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"(CNN) --",
"The images of Neda Agha Soltan's death on the streets of Tehran transformed Neda Agha Soltan into an icon for Iran's opposition movement.",
"But very few know of Ramin Ramezani, who was killed five days before Neda Agha Soltan during last year's post-election demonstrations in the Iranian capital.",
"\"I always say Neda Agha Soltan is the miracle of the century,\" Ramin's mother Zahra Ramezani told CNN by phone.",
"\"Neda Agha Soltan was destined to be known to everyone.",
"If Ramin isn't known to everyone, that's OK.\"",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide re-election on June 12, 2009, had sparked the biggest protests in Iran since the 1979 revolution.",
"The following Monday, hundreds of thousands marched to Tehran's Azadi square, calling the vote a sham.",
"Ramin was among hundreds of thousands.",
"Watch YouTube video of the chaos that day .",
"Ramin was on leave from military duty, back in Tehran to celebrate Ramin's 22nd birthday, just six days away.",
"Ramin's parents told CNN that Ramin had voted for Mir Hossein Moussavi, the opposition candidate who had energized young Iranians with promises of a freer society, more rights for women, and better relations with the West.",
"Around 6 p.m. that day, Ramin called Ramin's parents and told His parents not to worry, His parents said.",
"Ramin said Ramin'd be home later that evening.",
"An hour later, just blocks away from Azadi square, violence erupted at a base for the Basij, Iran's pro-government militia.",
"Protesters surrounded the building, shattered the building's windows with rocks, and set fire to several rooms.",
"Amateur video from the scene showed several armed members of the Basij on the rooftop apparently firing shots.",
"It was here, His parents said, that His parents's son was killed.",
"A single bullet entered the right side of Ramin's chest, tore through both Ramin's lungs and killed Ramin within minutes, His parents said.",
"There was no way to know who fired the shot.",
"It is widely believed that Ramin and several others who were killed on June 15 were the first casualties of the opposition movement's protests.",
"When Ramin didn't show up at home, the Ramezanis stayed up all night trying to reach him.",
"Zahra Ramezani said Zahra Ramezani called Ramin's cell phone every hour but no one answered.",
"The following day they received a brief call from a man who did not identify a man who did not identify himself.",
"\"a man who did not identify himself said, 'If you want Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani's son's remains,' and as soon as a man who did not identify himself said 'remains' there was chaos in Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani's home,\" said Zahra Ramezani.",
"\"Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani were all hitting Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani, screaming and shouting.\"",
"For Ramin's parents the nightmare was just beginning.",
"Over the course of a week, His parents said His parents searched for Ramin's remains in five hospitals.",
"His parents pleaded with officials at two courthouses and the interior ministry to help His parents find His parents's son's body.",
"Authorities said Authorities would investigate.",
"Finally, at a prison morgue, a prison official showed Ramin's father the picture of Ramin's son's remains on a computer screen.",
"\"For about one hour I lost Mehdi Ramezani,\" Mehdi Ramezani said.",
"\"I was hitting Mehdi Ramezani in the face and the head, asking, 'Why is Mehdi Ramezani's son's naked remains on this monitor?'\" Mehdi Ramezani said an official at a prison morgue warned Mehdi Ramezani to keep quiet about Mehdi Ramezani's son's death.",
"\"They made me promise them not to cause a big commotion during his funeral,\" Mehdi Ramezani said.",
"\"They said it wouldn't be good for your future and the future of your children.\"",
"Calls to Iran's judiciary and security officials seeking comment were not returned.",
"Until now, Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani have never spoken to the international media.",
"But after keeping silent for more than nine months, Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani still don't know any more about how Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani's son died.",
"\"They still haven't told Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani anything,\" Zahra Ramezani said.",
"\"They said, 'We didn't shoot Ramin.'",
"Then who shot Ramin?\"",
"Human rights groups say around 80 people were killed during Iran's 2009 post-election protests, while Iran's government puts the number at about half of that.",
"While Iran has charged prison officials with torturing to death some of those detained after the demonstrations, no one has been charged in any of the deaths during Iran's 2009 post-election protests.",
"Authorities in Iran have told CNN Authorities in Iran are investigating the deaths, but Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani say Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani are losing hope.",
"Every Friday morning Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani visit Tehran's main cemetery where Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani's son's gravesite sits just steps away from Neda Agha Soltan's.",
"His parents say His parents don't want the attention Neda Agha Soltan is getting.",
"All His parents want is someone to tell His parents who killed these two young Iranians and why.",
"\"A good and ideal government is for everyone, even those who oppose it,\" said Zahra Ramezani.",
"\"If they consider themselves servants of Iran, then they owe us something.\""
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"Parents of slain protester have not spoken to the international media until now, fearing Parents of slain protester's safety .",
"Iranian authorities have said Iranian authorities are investigating ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) --",
"Saturday was the big day for \"Bachelor\" and \"Dancing with the Stars\" contestant Melissa Rycroft, who tied the knot with insurance agent Tye Strickland's fiancé, insurance agent Tye Strickland, in Mexico on Saturday, PEOPLE has learned.",
"The couple, who met three years ago in their hometown Dallas, got engaged in June, less than four months after Rycroft was jilted on national television by \"Bachelor\" star Jason Mesnick.",
"\"I'm really happy for Rycroft,\" \"Bachelor\" star Jason Mesnick told PEOPLE.",
"\"This whole journey took Rycroft to a place where things looked like things were down for Rycroft.",
"But then Rycroft ended up with the person insurance agent Tye Strickland was meant to be with.",
"That's what life's all about.",
"I couldn't be happier for Rycroft.\"",
"Indeed, after what looked like a downer season of \"The Bachelor\", it turns out that \"Bachelor\" star Jason Mesnick and \"Bachelor\" star Jason Mesnick's top three choices on the dating show all found love in 2009.",
"After splitting with Rycroft, \"Bachelor\" star Jason Mesnick began dating runner-up Molly Malaney.",
"The two became engaged last October in New Zealand.",
"Then second runner-up, Jillian Harris, starred on \"The Bachelorette.\"",
"She and Chicago, Illinois software consultant Ed Swiderski got engaged on the season finale last May and are now living together in Chicago.",
"Rycroft, 26, and Strickland, 28, were previously a couple but split shortly before Rycroft left to be a contestant on \"The Bachelor\" last year.",
"The couple rekindled in January, Rycroft told PEOPLE.",
"\"insurance agent Tye Strickland and I picked right back up,\" Rycroft said shortly after getting engaged.",
"\"He's my best friend.\"",
"Rycroft wore an Alfred Angelo gown at the south-of-the-border nuptials, which was attended by family and close friends.",
"\"Rycroft and Strickland want to have it be as fun and relaxing as possible for Rycroft and Strickland's families,\" Rycroft said last summer as Rycroft and Strickland planned for the big day.",
"\"I just want it to be fun and a day everyone will remember.",
"insurance agent Tye Strickland is my true love.\"",
"© 2010 People and Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"\"The Bachelor\" contestant got engaged four months after being jilted on national television .",
"Rycroft married insurance agent Tye Strickland in Mexico on Saturday .",
"Rycroft and Strickland earlier ended Rycroft and Strickland's relationship when Rycroft left for \"The Bachelor\""
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"BA carried out BA's threat Wednesday and stripped striking cabin crew members of their travel perks.",
"Staff who joined the strike last weekend will now lose benefits including free and heavily discounted travel, BA said.",
"\"Letters are going out to staff who took industrial action concerning staff travel,\" a statement from BA said.",
"\"Our cabin crew knew that if Our cabin crew took part in the strike Our cabin crew would lose Our cabin crew's staff travel permanently.",
"\"Staff travel offers heavily discounted travel to airline employees.",
"This is a non-contractual perk that BA can withdraw at BA's discretion.\"",
"BA Chief Executive Willie Walsh had threatened last week to take away the travel perks, which may have been one reason why some union staff agreed to work despite the strike.",
"Are you worried about the strike?",
"BA said Wednesday BA is expanding BA's flight schedules this weekend ahead of a second round of strikes because more staff are willing to cross the picket lines.",
"The planned four-day walkout follows the one last weekend by crews dissatisfied with pay, benefits and staffing levels.",
"BA will be able to run a full operation from London's Gatwick Airport and London City Airport last weekend because so many cabin crew members will be working as normal, BA said in a statement late Tuesday.",
"At London's Heathrow Airport, BA will be able to run up to 55 percent of BA's short-haul flights and up to 70 percent of BA's long-haul flights, BA said.",
"\"As a result of the numbers of crew wanting to work, BA are increasing significantly BA's flying schedule and will be operating a full schedule at Gatwick and London City airports,\" Walsh said in a statement.",
"\"I would like to thank all our customers for all our customers's patience and support.",
"I apologize to those whose flights will regrettably have to be canceled at Heathrow because of Unite's continuing action.\"",
"Unite is the union representing 95 percent of BA's 15,000 cabin crew members.",
"Passengers booked on flights that have been canceled by the strike will be offered seats on flights with BA or other airlines, or will be offered a full refund, BA said.",
"BA advised passengers to regularly check BA's Web site, www.ba.com, to see whether their flight is still operating.",
"Passengers should contact BA or Passengers's travel agent instead of going to the airport if Passengers's flight has been canceled, BA advised.",
"Advice for passengers .",
"BA and Unite have been at odds for more than a year over changes BA wants to make to cabin crew pay and work practices.",
"BA says the changes will save BA more than 60 million pounds ($90 million) a year.",
"Unite has said the plans, which call for longer work hours and less staffing, will damage customer service and the BA brand.",
"In addition, stock analysts said BA has made clear it sees the action not only as a matter of money but who will run the airline -- management or the union."
