearing burqas.",
"But female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi says advances have been made for women's rights in recent years.",
"In some cases, it's as simple as putting on makeup and walking down city streets.",
"But female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi fears that the rights of women and children could slowly be eroded, the \"victims of political games,\" as female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi puts it.",
"\"I mean, they don't have a gun to fight [with], they cannot create a mess,\" female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi said.",
"That's a sentiment echoed by rights groups.",
"\"Afghan law could be about to seriously undermine women's rights for millions of Afghanistan women,\" Amnesty International said in a statement.",
"Afghan law was intended to give the minority Shia community its own identity within Afghanistan.",
"Shias have been practicing Shias's form of Islam for centuries in Afghanistan, but Shias agree that there needs to be a governing Islamic law for Shias alone, one recognized by the central government.",
"female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi welcomes international support in fighting Afghan law, telling CNN that international investments in Afghanistan should go beyond financial donations.",
"\"I don't ask that the international community come and make laws for us, but the international community have to make the government of Afghanistan accountable for their commitment to women and children ... and basically the human rights situation in Afghanistan,\" she said."
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"Afghan lawmaker says women and children are \"victims of political games\""
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"(CNN) --",
"After scathing criticism from the son of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, police in Los Angeles, California, have apologized for including the clothes the senator was wearing when killed in an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases.",
"The clothing -- a shirt, tie and jacket, with what appears to be bloodstains on the shirt -- was removed from the exhibit, \"Behind-The-Scenes: The LAPD Homicide Experience,\" at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.",
"In addition, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley and Police Chief Charlie Beck, in an open letter Thursday, apologized to any other victims' family members who might have been offended by the other items in the exhibit, running Tuesday through Thursday at the California Homicide Investigators Association's 2010 conference.",
"\"Based on the feedback we have received, it is now clear that a few of the items on display have offended some crime victims' families,\" an open letter Thursday said.",
"\"We have both been to hundreds of murder scenes in our law enforcement career and we have consoled many family members.",
"It was never our intent to cause grief to victims of crime or their families.\"",
"In a statement issued last month, the LAPD had billed an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases as \"a glimpse into some of the most notable homicides and critical incidents that occurred in Los Angeles over the past 100 years.\"",
"\"It's about the history of Los Angeles, as told through the eyes of homicide investigators of the Los Angeles Police Department,\" Beck said Tuesday on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"\"This is an opportunity for homicide investigators from all over the country to get together, to share ideas, to share best practices and to talk about some of the most famous cases in Los Angeles history, as well as their current cases.\"",
"But in an opinion piece in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times newspaper, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, son of the late senator, called the display of his father's clothing \"a cheap bid for attention.\"",
"\"The chief of police and the district attorney took my father's blood-soaked clothing and displayed my father's blood-soaked clothing, as part of a macabre publicity stunt,\" he wrote.",
"\"It is almost incomprehensible to imagine what circumstances would have led to a decision to transport these items across state lines to be gawked at by gamblers and tourists.",
"It is demeaning to my family, but just as important, it is demeaning to the trust that citizens place in their law enforcement officers.\"",
"an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases also features evidence associated with the death of Marilyn Monroe, the 1963 \"onion field\" case in which LAPD Officer Ian Campbell was slain, the O.J. Simpson and Charles Manson cases, and the so-called \"Black Dahlia\" murder, according to the LAPD statement announcing it.",
"Family members of some victims in those cases told \"Larry King Live\" the LAPD should have notified Family members of some victims in those cases about an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases.",
"\"From my perspective, it's very disturbing,\" said Debra Tate, sister of actress Sharon Tate, slain along with six others in 1969 by the Manson family killers.",
"\"Number 1, I didn't get any notice that this was going to occur.",
"But these are very personal artifacts to Tate.",
"These are things that bring back horrible memories, not only for Tate, but other Manson family victims.\"",
"The items include ropes used in the murders of Tate and others, and a fork used to stab one of the victims, said retired LAPD Sgt. Glynn Martin, the curator of an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases.",
"\"We certainly try to concern ourselves with the thoughts and concerns of victims, and certainly our hearts go out to victims,\" Martin told \"Larry King.",
"\"... Likewise, we have an obligation, both as a museum and then the bigger one as the police department, to train, educate and inform officers and the public about people that do this particular job of investigating people that have lost their lives.\"",
"Tate said Tate can see the educational value, and might consider seeing an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases, but \"I think a little bit of notice for people to prepare people would have been very, very nice.\"",
"Also featured are the bloody gloves from the Simpson trial and a watch cap collected as evidence, Martin said.",
"Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of killing Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.",
"\"Had we been given a little bit of notice, it would have been easier to avert your eyes,\" Goldman's sister, Kim, told \"Larry King Live.\" \"...",
"I think there is an educational value, and I understand that.\"",
"But, she said, \"it just comes back to sensitivity.\"",
"\"If we've offended anybody, certainly we extend our apologies to them,\" Martin said.",
"\"But the intent here is to inform and educate, with the idea that we're going to serve a greater public good.\"",
"The exhibit opened to the public Wednesday, and \"thousands of guests have stood in lines for up to two hours to glimpse Los Angeles' history,\" said an open letter Thursday.",
"\"A number of the exhibits show evidence that was collected during various well-known incidents, and they were carefully designed so visitors would gain a better appreciation for the tragedy of murder and the difficult jobs law enforcement detectives have in solving often very complicated cases",
",\" an open letter Thursday said.",
"\"Murder is the absolute worst thing one human being can do to another and the displays were designed to provide a unique insight into the sacrifice of victims and their families as well as the emotional toll murder takes on homicide detectives and the district attorneys who prosecute the cases.\"",
"\"Homicide is by nature horrific, but the entertainment media often portrays it as sterile and benign,\" an open letter Thursday said.",
"\"When people see the reality of murder, it becomes an unthinkable act.\"",
"The exhibit \"was designed to be educational and show the public how murder cases are very carefully investigated,\" an open letter Thursday said.",
"Kennedy was a New York senator running for president when Kennedy was shot to death in June 1968 at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, shortly after declaring victory in California's Democratic presidential primary.",
"Kennedy's killer, Sirhan Sirhan, is serving a life sentence at a California prison.",
"In Kennedy's op-ed, Kennedy said that Kennedy had contacted Beck and that Kennedy was pleased the chief had agreed to remove the items.",
"\"When I called to express my surprise and disappointment, the chief maintained to Kennedy that hanging my dad's bloody shirt from a mannequin in a casino was part of an effort to train detectives,\" Kennedy wrote.",
"\"Perhaps the chief believes that, but to Kennedy it seems like a cheap bid for attention.",
"It is almost like a traffic cop inviting motorists to slow down and take a good look as they go past a tragedy.\"",
"The California Constitution guarantees crime victims and crime victims's families will be treated with dignity and respect, Kennedy wrote.",
"And as a former assistant district attorney, Kennedy said, \"I understand that proper storage of property and legal evidence is a critical part of the judicial process.\"",
"Kennedy said Kennedy requested the return of Kennedy's father's clothing nearly 10 years ago, and the district attorney's office refused, but Kennedy was promised the items would be treated with care and kept out of the public view.",
"Beck, Kennedy wrote, should remember that \"such items are personal property, entrusted to the state's care, not to be exploited.",
"the chief relies on crime victims to prosecute virtually every criminal.",
"the chief cannot long succeed if the chief continues to put victims' pain on display for publicity.\""
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"Michael Jackson has officially become the most popular person on Facebook, with more than 7 million fans on Facebook.",
"The Michael Jackson Facebook page is now the most popular on Facebook.",
"Previously, the most popular person on Facebook, with just over 6 million fans, was U.S. President Obama.",
"Over the past week, Michael Jackson's page has grown from 80,000 fans to just over 7 million, generating the largest response on a Facebook page, Facebook says.",
"Michael Jackson has continued to gain about 20 fans per second and even more during peak traffic hours, said social media commentator Nick O'Neill, founder of the Social Times Web site.",
"By comparison, actor Ashton Kutcher recently entered a race to beat CNN's Larry King to 1 million followers on Twitter.",
"actor Ashton Kutcher won and remains the most popular person on Twitter -- but still has only 2.6 million followers.",
"During his memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, all 10 trending topics on Twitter.com were Michael Jackson-related.",
"Michael Jackson's popularity and the viral nature of Facebook fan pages are the primary reasons for the huge fan base, social media commentator Nick O'Neill, founder of the Social Times Web site explained.",
"social media commentator Nick O'Neill, founder of the Social Times Web site said, \"It's simply Michael Jackson's popularity.",
"Also, as users become fans, The Michael Jackson Facebook page gets recommended to others, driving the viral growth of The Michael Jackson Facebook page.",
"\"Michael Jackson is simply the largest celebrity in the world.",
"While Michael Jackson was a controversial figure, Michael Jackson clearly attracts the attention of the global media,\" he continued.",
"The Michael Jackson Facebook page has become an online memorial to Michael Jackson, with thousands of comments from around the world; dozens appear every minute.",
"Free virtual versions of Michael Jackson's famous glove are the most popular gift on the site, with more than 800,000 sent to members.",
"The huge following leaves Michael Jackson's heirs (and Michael Jackson's record label) with a massive network to communicate with fans and continue the massive resurgence of interest in Michael Jackson's music, social media commentator Nick O'Neill, founder of the Social Times Web site said.",
"\"While Sony has not heavily engaged the fan base on Michael Jackson's page, they at least have a presence.",
"If your fans are there, you should be there.",
"\"This also provided an ongoing promotional channel for any future products that are released.",
"It's simply not an option and will become a component of all marketing strategies.\"",
"There have been 2.6 million downloads of Michael Jackson's music since Michael Jackson's death.",
"Michael Jackson has the top two albums on iTunes, as well as three of the top 10 singles.",
"In the United Kingdom, Michael Jackson held 11 of the top 200 album positions and 43 of the top 200 singles, based on sales monitored by the Official Charts Co. for the week ended June 27.",
"Michael Jackson's \"Number Ones\" album topped the OCC album chart after selling 46,400 physical copies and 10,000 downloads.",
"The surge for demand in Michael Jackson's music looks likely to continue for several months: The fan page has a music player with some of Michael Jackson's hits and an option to buy some of Jackson's hits through Amazon."
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"MANCHESTER, Tennessee (CNN) --",
"When Fleck told us Fleck had been missing something in Fleck's life musically, Fleck caught us off guard.",
"Fleck traveled to Africa to immerse Fleck in banjo-related culture.",
"Keep in mind: Fleck is considered by many to be the premier banjo player in the world.",
"Fleck's won Grammy awards.",
"Fleck's collaborated with bluegrass musicians, jazz players, classical performers and any number of other talented artists.",
"But Fleck said Fleck wanted to make Fleck uncomfortable.",
"Earlier this year, Fleck released the documentary \"Throw Down Your Heart,\" for which Fleck traveled to Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, and Gambia to explore the African roots of the banjo.",
"CNN caught up with Fleck backstage at the Bonnaroo music festival last month, where Fleck played with African kora player Toumani Diabate, to discuss Fleck's film and experience in Africa and what prompted Fleck to go.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"Watch Fleck at Bonnaroo » .",
"CNN:",
"What gave you the inspiration to go to Africa to trace the roots of the banjo and make \"Throw Down Your Heart?\"",
"Fleck:",
"Well, I have loved the banjo since I first heard the banjo when I was a little kid, and after I started to learn to play the banjo I discovered that the banjo came from Africa originally, and that doesn't seem to be common knowledge",
"There are a lot of people who have forgotten over the years where the banjo comes from.",
"I've always wanted to go back to Africa and hear what's going on there and find the instruments that still exist that are the roots of the banjo and play music with the banjo.",
"So that's what this trip and the film and the record were all about --going to Uganda, Tanzania, Mali and Gambia and finding musicians and filming interactions with musicians and recording it all.",
"CNN: What did you learn?",
"Fleck:",
"That's a common question.",
"Everybody wants some kind of epiphany out of a trip like this, and I got it, but it's hard to put it into words.",
"Except that just the experience of playing with these musicians made my life a lot richer, made my worldview a lot bigger, and in a lot of cases I learned music that was so new to Fleck that it's affected the way I play music ever since.",
"CNN:",
"It's clear that learning this music and a new technique on the banjo was a challenge for you.",
"Fleck:",
"Sure.",
"Another important part of the trip for Fleck was putting Fleck into uncomfortable situations and seeing how I would do, because over the years, as I've gotten more and more successful, I get in control of things, and less and less I was finding Fleck in situations that were truly risky musically.",
"I liked being unprepared and being forced to come up with it on the spot.",
"It just wasn't happening in my life at the time.",
"So that was another part of going to Africa, throwing Fleck into completely uncharted waters and trying to do something good and survive.",
"[There was also] the brotherhood of acoustic musicians, 'cause we feel something when we play our instruments and the sounds mingle in the air.",
"I think it's different than playing pop music or electric instruments.",
"CNN:",
"Tell us about your collaboration with Toumani Diabate.",
"Watch the masters play » .",
"Fleck:",
"I am so lucky to be performing with Toumani.",
"Toumani's the greatest kora player.",
"The kora is a 21-string harp, and Toumani comes from 71 generations from The kora being taught from father to son, father to son.",
"We improvise together with just the kora and the banjo.",
"CNN:",
"Did you learn how to play The kora?",
"Fleck:",
"No, I haven't sat and tried to play The kora, but Toumani's taught me the notes that Toumani plays, the scales and the patterns that Toumani does, and I taught Toumani some banjo stuff.",
"Toumani's a great collaborator.",
"Playing with musicians who didn't speak English was not a problem, when we started to play together, we always found a way to make music.",
"CNN:",
"Is there a social message about Africa you came back with and want people to know about?",
"Fleck:",
"My reasons for going to Africa were kind of selfish, because I love the banjo, and I really want to play with the musicians.",
"But I think that the film serves in a lot of positive ways.",
"One of the ways is to show people that there are a lot of great things about Africa.",
"Currently there are so many horrible things that are getting press about Africa, and they truly are horrible.",
"But there's a reason we should care about Africa: It's a wonderful place.",
"People are beautiful, and there is an incredible culture and history there, and I think the film sits on the other side.",
"the film's not a political statement, but the film does point out what is beautiful about Africans."
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"NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) --",
"The doctor at the center of an investigation into patients' deaths after Hurricane Katrina said everyone must remember the \"magnitude of human suffering\" after Hurricane Katrina to ensure that no health care worker is ever \"falsely accused in a rush to judgment.\"",
"Dr. Anna Pou said Tuesday Dr. Anna Pou hopes to return to work doing what Dr. Anna Pou \"loves to do best.\"",
"\"Today's events are not a triumph, but a moment of remembrance for those who lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina and a tribute to all of those who stayed at their posts and served people most in need,\" Dr. Anna Pou said after a grand jury decided Tuesday not to pursue criminal charges against Dr. Anna Pou.",
"Pou and two nurses -- Cheri Landry and Lori Budo -- were arrested in July 2006 after a 10-month investigation into the deaths at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center.",
"Dr. Anna Pou's lawyer, Rick Simmons, said Dr. Anna Pou and Dr. Anna Pou's patients were \"abandoned\" by all levels of government.",
"\"The certificates of death in these individual patients should read 'abandoned by these individual patients's government.'",
"That's what happened here,\" he said.",
"Dr. Anna Pou said Dr. Anna Pou hopes to return to work doing what Dr. Anna Pou \"loves to do best.\"",
"Dr. Anna Pou fought back tears as Dr. Anna Pou thanked those who have stood by Dr. Anna Pou during the past 23 \"challenging and painful\" months.",
"Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti charged the doctor and two nurses with second-degree murder.",
"Cheri Landry and Budo were recently given immunity in exchange for Landry and Budo's grand jury testimony.",
"Watch what led up to grand jury's decision » .",
"Pou, Cheri Landry and Budo denied the charges, and Pou, Landry and Budo's attorneys have said Pou, Landry and Budo acted heroically, staying to treat patients rather than evacuate.",
"Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti accused the three of involvement in as many as nine deaths at the hospital.",
"The investigation concluded that patients were given a \"lethal cocktail\" of morphine and midazolam hydrochloride, both central nervous system depressants, Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti said.",
"None of the patients had been prescribed the drugs by the patients's caregivers, and none of the accused treated the patients before the injections, Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti said.",
"\"This was not euthanasia,\" Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti said at a news conference last summer.",
"\"This was homicide.\"",
"Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti said Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti turned Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti's findings over to Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan, who was required by law either to file charges or reject the case.",
"Instead, Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan, who was required by law either to file charges or reject the case impaneled a grand jury and vowed to let a grand jury decide what charges, if any, should be sought.",
"Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan, who was required by law either to file charges or reject the case also directed New Orleans Coroner Frank Minyard to hire outside forensic experts to review the case.",
"On Tuesday, Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti acknowledged that \"in our system, justice has been served.",
"a grand jury has made a grand jury's decision.",
"I'm not here to second-guess what the court says.\"",
"But Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti noted that none of the alleged victims' relatives and none of five medical experts who independently concluded the deaths were homicides were called to testify before a grand jury.",
"Asked Dr. Anna Pou's feelings about Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Dr. Anna Pou said, \"I'm really putting Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti in God's hands,\" adding that Dr. Anna Pou continues to pray for the ability to forgive Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti.",
"CNN first reported the allegations of euthanasia months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and triggered flooding in New Orleans two years ago.",
"Patients, staff and their families rode out Hurricane Katrina.",
"But four days after Hurricane Katrina hit, despair was setting in.",
"The hospital was surrounded by floodwater.",
"There was no power or water, and the heat was stifling.",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously Thursday to impeach Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. for the Eastern District of Louisiana, making Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. the nation's 15th federal judge ever impeached.",
"\"Our investigation found that Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. participated in a pattern of corrupt conduct for years,\" said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Task Force on Judicial Impeachment.",
"\"Litigants have the right to expect a judge hearing Litigants's case will be fair and impartial, and avoid even the appearance of impropriety.",
"Regrettably, no one can have that expectation in Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.'s courtroom.\"",
"After the impeachment vote, Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, were named the lead impeachment managers for the Senate trial, which will decide whether to remove Porteous from the bench.",
"\"Today's vote marks only the second time in over 20 years that this has occurred,\" Goodlatte said in a U.S. House of Representatives news release.",
"\"However, when evidence emerges that an individual is abusing an individual's judicial office for an individual's own advantage, the integrity of the entire judicial system becomes compromised.\"",
"In a statement, Porteous' lawyer Richard W. Westling said the Justice Department had decided not to prosecute because the Justice Department did not have credible evidence.",
"\"Unfortunately, U.S. House of Representatives has decided to disregard the Justice Department's decision and to move forward with impeachment.",
"As a result, we will now turn to Senate to seek a full and fair hearing of all of the evidence.\"",
"In a telephone interview, Porteous' lawyer Richard W. Westling said Porteous' lawyer Richard W. Westling did not know when the Senate trial would be held.",
"\"There are no clear rules that dictate timing,\" Porteous' lawyer Richard W. Westling said.",
"Last year, the Task Force on Judicial Impeachment held evidentiary hearings that led to unanimous approval of the four articles of impeachment, citing evidence that Porteous \"intentionally made material false statements and representations under penalty of perjury, engaged in a corrupt kickback scheme, solicited and accepted unlawful gifts, and intentionally misled Senate during his confirmation proceedings,\" the House release said.",
"Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. was appointed to the federal bench in 1994.",
"In 2007, after an FBI and federal grand jury investigation, the Justice Department alleged \"pervasive misconduct\" by Porteous and evidence \"that Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. may have violated federal and state criminal laws, controlling canons of judicial conduct, rules of professional responsibility, and conducted Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. in a manner antithetical to the constitutional standard of good behavior required of all federal judges.\"",
"The complaint said the Justice Department opted not to seek criminal charges for reasons that included issues of statute of limitations and other factors.",
"But Westling said the statute of limitations was not applicable.",
"An Impeachment Task Force held four hearings late last year that focused on allegations of misconduct by Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., including: . -- Involvement in a corrupt kickback scheme . -- Failure to recuse Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. from a case Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. was involved in .",
"-- Allegations that Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. made false and misleading statements, including concealing debts and gambling losses .",
"-- Allegations that Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. asked for and accepted \"numerous things of value, including meals, trips, home and car repairs, for Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.'s personal use and benefit\" while taking official actions on behalf of Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.'s benefactors .",
"-- Allegations that Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. lied about Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.'s past to Senate and to the FBI about Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.'s nomination to the federal bench \"in order to conceal corrupt relationships,\" Rep. Adam Schiff said in Rep. Adam Schiff's floor statement as prepared for delivery .",
"Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. was invited to testify, but Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. declined to do so, Rep. Adam Schiff said.",
"\"Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.'s long-standing pattern of corrupt activity, so utterly lacking in honesty and integrity, demonstrates Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.'s unfitness to serve as a United States District Court judge,\" Rep. Adam Schiff said.",
"Porteous, 63, has not worked as a judge since Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. was suspended with pay in the fall of 2008, Westling said.",
"The last federal judge impeachment occurred last year, when Judge Samuel B. Kent of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas resigned after being impeached on charges of sexual assault, obstructing and impeding an official proceeding, and making false and misleading statements, according to the Web site of the Federal Judicial Center.",
"Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, dismissed the articles.",
"Before then, Judge Walter L. Nixon of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi was impeached in 1989 on charges of perjury before a federal grand jury.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Remember \"You're money, baby\"?",
"Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau making the L.A. bar scene in \"Swingers\" back in 1996?",
"In the film, couples go to the Eden Resort, which is offering a great package deal on relationship counseling.",
"couples were young and hungry then, and there was insolence in couples's hustle, but at least couples pressed couples's case: couples knew couples were sharp enough to be players.",
"Since then, Jon Favreau has gone on to direct blockbusters like \"Elf\" and \"Iron Man,\" and Jon Favreau's buddy Vince Vaughn has stacked up a string of hits in the company of Frat Packers Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.",
"Well, they're not hungry anymore, and not so young either.",
"Between Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (and with an assist from Dana \"What Happens in Vegas\" Fox), Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau have cooked up \"Couples Retreat,\" a marriage comedy that coincidentally doubles as an enviable excuse for an extended shoot in Bora Bora.",
"Watch the stars talk about the shoot » .",
"That's the tropical location of the Eden Resort, which is offering a great package deal for married couples looking for relationship counseling.",
"Jason and Cynthia (Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell) want to give it a shot, and persuade Jason and Cynthia (Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell)'s supposedly happily married friends Dave and Ronnie (Vaughn and Malin Akerman), Joey and Lucy (Favreau and Kristin Davis), and Shane and Shane's 20-year-old girlfriend Trudy (Faizon Love and Kali Hawk) to join in the fun.",
"Apparently, nobody has trouble raising the fare, even in these recessionary times.",
"Once there, however, they are dismayed to find Eden is run with iron discipline, and the mandatory therapy sessions soon expose serious cracks in each of the relationships.",
"Directed by Peter \"A Christmas Story\" Billingsley -- another old friend of Vaughn's -- \"Couples Retreat\" can't decide if Movie's satirizing New Age-y therapies or exploring marital breakdown.",
"So Movie gives us a little of both, with some sub-Apatow sex humor on the side.",
"As a commercial recipe, that's fine.",
"America's ticket buyers have shown time and again America's ticket buyers're desperate for a laugh and willing to overlook widespread mediocrity to get it.",
"But you might hope for something a bit less lazy from this team.",
"And shouldn't a movie with \"Couples\" in the title be less lopsided in the title's approach to the sexes?",
"I guess in contrast to such boys-will-be-boys romps as \"The Hangover\" and \"Wild Hogs,\" at least this time the wives get to come along, not that any of the wives has much to say for herself.",
"Trudy wants to party.",
"Lucy has eyes for the yoga instructor (Carlos Ponce).",
"Ronnie wants some romance.",
"And Cynthia ... I don't know what Cynthia wants, but getting away from Cynthia's control freak husband certainly seems like the way to go.",
"The guys are noticeably chubbier, but equally one-dimensional.",
"It's just that that dimension enjoys rather more screen time as Billingsley indulges Vaughn and Favreau's less-than-inspired improvisational riffs on marital frustration, machismo and middle-age spread.",
"We even have to endure a Guitar Hero duel.",
"For a movie made by a bunch of friends, it's strange that we don't get any sense of how or why these couples hang out together.",
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"Whether by accident or design, \"Couples Retreat\" does such a good job exposing what selfish, insensitive jerks these guys are, the contrived and conventional ending actually has a feel-bad undertow.",
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"\"Couples Retreat\" is rated PG-13 and runs 107 minutes."
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"Actress and animal rights activist Eva Mendes hopes you'll shun fur as you shop for the holidays.",
"\"Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed,\" Eva Mendes said.",
"Eva Mendes took Eva Mendes's clothes off two years ago for the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) \"Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur\" campaign, but now Eva Mendes wants you to see something less pleasant.",
"Eva Mendes's narrated a video of PETA's latest undercover footage of animals being killed for their fur.",
"\"animals are beaten to death, animals're skinned alive, animals's throats are slashed while animals're still alive,\" Eva Mendes said.",
"\"animals're anally electrocuted, just so the fur won't become tainted.\"",
"It's unlikely you'll see a video of PETA's latest undercover footage of animals being killed for their fur on television because of a video of PETA's latest undercover footage of animals being killed for their fur's gruesome nature.",
"But it shouldn't be hard to find a video of PETA's latest undercover footage of animals being killed for their fur spreading virally online.",
"\"It's not something you want to see,\" Eva Mendes said.",
"\"But it's something you have to see.\"",
"Eva Mendes says Eva Mendes's confident that anyone who watches it will eventually ditch furs as fashion.",
"\"Even if you don't do something today, it'll stay in your consciousness and you'll think about it,\" Eva Mendes said.",
"\"That's why these strong images are so necessary for people to see, because they'll stay in your mind, and maybe in your subconscious.",
"They'll stay there and that will really help you make a more evolved decision in the future.\"",
"Eva Mendes said Eva Mendes's dog, Hugo, \"changed Eva Mendes's world\" and convinced Eva Mendes to campaign against fur.",
"\"I've become so much of a more just sensitive, empathetic person towards animals because of him,\" Eva Mendes said.",
"\"Because he's just so precious and I can't imagine wearing him or eating him, and what's really the difference between him or some little raccoon or some bunny or seal?\"",
"Eva Mendes stopped eating beef, chicken and pork two years ago, but Eva Mendes still consumes animal products such as cheese and milk.",
"But there is a great substitute for animal fur, Eva Mendes said.",
"\"Go faux, go fake.\""
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"London, England -- Nemcova is a former Victoria's Secret supermodel-turned-philanthropist.",
"Despite Nemcova's riches, Nemcova, who grew up with few luxuries in communist Czechoslovakia, told CNN that Nemcova's most important work is Nemcova's charity, the Happy Hearts Fund.",
"The model set up the foundation after Nemcova's near-death experience in the 2004 Asian tsunami.",
"While Nemcova survived by clinging to a palm tree for eight hours, Nemcova's long-term partner did not.",
"Here, Nemcova shows CNN around Prague and tells of Nemcova's love for the \"Golden City,\" what Nemcova learnt from growing up in a communist country and how Nemcova keeps smiling -- despite life's setbacks.",
"CNN:",
"Tell us about the first time you came to Prague.",
"Nemcova:",
"The first time was to visit my aunt and even if Prague is in the same country as my town, it felt like a real journey.",
"For us it was like going somewhere very special, far away, because under the Communist regime you didn't travel that much and Prague was \"wow.\"",
"I was overwhelmed and amazed by the beauty of Prague and every time I arrive in Prague, even now, I'm still amazed.",
"The lighting at night; the incredible architecture; the details; the history; there was a lot to learn about and a lot to discover.",
"It was a very special experience.",
"The following time I went to Prague was during my early career in the fashion industry and I was traveling once, twice a week from my town to Prague.",
"I would wake up at 5.45 in the morning, take the bus for one hour, then a tram to school.",
"After school I would take a five-hour train to Prague.",
"So it was quite intense at that time, but it was a great experience and it taught me a lot about being independent.",
"CNN:",
"How would you describe Prague, in five words?",
"Nemcova Nemcova:",
"Prague is a city of romance, of incredible architecture and history.",
"Some people call it the \"golden city,\" some people say it's the heart of Europe -- although maybe the French don't like that very much!",
"Paris is bigger obviously and a bit more hectic and Prague is smaller and has more of a village-y feeling compared to Paris.",
"Prague has more of a calming vibe.",
"It's not rush-rush-rush.",
"I think when people come here people are surprised by the beauty of Prague and also the vivid colors.",
"I think people may imagine Prague more in gray colors because of the communist association.",
"But since then a lot of reconstruction has been done.",
"Before Prague was shades of grey and black, which was quite mysterious, but now Prague's more happy and pretty.",
"In five words Prague's historical, inspirational, creative, romantic and beautiful.",
"CNN:",
"What was your childhood like?",
"Nemcova Nemcova:",
"Growing up in the Czech Republic -- at the time Czechoslovakia -- was a beautiful childhood because I didn't understand the whole concept of communism.",
"I was only 11 when communism fell down and when the Velvet Revolution happened.",
"I had a really beautiful childhood ...",
"I didn't have the great luxury things, we had very little and we counted every penny.",
"But our parents gave us something more valuable than money -- our parents gave us so much love and that's priceless.",
"We didn't get the opportunity to travel all over the world and were able to travel only within the communist countries.",
"So we went around our country to see different castles, little towns and I loved it.",
"So that made us richer.",
"It also made us appreciate nature because we spent every weekend in nature.",
"And the values you learn there are priceless too.",
"You don't step on flowers, kick on mushrooms, you really respect nature.",
"And the value of appreciation came from not having anything and then having a little bit.",
"Having a clementine for Christmas -- it was an incredible joy and every time I smell a clementine, it brings me back to my childhood.",
"But it was harder for our parents.",
"Because if you weren't part of the system then you didn't get a job and an apartment and it would be really difficult for you.",
"our parents had these passports where every time our parents would go to these communist meetings our parents would get a stamp and if you didn't get enough stamps throughout the year, you would get in trouble.",
"CNN:",
"What happened to you in the 2004 Asian tsunami?",
"Nemcova:",
"I lost my partner and physically, my pelvis was broken four times, I was drowning many times throughout the experience.",
"There were hard moments throughout that experience and some sweet ones.",
"Seeing the compassion of other people risking other people's lives for strangers, there was just a lot of love around in that moment.",
"That's what happens actually if you live through disasters, it brings people together, it shows that we are capable of that compassion, but unfortunately it just goes away after some time.",
"CNN:",
"Tell us about your foundation, Happy Hearts?",
"Nemcova:",
"Happy Hearts is a foundation that I established after the 2004 Asian tsunami.",
"It helps children improve children's lives after natural disasters through educational and sustainable initiatives.",
"We build or rebuild a school, add computer labs inside and then we build businesses to sustain a school.",
"The education is really a key not just for the children to recover faster from the disaster but also to help the children, the children's families and communities get out of poverty.",
"We help over 23,000 children a year.",
"We give them hope and not just for them but for their parents and communities.",
"The schools elevate the whole community.",
"After the 2004 Asian tsunami we went to other countries where disasters happened and one of them was in Indonesia.",
"We work with local partners on the ground and have been able to build 33 kindergartens after the 2005 earthquake and that's something incredible because it really changed so many lives.",
"Our other project is in Peru, where there was an earthquake in 2007 and we have a commitment to build three schools a year.",
"CNN:",
"If you only had 24 hours in Prague, what would you do?",
"Nemcova:",
"First of all I would take my friends and family and I would walk around and go to the Charles Bridge because that is my favorite place.",
"Then I would stop by some exhibitions of some new artist.",
"And then I would go and sit down for some tea perhaps at the Musical House.",
"In the evening I may go to a typical Czech pub and afterwards for a concert because I really love them; they put my mind at ease and inspire me.",
"CNN:",
"How creative is the city?",
"Nemcova:",
"Many people know about Kafka and some of the other famous writers.",
"But there is a lot of interest in music here and in different types of art.",
"That's perhaps because art was suppressed during communist times and you were only allowed to read certain authors.",
"That's why there is such a hunger now for everything that was forbidden.",
"Not just Czech authors but also a lot of American authors because especially anything from U.S. was big taboo and you could not see any movies and you could not listen to any music.",
"I discovered Stevie Wonder seven years ago and I'm still working on learning and seeing more of the great movies.",
"CNN:",
"If Prague were a person, who would it be?",
"Nemcova:",
"I think Prague would be our former president Vaclav Havel.",
"our former president Vaclav Havel is a proud person and Prague is a proud city; our former president Vaclav Havel's an artist and Prague is artistic; our former president Vaclav Havel's an achiever and Prague has achieved so much.",
"our former president Vaclav Havel is someone people admire, as people do Prague."