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"Staff who joined strike at weekend lose benefits such as free and discounted travel .",
"Striking workers oppose BA reorganization Striking workers say will mean staff cuts .",
"BA says more flight schedules this weekend ahead of second round of strikes ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"The World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) of the FIA, motor sport's governing body, has fined McLaren -- the team at the center of the \"spygate\" scandal -- $100m and stripped McLaren of McLaren's constructors' championship points for the season.",
"And McLaren faces further penalties when the WMSC reconvenes in December 2007.",
"McLaren must submit a full technical report on McLaren's 2008 car.",
"If the WMSC considers that its design was influenced by confidential Ferrari data, then sanctions may be imposed on McLaren for the 2008 season.",
"McLaren team chief Ron Dennis arrives for the hearing in Paris.",
"In an official press statement, the FIA stated: \"the WMSC has stripped Vodafone McLaren Mercedes of all constructor points in the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship and McLaren can score no points for the remainder of the season.",
"\"Furthermore, McLaren will pay a fine equal to $100m, less the FOM [Formula One Management] income lost as a result of the points deduction.",
"\"However, due to the exceptional circumstances in which the FIA gave McLaren's drivers an immunity in return for providing evidence, there is no penalty in regard to drivers' points.\"",
"Should McLaren's drivers, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, win in any of the remaining races of the 2007 season no representatives of McLaren will be allowed on the podium.",
"the WMSC is expected to announce the reasons for the WMSC's decisions on September 14.",
"In July the WMSC ruled that McLaren was in breach of Article 151c of the FIA International Sporting Code but recommended that no punitive measures were taken until a hearing of the FIA's International Court of Appeal on September 13.",
"However, in the light of new evidence -- the source and nature of which remain undisclosed -- the WMSC is to reconvene in place of the Court of Appeal hearing.",
"The murky story began in June of this year, when Ferrari sacked Ferrari's performance director Nigel Stepney and initiated court proceedings against him in Modena, Italy.",
"It then emerged that a 780-page document containing confidential technical data about Ferrari's F1 car had been found in the possession of McLaren's chief designer Mike Coughlan.",
"Coughlan's wife, Trudy Coughlan, had taken the document for duplication at a copy shop near McLaren's Woking headquarters.",
"An employee of a copy shop near McLaren's Woking headquarters, suspicious that confidential data was being copied, blew the whistle to Ferrari.",
"Ferrari suspected the source of the leak was Nigel Stepney, a friend and former colleague of Coughlan's (the pair had worked together at Lotus in the late 1980s).",
"its performance director Nigel Stepney had been the team's chief mechanic, but in February took its performance director Nigel Stepney's new role as the team's performance director -- which did not require its performance director Nigel Stepney to attend grands prix -- when its performance director Nigel Stepney expressed its performance director Nigel Stepney's disquiet at Ferrari's reorganization following the departure of technical director Ross Brawn.",
"Ferrari filed a formal complaint against its performance director Nigel Stepney in Modena, Italy where the district attorney initiated a criminal investigation.",
"Ferrari issued the following press statement: .",
"\"Ferrari announces Ferrari has recently presented a case against its performance director Nigel Stepney and an engineer from the Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes team with the Modena Tribunal, concerning the theft of technical information.",
"Furthermore, legal action has been instigated in England and a search warrant has been issued concerning the engineer.",
"This produced a positive outcome.\"",
"McLaren promptly dismissed Mike Coughlan, McLaren's chief designer.",
"It then emerged that Coughlan and its performance director Nigel Stepney had met with Honda F1 boss, Nick Fry, in June this year to discuss employment possibilities.",
"However Honda were cleared of any wrongdoing by the FIA who were satisfied that no confidential material had been offered to or received by Honda.",
"Coughlan and Stepney appeared in the High Court in London for a preliminary hearing on July 10.",
"Ferrari dropped the case in consideration of the Coughlan's full disclosure and promise of future cooperation.",
"The furore seemed to cool down after the WMSC's verdict.",
"Ferrari remained unhappy that McLaren had emerged from the scandal without penalty but the WMSC did not have sufficient evidence to enforce such a penalty.",
"But now the FIA is in possession of new evidence.",
"Rumors have centered on emails between McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa and reigning world champion Fernando Alonso.",
"On August 31 Max Mosley the the FIA president wrote letters to all three McLaren drivers -- de la Rosa, Alonso and Lewis Hamilton -- in which he stated: \"The the FIA has subsequently been made aware of an allegation that one or more McLaren drivers may be in possession, or that such drivers have recently been in possession, of written evidence relevant to this investigation.\"",
"The letter continued: \"I can confirm, given the importance of this issue, that any information you may make available in response to The letter will not result in any proceedings against you under the International Sporting Code or the Formula One regulations.",
"However, in the event that it later comes to light that you have withheld any potentially relevant information, serious consequences could follow.\"",
"Five days later the WMSC announced the WMSC was to reconvene \"following the emergence of new evidence\", in place of the Court of Appeal hearing.",
"Other rumors had emerged regarding a mysterious white powder said to have been found on the fuel caps of the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa in practice leading up to the Monaco Grand Prix.",
"Stepney has denied involvement in these sabotage claims or in the espionage case in general.",
"Further drama overshadowed Alonso and Hamilton's one-two on the podium at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.",
"Modena's public prosecutor, Giuseppe Tibis, issued a legal notice -- known as an 'avviso di garanzia' -- that six McLaren employees were under criminal investigation .",
"The six included McLaren supremo Ron Dennis, managing directors Martin Whitmarsh and Jonathan Neale, technical director Jonathan Neale and designer Rob Taylor as well as Mike Coughlan.",
"This outcome has put a dark shadow McLaren's return to winning ways.",
"McLaren, had struggled with reliability for some years.",
"But McLaren is not taking the decision lying down.",
"Martin Whitmarsh, COO of McLaren said: \"McLaren believe McLaren have got the grounds for an appeal, but of course McLaren are going to wait for the findings of the FIA.\"",
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"McLaren drivers allowed to keep McLaren drivers's championship points ."