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"Nemcova: \"Prague is like former president Vaclav Havel: Admirable, artictic and proud\"",
"Nemcova also talks about growing up under communism and surviving the 2004 Asian tsunami ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Yume-Hotaru's first novel was a best-seller in Japanese bookstores, and he wrote Yume-Hotaru's first novel entirely with his thumbs.",
"Publishers in Japan were quick to see the potential of putting cellphone novels into print.",
"The 22-year-old who would rather be identified by his pen name than his real one (Yume-Hotaru means \"Dreaming Firefly\" in Japanese) started composing Yume-Hotaru's first novel on his cell phone in 2007.",
"Between classes, on the bus or before going to bed at night, he would type single sentences into his phone's tiny keypad, uploading each one straight to the mobile social networking site Mobage-town.",
"The more Yume-Hotaru posted, the more popular his story became.",
"It won a prize and soon publishers approached him, asking if he wanted to turn his digital book into a paper one.",
"By early 2008, his novel \"First Experience,\" a story about love and sex in high school, was a top title in one of Tokyo's biggest bookstores.",
"Since it emerged in Japan nearly a decade ago, the cell phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, has moved from a little-known subgenre to a mainstream literary phenomenon.",
"Keitai shosetsu sites boast billions of monthly users while publishers sell millions of copies of cellular stories taken from phones and turned into paperback.",
"It is even spreading to other countries as other cultures start to take part in a type of composition long considered purely Japanese.",
"As the name suggests, cell phone novels are written entirely on handsets and posted on sites like Maho no i-rando (Magic Island), the first and largest mobile novel portal in Japan.",
"The site has a million titles, 3.5 billion monthly visitors and six million registered users, according to the company.",
"Mobile readers instantly see new chapters as they are added, often adding comments about the direction Mobile readers think a novel should take.",
"The diary-like stories are written and read mostly by young women in young women's teens and 20's.",
"Many authors use pen names and claim Many authors's stories are at least partially autobiographical.",
"cell phone novels often center on themes that are rarely discussed aloud in Japanese society -- drugs, sex, pregnancy, abortion, rape and disease.",
"\"When Many authors write cell phone novels, Many authors share Many authors's secret, personal problems, and when Many authors read by mobile phones, Many authors can hide what Many authors are reading,\" explained Toshie Takahashi, an associate professor of media studies at Rikkyo University in Tokyo.",
"\"Many authors are also involved and engaged with Many authors's mobile phones very strongly,\" added Takahashi, noting that 96 percent of high school students own a cell phone in Japan.",
"\"The mobile phone itself is embedded in young people's everyday lives very deeply and also emotionally and physically.\"",
"Despite its popularity among young women, a male writer known as Yoshi, widely considered the first cellular novelist, brought the burgeoning genre to light when he self-published \"Deep Love\" in 2002.",
"The story about a prostitute in Tokyo sold nearly 3 million copies and was adapted for film, television and Manga, or Japanese comics.",
"Publishing phenomenon .",
"A struggling Japanese publishing industry was quick to take notice of the growing popularity of keitai shosetsu, especially early works like Yoshi's \"Deep Love.\"",
"Many of the popular cell phone novels have since been turned into paperbacks, and bookstores across Japan now have entire sections devoted to the digital-age literary genre.",
"By 2007, half of Japan's 10 best-selling novels were written on cell phones, according to book distributor Tohan while last year mobile novels and comics were a $240 million market in Japan, which is over 5 percent of Japan's $4.5 billion total mobile content market, according to Japan's Mobile Content Forum.",
"In January 2009, three Japanese mobile phone novel publishers reported collective sales of 1.7 million copies.",
"Publishers, like Goma Books, one of the first to print cell phone novels, have also launched their own keitai shosetsu sites, which they use to sift through for talent whose work will be marketable on bookshelves.",
"Goma's mobile story site Orion carries 20,000 novels and has approximately two million monthly users, according to the company.",
"Goma has also published several top-selling keitai shosetsu, including \"The Red Thread,\" by Mei (also a pen name).",
"Since it was released in 2007, the story, which revolves around the romance of two middle school students, has sold nearly 2 million copies and was adapted for a TV series and movie last December.",
"The publishing house now prints a new mobile novel every month.",
"Some literary purist don't think the cell phone novels constitute real literature, but the cell phone novels's popularity is undeniable.",
"\"The sentences may be a bit immature.",
"It doesn't have a major plot line sometimes.",
"It is just love stories of ordinary high school girls, said Aya Tanaka, a spokesperson for Goma.",
"\"But it is kind of like popular comics, it is what the teenagers want to read, and for the publishers, it is quite a big market and it does sell.\"",
"Michael Keferl, a trend consultant with Cscout Japan in Tokyo, believes that \"[readers] are participating in the creation of the novel, which is one of the reasons why they buy it afterwards.",
"They are helping to write it and are also witnessing it being written.\"",
"Crossing cultures .",
"However some believe the future of keitai shosetsu as one that is quickly following in the footsteps of most teenage fads: A sudden and rapid rise to mass popularity followed by a slow but steady decline to the fringes of the not-so-cool.",
"Last year few mobile novels appeared on best-seller lists while new stories published online have lost new stories published online's characteristic edginess, said Chiaki Ishihara, a Japanese literature expert at Waseda University in Tokyo who has studied cell phone novels.",
"\"Keitai shosetsu is rapidly declining at this point,\" Ishihara told CNN.",
"\"In a few years, it may not even be considered a subculture.\"",
"Others see the cell phone novel moving from an initial boom that peaked around 2007 to a period of market stabilization.",
"\"You are not going to have as many of the big hits as you had before because there are so many titles out,\" said Keferl.",
"\"Things are leveling out now.\"",
"While the cell phone novel market may be cooling in Japan, the cell phone novel market is just starting to emerge in other countries, like the United States, where faster networks and cheaper data plans are leading more consumers to use handsets in ways similar to people in Japan.",
"Many companies are starting to launch mobile web sites in the U.S., including DeNA, the Japanese firm that owns Mobage-town, the site where Yume-Hotaru writes his keitai shosetsu.",
"\"What has surprised us is users in America are behaving in a similar way to the Japanese,\" said Dai Watanabe, president of DeNA Global, Inc.",
"\"They are writing about things that are very close to their actual lives.",
"I was surprised to see it is very similar with what is happening in Japan.\"",
"Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs, writes Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs's cell phone stories while lying in bed at night in Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs's home outside of Dallas, Texas.",
"Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs said Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs had never heard of keitai shosetsu before but likes writing cell phone novels because of the relationship Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs has with readers and the feedback they give Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs about Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs's stories.",
"\"It encourages me to write,\" said Knighten.",
"\"And it gives me the chance to escape reality.\""
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"Seattle, Washington (CNN) --",
"The suspect in Sunday's fatal shooting of four police officers was shot and killed early Tuesday by an officer after Maurice Clemmons approached an officer and \"reached into Maurice Clemmons's waist area,\" authorities said in a statement.",
"Although the medical examiner has not formally identified the man shot and killed in south Seattle about 2:45 a.m., detectives recognized Maurice Clemmons as Maurice Clemmons, sought in the killings of four Lakewood, Washington, police officers shot Sunday at a coffee shop, Seattle police said in a statement.",
"Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said earlier Tuesday that Maurice Clemmons was carrying a weapon taken from one of four police officers and had been shot in the abdomen in Sunday's shooting at the Forza Coffee Company in Parkland, Washington.",
"He had had stuffed gauze and cotton into the wound and put duct tape over the wound, Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said Tuesday.",
"Maurice Clemmons had been the subject of an intense manhunt for two days.",
"Two people accused of helping Maurice Clemmons evade authorities, brothers Eddie and Douglas Davis, appeared in court Tuesday.",
"brothers Eddie and Douglas Davis are charged with rendering criminal assistance, a felony.",
"A man who police believe is the getaway car driver was also in custody, along with a second man.",
"Neither has been charged.",
"The men accused of trying to help Maurice Clemmons provided medical aid, housing, a cell phone and money and were trying to get him out of the state, Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said earlier Tuesday.",
"The men also called in false leads to police to divert investigators.",
"Early Tuesday, a patrol officer saw an unoccupied car in south Seattle that was running and had its hood up, police said.",
"a patrol officer determined an unoccupied car in south Seattle that was running and had its hood up was stolen and was doing paperwork in a patrol officer's vehicle when a patrol officer saw Maurice Clemmons approach a patrol officer's patrol car from behind on the driver's side, the statement said.",
"a patrol officer got out of an unoccupied car in south Seattle that was running and had its hood up and ordered Maurice Clemmons to stop and show Maurice Clemmons's hands, but Maurice Clemmons refused, the statement said.",
"Follow local coverage on CNN affiliate KIRO-TV .",
"\"As a patrol officer was drawing a patrol officer's gun, Maurice Clemmons reached into Maurice Clemmons's waist area and moved,\" the statement said.",
"\"a patrol officer fired several times, striking Maurice Clemmons at least twice.\"",
"Maurice Clemmons was pronounced dead at the scene.",
"a patrol officer is a four-year member of the Seattle police force and is a military veteran, police said.",
"a patrol officer will be placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure after a shooting involving an officer.",
"Authorities said Authorities regretted the shooting death but are glad the two-day ordeal is over.",
"\"Right now, it's just a feeling of relief,\" said Jim Pugil, the assistant Seattle police chief.",
"\"Another tragic time has come upon us, and we're just happy that it's over.\"",
"Additional arrests in the case are likely, Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said Tuesday.",
"\"I am thankful the suspect in this horrible crime is no longer a threat to our community,\" Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire said in a statement.",
"\"I hope this provides some closure for the families and colleagues of our fallen officers.",
"... We should now focus our attention on providing comfort and support to those who have lost a loved one.\"",
"Maurice Clemmons had made comments before Sunday's shootings that Maurice Clemmons was going to kill some officers -- comments that were not reported to authorities until after Sunday's shootings -- but officials believe Maurice Clemmons was the lone gunman.",
"\"We don't think anyone helped Maurice Clemmons plan this murder,\" Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said.",
"The manhunt for Maurice Clemmons began Sunday after four police officers were gunned down while meeting at the coffee shop before four police officers's shifts began.",
"Maurice Clemmons was an ex-convict with a long rap sheet in Washington and Arkansas, according to authorities and documents.",
"Maurice Clemmons slipped away from a home in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood Sunday night before police surrounded the residence for about 12 hours.",
"Maurice Clemmons was not found in a home in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood when investigators moved in Monday morning, Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel said.",
"Officials said Tuesday that Officials missed Maurice Clemmons by mere minutes.",
"Maurice Clemmons was accused of child rape and assaulting a police officer in May.",
"Maurice Clemmons had been released on $150,000 bail five days before the shootings, according to court records.",
"After Maurice Clemmons's arrest, Maurice Clemmons's sister told police that Maurice Clemmons \"had not been Maurice Clemmons lately\" and that Maurice Clemmons's behavior was \"unpredictable and erratic.\"",
"\"Maurice Clemmons had said that the Secret Service was coming to get Maurice Clemmons because Maurice Clemmons had written a letter to the president,\" an affidavit quoted her as telling investigators.",
"In addition, neighbors had complained that Maurice Clemmons had been throwing rocks through neighbors's windows.",
"Maurice Clemmons's wife told deputies that Clemmons' wife and Clemmons' wife's husband had argued over a \"newly discovered child,\" and Clemmons' wife suggested that was why Maurice Clemmons went on Maurice Clemmons's rock-throwing spree, according to an arrest affidavit.",
"In 2000, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted a prison sentence for Maurice Clemmons, according to documents from the Arkansas Department of Community Correction.",
"Maurice Clemmons was sentenced to 95 years, to be served consecutive to time Maurice Clemmons was already serving from previous convictions, according to documents from the Arkansas Department of Community Correction.",
"In all, Maurice Clemmons faced a total of 108 years, Arkansas officials said.",
"Maurice Clemmons returned to prison in 2001 and was paroled in 2004.",
"Sunday's shooting was the first for the Lakewood Police Department, which was created five years ago for the town of nearly 60,000.",
"The slain officers were identified as Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; Officer Ronald Owens, 37; Officer Tina Griswold, 40; and Officer Greg Richards, 42.",
"All of them were parents and had been with the department since the department's inception.",
"\"My worst nightmare has come true,\" said Tiffany Ryan, Griswold's sister.",
"\"I can't tell you how painful it is to lose my sister.\"",
"Police said the gunman walked past The slain officers to the counter as if to order but then pulled a gun out of his coat and began shooting at 8:15 a.m.",
"Two of The slain officers were \"executed\" as the officers sat at a table, Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said.",
"Another was shot when he stood up, and the fourth was shot after struggling with the gunman all the way out the door, Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said.",
"Officials said Tuesday Officials know which officer shot him but were withholding that information pending conclusive confirmation.",
"CNN's Patrick Oppmann, Dan Simon, Dave Alsup, Dina Majoli and Matt Smith contributed to this report."
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"An elections board certified Kasim Reed on Saturday as the winner of the Atlanta mayoral runoff election by a margin of 620 votes.",
"Barry Garner, director of Fulton County's elections board, told CNN on Saturday that Kasim Reed was declared the winner of last Tuesday's runoff election against City Councilwoman Mary Norwood.",
"Barry Garner, director of Fulton County's elections board said Kasim Reed received 42,348 votes compared with Mary Norwood's 41,728.",
"Mary Norwood has until 5 p.m. Tuesday to request a recount, Barry Garner, director of Fulton County's elections board said.",
"Barry Garner, director of Fulton County's elections board said if a recount is requested, a recount will begin Wednesday morning.",
"In the initial vote among eight contenders, Mary Norwood received 45 percent of the votes to Kasim Reed's 37 percent.",
"Lisa Borders came in a distant third with 14 percent of the vote, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.",
"A candidate needs 50 percent plus one vote to avert a runoff.",
"CNN's Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"Teenagers exchange text messages while driving because, well, they're teenagers and teenagers sometimes do dumb things.",
"But suit-wearing adults who should know better are texting behind the wheel too, driven by grown-up motivations.",
"A sign in San Francisco warns drivers late last year of a new California law prohibiting texting while driving.",
"\"My job has me out on the road for four to five days out of the week,\" Anthony Perry, a director of business development for a Washington-based health care research firm, told CNN in an e-mail sent from his BlackBerry.",
"\"I don't particularly think I am that good at texting while driving but I do it anyway, recognizing the risks.\"",
"the risks are significant.",
"A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study released this week showed truck drivers are 23 times more likely to be in a crash if truck drivers're texting, and several fatal accidents have been blamed on drivers or train operators who were distracted by texting.",
"Nevertheless, for many in business, it seems to be a matter of competitive survival.",
"\"Now with e-mail and with the advent of the BlackBerries and hyper-accessibility, there's this sense that if you don't show that you're always prepared and ready to respond and address an issue, then somehow you're going to be perceived as not being conscientious or not keeping up on things,\" said Tom Britt, a professor of social psychology at Clemson University in South Carolina.",
"Watch someone attempt to text and drive » .",
"\"I could not imagine doing my job, or living my life, without the aid of a bberry,\" Perry wrote.",
"\"I don't know many who could who are in my line of work.\"",
"Entrepreneurs and people in service industries, such as lawyers, may feel the heat more than others, said Dr. Debra Condren, a business psychologist and executive coach with offices in New York and San Francisco, California.",
"\"The constant pressure to be on the grid, especially in this economy -- 'Oh my gosh, has a client called? Has a potential client called?",
"Am I going to lose the job? Am I going to miss an opportunity? -- makes us kind of revert to almost an adolescent mentality in terms of thinking that we're invulnerable [vis a vis] texting and driving,\" Condren said.",
"But those fears are overblown for most people, Condren said.",
"\"There's this sense that we're so important that every single moment has to be filled; we can't even pull over or we're going to miss five minutes' driving time or 10 minutes' driving time.",
"The pace is at this breakneck speed,\" said Condren, author of \"Ambition Is Not a Dirty Word,\" a career guide for women.",
"\"The truth is nobody is that important or that in demand that they can't practice safety and good common-sense behaviors.\"",
"Condren recently scolded a cabdriver who was trying to program Condren's hotel's address into his GPS device while driving 60 mph.",
"He got a little \"snippy\" with Condren but put his GPS device down, Condren said, and Condren gave him directions to the hotel.",
"Watch how high the risk really is » .",
"The subject is personal for Condren, whose son Edward was struck four years ago by an SUV whose driver was fishing around on the floor for a dropped cell phone.",
"Edward suffered a broken pelvis and a concussion, but has fully recovered and now is a college student.",
"It's going to take something that drastic to get Mei Lin Walker to quit texting while driving.",
"\"I think the thing that would happen -- this sounds horrible -- that would make me stop texting is if I actually had a wreck or I did run off onto the curb or something crazy like that,\" the Delta Air Lines flight attendant said.",
"\"I try not to do it while I'm driving, but if I'm sitting in traffic and there are a lot of lights I will,\" said Walker, of Decatur, Georgia.",
"\"I do think it is dangerous, and I consciously try not to do it, but then sometimes there's just a text that can't wait.\"",
"Mei Lin Walker has never had an accident or even a close call while texting, Mei Lin Walker said, even though Mei Lin Walker drives a stick-shift car.",
"Texting is easier than talking on a cell phone, Mei Lin Walker said, because Mei Lin Walker can set the device down in mid-text without disrupting the conversation if Mei Lin Walker needs both hands free for driving.",
"Nevertheless, Mei Lin Walker probably isn't driving as well as Mei Lin Walker believes Mei Lin Walker is, Britt said.",
"\"In general, people are overconfident and have a sense that people're capable of doing much more than people really are,\" Britt said.",
"\"People, especially adults, feel like driving is such an automated skill that basically People, especially adults could do multiple things in addition to it without performance suffering.\"",
"Many drivers do understand the danger and act accordingly.",
"\"It's nearly impossible to text in California while driving,\" said Los Angeles County resident Karen North.",
"\"I can see why they make it a law here for no texting while driving.\"",
"See where laws limit texting while driving » .",
"Los Angeles County resident Karen North said Los Angeles County resident Karen North sends Los Angeles County resident Karen North's messages right before heading out.",
"If messages need to be sent en route, Los Angeles County resident Karen North hands Los Angeles County resident Karen North's iPhone over to one of Los Angeles County resident Karen North's teenage children, who are almost always with Los Angeles County resident Karen North.",
"Both Britt and Condren advocate awareness campaigns based on the Virginia Tech study's findings.",
"It's up to corporate executives to lead the way, Condren said.",
"\"Leaders at the top have to walk Leaders at the top's talk and really make it a priority,\" with companywide meetings and periodic reminders, she said.",
"\"It's difficult to change the culture of a particular corporation,\" Britt said.",
"\"That has to start at the top. ...",
"At least have the corporate leadership indicate that if you're actually at the wheel, that responding isn't as important as safety.\""
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"David Beckham has promised David Beckham will do everything in David Beckham's power to help England win the bid to stage the 2018 World Cup.",
"The England and LA Galaxy midfielder has been in South Africa with Football Association chief Lord Triesman to promote England's bid ahead of the draw for the 2010 tournament.",
"David Beckham was an ambassador for the successful London 2012 Olympic campaign, and now has a similar role in England.",
"The 34-year-old, who was speaking at a Coaching for Hope project in Cape Town, believes \"hard work\" is the key England's bid.",
"\"England can win the campaign with hard work - nothing in life is easy and you have to work for special things to be given to you and England are prepared for that,\" David Beckham said.",
"\"Football is in our culture, in our DNA.",
"It's in us from the moment we are brought into this world, from when we are born and that's something we will always have.\"",
"Find out all the latest news about the build up to the 2018 World Cup in South Africa here.",
"FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who had previously been critical of England's bid to stage the tournament, said that celebrity appeal can form just as important part of a bid as the quality of the stadiums.",
"\"The stadiums and infrastructure is just one of the things that England will be judged on,\" Warner added.",
"\"There is the social responsibility and the legacy that the 2018 World Cup leaves and other maters.\"",
"\"Celebrities?",
"Of course that will help - isn't that what football is all about?\"",
"FA chief Lord Triesman also appreciates the role that Beckham, who has met with FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Warner while on the trip, can have on charming the relevant parties.",
"\"When David Beckham talks to people, even privately, the passion and patriotism shines out of David Beckham,\" David Beckham said.",
"\"England is one of the few countries with England's stadia and England's infrastructure that could host a World Cup almost immediately, next week.",
"\"The diversity of cultures around England is a big thing as well.",
"There are not many countries where you can have Brazil and Portugal and so on coming to England and for there to be lots of their fans already there.",
"That's a special thing for us.\""
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"Virgin has secured a partnership with the Brawn Grand Prix team in Formula One racing, Virgin chief Richard Branson announced Saturday.",
"Virgin's sponsorship mark's Richard Branson's first foray into Formula One racing.",
"The move, which had been the subject of speculation, marks Virgin's first foray into F1.",
"Virgin boss Richard Branson made the announcement from Melbourne, where Virgin boss Richard Branson is attending Saturday's Australian Grand Prix.",
"Virgin boss Richard Branson announced the news just before the Brawn team secured the first two grid positions after qualifying, with Jenson Button in pole position.",
"\"I have always said I would love to have a Virgin car on the circuit,\" Virgin boss Richard Branson wrote on Virgin boss Richard Branson's blog.",
"\"I am thrilled to be involved with people as skilled as Ross Brawn and Ross Brawn's team.\"",
"Virgin boss Richard Branson added, \"We are very confident that the Virgin Car driven by Jenson Button and Reubens Barrichello will go from strength to strength this season and look forward to a great future for the Brawn GP team.\"",
"Brawn Grand Prix is a newcomer to the F1 world.",
"Run by former Ferrari technical guru Ross Brawn, the group was formed after Honda pulled out of Formula One because of the global economic downturn.",
"Brawn kept the same driver line-up of Brazil's Barrichello, the most experienced driver on the grid, and Button, who has had to play second fiddle following the emergence of world champion and fellow-Briton Lewis Hamilton.",
"Saturday's qualifying positions marked the first time a new team have started a new team's first race from the front row since the 70s, according to Formula1.com.",
"Virgin boss Richard Branson is famous for Virgin boss Richard Branson's Virgin brand, which began with music shops and record label now includes airlines and interests in publishing, nightclubs, hotels, and a makeup line.",
"Flight testing is under way for a new Virgin venture, Virgin Galactic, which will launch space tourists into sub orbit.",
"Virgin boss Richard Branson says the service could be ready within two years.",
"Branson, who received a knighthood in 1999, is famous for his daredevil feats, including round-the-world balloon attempts and transatlantic boat races."
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"F1 sponsorship deal with Brawn GP is Branson's first foray into the world of Formula One .",
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"As with many jokes, it started with a small jab at the expense of Newark, New Jersey.",
"Conan O'Brien is locked in a playful feud with the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.",
"The gags continued Monday night when \"Tonight Show\" host Conan O'Brien ventured into \"the biggest scandal in the country that's now involving a late-night host.\"",
"Conan O'Brien was, of course, referring to Conan O'Brien's continuing comical conflict with the city of Newark, Newark, New Jersey, and Newark, New Jersey's mayor, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.",
"It all began on September 23, when Conan O'Brien, in Conan O'Brien's nightly comical spiel, joked that the mayor of Newark, New Jersey's plan to improve citizens' health care in Newark, New Jersey's largest city \"would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.\"",
"The Internet-savvy mayor, who has more than 800,000 followers on Twitter, fired back on YouTube, stating that Conan O'Brien is no longer welcome at Newark International Airport.",
"\"I'm officially putting you on the Newark, NJ, no fly list -- try JFK, buddy,\" the mayor of Newark, New Jersey quipped.",
"That video has since amassed more than 119,000 hits on YouTube.",
"The verbal melee didn't stop there.",
"Watch the jousting escalate » .",
"Conan O'Brien retaliated by sarcastically stating that Newark, New Jersey is \"one of America's greatest cities,\" and proceeded to pair Newark, New Jersey's \"thriving arts scene\" with an image of a graffiti-ridden wall and Newark, New Jersey's \"exciting regional cuisine\" with a Dunkin Donuts sign.",
"He then banned the mayor of Newark, New Jersey from an airport in Burbank, California, near Los Angeles.",
"On October 1, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, claiming solidarity with all New Jersey's mayors, retorted by posting another YouTube video outlawing O'Brien from the entire state.",
"\"Now listen, you may like Boardwalk and Park Place, but the only way you're going to get to them is on a Monopoly board,\" the mayor of Newark, New Jersey said.",
"Conan O'Brien, forced to pull out the big guns, Friday banished the mayor of Newark, New Jersey from California entirely.",
"In Conan O'Brien's latest barb on Monday, Conan O'Brien revealed that the mayor of a neighboring New Jersey city, Elizabeth, had sent Conan O'Brien a letter welcoming Conan O'Brien \"with open arms to Elizabeth.\"",
"Mayor Chris Bollwage claims that Newark airport's Terminal A actually lies within Mayor Chris Bollwage's municipality and Mayor Chris Bollwage intends to rename it the Conan O'Brien Terminal if and when the talk show host ever decides to visit.",
"Conan O'Brien then launched a \"campaign to surround and crush\" Newark and the \"drunk on power\" Mayor Booker by making courteous tongue-in-cheek overtures to other adjacent towns, forming a \"geographic toilet seat around Newark, New Jersey.\"",
"The charismatic Booker, widely popular in a state often plagued by corrupt politicians, was elected in 2006.",
"He has promoted a sense of urban renewal in Newark, New Jersey, New Jersey's largest city, which has suffered high crime and poverty rates over the past few decades.",
"the mayor of Newark, New Jersey's office had no statement available early this week regarding the newest swipe at the mayor of Newark, New Jersey's city.",
"The humorous altercation illustrates a recent shift in the media landscape.",
"\"The Tonight Show,\" catering to a traditional broadcast audience, now competes with the Web's constantly streaming flow of viral videos, which are popular amongst O'Brien's target audience.",
"What will become of the sparring remains to be seen.",
"While Conan O'Brien did invite the mayor of Newark, New Jersey to be a guest on \"The Tonight Show\" and the mayor extended Conan O'Brien an invitation to Newark, New Jersey, such visits could pose a problem, seeing as how each is banned from the other's state.",
"\"I think we have to meet in neutral territory\" O'Brien said on Friday's show.",
"\"I think we're going to meet in Lebanon, Kansas.\"",
"That community is often billed as the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states.",
"On Friday, the dispute was widened by Joe Territo, content director for NJ.com, a Web site affiliated with 13 major New Jersey newspapers.",
"Joe Territo declared through an article on the site that O'Brien is barred from using NJ.com because of Conan O'Brien's anti-Jersey sentiments.",
"\"Perhaps Conan O'Brien has never been to NJ.com, and perhaps Conan O'Brien has never been interested in visiting NJ.com,\" Joe Territo wrote.",
"\"Given the nature of forbidden fruit, no doubt Conan O'Brien wants to use NJ.com now, and Conan O'Brien cannot, for Conan O'Brien is banned.\"",
"\"We're hitting Conan hard, and where it hurts most: Right smack in the Internet,\" Joe Territo said.",
"On \"The Tonight Show\" O'Brien wrapped up Joe Territo's latest Newark segment, but not the feud, by declaring, \"It's your move, Mayor Booker.\""
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"The \"feud\" began after the comic joked the mayor's health care plan .",
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"(CNN) --",
"World number two Novak Novak Djokovic beat John Isner in a grueling four hour 16 minute encounter to secure Serbia's passage into the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup on Sunday.",
"Serbia led the United States 2-1 overnight in Belgrade with Novak Djokovic favored to beat the giant Isner to clinch the tie, but Novak Djokovic was given an almighty scare before winning 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-7 6-4.",
"Serbia will now play Croatia at home on July 9-11 in the quarterfinals of the premier team event in tennis after Serbia's first-ever victory in the World Group.",
"Novak Djokovic, urged on by a partisan home crowd, looked headed for a routine win as Novak Djokovic took the opening set, but Novak Djokovic was broken twice in the second as Isner leveled.",
"Novak Djokovic returned the compliment in the third set to lead two sets to one, but Novak Djokovic could not force home the advantage and Novak Djokovic lost a fourth set tiebreak 8-6 as Isner set up a decider.",
"A single break in the first game gave Novak Djokovic a crucial advantage, but Novak Djokovic's American opponent proceeded to save six match points before finally netting a forehand, the home hero sinking to Novak Djokovic's knees after an exhausting ordeal.",
"The defeat means Patrick McEnroe's U.S. team face a relegation playoff later this year to maintain Patrick McEnroe's U.S. team's record of playing in the World Group every year.",
"In other ties, defending champions Spain shrugged off the absence of the injured Rafael Nadal to beat Switzerland 4-1 to set-up a quarterfinal clash with France.",
"Russia edged out India 3-2 and will face Argentina who defeated Sweden 3-2 in Stockholm.",
"Returning from injury David Nalbandian was Argentina's match winner in Stockholm as David Nalbandian beat Andreas Vinciguerra 7-5 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the deciding rubber after Swedish number one Robin Soderling had drawn them level with a straight sets win over Leonardo Mayer.",
"2005 champions Croatia, last year's runners-up Czech Republic and France sealed their quarterfinal places on Saturday against Ecuador, Belgium and Germany respectively.",
"France's home clash with Spain is already whetting the appetite of tennis fans.",
"\"It'll be like a final, it's the kind of thing you dream about,\" France captain Guy Forget told the official Davis Cup Web site www.daviscup.com."
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"(CNN) --",
"Fernando Caceres is fighting for Fernando Caceres's life in a Buenos Aires hospital after being shot in the head during an armed robbery.",
"The 40-year-old Caceres, who played for Argentina in the 1994 World Cup, was gunned down as a gang tried to steal his BMW car in the early hours of Sunday morning.",
"A bullet has reportedly entered Fernando Caceres's head through Fernando Caceres's right eye, and Fernando Caceres remains in a coma in a grave condition.",
"Fernando Caceres was visited by Fernando Caceres's former Boca Juniors teammate and national coach Diego Maradona, who clearly distressed, told reporters outside a Buenos Aires hospital that crime was rife in the Argentine capital.",
"\"This is a time bomb, going out is a constant danger,\" Maradona told television station TyCSports.",
"\"This happens every day, nobody does anything and something must be done.",
"\"Fernando Caceres is in the hands of God and I hope it helps,\" Maradona added.",
"The attack happened in the Fort Apache area of Buenos Aires, which is where Manchester City star Carlos Tevez grew up, and is notorious for high crime levels.",
"Players from two of Fernando Caceres's former clubs, Boca Juniors and Independiente displayed a banner of support for Fernando Caceres ahead of Players from two of his former clubs, Argentinos Juniors and Independiente's later match in the Argentine league on Sunday.",
"Fernando Caceres won the league title with River Plate in 1991 and the European Cup Winners Cup with Spanish side Real Zaragoza in 1995.",
"Fernando Caceres played 24 games for Argentina, helping Argentina to the Copa America in 1993 before appearing at the World Cup finals in the United States a year later.",
"Fernando Caceres ended Fernando Caceres's playing career at Fernando Caceres's original club of Boca Juniors in 2007 and has been coaching at Independiente."
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"Fernando Caceres shot in the head as gang try to steal Fernando Caceres's BMW car in Buenos Aires .",
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"Ronaldinho's participation in this summer's World Cup finals now appears in serious doubt after the AC Milan playmaker was not named in Brazil coach Carlos Dunga's 22-man squad for next month's friendly international against Ireland in London.",
"The 29-year-old former Barcelona star has been in outstanding form for the Italian giants this season -- but Ronaldinho has still not done enough to force Ronaldinho's way into Dunga's thinking for the match at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.",
"Ronaldinho is not the only high-profile player not selected for the match, with Chelsea central defender Alex also left out of Brazil coach Carlos Dunga's 22-man squad for next month's friendly international against Ireland in London.",
"Manchester City forward Robinho, who is currently on loan for the rest of the season with Brazilian club Santos, is in Brazil coach Carlos Dunga's 22-man squad for next month's friendly international against Ireland in London -- while there is also a place for full-back Dani Alves, although the Barcelona defender is currently sidelined with a calf injury that is expected to keep him out for around three weeks.",
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"Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar (Inter Milan), Doni (Roma).",
"Defenders: Maicon (Inter Milan), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Lucio (Inter Milan), Juan (Roma), Thiago Silva (AC Milan), Luisao (Benfica), Michel Bastos (Lyon).",
"Midfielders: Gilberto (Cruzeiro), Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos), Felipe Melo (Juventus), Josue (Wolfsburg), Kleberson (Flamengo), Ramires (Benfica), Elano (Galatasaray).",
"Forwards: Kaka (Real Madrid), Robinho (Santos), Nilmar (Villarreal), Luis Fabiano (Sevilla), Adriano (Flamengo), Julio Baptista (Roma)."
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"One thing Jennifer Lopez hasn't missed about not constantly being in the spotlight anymore: constantly watching Jennifer Lopez's weight.",
"\"Part of my business is being in shape and looking good.",
"You can't lie to yourself about it,\" Lopez, 40, told the January issue of Allure.",
"\"But I'm not the monster I used to be in the exercise department.\"",
"Jennifer Lopez's reprieve likely is coming to an end.",
"The mother of 17-month-old twins Max and Emme released a dance track, \"Fresh Out of the Oven,\" in October and performed at the American Music Awards in December.",
"Jennifer Lopez's new album, \"Love,\" drops in January.",
"As well as having to hit the gym again, J-Lo may also have to deal with that other flip side of fame -- the paparazzi.",
"\"It's a business.",
"Once they stop making money off of you they stop coming around,\" Jennifer Lopez said.",
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"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) --",
"A former \"enemy combatant\" who was held in a South Carolina Naval brig for six years with no charges was sentenced Thursday to eight years and four months in prison, a Justice Department spokesman said.",
"Ali al-Marri pleaded guilty in federal court in Illinois in May to conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization.",
"Ali al-Marri could have received a maximum of 15 years in prison.",
"\"This administration is committed to bringing terrorists to justice for terrorists's crimes,\" Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said.",
"\"Al-Marri, who has been in U.S. custody since December 2001, was dispatched by the highest levels of al Qaeda to carry out al Qaeda's terrorist objectives in America.\"",
"A defense attorney for the Qatari citizen, who had been a student at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, when he was arrested, said the judge ruled on a lesser sentence to reflect the nearly six years Ali al-Marri already spent at the Naval brig in Charleston, South Carolina.",
"\"We're pleased with the result,\" said the attorney, Larry Lustberg.",
"\"Ali al-Marri is also very pleased.\"",
"Ali al-Marri was transferred to a federal prison in Illinois in March after President Obama ordered a review of Ali al-Marri's case.",
"his case was ultimately referred to the Justice Department, which filed charges.",
"The Pentagon said Ali al-Marri trained at a terror camp in Afghanistan, met al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and \"volunteered for a martyr mission,\" according to court documents filed earlier in his case.",
"According to a copy of Ali al-Marri's plea agreement, Ali al-Marri admitted that Ali al-Marri \"knowingly conspired and agreed with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed\" to provide support to al Qaeda and to work under the organization's direction and control.",
"\"Between 1998 and 2001, Ali al-Marri attended various training camps because Ali al-Marri wished to engage in jihad,\" the document said.",
"While in various training camps and in al Qaeda safe houses in Pakistan, Ali al-Marri was known by the name Abdul-Rahman al-Qatari, according to the documents.",
"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed approached Ali al-Marri in 2001 about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's offer to assist al Qaeda, the documents said.",
"\"Ali al-Marri was instructed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to enter the United States no later than September 10, 2001, with an understanding that Ali al-Marri was to remain in the United States for an undetermined length of time,\" the documents said.",
"Ali al-Marri applied to Bradley using the same e-mail address Ali al-Marri used to communicate with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the documents said.",
"At Bradley, Ali al-Marri \"rarely attended classes and was in a failing status by the end of Ali al-Marri's first semester.\"",
"On September 21, 2001, Ali al-Marri traveled to another central Illinois university and created five e-mail accounts under different aliases, the documents said.",
"\"By this time, Ali al-Marri knew that al Qaeda was responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and fully understood why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had directed Ali al-Marri to be in the United States before that date.\"",
"Ali al-Marri used the new e-mail accounts to inform Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of Ali al-Marri's whereabouts and activities, and also gave Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Ali al-Marri's cell phone number in encoded format, according to the documents.",
"In addition, Ali al-Marri conducted online research \"related to various cyanide compounds.",
"The defendant's focus was on various cyanide substances ...",
"Ali al-Marri reviewed toxicity levels, the locations where these items could be purchased, and specific pricing of the compounds,\" the documents said.",
"Ali al-Marri also explored obtaining sulfuric acid.",
"An almanac found at Ali al-Marri's residence was bookmarked \"at pages showing dams, waterways and tunnels in the United States,\" the documents said.",
"Ali al-Marri initially was arrested on credit card fraud charges in December 2001.",
"But Ali al-Marri's continued confinement without charges mushroomed into a major legal case before federal prosecutors filed charges in February.",
"The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that Ali al-Marri's case was rendered moot by a decision to indict Ali al-Marri on federal conspiracy charges, and granted the Obama administration's request to dismiss Ali al-Marri's challenge of the president's unilateral authority to detain Ali al-Marri indefinitely without charges.",
"Ali al-Marri was transferred to civilian custody and taken to Illinois in March.",
"The Supreme Court's ruling, however, meant that the larger constitutional issue of the president's power to detain accused terrorists and other criminals in the United States remains unresolved.",
"CNN's Carol Cratty contributed to this report."
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"Prosecutors say Ali al-Marri volunteered for \"martyr mission,\" met bin Laden ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) --",
"Iraq has appointed Iraq's first ambassador to Kuwait in two decades, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.",
"Mohammed Hussein Bahr Al-Ulum was appointed to the post, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said.",
"While Iraq has had an embassy and a chargé d'affaires in Kuwait since the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein fell in 2003, Iraq has not had an ambassador there since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.",
"That invasion resulted in U.S.'s launching Operation Desert Storm, U.S.'s first Iraq war, in 1991.",
"Kuwaiti's Kuna state news agency also reported the appointment, saying, \"Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations have been developing since the fall of the Baath regime, with both nations expressing desires to develop bilateral relations.\"",
"In February 2009, a Kuwaiti envoy made a Kuwaiti envoy's country's highest-level visit to Iraq since That invasion.",
"Sheikh Mohammed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, Kuwait's deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said at the time that Kuwait wanted to strengthen and develop ties between both nations, and congratulated Iraq on Iraq's recent provincial elections.",
"\"This is Iraq which we have wagered on and we congratulate the Iraqis for this,\" al-Sabah said, according to Kuwait's official news agency.",
"Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who met with the delegation during the trip last year, said in a statement he told the Kuwaitis that the Baath regime \"harmed Arab relations.\"",
"\"Some Arabs still view Iraq the same way Some Arabs did under Saddam, but we tell Some Arabs Iraq today is built on a constitution and on democracy,\" al-Maliki said at the time."
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"(CNN) --",
"An organization of Christian physicians argued Wednesday against an impending rollback of a federal rule allowing health care workers to refuse to provide certain reproductive services, saying it's discriminatory.",
"Rule protects the rights of health care providers who refuse to participate in certain procedures.",
"The Bush White House proposed Rule in August, and Rule was enacted January 20, the day Obama took office.",
"Rule expanded on a 30-year-old law establishing a \"conscience clause\" for health care professionals who don't want to perform abortions.",
"Under Rule, workers in health care settings -- from doctors to janitors -- can refuse to provide services, information or advice to patients on subjects such as contraception, family planning, blood transfusions and even vaccine counseling if they are morally against it.",
"The Obama administration is expected to reverse Rule shortly, touching off a new wave of heated debate over what remains one of the most sensitive and emotional hot-button issues in American politics.",
"\" 'Right of conscience' is under attack, and that is dangerous for our country, our health care system and our patients,\" said Dr. David Stevens, head of the 15,000-member Christian Medical Association.",
"\"When the state demands that we surrender our conscience, it becomes totalitarian and dangerous.",
"Do we want our professional schools to ethically neuter doctors of all moral convictions that are not approved by the government?\"",
"Watch CNN's Sanjay Gupta discuss the 'conscience clause' » .",
"Dr. David Stevens, head of the 15,000-member Christian Medical Association was speaking on behalf of Freedom to Care, an umbrella organization of 36 groups working to prevent a rollback of Rule.",
"Watch why one pharmacist says the 'conscience clause'\" is needed » .",
"Many health care organizations, including the 15,000-member Christian Medical Association, believe that health care providers have an obligation to their patients to advise them of the options despite their own beliefs.",
"And critics of the current rule argue that there are laws on the books protecting health-care professionals when it comes to refusing care for personal reasons.",
"\"We don't make God-like decisions.",
"That's not what it's about for us.",
"It's about helping the patient make their own decision.",
"... No one appointed us to be the ultimate person to pass judgment,\" said Mary Jean Schumann, a member of the American Nurses Association.",
"Dr. Suzanne T. Poppema, board chairwoman of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, praised Obama \"for placing good health care above ideological demands.\"",
"\"Physicians across the country were outraged when the Bush administration, in the Bush administration's final days, limited women's access to reproductive health care,\" she said.",
"\"Hundreds of doctors protested these midnight regulations and urged Obama to repeal them quickly.",
"We are thrilled that Obama [is taking steps] to ensure that our patients' health is once again protected.\"",
"Dr. David Stevens, head of the 15,000-member Christian Medical Association argued that there is \"a well-funded and increasingly successful effort to discriminate against health care professionals based upon their deeply held religious and moral beliefs.\"",
"Rescinding Rule will send \"a clear message,\" Dr. David Stevens, head of the 15,000-member Christian Medical Association said: \"It's open season on health care professionals of conscience.",
"Discriminate at will.",
"If anyone should understand the ugliness of discrimination, it is our first African-American president.\"",
"Dr. David Stevens, head of the 15,000-member Christian Medical Association predicted that a large number of specialists in obstetrics and gynecology would leave the medical profession if Rule is repealed.",
"A final announcement from the Obama administration is expected with the conclusion of a 30-day public comment period on the proposed rule change.",
"\"We do not want to impose new limitations on services that would allow providers to refuse to provide to women and their families services like family planning and contraception that would actually help prevent the need for an abortion in the first place,\" a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official said in February.",
"CNN's Saundra Young contributed to this report."