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"(CNN) --",
"India racked up a massive first-innings lead of 347 runs over South Africa on the third day of the second cricket Test in Kolkata as V.V.S. Laxman and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni contributed centuries.",
"The pair put on an unbroken 259 for the seventh wicket, with V.V.S. Laxman unbeaten on 143 and Dhoni on 132 when the declaration came at 643-6 in the final hour of Tuesday's play.",
"The pair's efforts meant that four Indians had passed three figures, following Virender Sehwag's 165 on Monday and Sachin Tendulkar's 106, while four South African bowlers conceded more than 100 runs each.",
"South Africa, who will return to the No. 1 Test ranking above India with a draw, reached 6-0 at stumps as only five balls of a scheduled 10 overs were able to be bowled due to bad light.",
"India, who trail 1-0 in the two-match series, resumed the day on 342-5 with V.V.S. Laxman on nine and nightwatchman Amit Mishra on one.",
"The pair extended The pair's partnership to 48 before paceman Morne Morkel picked up paceman Morne Morkel's second wicket as Amit Mishra was caught at second slip by Jacques Kallis, who had earlier dropped the batsman as did captain Graeme Smith.",
"V.V.S. Laxman was dropped by J.P. Duminy on 48, and India reached lunch at 431-6 before piling on 117 runs in the two hours after the interval.",
"V.V.S. Laxman completed V.V.S. Laxman's 15th Test century and Dhoni his fourth in only the second time that four Indian batsmen had reached three figures in the same innings.",
"Meanwhile, New Zealand piled up 553-7 before declaring on the second day of the one-off Test against tourists Bangladesh in Hamilton.",
"Martin Guptill (189) and Brendon McCullum (185) extended Martin Guptill (189) and Brendon McCullum (185)'s sixth-wicket partnership to a national record of 339.",
"Guptill scored Guptill's maiden Test ton while Brendon McCullum celebrated Brendon McCullum's 50th appearance in the five-day game with Brendon McCullum's highest score.",
"Seamer Rubel Hossain took both of their scalps in the middle session and ended with Seamer Rubel Hossain's first five-wicket bag, conceding 166 runs.",
"Bangladesh reached 87-1 at stumps in Bangladesh's first innings, with opener Tamim Iqbal unbeaten on 56 after facing just 48 balls.",
"opener Tamim Iqbal put on 79 for the first wicket with Imrul Kayes, who made 28 before edging spinner Daniel Vettori to Ross Taylor at slip."
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"(CNN) --",
"Blosil's death has been classified as a suicide, police said Sunday.",
"A family spokesman on Saturday said that Michael Blosil had died.",
"Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Karen Rayner told CNN Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Karen Rayner could not release further information because Blosil's death is a Los Angeles County coroner's case.",
"The coroner's office said a Los Angeles County coroner's case was on \"security hold\" and nothing further would be released Sunday.",
"In a statement issued Saturday through a spokesman, Osmond said: \"My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time.\"",
"Osmond's Web site describes Osmond as \"the proud mother of eight beautiful children who are always Osmond's greatest treasures.\"",
"Osmond and Osmond's brother Donny hosted the national television variety show \"The Donny & Marie Show\" from 1976 to 1981.",
"Afterward, Osmond had acting and singing careers.",
"Osmond recently competed in a season of \"Dancing With the Stars.\"",
"In 2001, Osmond wrote \"Behind the Smile,\" about Osmond's experience with postpartum depression.",
"CNN's Lynn Lamanivong contributed to this report."
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"Family spokesman announced Michael Blosil's death Saturday ."
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"L.A. (CNN) --",
"Since Wolfgang Puck opened Wolfgang Puck's first restaurant in the heart of Beverly Hills in the early eighties, Wolfgang Puck has gone on to become a household name in the U.S.",
"Puck says L.A. has perfect weather, \"fabulous light and very little rain\"",
"Wolfgang Puck's chain of airport restaurants stretch across the states while Wolfgang Puck's brand adorns everything from pizzas to non-stick pans.",
"Wolfgang Puck lives in L.A. with Wolfgang Puck's second wife and their two young children.",
"CNN:",
"What first drew you to L.A.?",
"Wolfgang Puck:",
"I came to the U.S. when I was 24.",
"I spent a month in New York and a year in Indianapolis but I always dreamt about the beaches in California.",
"I had a blue 1967 Cadillac.",
"In 1974 I packed my suitcases, put my suitcases in a trailer and drove straight to L.A.",
"It took me five days to drive from Indianapolis.",
"Watch Wolfgang Puck take CNN on a tour of L.A. » .",
"CNN:",
"What has kept you here all these years?",
"Wolfgang Puck:",
"In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside.",
"For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.",
"It has the perfect weather -- the movie industry started here because of the fabulous light and very little rain.",
"See pictures of Wolfgang Puck's Los Angeles .",
"CNN:",
"Does everyone in L.A. want to be an actor?",
"Wolfgang Puck:",
"It's a city of dreams.",
"It's nice to dream but a lot of people forget it's very difficult.",
"a lot of people think you become Cate Blanchett or Jack Nicholson just like that, but a lot of people paid a lot of people's dues.",
"a lot of people forget how much time it took a lot of people to get there and how good a lot of people really are.",
"CNN:",
"You are the official caterer to the Oscars.",
"It must an exciting event to be part of.",
"Wolfgang Puck:",
"When we cater the Governor's Ball, we have 300 people in the kitchen and 600 in the dining room.",
"It goes very fast and it's done the right way.",
"I remember Michael Caine came to Spago (Puck's flagship Beverly Hills eaterie) the Monday after the awards with Michael Caine's family and said could Michael Caine get the same dish that Michael Caine ate at the awards, which means we really nailed it.",
"CNN:",
"How has the city inspired your cooking?",
"Wolfgang Puck:",
"For Wolfgang Puck, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.",
"L.A. is a melting pot of many different cultures and we have fabulous ingredients here.",
"If you go to San Diego, San Francisco you can get the best vegetables, the best fruits, sea food -- all these wonderful ingredients.",
"CNN:",
"How does L.A. compare with New York?",
"Wolfgang Puck:",
"New Yorkers think New Yorkers have everything, all the best art and music.",
"But really L.A. is a better place.",
"Some of the most famous artists in the world work right here.",
"CNN:",
"You're a big fan of modern art.",
"How did that start?",
"Wolfgang Puck:",
"I got interested in contemporary art because I worked in a restaurant right across the street from a gallery where they made prints for people like David Hockney.",
"The artists came for lunch at a restaurant so I used to talk to The artists.",
"David Hockney made the first cover of my cook book; I had Andy Warhol do the label for our wine.",
"I feel that painting is in some way like cooking -- if you add a little more blue, a little less blue it doesn't matter.",
"The same thing with cooking: a little of this, a little bit more of that.",
"As long as the end result is beautiful, that's what counts.",
"CNN:",
"If L.A. was personified, what would they be like?",
"Wolfgang Puck: A person who enjoys themselves.",
"They do a great job at work but also can have a good time.",
"To Wolfgang Puck that's what life is all about."