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"\" 'Right of conscience' is under attack,\" one doctor says .",
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"(CNN) -- Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared martial law beginning Friday night in the southern province of Maguindanao, where 57 people were killed last week, an army spokesman told CNN Saturday.",
"Army spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr. said martial law -- under which police can make arrests without a warrant -- went into effect at 9 p.m. Congress would have to approve any extension beyond 60 days.",
"Brawner said the measure was invoked to impose peace on the region after the unrest, which led to troops being mobilized.",
"\"Life is to resume normally and martial law is established to prevent new violence, with troops on the ground monitoring any possible violence breakout,\" he said.",
"\"But the civilian government will be running the affairs of the province, not a military governor.\"",
"Military police have detained three brothers and their father on suspicion of involvement in the unrest: Akmad Ampatuan, the vice governor of Maguindanao; Anwar Ampatuan, the mayor of Sherif Auguak, Maguindanao's capital; and Zaldy Ampatuan, governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.",
"Andal Ampatuan Sr., the patriarch, became ill and was hospitalized after Andal Ampatuan Sr. too was taken in.",
"\"Local government will function, Local government will prevent armed groups from wreaking havoc ... and Local government will allow the officials to search and find the guilty parties,\" Brawner said.",
"Security forces on Friday searched the home of Andal Ampatuan Jr., mayor of Datu Unsay and son of the provincial governor of Maguindanao, according to Brawner.",
"Authorities say Andal Ampatuan Jr. directed the November 23 politically motivated killings.",
"Weapons were found in the house, Brawner said.",
"On Tuesday, Philippine authorities charged Ampatuan and other suspects with 25 counts of murder in the November 23 politically motivated killings.",
"Still more suspects were taken into custody Friday.",
"The Philippine military is investigating The Philippine military's own forces in connection with the case as well, Brawner said.",
"The National Bureau of Investigation has moved a third witness to Manila for questioning, the Philippines News Agency reported Thursday.",
"\"At the moment, we are interviewing a third witness, so that we would know what a third witness knows about the incident in Maguindanao,\" NBI Director Nestor Mantaring said.",
"a third witness claimed to have been at the site during the November 23 politically motivated killings.",
"\"a third witness is very vital,\" NBI Director Nestor Mantaring said.",
"\"From what I know ... a third witness knows a lot of information regarding the November 23 politically motivated killings.\"",
"Among the victims in the November 23 politically motivated killings were the wife and sister of political candidate Ismael \"Toto\" Mangudadatu, who had sent the women to file paperwork allowing him to run for governor of Maguindanao.",
"He said he had received threats from allies of Gov. Andal Ampatuan, the father of the accused mayor, saying he would be kidnapped if he filed the papers himself.",
"Witnesses and local officials have blamed the younger Ampatuan, a longtime ally of the Philippines president and a known warlord.",
"Witnesses and local officials said the killings were an attempt to block Mangudadatu from challenging him in the May gubernatorial election.",
"Also killed were a dozen journalists who had accompanied the women.",
"Violence in the run-up to elections is not uncommon in the Philippines.",
"the November 23 politically motivated killings, however, is the worst politically motivated violence in recent Philippine history, according to state media.",
"Maguindanao is part of an autonomous region in predominantly Muslim Mindanao, which was set up in the 1990s to quell armed uprisings by people seeking an independent Muslim homeland in the predominantly Christian Asian nation.",
"Suspicion fell on Ampatuan after a government construction vehicle was found at the hastily dug mass grave that held the bodies of the massacre victims.",
"CNN's Talia Kayali contributed to this report."
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"Authorities say Andal Ampatuan Jr., mayor of Datu Unsay directed the November 23 politically motivated killings ."
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"The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) --",
"Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic launched a full-throated attack on the International War Crimes Tribunal Tuesday, as Radovan Karadzic appeared at a hearing to discuss Radovan Karadzic's refusal to appear for trial.",
"Radovan Karadzic said Radovan Karadzic \"cannot take part in something that has been bad from the start, and where my fundamental rights have been violated.\"",
"Karadzic, who is accused of responsibility for the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, says Radovan Karadzic has had insufficient time to prepare Radovan Karadzic's defense.",
"Radovan Karadzic is representing Radovan Karadzic.",
"But Judge O-Gon Kwon told Radovan Karadzic it was the court, not the defendant, who decides when the case is ready for trial.",
"Judge O-Gon Kwon advised Radovan Karadzic to participate in order to get a fair trial.",
"The judges will decide by the end of the week how to deal with the former Bosnian leader's boycott of the proceedings, Judge O-Gon Kwon said before adjourning the trial for the day.",
"Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.",
"Memories of the massacre remain raw.",
"Watch the video .",
"The charges stem partly from the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at the town of Srebrenica, in what is know Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1995.",
"Radovan Karadzic has been insisting Radovan Karadzic has not had enough time to prepare for the trial, saying there are 1.3 million pages of documents to study.",
"Radovan Karadzic denied stalling, and said imposing a lawyer on Radovan Karadzic would not help.",
"\"It is with joy that I am preparing for these proceedings,\" Radovan Karadzic said through a translator.",
"\"Nobody can get through this material better than I can, no lawyer.",
"The best possible solution would be that the defense be given sufficient time\" to prepare.",
"Radovan Karadzic rejected prosecutor Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff's assertion that Tuesday's proceedings constituted part of the trial.",
"\"I hope that this is not some kind of a trick,\" Radovan Karadzic said.",
"\"I am attending a status conference hearing.\"",
"The court cannot force a defendant to appear.",
"Radovan Karadzic, as a \"self-representing accused,\" is the only one who can cross-examine witnesses and speak in court about the substance of the charges against Radovan Karadzic.",
"However, judges can impose a lawyer on Radovan Karadzic if Radovan Karadzic continues to refuse to cooperate.",
"the trial began without Radovan Karadzic's presence on October 26, more than a year after Radovan Karadzic was captured in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.",
"Radovan Karadzic had been on the run for more than 13 years and was living in disguise in Belgrade, practicing alternative medicine at a clinic.",
"Radovan Karadzic faces life in prison if Radovan Karadzic is convicted.",
"The court cannot impose the death penalty.",
"The 1992-95 Bosnian conflict was the longest of the wars spawned by the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.",
"Backed by the government of then-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, Bosnian Serb forces seized control of more than half the country and launched a campaign against the Muslim and Croat populations.",
"Radovan Karadzic was removed from power in 1995, when the Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnian war barred anyone accused of war crimes from holding office.",
"then-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died in 2006 while on trial at The Hague."
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"Portland, Oregon (CNN) --",
"Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became \"uncooperative,\" an airline official said Wednesday.",
"Hawaiian Airlines Flight 39 took off from Portland at 10:10 a.m. with 231 passengers and a crew of 10 when -- 90 minutes into the flight -- Hawaiian Airlines Flight 39's captain decided to turn around the Boeing 767, said Keoni Wagner, the airline's vice president of public affairs.",
"Two F-15 fighter jets intercepted the Boeing 767 at 1 p.m., North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a written statement.",
"It landed at 1:16 p.m. without further incident, North American Aerospace Defense Command said.",
"The military decided that fighters should accompany the flight after receiving \"indicators\" of a problem, said Lt. Cmdr. Gary Ross, a NORAD spokesman.",
"He declined to elaborate on those indicators but noted that NORAD often must make decisions with limited amounts of time and information about whether fighter jets should accompany commercial flights that may be experiencing problems.",
"\"There was little time to react,\" he said.",
"\"The prudent thing to do was to scramble\" the jets.",
"Upon the Boeing 767's return, the passenger -- a 56-year-old Salem, Oregon, man -- was escorted from the Boeing 767 with his female companion without incident, the FBI and the Port of Portland said in a joint statement.",
"the FBI said the FBI was not releasing his name because he had not been charged.",
"the FBI agents and Port officers interviewed the passenger and his companion, the flight crew and others, then released the two and referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office for review.",
"Local and federal officers searched the Boeing 767, then allowed the Boeing 767 to depart again for Hawaii, absent the pair.",
"Oregon Air National Guard spokesman Sgt. John Hughel said command post officials told him command post officials did not know who had placed the call for the escort.",
"In a statement, the Transportation Security Administration said the captain decided to return the Boeing 767 to Portland \"due to a suspicious passenger who made threatening remarks and refused to store his carry-on bag.\"",
"Port of Portland Public Information Officer Martha Richmond told CNN that the Boeing 767 was turned around \"due to concerns the crew had.\"",
"Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Wagner said pilots occasionally return a jet to the airport from which it took off.",
"But, Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Wagner said Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Wagner had never known one of the flights to be escorted by fighter jets.",
"\"That's new for us,\" Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Wagner said.",
"John Cornelio, also a NORAD spokesman, said the command routinely monitors events in the air via the Domestic Events Network, a sort of party line that includes representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies involved in national security.",
"the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged last November that the Federal Aviation Administration notified military authorities 69 minutes after losing radio contact with Northwest Flight 188, which had overflown its destination of Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.",
"Under standard procedures, the the Federal Aviation Administration managers should have reported the incident to the Domestic Events Network five to 10 minutes after losing contact with the flight.",
"Radio contact was eventually restored and the plane was redirected to its destination, where it landed without incident.",
"Afterward, the Federal Aviation Administration promised to take steps to prevent a repeat of that failure.",
"The incident was one of two that occurred Wednesday.",
"A Northwest Airlines flight preparing to take off from Miami International Airport in Florida for Detroit's Wayne County International Airport instead taxied back to the gate after a passenger \"was heard making inappropriate remarks and acting disruptively,\" the airport said in an incident statement.",
"At the gate, local law enforcement and TSA personnel met the Boeing 767 and all passengers were taken off the plane.",
"The passenger and three companions were questioned by Miami Dade County police.",
"the Boeing 767 was searched and cleared for the Boeing 767's flight.",
"CNN's Mike M. Ahlers contributed to this story."
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"CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines (CNN) --",
"Typhoon Parma crossed the northern tip of the already storm-battered Philippines Saturday afternoon and early Sunday, killing three people, according to local media.",
"A NASA satellite image shows Typhoon Parma as it headed toward Philippines on Friday.",
"Typhoon Parma made landfall Saturday afternoon in a rural region of fishermen and farmers in Luzon, the largest of the Philippine islands.",
"Tens of thousands of people to fled Tens of thousands of people's homes for safer shelter.",
"Winds whipped the coastline and felled power lines in northernmost Cagayan Province.",
"Debris littered the roads, making evacuations even more difficult.",
"At 5 a.m. Sunday (5 p.m. Saturday ET), Parma, known locally as Typhoon Pepeng, had maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) with gusts as high as 148 kilometers (92 mph) as the eye began to leave land, heading to the northeast, according to the U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center.",
"Typhoon Parma avoided a direct hit on heavily populated Manila, but the real menace in the Philippines capital was not wind.",
"the real menace in the Philippines capital was water, and there was no escape from it.",
"Typhoon Parma was expected to dump as much as 8 to 20 inches of rain in areas still water-logged from last week's Typhoon Ketsana.",
"Typhoon Ketsana resulted in the heaviest rainfall in 40 years and at one point, 80 percent of Manila was submerged.",
"Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro appealed to Filipinos to remain in shelters even if Filipinos were in cities and towns not directly in Typhoon Parma's path.",
"Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro was worried about massive flooding and possible mudslides in mountainous regions.",
"The government deployed 10,000 troops to help with rescue and relief operations as frightened Filipinos prepared for the worst.",
"World Vision, the Christian humanitarian organization, was planning to launch relief operations Saturday evening in Isabela Province, one of the areas slammed by Parma.",
"World Vision, the Christian humanitarian organization also plans assistance for nearby Cagayan province, whose capital, Tuguegarao, is being hit hard by Parma's strong winds.",
"Arturo Fidelino, a telecommunications executive in Manila, described panicked people rushing to stock up on essential goods -- drinking water, canned food and electrical supplies.",
"\"Manila had a traumatic experience when Manila had Ketsana,\" he said.",
"\"Manila don't want that to happen again.\"",
"President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo placed the country \"under the state of calamity.\"",
"President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said disaster-relief crews in vulnerable areas must be equipped with life-saving kits, boats, portable generators and trucks.",
"Ketsana, which swallowed whole houses and buses over the weekend, killed 246 in the Philippines.",
"It later strengthened into a typhoon.",
"An additional 38 are missing, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.",
"The storm affected nearly 2 million people and forced the evacuation of 567,000.",
"CNN's Eunice Yoon and Pamela Boykoff in Cabantuan City, and Josh Levs in Atlanta contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Rain's gone from being a backup dancer to the biggest thing in Asian pop culture, an actor and singer who has sold millions of albums.",
"The 27-year-old South Korean has even faced down U.S. comedian Steven Colbert in a spoof dance-off.",
"The comedy skit came about after Rain placed higher than U.S. comedian Steven Colbert in Time Magazine's 2008 online poll of the 100 Most Influential People.",
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"Rain, real name Jung Ji-hoon, broke into the notoriously tough world of South Korean show business with JYP Entertainment when Rain was just 18 years old.",
"Rain made Rain's first mark in Hollywood last year with a role in \"Speed Racer\" appearing alongside Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox.",
"As a singer with five albums to Rain's name, Rain's faced thousands of screaming fans at concerts across the world, and recently Rain faced your questions.",
"Watch the show and find out what makes Rain tick."
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"(CNN) --",
"Digital cameras are now as common and affordable to the average family as the Polaroid of the '60s.",
"A self-admitted tech geek, Tech enthusiast Chris Pirillo is president of Lockergnome.com, a blogging network.",
"Best thing about 'em?",
"You don't even have to take your film in to the corner drugstore to get developed -- because digital cameras don't rely on film to make their pictures \"stick.\"",
"Thanks to technology, the entire process, from clicking the shutter to printing the pictures, is now entirely within the power of the consumer.",
"Maybe you've taken a picture that's just not as perfect as you'd like it to be.",
"Instead of being at the mercy of a darkroom-shackled photo lackey to improve upon it, you've got more tools than ever to take it upon yourself to edit, store, organize, and share your images with the world.",
"Here's a roundup of 10 free, and mostly free, online tools for the budding digital photographer: . 1. Picnik --",
"Summed up from the site: \"Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools.",
"Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.\"",
"If you already use Flickr for your photos (here's what I do with mine), you're only a click away from taking a Picnik.",
"That's how I discovered it, and it's worked fairly well for me to this point.",
"2. Splashup-- Splashup \"is a powerful editing tool and photo manager.",
"With all the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time, and allows you to edit many images at once.\"",
"You'd wonder how something this extensive could be free - and it all runs within the browser.",
"3. FotoFlexer --",
"FotoFlexer bills itself as \"the world's most advanced online image editor.\"",
"With it, you can edit photos from Photobucket, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and \"more places.\"",
"I'm not quite sure what \"more places\" means, but last I checked, this does not include a phone booth.",
"4. Pixlr -- \"Pixlr is a free online photo editor; jump in and start: edit, adjust, filter.",
"It's just what you imagine!\"",
"Alexa says it's the \"fastest growing photo editor online.\"",
"If these resources are starting to look similar to your eye, remember you don't have to use all of them - just pick the one that works best for your needs.",
"5. flauntR-- flauntR is a suite that includes the ability to edit images, add effects, add text, and print the results on everything from mugs to posters.",
"You might be overwhelmed with the options here, but... isn't that better than being underwhelmed?",
"6. Photoshop Express-- Adobe's Photoshop was really the first image editor of Adobe's Photoshop's kind to herald in the age of digital photography, though Adobe's Photoshop was designed for professionals and Adobe's Photoshop's endless options could be daunting (and bank- breakingly expensive) for the layman.",
"Now, Photoshop.com is on the Web to help that very same layman -- for free or plus levels of membership -- edit, store, and share his photos.",
"Lots of helpful tutorials promise to guide the casual user through editing pickles.",
"7. PiZap-- PiZap's tagline is \"fun with photos made easy.\"",
"It's another flavor of photo editor/storage center that, like flauntR, allows you to print the results to mugs, bags, and t-shirts.",
"PiZap invites developers to check out PiZap's API for more personalization options (which is usually a good thing).",
"8. Aviary-- Aviary lets you: \"edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more.",
"All you need is a Web browser.\"",
"This particular brand looks to be the one to beat, as This particular brand have several different tools in development.",
"I'm guessing that within five years, this one is going to be at the top of every person's list of Web-based image editors.",
"9. DrPic-- DrPic says DrPic--'s \"the easiest free online picture editor\" and that DrPic-- has \"processed over five million pictures.\"",
"I say they're easy enough, but not necessarily THE easiest.",
"Everything's relative, no?",
"Cameroid -- Cameroid lets you \"take crazy (or not) snaps with your webcam straight from your browser.\"",
"I featured this one in a CNN.com live video a while ago, and this one certainly deserves to be mentioned again.",
"If you're looking for something else to do with your webcam, give your webcam a cameroid (which isn't as painful as it might sound).",
"As you can see, there are plenty of options for photo editing, storing, and sharing out there.",
"Some are going to fit your personal workflow more neatly than others, so it's worth it to try a few and see what works best for your needs.",
"Or maybe you swear by something that I totally missed?",
"Don't be a miser - share it with the rest of the class!",
"We'd love to know about it."
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"Photographers today have more tools than ever to edit, organize and share images .",
"FotoFlexer bills itself as \"the world's most advanced online image editor\"",
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"U.S. helicopters carrying food hovered above the ground in one area of the battered Haitian capital on Saturday, flinging out boxes to the anxious crowd.",
"It was a chaotic scene as hundreds of Haitians without food and water for four days swarmed toward the boxes, ignoring the wind and dust kicked up from the helicopters' blades.",
"A similar scene erupted Friday when a food convoy with the World Food Programme was forced to leave an area after men in the anxious crowd starting pushing and shoving men in the crowd's way to the trucks.",
"Elsewhere, people stood in long, orderly lines for food, according to a CNN crew, although anxiety about whether there was enough to go around permeated the wait.",
"In Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, U.S. troops handed out about 2,500 meals Saturday, before U.S. troops ran out.",
"Seventy soldiers arrived with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division in Petionville to set up a distribution base and a landing zone for helicopters.",
"Seventy soldiers began handing out meals about 2 p.m.",
"\"Our goal is to get supplies out to the people who need it the most,\" Col. Mike Foster said.",
"\"We got a good start.\"",
"Authorities set up more than a dozen aid distribution points across battered Port-au-Prince, as aid workers toted medical supplies into the battered island nation.",
"Still, although some progress could be observed four days after Tuesday's devastating earthquake, problems persisted.",
"Get the latest developments on Haiti .",
"A CNN crew observed U.N. World Food Programme personnel who were trying to move food from a warehouse damaged from Tuesday's devastating earthquake.",
"The building has large cracks up The building's side, weakening the walls.",
"The building's doors could not be forced fully open to allow a forklift through, so workers were painstakingly hand-carrying the supplies out.",
"Despite the difficulties, the Haitian ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph, said the Haitian ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph did not believe that violence will increase, as long as distribution of food continues.",
"\"I think it won't get any more violent than it is now,\" the Haitian ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph said.",
"Also Saturday, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush kicked off a fundraising drive -- a donation push called the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, similar to the appeal led by Bill Clinton and Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, for the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami.",
"The drive was announced at the White House, with President Obama flanked by Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.",
"\"We're moving forward with one of the largest relief efforts in our history to save lives and to deliver relief that averts an even larger catastrophe,\" President Obama said.",
"President Obama said President Obama's predecessors will tap into \"the incredible generosity, the ingenuity, the can-do spirit\" of Americans.",
"See full coverage of Haiti .",
"former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush said the best way for Americans to help Haiti is to donate money.",
"\"I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water,\" George W. Bush said.",
"\"Just send your cash.\"",
"Aid delivery has been slowed by damaged roads, the destroyed port and bottlenecks at the airport.",
"As TV images showed people jostling for aid, U.S. officials reiterated what U.S. officials said has been a continuation of relief efforts: Ongoing search and rescue operations; the establishment of 14 aid distribution points; finding alternatives to the damaged port, distributing water containers, water purification units, medical supplies, and establishing medical clinics and field hospitals.",
"Israel was establishing a field hospital to treat thousands of victims from the earthquake, expected to absorb 500 casualties a day.",
"The U.N. World Food Programme said it plans to reach 2 million people \"with one-week rations of ready-to-eat food,\" and UNICEF said it is distributing water purification tablets, dehydration salts and other supplies, specifically to halt diarrhea infections and diseases.",
"The U.S. Southern Command said the military is supplying many resources.",
"About 4,200 U.S. military personnel are currently supporting task force operations, and 6,300 military personnel are scheduled to arrive by Monday, The U.S. Southern Command said.",
"Aid efforts from the USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft carrier off the coast of Haiti, were in full gear Saturday, with flights transporting concrete-breaking equipment, medical supplies and water.",
"Some of those flights are ferrying aid from the airport to the surrounding region and choppers have rescued two American citizens.",
"The U.S. Agency for International Development said Saturday that the USS Carl Vinson has delivered more than 30 pallets of relief supplies for transport by helicopters.",
"The U.S. Naval Ship Comfort pushed out of the Port of Baltimore for Haiti on Saturday and is expected to arrive late next week.",
"A full-scale medical hospital, The U.S. Naval Ship Comfort is equipped with one of the largest trauma facilities in the United States.",
"It was in Port-au -Prince in 2007, and again in 2009, on humanitarian missions, and its medical workers tended to many Haitians during those visits.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Haiti on Saturday, with top relief officials and aid.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returned to the United States later Saturday with Americans who had been evacuated, State Department officials said.",
"USAID chief, Rajiv Shah, who as traveling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said some roads have been cleared in Haiti and that water purifications systems have been sent.",
"A major shipment of medical aid was being trucked to Haiti through the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a Red Cross spokesman said.",
"Six truckloads of \"urgently needed medical equipment,\" including a field hospital, and 50 people specializing in health, water, and sanitation, were en route, a Red Cross spokesman said.",
"A Finnish Red Cross plane also landed in Port-au-Prince with a \"badly needed mobile medical clinic, a Red Cross spokesman said.",
"CNN's Karl Penhaul, Arthur Brice, Elise Labott, Laurie Ure and Dugald McConnell contributed to this report."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"Deadly blasts targeting foreign nationals in the Afghan capital Friday killed at least 17 people and wounded many others.",
"Authorities were trying to determine how many people died and the nationalities of those slain.",
"Kabir Al-Amiri, an employee at Kabul hospital, said eight Indians and one Pakistani national were among the dead.",
"Afghan Interior Ministry officials said an Italian was killed, and the Indian Embassy said four Indians were killed in the attack.",
"Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks near the Safi Landmark Hotel in the neighborhood of Shahr-E-Naw, where there are a number of government buildings and U.N. offices as well as supermarkets, banks, diplomatic facilities and villas for well-to-do Afghans.",
"The force of the first explosion -- at about 6:30 a.m. (9 p.m. Thursday ET) -- shook parts of the Afghan capital as windows shattered and smoke billowed.",
"The sound of gunfire filled the air.",
"The attack started with a suicide car bomb and four suicide bombers with explosive-laden vests, said Taliban spokesman Zaidullah Mujahid.",
"Three of four suicide bombers with explosive-laden vests were killed, Taliban spokesman Zaidullah Mujahid said.",
"About 20 minutes later, a second large explosion occurred.",
"Afghan police blocked off roads leading to the area of the blasts.",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman contributed to this report ."
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"Three bombers were killed, Taliban spokesman says .",
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"(CNN) --",
"\"The Blind Side\" could have been filmed anywhere, says Tim Bourne, an independent producer who worked on the film.",
"But there's a reason producers brought the project to Georgia: money.",
"\"There's nothing in [the movie] that couldn't have been shot in any midrange urban setting.",
"The reason, and the sole reason, it was shot in Georgia was the tax incentives,\" Tim Bourne, an independent producer who worked on the film said.",
"Georgia boasts one of the highest tax credits in the United States: a 20 percent base tax credit, with an additional 10 percent if a Georgia logo appears somewhere in the project.",
"The Oscar-nominated \"Blind Side\" is one of many films that's taken advantage of the incentives to shoot in the Empire State of the South, incentives that also include a diverse set of locations, state-of-the-art facilities and large production crews.",
"Recently, another production, \"Hall Pass,\" written by Peter and Bobby Farrelly (\"There's Something About Mary\"), started filming in the Atlanta area.",
"The film, starring Owen Wilson and Jenna Fischer, is about a woman who gives her husband permission to have an affair.",
"It called for a New England location -- standard for the brothers, who are from Rhode Island -- but tax incentives led the production crew south, producers said.",
"Georgia is far from the only state offering filmmakers opportunities to leave Hollywood.",
"Indeed, it's one of 44 states offering incentives in hopes of attracting projects that will help 44 states offering incentives in hopes of attracting projects that will help their economies's economies, according to the Tax Foundation.",
"\"No one is trying to compete with L.A. from a technical standpoint,\" Bourne said.",
"\"They're certainly competing from a financial standpoint, though.",
"The name of the game is all about tax incentives.",
"It's the sad truth.",
"\"Films are made in a particular place strictly because of financial rebates,\" he continued.",
"\"If, tomorrow, Louisiana or ... any state with a crew base, rather, came up with a better incentive program, that's where the work would be -- overnight.\"",
"Incentives differ from state to state.",
"In most cases, filmmakers are able to apply for a tax credit or rebate as long as filmmakers meet the state's minimum standards for expenditures and utilize local crews, some of whom don't belong to unions.",
"However, Bill Thompson, deputy commissioner at the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office, said bigger production companies usually prefer to work with union workers.",
"Louisiana, one of the first states to develop an incentive program eight years ago, has found exposure in front of the camera with films such as \"Ray\" and \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.\"",
"\"Green Lantern,\" set for release in 2011, is one of many projects whose makers opted to film in the state after the state increased the state's film production tax credit to 30 percent in 2009, said Chris Stelly, director of the Louisiana Office of Film and TV.",
"But the state doesn't just attract projects because of the state's high tax credit, Chris Stelly, director of the Louisiana Office of Film and TV said.",
"\"No matter how big your incentive is, if someone doesn't have a good experience, someone're not going to be back,\" he said.",
"Warner Bros. Entertainment is what Chris Stelly, director of the Louisiana Office of Film and TV calls a repeat customer.",
"Michael Walbrecht, vice president of Studio & Production Affairs at Warner Bros., said Warner Bros. Entertainment brings a lot of projects to the state.",
"It's the third most popular place the company films, behind Los Angeles and New York.",
"\"So far, Warner Bros. Entertainment've had great experiences in the [Southeast],\" Walbrecht said.",
"There's no denying the tremendous impact the film industry has had on each state.",
"Hotels, rental cars, restaurants, equipment rentals, local crews, props, wardrobes and local extras are just some of the ways the film industry gives back to the area the film industry films in.",
"According to the Web site for Georgia's Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office, TV networks, Hollywood studios, production companies and independent producers invested more than $521 million in Georgia in fiscal year 2008-09; the state estimates the economic impact of this investment at $929 million.",
"the state has experienced economic success, as well.",
"the state's Economic Development department's Web site says the incentives have generated thousands of jobs and more than $2 billion since the program began in 2002.",
"\"With some of the bigger movies, [there are] hundreds of extras on set,\" Thompson said.",
"\"Those people all get paid something per day.",
"This is especially a big deal in small towns that have never had a film [shoot] there.",
"To spend a few million dollars in a rural area [makes a big difference].\"",
"Even California, the home of the business, has gotten into the act.",
"The state recently introduced a 20 percent tax credit, though The state's incentives aren't as broad as in other states.",
"For example, TV shows to air on basic cable qualify for the credit, whereas shows on broadcast networks do not.",
"Walbrecht said the amount of larger movies and TV shows filming in smaller states will continue to rise, which is one reason California was prompted to create incentives.",
"\"The state realized The state's iconic industry was moving elsewhere,\" Walbrecht said.",
"Meanwhile, away from Hollywood, the competition is getting stiffer.",
"North Carolina became a major player in the filmmaking business thanks to such productions as the TV show \"Dawson's Creek,\" which filmed in the coastal city of Wilmington and helped create a thriving film industry there.",
"So when \"The Last Song\" -- set in Wilmington -- began filming in seaside Savannah, Georgia, hard feelings were inevitable.",
"\"You can't dwell on what you lost; you have to keep going and move forward,\" said Aaron Syrett, director of the North Carolina Film Office.",
"\"It happens all the time, to every state.\"",
"Legislation to raise the 15 percent tax credit was proposed before \"The Last Song\" chose not to film in North Carolina.",
"The state's new refund, 25 percent, went into effect January 1.",
"\"North Carolina're not trying to [have] the highest refund.",
"North Carolina're trying to be the smartest,\" Syrett said.",
"In other words, offer a hefty tax rebate -- and roll camera."
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"Louisiana was one of first states to develop incentive program eight years ago ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an unannounced visit to Marjah on Sunday to see the gains made after a massive military offensive by Afghan and international troops to wrest control of Marjah from Taliban.",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai toured Marjah with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.",
"Marjah residents remain skeptical of U.S. troops and the newly installed local government that has moved in and taken over, said U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, who was in charge of the Marjah offensive.",
"They want to know what Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government is going to be able to do for them, he said.",
"\"We are in competition every day for the confidence and support of the population -- we're in competition with Taliban,\" Nicholson told reporters last week.",
"\"We have a very narrow window of opportunity here in Marjah to make that first impression and you get one shot at that first impression,\" Nicholson said.",
"Dubbed Operation Moshtarak, the Marjah offensive was launched last month by an international coalition of 15,000 troops including Afghans, Americans, Britons, Canadians, Danes, and Estonians.",
"Marjah has long been a bastion of pro-Taliban sentiment and is where Taliban had set up a shadow government.",
"Marjah is a key area in Afghanistan's heroin trade and full of the opium used to fund the insurgency.",
"The hope now is for the United States to persuade the locals to change the locals's crops from poppies -- grown to produce opium for Taliban's drug trade -- and instead grow crops like wheat, which can help them survive and provide income as well.",
"Nicholson said for years, Marjah had no police force.",
"Now, the Afghan government is in the process of recruiting Marjah citizens to join a new police force that would be trained by the Marines.",
"Nicholson had no timetable on how long it would take to truly secure Marjah.",
"Meanwhile, in Baghlan province, about 50 insurgents, including more than a dozen Taliban, were killed in fighting between two rebel groups, Baghlan province's governor said Sunday.",
"Some 35 fighters of the Hezb-e-Eslami, or Islamic Party, and 13 Taliban died in the fighting, which began Saturday and continued into Sunday, the province's governor told CNN.",
"Apparently some bystanders also were killed or wounded, the province's governor said, adding the province's governor could not put an exact number on the civilian casualties.",
"More Afghanistan coverage on Afghanistan Crossroads blog .",
"Hezb-e-Eslami is an insurgent group loyal to warlord Gulbeddin Hekmatyar.",
"They are enemies of the Taliban, but it is rare that the anti-government groups fight each other.",
"A group of 25 Hezb-e-Eslami fighters including their commander surrendered to Afghan National Police on Sunday, the province's governor said.",
"Separately, two children were killed and two were hurt in an explosion while two children were playing in Kandahar province, provincial spokesman Zalmay Ayoubi said Sunday.",
"The explosive device was in a bag that blew up while two children were playing, the Interior Ministry said in a press release.",
"The injured children were transferred to a hospital for treatment.",
"Two NATO service members were killed in southern Afghanistan in two separate incidents on Sunday, a NATO news release said.",
"One was killed by small arms fire and the other by an improvised explosive device, NATO said.",
"The identities and nationalities of Two NATO service members were not immediately released, pending notification of the relevant national authorities, a NATO news release said.",
"Journalist Matiullah Mati contributed to this report."
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"Tokyo, Japan (CNN) --",
"Japanese authorities arrested an activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegal trespassing after he boarded a whaling ship last month in waters off the Antarctic.",
"Peter James Bethune, 44, is accused of jumping from a Jet Ski onto the Shonan Maru 2, the security ship of a Japanese whaling fleet, after the Ady Gil boat, of which Bethune was captain, sank.",
"Bethune belongs to the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.",
"the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said the New Zealander was attempting to make a citizen's arrest of the Shonan Maru 2 skipper for the collision that sank the Ady Gil, a futuristic vessel used to intercept and block harpoon ships, in January.",
"Hirotaka Akamatsu, Japan's minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said Japan would take a firm stance against Bethune.",
"He said the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's acts were not acceptable.",
"\"Their violent acts are escalating,\" Akamatsu said.",
"Bethune was taken into custody a month ago aboard the Shonan Maru 2, which arrived from Antarctic waters -- where Japan conducts Japan's annual whale hunt -- back to Japan on Friday.",
"Bethune was formally arrested then.",
"Bethune has legal representation in Japan, said the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society spokeswoman Traci Walter.",
"A spokesperson for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the government was providing consular assistance to Bethune on Bethune's arrival in Japan.",
"The Bethune case highlights an ongoing feud between Japanese whaling fleets and conservation agencies, especially the hardline Sea Shepherd.",
"Activists have used butyric acid -- found in rancid butter and vomit -- and fired paint guns at Japanese whaling ships, which in turn have repelled protesters with water cannons.",
"Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research, a branch of the fisheries ministry that deals with whaling, accuses the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society of jeopardizing the safety of fleets that are conducting research legally.",
"the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society uses the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's boats to interfere with whaling and fishing boats, and the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's efforts have included ramming a Portuguese whaler in 1979.",
"Two years ago, the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society activists boarded a Japanese ship and handcuffed Sea Shepherd activists to a Japanese ship with plastic ties.",
"Japanese authorities had called the Shonan Maru 2 incident the latest \"publicity stunt\" by the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society activists.",
"the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has accused the Shonan Maru 2 of destroying the Ady Gil during the skirmish in the Southern Ocean -- a term used to describe parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans that surround Antarctica.",
"However, Japanese authorities deny Japanese authorities's ship intentionally hit the high-tech catamaran and have said Sea Shepherd activists were harassing their whaling fleet.",
"In the early 1980s, the International Whaling Commission determined that there should be a moratorium on commercial whale hunting.",
"But whaling is allowed under international law when done for scientific reasons, which Japan cites as the legal basis for Japan's hunts.",
"The country's annual hunt kills up to 1,000 whales a year."
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"(CNN) --",
"The world has a new alliance to save vanishing frogs, toads and salamanders.",
"A frog swims in a pond in Munich, Germany, in June.",
"A coalition of organizations established Amphibian Survival Alliance this month to conserve species threatened by deadly fungus, habitat loss, pollution, pesticides and climate change.",
"The scientists said amphibians are The world's most threatened group of animals.",
"Though amphibians thrived on Earth for more than 360 million years, one in three of the 6,000 recognized amphibian species are now at risk of extinction and as many as 122 species have gone extinct since 1980, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's amphibian specialist group.",
"\"The world's amphibians are facing an uphill battle for survival,\" said James Collins of Arizona State University, co-chairman of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's amphibian specialist group.",
"James Collins of Arizona State University, co-chairman of the group said the new alliance, formed at the Amphibian Mini Summit at the Zoological Society of London, will focus efforts on the biggest threat to amphibians: infectious disease and habitat destruction.",
"The group includes amphibian specialists working in the wild as well as those in zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens worldwide.",
"\"Amphibians have so much to offer humans,\" said amphibian specialist Simon Stuart.",
"\"Many have an arsenal of compounds stored in their skin that have the potential to address a multitude of human diseases.\"",
"But as amphibians die out, so do opportunities to develop new medicines, he said.",
"The southern gastric brooding frog, for instance, could have led to the development of a treatment for human peptic ulcers had The southern gastric brooding frog not gone extinct, amphibian specialist Simon Stuart said.",
"\"We simply cannot afford to let this current amphibian extinction crisis go unchecked,\" amphibian specialist Simon Stuart said.",
"Andrew Blaustein, who began documenting amphibian declines two decades ago, said the loss of species was part of an overall biodiversity crisis.",
"\"Amphibians seem to have been hit the hardest of all vertebrate species,\" said Blaustein, a professor of zoology at Oregon State University.",
"\"The long-term ecological repercussions of Amphibians's decline could be profound, and we have to do something about it.\""
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"\"We already are doing a lot of security operations in Kandahar, but it's our intent -- under President [Hamid] Karzai -- to make an even greater effort there,\" McChrystal told a joint news conference Monday with Mark Sedwill, the NATO senior civilian representative to Afghanistan.",
"a joint news conference coincided with a visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who was also to meet with Karzai.",
"McChrystal indicated a military operation could begin in Kandahar as early as this summer, but both Sedwill and McChrystal cautioned that much political groundwork lay ahead for NATO-led coalition troops before an offensive can begin.",
"Just as in the recent Marjah operation, the goal, both Sedwill and McChrystal said, is to gain the support of the Afghan people.",
"\"What I think we've learned about operations in Afghanistan ... is if you try to push against the culture, you have huge problems,\" McChrystal said.",
"\"What we're trying to achieve in Kandahar is to do the political groundwork so when it's time to do the military operation, the significant part of the population is pulling us in and supportive so we're not only doing what they want but we're operating in a way that they're comfortable with.",
"That's the key to success here.\"",
"McChrystal said the goal \"is to demonstrate again that we can operate in a way where we've got strong resolve by the government of Afghanistan, effective performance by the Afghan military and coalition partners, and government partners, so that as we do an operation that shows the people of Kandahar, and the Taliban as well, that operations like this actually result in a better outcome for everyone.\"",
"He declined to comment specifically on when the Kandahar offensive will begin, but said \"our forces will be significantly increased around there by early summer.\"",
"\"There won't be a 'D-Day' that is climactic,\" McChrystal said.",
"\"It will be a rising tide of security as it comes.\"",
"The push to secure Kandahar from what McChrystal calls a \"menacing Taliban presence\" is part of a larger counterinsurgency effort in the country's south, started last month in Marjah in southern Helmand province.",
"Long a bastion of pro-Taliban sentiment and awash with the opium used to fund the insurgency, the Marjah region has been known as the heroin breadbasket of Afghanistan and as a place where the Taliban had set up a shadow government.",
"The hope now is for the United States to persuade the locals to change the locals's crops from poppies -- grown to produce opium for the Taliban's drug trade -- and instead grow crops such as wheat, which can help the locals survive and provide income as well.",
"Sedwill and McChrystal praised the early stages of the Marjah offensive, with Sedwill calling it a \"template for the way we want to take this campaign forward over the next year to 18 months.\"",
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"Terry Pratchett, whose books have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide in 33 languages.",
"Pratchett, 59 -- whose books have, according to Fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Web site, sold more than 45 million copies worldwide in 33 languages -- suffered what Fantasy author Terry Pratchett called a \"phantom stroke\" earlier this year.",
"In a statement titled \"an embuggerance\" on the Web site of Discworld illustrator Paul Kidby, Fantasy author Terry Pratchett says that Fantasy author Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with what Fantasy author Terry Pratchett terms \"a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's.\"",
"\"I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news,\" says Pratchett, who has a strong following among fans of fantasy fiction.",
"\"All other things being equal, I expect to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments but will discuss things with the various organisers,\" Fantasy author Terry Pratchett continues.",
"\"Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there's time for at least a few more books yet.\"",
"Fantasy author Terry Pratchett adds that work is continuing on Fantasy author Terry Pratchett's next book \"Nation\" and that the \"basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals.\"",
"In a P.S. Fantasy author Terry Pratchett adds that \"I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'.",
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"\"I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do', but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.\"",
"Fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, of which 36 have been published to date, are set in a fantasy universe through which Fantasy author Terry Pratchett satirizes modern-day life.",
"Fantasy author Terry Pratchett says in a statement on Fantasy author Terry Pratchett's own Web site that the series \"started out as a parody of all the fantasy that was around in the big boom of the early '80s, then turned into a satire on just about everything, and even I don't know what it is now.\"",
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"Russia and South Ossetia have strongly denied news reports that Leaders' motorcade came under fire, calling the claims \"a provocation\" meant to destabilize the region.",
"Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, said there were \"unpredictable people\" in the area.",
"\"This is a real provocation,\" Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Monday.",
"\"It is not the first time that such things have happened: First they mastermind everything themselves and then accuse the Russian or the Ossetian side.\"",
"Eduard Kokoity, president of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, added: \"Today's event was a deliberate provocative act of the the Polish and Georgian presidents and Polish presidents targeted at regional destabilization.\"",
"Kokoity made Kokoity's comments to the Russian news agency, Interfax.",
"The motorcade, carrying the Polish and Georgian presidents President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski, was passing a checkpoint near Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region -- site of intense conflict between Russian and Georgian troops in August -- when shots were fired Sunday, according to the Georgian Interior Ministry.",
"Leaders' motorcade was not hit and there were no injuries, the Georgian Interior Ministry said.",
"No other shooting was reported in the area.",
"The shots were fired from Russian-controlled territory as Leaders' motorcade passed, the Georgian Interior Ministry said.",
"Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin denied the gunfire came from Russia's army positions.",
"\"This is one more instance of wishful thinking on the part of Georgia,\" Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told reporters.",
"After the incident, Saakashvili told reporters Saakashvili would not have taken Saakashvili's Polish counterpart into danger intentionally and that the incident showed \"you are dealing with unpredictable people\" in the area.",
"Kokoity, the South Ossetian president, countered that the Polish and Georgian presidents need to answer questions whether the Polish and Georgian presidents informed European Union monitors of the Polish and Georgian presidents's trip.",
"Tensions have remained high in the area since fighting between Russian and Georgian troops broke out in August.",
"Georgia launched a campaign against South Ossetia, a Russian-backed separatist territory, on August 7.",
"The following day, Russian tanks, troops and armored vehicles poured into South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian territory, Abkhazia, advancing into Georgian cities outside the rebel regions.",
"The two sides blamed each other for starting the conflict and have accused each other of a variety of offenses leading up to and during the fighting, including ethnic cleansing."
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"The delight of my eyes.\"",
"So says a poem inscribed in cuneiform on a lump of clay approximately 4,000 years ago.",
"Why does love inspire such works of art?",
"Recent science points to a possible answer -- and a difference between the way the brain reacts to love and lust.",
"Last year psychologists in the Netherlands reported on a study where psychologists in the Netherlands asked a group of young men and women to imagine taking a long walk with a group of young men and women's beloved (those without a partner imagined taking a walk with an \"ideal\" one).",
"A different set of volunteers were asked to imagine having casual sex with someone A different set of volunteers found attractive but were not in love with.",
"Before and after, both groups were given a battery of tests to examine both groups's creative and analytical abilities.",
"The results: Thinking about a romantic partner stimulated \"global processing\" mechanisms in the brain, which increased long-term focus and improved creativity.",
"Thinking about sex, on the other hand, stimulated \"local processing,\" which increased focus on the present and heightened analytical thinking.",
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"Feelings of romantic love can boost levels of dopamine, a neurochemical associated with creativity, while sexual desire can raise levels of testosterone, known to promote analytical skills.",
"And these chemical links may have evolved for an important purpose: increasing the likelihood of sexual reproduction.",
"In ancestral days, creative individuals may have used creative individuals's inventiveness to attract future mates, while sex-focused individuals harnessed analytical clarity and short-term focus in order to bed a partner here and now.",
"Thoughts of either love or sex could pay off in the form of children -- the ultimate measure of survival.",
"While we no longer use cave drawings to attract our partners, you can still take advantage of this evolutionary link.",
"Daydreaming about your sweetheart may boost inventiveness and help you come up with creative ideas, while sexual thoughts could help you solve an analytical puzzle.",
"Oprah.com: How to fix whatever's broken .",
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"This might just help refocus your attention on the present -- and on the steps you need to take to rebuild, so that one day you'll be ready to write love notes again.",
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"Iraq president Jalal Talabani says Iraq president Jalal Talabani will not run for Iraq's president again, but Iraq president Jalal Talabani plans to stay in the political arena.",
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"\"Iraq president Jalal Talabani, on various occasions, sought to emphasize the importance and the need to devolve the power, tasks and responsibilities of leadership in Iraq to local authorities, especially at this stage when Iraq is going through political efforts by the parties to expand the parties's bases,\" the statement said.",
"In Iraq, the prime minister wields most of the power.",
"However, Iraq president Jalal Talabani played an important role in maintaining Iraq's delicate ethnic balance.",
"The Iraqi parliament picks the president and two vice presidents, a Sunni and a Shia.",
"All will leave office when parliamentary polls are held in December.",
"Iraq president Jalal Talabani is the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Former Democratic Rep. Charles Wilson of Texas, whose support for anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan inspired the 2007 movie \"Charlie Wilson's War,\" died Wednesday at age 76.",
"The 12-term congressman, who served the state's second congressional district, had been in a meeting Wednesday morning with a friend when he complained of difficulty breathing, said Yana Ogletree, a spokeswoman for Memorial Medical Center in Lufkin.",
"The two men were heading to the hospital when The two men passed an emergency medical services vehicle on the side of the road and stopped for help, Yana Ogletree, a spokeswoman for Memorial Medical Center in Lufkin said.",
"Paramedics took 12-term congressman to the hospital emergency room, where 12-term congressman was pronounced dead, Yana Ogletree, a spokeswoman for Memorial Medical Center in Lufkin said.",
"Wilson, who had undergone a heart transplant at Methodist Hospital in Houston in September 2007, moved back to Lufkin when 12-term congressman retired from Congress in 1997 after having served since 1973, Yana Ogletree, a spokeswoman for Memorial Medical Center in Lufkin said.",
"\"I had the unforgettable experience of knowing 12-term congressman when I was at CIA and 12-term congressman was working tirelessly on behalf of the Afghan resistance fighting the Soviets,\" said Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a written statement.",
"\"As the world now knows, his efforts and exploits helped repel an invader, liberate a people and bring the Cold War to a close.",
"After the Soviets left, 12-term congressman kept fighting for the Afghan people and warned against abandoning that traumatized country to traumatized country's fate -- a warning we should have heeded then, and should remember today.\"",
"\"12-term congressman led a life that was oversized even by Hollywood's standards,\" said Texas Gov. Rick Perry in a statement.",
"\"12-term congressman was fiercely devoted to serving 12-term congressman's country and 12-term congressman's fellow Texans.\"",
"\"12-term congressman was a man of courage and conviction who worked hard, loved 12-term congressman's country, and lived life to the fullest,\" said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wisconsin.",
"\"We will miss him.\"",
"Tom Hanks portrayed 12-term congressman in the 2007 movie \"Charlie Wilson's War,\" based on the book by George Crile.",
"The book and the film told the story of 12-term congressman's efforts to get weapons to Mujahedeen fighters after Soviets invaded Afghanistan.",
"\"Tom Hanks did a great job,\" 12-term congressman said in 2008.",
"12-term congressman also praised the other actors.",
"\"the other actors were too close to the truth,\" 12-term congressman said.",
"The U.S. Naval Academy grad and Navy veteran was elected to Congress in 1972 -- a Democrat bucking the national Nixon landslide -- and quickly became known for 12-term congressman's high-living escapades, which earned 12-term congressman the nickname \"Good Time Charlie,\" and shrewd accumulation of political chits.",
"12-term congressman's savvy came in handy in the early 1980s, when Wilson, a staunch anti-Communist, decided to help Afghan rebels in their war against the invading Soviet Union.",
"Over several years, working behind the scenes, 12-term congressman's efforts to raise funds through 12-term congressman's defense subcommittee, to establish a bond with a CIA agent named Gust Avrakotos (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film) and to negotiate support from Middle Eastern countries helped the Afghans take the upper hand and eventually forced the Soviets out of traumatized country.",
"Asked what led to the Soviet departure, Pakistani leader Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq was blunt: \"Charlie did it,\" Pakistani leader Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq told CBS News' \"60 Minutes.\"",
"Some people criticized the film because the film didn't do much to highlight what happened in Afghanistan after the Soviets left: the Taliban's takeover of traumatized country and al Qaeda's use of traumatized country as a base.",
"12-term congressman was asked in 2008 about the consequences of helping the Mujahedeen fighters.",
"\"I don't think there was a serious blowback,\" 12-term congressman said.",
"\"I think there was the point that [author] George Crile made in the [book's] epilogue, that the Muslims saw that the Muslims took down one superpower and then the radical ones thought the radical ones could take down another one.",
"But the radical ones're wrong.\"",
"12-term congressman is survived by 12-term congressman's wife, Barbara Alberstadt Wilson, a sister, a niece and a nephew.",
"Funeral arrangements are pending.",
"CNN's Todd Leopold contributed to this report."
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"Authorities are asking residents in some some parts of south Australia to evacuate their homes as an impending heat wave prompted the nation to issue the nation's first \"catastrophic\" brush fire warning.",
"The warning system was put in place to better alert residents after a devastating brush fire ravaged the southeastern state of Victoria in February, killing more than 170 people and destroying 2,000 homes.",
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"Such a rating means that only well-constructed homes can withstand the flames.",
"An intense heat wave -- with temperatures climbing to 104 F (40 C) -- is expected to hit the areas until the weekend.",
"The region is already in the midst of a severe drought.",
"Coupled with low humidity and strong winds, the soaring temperatures will make it ripe for fires to ignite.",
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"At least 540 people were wounded in Sunday's attacks, the deadliest in the capital in more than two years, the Interior Ministry said.",
"One of Bombs exploded outside Baghdad's governorate building, the other outside the Justice Ministry.",
"Bombs detonated in quick succession about 10:30 a.m., officials said.",
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"The vehicle carrying the explosives that detonated outside the Justice Ministry building was a stolen white pick-up from Falluja, Baghdad Gov. Salah Abdul Razzaq told CNN during Baghdad Gov. Salah Abdul Razzaq's inspection of the bomb site.",
"Images from the time of Baghdad showed the truck, linked to the Department of Water, pull up to the side of the Justice Ministry building and blow up, Baghdad Gov. Salah Abdul Razzaq said.",
"Plumes of smoke billowed from the sites as victims fled, some with blood streaming down their faces.",
"The streets were strewn with debris, including charred cars and chunks of concrete.",
"Some government buildings and others in the area were heavily damaged.",
"Among the wounded were three American security contractors, the U.S. Embassy said, declining to provide further details.",
"the area struck is close to the heavily guarded \"Green Zone,\" which houses the U.S. Embassy.",
"The blasts sparked questions about Iraq's security and national elections planned for January.",
"Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who visited the scene shortly after the explosions, said holding the elections as scheduled would send a strong message to the attackers.",
"\"Baghdad ... should not affect the determination of the Iraqi people from continuing the Iraqi people's battle against the deposed regime and the gangs of criminal Baath party, and the terrorist al Qaeda organization,'\" al-Maliki said in a written statement.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama called Baghdad an attempt to derail progress in Iraq, and pledged to work closely with Iraq as Iraq prepares for elections.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with the prime minister and President Jalal Talabani to express U.S. President Barack Obama's condolences and reiterate U.S. support.",
"In August, more than 100 people were killed in a series of bombings that led to tightened security in Baghdad.",
"Blast walls were installed across the city and checkpoints were added.",
"Two years earlier, three truck bombings killed hundreds in Qahtaniya, in northern Iraq.",
"Sunday's attacks were the deadliest on Iraqi civilians since those blasts in August 2007.",
"A day before Sunday's explosions, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, visited Iraq for the first time.",
"During her trip, she made a condolence stop at the Foreign Ministry, one of six sites attacked in August.",
"Iraqis are supposed to go to the polls January 16, but parliament has not passed key election legislation, putting the balloting in limbo.",
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"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh, Mohammed Jamjoom, and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Watkins was known for Watkins's impressions of Barbara Walters and \"Today\" show co-host Hoda Kotb.",
"Watkins and Casey Wilson have been dropped from the show, while Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad are joining the cast, Entertainment Weekly reports.",
"Watkins -- who joined \"SNL\" mid-season last year and was known for Watkins's hilarious impersonations of Barbara Walters and Kathie Lee Gifford's suffering \"Today\" show co-host Hoda Kotb -- said Watkins was shocked by the firing.",
"In an interview with EW, Watkins recalled getting the news from Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of \"Saturday Night Live.\"",
"\"I don't think anyone knows what Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of \"Saturday Night Live was thinking,\" Watkins told the magazine.",
"\"The only explanation I got from Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of \"Saturday Night Live -- and Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of \"Saturday Night Live's not known to say things just to make people feel better -- was that Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of \"Saturday Night Live felt deep down that I should have Watkins's own show.",
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"Meanwhile, \"SNL\" veteran Darrell Hammond is still negotiating for a return to the show, Variety reports.",
"\"Saturday Night Live\" kicks off its 35th season on September 26."
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"Investigators searching for a missing 8-month-old boy began an intensive excavation and search effort Tuesday at a Texas landfill.",
"\"Let me say this, that we do remain hopeful that a missing 8-month-old boy is alive,\" William McManus, chief of the San Antonio Police Department, said at a news conference at a Texas landfill.",
"\"We are, however, conducting both a missing persons investigation as well as a homicide investigation,\" he said, adding that aspects surrounding Gabriel Johnson's disappearance involve elements of a possible homicide.",
"a missing 8-month-old boy has been missing since December 26 and was last seen in San Antonio, with a missing 8-month-old boy's 23-year-old mother, Elizabeth Johnson, who has refused to disclose information on a missing 8-month-old boy's whereabouts.",
"His mother told Gabriel's father His mother killed a missing 8-month-old boy and has also said His mother gave a missing 8-month-old boy away to a couple in San Antonio, police say.",
"His mother drove a missing 8-month-old boy to San Antonio from Tempe, Arizona, and His mother went to Florida a week later, according to investigators.",
"His mother was arrested in Florida and extradited to Maricopa County, Arizona, where His mother remains behind bars, charged with kidnapping, custodial interference and child abuse.",
"A lead prompted investigators to focus on the landfill, which is owned by Republic Services, a waste and environmental services company based in Phoenix, Arizona.",
"The part of the landfill that will be searched has been pinpointed, according to McManus.",
"First, it will take at least six days to remove 45 feet of garbage that has piled up since the time investigators believe evidence may have been dumped in the area.",
"\"Once we have removed the debris and have searched our target area, we will begin the arduous task of sifting through layers in the search for possible evidence,\" McManus said.",
"\"This phase will be a long and repetitive cycle.",
"Search teams will be looking for anything of evidentiary value.\"",
"Cadaver dogs will assist the search teams in the effort, which will be conducted weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., McManus said.",
"McManus estimated more than 20 people will be involved.",
"Rain would not compromise any evidence but could cause dangerous toxic runoff, which Fire Department and hazardous materials experts would work to contain.",
"San Antonio police have been working with the FBI and Tempe police.",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Clinton will travel to Haiti on Monday to meet with officials and deliver aid supplies to Haiti, Clinton's foundation announced Sunday.",
"Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, will meet with Haitian President Rene Preval and other members of the local government as well as aid workers, to discuss how to proceed with recovery operations.",
"The visit comes two days after President Barack Obama announced the formation of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, a major fundraising effort for victims of Tuesday's earthquake led by Clinton and former President George W. Bush.",
"In a pre-recorded interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's \"State of the Union,\" former President George W. Bush and Clinton said the first goal of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is to get aid to Haiti right away to save lives.",
"the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund also seeks to ensure that money keeps coming in after public attention begins to wan in the weeks and months ahead.",
"\"For me, success is helping save lives in the short term, and then we can worry about the long-term after the situation has been stabilized,\" former President George W. Bush said.",
"Clinton, who also is the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, defined success as \"setting up a network quickly to get the food, water, medicine, security and information people need.\"",
"The overall goal is to help Haiti resume \"as quickly as possible\" Haiti's efforts to build a \"strong, modern society\" after decades of political and social instability that made Haiti the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere before the earthquake, Clinton said.",
"Officials in Haiti fear more than 100,000 people killed in the disaster.",
"Clinton noted that Haiti already was working to overcome Haiti's problems before the latest crisis.",
"\"They have an economic plan,\" Clinton said.",
"\"We're going to have to amend an economic plan now, and substantially, to take account of the damage done.\"",
"Simply restoring Haiti to Haiti's impoverished state prior to the earthquake would amount to failure, Clinton said.",
"The two predecessors to Obama as U.S. leader also said the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/) was intended to provide people with a safe place to continue donating money to help Haiti.",
"\"Our job it to set up a fund to make sure the compassion is still existent once the crisis gets off TV and make sure the money is wisely spent,\" former President George W. Bush said.",
"That means getting the money quickly to organizations with experience working in Haiti, including faith-based groups and international aid groups, former President George W. Bush and Clinton said.",
"\"During these crises, all kinds of fake charities spring up that take advantage of people's good will,\" former President George W. Bush said.",
"\"the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund're safe haven.",
"the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund will make sure the money is accounted for and there's transparency and properly spent.\"",
"Both former President George W. Bush and Clinton noted politics should play no role in responding to the latest crisis, with Clinton saying: \"I hope that it will humanize us all in every aspect of our lives.\"",
"However, Clinton couldn't resist a little politicking, praising the Obama administration's response so far and noting that former President George W. Bush had \"extraordinary taste\" in a secretary of state -- his wife, Hillary Clinton.",
"Clinton also offered warm praise for CNN's coverage of the Haiti earthquake.",
"\"You made this come alive to the American people,\" Clinton said.",
"\"You put us in the skin of the Haitian people, and I'm personally very grateful.\"",
"For former President George W. Bush, former President George W. Bush's return to Washington is a welcome chance to aid a worthy cause, but nothing more.",
"\"I frankly don't miss the limelight,\" former President George W. Bush said.",
"\"I'm glad to help out.\""
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"Actor Peter Graves, best known for The 83-year-old Peter Graves's starring role on TV's \"Mission: Impossible,\" died Sunday.",
"The 83-year-old Peter Graves was 83.",
"While the cause of The 83-year-old Peter Graves's death was not immediately known, The 83-year-old Peter Graves apparently suffered a heart attack, The 83-year-old Peter Graves's publicist said.",
"The 83-year-old Peter Graves had gone to brunch with The 83-year-old Peter Graves's family Sunday morning.",
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"The 83-year-old Peter Graves's daughter performed CPR but was unsuccessful in reviving the actor, publicist Sandy Brokaw said.",
"Graves had been in good health and was celebrating 60 years of marriage and 60 years in the entertainment business.",
"The 83-year-old Peter Graves was still pursuing work when The 83-year-old Peter Graves died, Publicist said.",
"Share your memories of Peter Graves .",
"The 83-year-old Peter Graves is best known for playing the character Jim Phelps for all but one of the seven years \"Mission: Impossible\" ran on CBS, from 1967-1973.",
"The 83-year-old Peter Graves won a Golden Globe in 1971 for The 83-year-old Peter Graves's work on the show, and was also nominated for an Emmy.",
"The 83-year-old Peter Graves reprised the role from 1988 to 1990 when the show resurfaced on ABC.",
"In an interview with CNN in 1996, The 83-year-old Peter Graves expressed disappointment with Hollywood's movie version of \"Mission: Impossible\" -- starring Tom Cruise -- which included none of the stars from the original TV series.",
"Actor Jon Voight played the Phelps character.",
"\"I am sorry that they chose to call him Phelps,\" he said at the time.",
"\"They could have solved that very easily by either having me in a scene in the very beginning, or reading a telegram from me saying, 'Hey boys, I'm retired, gone to Hawaii.",
"Thank you, goodbye, you take over now.' \"",
"Graves also appeared as Capt. Clarence Oveur in the 1980 movie spoof \"Airplane!\" -- a role The 83-year-old Peter Graves originally turned down, according to the Web's Internet Movie Database.",
"The 83-year-old Peter Graves changed The 83-year-old Peter Graves's mind after meeting with the film's writers, according to IMDb.",
"In recent years, The 83-year-old Peter Graves was part of a larger group that won an Outstanding Informational Series Emmy for the 1997 TV documentary \"Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow.\"",
"Graves hosted the 1997 TV documentary \"Judy Garland.",
"The 83-year-old Peter Graves is survived by The 83-year-old Peter Graves's wife, Joan Endress, and three daughters, Kelly, Claudia and Amanda Graves, according to IMDb.",
"Graves was the younger brother of actor James Arness, who starred in the long-running TV series \"Gunsmoke,\" as Marshal Matt Dillon.",
"CNN's Douglas Hyde contributed to this report."
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"A U.S. Army officer who was honored for valor after Myer's combat outpost in Afghanistan was attacked has also received a letter of reprimand for failing to secure the base before the attack, according to Army officials.",
"Such a letter normally would prevent career advancement.",
"U.S. Army Capt. Matthew Myer received Silver Star for Myer's part in repelling a Taliban attack on Myer's small combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan in July 2008.",
"The attack, near the village of Wanat, is still the deadliest ground combat of the war involving U.S. troops.",
"A coordinated Taliban attack from the steep hills surrounding the base almost resulted in the outpost being overrun.",
"According to troops who survived, Taliban came at the base with about 200 fighters, outnumbering the U.S. forces at the base.",
"In the end nine soldiers were killed and 12 were wounded.",
"About 100 Taliban were killed.",
"Despite the heavy U.S. death toll, Myer was awarded Silver Star for calling in aircraft to beat back the fighters, some of whom had breached the base walls, according to U.S. military officials in Afghanistan.",
"After the attack, the U.S. military scrutinized how enemy forces were allowed to get as close to the base as enemy forces did.",
"Officials familiar with the after-action review said Taliban fighters got within grenade-throwing distance of U.S. troops.",
"Myer even called in close air support to hit enemy targets just 10 meters from his own position, according to officials familiar with the after-action report.",
"Four-star Gen. Charles C. Campbell was chosen to review the final investigation and make disciplinary decisions.",
"Four-star Gen. Charles C. Campbell decided Myer would receive a career-ending letter of reprimand for failing to prepare the base's defenses sufficiently against an enemy attack.",
"Myer was informed this week of Myer's punishment, according to U.S. military officials.",
"CBS News first reported Myer's punishment.",
"Two of Myer's senior commanders, who were not at the base during the attack, also received similar career-ending letters of reprimand.",
"Officials would not elaborate on the reasons for the reprimands.",
"Army officials acknowledge the base, built to protect the people in Wanat, was at the bottom of a valley surrounded by high hills, an almost impossible location to defend.",
"According to one U.S. military official familiar with the general's decision to reprimand Myer, \"He saw the evidence and made a decision based on that.\"",
"However, one U.S. military official familiar with the general's decision to reprimand Myer said, \"Unless you've been there, you don't know how hard those places are to defend.\"",
"Myer and his two senior officers are allowed to appeal his punishment.",
"Another U.S. military official familiar with the review said Another U.S. military official familiar with the review expects his two senior officers to meet with Campbell to plead his two senior officers's cases."
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"Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) --",
"Sri Lanka's former army chief appeared before a military court Tuesday, on charges that Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka says are designed to remove Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka from politics.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka faced a panel of three military judges, who are to decide whether Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka is guilty of participating in politics while still in uniform.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's spokesman Anura Kumara Dissanayake said the former military commander's lawyers raised two objections: that the judges are biased and that a military court can no longer rule on Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's case, because Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka left the army more than six months ago.",
"The court will reconvene on April 6 to rule on the objections, according to government spokesman Maj. Gen. Prasad Samarasinghe.",
"However, Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka must return to court Wednesday to face separate charges of violating military procurement procedures.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka says the charges against Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka are false and politically motivated.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka was arrested last month.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka was dragged from Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's office by armed military police during a meeting with Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's supporters, they said.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka has since been detained at naval headquarters in Colombo, where the military tribunal is convening.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa were allies and heroes of last year's battle against the Tigers, but Fonseka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa drifted apart.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's supporters say Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka was seen as a threat to the government and Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's arrest was ordered to prevent Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's participation in parliamentary elections April 8.",
"The former military commander challenged President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January's presidential elections, but lost by a wide margin and accused the government of election fraud.",
"The Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka family has challenged Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's arrest in Sri Lanka's supreme court.",
"Those arguments are to be heard April 26.",
"Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka's wife, Anoma Fonseka, called the legal proceedings against her husband a joke.",
"Journalist Amal Jayasinghe contributed to this report."
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"Jesper Parnevik admitted that Jesper Parnevik had \"lost all respect\" for fellow golfer Tiger Woods following revelations about the world number one's private life.",
"fellow golfer Tiger Woods apologized on fellow golfer Tiger Woods's official Web site for \"transgressions\" and \"personal sins and failings\" on the same day that a gossip magazine published a story alleging that fellow golfer Tiger Woods had an affair with a 24-year-old New York cocktail waitress.",
"Former European Ryder Cup star Parnevik, 44, and Jesper Parnevik's wife introduced fellow Swede Elin Nordegren to fellow Swede Elin Nordegren's future husband.",
"\"It's always sad, and especially sad because me and his wife were at fault hooking fellow Swede Elin Nordegren up with fellow golfer Tiger Woods and we probably thought fellow golfer Tiger Woods is a better guy than fellow golfer Tiger Woods is,\" Jesper Parnevik said.",
"\"I would probably apologize to fellow Swede Elin Nordegren and when you're a world-class athlete you probably should think a bit more before you do stuff.",
"\"I haven't really talked to Tiger yet so I don't want to say too much but my heart goes out to fellow Swede Elin Nordegren.",
"\"There's nothing I regret saying and I stand by everything.",
"fellow golfer Tiger Woods's lost all my respect, I mean, all the respect I had for the guy is gone, that's pretty much all I can say.\"",
"The rumors emerged after fellow golfer Tiger Woods, 33, was found bleeding and semi-conscious after fellow golfer Tiger Woods's car hit a tree and fire hydrant outside fellow golfer Tiger Woods's Florida home.",
"fellow golfer Tiger Woods was charged with careless driving, which carries a $164 fine and four points on fellow golfer Tiger Woods's driving record."
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"World number three Rafael Nadal of Spain survived a three-set battle to reach the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 tournament at Indian Wells as Second seed Novak Djokovic crashed out on Wednesday night.",
"Rafael Nadal is starting to recover Rafael Nadal's best form after Rafael Nadal's injury problems of last year, but the giant Isner posed a continuous threat when he leveled at one set it looked ominous.",
"But Spanish ace Nadal kept battling and got a lucky break in the fourth game of the decider as Rafael Nadal's U.S opponent's return hit the net cord and bounced back on his side of the net to fall down a break.",
"It gave Rafael Nadal a decisive break and Rafael Nadal held on for victory in the fourth round match.",
"Nadal, who won the Indian Indian Wells title last year and in 2007, is the lone survivor among former champions of Indian Wells: .",
"Top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland went out to Marcos Baghdatis in the third round while Serbian ace Djokovic of Serbia joined him on the sidelines with a 7-5 6-3 defeat to Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia in their last 16 match.",
"Marcos Baghdatis could not repeat his heroics against Top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland as eh slipped to a 7-5 0-6 6-4 loss to Spanish 18th seed Tommy Robredo.",
"Home hopes were kept alive by Andy Roddick who advanced to the last eight with as a 7-6 6-4 win over Austrian Jurgen Melzer, while fourth seed Andy Murray was detained on court for only 38 minutes as his fourth round opponent unseeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro retired with a left ankle injury.",
"\"He seemed like he was moving okay,\" Andy Murray told the official ATP Tour Web site.",
"\"At the start we had some pretty good points.",
"But then it seemed like it came on pretty suddenly.",
"He said he had done it yesterday, and if you have a bad ankle sprain, it's obviously very difficult to move,\"",
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"In 2009, some units of NYPD still function more like \"Dragnet\" than \"CSI.\"",
"some units of the New York Police Department rely on typewriters.",
"Records show city signed a $432,900 contract for typewriter maintenance with in 2008.",
"NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne confirmed NYPD's continued, if limited, use of the 20th-century writing devices, explaining that they're mainly used for filling out property vouchers -- forms that officers must file when they seize items during case investigations.",
"The typewriters also are retained in case a technological meltdown disables the NYPD's computers, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.",
"The vintage typing machines do not come cheap.",
"Public records show that city signed a $432,900 contract for typewriter maintenance with Afax Business Machines in 2008, as well as a $99,570 contract with that company in 2009.",
"Typewriter company Swintec received a $982,269 contract from city in 2007.",
"Eugene O'Donnell, a former New York police officer who now lectures at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said The typewriters are an anachronism -- and a waste.",
"\"The two places you'd find typewriters are the museum and NYPD,\" O'Donnell said.",
"Typewriters create significant efficiency and storage problems for NYPD, he added, causing extra labor and unwieldy paper trails.",
"Deputy Commissioner Browne emphasized that \"we have a $4 billion budget\" and the financial resources devoted to typewriters are relatively miniscule.",
"Officers interviewed by CNN on the street had no soft spots for the contraptions.",
"\"It's so antiquated,\" said one officer who did not want to be identified.",
"Her partner shared her frustration.",
"\"It's very inconvenient -- you have to find ink, you have to find this, find that.\""
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Citing a \"deficit of trust\" in government by the American people, Obama's first State of the Union address urged Congress to erode the influence of special interests and work together to confront the nation's most pressing problems.",
"In the nationally televised speech Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, Obama sought to reassure Americans angry and nervous about the pace of economic recovery that Obama's government understands the challenges and would act boldly to meet them.",
"Obama called for a new political climate of \"common sense\" approaches that invest in the American people without building \"a mountain of debt.\"",
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"\"We have to recognize that we face more than a deficit of dollars right now.",
"We face a deficit of trust -- deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years,\" Obama said.",
"Key areas where Obama wants to build that trust include: the economy, education, energy, health care and national security.",
"Democrats applauded the remarks of Democrats's party's leader.",
"\"Obama outlined a road map that, if followed with bipartisan support in Congress, can reduce our deficit, rebuild our economy and create a new foundation of prosperity for American families and businesses,\" said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.",
"\"It was a serious speech -- reached out to Republicans,\" said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, the House majority leader.",
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"Republicans, however, were skeptical of Obama's ability to change the partisan atmosphere in Washington.",
"\"Real bipartisanship requires more than just lip service; Real bipartisanship demands both sides coming together in a real and meaningful way.",
"It's time for the administration to abandon this big-government agenda and start working in a meaningful way with Republicans to find common-sense solutions to move the country forward,\" said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.",
"\"I would have liked to have seen Obama emphasize reaching out to the other side of the aisle and bringing us together,\" said Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio.",
"Read more reaction to address .",
"Analysts, too, were mixed in Analysts's reactions to what Obama had to say Wednesday night.",
"CNN political contributor John Avlon said Obama was targeting independents with Obama's remarks, but questioned Obama's success.",
"\"They still hear The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' in the back of their minds,\" CNN political contributor John Avlon said.",
"Democratic strategist James Carville said Obama made progress.",
"\"He picked up a first down tonight,\" Democratic strategist James Carville said.",
"And a post-speech opinion poll shows a divided public.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicated that 48 percent of speech watchers had a very positive reaction, with three in 10 saying they had a somewhat positive response and 21 percent with a negative response.",
"See full results of poll .",
"The 48 percent who indicated they had a very positive response is down 20 points from the 68 percent of speech watchers who felt the same way a year ago about Obama's February 24 primetime address to a joint session of Congress.",
"\"Wednesday night's State of the Union audience is more Democratic than the nation as a whole, but speech-watchers were less Democratic this year than speech-watchers were last year,\" said Keating Holland, CNN polling director.",
"\"That may be one reason why the number who gave his speech a 'very positive' rating is lower this year.",
"But part of the reason also may be that speech-watchers didn't necessarily hear a new agenda and aren't confident that Obama can improve health care or lower the deficit.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Rock guitarist and singer Alex Chilton, known for Chilton's work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, died Wednesday.",
"Chilton was 59.",
"Chilton was having heart problems and died in an emergency room in New Orleans, Louisiana, said longtime friend and business associate John Fry.",
"\"Obviously, we are all stunned and deeply saddened at this news,\" longtime friend and business associate John Fry said.",
"Chilton started in music as a teen in the 1960s, as vocalist for the psychedelic soul group the Box Tops, longtime friend and business associate John Fry said.",
"They were known for the No. 1 hit \"'The Letter\" and songs such as \"Neon Rainbow\" and \"Cry Like a Baby.\"",
"After that group disbanded in 1970, Chilton formed the Memphis rock group Big Star.",
"Though Big Star had a short life, breaking up in 1974, Big Star's music catapulted the group and Chilton to cult status.",
"\"While Big Star struggled with success commercially, their early '70s, power-pop sound is often cited as directly influencing bands like Cheap Trick, R.E.M. and the Replacements,\" Billboard magazine said in its biography of Chilton's group.",
"The evidence of that: a song the Replacements released in 1987, called \"Alex Chilton.\"",
"Part of the chorus of that song is \"Children by the million sing for Chilton when Chilton comes 'round.",
"Children by the million sing, I'm in love.\"",
"In the 1990s, Big Star got back together.",
"Chilton and Big Star were scheduled to perform at the South by Southwest music festival in Texas this weekend.",
"CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report."