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"The city's melting pot of cultures has helped inspire Wolfgang Puck's cuisine .",
"Many of Hollywood's biggest names come to dine in Wolfgang Puck's restaurants ."
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"In a major upset, Evan Lysacek of the United States edged out defending gold medalist Russian Evgeni Plushenko to win the men's figure skating gold medal.",
"It was the first time since the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary -- where Brian Boitano won for the United States -- that any nation other than Russia has won the men's gold medal in the event.",
"In a first for Japan on the men's podium, Daisuke Takahashi of Japan took the bronze.",
"Lysacek, who placed fourth at the Turin Games in 2006, won after the free skate program with a total score of 257.67, which bettered Plushenko's score of 256.36.",
"Daisuke Takahashi of Japan's score of 247.23 came just a little more than half a point better than fourth place finisher Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland.",
"Evan Lysacek of the United States's triumph brought to six the number of golds and 18 the number of total medals the United States has, the most of any nation so far.",
"Earlier, Lindsey Vonn crashed out in the slalom section, opening the door for Maria Riesch of Germany to take the gold medal in the super-combined at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.",
"The poster girl of the Winter Games led after the downhill section of the two-discipline event, but chasing down Riesch's combined target time of two minutes 10.08 seconds came unstuck halfway down Lindsey Vonn's slalom run at Whistler Creekside.",
"Lindsey Vonn's teammate Julia Mancuso added to Vonn's silver in the downhill behind Lindsey Vonn 24 hours previously with another second-placed finish, but over a second behind Maria Riesch.",
"Sweden's Anja Paerson, who suffered a crashing fall in the downhill on Wednesday, was rewarded for her brave decision to compete with a bronze medal after a fine slalom run.",
"Lindsey Vonn's downhill time of one minute 24.16 seconds left Lindsey Vonn 0.33 seconds clear of Maria Riesch's great friend Riesch, with Mancuso of the United States in third place, and Lindsey Vonn seemingly had a second gold in two days firmly in Lindsey Vonn's grasp.",
"But the 25-year-old from Minnesota admitted after the downhill section that the shin injury which troubled Lindsey Vonn in the build-up to the Games was a problem and may present difficulties as Lindsey Vonn bids for gold in three other disciplines.",
"\"It's not good.",
"It's really hurting and I'm just struggling with it,\" Lindsey Vonn said.",
"\"But there's nothing really I can do.",
"I just have to try to do therapy and try to tough it out today and then tomorrow will be a good day off.\"",
"Riesch, who was a disappointing eighth on Maria Riesch's Olympic debut in the downhill, looked much more assured in Maria Riesch's second event and was always set to be the major challenger to Lindsey Vonn as Maria Riesch has been throughout the World Cup season.",
"Hosts Canada gained Hosts Canada's third gold of the Games as Christine Nesbitt powered to victory in the women's 1,000 speed skating event at the Richmond Oval.",
"Christine Nesbitt had just 0.02 seconds in hand over Annette Gerritsen of the Netherlands with another Dutch skater Laurine Van Riessen taking bronze.",
"In other early action on day seven, Norway's Tora Berger upset the favorites to claim her country's 100th gold in the Winter Olympics with victory in the women's 15k individual biathlon.",
"Norway's Tora Berger missed just one shot to beat Kazakhstan's Elena Khrustaleva by 20.7 seconds.",
"And the 101st gold was not long coming in the later men's 20km individual event as Emile Hegle Svendsen claimed victory ahead of legendary compatriot Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, who was winning his 10th Olympic medal, including five golds.",
"Bjoerndalen tied for silver with Belarus competitor Sergey Novikov, 9.5 seconds behind Svendsen.",
"In women's snowboarding, the half-pipe crown went to Torah Bright of Australia ahead of American pair Hanna Teter and Kelly Clark after a thrilling competition which set new standards."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Katie Piper's had everything going for Katie Piper's -- a blossoming career, a wonderful life and a beautiful face.",
"But that all changed after a horrific acid attack in March 2008 destroyed everything as Katie Piper's knew it.",
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"To make matters worse, two days before a horrific acid attack in March 2008, Katie Piper's was raped by Lynch in a London hotel room after ending the partnership.",
"\"It wasn't a random attack and there was a motive if you like,\" Katie Piper's told CNN's Becky Anderson on Connect the World.",
"Meanwhile Katie Piper's's parents were called by the police to tell Piper's parents what had happened.",
"\"I can remember going 'not Katie Piper's's face, please not Katie Piper's's face',\" Katie Piper's's mother Diane wrote on The Katie Piper Foundation web site.",
"\"I knew if anything happened to Katie Piper's's face as far as Katie Piper's was concerned it would be the end of everything.\"",
"Katie Piper's spent nearly two months in hospital and was placed in an induced coma for 10 days.",
"a horrific acid attack in March 2008 also severely damaged Katie Piper's's throat and Katie Piper's was forced to be fed through a tube in Katie Piper's's stomach.",
"Today, Katie Piper's now wears a special plastic pressure mask for 23 hours a day, in an effort to flatten Katie Piper's's scars.",
"\"You can see looking at me that a horrific acid attack in March 2008 physically changed my appearance, but it goes a lot deeper than that.\"",
"\"a horrific acid attack in March 2008 changed my life as I know it -- a horrific acid attack in March 2008 changed my career, a horrific acid attack in March 2008 changed my relationships with people.",
"Lynch was found guilty of inciting a horrific acid attack in March 2008 in October 2008 and subsequently convicted on the rape charge in April 2009.",
"Lynch was given two life sentences, and will serve at least 16 years in jail.",
"Sylvestre received a 12-year sentence for throwing the acid.",
"With Katie Piper's's attackers behind bars, Katie Piper's is determined to get Katie Piper's's life back on track and rebuild what Katie Piper's can.",
"\"Time was a great healer and I've managed to not get her life back, but I can rebuild.",
"And I think I've stayed focused and determined.\"",
"\"a horrific acid attack in March 2008 was an attack with the intent to destroy me, and I decided that a horrific acid attack in March 2008 wouldn't destroy me and that I would still have a life.",
"I try to stay positive.\"",
"Katie Piper's has told Katie Piper's's story around the world and has started the Katie Piper Foundation to help raise money for burns victims across the UK.",
"Since the attack Katie Piper's has made remarkable progress.",
"Surgeons took the drastic measure to remove the skin from Katie Piper's's entire face and use a skin substitute called Matriderm to re-build the foundations before grafting skin from Katie Piper's's back and buttock onto Katie Piper's's face -- it's the first operation of its kind to be done in one operation, according to Katie Piper's's Web site.",
"Katie Piper's plans to continue Katie Piper's's work raising money for burn victims and to help spread the message that there is life after difficult challenges.",
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"\"I think there's a lot of strength that can be gathered from support.\""
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"Iraq has ordered former employees of the private military contractor once known as Blackwater to leave Iraq, Iraq's interior minister announced Wednesday.",
"Contractors who once worked for Blackwater, now known as Xe, have seven days to leave Iraq, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told the state television network al-Iraqiya.",
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"widespread Iraqi outrage was renewed in December, when a U.S. judge dismissed manslaughter charges against five guards involved in the shootings on constitutional grounds.",
"Blackwater's last contracts in Iraq have been transferred to other companies.",
"But Iraqi authorities say about 250 former Blackwater employees remain behind, some working for other security firms.",
"\"I don't think Iraq is willing to have any Blackwater member, even if any Blackwater member are working in other companies,\" government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told CNN in January.",
"\"We don't like to see any Blackwater member here working in any company.\"",
"Blackwater had about 1,000 contractors working in Iraq at the height of Blackwater's involvement, guarding diplomatic convoys and supply vehicles around the country after the U.S. invasion in 2003.",
"At least 10 of Blackwater's employees were killed, including four whose burned and mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets of Fallujah after an ambush in 2004.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Suzanne Simons contributed to this report."