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"Guitarist known for his work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star .",
"Chilton was having heart problems and died in an emergency room in New Orleans .",
"Chilton was to perform at the South by Southwest music festival in Texas this weekend ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Authorities have linked seven deaths to the nor'easter affecting the Eastern Seaboard, and more than 300,000 customers remained without power Monday in the Northeast after rain and fierce winds.",
"Hurricane-force winds over the weekend toppled trees, taking power lines with them.",
"Five of the weekend's deaths were caused by falling trees, authorities said.",
"Two people died in New Jersey; authorities from Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, West Virginia and New York each said they had one storm-related death.",
"Heavy rain also caused flooding across the region.",
"Flood warnings were in effect from northern Virginia to southern New Hampshire, the National Weather Service said.",
"The city of Alexandria, along the Potomac River across from Washington, distributed nearly 800 sandbags to those in low-lying areas that typically are first to see high water.",
"A coffee shop there experienced minor flooding, said Alexandria official Rich Baier.",
"Some coastal areas have received more than 6 inches of rain since Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.",
"Are you there?",
"Share pictures and video .",
"Con Edison said that more than 86,000 customers were without power Monday in New York City and Westchester County, New York, while the Long Island Power Authority said that 64,437 customers were in the dark.",
"In New York, about 100,000 were without power.",
"Flooding caused 2,000 customers in New York to lose 2,000 customers in New Jersey's gas service, PSEG said.",
"Connecticut Light and Power said that about 56,000 customers also had no power Monday.",
"And in Pennsylvania, utility companies had restored power to a majority of residents, but the outage still affected more than 5,000.",
"\"The ground is so wet from all the snow we've had this winter, The ground's helping the trees to topple over as well as our utility poles,\" said Long Island Power Authority President and CEO Kevin Law.",
"\"The conditions are still too terrible to get crews out there.\"",
"Some customers probably will go without power for a few days, Long Island Power Authority President and CEO Kevin Law said.",
"The outages were due mostly to power lines downed by Saturday's winds, which knocked over trees and utility polls.",
"Wind speeds reached 75 mph at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport -- as strong as a Category 1 hurricane -- and 72 mph in Atlantic City, New York.",
"In Connecticut, the lingering effects of wind and rain from the weekend were apparent just by looking at the streets, according to J.P. McNamara, an iReporter in Fairfield, along the coast.",
"\"The beach area of Fairfield experienced high tides that flooded streets with ... water and sand on Saturday night,\" J.P. McNamara, an iReporter in Fairfield, along the coast said Monday.",
"\"Many roads are still blocked off because of fallen trees and limbs, and it seems that this occurrence is widespread.\"",
"James Durosier, an iReporter from Rahway, New York, said the storm's aftermath reminded him of a scene from an action movie.",
"\"The way the whole scene looked was just incredible,\" Durosier said Sunday of the damage in the area.",
"\"Power lines were hanging, street signs knocked down, and it was very quiet.\"",
"Brian DeNicola of Sayreville, New York, said DeNicola has opened DeNicola's home to three friends who don't have any power or hot water to shower.",
"DeNicola said DeNicola lost electricity for about an hour Saturday evening and had to use a vacuum to relieve DeNicola's basement of flooding.",
"DeNicola said DeNicola's eager for spring's arrival Saturday.",
"\"Oh, thank God, it's almost here,\" DeNicola said.",
"\"We're ready.",
"We've had it with this stuff.\"",
"CNN's Paul Courson, Edmund DeMarche, Henry Hanks and Khadijah Rentas contributed to this report."
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"Some customers will be without power for days, Long Island utility says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"As the April 15 income tax filing deadline approaches, the top tax expert at the National Association for the Self-Employed offers the top tax expert at the National Association for the Self-Employed's best advice for business people who work for themselves.",
"Keith Hall, a national tax adviser at the National Association for the Self-Employed, answers the tax question the top tax expert at the National Association for the Self-Employed is asked most often and talks about changes in tax rules for small-business owners.",
"the top tax expert at the National Association for the Self-Employed also offers advice about how the self-employed can best avoid being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.",
"CNN:",
"What should self-employed taxpayers keep at the top of self-employed taxpayers's minds this year?",
"the top tax expert at the National Association for the Self-Employed:",
"I think the most important thing to remember is that you have resources.",
"The IRS is always changing information -- from automobile deductions, to alternative minimum tax limits, to net operating loss carry-forwards.",
"It's tough to keep up with, but you don't have to remember it, because it's all out there on the IRS Web site for you.",
"Don't forget, you've got resources to go out and look for.",
"CNN:",
"What's different this year for self-employed taxpayers?",
"the top tax expert at the National Association for the Self-Employed:",
"Perhaps the most important thing unique to this year is there are so many businesses which were affected by the downturn in the economy, that The IRS has expanded opportunities for loss carrybacks.",
"The definition of a loss carryback is if you had losses from your business in 2009, then you may have the opportunity to then take those losses and offset income from previous years.",
"That's certainly something to look into if you had a tough year for 2009, because it may give you the ability to recover taxes in more years -- namely five -- than you used to be able to, which is just two.",
"So if that's the situation that you find yourself in, certainly look into options for those loss carrybacks.",
"It certainly can help you with the tax impact.",
"More particularly, for those new to being self-employed or maybe even their first year filing a Schedule C, make sure you look for deductions that don't appear in your business checkbook.",
"It's very easy to overlook deductions like the deduction for the home office that you use, deduction for the business use of your automobile -- those typically don't show up in your business checkbook, so if you don't know to look for them, they're very easily overlooked, and that's basically just leaving money on the table.",
"CNN:",
"What can self-employed workers do to avoid an The IRS audit?",
"Hall:",
"The No. 1 reason a small business gets audited or asked for additional information by The IRS is simple math errors -- the numbers simply don't add up correctly on the form.",
"Whether you use TurboTax or TaxCut or the The IRS online filing, it's a great idea -- particularly for the new small business -- to make sure you use that software package -- if nothing else -- just to make sure those math errors are eliminated.",
"Don't be too afraid of an The IRS audit.",
"Obviously, when people think in terms of The IRS, people get a little bit antsy.",
"Nobody likes to get that letter in the mailbox on Saturday morning that's got an The IRS return address in the upper left-hand corner.",
"But if you do, the best thing to keep in mind is pay attention to your tax return.",
"Do the due diligence that you need to to avoid the little shortcuts of filling in numbers that you don't have support for.",
"If you just take the time to pay attention to the business and do the tax return the way you should, there's nothing to be afraid of with that audit.",
"So at a very minimum -- just to ease the stress of that potential letter you're going to get form The IRS -- just make sure you take the extra time to use resources like nase.org, like the IRS Web site at irs.gov, and just make sure you dot your I's and cross your Ts.",
"And then, if you do get a request from The IRS, it won't be stressful.",
"CNN:",
"What are some important tax law changes for tax year 2009?",
"Hall:",
"Always be aware that every year, The IRS changes something.",
"For example, automobile mileage: The new rate for 2009 is 55 cents.",
"Make sure you get that one correct.",
"The IRS always changes the adjusted limits for alternative minimum tax.",
"For the standard itemized deductions, all those levels are adjusted for inflation.",
"Make sure that you get those right numbers.",
"Using an automated software program -- having that system in place -- will help you keep up with any of those changes that occur as a matter of course with The IRS every year.",
"CNN:",
"What's the most frequent tax question you get asked?",
"Hall:",
"The first question we typically get, particularly at tax return time, is \"What can I do right now to save money on last year's tax return?\"",
"Most tax planning ideas really end with the New Year's Eve party.",
"But the one thing you can do today to save money on your taxes for last year is to consider making a retirement plan contribution -- whether it's a traditional IRA contribution, a self-employed pension plan contribution, lots of different ways to put money away for your own future.",
"The IRS recognizes how important that is, and The IRS'll even give you a tax deduction for it.",
"So you can actually reduce the taxes you have to pay right now, just by putting money away for your own future.",
"That's certainly something that should be considered.",
"CNN:",
"Should we expect future tax breaks for small businesses?",
"Hall:",
"The current administration and both sides of the House and Senate all promote the growth of jobs through small business.",
"The influences of small business in generating jobs -- which are more and more important these days -- is only going to increase the influence of small business.",
"Whether it's legislation for a standard home office deduction, which is pending, legislation for additional health credits and concentration on affordability for health care for the self-employed, which is also pending, there's lots of legislation out there to benefit small business.",
"The more and more small businesses we have, I think more emphasis in Washington and at the state level will focus on benefits for the self-employed."
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"How to save tax money right now? Consider retirement contributions .",
"Look for deductions that don't appear in your business checkbook .",
"Automobile mileage: The new deduction rate is 55 cents/mile ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The murderer of a 16-year-old girl who bragged about his crimes was electrocuted Thursday night, a spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections said.",
"Paul Warner Powell was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m. at a correctional center in Jarratt, Virginia.",
"Paul Warner Powell did not make a last statement at the execution attended by the victim's family.",
"Paul Warner Powell was convicted in the 1999 murder of Stacie Reed and the rape of Stacie Reed's 14-year-old sister in their Manassas, Virginia, family home.",
"Paul Warner Powell's execution comes after Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell denied Paul Warner Powell clemency and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block Powell's execution.",
"The killer claimed double jeopardy after state prosecutors put Paul Warner Powell on trial for a second time in the killing.",
"In July, the high court delayed Paul Warner Powell's execution while considering the broader constitutional claims, which were finally rejected.",
"Paul Warner Powell rejected lethal injection, the state's usual method of execution.",
"\"I'm hopeful this is the last legal chapter in the long history of this case,\" said Paul Warner Powell's prosecutor, Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert.",
"\"The survivors -- Stacie Reed's mother and [Stacie Reed's sister] -- have really been traumatized by delay after delay.",
"Hopefully they're going to get some peace and closure after all these years.\"",
"CNN does not identify sexual assault victims without sexual assault victims's permission, even though the surviving victim, now 25, has talked publicly about this case.",
"The crime shocked the Washington area.",
"Stacie Reed knew Paul Warner Powell, then 20 and an admitted racist.",
"the high court eventually threw out the 2000 verdict in the first trial, saying prosecutors had not proven other necessary death-eligible offenses were committed against the 16-year-old.",
"Such \"aggravating\" factors could include rape, attempted rape or robbery in commission of the murder.",
"The sexual assault and attempted murder of Stacie Reed's younger sister was upheld, and Paul Warner Powell was given a long prison sentence.",
"Paul Warner Powell, believing Paul Warner Powell was free from execution, proceeded to write a taunting, profanity-filled letter from behind bars to Ebert, laying out explicit details of the crime unknown to investigators at the time.",
"\"Since I have already been indicted on first degree murder and the Va. Supreme Court said that I can't be charged with capital murder again, I figured I would tell you the rest of what happened on Jan. 29, 1999, to show you how stupid all of y'all ... are,\" wrote Powell, who is white.",
"Paul Warner Powell said Paul Warner Powell had gone to the family's home to confront Stacie Reed about dating a black man.",
"Paul Warner Powell admitted pinning Stacie Reed, threatening to rape Stacie Reed, then stabbing Stacie Reed in the heart when Stacie Reed resisted.",
"Paul Warner Powell then stomped on Stacie Reed's throat.",
"\"I guess I forgot to mention these events when I was being questioned.",
"Ha Ha!\"",
"Paul Warner Powell wrote in 2001.",
"\"Do you just hate yourself for being so stupid ... and saving me?\"",
"Paul Warner Powell also said that after that crime, Paul Warner Powell waited in the house until the younger girl returned from school, then attacked the younger girl, leaving the younger girl for dead.",
"In the meantime, Paul Warner Powell drank iced tea from the family refrigerator and smoked a cigarette, part of the forensic evidence that investigators used to place Paul Warner Powell at the scene of the crime.",
"With this first-hand account from Paul Warner Powell, Paul Warner Powell was indicted again and charged with murder and attempted rape of Stacie Reed -- a capital-eligible crime.",
"Paul Warner Powell was convicted again, and federal and state courts subsequently upheld the conviction on appeal."
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"Paul Warner Powell rejected lethal injection, the state's usual method of execution .",
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"Based on letter, prosecutors put Paul Warner Powell on trial for second time in Stacie Reed's death ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Holders Barcelona and Manchester United are on course to meet again in the money-spinning European Champions League final after Barcelona and Manchester United avoided each other in the draw for the last eight.",
"Josep Guardiola's reigning champions Barca will face English Premier League side Arsenal in the quarterfinals -- a repeat of the 2006 final which the Spanish club won 2-1.",
"French striker Thierry Henry played for Arsenal in that game but has since joined Barca.",
"French striker Thierry Henry remains Arsenal's all-time leading goalscorer.",
"The draw for the quarterfinals of the tournament took place at the headquarters of European football's governing body (UEFA) in Nyon, Switzerland where the match-ups for the semifinals were also decided.",
"Manchester United will win the UEFA Champions League ...",
"I feel it in my bones .",
"Alex Ferguson's Manchester United were drawn against Bayern Munich, who they famously beat in the 1999 final.",
"Bayern went in front after just six minutes of the final in Barcelona but Manchester United scored two injury time goals to stun the German side.",
"Dutch coach Louis van Gaal is attempting to secure Bayern Munich's first European crown since 2001, after they knocked out Italian side Juventus in the group stages.",
"Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan are playing first time quarterfinalists CSKA Moscow.",
"The Italian champions dumped Jose Mourinho's's former club Chelsea out of the competition earlier this week.",
"There is no country seeding at the last eight stage, which led to Lyon and Bordeaux being drawn together.",
"Lyon and Bordeaux's tie means France is assured a representative in the last four.",
"The Champions League is the most lucrative tournament in world football with the final worth an estimated $421 million, according to sponsors Mastercard, with the winners earning close to $150 million.",
"The quarterfinal ties will take place the week beginning March 29.",
"In the Europa League draw English Premier League team Liverpool were drawn against Portuguese club Benfica.",
"There is an all-Spanish tie in the last eight after Atletico Madrid and Valencia were drawn against each other.",
"If English Premier League team Liverpool get past Portuguese club Benfica English Premier League team Liverpool will face one of the Spanish teams in the semifinal, meaning either an emotional return for striker Fernando Torres to former club Atletico, or for manager Rafael Benitez to the team manager Rafael Benitez used to coach, Valencia.",
"Juventus' conquerors Fulham were drawn against German champions Wolfsburg while Hamburg pulled Belgian side Standard Liege."
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"Draw for the UEFA Champions League to take place in Switzerland on Friday .",
"Holders Barcelona are favorites to retain Holders Barcelona's crown .",
"The final is worth an estimated $421 million in economic terms, according to sponsors .",
"This year's final will be held in Madrid, Spain, on May 22 ."
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"(CNN) -- Security cameras were rolling when a killer whale at SeaWorld's Florida park grabbed a trainer by Dawn Brancheau's's hair and pulled Dawn Brancheau's underwater, leading to Dawn Brancheau's's death.",
"Now SeaWorld and the family of Dawn Brancheau are fighting to keep videos and photos related to Dawn Brancheau's's death out of the public eye.",
"A Florida judge on Thursday granted a request from SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment to join in a lawsuit filed last week by Dawn Brancheau's's family seeking to prevent the release of the footage, which was captured at SeaWorld's Orlando, Florida, park on February 24.",
"Dawn Brancheau's was interacting with an orca named Tilikum when the animal grabbed Dawn Brancheau's's ponytail and pulled Dawn Brancheau's underwater in front of shocked onlookers at Shamu Stadium.",
"Dawn Brancheau's died from \"multiple traumatic injuries and drowning,\" the Orange County Sheriff's office said.",
"Portions of the incident were captured on two cameras at SeaWorld's Florida park -- one that shows a view from under water and another from that park's Sky Tower, according to Brancheau's family's complaint, which was filed last week.",
"\"The underwater view does not show Dawn Brancheau's until after Dawn Brancheau's had entered the water.",
"The overhead camera was not aimed at the scene until after the incident had begun,\" the complaint states.",
"\"Significantly neither camera shows what occurred in the moments prior to and including Dawn Brancheau's being pulled into the water and offer no insight into the cause of this tragic event.\"",
"Brancheau's family filed the complaint against the Orange County Sheriff and the District Nine Medical Examiner's Office, who have possession of the footage.",
"Circuit Court Judge William Kirkwood granted a temporary injunction of the release of the footage, noting that the Orange County Sheriff's office filed a notice with the court stating it had no position on the matter.",
"The medical examiner's office also filed a notice of no objection to Brancheau's family's complaint.",
"iReport: Bob Barker, Tippi Hedren speak out on Sea World incident .",
"In a motion filed Monday, SeaWorld claimed SeaWorld has an interest in the pending litigation because SeaWorld is the exclusive owner of the footage.",
"If possession of the footage is not controlled, a motion filed Monday further claims, \"it is almost a certainty that they will be made publicly available on the Internet,\" causing SeaWorld to lose SeaWorld's exclusive right to the video.",
"\"Further, SeaWorld's interests are generally aligned with the Plaintiffs' interests, and SeaWorld, as the former employer of Mrs. Brancheau, seeks to assist Plaintiffs in protecting Plaintiffs's privacy interests,\" the motion states.",
"SeaWorld also expressed concern that members of the media will be able to gain access to the footage if they become part of an investigative file with law enforcement.",
"In fact, Florida's broad laws regarding access to public documents creates a great likelihood of such a possibility, said CNN legal analyst Lisa Bloom.",
"\"As a general rule, matters of a police file are public record, and the media has access to contents of a police file.",
"Most mainstream media are not going to broadcast someone being killed or someone's remains, but it's a matter of having that access to decide how to use it,\" CNN legal analyst Lisa Bloom said.",
"\"Law enforcement files have to be released in Florida, so the media has a very strong argument not only under federal First Amendment laws but also under Florida access laws,\" Bloom said.",
"The Brancheau family's lawsuit marks the second time this month that a family has asked the courts to intervene in the release of footage depicting dead loved ones.",
"Earlier this month, another family made a similar appeal to the courts involving the release of photos depicting dead loved ones.",
"The family of slain hiker Meredith Emerson last week asked a Georgia judge to issue an order preventing the release of crime scene photos depicting slain hiker Meredith Emerson's nude and dismembered body.",
"A reporter on assignment for Hustler requested the photos for a story A reporter on assignment for Hustler was doing, according to the adult magazine.",
"A judge granted a temporary order in the case preventing crime scene photos depicting her nude and dismembered body's release pending a hearing on the matter."
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"(CNN) --",
"The path that brought U.S. citizen David Coleman Headley to the point of pleading guilty to involvement in two international terrorism plots is complicated and twisted.",
"David Coleman Headley's life, in many ways, is far from the average American experience, but David Coleman Headley's also very much a product of a typical American upbringing.",
"David Coleman Headley's an unusual fusion, a product of two worlds, a rare blending of East and West.",
"And because of David Coleman Headley's unusual background, Headley, experts say, is one of the most unusual and important American-born terrorists.",
"Even David Coleman Headley's eyes -- one blue and one brown -- reflect the double life David Coleman Headley has lived almost since the day David Coleman Headley was born.",
"David Coleman Headley pleaded guilty Thursday to all 12 charges against David Coleman Headley in connection with the four-day siege on India's financial capital in 2008 that left more than 160 people dead and a planned attack in Denmark.",
"Headley, the son of an American mother and Pakistani father, was accused of extensive involvement in planning the devastating attacks on hotels in Mumbai, which the Indian government says were carried out by the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.",
"At least six Americans were among the dead.",
"Headley, 49, was indicted last October and charged by the U.S. government for conspiracy to murder and maim people in India and provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.",
"David Coleman Headley initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, but David Coleman Headley has changed David Coleman Headley's plea as part of a deal with the U.S. government to cooperate with investigators and possibly to avoid the death penalty David Coleman Headley might have received if convicted on some of the charges.",
"In the federal courtroom in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday, David Coleman Headley told the judge that David Coleman Headley did not dispute any of the charges.",
"By pleading guilty, David Coleman Headley also gave up David Coleman Headley's right to appeal in the case.",
"David Coleman Headley faced six counts of conspiracy to bomb locations in India and to murder and maim persons in India and Denmark, and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India.",
"The indictment against David Coleman Headley charged that David Coleman Headley scouted targets in Mumbai for more than two years to set up the November 2008 attacks.",
"David Coleman Headley was also accused of planning a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper, which was never carried out.",
"The newspaper became the target of Muslim fury in 2005 after The newspaper published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a manner offensive to Muslims.",
"Even family asks: Who is David Coleman Headley?",
"Now that David Coleman Headley's admitted to conspiracy to murder and maim in the Mumbai attack, even members of David Coleman Headley's own family are wondering who David Coleman Headley really is.",
"\"I was really shocked.",
"And just didn't expect something like that.",
"And I mean such a hands-on accusation,\" said William Headley, David Coleman Headley's uncle, reflecting on when William Headley first learned of the government's accusations against William Headley's nephew.",
"\"It was like you had poured cold water inside my chest.\"",
"David Coleman Headley was born in 1960 in Washington, D.C., but with a different name: at birth, David Coleman Headley was given the Urdu name Daood Gilani.",
"David Coleman Headley was the son of an eccentric, flamboyant and rebellious high society mother from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Serrill Headley; and a strict, formal Pakistani diplomat father, Sayed Salim Gilani.",
"The couple met at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington but moved to Lahore, Pakistan, when The couple's son was very young.",
"\"David Coleman Headley was the first baby I had anything to do with,\" David Coleman Headley's uncle William Headley said.",
"\"David Coleman Headley was the first baby I ever touched or held or anything like that.",
"And somewhere I have a photograph of me in my pajamas holding David Coleman Headley. ...",
"David Coleman Headley was a nice-looking little baby.\"",
"Fractious union of East and West .",
"After only a few years, Daood's parents split up, an early sign of the fractious union of East and West.",
"The separation left David Coleman Headley straddled between David Coleman Headley's traditional Muslim father and David Coleman Headley's very Western, very American mother.",
"For a time, David Coleman Headley's mother remained in Pakistan, but his mother eventually returned to Philadelphia, where his mother opened a popular bar called the Khyber Pass.",
"The Khyber Pass is the name of the main passage between Pakistan and Afghanistan.",
"David Coleman Headley remained in Pakistan throughout much of David Coleman Headley's childhood, and as a teenager David Coleman Headley was enrolled for several years at a prestigious and regimented Pakistani military academy, the Hasan Abdal Cadet College.",
"But then David Coleman Headley's mother pulled David Coleman Headley out of the school and brought David Coleman Headley back to Philadelphia.",
"There, the teen moved into David Coleman Headley's mother's apartment above a popular bar called the Khyber Pass.",
"In 2006, David Coleman Headley changed David Coleman Headley's name to David Coleman Headley, borrowing the family's American name, and even the middle name of William Headley's father, Coleman.",
"The change was made, U.S. officials believe, to help David Coleman Headley escape detection and travel more easily between the United States, India and Pakistan.",
"In an exclusive television interview with CNN in January, David Coleman Headley's uncle described Headley's uncle's disbelief in learning that Headley's uncle's own nephew was connected in any way to the massacre in Mumbai -- disbelief that lingered until Headley's uncle began receiving letters from Headley's uncle's nephew in David Coleman Headley's jail cell.",
"\"To find an insider in my own family involved [in terrorism] -- you're not responsible for what your family does and yet you have such a close association with it, it's your blood.\"",
"David Coleman Headley wrote to David Coleman Headley's uncle from jail, saying that despite David Coleman Headley's heritage, David Coleman Headley was now 100 percent Muslim.",
"David Coleman Headley's life has been full of twists and turns, from David Coleman Headley's dual heritage childhood -- being equally comfortable in Pakistan's Muslim circles and in Philadelphia's social scene -- to David Coleman Headley's marriage to a blond American beauty and subsequent divorce, after which David Coleman Headley took a traditional Muslim wife.",
"Drug trafficking snare .",
"In the 1990s, David Coleman Headley became a major drug dealer and turned informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration after being caught, according to David Coleman Headley's family.",
"David Coleman Headley's involvement with the Drug Enforcement Administration may have been one of the factors that pushed David Coleman Headley toward Islamic extremism.",
"In 1997, David Coleman Headley was running a video shop in New York.",
"On February 7 of that year, David Coleman Headley was in a midtown hotel negotiating to bring a large load of heroin from the Middle East to New York City.",
"But David Coleman Headley had walked into a trap.",
"The hotel room, on the ninth floor, was wired by the Feds.",
"As David Coleman Headley tried to escape, David Coleman Headley found David Coleman Headley surrounded by gun-toting the Drug Enforcement Administration agents.",
"It was a moment that became the ultimate turning point in David Coleman Headley's life, said David Coleman Headley's uncle.",
"\"David Coleman Headley said 'If I get free of this I'm going to commit David Coleman Headley to God,' \" William Headley recounted.",
"\"So that is when, I would say, David Coleman Headley became a serious Muslim.\"",
"What happened next is somewhat of a mystery.",
"While David Coleman Headley's co-conspirator in the drug deal went to prison for 10 years, David Coleman Headley was out within 15 months.",
"David Coleman Headley's family believes the Drug Enforcement Administration was using David Coleman Headley as their own informant, frequently sending David Coleman Headley to Pakistan and Afghanistan to meet directly with heroin dealers.",
"Those trips may also have put David Coleman Headley in direct contact with Islamic terror groups who use the drug trade to finance their operations.",
"It was during this time that David Coleman Headley may have first encountered Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the Pakistani group that some say is now second only to al Qaeda in al Qaeda's global terrorist reach.",
"The indictment against him indicated that David Coleman Headley had moved among senior figures in Lashkar -- including Ilyas Kashmiri, who's alleged to have had contacts with al Qaeda.",
"Headley case called unique .",
"The David Coleman Headley case is unique for many reasons, experts say.",
"\"Headley case reads like a spy novel more than your typical terrorism cases,\" said Frank Cilluffo, who heads the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute.",
"Frank Cilluffo, who heads the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute says David Coleman Headley was a sophisticated and valuable asset for anyone in the terrorist world, because of David Coleman Headley's ability to move easily between the East and the West.",
"\"This is someone who clearly lived in two different worlds and grew up in two different worlds and had an awareness of both the United States -- having spent much of David Coleman Headley's adult life and later childhood life here -- as well as in Pakistan,\" said Cilluffo.",
"\"Clearly, you have someone who was conflicted, even though David Coleman Headley lived in both worlds.",
"You get the sense that David Coleman Headley never felt at home in either world, searching for David Coleman Headley's identity ... and we know how, unfortunately, it plays out,\" he added.",
"David Coleman Headley's uncle still finds it hard to believe.",
"Headley's uncle was shocked when CNN called to tell Headley's uncle that Headley's uncle's nephew was pleading guilty.",
"The nephew Headley's uncle knew was not someone who could have been involved in a terrorist plot, Headley's uncle said.",
"\"We absolutely cannot imagine it,\" Headley's uncle said.",
"\"It's not at all consistent with anything we know at all.\""
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"David Coleman Headley's mother was a fun-loving Philly socialite; David Coleman Headley's father was a strict, formal Pakistani .",
"David Coleman Headley's arrest in a heroin sting was a turning point in David Coleman Headley's life, an uncle says .",
"David Coleman Headley's been tied to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba; India says group carried out Mumbai attacks ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) --",
"In a bid to end what it calls illegal riots, the Israeli military will prohibit outsider access to areas in two occupied West Bank villages one day a week, according to a statement explaining the move.",
"\"Every week, violent, illegal riots take place in the area of Nil'in and Bil'in, during the course of which members of the security forces are wounded and heavy damage is caused to the security fence and to public property,\" a statement explaining the move read.",
"\"In an effort to prevent the inciters of these riots from reaching the area in which these riots take place, three weeks ago, OC Central Command Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi signed an order designating the area between the fence and the villages of Nil'in and Bil'in as a closed military zone.\"",
"Word of the Israeli military order became public Monday.",
"For the past five years the two Palestinian towns have been home to weekly Friday protests opposing Israel's separation barrier, the over-700-kilometer stretch of concrete wall and fence that separates Israel from the West Bank.",
"The demonstrations have become a weekly ritual and the center of a nascent non-violent Palestinian resistance movement, which attract an assortment of Palestinians, Israelis and international activists.",
"However, The demonstrations often degenerate into clashes between Israeli military personnel and stone-throwing youths.",
"The protest sites will be closed between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. every Friday for the next six months, but the closure does not apply to residents of the villages.",
"The Palestinian Authority Cabinet issued a statement saying The Palestinian Authority Cabinet \"condemned the repressive actions by the occupation forces against peaceful demonstrations, as well as the declaration of Bil'in and Nil'in as closed military areas every Friday for six months.\"",
"The Palestinian Authority Cabinet \"stressed the right of the Palestinian people, according to international laws, to defy occupation measures, settlement activities, and the building of the wall.\"",
"The move comes after months of increased Israeli military activity in the form of night raids and arrests in the villages.",
"Residents and protest organizers also have decried the latest Israeli military action, saying in a news release that it is part of a \"persecution campaign against Palestinian activists in an attempt to suppress the rising tide of West Bank popular resistance to the occupation.\"",
"Speaking to CNN last month, Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israeli military, acknowledged Israeli army activity in the towns and said Israel has the responsibility to deal those who were leading the protests.",
"\"If those people who are organizing it from even behind the scenes, those people who are organizing it from even behind the scenes cannot be above the law, and that's what we're dealing with.\"",
"Gaby Lasky, a lawyer representing village residents, said the military order is illegal and argued that \"closed military zone orders are not meant to deal with demonstrations, which are clearly in the civic rather than the military realm.\"",
"According to the Palestinian activist group Popular Struggle, six protesters have been killed in the demonstrations since 2008.",
"the Israeli military says more than a hundred of the Israeli military's soldiers have been wounded."
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"700-kilometer stretch of concrete wall and fence separates Israel from West Bank .",
"Protest sites will be closed between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. every Friday .",
"Gaby Lasky, a lawyer representing village residents, said the military order is illegal ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Health care reform advocates inched closer to victory Wednesday as Kucinich switched Kucinich's position and announced Kucinich's intention to vote for a sweeping $875 billion plan under consideration in the House of Representatives.",
"Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said Kucinich believes \"health care is a civil right.\"",
"Kucinich had previously characterized the bill, which cleared the Senate in December, as little more than a boondoggle for private insurers.",
"Kucinich was publicly lobbied for Kucinich's vote by President Barack Obama during the president's visit this week to Kucinich's congressional district in Ohio.",
"Kucinich told reporters Kucinich's had four meetings with President Barack Obama to discuss health care bill.",
"\"The president's visit to Kucinich's congressional district in Ohio ... underscored the urgency of this vote,\" Kucinich said.",
"\"I have doubts about health care bill ... [but] I've decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation.\"",
"Kucinich said Kucinich ultimately had \"to make a decision on health care bill as it is, not on the bill as I'd like to see it.\"",
"Kucinich is a backer of a single-payer health care system under which the government would fund all costs billed by doctors and hospitals.",
"Kucinich's decision to change Kucinich's vote is \"a good sign,\" President Barack Obama told reporters in the Oval Office.",
"\"I told Kucinich thank you.\"",
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Pelosi thought Kucinich's switch would make a difference with a large number of liberal activists.",
"\"Kucinich's been a supporter of health care for all Americans for a long time,\" Pelosi said.",
"\"Kucinich has a constituency, and many of those people still don't understand why there isn't a public [option].\"",
"Pelosi has repeatedly expressed confidence that Pelosi will have enough support to pass health care bill when it comes to the floor for a final vote.",
"Read more about how votes are lining up .",
"Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, indicated Wednesday this vote could come at some point this weekend.",
"He said the leadership is still waiting for final cost estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on a package of changes to the measure.",
"Asked if the release of final cost estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on a package of changes to the measure was imminent, Pelosi said, \"I would have said ... half an hour ago, hopefully any minute.",
"I think it's going to take a little more time.\"",
"Pelosi said Pelosi had no explanation for the delay.",
"\"I don't know the calculation,\" Pelosi said.",
"\"I don't know how they do the calculation.",
"Whatever the calculation is, they're the gospel and we have to live by the gospel.\"",
"Later, Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said that final cost estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on a package of changes to the measure would not be released Wednesday night.",
"Since the Democrats have said health care bill will be available for reading for 72 hours before a vote, this vote can take place no sooner than Sunday, provided final cost estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on a package of changes to the measure are posted Thursday.",
"Pelosi needs 216 votes from Pelosi's 253-member caucus to pass the Senate bill.",
"No Republicans are expected to back health care bill.",
"A number of House Democrats have refused to state their voting intentions publicly.",
"Twenty-seven House Democrats, however, have indicated Twenty-seven House Democrats will join Republicans in opposing the Senate plan.",
"That puts opponents of reform 11 votes shy of the 216 needed to prevent President Barack Obama from scoring a major victory on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.",
"Meanwhile, GOP leaders continued to pound away at the legislation on Wednesday, slamming House Democratic leaders for considering the use of a controversial legislative maneuver to pass health care bill.",
"Pelosi may try to help House Democrats unhappy with health care bill by allowing them to avoid a direct vote on health care bill.",
"Pelosi is considering pushing for a vote on a rule that would simply \"deem\" the Senate bill to be passed.",
"House then would proceed to a separate vote on the more popular package of changes to the Senate plan.",
"\"I've never seen anything like the plan that House Democrats hatched this week to jam House Democrats's health care bill through Congress,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said Wednesday.",
"\"Historians will remember this as a new low in this debate, the week that America was introduced to the 'scheme and deem' approach to legislating.",
"Historians'll remember this as the week that Congress tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the public in order to get around their will.\"",
"House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that Republicans will try to block the procedure.",
"They will try to force a vote on a resolution requiring the Senate health care bill to be brought to an up-or-down vote.",
"Boehner has called the maneuver -- also known as a \"self-executing rule\" -- the \"ultimate in Washington power grabs.\"",
"House Republicans sent a letter to the Democratic head of the House Rules Committee on Wednesday asking her to move an upcoming hearing on health care bill to a larger room to account for overwhelming public interest in the issue.",
"the House Rules Committee is responsible for deciding whether the full House will have a chance to pass the Senate bill using the self-executing rule.",
"\"While C-SPAN may decide to cover the hearing, that does not satisfy the need for the maximum amount of transparency and openness needed to give the American people faith in this process,\" the letter said.",
"\"By moving the hearing to a larger room, the House Rules Committee can ensure more Americans will have the opportunity to participate in the House Rules Committee's proceedings and not be turned away at the door.\"",
"Where does health care reform stand?",
"If enacted, health care bill would constitute the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid more than four decades ago.",
"health care bill is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans.",
"health care bill also would reduce federal deficits by about $118 billion over 10 years, according to CBO estimates.",
"Top Republicans contend health care bill amounts to an ill-conceived government takeover of the country's health care system.",
"Top Republicans have said health care bill would do little to slow spiraling medical costs.",
"Top Republicans also argue health care bill would lead to higher premiums and taxes for middle-class families while resulting in deep Medicare cuts.",
"Public opinion polls indicate a majority of Americans have turned against the administration's health care reform plan, though individual elements of health care bill remain widely popular.",
"CNN's Dan Lothian, Charles Riley, Alan Silverleib, Jeff Simon, Deirdre Walsh and Robert Yoon contributed to this report."
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"Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, on Wednesday said Kucinich intends to vote for health care bill .",
"Kucinich previously had characterized health care bill as a boondoggle for private insurers .",
"The apparent defection improves chances for health care bill's passage ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped in Pakistan earlier this month has been found safe and is back with Sahil Saeed's relatives, the British High Commission said Tuesday.",
"Sahil Saeed was released at a school in the Punjab province of Pakistan, said Assistant Chief Constable David Thompson of the Greater Manchester Police in England, near Sahil Saeed's parents' residence in Oldham.",
"From there, Sahil Saeed wandered into a field and was found by residents who looked after Sahil Saeed until police arrived, Assistant Chief Constable David Thompson of the Greater Manchester Police in England, near his parents' residence in Oldham said.",
"Regional Pakistani police said Sahil Saeed was found near the town of Danga in the Punjab province of Pakistan, close to where Sahil Saeed was abducted March 3.",
"Sahil Saeed was in good condition, said Aslam Tareen, the head of the regional police.",
"\"Sahil Saeed is with members of family in Pakistan and the Pakistani police, and there is also contact from the British High Commission,\" Assistant Chief Constable David Thompson of the Greater Manchester Police in England, near his parents' residence in Oldham said.",
"He added that Sahil Saeed had already spoken to Sahil Saeed's mother and father in England by telephone and that both parents were \"clearly relieved\" to speak to both parents's son.",
"the British High Commission issued a statement thanking police in Jhelum, another town in the eastern province of Punjab, for the boy's return.",
"\"This is fantastic news that brings to an end a traumatic ordeal faced by Sahil Saeed and Sahil Saeed's family,\" said Adam Thomson, the British high commissioner to Pakistan.",
"Police arrested some of the kidnappers, said Rana Sanaullah, the provincial law minister.",
"Sahil, a British citizen of Pakistani descent, was on the last day of a two-week vacation in Pakistan before Sahil Saeed was to return home to Oldham, in northern England.",
"Gunmen barged into Sahil's grandmother's home in Jhelum and took Sahil Saeed.",
"Gunmen reportedly demanded a ransom of 10 million rupees ($118,000).",
"Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said the captors included someone close to the family.",
"\"There is someone who is very close to the family because the way the situation happened, the way the entry was made,\" Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters.",
"But Tareen said Tuesday there is no evidence that any family member was involved.",
"There was also no indication a ransom was paid, Tareen said.",
"Sanaullah, the law minister, said the kidnappers were part of a ring that operated in and out of Pakistan.",
"He did not elaborate.",
"Thompson, of the Greater Manchester Police, could not comment on the possibility of arrests in England.",
"\"At this stage there are no inquiries that we're carrying out in the UK that would lead me to contemplate that we'd make an arrest in the near future,\" he said."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Saying it plans to lease aircraft and provide replacement workers, British Airways on Monday unveiled an ambitious contingency plan in preparation for the first of two strikes by the union members representing BA's cabin crews.",
"The Unite union's leadership aimed to ground BA through the airline's action, but \"the flag will continue to fly,\" said Willie Walsh, BA chief executive, in a written statement.",
"\"Around 60 percent of our customers will be able to fly as planned and many thousands more can be rebooked onto alternative BA flights or onto rival airlines.\"",
"Members of The Unite union voted to strike for three days beginning March 20, and for four more days beginning March 27.",
"BA said Monday its contingency plans will allow about 45,000 customers to fly each day during the first strike period.",
"\"At this stage, the vast majority of flights between March 23 and March 31 remain in the schedule, and we will update customers due to fly during the second strike period after the first strike period has ended,\" a written statement said.",
"\"BA is still available to hold further talks but wants customers to have early warning of BA's flying schedule to allow sufficient time for alternative travel arrangements to be made.\"",
"At London's Heathrow Airport, more than 60 percent of BA long-haul flights will be operated during the first strike period, BA said.",
"In addition, BA will operate all long-haul flights to London's Gatwick Airport and more than half of the short-haul flights at Gatwick.",
"\"BA will operate some of BA's own short-haul flights at Heathrow, and will supplement BA's schedule by leasing up to 22 aircraft with pilots and crews from eight different airlines based in the UK and Europe,\" a written statement said.",
"\"Due to the numbers of cabin crew who have called in to offer their services over the weekend, the schedule will be slightly larger than we had originally anticipated,\" Walsh said.",
"BA said BA has also made agreements with 40 other carriers to rebook customers free of charge during the strike period if their BA flights are canceled.",
"\"BA will continue to try to prevent this strike taking place, but BA have reached a point when BA must now offer some clarity to BA's customers who have waited with great patience since Friday, when the strike dates were first announced,\" Walsh said in the BA statement.",
"\"... I recognize the frustration of customers booked for travel from March 27 onwards, when the second stoppage is due to begin, and BA will do all BA can to give them more clarity about their specific flight number once we start to understand just how many cabin crew are willing to work as normal.\"",
"The industrial action is over planned changes to cabin crew conditions, which BA says will save the carrier more than £60 million (approximately $90 million) a year.",
"The Unite union has said the plans call for working hours to be extended and crew levels to be cut, changes that The Unite union has said will damage customer service and the BA brand.",
"BA's management submitted a formal offer to the union Thursday, The Unite union said, but added that a formal offer failed to address union concerns about crew numbers and service delivery.",
"That prompted The Unite union officials to announce the strike dates Friday.",
"When that occurred, BA took BA's offer off the table.",
"BA, for BA's part, also has rejected all union proposals so far, saying they would have saved BA significantly less money than BA's own planned changes.",
"BA has opened an extra call center manned by volunteers to help customers, a written statement said.",
"\"BA remain absolutely determined to search for a sensible settlement and BA's door remains open to The Unite union, day or night.",
"It is not too late for ... Unite to call off this action and BA will do all BA can to reinstate some of the canceled flights,\" Walsh said in a written statement Monday."