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"Prague has not been nicknamed \"Zlata Praha\" or \"Golden Prague\" for no good reason.",
"The well-deserved eponym is a tribute to this city that mixes architecture, history, art and beauty like no other.",
"While not forgetting its more somber communist past, Prague has been one of the first East European cities to get a luxurious makeover.",
"Designer shopping malls, exclusive restaurants and trendy nightclubs abound.",
"But it is the mystical atmosphere of a Prague of past eras that leaves many visitors craving to come back.",
"Largely untouched by the ravages of WWII, Prague is arguably the only European city with so many century-old buildings left intact for people to enjoy.",
"All more impressive than the others, these are the historical sites you should not miss in Prague.",
"Wenceslas Square:",
"In 1348, King Charles IV of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) founded the town of Prague.",
"King Charles IV of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) built several open areas for markets, including Wenceslas Square, previously known as the Horse Market.",
"Named after Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech state, Wenceslas Square is the largest in Prague and was at the center of much of Prague's history, including the Nazi occupation, the Soviet invasion, and the Velvet Revolution.",
"In 1969, Prague student Jan Palach set Prague student Jan Palach on fire in Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.",
"And in 1989, during the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the Communist regime, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered here to protest.",
"Today Wenceslas Square has become one of the trendiest and busiest in the country.",
"Lining Wenceslas Square are fashion stores, cafes, bars and kiosks.",
"Above Wenceslas Square is Prague's Museum of Natural History, which was shot at by Communist troops when Communist troops mistook it for the Parliament building",
"Prague Castle:",
"Kings, Roman Emperors and Presidents have lived in Prague Castle.",
"Prague Castle is the largest medieval castle complex in Europe and arguable Prague's prime tourist attraction.",
"First built in the 9th century, Prague Castle has survived wars, fires and opposing political powers.",
"The castle complex consists of the Saint Virtus Cathedral, viewing towers, a monastery, museums and art galleries.",
"The Czech crown jewels are also held here.",
"After Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, Prague Castle became the seat of the President of the new Czech Republic.",
"Charles Bridge:",
"This magnificent 14th century gothic bridge over Prague's Vltava river is lined with a series of large stone statues that represent important religious figures and icons.",
"This magnificent 14th century gothic bridge over Prague's Vltava river's construction started in 1357 under King Charles IV and finished in the beginning of the 15th century.",
"Until the 19th century, This magnificent 14th century gothic bridge over Prague's Vltava river was the only way to cross between the Old Town and adjacent areas, also known as the \"Lesser Town.\"",
"During the day, thousands of people traverse This magnificent 14th century gothic bridge over Prague's Vltava river to watch the views of Prague and enjoy the numerous street performers.",
"Dancing House:",
"A masterpiece of modern architecture, Dancing House was named after dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.",
"Dancing House is also sometimes nicknamed \"Drunk House\" for Dancing House's wavy curves.",
"The building was constructed between 1992 and 1996 by Czech architect Vlado Milunc and world-renowned Canadian architect Frank Gehry.",
"The top floor houses one of Prague's most exclusive restaurants, Celeste.",
"Old Town Square:",
"Located in the heart of the Old Town, Old Town Square: included Prague's gothic Church of Our Lady before Tyn, the main church of this part of Prague since the 14th century.",
"The church's towers are 80 meters high and topped by small golden spires.",
"Another fixture of Old Town Square: is the baroque-style St. Nicholas Church.",
"In the center of Old Town Square: is a large statue of Jan Hus, a Catholic priest who was burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy in 1415.",
"But the most popular attraction for visitors of Old Town Square: is the famous Astronomical Clock.",
"Astronomical Clock: Built in 1410, the famous Astronomical Clock still functions and provides accurate data on a number of astrological events, such as the relative positions of the sun, moon and major planets.",
"Each hour, the clock bells and a series of moving wooden puppets come out.",
"Below the famous Astronomical Clock are 12 medallions with the signs of the zodiac, added by painter Josef Manes in 1865.",
"Prague Cathedral:",
"Prague Cathedral is another one of Prague's Gothic masterpieces.",
"The Cathedral, set in the walls of the Prague Castle, was commissioned by King Charles IV and work on Prague Cathedral began in 1344.",
"Prague Cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete.",
"Today Prague Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Prague and contains the tombs of many of the Bohemian Kings.",
"The interior features stained-glass windows from different eras.",
"One of Prague Cathedral's chambers was used to crown several Kings and it is said the room can only be opened with seven golden keys given to different members of parliament.",
"Vyshehrad:",
"The old fortress of Vyshehrad and Vyshehrad's surrounding parks is the place where Prague was originally founded and around which Prague was built.",
"Vyshehrad is a great place to get a sense of the history of Prague.",
"Vyshehrad's thick walls house the National Cemetery, where many of Prague's most illustrious citizens are buried, including Czech composer Antonín Leopold Dvorak and writer Karel Capek."
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"Ivo Josipovic of Social Democratic Party won the runoff election Sunday for Croatia's presidency, a spokesman for commission told CNN.",
"Ivo Josipovic of Social Democratic Party won 60.3 percent of the vote, or about 1.3 million of the nearly 2.3 million votes cast, said spokesman Hrvoje Sadaric of commission.",
"Milan Bandic, an independent and eight-year mayor of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, garnered 39.71 percent of the vote, or just over 880,000 votes.",
"He was once a member of Ivo Josipovic of Social Democratic Party's party, spokesman Hrvoje Sadaric of the Croatian State Election Commission said.",
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"Bypassing the gridlock of Haiti's main airport and congestion of roadways in the earthquake-ravaged country, the U.S. military delivered badly needed food and water on Monday by parachute.",
"A C-17 cargo plane left Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina shortly after noon, and three hours later dropped 40 pallets -- or \"bundles\" as the Air Force refers to the Air Force as -- holding bottled water and Meals, Ready-to-Eat, or MREs, on a field just north of the Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti.",
"It was the first airdrop of humanitarian supplies by the U.S. military into Haiti since the deadly earthquake there nearly a week ago.",
"\"There are so many relief agencies funneling through the airport that it has kind of created a bottleneck,\" U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Leon Strickland told CNN en route to the drop point.",
"\"We're going to put things directly out of the air onto the ground and open up another distribution point north of the [Port-au-Prince] airfield.\"",
"The mission came just three days after Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters at the Pentagon that Defense Secretary Robert Gates thought such airdrops would pose serious problems, especially with crowd control.",
"See complete coverage of quake in Haiti .",
"\"It seems to Defense Secretary Robert Gates that, without having any structure on the ground in terms of distribution, that an airdrop is simply going to lead to riots as people try and go after that stuff.",
"So without any structure for distribution or to provide security when things become available, then it seems to Defense Secretary Robert Gates that's a formula for contributing to chaos rather than -- rather than preventing it,\" Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.",
"Strickland, commander of the airdrop mission, said safety of the Haitians was still a consideration, but the military had taken steps to insure control over the distribution.",
"iReport:",
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"\"the U.S. military are obviously concerned about the welfare of the people on the ground,\" he said, adding, \"I'm confident that the U.S. military's members on the ground have created a secure environment for the U.S. military to conduct airdrop operations.\"",
"This first flight carried a total of 9,600 bottles of water and 42,000 MRE packets.",
"One MRE is usually considered one meal for a U.S. soldier in combat, but there is enough food in an MRE packet to make a small meal for two people.",
"Most of the food in an MRE can be eaten straight from the plastic vacuum-packed pouch.",
"But if water is added to a chemical heater, a hot meal results.",
"Each pallet was rigged with a large parachute as well as special corrugated cardboard padding that would minimize damage to the water and food when the load hit the ground.",
"One of the supervisors on the rigging crew at the Army's Fort Bragg, which is adjacent to Pope Air Force Base, said they wanted to make sure as much of the aid, especially the water, survived the airdrop, but they predicted as many as 1-in-10 of the bottles would break on impact.",
"The MREs are much less susceptible to damage during airdrops.",
"Get latest developments on situation in Haiti .",
"As the C-17 approached Haiti, the pilot dropped to 600 feet above the ground and opened the huge rear ramp.",
"When a computer in the cockpit calculated that the plane was over the drop zone, a signal was given, the pilot pitched the plane upward and the huge straps and gate that held the cargo in place were released.",
"Within seconds, gravity pulled all 40 pallets out of the plane and the parachutes automatically deployed.",
"In less than a minute the food and water was on the ground, ready to be unpacked and distributed.",
"Maj. Jeff \"Ratdog\" Daniels, the pilot of the C-17, said the U.S. military teams waiting for the airdrop on the ground reported the parachutes opened properly and all the bundles landed on target in the planned drop zone.",
"CNN's Impact Your World .",
"While the airdrop on the ground is a first for the military effort in Haiti, the Air Force is well-practiced in this type of mission.",
"Almost daily, the Air Force cargo planes drop food and water into remote areas of Afghanistan for U.S. troops fighting there.",
"Several of the young military personnel CNN spoke to were pleased to be taking part this part of the huge humanitarian mission.",