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"(CNN) --",
"Three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were killed in two drive-by shootings, a senior White House official told CNN Sunday.",
"Two of the victims were an American employee at the consulate and her U.S. citizen husband.",
"Their 1-year-old child, who was in a vehicle with the couple at the time of the shooting, survived the incident, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.",
"the couple were found dead inside a white Toyota RAV4 with Texas license plates, according to the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.",
"The woman was shot in the neck and left arm, while the man had a bullet wound near the man's right eye, officials said.",
"\"We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted,\" Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told CNN, saying a police officer witnessed a car shooting at the couple's car.",
"\"Juarez mayor know they were chasing the couple.",
"Juarez mayor know they wanted to kill the couple.\"",
"the couple were identified as Arthur Redelfs, 34, and Lesley Enriquez by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, where Redelfs worked as a detention officer.",
"Redelfs was a 10-year veteran of the department, according to Jesse Tovar, a spokesman for the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.",
"\"On behalf of the men and women of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, I would like to extend the El Paso County Sheriff's Office's deepest sympathy and condolences to the family during this difficult time,\" said Sheriff Richard Wiles.",
"\"the El Paso County Sheriff's Office's thoughts and prayers are with them.\"",
"Authorities retrieved only one shell casing, from a 9 mm weapon.",
"About 10 minutes before authorities received the call, authorities were alerted to a body inside a 2003 Honda Pilot.",
"Inside was the husband of the Mexican employee, identified as Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37.",
"Reyes said the victim was a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. consulate.",
"Two children, 4 and 7, were injured in that shooting and transported to the hospital, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office said.",
"Police recovered two shells at that scene from an assault rifle, authorities said.",
"\"The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez,\" National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer said in the statement Sunday.",
"\"The president extends The president's condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions.",
"In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice.\"",
"In response, the U.S. State Department authorized the temporary relocation of employees' families working in border-area consulates.",
"\"These appalling assaults on members of our own State Department family are, sadly, part of a growing tragedy besetting many communities in Mexico,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement Sunday night.",
"\"These appalling assaults on members of our own State Department family underscore the imperative of our continued commitment to work closely with the Government of (Mexican) President (Felipe) Calderón to cripple the influence of trafficking organizations at work in Mexico.\"",
"The families of employees at U.S. consulates in Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros, are allowed to leave for a period of 30 days \"in response to an increase in violence along the Mexican side of its border with the U.S.,\" State Department spokesman Fred Lash told CNN.",
"After 30 days, the authorization can be renewed, depending on a review, State Department spokesman Fred Lash said, adding that this was not a mandatory evacuation.",
"The announcement was part of a warning to American citizens regarding travel to Mexico.",
"a warning to American citizens regarding travel to Mexico urges U.S. citizens to delay nonessential travel to parts of the states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, where Juarez is located, because of recent violent attacks.",
"U.S. government employees are restricted from traveling to all or parts of these three states.",
"recent violent attacks include the kidnapping and killing of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua, the warning states.",
"\"Some recent confrontations between Mexican authorities and drug cartel members have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades,\" a warning to American citizens regarding travel to Mexico says.",
"\"During some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area.\"",
"The mayor said the shootings highlight a problem shared by both countries along their border.",
"\"It is not just a Mexican problem -- it's is a U.S.-Mexico problem,\" Reyes said.",
"\"I'm very glad that the U.S. has taken that position.\"",
"The mayor said The mayor supported the State Department's authorization to consular families and that \"it is important consular families feel safe.\"",
"Mexico on Sunday said that Mexico's government was committed to protecting all people, citizens and visitors alike, diplomats or not.",
"\"Mexico deeply laments the killings of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez,\" Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement.",
"\"The Mexican authorities are working with determination to clear up the facts surrounding the crime scene and put those responsible before the law.\"",
"Ciudad Juarez is one of the front lines in Mexico's war against the drug cartels that operate in its territory.",
"More than 2,600 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez in 2009.",
"Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, has become a focal point of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug efforts after the January 31 killings of 15 people, most of whom were students with no ties to organized crime.",
"The incident sparked outrage across Mexico.",
"In the western state of Guerrero, at least 25 people were killed in a series of violent acts on Saturday, state officials said.",
"The bodies of 14 people, including nine civilians and five police officers, were found in various parts of the resort city of Acapulco, the official Notimex news agency reported, citing Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas.",
"In the small city of Ajuchitlan del Progreso, 10 civilians and one soldier were killed in two shootouts that started when federal officials tried to carry out search warrants on two locations, Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas said.",
"Police in the western state of Guerrero were on a heightened security alert, Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas said.",
"Mexico has not released official figures, but national media say 7,600 Mexicans lost 7,600 Mexicans's lives in the war on drugs in 2009.",
"Calderon said last year that 6,500 Mexicans died in drug violence in 2008.",
"CNN's Mariano Castillo and Jamie Crawford contributed to this report."
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"Juarez mayor: \"Juarez mayor know that the U.S. citizens were targeted\"",
"Drive-by shootings kill U.S. employee at consulate and 2 others in Ciudad Juarez .",
"State Department warns Americans of danger of traveling to three Mexican states ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Democratic congressional leaders unveiled Senate health care bill Thursday, setting the stage for a final legislative showdown on President Obama's domestic priority.",
"White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced that President Obama had decided to delay an upcoming trip to Australia and Indonesia to help push the bill over the finish line.",
"President Obama had been set to depart Washington on Sunday, the same day that the House of Representatives is likely to vote on Senate health care bill.",
"Watch White House press secretary Robert Gibbs defend health plan maneuver .",
"\"I'm sure he wants to be here for the history,\" said the House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California.",
"If enacted, Senate health care bill would constitute the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid more than four decades ago.",
"Senate health care bill would extend insurance coverage to an additional 32 million Americans, according to a preliminary analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.",
"Among other things, Senate health care bill would expand Medicare prescription drug coverage, increase federal subsidies to help people buy insurance, and ban denials of coverage for pre-existing conditions.",
"Senate health care bill seeks to bridge the gap between previous the House of Representatives and Senate bills partly by watering down and delaying the implementation of a tax on high-end insurance plans.",
"As with earlier the House of Representatives and Senate plans, Senate health care bill includes significant reductions in Medicare spending, in part through changes in payments made under the Medicare Advantage program.",
"Senate health care bill also eliminates a deeply unpopular provision in the Senate bill that exempts Nebraska from paying increased Medicaid expenses.",
"Senate health care bill would cut the nation's deficit by $138 billion over the next 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.",
"Senate health care bill would further reduce the nation's deficit by more than $1 trillion in the following decade.",
"the House of Representatives is now tentatively set to consider two measures Sunday: the $875 billion plan passed by Senate in December and the compromise, which would bring the total to $940 billion.",
"Senate health care bill cannot become law if the Senate bill is not also enacted.",
"If the Senate bill passes, Senate health care bill would go to Obama to be signed into law.",
"If the revisions unveiled Thursday are also approved, they would still have to clear Senate.",
"the House of Representatives members unhappy with the less expansive Senate bill have received assurances from top Senate Democrats that they will pass Senate health care bill.",
"the House of Representatives Democrats pushed hard to ensure Senate health care bill included an expansion of subsidies to low- and middle-income families, as well as a reduction in the tax on high-end \"Cadillac\" plans.",
"Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, told reporters Thursday that the budget office's cost estimate \"will go a long way to get [fiscally conservative Democrats] to feel comfortable with the legislation.\"",
"The Senate bill, if allowed to stand unchanged, would reduce federal deficits by $20 billion less than the compromise plan over the next 10 years.",
"GOP leaders said the new budget office estimate of the revised plan had not changed GOP leaders's opinion of the overall measure, which GOP leaders vehemently oppose.",
"\"It's not too late for the American people to continue to speak up,\" House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Thursday.",
"\"They need to yell a little louder, and we can stop this.\"",
"Republicans insist the Democratic proposal will do little to slow spiraling medical costs.",
"Republicans also say it would lead to higher premiums and taxes for middle-class families while resulting in deep Medicare cuts.",
"Pelosi has nevertheless expressed confidence in recent weeks that Pelosi will have enough support to pass both the Senate plan and Senate health care bill when they come to the House floor.",
"Pelosi needs 216 votes from Pelosi's 253-member caucus to pass the measures.",
"No Republicans are expected to back either one.",
"Watch Pelosi express Pelosi's confidence in Senate health care bill .",
"Twenty-seven the House of Representatives Democrats indicated to CNN on Wednesday Twenty-seven House Democrats will join Republicans in opposing Senate health care bill.",
"That leaves opponents of reform 11 votes shy of defeating Senate health care bill.",
"Pelosi has tried to sweeten the deal for the House of Representatives liberals by adding a large student loan reform measure to Senate health care bill.",
"The measure, which is a priority for Obama, would end the practice of having private banks offer student loans while expanding direct lending from the government.",
"Pelosi may also try to help the House of Representatives Democrats unhappy with the Senate bill by allowing them to avoid a direct vote on the Senate bill.",
"Pelosi is considering pushing for a vote on a rule that would simply \"deem\" the Senate bill to be passed.",
"the House of Representatives then would proceed to a separate vote on the changes incorporated in the $940 billion version of Senate health care bill.",
"Read about the highlights of Senate health care bill .",
"Republicans failed Thursday to force a vote on a resolution requiring the Senate health care bill to be brought to an up-or-down vote.",
"GOP leaders are also fuming over Democrats' decision to use a legislative maneuver called reconciliation, which will allow the $940 billion plan -- if passed by the House of Representatives -- to clear Senate with a simple majority of 51 votes.",
"Senate Democrats lost Senate Democrats's filibuster-proof 60-seat supermajority in January with the election of GOP Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts.",
"Republicans say that reconciliation, which is limited to provisions pertaining to the budget, was never meant to facilitate passage of a sweeping reform measure such as the health care bill.",
"Democrats say that reconciliation was used to pass several major bills in recent years, including President George W. Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.",
"Public opinion polls indicate that Americans remain sharply divided over Democrats''s health care reform agenda, though individual elements of it remain widely popular.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett, Dana Bash, Lisa Desjardins, Brianna Keilar and Kristi Keck contributed to this report."
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"Felipe Calderon made Felipe Calderon's third visit in a little more than a month Tuesday to the troubled border city of Juarez, where three people associated with the U.S. Consulate were killed over the weekend.",
"troubled city is the most violent city in Mexico, with more than 2,600 drug-related deaths in 2009.",
"No official numbers are available, but more than 400 killings have been reported in local media this year.",
"The city, long the focal point of Felipe Calderon's war on drug cartels, came to renewed prominence after the January 31 killings of 15 people, most of 15 people students with no links to organized crime.",
"The massacre sparked outrage throughout Mexico and drew worldwide attention.",
"Saturday's deaths of a pregnant woman and two other people connected with the U.S. Consulate renewed attention to troubled city.",
"Felipe Calderon visited troubled city twice in mid-February within a one-week period, meeting with local officials and residents.",
"More such meetings were scheduled for Tuesday.",
"Although Tuesday's visit had been scheduled before the latest slayings, analysts say it highlights troubled city's importance to Felipe Calderon.",
"\"What it says is that Felipe Calderon has really decided that success in troubled city is essential for stemming the tide of organized crime,\" said Andrew Selee, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute.",
"\"Felipe Calderon has staked Felipe Calderon's presidency on success in troubled city.\"",
"Juarez, which accounted for about one-third of the drug-related killings in Mexico last year, was already significant because of the high death count, Andrew Selee, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute said.",
"But the killings in January and over the weekend have elevated troubled city to a symbolic level, the analyst said.",
"\"It has gained an emotional value,\" Andrew Selee, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute said.",
"The latest killings were carried out by a local gang known as Los Aztecas, who are allied with the Juarez Cartel, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.",
"the U.S. Consulate were followed and targeted, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.",
"the U.S. Consulate were attacked as the U.S. Consulate left a birthday party at the U.S. Consulate in troubled city.",
"U.S. and Mexican officials said a consulate employee who was four months pregnant and her husband, a U.S. citizen who was a jailer in El Paso, Texas, across the border from troubled city, were slain in their SUV.",
"the U.S. Consulate's 10-month-old daughter, who was in the vehicle, was not injured, Reyes and other officials said.",
"Authorities identified the U.S. Consulate as El Paso residents Arthur Redelfs, 34, and Lesley Ann Enriquez, 35.",
"Arthur Redelfs was a 10-year veteran of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, department spokesman Jesse Tovar said.",
"The third victim was identified as Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37, a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. Consulate in Juarez.",
"Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37, a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. Consulate's wife was not traveling with Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37, a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. Consulate, but two of their children, ages 4 and 7, were in the car and were wounded, officials said.",
"Authorities said Authorities don't know of a motive, nor had Authorities made any arrests Tuesday.",
"Widespread violence throughout northern Mexico in the past few weeks has led U.S. officials to take precautions, including the temporary relocation of State Department employees' families in border-area consulates.",
"The family members at U.S. consulates in Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros are allowed to leave for up to 30 days, State Department said.",
"The leave can be renewed after 30 days.",
"The announcement was part of a continued warning to U.S. citizens regarding travel to Mexico.",
"U.S. citizens are advised to delay nonessential travel to parts of the states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, where Juarez is located.",
"In addition, U.S. government employees are restricted from traveling to all or parts of the three states.",
"Attacks have included the kidnapping and killing of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua, the warning states.",
"\"Some recent confrontations between Mexican authorities and drug cartel members have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades,\" the warning says.",
"\"During some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area.\"",
"About two weeks ago, the Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step of telling college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break because they are too dangerous.",
"It was the first time Texas authorities had taken the unprecedented step of telling college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break because they are too dangerous.",
"Canada, likewise, issued an advisory Tuesday urging citizens not to take nonessential trips to troubled city and to \"exercise a high degree of caution\" throughout Mexico.",
"\"Travelers are advised to reconsider Travelers's need to travel to troubled city and should only do so if it is absolutely necessary,\" the government warning says.",
"Asked if troubled city is safe for visitors, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz laughed softly.",
"\"We have a problem in troubled city,\" Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.",
"\"We can't deny that or lessen it.",
"\"Normally, the violence is directed at people involved in crime, but at times, civilians are affected who are not involved in crime.\"",
"Violence last weekend is a prime example of the extent of the problem.",
"In the western state of Guerrero, for instance, at least 25 people were killed Saturday, state officials said.",
"The bodies of 14 people, including nine civilians and five police officers, were found in various parts of the resort city of Acapulco, the official Notimex news agency reported, citing Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas.",
"In the small city of Ajuchitlan del Progreso, 10 civilians and one soldier were killed in two shootouts that started when federal officials tried to carry out search warrants in two locations, Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas said.",
"The Mexican government has not released official figures, but national media said 7,600 people were killed in drug-related violence in 2009.",
"Felipe Calderon said last year that 6,500 Mexicans died in drug killings in 2008.",
"No official figures are available, but unofficial tallies this year say more than 17,000 people have been killed since Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels after assuming office in December 2006."
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"Authorities in Alaska are examining two wolves to see if they are the animals that killed a jogger last week, said a wildlife biologist investigating the attack.",
"two wolves were tracked down Monday and shot to death from a helicopter near the town of Chignik Lake, Alaska, said a wildlife biologist investigating the attack.",
"two wolves are suspected of killing special-education teacher Candice Berner last week.",
"Berner, 32, was attacked while jogging near Alaska town, authorities said.",
"\"We had a systematic search,\" a wildlife biologist investigating the attack said.",
"\"These were the only two wolves we could find tracks for.\"",
"two wolves appeared to be the same ones that left tracks at the scene of the attack, and two wolves matched witnesses' descriptions of the animals seen near Berner's body, a wildlife biologist investigating the attack said.",
"Officials will conduct tests on two wolves's carcasses to determine whether they killed Berner, a wildlife biologist investigating the attack said.",
"the wolves' carcasses will also be examined to see whether two wolves were rabid or starving, or suffering from some condition that led two wolves to attack a human, a wildlife biologist investigating the attack said.",
"the attack shook Chignik Lake, population 105.",
"\"We see wolves a lot,\" said Johnny Lind, president of the Village Council.",
"\"But we've never had anything like this happen.\"",
"The killing is thought to be only the second fatal wolf attack in North America in more than a century.",
"In 2005, a wolf pack killed a geology student in Saskatchewan, Canada.",
"Wolves typically avoid human contact and do not threaten people, said John Blankenship, executive director of Wolf Haven.",
"\"They are not human predators.",
"It's healthy to have awareness of them, for sure.",
"But to be afraid of them is too strong an emotion,\" he said.",
"Wolf Haven in Tenino educates the public about wolves and serves as a haven for about 50 rescued wolves, many of them once kept as pets."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"The rash of stories about priestly sexual abuse in Europe, especially in Ireland and Germany, has put many Catholics on the defensive.",
"many Catholics should not be.",
"While sexual molestation of any kind is always indefensible, the politics surrounding this story is also indefensible.",
"Employers from every walk of life, in both the U.S. and Europe, have long handled cases of alleged sex abuse by employees as an internal matter.",
"Rarely have employers called the cops, and none was required to do so.",
"Though this is starting to change, any discussion of employee sexual abuse that took place 30 and 40 years ago must acknowledge this reality.",
"Thus it hardly comes as a surprise that Cardinal Sean Brady in Ireland did not summon the authorities about a case involving a priest in the 1970s.",
"What is surprising is why some are now indicting Cardinal Sean Brady in Ireland, acting as if Cardinal Sean Brady in Ireland's response was the exception to the rule.",
"Selective indignation at the Catholic Church is not confined to Cardinal Sean Brady in Ireland.",
"Why, for example, are the psychologists and psychiatrists who pledged to \"fix\" abusers treated so lightly?",
"After all, employers from the corporate world to the Catholic Church were told over and over again that therapy works and to give the offender a second chance.",
"Indeed, the zeitgeist of the day was that rehabilitation not only works, it is virtuous.",
"That such advice was wildly oversold can now be agreed upon by almost everyone, and that is precisely why it smacks of politics to deny how strongly held the rehabilitative ideal was.",
"Had the Catholic Church simply tossed the offenders out, the Catholic Church would have been branded as heartless.",
"There is also much noise about Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- now the pope -- approving the transfer of a priest out of his archdiocese in Germany for therapy.",
"That happened 30 years ago.",
"Again, he did exactly what virtually every other leader, clerical or secular, did.",
"Anyone who maintains that in North America or Europe it was common practice for employers outside the Catholic Church to file a police report about suspected wrongdoing by employers outside the Catholic Church's employees needs to put up or shut up: Where is the evidence?",
"Beyond that issue, the focus on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is far out of proportion to the attention given by the media to the sexual molestation of minors when committed by non-Catholic clergymen.",
"According to a report by the New York Times in October, the Brooklyn district attorney's office had filed charges in 26 cases of sexual abuse involving members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.",
"Just this month, Rabbi Baruch Lebovits was found guilty on eight counts of sexually abusing a Brooklyn boy.",
"Yet the Times, which has run several stories on the decades-old cases in Ireland and Germany, never reported it.",
"And none of it merits the kind of attention given to priests.",
"Catholics aren't fooled.",
"Public school teachers accused of sex abuse are either transferred to another school district -- it's so common that it is called \"passing the trash\"-- or Public school teachers accused of sex abuse are assigned to what, in New York, they call a \"rubber room\" (these are places where teachers draw full salary and benefits doing makeshift administrative work).",
"Both the teachers unions and state law allow this outrage to continue.",
"Maybe if the media concentrated on this problem, solutions would follow.",
"But the politics of the day being what they are, don't bet on it.",
"It's a lot sexier to nail the Catholic Church.",
"The hyper-concentration on the Catholic Church is not by accident.",
"the Catholic Church preaches an ethic of sexual restraint -- a profoundly countercultural idea -- so when a priest fails, it's tempting to highlight it.",
"Human nature being what it is, that's understandable.",
"But it's also immoral.",
"Quite frankly, if sexual abuse is wrong, it should not matter what the identity of the abuser is.",
"Selective justice is the highest form of injustice.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bill Donohue."
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"On a Saturday at the Lamar Edward Salon, a small cluster of women watch a demonstration of a new product.",
"the women's giggles turn into growing interest.",
"the women learn the city is handing out free samples, but it's not shampoo or makeup products.",
"Instead, the women can leave the salon with free female condoms tucked into the women's purses.",
"Co-owner Gerald Armstrong said Co-owner Gerald Armstrong's salon is a perfect place for a frank discussion about safe sex.",
"\"We talk about beauty and we talk about hair and makeup and things to make them feel better,\" Co-owner Gerald Armstrong said.",
"\"We should start talking about things that are helping them to live longer.\"",
"Faced with an HIV infection rate six times higher than the national average, D.C. officials are launching an unorthodox campaign to halt the spread of the disease.",
"District of Columbia officials will hand out 500,000 female condoms at salons and community centers and offer informal training sessions to teach women how to use the little-known product.",
"About 30 percent of people infected in Washington are women, and the numbers are growing, said Shannon Hader, senior deputy director of the district's Department of Health.",
"HIV is particularly prevalent among African-Americans, and more black women between 25 and 34 will die from HIV/AIDS nationwide than from any other cause.",
"\"Women haven't really gotten the message that Women're at risk,\" Hader said.",
"\"So we are very, very concerned with making sure that women in D.C. realize that HIV, in fact, is a woman's disease too.\"",
"In the past, the higher price of female condoms kept female condoms from reaching the ubiquity of the male condom.",
"A newly released version, called FC2, is cheaper and designed to be more user-friendly, but the female condom is still relatively unknown.",
"So when health officials in Washington decided to use a $500,000 grant from the M.A.C. AIDS Fund to distribute female condoms, health officials in Washington allocated a portion for marketing.",
"\"One of the things about female condoms is that female condoms're a new product to most people,\" Hader said.",
"\"So like any new product, you can't expect any new product just to sell any new product, just to take off on any new product's own.\"",
"The city trained outreach workers to demonstrate female condom use and then sent them into salons and onto college campuses to reach women where they already feel comfortable.",
"Charlene Cotton became an outreach worker after Charlene Cotton discovered Charlene Cotton was HIV-positive six years ago.",
"Now Charlene Cotton has begun giving demonstrations on the female condom.",
"Charlene Cotton says Charlene Cotton's a convert.",
"\"It will give a woman a choice, freedom to use protection when a man feels as though that a man doesn't have to use a condom,\" Charlene Cotton said.",
"\"And it gives her the opportunity to say, 'Well you don't have to use one, so I'll use one.' \"",
"Charlene Cotton said demonstrators ask women to take home three female condoms in the hopes it will increase their familiarity with the product.",
"\"Try the product three times,\" Charlene Cotton said.",
"\"First time, experiment [with] the product, you feel the product, try to apply the product.",
"Second time, apply the product again.",
"And the third time, use the product with your friend.",
"And if they're not convinced by the third time,\" then they probably won't continue to use the product, Charlene Cotton said.",
"Before Katrina Byrd saw a demonstration Katrina Byrd was not enthusiastic about using an \"unattractive\" female condom.",
"But after another woman offered tips on female condom use and explained the condoms could prevent sexually transmitted diseases, Katrina Byrd said Katrina Byrd would give the condoms a chance.",
"\"I'll try the product,\" Katrina Byrd said.",
"\"I'll see if through my own experience I'll like the product.\"",
"That's the response that prevention advocates are hoping to hear.",
"\"HIV and AIDS has declared war on our communities, particularly on African-American women.",
"And I feel that we are justified as health care providers to look for every single avenue to fight back,\" said Dr. Celia Maxwell, director of the Women's Health Institute at Howard University.",
"\"For Dr. Celia Maxwell, director of the Women's Health Institute at Howard University the important thing would be that even one women is spared from becoming infected.\""
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"The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"VBS.TV is broadband television network of VICE.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) --",
"For the launch of VICE magazine in Mexico, we decided to make an entire issue about Mexico, written entirely by Mexicans.",
"At the same time, we came up with the idea of producing a parallel version of that issue in video for VBS.TV and populate our site with documentaries about Mexico, local artists, local musicians and beautiful Mexican girls for the entire month.",
"Since then, we repeated the same concept when we launched the magazine in Brazil, and we produced an entire month of content about China during the Olympics.",
"Producer Santiago Stelley and I spent a few weeks in Mexico City producing an hour-long documentary about nighttime crime photographers, interviewing some of the best bands and artists in Mexico City and shooting a project about B movies inspired by the lives of drug traffickers.",
"A couple of days before Mother's Day, I got to spend a few days at an amazing place called Casa Xochiquetzal (The House of the Beautiful Flowers), a retirement home for older prostitutes in Tepito, one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in Mexico City.",
"I went there with Guillermo Rivero, who wrote the print version of the article, and I produced the documentary version of the same story.",
"The house has a minimum age requirement of 60 and can accommodate up to 45 women.",
"Right now, there are only 23 retired ladies of the night living there.",
"The majority of only 23 retired ladies of the night continue working, because there are still people who want to pay to have sex with only 23 retired ladies of the night.",
"See the rest of House of the Setting Sun at VBS.TV .",
"We had the opportunity to meet some of the women that live there, such as 86-year-old Reyna, who sang for us and told us stories of her youth, and Lourdes, a childless widow in her 60s who is still turning tricks.",
"We met Canela, a woman in her 80s who was soft spoken and looked incredibly tired.",
"She had stopped working just a few years ago and now sells candies for a living.",
"Finally, we spent some time with Paola, a 61-year-old who is still a sex worker and hopes to continue working for as many years as Paola can.",
"We ended up spending Mother's Day with them at what was perhaps the most bittersweet party I've attended.",
"The women were dancing and eating and drinking punch together,",
"The women joked around and seemed to be having a great time.",
"But at some point, Paola started talking to me about Paola's sons, whom Paola hasn't seen in years and never really visit Paola.",
"Paola also talked about the kids of many of the other women in the house -- none of the other women in the house present at this party -- to celebrate motherhood.",
"Most of these women actually ended up becoming prostitutes to support these women's children as these women's only means of survival.",
"I think the work that this house and its director Rosalba Rios do -- as weird and unusual as it may seem -- is incredibly valuable.",
"Spending Mother's Day with only 23 retired ladies of the night forever changed only 23 retired ladies of the night way l look at prostitution and without a doubt has been one of the most intense parties I've ever attended."
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"(CNN) --",
"the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation on Monday welcomed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation's newest inductees:Jimmy Cliff, ABBA, Genesis, The Hollies and the Stooges.",
"Other inductees this year include individual recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award -- record executive David Geffen and songwriters Jeff Barry, Otis Blackwell, Ellie Greenwich, Barry Mann, Mort Shuman, Jesse Stone and Cynthia Weil.",
"The induction ceremony was being held Monday night at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in New York.",
"its newest inductees:Jimmy Cliff, ABBA, Genesis, The Hollies and the Stooges \"represent a great cross-section of artists that define the broad spectrum and history of rock 'n' roll and people that have contributed immeasurably to our business,\" Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said when they were named last year.",
"its newest inductees:Jimmy Cliff, ABBA, Genesis, The Hollies and the Stooges were chosen by a voting committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.",
"Artists are eligible 25 years after Artists's first recording is released.",
"An exhibit featuring its newest inductees:Jimmy Cliff, ABBA, Genesis, The Hollies and the Stooges opened Monday at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cleveland, Ohio.",
"Their stage outfits, instruments, handwritten lyrics, photographs and more will be on display through March 14, 2011.",
"The museum -- which says it \"exists to collect, preserve and interpret the impact the Rock has made on our world\" -- features seven floors of exhibition space, spanning 150,000 square feet."
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"Inductees chosen by a voting committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation .",
"Artists are eligible 25 years after Artists's first recording is released ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Tennis ace Roger Federer has given Roger Federer's unfailing support to Roger Federer's \"good friend\" Tiger Woods as his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods attempts to restore his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods's reputation.",
"Roger Federer believes the \"worst has passed\" for his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods after his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods's very public apology to a world wide television audience.",
"his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods fought back the tears as his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods admitted his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods had cheated on his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods's wife Elin, but surprised observers by not setting any date for his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods's return to golf ahead of major tournaments later this year, although his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods subsequently announced his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods would return for the U.S. masters in April.",
"It's time to give his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods some peace .",
"But Roger Federer told The Gulf News that whatever the future held, his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods would remain Roger Federer's friend.",
"\"What's happened to his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods has been hard to watch over the last three months right down to when his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods made his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods's apology.",
"I am sure his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods's headed in a better direction now,\" Roger Federer added.",
"Federer, who has appeared in a well-known advertisement for Gillette with his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods and football star Thierry Henry, went on: . \"The worst has passed.",
"I hope that his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods can also work things out with his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods's wife Elin because they are very nice people - obviously for the sake of their kids as well.\"",
"But Roger Federer admitted Roger Federer had not spoken to his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods since the November car crash which set in chain a stream of revelations about the American's private life.",
"\"I have supported his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods, but I haven't had any contact with his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods,\" added the Swiss maestro, who was forced to withdraw from the Dubai Open with a lung infection which is set to sideline Roger Federer for several weeks.",
"\"It's been hard to watch from far away but I would love to see his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods back on the golf course.",
"It is what his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods does best,\" added the 16-time grand slam winner."
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"Tennis ace Federer has appeared in the same Gillette adverts with the golfer .",
"his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods made a televised public apology after admitting his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods cheated on his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods's wife ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 did not fall asleep when The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 overflew The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's destination by more than 100 miles in October, NTSB said Thursday in a detailed report on the wayward flight.",
"The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 \"became distracted by a conversation\" about the airline's new work schedule system and by laptop computers The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 were using in violation of company policy and did not communicate with air traffic control for about 1 hour and 17 minutes while The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 cruised past The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's Minneapolis, Minnesota, destination at 37,000 feet, NTSB said.",
"NTSB also faulted the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control shortcomings.",
"The NTSB report gives the most complete official account to date of the errant flight, which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to revoke The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's licenses, prompted the airline to suspend The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 from flying and prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to adopt new procedures to notify the U.S. military in cases where the Federal Aviation Administration loses contact with commercial aircraft.",
"According to the account, the flight from San Diego, California, was routine until the plane was in the Denver, Colorado, region.",
"There, air traffic controllers directed the crew of the Airbus A-320 to change their radio frequency.",
"The co-pilot, or first officer, acknowledged the frequency change and read back the correct frequency.",
"However, neither the captain nor First officer contacted controllers on the new frequency until about 1 hour and 17 minutes later, when Winnipeg, Manitoba, controllers directed the crew to contact Minneapolis.",
"NTSB said that because of the proximity of the Winnipeg frequency to the last frequency acknowledged by the pilots (Winnipeg is 132.125 megahertz, while the last frequency used was 132.17) it is \"likely First officer began to dial in the new frequency but never completed the frequency change by pushing an activation button.",
"Nor did the first officer attempt to contact the next controller.\"",
"NTSB said the frequency change likely occurred while the captain was taking a restroom break and while a flight attendant was serving dinner.",
"\"These events may have distracted the first officer from completing the frequency change or attempting to contact the next ATC controller,\" NTSB said.",
"Further, the captain's absence would have prevented the captain from checking the co-pilot's actions.",
"When the captain returned, The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 became involved in a conversation over new scheduling procedures, and First officer tutored the captain using The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's computers, NTSB said.",
"\"The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 allowed this conversation to monopolize The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's attention,\" NTSB said.",
"\"Both pilots state that they heard radio chatter but did not hear a radio call for NWA188.\"",
"The laptop computers The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 used likely blocked The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's view of numerous visual alerts, including text messages sent by airline dispatchers and at least nine messages regarding their position on the airplane's primary flight display, NTSB said.",
"Northwest Airlines policy prohibited the use of the laptops, NTSB said.",
"The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 told NTSB the first indication of anything unusual was when a flight attendant called to ask about The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's arrival time.",
"the captain \"looked at the captain's navigation display and saw Duluth [Minnesota] to the captain's left and Eau Claire [Wisconsin] to the captain's right,\" NTSB said.",
"NTSB said NTSB could not determine why The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 did not respond to numerous radio calls, but said it could be because the volume was turned down, The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 were distracted or the airline was outside the coverage for the 121.5 megahertz transmitters.",
"NTSB faulted the Federal Aviation Administration for not catching The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's errors earlier, saying the airline entered two Denver sectors uneventfully, but radio contact was not established in the next two sectors, where controllers were preparing for a shift change.",
"\"Neither sector controller's relief briefing included information that communication had not been established\" with the airline, NTSB said.",
"NTSB said the Federal Aviation Administration had no standard procedures to indicate that an aircraft had not made radio contact when electronic radar handoffs of planes occurred from one sector to the next.",
"\"Because of this lack of standardization, NWA188 passed through two Denver ATC sectors without the controllers being aware that it had not made radio contact,\" NTSB said.",
"Almost 30 minutes had elapsed before the next sector's controller attempted to regain contact with the airline and realized the airline was unresponsive to radio calls, NTSB said.",
"Recognizing the problem, controllers first attempted to regain contact by calling Northwest dispatchers, then by calling an emergency frequency, but did not use words such as \"emergency\" or \"mayday\" that may have helped capture",
"The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's attention, NTSB said.",
"The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 did not respond.",
"As a result of the investigation and of the crash of an executive jet in Montana in 2009, NTSB is recommending steps to prevent a repeat of the incidents.",
"Six days after the event, the Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of Capt. Timothy Bryan Cheney and First Officer Richard Irwin Cole, saying The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's lack of awareness that The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 had overflown the Minneapolis airport was \"completely unacceptable\" and \"put your passengers and your crew in serious jeopardy.\"",
"But in a settlement signed with The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 on Monday, The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 acknowledged no wrongdoing, and the Federal Aviation Administration agreed to allow The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 to reapply for The pilots of Northwest Flight 188's licenses in August, two months shorter than would ordinarily be allowed.",
"A spokesman for Delta Airlines, which merged with Northwest, said this week Delta Airlines's internal investigation is continuing."
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"BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (CNN) --",
"Detroit, Michigan, is often thought of as the automaker capital of the country, but increasingly, foreign auto plants are heading south, to a region known for more than its charm.",
"Toyota's plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, is as big as 156 football fields.",
"Almost every foreign auto factory that's opened since the '90s has sprouted below the Mason-Dixon Line.",
"Two of the three auto plants under construction also are in the South.",
"Plants typically establish Plants's roots in what is known as the auto corridor -- a roughly 200-mile-wide stretch that runs from Michigan to Alabama.",
"\"The northern end is more heavily dominated by the traditional Detroit-base assemblers and their supplier base, and then the foreign automakers and their supplier base tend to pull a little further south,\" said Thomas Klier, a senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago who specializes in the auto industry.",
"Check out auto plants across the corridor » .",
"So what's behind the South's charm?",
"It has a lot to do with the people, experts say.",
"\"If you don't have people, you don't have economic development,\" said Michael Randle, president and publisher of Southern Business & Development.",
"\"People drive economic development and that's why the South has gone from being dirt poor 50 years ago to leading this country's economy.\"",
"the South's population is growing much faster than the Midwest, which is home to the Big Three: Chrysler, Ford and GM.",
"Between 2000 and 2030, the South's population is expected to increase by about 43 percent, while less than 10 percent growth is expected in the Midwest, according the U.S. Census Bureau.",
"See how the United States is expected to grow » .",
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"The quality of the work force was a big factor in Toyota's recent decision to build a plant near Tupelo, Mississippi, according Dennis Cuneo, formerly Toyota's senior vice president and now an adviser to Toyota.",
"Watch how Toyota hopefuls are already preparing for jobs » .",
"Northern Mississippi has been hit hard by the closing of furniture factories, leaving highly skilled workers looking for jobs.",
"highly skilled workers have the mentality the automobile makers want, Randle said.",
"If it's broken, they are going to fix it, Randle said.",
"The automotive industry provides a much-needed bridge, connecting a labor pool that wants to work with an economy in need of a boost, Randle said.",
"And the plants bring in far more than the plants's initial investment.",
"The Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, for example, announced The Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama would double The Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama's production just three years after The Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama opened.",
"Honda had a $450 million expansion in Lincoln, Alabama, that added another 2,000 jobs.",
"For each job created inside an auto plant, experts estimate as many as six to eight are created in businesses outside.",
"Hear a worker describe how an auto plant changed a worker's life » .",
"Local leaders know how valuable The automotive industry is -- worth enough to offer to foreign companies hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives -- including tax abatements, site preparation and employee training.",
"While companies remain mum on the topic, Local leaders have a big edge on the North: Local leaders are fighting to bring jobs to workers who aren't unionized, unlike much of the Big Three's workforce.",
"Unions increase overall costs at plants, Randle said, explaining that the foreign automakers are drawn to the South where unionization is not mandatory and where workers have resisted calls to join voluntarily.",
"If a plant is unionized in the North, everyone must join.",
"No foreign assembly plants are unionized except for a few joint-ventures: the ones that started as projects between domestic and foreign companies.",
"\"That's not a coincidence,\" Klier said.",
"\"That suggests pretty strongly that that does affect the location decision.\"",
"With all of these benefits playing in the South's favor, the South -- with the South's low operating costs -- has become the go-to place for this international industry, Randle said.",
"\"A lot of economists were saying manufacturing was dead in this country and it's not coming back,\" Randle said.",
"\"It may be dead Massachusetts or New York or Detroit ... but it's not dead in the South.",
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"Jerusalem (CNN) --",
"Palestinians hurled rocks and burned tires in several neighborhoods in East Jerusalem Tuesday to protest the reopening of a landmark synagogue after more than 60 years.",
"Officers dispersed the crowd by firing stun grenades in one area, and village elders helped end the riots in another, said police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld.",
"At least seven people in the Mount of Olives neighborhood were wounded when police fired rubber bullets.",
"In all, 91 people were wounded in clashes, Palestinian Red Crescent Society said.",
"About 3,000 officers were deployed in Jerusalem after the militant group Hamas declared Tuesday a \"Day of Rage.\"",
"the militant group Hamas was protesting the reopening of a landmark synagogue on Monday.",
"However, rumors swirled that right-wing groups were planning to ascend the Temple Mount, where al-Aqsa Mosque is located.",
"Senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, in a speech Monday in Syria, called on Palestinians to take to the street to protect Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian shrines.",
"The Palestinian Authority suggested Israel was \"preventing citizens from reaching the Old City ... to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque, as part of increasing provocative policies violating international law and human rights.\"",
"\"Pay no attention to malicious slander,\" said Rabbi Yona Metzger, chief rabbi of Israel, told the Jewish news agency JTA on Monday.",
"\"All Israel are doing is resurrecting the Hurva that was destroyed 60 years ago.",
"All the rumors that suggest Israel will later march on Temple Mount are just that -- rumors.\"",
"However, the incident is only the latest to ratchet up tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.",
"The synagogue is located in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City.",
"The Old City also includes East Jerusalem, seen as Palestinians as the capital of Palestinians's future state.",
"Israel claims sovereignty over all of Jerusalem since it took over East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967 in the Six-Day war.",
"The rededication has underlined Palestinian concerns that Israel is attempting to bring more Jews into East Jerusalem and drive Palestinians out, particularly as it comes on the heels of an Israeli announcement last week that 1,600 more housing units would be built in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of East Jerusalem.",
"The rededication, however, had been planned for months in advance, according to organizers.",
"In a statement Tuesday, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said the Palestinian Center for Human Rights \"strongly condemns recent measures taken by Israel in East Jerusalem, the latest of which has been the inauguration of a synagogue in the old city.",
"PCHR holds Israel responsible for the escalation of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.\"",
"Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, meeting in Madrid, Spain, with the Spanish minister of defense, said, \"Israel will not allow extremists to dictate and force political arrangements.",
"\"I have said this times before and I repeat: Israel is strong ... and must reach political arrangements out of this position,\" Barak said.",
"\"Lack of political negotiations will strengthen and encourage the extremists of both sides and the riots in Jerusalem today proves so.",
"A political arrangement will only be achieved by direct negotiations.\"",
"Construction on a landmark synagogue began in 1700, but halted, according to the Web site of Sacred Destinations, which describes itself as an educational and travel resource.",
"It was restarted in 1836 and a landmark synagogue was completed in 1856.",
"a landmark synagogue was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion in 1948.",
"Conservation and investigation of the ruins began in 1977.",
"Meshaal also warned the international community that Israel is \"playing with fire\" that could lead to a regional blowup.",
"Speaking to reporters Monday, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said there were American concerns \"about the tensions regarding the rededication of a synagogue in the Jewish quarter of the Old City.",
"And we are urging all parties to act responsibly and do whatever is necessary to remain calm.\"",
"At a memorial service Tuesday for late Israeli prime ministers and presidents, President Shimon Peres said: \"We cannot afford to unravel the delicate fabric of friendship with the United States.",
"\"Today, the Israeli government are also at a decisive moment and the Israeli government must decide without the determination of external parties.",
"That is, decide that even in a time of threats the Israeli government will not give up on peace.",
"The heritage of the Israeli government's leaders guides the Israeli government and the Israeli government's children as such.\"",
"Last month, protests erupted after the Israeli government announced the Israeli government would include two West Bank religious shrines as part of a larger list of 150 Zionist heritage sites.",
"CNN's Kevin Flower and Michal Zippori contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Alaskan musher Lance Mackey has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and set an Iditarod record for most consecutive wins, according to race officials.",
"Mackey, 39, of Fairbanks has dominated the sport in recent years and is the 2007-2010 Iditarod champion.",
"Alaskan musher Lance Mackey completed the 1,049-mile Iditarod race, which was broadcast live on IditarodInsider.com, in just under nine days.",
"Alaskan musher Lance Mackey was cheered across the finish line in Nome by family and friends, including The senior Mackey's father, Dick Mackey, the 1978 Iditarod champion.",
"The senior Mackey greeted The senior Mackey's son at the finish line with a hug, saying, \"You've done something that will never be repeated, son.\"",
"The senior Mackey told race commentators The senior Mackey's son \"is highly competitive and Alaskan musher Lance Mackey likes to get the best out of Alaskan musher Lance Mackey's dogs.",
"I don't think anybody trains his dogs any better than he does.\"",
"Alaskan musher Lance Mackey could be heard on the broadcast microphones speaking to Alaskan musher Lance Mackey's dog team just before reaching the famous burled arch on Nome's Front Street, \"Nice, nice.",
"This is so cool.",
"We're almost there, guys.",
"You did such a good job.\"",
"Arriving in Nome at 2:59 p.m. local time, Alaskan musher Lance Mackey's official time was 8 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 9 seconds.",
"Mackey, a throat cancer survivor who says he began racing \"at birth,\" was inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame in February \"for capturing multiple titles in two of the world's longest sled dog races.\"",
"Alaskan musher Lance Mackey is also a four-time champion of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest race from Fairbanks to Nome as well as the record holder for the most consecutive first place finishes in that race.",
"Second place in the Iditarod went to Yukon musher Hans Gatt.",
"Past champion musher Jeff King came in third.",
"King, from Denali, Alaska, received praise and gratitude from the Iditarod Trail Committee earlier this season when Jeff King donated $50,000 toward the 2010 Iditarod prize purse after learning the race was experiencing financial trouble because a shortage of sponsors.",
"More than 54 teams remained on the Iditarod trail headed toward Nome, including rookie Jamaican musher Newton Marshall, who was in 48th place.",
"Marshall trained with Alaskan musher Lance Mackey this season in preparation for Marshall's first Iditarod run.",
"Fourteen of the original 71 teams that entered this year's race have scratched en route.",
"A \"Red Lantern\" will be presented to the last place finisher in the dog race, an Alaska tradition dating back to 1953, according to Alaska Magazine."
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"(CNN) --",
"A snow storm on the first day of spring could drop several inches this weekend from New Mexico to Missouri, while farther north, Minnesota and North Dakota brace for the rising waters of Red River.",
"The waters of Red River are forecast to rise another foot this weekend, testing the more than a million sandbags stacked as a defensive barrier along Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota.",
"Waters had reached 36.8 feet -- just two-tenths short of cresting level -- by Saturday night, the National Weather Service reported.",
"Red River had reached flood stage at 18 feet and major flood stage at 30 feet.",
"Red River is expected to crest Sunday, about 3 feet below last year's record flood level of 40.8 feet.",
"last year, there were 10 reports of property damage, Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said Saturday.",
"There have been no reports of property damage associated with the recent river rising, Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said.",
"More than 700,000 sandbags were guarding Fargo, and the National Guard was deployed to help in Fargo and surrounding Cass County on Friday.",
"The flooding began last week when warmer weather and rain melted snow south of Fargo and Moorhead, causing Red River to swell.",
"Upstream, snow and ice have yet to melt, pushing water back toward the two cities.",
"Near one area of the river bank in Moorhead, a mound of packed snow several inches high sat across from a flooded and impassable underpass.",
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"The waters are expected to start receding Monday afternoon, but Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker plans to keep Fargo's sandbags in their places through next week as a precautionary measure.",
"\"Right now, I feel that all the dikes, sandbags and earthen dikes should stay in place until we at least get Red River down to 30 feet and if Red River's continuing to go down we can start the process,\" Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said.",
"\"But I would hate to see us move because of the quick change in the weather.",
"I mean it doesn't take much to bounce us back ... just a weather front moving in with significant precipitation.\"",
"The Weather Service forecasted the waters to recede to 32 feet by next Saturday.",
"Farther south, the Plains are dealing with another severe weather threat.",
"Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry called for a state of emergency on Friday in anticipation of the coming snow storm, according to the governor's office.",
"Ten to 14 inches of snow could fall from northeast Oklahoma to northwest Arkansas, The Weather Service said.",
"The Tulsa metro area could see 5 to 9 inches of snow.",
"By Saturday night, snow accumulations had reached up to 7 inches in some areas and had slowed down operations at Will Rogers World Airport.",
"Freezing fog and snow have caused delays of at least an hour and several flight cancellations, Will Rogers World Airport announced in a news release.",
"Continental Airlines canceled all departures and four arrivals, according to the statement.",
"A ski resort in New Mexico's Santa Fe County received 21 inches, the largest snowfall total from the storm in the state, according to The Weather Service.",
"Other parts of New Mexico's Santa Fe County saw half an inch or less, while 15 inches dropped over Rociada, which lies on the east side of the Santa Fe National Forest.",
"More than 6 inches of snow had already fallen in Lawrence, in northeast Kansas, The Weather Service reported.",
"Seven inches of snow was tallied about 120 miles northeast in Conception Junction, Missouri.",
"From southeast Kansas to western Missouri, 4 to 8 inches of snow are expected through Sunday, The Weather Service said.",
"Meteorologists forecast 2 to 6 inches in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles through Saturday afternoon.",
"Wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour could cause whiteout conditions on roads, The Weather Service said.",
"Snow drifts higher than 2 feet could also occur."
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"State of emergency declared in Oklahoma in anticipation of snow storm, governor's office says .",
"Meteorologists forecast 2 to 6 inches in the Texas, Oklahoma panhandles through Saturday ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Attorney Pierre Prosper has been holding secret negotiations with Iran for the release of an Iranian-American being detained for two years.",
"Reza Taghavi, a retired businessman from Orange County, California, has been held in Iran's notorious Evin prison since Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's arrest in May 2008 without ever being charged, Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's lawyer said.",
"Attorney Pierre Prosper told CNN Attorney Pierre Prosper has been talking to the Iranian government since September 2009 and traveled to Tehran in December to seek the release of Businessman Reza Taghavi of California, a retired businessman accused of supporting an anti-regime group.",
"Taghavi, 71, traveled frequently to Iran to visit family and friends without incident, according to Attorney Pierre Prosper.",
"In April 2008, Businessman Reza Taghavi of California went to Tehran with Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's wife.",
"Before Businessman Reza Taghavi of California left, Businessman Reza Taghavi of California was asked by an acquaintance in Los Angeles to take $200 for a friend in Tehran \"who was down on his luck.\"",
"Los Angeles has a large Persian community.",
"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California did not know the individual to whom Businessman Reza Taghavi of California was asked to deliver the money, Attorney Pierre Prosper said.",
"He handed over the money and two weeks later was detained by Iranian authorities, after the recipient of the money was arrested on charges of association with an anti-regime group called Tondar.",
"The group, which seeks to restore the monarchy in Iran, claimed responsibility for the April 12, 2008, bombing of the Hosseynieh Seyed al-Shohada mosque in the city of Shiraz.",
"Attorney Pierre Prosper declined to name the man, who Attorney Pierre Prosper said has since been tried and convicted.",
"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California has a rag-to-riches story, Leila Taghavi's 36-year old daughter, Leila Taghavi, told CNN.",
"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California brought Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's family to the United States in 1979, before the revolution, and stayed on in California to keep Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's family safe.",
"Leila Taghavi said Leila Taghavi's father taught Businessman Reza Taghavi of California English, started a video game company in Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's garage and grew it into a successful corporation, which Businessman Reza Taghavi of California handed over to Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's son when Businessman Reza Taghavi of California retired 10 years ago.",
"\"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's life was the American dream,\" Leila Taghavi said.",
"\"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California learned everything the hard way, sacrificed for Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's children and taught us to be grateful for the good things.",
"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California is wonderful, honest and generous, the kind of father every daughter would want.\"",
"Taghavi's family was silent for more than a year about Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's arrest, fearful Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's arrest would be politicized in Tehran and Washington by getting Iran involved.",
"\"It was blind faith, really,\" Leila Taghavi said, explaining the silence.",
"\"Not knowing it would take this long, and fear of the system.",
"There was never a doubt of Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's innocence.\"",
"In September 2009, with no movement on the case and losing hope Businessman Reza Taghavi of California would be released, they hired Attorney Pierre Prosper to contact the State Department and initiate a dialogue with Iran.",
"Attorney Pierre Prosper said Attorney Pierre Prosper contacted the State Department about seeking a consular visit by Swiss diplomats, which was denied because Iran does not recognize the dual citizenship of Iranian-Americans.",
"The United States and Iran do not have formal relations, and Switzerland serves as the \"protecting power\" for the U.S. in Tehran.",
"A the State Department spokesman urged Iran to allow Swiss diplomats to be granted consular access to Businessman Reza Taghavi of California.",
"\"the State Department are adamant that the State Department believe he should be released on humanitarian grounds along with all the Americans who are unjustly held there,\" Mark Toner, a the State Department spokesman, told CNN Wednesday.",
"A senior government official who met with Attorney Pierre Prosper said the lack of information makes it difficult to help Businessman Reza Taghavi of California.",
"\"As far as we are concerned, there are no facts in the case,\" A senior government official who met with Prosper said.",
"\"the State Department's concern is that he should get due process.\"",
"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California is one of several Americans in prison in Iran.",
"American hikers Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd were detained on July 31, 2009.",
"According to American hikers Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd's families, American hikers Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd accidentally strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while on a hiking trip in Iraq's Kurdistan region.",
"American hikers Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd are being held on espionage charges.",
"Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar who spent four months in jail in 2007, was arrested in July after the disputed presidential election and sentenced to 15 years in jail for spying.",
"His sentence was later reduced by an appeals court to five years, and a State Department official tells CNN he has been released for two weeks from jail to celebrate the Persian New Year.",
"The United States has no information about Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran almost three years ago.",
"After being hired by Taghavi family last September, Attorney Pierre Prosper said Attorney Pierre Prosper contacted the Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations and was granted a meeting with the ambassador, who eventually put Attorney Pierre Prosper in touch with Iran's foreign ministry.",
"After several months of weekly contact with Iranian officials in New York and Tehran, Attorney Pierre Prosper was invited to Iran in December for talks about Taghavi's case.",
"Attorney Pierre Prosper said Attorney Pierre Prosper was briefed on the Iranian view of Taghavi's case but was told the authorities were still investigating the matter.",
"\"It's still not clear what the accusations actually are,\" Attorney Pierre Prosper said.",
"Attorney Pierre Prosper left Tehran without being allowed to see Taghavi, but Attorney Pierre Prosper was taken to visit victims of the 2008 mosque bombing by Tondar in an Iranian effort to show Attorney Pierre Prosper the threat the regime says the regime's facing from \"terrorist groups\" being financed from sources abroad.",
"\"I think they had me meet with victims and survivors of the bombing to let it be known that they, too, in their eyes had experienced terrorism,\" Attorney Pierre Prosper said.",
"It is unclear why the Iranian government invited Prosper, who served as the ambassador-at-large for war crimes under the Bush administration and as a prosecutor for the Rwanda tribunal at the Hague, for talks in Iran.",
"Beyond talking about the case and attacks at the hand of the Tondar group, Attorney Pierre Prosper said Attorney Pierre Prosper's Iranian hosts made no effort to broaden the discussions to include the nuclear standoff between Iran and the West or the Obama administration's offer of engagement.",
"The facts of Taghavi's case remain a mystery.",
"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's family maintains Businessman Reza Taghavi of California is innocent and has never been involved in political activism against the Iranian regime.",
"Attorney Pierre Prosper acknowledged Taghavi's case has been a challenge to investigate because of Attorney Pierre Prosper's inability to question people in Iran and the lack of information from the government or Taghavi's Iranian lawyers in Tehran, who don't speak English.",
"But based on Attorney Pierre Prosper's discussions with the family and Attorney Pierre Prosper's own \"due diligence,\" Attorney Pierre Prosper said Attorney Pierre Prosper believes Businessman Reza Taghavi of California is an innocent man, whose only crime is guilt by association.",
"As a former prosecutor, Attorney Pierre Prosper said Attorney Pierre Prosper believes if Iran had a case against Businessman Reza Taghavi of California, Iran would have already tried Businessman Reza Taghavi of California.",
"Attorney Pierre Prosper's seeking a humanitarian release for Taghavi, who suffers from diabetes and whose health is deteriorating in prison, according to Businessman Reza Taghavi of California's family.",
"The political upheaval in Iran after the disputed presidential election and subsequent violent crackdown on demonstrators has complicated Attorney Pierre Prosper's efforts, Attorney Pierre Prosper said.",
"\"It casts a shadow over our efforts,\" Attorney Pierre Prosper acknowledged.",
"\"What I've been doing to my best ability is to cut through that, cut through the fog that has been created, focus on Businessman Reza Taghavi of California and work with the Iranian authorities on the substance of what happened in 2008.\"",
"Leila Taghavi traveled to Iran last year and was allowed a brief visit with Leila Taghavi's father in prison.",
"\"I saw him behind a window,\" Leila Taghavi said, choking back tears.",
"\"It was painful to see your father, an innocent man, behind a window.\"",
"\"We are chipping away at this,\" Attorney Pierre Prosper said.",
"\"I want to give them credit for the dialogue, but the proof will be in the results.",
"We are holding out hope because that is the only thing we can do.",
"... Effectively his life is at stake.\"",
"Leila Taghavi spoke with Leila Taghavi's father by phone Wednesday morning and said Businessman Reza Taghavi of California sounded tired and anxious.",
"\"My biggest hope is that this message reaches people and somebody can do something,\" Leila Taghavi added.",
"\"Not just for Businessman Reza Taghavi of California, but for the many people that are trying to get their loved ones out of Iran.\""
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"Businessman Reza Taghavi of California came to the United States in 1979 before the Islamic Revolution ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The city of Fargo, North Dakota, largely completed flood preparations early Thursday as a surging River rose nearly 3 feet in 24 hours.",
"River was well beyond River's banks along the North Dakota-Minnesota line.",
"\"Thanks to Fargo's volunteers, Fargo've been able to fill a million sandbags and place 700,000 around Fargo's city,\" Fargo spokeswoman Karena Carlson said early Thursday.",
"\"Fargo're just buttoning up a lot of Fargo's clay levees and putting a few more sandbags in place, and Fargo hope to be protected up to 40 feet.\"",
"Several hundred volunteers worked with the National Guard in Fargo to fill a million sandbags as River rose.",
"Flooding where you are?",
"Share pictures, video .",
"Fargo set a record in 2009 when River hit 40.8 feet.",
"As of 9:15 a.m. Saturday, River stood at 36.56 feet, more than 18 feet above the flood stage of 18 feet and past major flood stage.",
"\"Fortunately, Fargo started filling sandbags March 1st.",
"Fargo thought River's crest was going to be the first or second week in April.",
"It turns out River's crest is going to be this week,\" Fargo spokeswoman Karena Carlson said.",
"\"So Fargo did it in just over two weeks.\"",
"Floodwaters are forecast to peak at 38 feet Sunday afternoon.",
"Last week, warm weather and rain melted snow south of Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota, causing River to swell.",
"Upstream, snow and ice have yet to melt, causing water to accumulate near the two cities.",
"Across River in Moorhead, Tom Holmgren spent Wednesday filling sandbags as Minnesota State University gave students time off to help with the effort.",
"\"Most of my friends have put in at least a couple hours,\" said Holmgren, who said sandbagging has become a source of college pride.",
"\"I know there's a big push in just the college community that's like, 'Yeah, we're doing it.",
"We're saving this town.'\"",
"One man refuses to leave One man's home .",
"About 90 miles south of Fargo in our town, Minnesota, Kathryn Bartz said Thursday that Kathryn Bartz's grateful that a 40-year water diversion project is nearly complete.",
"\"Otherwise I believe we would have washed out a considerable amount of our town,\" said Bartz, a former town council member.",
"our town suffered severe flooding from River in 2007, 1993 and 1943, and lesser floods many other years.",
"Funding and property acquisition problems kept the diversion project -- consisting mainly of a canal to carry overflow around our town -- from being completed, Kathryn Bartz said.",
"A section of a new road that is part of the diversion project washed out this week, but boulders and rocks were put in place to prevent further erosion, said Kathryn Bartz, 66, who owns a hobby ranch outside of town.",
"\"That will be repaired when the water goes down,\" Kathryn Bartz said.",
"\"It's an inconvenience, but we are grateful that the diversion project has worked as well as the diversion project has.\"",
"Meanwhile, in the Northeast, utility crews made steady progress restoring electricity after a nor'easter -- a powerful low-pressure system -- blasted the region over the weekend.",
"About 40,000 customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut remained without power early Thursday, down from a peak of more than 500,000.",
"\"We recognize the hardship our customers face from being without power for days,\" said Jeff Butler, president of Connecticut Light & Power.",
"\"We appreciate everyone's patience as we continue to safely restore power as quickly as possible.\"",
"The outages were caused mostly by power lines downed by Saturday's hurricane-force winds, which knocked over trees and utility poles.",
"At least seven deaths were attributed to the storm, authorities said.",
"CNN's Ed Payne and Jim Kavanagh and CNN Radio's Shelby Erdman contributed to this report."
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"River expected to crest Sunday 20 feet above flood stage .",
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"Miami, Florida (CNN) --",
"The parents of an injured baby girl who was flown to Florida for treatment after Haiti's earthquake have been told what her parents already know: her parents are the biological parents of the little girl.",
"The International Red Cross notified Nadine Devilme and Junior Alexis in Haiti that DNA testing proves that the infant is theirs, said Mark LaPoint, an attorney representing Jenny.",
"Rescuers dubbed Jenny's Patricia, but Jenny's parents call Jenny Jenny.",
"On Wednesday morning, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman decided that Jenny's parents will get to take Jenny back to Haiti after doctors and nurses in Florida finish treating Jenny.",
"\"This is a case where these were really good parents, and I can't wait for her parents to be reunited with her parents's baby,\" Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman said.",
"\"This is one happy day.\"",
"Federal authorities have pledged to help her parents travel from Haiti to the United States to reunite with her parents's daughter, though the timing of that trip has not yet been determined, said Bob Martinez, an attorney for her parents.",
"Jenny still has a hard time closing Jenny's left hand and needs some medical therapy, LaPoint said in court Wednesday.",
"Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman scheduled a hearing for April 7 to get an update on Jenny's condition.",
"Jenny was 4 months old when the January 12 earthquake destroyed large swaths of Haiti.",
"Jenny's mother was knocked unconscious in the 7.0-magnitude temblor and taken to a hospital.",
"When Her mother awoke, Her mother urged Her mother's husband to go home to search for her parents's baby.",
"her husband searched through the broken rubble for four days, but found nothing.",
"The couple says that on the fifth day, January 16, witnesses saw a cleanup crew rescue Jenny from the broken rubble.",
"Jenny reportedly was found in the arms of Jenny's baby sitter, who was dead.",
"The witnesses got word to Devilme, who was in the hospital with her own injuries.",
"Rescuers apparently assumed Jenny was an orphan and whisked Jenny away to a different hospital in Port-au-Prince, one run by the University of Miami and Project Medishare, where a team of pediatricians worked desperately to keep Jenny alive.",
"Read more about the couple awaiting Jenny's return .",
"With several broken ribs, Jenny was having trouble breathing.",
"The doctors stabilized Jenny, and a few hours after Jenny's rescue, a United Nations truck took Jenny to a plane that was minutes away from leaving for Miami, Florida.",
"\"I told the ambulance driver if Jenny got there in time, we'd name Jenny after Jenny,\" says Dr. Arthur Fournier, a University of Miami physician working at the hospital.",
"The driver, Patricia, did make it on time, and thereafter, doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami referred to the infant by that name.",
"Devilme says the friend who told Devilme of Jenny's rescue didn't know where Jenny had been taken.",
"By the time Devilme found out , Jenny had already been flown to Miami, Devilme says.",
"Devilme and Alexis say it was \"God's will\" that Jenny went to Miami, as Jenny might not have survived if Jenny'd stayed in Haiti.",
"Jenny was discharged from the hospital and is living in foster care in Florida.",
"Jenny's parents are living in a tent city in Port-au-Prince and recently had the DNA testing needed to prove Jenny is her parents.",
"the DNA testing have taken more than a month because of logistical difficulties getting the test to Haiti and because of a legal dispute over whether Jenny should become a ward of the state of Florida or a ward of the U.S. government, says Mark Riordan, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Children and Families."
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"NEW: Timing of parents' trip not set; April 7 hearing will provide update on baby's condition .",
"Parents say it was \"God's will\" that Jenny went to Miami for treatment of quake injuries .",
"Jenny, apparently mistaken for orphan amid quake chaos, is in foster care in Florida ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Arsenal climbed to the top of the English Premier League with a 2-0 victory over London rivals West Ham despite playing half of Saturday's clash with only 10 men.",
"Arsene Wenger's team moved a point above champions Manchester United, who host Liverpool on Sunday, while Chelsea dropped to third ahead of their trip to Blackburn.",
"Carlo Ancelotti's side can join Arsenal on 67 points with victory in that game.",
"Gianfranco Zola's West Ham team were left to rue a missed penalty as the defeat left Gianfranco Zola's West Ham team just three points above the relegation zone.",
"Arsenal, who on Friday were handed a chance to avenge 2006's Champions League final defeat by Barcelona in the upcoming quarterfinals, took the lead after just five minutes in the rain at the Emirates Stadium.",
"Brazil midfielder Denilson fired in a low shot for Brazil midfielder's sixth goal this season, having dispossessed Valon Behrami and then played a neat one-two on the edge of the area with striker Nicklas Bendtner.",
"But Arsenal could not turn their dominance into further goals, and West Ham should have leveled just before halftime when Belgium defender Thomas Vermaelen was sent off as his nudge in the back of Guillermo Franco saw the Mexico striker tumble in the box.",
"But Alessandro Diamanti saw Alessandro Diamanti's penalty saved by Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia, and the hosts also escaped in the second half when substitute striker Carlton Cole saw substitute striker Carlton Cole's fierce low shot hit the outside of the post.",
"Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas made the points safe on Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas's return from injury five minutes after that with a penalty on 82, as England defender Matthew Upson paid the price for deliberately blocking Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas's clever little flick with Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas's arm.",
"Tottenham consolidated fourth place with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at 10-man Stoke, as substitute Eidur Gudjohnsen came off the bench to put the London club ahead before Dean Whitehead was sent off and then helped set up Niko Kranjcar's 77th-minute winner.",
"The on-loan Iceland forward netted just 18 seconds after halftime having come on for Roman Pavlyuchenko, who joined England striker Jermain Defoe on the injured list after suffering a hamstring problem in the first half.",
"Dean Whitehead went three minutes later for Dean Whitehead's second booking, but 10-man Stoke leveled on 64 as winger Matthew Etherington scored from the penalty spot against his former club after fullback Benoit Assou-Ekotto fouled striker Paul Kitson.",
"Eidur Gudjohnsen's dummy allowed Croatia midfielder Niko Kranjcar's to put the Londoners four points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool, who will have played one more match after Sunday's trip to bitter North-West rivals United.",
"The victory was doubly important for Tottenham after fellow Champions League hopefuls Aston Villa had to come from behind to snatch a 2-2 draw with lowly Wolverhampton in the Midlands derby earlier on Saturday.",
"John Carew put Aston Villa ahead in the 16th minute despite appearing to be offside, and the Norway striker salvaged a point for the hosts with eight minutes remaining as John Carew steered Steve Sidwell's low shot into the visitors' net for his 13th league goal this season.",
"Wolves moved four points clear of the bottom three, but were denied a first win at Villa Park in 30 years despite Jody Craddock's bundled 23rd-minute equalizer and an own-goal from England international James Milner seven minutes before halftime.",
"The result left Aston Villa in seventh, having played one less game than Tottenham, equal on 50 points with Manchester City, who travel to Fulham on Sunday.",
"Everton moved above Birmingham into eighth place with a 2-0 win at home to Bolton, who had Gretar Steinsson sent off in the 71st minute for bringing down Nigeria striker Yakubu.",
"Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta fired in the resulting freekick and South Africa international Steven Pienaar wrapped up victory with a minute to go after Leon Osman hit the crossbar.",
"Birmingham crashed 3-1 at Sunderland, who eased their relegation worries as England World Cup hopeful Darren Bent scored twice in the first 11 minutes to take England World Cup hopeful Darren Bent's Premier League tally to 20 goals this season and 21 overall.",
"Wigan moved seven points clear of the bottom three with a 1-0 win over Burnley, as Colombia striker Hugo Rodallega's 90th-minute header left the visitors deep in relegation trouble after a 15th defeat in 16 away matches.",
"Hull remain second from bottom, behind Burnley on goal difference, as new manager Iain Dowie suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat at basement club Portsmouth in new manager Iain Dowie's match in charge.",
"The visitors led 2-1 with 17 minutes to play after two goals from striker Caleb Folan, but Portsmouth's on-loan midfielder Jamie O'Hara leveled in the 88th minute with a curled free-kick and the Nigerian veteran Kanu netted a late winner.",
"Portsmouth are still set to be relegated after being docked nine points for going into administration, now 14 points from safety with eight games to play."
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"Relegation-threatened West Ham miss penalty after Thomas Vermaelen is sent off .",
"Tottenham consolidate fourth place with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at 10-man Stoke .",
"Fellow Champions League hopefuls Aston Villa held to a 2-2 draw by lowly Wolverhampton ."
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"Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN) --",
"Jorge Torres-Puello was arrested Thursday night in Dominican Republic and accused of human trafficking, Dominican Republic's anti-narcotics agency said Friday.",
"Jorge Torres-Puello, is linked to a network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children and is wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica, the country's anti-narcotics agency said.",
"Jorge Torres-Puello had been hiding in Dominican Republic after Jorge Torres-Puello was accused of using Dominican Republic to take Haitian children to North America, the country's anti-narcotics agency said.",
"Members of the country's anti-narcotics agency took Torres-Puello, also known as Jorge Torres Orellana, into custody without incident at 8 p.m. in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in the capital, the news release said.",
"Jorge Torres-Puello is a Dominican who was born in New York, it said.",
"\"According to documents of authorities in the United States, Dominican Republic as well as El Salvador and Costa Rica, this person is an important part of a network of traffickers of undocumented people, especially women and children from Central America and the Caribbean,\" the news release said.",
"Jorge Torres-Puello faces charges in the United States of conspiracy to take foreigners into the country illegally, the news release said.",
"In El Salvador, Jorge Torres-Puello and Jorge Torres-Puello's wife, Ana Josefa Ramirez Orellana, face charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women, the news release said.",
"his wife, Ana Josefa Ramirez Orellana is jailed in El Salvador.",
"The drug agency said Jorge Torres-Puello forced Nicaraguan and Dominican children to work as prostitutes in El Salvador.",
"Jorge Torres-Puello is also wanted in Vermont on alien smuggling offenses and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for probation violations for fraud, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said.",
"Jorge Torres-Puello is also wanted in Canada.",
"Shortly after the American missionaries were arrested in Haiti on kidnapping and abduction charges, Jorge Torres-Puello contacted the American missionaries's church in Idaho, identified Jorge Torres-Puello as a legal authority on Haitian and Dominican law, obtained a retainer and began representing Jorge Torres-Puello as the missionaries''s attorney/spokesman, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said.",
"But Jorge Torres-Puello is not registered in the country's College of Lawyers, implying that Jorge Torres-Puello was practicing without a license, the Dominican drug agency said.",
"In February, law enforcement authorities in El Salvador suspected that the American missionaries's legal adviser looked like a man they were seeking, and asked Interpol to help.",
"The international police agency coordinated the efforts of various agencies that resulted in Thursday's arrest, the ICE statement said.",
"In a phone interview last month with CNN, Jorge Torres-Puello acknowledged Jorge Torres-Puello is the same man wanted by Salvadoran authorities but denied the charges against Jorge Torres-Puello.",
"\"I never did anything,\" Jorge Torres-Puello said.",
"\"I started helping a Dominican pastor helping a lot of people who were stranded to get back to their home countries.",
"We once gave some Nicaraguan and Costa Rican women some money to return home and instead some Nicaraguan and Costa Rican women went to the authorities and put in a complaint against us.",
"I never had anybody against their will.\"",
"Jorge Torres-Puello also denied Salvadoran allegations that Jorge Torres-Puello and Jorge Torres-Puello's wife ran a brothel out of he and his wife's home.",
"\"I know I am innocent and I want to clear my past,\" Jorge Torres-Puello said.",
"Journalist Diulka Perez contributed to this story from Santo Domingo."
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"Jorge Torres-Puello is linked to network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children, officials say ."
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"Harrison, New York (CNN) --",
"Investigators from Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday inspected a wrecked 2005 Prius and extracted data from a wrecked 2005 Prius's event data recorder they hope will help determine what caused a wrecked 2005 Prius to speed out of control.",
"The driver of a wrecked 2005 Prius told police a wrecked 2005 Prius accelerated on a wrecked 2005 Prius's own as Driver was driving down Driver's employer's driveway on March 9.",
"Driver lost control of a wrecked 2005 Prius, crossed the road and crashed into a stone wall, police say.",
"Driver was treated for minor injuries.",
"No other cars were involved in the accident.",
"A team of six inspectors from Toyota and two from NHTSA spent several hours taking photos and measurements of a wrecked 2005 Prius and downloading the black box data from the car, which has been at the Harrison Police Department since the accident.",
"Two independent inspectors from a forensic technology company, hired by the Police Department, also were aiding the investigation.",
"A Toyota spokesman, Wade Hoyt, said that in this model year Prius, the black box contains data only from the moment the airbags deploy, but not the three seconds before impact that newer models are programmed to record.",
"Hoyt said investigators were pleased investigators were able to extract any data from a wrecked 2005 Prius.",
"\"investigators are getting information on engine speed, pedal position, that sort of thing,\" Hoyt said.",
"\"I'm happy investigators have it.",
"It's possible it might not have been in there.\"",
"Police say the car's driver, whose name has not been released pending the investigation, has a clean driving record and there is no reason to believe she is to blame for the accident.",
"But Acting Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said driver error is not being ruled out.",
"\"I'm not sure we're going to have conclusive information as to what caused the accident.",
"But we're not ruling out any possible causes.\"",
"Acting Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said.",
"a wrecked 2005 Prius was part of Toyota's November recall to address the risk of accelerator pedal entrapment in the floor mat.",
"Police say floor mats were not a factor in the accident, because they were secured to the seat with nylon ties.",
"A recall to address a sticky accelerator problem did not include a wrecked 2005 Prius.",
"Hoyt said Hoyt would not speculate about the accident's cause.",
"a wrecked 2005 Prius is equipped with a brake override feature.",
"\"When everything in the car is working correctly, the brakes will override the engine,\" Hoyt said.",
"\"You have to draw your own conclusions.\"",
"Hoyt said Toyota will release the data from the black box recorder to the Harrison Police Department, but will not make it public because of privacy and legal concerns.",
"Acting Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said police will make a determination after police's investigation how much of the data to make public.",
"\"If there's definitive information that shows the cause of the accident, absolutely we'll have to release this accident,\" Acting Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said."