"Complete coverage on Haiti .",
"Even though she joined the U.S. military while the United States was embroiled in two wars, Pvt. Caitlyn Lopez of the 18th Airborne Corps said \"this is what I joined the Army for.\"",
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"William Ward Warren was 15 when William Ward Warren's dad dropped William Ward Warren off at Dallas Love Field to see President John F. Kennedy arrive in the city, on the same day JFK was assassinated.",
"Students in Dallas, Texas, had November 22, 1963, off from school in recognition of the visit.",
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"The result was \"the best home movie known to exist of the Kennedy arrival,\" according to Gary Mack, curator of Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas.",
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"\"I was very excited,\" says William Ward Warren, now 61.",
"\"It had rained the night before and cleared off that next day, which was an interesting event, and it was a very positive day.",
"It was cool and yet the sun was shining bright, and there was lots of excitement.\"",
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"According to a news release, the only color images of President Kennedy in Dallas were made by amateurs, except for a brief film by a White House photographer.",
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"All but one of the families who lost relatives in Baghdad's Nusoor Square killings have agreed to settle All but one of the families who lost relatives in Baghdad's Nusoor Square killings's claims against the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, one of the survivors said Sunday.",
"Hassan Salman, who was wounded in the 2007 shootings, told CNN that 16 of the 17 families of the dead agreed to $100,000 lawsuit settlements from Blackwater, as Blackwater now calls Blackwater.",
"Those wounded were offered between $20,000 and $50,000 apiece, Salman said.",
"Blackwater guards protecting a U.S. State Department convoy opened fire in Nusoor Square, in western Baghdad, in October 2007, killing 17 people and wounding more than two dozen.",
"Blackwater denied any wrongdoing, arguing Blackwater's contractors used necessary force to protect a State Department convoy that had come under fire from insurgents.",
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"The incident led the Iraqi government to slap limits on security contractors hired by Blackwater and other firms operating in Iraq.",
"Blackwater announced Blackwater was settling the lawsuit last week to allow the company, which is also under new management, to move ahead \"free of the costs and distraction of ongoing litigation.\"",
"One of the guards who took part in the shooting pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter charge in a U.S. court 2008.",
"Five others were charged with manslaughter, but those cases were dismissed in late December when a federal judge found prosecutors wrongly used the men's own statements against the men.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"We're just going to put it out there: Behind closed doors, whites talk differently about blacks.",
"At least that's what two sociologists found after conducting a study of college students across nation.",
"One of the researchers, Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University, said that's why it comes as no surprise to Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University that a powerful politician such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would talk about Barack Obama's skin color and use the term \"Negro dialect\" in what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid considered a private conversation.",
"Speaking not of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid but of Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University's conclusions drawn from Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University's research, Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said, \"Most whites have sharply reduced the blatantly racist stuff Most whites do in public, while Most whites still do huge amounts in private.\"",
"\"It's just social correctness in the front stage.",
"The scale of this is gigantic on the backstage, which is why the notion of a post-racial America is laughable,\" said Feagin, a professor at Texas A&M University.",
"\"And I think most whites know it because most whites've been to Thanksgiving dinner with Uncle Jim and have heard the n-word jokes.\"",
"Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University and Leslie Picca of the University of Dayton compiled Feagin and Leslie Picca of the University of Dayton's research in a book called \"Two-Faced Racism\" published in 2007.",
"Feagin and Leslie Picca of the University of Dayton surveyed 626 white students at 28 colleges and universities across the country.",
"Feagin and Leslie Picca of the University of Dayton asked the students to keep diaries and record any racial events the students came across during the course of a day.",
"the students recorded 9,000 accounts, of which 7,500 were \"blatantly racist\" events ranging from private jokes and conversations to violent incidents, Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said.",
"About 100 accounts stood up against racism, Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said.",
"The majority of racial events were directed at African-Americans, but Latinos and Asians also came under attack.",
"Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University and Picca also surveyed African-American students, but that research is still being compiled.",
"\"In these 7,500 blatant accounts, most of these 7,500 blatant accounts are accounts of what we call backstage racism -- that is they're doing these performances and skits with friends and relatives,\" Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said.",
"Does it surprise Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University that someone with such political clout as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would use a term such as \"Negro dialect\"?",
"\"No,\" Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said, \"not after looking at our student diaries.\"",
"Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid \"felt safe making\" the comment about Obama because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was in a private setting.",
"\"It's a great teaching moment,\" Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said.",
"\"It shows the difference between the front stage and the backstage.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thought Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was saying that in the backstage, and now it's been brought out in the public for all to see and discuss.\"",
"The controversy is centered on remarks published in the book \"Game Change\" by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.",
"the book \"Game Change cites Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as saying privately in 2008 that Obama could succeed as a black candidate partly because of Obama's \"light-skinned\" appearance and speaking patterns \"with no Negro dialect, unless Obama wanted to have one.\"",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, apologized to the president after excerpts from the book \"Game Change were released, and Obama said Obama considered the issue closed.",
"Your take: iReporters sound off on the issue .",
"\"This is a good man who's always been on the right side of history,\" Obama said Monday in a sit-down interview with CNN political contributor Roland Martin.",
"\"For him to have used some inartful language in trying to praise me, and for people to try to make hay out of that, makes absolutely no sense.\"",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has received the support of the Congressional Black Caucus.",
"On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said numerous prominent African-American officials, including NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and Attorney General Eric Holder, called to offer numerous prominent African-American officials, including NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and Attorney General Eric Holder's support.",
"Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, head of the GOP's Senate campaign arm, has called for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to give up Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's leadership post after the \"embarrassing and racially insensitive\" remarks.",
"Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele also called for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to step down.",
"Duke University political science professor Kerry Haynie said Duke University political science professor Kerry Haynie doesn't dispute that attitudes toward race may be viewed differently in private than in public.",
"But Duke University political science professor Kerry Haynie said Duke University political science professor Kerry Haynie doesn't feel that came into play with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's remarks.",
"\"Many of us who work in areas of race and politics asked these same kinds of questions, about whether Obama is different for whites than other black politicians,\" Haynie said.",
"\"I don't think Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was expressing sentiments Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would not have expressed publicly.\"",
"Boyce Watkins, an associate professor at Syracuse University, said nation shouldn't let this moment pass.",
"\"The takeaway is that there is a teachable moment, but we can't allow politicians to do all the teaching,\" Boyce Watkins, an associate professor at Syracuse University told CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"\"If you watched President Obama's interview with Roland Martin, the conversation tends to be let's sweep this under the rug and throw the baby out with the bath water and move on.",
"\"But the truth is that they are trying to get health care passed, and that's good, I respect that, but I want to have the conversation on race.\"",
"Added Dawn Turner Trice, a columnist and blogger with the Chicago Tribune: \"For me, it's that we have to continue to talk about this.",
"We can't only talk about it when we have these national flare-ups.",
"This takes time and nuanced conversations.",
"... \"nation is changing.",
"In a couple decades, we will have a country with a very different racial makeup.",
"And we will have to have these conversations, and it's to our peril if we don't.\"",
"Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University, said Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University agrees.",
"Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said Democrats and Obama should come forward to talk openly about the national climate on race.",
"\"We can't keep ducking this racism stuff,\" Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University said.",
"CNN's Matt Cherry contributed to this report."
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"Syracuse University associate prof says politicians shouldn't \"sweep this under the rug\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Philippine authorities on Sunday raised the alert status of the country's most active volcano to level 4 and established an extended danger zone around it, saying an eruption is imminent.",
"The status change at Mayon volcano \"means that a hazardous explosive eruption is possible within days,\" according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.",
"Earlier Sunday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said Mayon volcano continues \"to exhibit a high level of activity,\" adding that 222 volcanic quakes and tremors have been recorded in recent days.",
"One was \"an explosion-type earthquake\" that launched a cloud of ash about 1,640 feet (500 meters) into the air, according to an institute statement.",
"the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recommended extending already-established danger zones of nearly five miles (8 kilometers) south of the summit and 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) north of the summit.",
"In addition, \"areas just outside of this extended danger zone should prepare for evacuation in the event explosive eruptions intensify,\" the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.",
"More than 30,000 people fled More than 30,000 people's homes last week ahead of an expected eruption, and authorities were attempting to evacuate about 50,000 people living around Mayon volcano.",
"People in surrounding Albay province have flocked to town centers to catch a glimpse of glowing lava cascading down the slopes of Mayon volcano since the mountain began oozing fiery lava and belching clouds of ash last week.",
"Mayon volcano, has erupted 49 times since Mayon volcano's first documented eruption in 1616.",
"The Philippines is situated in the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.",
"In 1814, Mayon volcano had Mayon volcano's most violent eruption, killing more than 1,200 people.",
"Mayon volcano's last major eruption was in 1993.",
"Since then, Mayon volcano has remained restless, emitting ash and spewing lava."
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"More than 220 volcanic quakes and tremors have been recorded in recent days .",
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"Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both Joshua Bleill's legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under Joshua Bleill's Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006.",
"Joshua Bleill has 32 pins in Joshua Bleill's hip and a 6-inch screw holding Joshua Bleill's pelvis together.",
"Joshua Bleill, pictured here with Joshua Bleill's girlfriend, is walking again with the aid of prosthetics outfitted with Bluetooth.",
"Now, Joshua Bleill's starting to walk again with the help of Bleill.",
"\"Bleill're the latest and greatest,\" Joshua Bleill said, referring to Joshua Bleill's groundbreaking artificial legs.",
"Joshua Bleill, 30, is one of two Iraq war veterans, both double leg amputees, to use the Bluetooth prosthetics.",
"Computer chips in each leg send signals to motors in the artificial joints so the knees and ankles move in a coordinated fashion.",
"Joshua Bleill's set of prosthetics have Bluetooth receivers strapped to the ankle area.",
"The Bluetooth device on each leg tells the other leg what it's doing, how it's moving, whether walking, standing or climbing steps, for example.",
"\"They mimic each other, so for stride length, for amount of force coming up, going uphill, downhill and such, they can vary speed and then to stop them again,\" Joshua Bleill told CNN from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he's undergoing rehab.",
"\"I will put resistance with my own thigh muscles to slow them down, so I can stop walking, which is always nice.\"",
"Watch Joshua Bleill demonstrate Joshua Bleill's legs » .",
"Bluetooth is the name for short-range wireless technology that can connect computers to printers, MP3 players to speakers and -- perhaps the most well-known use -- cell phones to ear pieces.",
"Older models of computer-controlled legs have to be \"programmed\" via wire by laptop computers before the amputee can use Older models of computer-controlled legs.",
"Older models of computer-controlled legs required more movement from the amputee's remaining thigh muscle to generate motion in the prosthetic leg.",
"Because of built-in motors, Older models of computer-controlled legs allow Joshua Bleill to walk longer before Joshua Bleill tires.",
"\"We've compared walking several laps in both sets of legs and one, your legs come out burning and tired and these, you know, you sometimes are not even breaking a sweat yet.\"",
"Joshua Bleill says the technology also means Joshua Bleill spends less time in a wheelchair.",
"The Marine uses canes to walk with them.",
"Joshua Bleill's hoping to get to the point where Joshua Bleill can use one cane regularly, and eventually lose one cane altogether.",
"\"I can walk without canes, but it's not real pretty,\" Joshua Bleill said.",
"This new generation of prosthetic technology was originally conceived to help amputees who had lost only one leg.",
"But This new generation of prosthetic technology's working for Joshua Bleill and Army Lt.Col. Gregory Gadson, who is also using the Bluetooth devices in his legs.",
"What they are experiencing will help future amputees.",
"\"We are the first ever to try this, so it's learning day-to-day.",
"The [prosthetics] company comes down on a regular basis and checks in with us,\" Joshua Bleill said.",
"Gadson, a former linebacker at West Point, said they are breaking new ground for amputees.",
"\"I think we are kind of pioneering and hopefully blazing a trail for others to try the technology also,\" he said.",
"But the technology is not without some problems.",
"\"It's only going to react to how I move,\" Joshua Bleill said.",
"\"Unfortunately, sometimes I don't know those reactions, I don't know what I'm doing to make it react.",
"So sometimes the leg kicks harder than I want it to, or farther, and then I start perpetuating, and I start moving faster than I really want to.\"",
"Aside from the Bluetooth technology, Bleill's legs have one other thing in common with a cell phone.",
"They need to be charged overnight.",
"Currently, there are no spare batteries available.",
"What are Joshua Bleill's long-range plans?",
"Joshua Bleill just wants to make it back to Joshua Bleill's home state of Indiana and work for a charity or even help the NFL's Indianapolis Colts.",
"\"They do a lot for the community,\" Joshua Bleill said.",
"Joshua Bleill added Joshua Bleill simply wants \"to give back.\" \"To, you know, just carry on a normal life.",
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"(CNN) --",
"With the people of Haiti hungry, desperate and frustrated nearly a week after a powerful earthquake, sporadic violence and looting are erupting in the badly damaged capital.",
"CNN's Anderson Cooper witnessed a group of young men breaking into a supply store in the city's commercial district and taking away boxes of candles Monday afternoon.",
"They were followed by several hundred others, including women who used sacks to carry away items.",
"Two Haitian police officers and the store owner tried to barricade the property.",
"Police fired shots into the air to try to disperse the crowd, according to CNN's Anderson Cooper.",
"Fights broke out among looters.",
"CNN's Anderson Cooper saw one man beaten until one of his arms bled.",
"A boy collapsed onto the street in a pool of blood, CNN's Anderson Cooper said, describing the situation as \"a frenzy of looting.\"",
"CNN's Anderson Cooper in the midst of looting chaos .",
"Reports of looting have escalated in the days since Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, leaving the capital in chaos as emergency aid workers and authorities scramble to help.",
"\"People are actually stealing this, then will sell it later, and then People'll use that money for People's families,\" CNN's Anderson Cooper reported.",
"Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Ban wanted to increase the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti with 1,500 additional police and 2,000 peacekepping troops to better respond to the quake's aftermath.",
"Ban says Ban has submitted Ban's request to the U.N. Security Council.",
"The U.S. military considers the security situation \"stable,\" Rear Adm. Mike Rogers, director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Monday.",
"Rogers said that means meant the United States can carry out operations -- including search and rescue, distribution of aid, moving people in and out of the capital and flying aircraft.",