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"(CNN) --",
"At a hearing Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee, federal officials said a bailout is needed immediately for the health of the U.S. economy.",
"Sen. Christopher Dodd is chairing Tuesday's hearing on President Bush's proposed $700 billion bailout plan.",
"Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are urging the passage of a $700 billion bailout proposed by President Bush following the failure of financial institutions and frozen credit markets.",
"the bailout, if adopted, would amount to the most sweeping economic intervention by the government since the Great Depression.",
"Before the hearing, Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat who is the Banking Committee chairman, spoke Tuesday with \"American Morning's\" Kiran Chetry about whether the bailout is the right option and what may have contributed to the tumultuous economic environment.",
"\"American Morning's\" Kiran Chetry:",
"You know talk about waking a sleeping giant -- we have almost 2,000 blog posts on CNNMoney.com about the bailout.",
"Many people are outraged about the bailout.",
"Many people feel the government is spending $700 billion or more to reward bad behavior.",
"What can you do to assure people that this is the right thing?",
"Sen. Christopher Dodd:",
"Well, I'm not sure it is at this point.",
"That's why we're having this hearing this morning.",
"We'll have Secretary Paulson and Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, before Banking Committee to explain the bailout, why the bailout's necessary and where we go from here.",
"They basically have asked for a blank check of $700 billion for the next several years here to buy a lot of bad instruments out there in these institutions.",
"See what power Paulson would have if the bailout is approved » .",
"I have a lot of reservations.",
"We're trying to put some safeguards in it.",
"I'm angry as well.",
"the bailout didn't have to happen.",
"the bailout was not a natural disaster.",
"the bailout was a preventable, avoidable situation.",
"We are where we are.",
"Our economy is teetering.",
"We've been warned we're very fragile.",
"There could be a complete collapse.",
"It needs to be straightened out or it could get worse.",
"Pension funds, 401(k)s, jobs could be in worse shape.",
"Chetry:",
"You have a revised version yourself.",
"We'll get into what you're talking about.",
"Do you believe that in general a bailout needs to happen?",
"Dodd: Something needs to be done here.",
"I don't know if it's at this magnitude or if ... the specifics of the bailout make the most sense.",
"But clearly something needs to be done.",
"We can't lurch from one weekend to another with one failed institution after another watching our economy decline, stock market collapse and the price of oil rise.",
"It's not just our own country; this has global implications.",
"Chetry:",
"Let's look at some of the things you want added or in some cases taken out.",
"Under your [revised version of the bill], you feel there should be some foreclosure assistance -- if Wall Street is getting some help, Main Street should be getting help, too, especially for those struggling homeowners.",
"You want limits on executive compensation.",
"You don't want CEOs to get millions of dollars in packages for a failed company.",
"You talk about an oversight board over the Treasury.",
"Why are these so important to include, and what if they end up costing more?",
"Dodd: Well, let me tell you why.",
"First of all, we have almost 10,000 foreclosures occurring every day.",
"For the last 18 months on a daily basis, I've had 65 hearings since July of 2007 begging the administration to do something about the foreclosure problem.",
"the administration admitted today if you don't deal with 10,000 foreclosures a day -- that's the bulk of these bad debts that are out there -- so you need to do something about that to stop the hemorrhaging.",
"That's No. 1.",
"No. 2, I won't give a check for $700 billion, for 41 days, to this secretary or any secretary without safeguards built in -- accountability, transparency, oversight.",
"That's just not going to happen.",
"Watch CNN's Lou Dobbs discuss whether the bailout would work » .",
"Thirdly, taxpayers deserve to be first in line in all of this.",
"I'm not going to write this at the end of the day [and] watch a handful of chief executives walk away with multimillion-dollar contracts.",
"You'll have people storming this building if we don't understand that people are fed up with that kind of behavior.",
"Chetry:",
"You yourself said this is not a natural disaster, and a lot of people have been asking, \"Why didn't Congress see this coming?\"",
"In fact, this is a quote from Henry Paulson, the treasury secretary, back in July.",
"This was during the time of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout.",
"People thought that was the beginning and the end of this.",
"He writes: \"Remember our economy has got very strong long-term fundamentals, solid fundamentals.",
"Your policymakers are here; regulators were being very vigilant.\"",
"How can the argument be made that they were vigilant when we see the bottom fall out of the market?",
"Dodd:",
"Back in 2005, [then-Rep.] Mike Oxley, along with [Rep.] Barney Frank and [Sen.] Paul Sarbanes, tried to do just that.",
"The administration opposed the bill, and it was defeated on a party-line vote here in the Senate.",
"I know the history very, very well.",
"When you had cops on the beat not doing cops's job, basically an eight-year coffee break by and large.",
"Where you had legislation on the books and legislation not being enforced.",
"Where you had regulators sitting back as loans were being made with no documentation, luring people into subprime mortgages, predatory lenders taking advantage of the situation that's how this all unfolded.",
"It's not a mystery.",
"Chetry: ... I want to ask you is there anything in this bill ... to make sure this doesn't happen again.",
"All the things you listed -- the predator loans, everything that was taking place -- is there any room for regulation or more oversight in this bill?",
"Dodd: Probably not in this bill.",
"We're trying to act quickly.",
"I'm prepared to act quickly, but I'm not going to act irresponsibly.",
"If it takes longer, so be it.",
"We'll have a new election in 41 days, and a new secretary in a matter of five or six weeks, and we can't begin to guess who that might be.",
"Turning over a check of this magnitude not only to this secretary, but this secretary's successor, I think would be the height of irresponsibility."
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"Sen. Christopher Dodd says Sen. Christopher Dodd isn't sure bailout plan of this magnitude is right .",
"Sen. Christopher Dodd: Situation is a result of lax enforcement of rules, documentation in past .",
"Sen. Christopher Dodd says lawmakers will act quickly but won't be irresponsible ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The games begin Thursday, and March Madness buzz will soon take over the lunchroom.",
"Everywhere you turn, co-workers will chat about co-workers's favorite teams, the upsets, the injuries.",
"Maybe you will watch The games.",
"Maybe you won't.",
"But maybe, irrespective of whether you plan to follow NCAA basketball tournament, you've ponied up to be part of the office pool.",
"And you don't have to worry about explaining how you made your picks while filling out out your bracket.",
"Everyone is hoping to choose that one team that comes from behind to win.",
"So what if you always pick Gonzaga just because you like saying the name?",
"Should it matter if you take Louisville out of the running just because that jerk who once strung you along came from there?",
"You are in the running like everyone else, and, heck, you might surprise yourself and actually win.",
"In these coming weeks, though, you don't want to sound like an idiot.",
"It would be nice, you think to yourself, if you actually appeared to know what you were talking about.",
"CNN reached out to Stewart Mandel, a senior writer at SI.com who covers basketball, as well as sports fans in the CNN.com newsroom to get some tips for how you can bluff your way through NCAA basketball tournament.",
"With Stewart Mandel, a senior writer at SI.com who covers basketball, as well as sports fans in the CNN.com newsroom's sage advice, we offer this wisdom: . • Be careful not to talk about a \"buzzer beater\" unless it's actually happened.",
"When they do happen, when a player scores at the buzzer (in the last second) to change the game's outcome, throw the term around wildly.",
"It'll be what everyone is reliving, and if you feel especially bold, you can try to give someone a high-five while saying, \"How about that buzzer beater?\" •",
"Discussing injuries in vague terms is always safe, since most every team has suffered some.",
"Ideas: \"They really can't afford any more injuries this season.\"",
"Or, \"Didn't they have a big injury this year?\"",
"You don't have to know the answer, but it's an easy way to engage with a sports nut who will gladly tell you more about some stranger's ankle than you ever wanted to know. • Tell people around the water cooler that you really admire a team's \"tenacity.\"",
"Mandel says that's \"a good fastball no one can argue with,\" because by virtue of making it to the tournament, a team's got to have some serious tenacity.",
"Other terms you can throw around to describe a team: \"smart,\" \"experienced\" and \"well-coached.\" • Something called \"guard play\" is apparently very big this time of year.",
"You might shake your head and mutter, \"I don't know if their guard play is good enough.\"",
"Or, conversely, you can say, \"Oh, yeah, I think they have a good chance because they've got good guard play.\"",
"• There are some things you might say that could be risky, as they may prompt others to ask you a question in return.",
"For example, if you were to say, \"Gosh, that was a big shot,\" someone might ask, \"Which one?\"",
"This would be a good time to spill your coffee, diverting attention.",
"• In basketball, the word \"press\" (short for pressure) is used when discussing defense.",
"So you might want to express your heartfelt concern about a team \"having trouble with the press.\"",
"• There are different conferences that make up the NCAA.",
"The Big East dominated this year.",
"You can talk about how The Big East ruled,\" but make sure you don't misspeak and talk about the Big North, because no such thing exists.",
"There is a Big 10, but it's made up of 11 teams.",
"• \"Ball movement\" refers to how a team passes a ball.",
"Any team that's made it to the \"tourney,\" as some insiders like to say, must be strong in this realm.",
"So you can assume you're covered if you say something like, \"Wow, some insiders have great ball movement.\"",
"• A strong three-point game can make the difference for an underdog team.",
"So if some folks are saying how a team doesn't have a chance, you could nonchalantly stroll by and say in passing, \"a team could pull an upset if a team get hot shooting threes.\"",
"Another fun phrase to toss out: \"They live or die by the three.\" • Casting blame on referees for making \"questionable calls\" is highly popular.",
"\"Man, there were some questionable calls\" is a good gripe to share, but only if the game was close.",
"If it was a \"blowout,\" a win by a large margin, your saying this would make you look foolish.",
"It might be better to say, if people are chatting about an upcoming game, \"Man, I hope the refs just let them play.\"",
"• Word is that everyone loves a \"Cinderella,\" the team that comes out of nowhere to make a good run in NCAA basketball tournament.",
"If you want to sound especially savvy, use it in conjunction with the world \"dance,\" another fun slang term for March Madness, as in, \"It's always nice to see Cinderella go deep in the dance.\"",
"• If you feel compelled to throw out a player's name, one you're pretending to be excited to watch, the one to know -- and one that's easy to remember -- is John Wall.",
"Rhymes with ball, if that helps.",
"John Wall's a freshman guard at Kentucky and will likely go pro soon, so using John Wall's name next year during March Madness would blow your cover.",
"Keep that in mind.",
"• Last, and this is very important, do not -- repeat -- do not walk into work on April 1 and talk about how crestfallen you are that March Madness is over.",
"NCAA basketball tournament goes by this name, but the actual championship is played in April.",
"CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Steve Almasy, Todd Leopold and Manav Tanneeru contributed CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Steve Almasy, Todd Leopold and Manav Tanneeru's wisdom to this very important report."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) --",
"Comedian Betty White -- currently enjoying a career resurgence at age 88 -- said Wednesday that White credits White's longevity in the entertainment industry to \"sheer blind luck.\"",
"\"I'm the luckiest old broad that ever drew a breath,\" White told CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"After a cameo on a popular Super Bowl commercial in January and a series of comedic sketches on Craig Ferguson's \"Late, Late Show,\" White's fans campaigned successfully via Facebook for White to host NBC's \"Saturday Night Live.\"",
"White admitted to King that White was nervous about the May 8 show and said White finds White questioning, \"What are they doing with White?\"",
"White said White had been approached to host \"SNL\" three times \"many, many years ago,\" but declined because White associated the show with New York, and as a California girl, \"I'm so not New York.\"",
"White got White's start in show business in 1949 on a local television show.",
"White went on to star in two hit sitcoms, \"The Mary Tyler Moore Show\" and \"Golden Girls.\"",
"\"I think the reason for the longevity is that ... several generations have gotten to know me over the years so I've become ... sort of part of the family,\" White said.",
"Most recently, White appeared in the blockbuster \"The Proposal\" with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.",
"And to add to White's current hot streak, White recently signed on to be a series regular on a new TV Land cable channel sitcom titled \"Hot in Cleveland\" opposite Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Valerie Bertinelli.",
"\"I'm not hot again, but I'm surprised to still be working,\" White said.",
"\"I just am amazed and I'm thrilled and I'm going along with it and enjoying it.\"",
"White has also continued White's work for animal health and well-being, including a 46-year partnership with the Los Angeles Zoo, calling it one of White's two loves in life -- alongside show business of course.",
"\"It's such fun,\" White said.",
"\"Why should you stop something you enjoy so much?\""
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"(CNN) --",
"For Capt. Kamaljit Singh Kalsi, a doctor, and 2nd Lt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan, a dentist, this is a hill worth fighting for.",
"Tejdeep Singh Rattan, left, and Kamaljit Singh Kalsi are set to report for duty in U.S. Army in July.",
"These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith are challenging an U.S. Army order that These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith remove These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's turbans and cut These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's unshorn hair and beards when These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith report for active duty in July.",
"In Sikhism, which originated in northwestern India, the turban and unshorn hair are articles of faith and can't be removed.",
"But U.S. Army says there are times when U.S. Army cannot accommodate certain religious practices, \"such as when those religious observations would interfere with the wear of proper military headgear or protective clothing or equipment.\"",
"\"It doesn't make sense to me, especially in these hard times,\" Kamaljit Singh Kalsi told CNN.",
"\"U.S. Army is hurting for professionals.",
"U.S. Army need doctors, U.S. Army need nurses.\"",
"Aided by the Sikh Coalition, a national civil rights group, and a law firm, These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith have filed requests that These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's religious needs be accommodated.",
"These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith have filed appeals with These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's immediate superiors and complaints with the inspectors general of the Army and the Pentagon.",
"The Sikh Coalition said Kalsi and Rattan had been assured that when These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith were recruited to join U.S. Army's Health Professions Scholarship that These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's unshorn hair and turbans \"would not be a problem.\"",
"\"These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith were both recruited and commissioned -- with These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's Sikh articles of faith -- during These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's respective first years of medical and dental school (2001 and 2006) through the Army's Health Professions Scholarship Program.",
"\"These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith are concluding These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's training and are slated to begin active duty in July 2009.",
"However, U.S. Army is now disputing These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's ability to serve with These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's Sikh identity intact,\" The Sikh Coalition said in an April 14 letter addressed to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.",
"Amardeep Singh, the head of The Sikh Coalition, told CNN that the issue at hand involves observant Sikhs, not those Sikh-Americans who entered the military after removing their turbans and shaving their beards and hair.",
"the issue at hand is all-important for the roughly 500,000-strong American Sikh community, which faced hostility after the September 11, 2001, attacks, when people associated them with al Qaeda terrorists because their turbans and beards resembled the militants' appearance.",
"\"The perception is still there,\" said Singh.",
"\"We're sort of still feeling it.\"",
"Singh said surveys -- including one done recently in Queens, New York, where children reported being on the receiving end of verbal and physical abuse -- chronicle the problems Sikhs face.",
"\"These kids are being harassed in New York.",
"It's Queens, the most diverse county in the United States.",
"If this is happening in Queens, it's happening in other parts of the United States.\"",
"So, Singh said, the opportunity to serve in U.S. Army sends the opposite message -- \"that we are part and parcel of the fabric of the United States.\"",
"Kalsi, Singh and the These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith community stress the Sikhs' military heritage.",
"Kamaljit Singh Kalsi, for example, is the fourth generation in Kamaljit Singh Kalsi's family to serve in the military, and Kamaljit Singh Kalsi's ancestors served in India's military.",
"These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith served in allied forces in the two world wars and These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith serve in the militaries of Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, Pakistan, as well as India.",
"The Sikh Coalition notes in The Sikh Coalition's letter to Gates that a Sikh doctor and dentist were serving in U.S. Army, \"grandfathered in under the old policy\" that ended in the 1980s when observant Sikhs were barred from admission to the armed forces.",
"Lt. Col. Christopher C. Garver, an U.S. Army spokesman, told CNN in an e-mail that \"U.S. Army places high value on the rights of Soldiers to freely observe the tenets of Soldiers's respective religions.\"",
"\"Accommodation of a Soldier's religious practices must be examined against military necessity and cannot be guaranteed at all times,\" Kamaljit Singh Kalsi wrote.",
"\"There are times when U.S. Army cannot accommodate for religious reasons, such as when those religious observations would interfere with the wear of proper military headgear or protective clothing or equipment.",
"\"The Army regulations which establish the standards of wear and appearance of the uniform and accommodating religious practices are in accordance with the Department of Defense Instruction on this subject,\" Kamaljit Singh Kalsi said.",
"But These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith want U.S. Army to rethink and reconsider These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith's situation.",
"\"If U.S. Army can come up with another policy that would allow Sikhs to serve, I guarantee you, U.S. Army will have many, many people join from the Sikh community,\" Kalsi said."
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"Paul Warner Powell died in Virginia's electric chair Thursday night, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported.",
"Paul Warner Powell was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m. ET, the newspaper reported.",
"Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell had denied clemency and the U.S. Supreme Court in January refused to block the execution.",
"Paul Warner Powell was convicted in the 1999 murder of Stacie Reed and the rape of Stacie's younger sister's 14-year-old sister in their Manassas, Virginia, family home.",
"Paul Warner Powell claimed double jeopardy after state prosecutors put Paul Warner Powell on trial for a second time in the killing.",
"The high court in July delayed Paul Warner Powell's execution while considering the broader constitutional claims, which were finally rejected.",
"Paul Warner Powell rejected lethal injection, the state's usual method of execution.",
"\"I'm hopeful this is the last legal chapter in the long history of this case,\" said Paul Warner Powell's prosecutor, Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert.",
"\"The survivors -- Stacie Reed's mother and [Stacie Reed's sister] -- have really been traumatized by delay after delay.",
"Hopefully they're going to get some peace and closure after all these years.\"",
"CNN does not identify sexual assault victims without sexual assault victims's permission, even though the surviving victim, now 25, has talked publicly about this case.",
"The crime shocked the Washington area.",
"Stacie Reed Reed knew Paul Warner Powell, then 20 and an admitted racist.",
"The high court eventually threw out the 2000 verdict in the first trial, saying prosecutors had not proven other necessary death-eligible offenses were committed against the 16-year-old.",
"Such \"aggravating\" factors could include, rape, attempted rape or robbery in commission of the murder.",
"The sexual assault and attempted murder of Stacie Reed's younger sister was upheld, and Paul Warner Powell was given a long prison sentence.",
"Paul Warner Powell, believing Paul Warner Powell was free from execution, proceeded to write a taunting, profanity-filled letter from behind bars to Ebert, laying out explicit details of the crime unknown to investigators at the time.",
"\"Since I have already been indicted on first degree murder and the Va. Supreme Court said that I can't be charged with capital murder again, I figured I would tell you the rest of what happened on Jan. 29, 1999, to show you how stupid all of y'all ... are,\" wrote Powell, who is white.",
"Paul Warner Powell said Paul Warner Powell had gone to the Reed house to confront Stacie Reed for dating a black boyfriend.",
"Paul Warner Powell admitted pinning the victim, threatening to rape Stacie Reed, then stabbing Stacie Reed in the heart when Stacie Reed resisted.",
"Paul Warner Powell then stomped on Stacie Reed's throat.",
"\"I guess I forgot to mention these events when I was being questioned.",
"Ha Ha!\"",
"Paul Warner Powell wrote in 2001.",
"\"Do you just hate yourself for being so stupid ... and saving me?\"",
"Paul Warner Powell also said that after that crime, Paul Warner Powell waited in the Reed house until Stacie's younger sister returned from school, then attacked Stacie's younger sister, leaving Stacie's younger sister for dead.",
"In the meantime, Paul Warner Powell drank iced tea from the family refrigerator and smoked a cigarette, part of the forensic evidence that investigators used to place Paul Warner Powell at the scene of the crime.",
"With this firsthand account from Paul Warner Powell, Paul Warner Powell was indicted again and charged with murder and attempted rape of Stacie Reed -- a capital-eligible crime.",
"Paul Warner Powell again was convicted, and federal and state courts subsequently upheld the conviction on appeal.",
"appeal is Powell v. Kelly (09-21)."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) --",
"A trendy California sushi restaurant charged by federal authorities with serving whale meat offered an apology Monday, saying the restaurant \"ignored the restaurant's responsibilities\" to endangered species.",
"Prosecutors charged Typhoon Restaurant Inc., the parent company of Santa Monica's The Hump, and chef Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose.",
"Although it is considered a delicacy in Japan and some other countries, meat from whales -- an endangered species -- cannot be sold legally in the United States.",
"\"the restaurant write to address the misdemeanor charge recently filed by the U.S. attorney,\" the restaurant said in a statement posted on the restaurant's Web site.",
"\"The charge against the restaurant is true: the restaurant served whale meat to customers looking to eat what in Japan is widely served as a delicacy,\" the statement continued.",
"\"In serving this meat, the restaurant ignored the restaurant's responsibilities to help save endangered whales from extinction and failed to support the world community in its uphill fight to protect all endangered species.\"",
"the restaurant pledged to set up procedures to ensure that the restaurant complies with laws and \"becomes a good corporate citizen.\"",
"\"the restaurant sincerely apologize.",
"the restaurant pledge to work hard to re-earn the trust of the public and respect of the restaurant's customers.\"",
"the misdemeanor charge recently filed by the U.S. attorney carries a federal prison sentence of up to a year and a fine of up to $200,000 for the company, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office.",
"The law firm for the restaurant and the restaurant's parent company deferred questions to the restaurant's Web site.",
"However, Typhoon attorney Gary Lincenberg has said the restaurant accepts responsibility for serving whale and will agree to pay a fine, CNN affiliate KTLA reported.",
"The investigation into the restaurant began in October, when two members of the team that made the documentary \"The Cove\" visited The Hump, officials said.",
"\"The Cove,\" which exposes the annual killing of dolphins at a Japanese fishing village, won the Academy Award for best documentary this month.",
"the restaurant, is known for the restaurant's exotic fare.",
"the restaurant's Web site asks diners to surrender diners to the restaurant's chefs for \"a culinary adventure ... unlike any that you have previously experienced.\"",
"Crowd marches outside restaurant .",
"Armed with a hidden camera, the two women captured the waitress serving the two women whale and horse meat and identifying the two women as such, a federal criminal complaint said.",
"A receipt from the restaurant at the end of the meal identified their selection as \"whale\" and \"horse\" with the cost -- $85 -- written next to them.",
"the two women snuck pieces of the meat into a napkin and later sent them for examination to a researcher at Oregon State University.",
"a researcher at Oregon State University identified the whale sample to be that of sei whale, prosecutors said.",
"sei whale is found throughout the world's oceans.",
"Whalers began to hunt them after the populations of right, humpback, blue and fin whales declined due to overfishing.",
"It is now considered an endangered species.",
"In February and March, the two women returned and again asked for -- and were served -- whale meat, a federal criminal complaint said.",
"A DNA test of the meat smuggled out after the February visit confirmed it to be meat from the sei whale, Mrozek said.",
"During a final visit in March, officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed the two women asking for \"kujira,\" or whale meat.",
"One of the officers then saw the sushi chef leave the restaurant and return with a wrapped package that the sushi chef seemed to have retrieved from a parked Mercedes, a federal criminal complaint said.",
"the sushi chef told a customer it was whale meat, the document said.",
"Next, officials raided the restaurant, and chef Yamamoto admitted that chef Yamamoto had served whale meat, a federal criminal complaint said.",
"\"Someone should not be able to walk into a restaurant and order a plate of an endangered species,\" U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said.",
"Conservation agencies are engaged in an ongoing feud with Japan over whaling.",
"In the early 1980s, the International Whaling Commission determined that there should be a moratorium on commercial whale hunting.",
"However, whaling is allowed under international law when done for scientific reasons, which Japan cites as the legal basis for Japan's hunts.",
"The country's annual hunt kills up to 1,000 whales.",
"Many in the international community believe that such hunts amount to needless slaughter."
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"Feds alleged restaurant, chef illegally sold meat of endangered whales .",
"Whale meat is considered a delicacy in Japan, other countries ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A tour bus carrying about 40 people rolled over Tuesday near Campbellton, Texas, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen, an official said.",
"Tommy Cavazos, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that 18 people were injured in the Americanos tour bus crash on Interstate 37, about 50 miles south of San Antonio in southern Texas.",
"Most of the injured are being transported to San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center and University Hospital, Tommy Cavazos, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said.",
"The bus, which was headed to Matamoros, Mexico, flipped and landed on its right side, Tommy Cavazos, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said.",
"A spokesman for Brooke Army Medical Center, Dewey Mitchell, said four patients were taken to the hospital's trauma unit.",
"He did not provide further information.",
"University Health System spokeswoman Julie Wiley said five adults -- four men and one woman -- were transported to the medical facility.",
"University Health System spokeswoman Julie Wiley could not describe five adults -- four men and one woman --'s conditions but characterized the people as all between the age of 40 and 60.",
"Although it was not immediately clear whether others were taken elsewhere, University Health System spokeswoman Julie Wiley said that University Health System and Brooke Army Medical Center are the two trauma centers in San Antonio and would receive patients in situations such as Tuesday's crash.",
"The names of those killed were not released.",
"Americanos is a subsidiary of Greyhound.",
"Maureen Richmond, a spokeswoman for Greyhound, said that 40 people were on board the bus, which left San Antonio shortly before 9 a.m. for Matamoros, Mexico.",
"It was a regularly scheduled trip, she said.",
"She said the cause of Tuesday's crash was not immediately known.",
"KSAT:",
"2 dead, dozens injured in charter bus crash .",
"Video from the scene showed Bus lying on Bus's side in the highway's grassy median, with clothing and other items scattered on the ground nearby.",
"Emergency personnel, including fire trucks and ambulances, were on the scene.",
"Mark Baldon, who came upon Tuesday's crash shortly after Tuesday's crash happened Tuesday morning, said he saw Bus \"smoldering,\" CNN affiliate KSAT reported.",
"CNN's Divina Mims and Jamie Morrison contributed to this report."
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"Bus flipped and landed on Bus's side on I-37 median, official says .",
"Bus was headed to Matamoros, Mexico, carrying 40 people .",
"Names of victims not released; injured taken to hospital in San Antonio ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Local and federal authorities in Enfield, Connecticut, are investigating how a band of burglars broke into a large pharmaceutical warehouse and made off with approximately $75 million in prescription medications.",
"Police say the well-orchestrated heist at the Eli Lilly and Co. distribution center occurred during a rainstorm shortly after midnight Sunday.",
"\"Based on the sophistication of what was used, this had to be well-executed and planned,\" Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said.",
"According to Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza, the thieves scaled the side of the building onto the roof, where the thieves cut an opening.",
"Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said the thieves then rappelled into the building, disabled the alarm and proceeded to steal several dozen pallets of prescription pills, loading several dozen pallets of prescription pills onto one or more getaway vehicles.",
"Police say the robbery was not discovered until almost 2 p.m. ET Sunday.",
"When asked whether the crime could have been an inside job, Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza replied, \"Anything is possible; we are not ruling anything out at this point.\"",
"A spokesman for Eli Lilly, Ed Sagebiel, said the company is working closely with both the Enfield Police and the FBI.",
"Though Sagebiel would not confirm what types of medications were stolen, Sagebiel said there were no narcotics at the site.",
"Although the intended destination of the drugs is unknown, the spokesman speculated that the suspects will attempt to sell them on the domestic or international black markets.",
"\"We certainly know that there is a market for these products,\" Sagebiel said.",
"\"We have a closed system here in the U.S. that makes it more difficult to distribute them in the United States for legitimate means.\"",
"Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, Eli Lilly is the ninth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world."
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"Thieves broke into Connecticut facility early Sunday, police say .",
"Chief says heist was well-organized .",
"Authorities aren't ruling out an inside job ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Little Rhode Island made big news in the education arena last month.",
"Superintendent Frances Gallo fired all the teachers at Central Falls High School after negotiations with the teachers' union failed.",
"The move was triggered by low test scores -- only 7 percent of 11th-graders passed the state math tests, and 50 percent of the students at Central Falls failed to graduate in four years.",
"Appalling numbers.",
"Superintendent Frances Gallo wanted teachers to increase the length of the school day and spend time tutoring kids.",
"the teachers' union was not convinced.",
"Even President Obama got involved and supported the firing, saying, \"If a school continues to fail a school's students year after year after year, if a school doesn't show signs of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability.\"",
"Yes, accountability is right, but who is supposed to be accountable for this massive failure to learn?",
"The general consensus is that the teachers are responsible.",
"Is it really all the teachers' fault?",
"Columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. thinks so.",
"Having been a teacher himself for five years, Columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. says teachers just like to complain.",
"Columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. doesn't say why Columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. is no longer teaching, but Columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. applauds the firing and blames the teachers.",
"Superintendent Frances Gallo agrees.",
"Superintendent Frances Gallo fired all of them.",
"Everyone agrees that the K-12 schools are failing, but the reasons are not as simple as Navarrette and Superintendent Frances Gallo think.",
"Firing the teachers is not the answer.",
"Closing schools is not the answer.",
"Schools aren't failing because the teachers don't care or aren't trying.",
"It's not because teachers fail to follow the curriculum.",
"It isn't because they are poorly paid.",
"Teachers go into teaching because Teachers want to make a difference and help kids.",
"Teachers certainly don't go into teaching to get rich.",
"Teachers don't want to do a bad job, either; no one likes to fail.",
"A recent survey of 40,000 teachers by the Gates Foundation shows that teachers are more interested in reform than money.",
"If you examine Central Falls High School closely, a few things stand out: More than 96 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, according to the school's Web site, and only 6 percent of the people in the town have a college degree.",
"Does that tell you something important about the parents?",
"the parents are struggling financially and lack postsecondary education.",
"Central Falls provides little or no parental support for students or for the teachers, yet everyone expects teachers to do it all with few resources.",
"Clearly, it does not work.",
"In his book entitled \"Does Money Matter? the Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement,\" Gary Burtless argues that the \"home environment has strong effects on student achievement, stronger in fact than social class effects.\"",
"He argues that the most important home environment variables involve \"parents expending time participating in activities with children that enhance learning.\"",
"Very little, if any, of this is happening in the communities of a failing school.",
"Look at where the schools are failing -- in the most densely populated areas of the 50 largest American cities.",
"Teachers are not magicians.",
"Low test scores and the dropout rate cannot be blamed on the teachers alone.",
"the teachers alone need help from the parents, help from the community, help from the administrators, help from state and federal governments.",
"Thousands of kids starting kindergarten each year don't know colors, counting, or even the names of fruits and vegetables.",
"Their vocabularies are hundreds of words fewer than their more advantaged peers.",
"Who is talking to these kids?",
"The electronic nanny -- the television.",
"No teacher can effectively educate a child without support from the parents.",
"Support at the elementary level means spending time with their child, reading to their child, talking with their child, providing a stable home for their child.",
"Support in high school means a quiet place to study, recognition and approval for kids' efforts, and helping when they are not doing well.",
"Strong schools have supportive parents and an involved community.",
"Schools like Central Falls High School have struggling communities.",
"To fire all the teachers and blame all the teachers for the failure is to dismiss the important role that parents and communities play in the education of their children.",
"Imagine firing all the parents -- does that solve the problem?",
"What we have in communities with failing schools is parents who are for a variety of reasons -- mostly economic -- failing to parent effectively.",
"They have no time.",
"The job of mothering is passé.",
"Let's look at how ineffective school closures have been in Washington, where Chancellor Michelle Rhee has closed many schools.",
"Test scores are up, but scores dropped on the federal government's broader measure of how local schools are doing in meeting the standards of the No Child Left Behind law.",
"Or take a look at the Chicago Public Schools, where former CEO Arne Duncan, now U.S. secretary of education, closed many schools.",
"There's been little change in scores because students are being transferred to other low-performing schools.",
"It hasn't worked because the community's attitude and level of support hasn't changed.",
"A report released on March 1 by The Education Trust shows that schools often lumped together as \"low-performing\" are not all alike.",
"\"Examining data from reading and mathematics assessments for elementary and middle schools in ten states, the study's authors found that some low-performing schools remain stuck year after year, and others that started low performing are among the fastest improvers in their states.\"",
"Solving the problem requires individual solutions tailored to each school, not a blanket approach.",
"The U.S. Department of Education needs to change The U.S. Department of Education's focus and stop The U.S. Department of Education's policy of supporting the closing of failing schools; it does not bring long-lasting change.",
"No Child Left Behind has had unintended negative consequences.",
"Instead, we as a nation need to support teachers in the classroom and stop using teachers as scapegoats in seeking to solve a major national problem.",
"We need to work with teachers, not fire teachers.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Esther Wojcicki."
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"Rhode Island school district fired teachers at a failing school .",
"Teacher Esther Wojcicki says that's not the answer to poorly performing schools .",
"Teacher Esther Wojcicki says parents, administrators need to share blame, help solve problem .",
"\"No teacher can effectively educate a child without support from the parents,\" she says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would be pushing for a public option in the final health care bill, it looked as if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had given up on the possibility of a bipartisan agreement.",
"Most Republicans have been steadfast in Most Republicans's opposition to the Democratic health care proposals.",
"The only serious possibility for GOP backing has come from Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.",
"While expressing support for much of the final health care bill, Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine has said Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine would accept a public option only if private markets and new regulations fail to control costs and lower premiums.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision is not a sign of commitment to an ideal but rather an act of political realism.",
"The notion that either party will be able to find substantive bipartisan support for legislation today is dubious.",
"The political forces that generate partisan conflict in Washington are deeply rooted and hard to change.",
"Partisanship is not always a bad thing for politics.",
"Strong parties can give voters real choices at the ballot box, and party leaders are willing to push for bold objectives that centrists often avoid.",
"But bipartisanship is also a valuable objective, and good to have as part of our political mix.",
"When both parties are open to sometimes entering into negotiations and reaching agreements, this improves the chances for major policy breakthroughs that will last over time.",
"When Americans see that Americans's leaders are willing, under the right circumstances, to focus on doing what the country needs even if the other side might receive more credit, citizens are exposed to a side of government that is usually overshadowed by the political machinations that dominate the news.",
"But the pressures against bipartisanship are enormous.",
"Gerrymandered congressional districts favor representatives who play to the party base.",
"The number of centrists in both parties has steadily diminished.",
"The campaign finance system empowers party leaders and conservative activists who are able to raise and distribute substantial amounts of campaign funds to pay for television ads and get-out-the-vote operations.",
"Within the GOP, their power was recently on display in New York's 23rd district.",
"Conservatives pressured centrist Republican Dede Scozzafava to step down from the special election to clear the way for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who has received the strong support of national conservative groups.",
"\"Doug's campaign,\" Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele announced, \"will receive the financial backing of the RNC and get-out-the-vote efforts to defeat Bill Owens on Tuesday.\"",
"In the Senate, the constant threat of the filibuster offers the minority party an easy way to thwart the agenda.",
"The media favors stories about conflict over consensus.",
"People tend to be a nostalgic for moments when the two major parties worked together.",
"In fact, this has rarely been the case.",
"But when there were periods with some bipartisanship in the 20th century, what is striking is how much more substantial some bipartisanship were.",
"some bipartisanship involved significant numbers of legislators from one party joining forces with the other.",
"One of the most famous examples of bipartisan leadership involved Republican Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, who in 1947 and 1948 chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.",
"Vandenberg worked with President Harry Truman to pass some of the key policies of the Cold War, including the National Security Act, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.",
"Many Republicans disagreed with Vandenberg, focusing much more on attacking President Harry Truman.",
"But Vandenberg still delivered Republican votes for that short period.",
"During the Senate vote on the Marshall Plan in 1948, which provided economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe, 31 Republicans joined 38 Democrats to vote for the Marshall Plan.",
"The same held true with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.",
"We often remember the important work of Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen, an Illinois conservative who joined forces with Johnson in the summer of 1964 to vote for cloture to end the filibuster by Southern Democrats.",
"Dirksen was one of 27 Republicans who voted to end the filibuster by Southern Democrats and then to vote for civil rights.",
"Today, discussions of bipartisanship focus on obtaining one or two votes from the opposition party.",
"This is a phenomenon we have seen intensifying since the 1970s.",
"Republicans also had trouble obtaining Democratic votes under President George W. Bush.",
"Until politicians are able to deal with some of the underlying forces that make bipartisanship difficult to achieve, party leaders should not give so much weight to legislative strategies that hinge on appealing to the other side.",
"Seriously searching for bipartisanship, for example, would require reforming the campaign finance system so that legislators are not in such desperate need of private campaign contributions, over which party leaders and activist organizations maintain tight control.",
"Citizens should also support media outlets that place solid journalism above partisan analysis.",
"Right now, bipartisan votes are not coming.",
"In the past few weeks, Democrats seem to have come to this conclusion and are now focusing more on what will unite Democrats's own party than what will win Sen. Snowe's vote.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"Julian Zelizer says Democrats are more focused on unity than on attracting GOP votes .",
"Bipartisanship once involved many legislators crossing party lines .",
"Today, Julian Zelizer says, many forces make bipartisanship hard to achieve ."
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