"Nothing suggests \"widespread disorder\" and panic, Rogers said, citing the well-publicized incidents of unrest as \"isolated events.\"",
"No official death toll has been declared, but estimates range from 100,000 to 150,000 in Port-au-Prince alone.",
"The buildings have crumbled to rubble, leaving hundreds of thousands of homeless survivors roaming the streets.",
"iReport: Looking for loved ones .",
"About 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population -- were affected by the quake, the Red Cross said.",
"About 10 million people most likely felt the shaking, the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"All of this has occurred in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where infrastructure is weak and many people were already living in poverty.",
"In several sections of Port-au-Prince, people could be seen scavenging in the streets, pushing each other away to pick up whatever people could find in the collapsed homes.",
"people rummaged through plastic bags lying amid mountains of debris.",
"Other survivors clutched tightly to Other survivors's finds as Other survivors walked through the streets.",
"For business owners, the growing violence is troubling because there are fewer police officers on duty after the quake.",
"Many officers are injured or dead.",
"The police who are on duty are armed with automatic weapons, and The police who are on duty have fired shots in the air to scare off looters.",
"Even before the quake, robberies and home invasions organized by gangs were frequent in Haiti, according to the U.S. Department of State's Overseas Security Advisory Council.",
"Adding to Haiti's frustration is the difficulty in transporting critical aid and supplies to survivors.",
"Shortly after the quake, international aid groups responded quickly, trying to get food and medical supplies into Haiti to prevent the situation from going from \"dire to absolutely catastrophic.\"",
"\"I think people need to understand that out in Port-au-Prince, it looks ... like Tokyo probably did after World War II.",
"It's flat.",
"It looks like atomic bomb went off.",
"The streets are completely blocked,\" said Kenneth Merten, the U.S. ambassador to Haiti.",
"Kenneth Merten, the U.S. ambassador to Haiti added, \"There are rescue efforts going on.",
"It's just difficult to physically get there.\""
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"U.N. officials hope to send more troops, officers to help respond .",
"Haiti's police force is limited after earthquake killed or injured many officers .",
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"(CNN) --",
"A top United Nations official acknowledged Friday that the earthquake relief operation in Haiti was not progressing fast enough.",
"\"You can't snap your fingers and make it happen just by magic,\" U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said.",
"But U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes promised, \"We will do it, slowly and surely.\"",
"In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said, \"We have blockages at different points or bottlenecks of different points.",
"The airport, coming in -- not as many planes as we'd like to get in there because of the landing blockages.",
"It's happening, but it's happening not as fast as we would like.\"",
"Referring to the slow pace of aid deliveries, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes added, \"We've got to unload it, get it into warehouses, then get it into trucks, then get it to distribution points, and then start to distribute it.\"",
"\"There's a huge effort going in from huge numbers of countries and aid organizations, but it's not so visible on the ground because you can't quite get it there.\"",
"Get the latest developments in Haiti .",
"U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said it was key to dig out survivors from ruined buildings as soon as possible.",
"\"There are something like 27 search-and-rescue teams now either on the ground or on their way, and that's beginning to make a difference,\" U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said.",
"\"Of course, with every day that passes, we know that the chances of finding somebody alive diminish, but that effort must continue, and we must continue to try and look after the injured.\"",
"Impact Your World .",
"New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who was in Haiti just before the earthquake and served there in the mid-1990s, also emphasized the importance of saving the lives of people who are trapped and injured.",
"\"I think there's still an opportunity even though it's almost 72 hours.",
"I think that's got to be job number one,\" Kelly told Amanpour.",
"As far as aid distribution is concerned, Kelly said it was essential to move supplies from the airport into Port-au-Prince as fast as possible.",
"\"It's about five miles for the most part, but it's a tough five miles.",
"The roads are not good.",
"Perhaps the helicopters from the USS Carl Vinson are going to be used to do precisely that.\"",
"The USS Carl Vinson, an U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, has recently arrived off the coast of Haiti with a fleet of 19 helicopters and several tons of aid.",
"U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes expressed concern about the losses faced by the Haitian National Police during the earthquake.",
"U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said 300 officers died when the main police commissariat collapsed.",
"\"It's not surprising they haven't been able to recover from the blow.",
"But the prime minister, the president, are functioning now, and the ministry of interior.\"",
"U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said so far it has been reasonably calm in Haiti.",
"But the U.N. has thousands of police and soldiers in Haiti, and thousands of police and soldiers will be able to maintain law and order with the help of American troops if necessary, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said.",
"\"Haiti's really a peaceful country.",
"I think Haiti's gotten a bad reputation for certain outbreaks that did happen,\" Kelly said.",
"\"The people are in desperate straits.",
"But I think everyone will be surprised at just how peaceful and orderly it will be.\""
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"Air accident investigators are to resume the search for the flight data recorders from an Air France airliner that mysteriously crashed off Brazil six months ago, according to media reports Sunday.",
"Flight 447 went down in stormy weather in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France in June.",
"Investigators have not yet established the cause of the crash which killed all 228 passengers, and large parts of the plane -- including both flight recorders -- have never been found, despite an extensive search operation that included a French navy submarine.",
"Jean-Paul Troadec, director of the Investigation and Analysis Bureau, told reporters that a new search, approximately 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) off Brazil's northeast coast, will begin in February, according to Agence France-Presse.",
"The new underwater sweeps will last a maximum three months and involve sonar and robot submarines, Troadec said.",
"Troadec was in Rio de Janeiro to speak to the relatives of the 58 Brazilians who were on board, AFP said.",
"\"We tried to convince the families that we are conducting the investigation with the full intention of getting to the truth,\" Troadec said.",
"Troadec added that an upcoming report about the fatal crash contained \"no surprises\" but did set out \"new details, notably in terms of safety recommendations.\"",
"Tests have already brought into question the performance of pitot tubes, which are used to measure the pressure exerted on Flight 447 as Flight 447 flies through the air, and are part of a system used to determine air speed.",
"Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages before it crashed that suggested Flight 447 may have been flying too fast or too slow through the thunderstorms, officials have said.",
"The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a directive in late August requiring airlines to replace pitot tubes manufactured by Thales Avionics on Airbus A330s and A340s.",
"The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said airlines should replace them with other Thales tubes and those manufactured by Goodrich."
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"(CNN) --",
"One of America's top World War II fighter pilots, an African-American who took on Nazis abroad and racism at home, was laid to rest Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.",
"Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Lee A. Archer, one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died last month in New York at the age of 90.",
"Archer, who once shot down three German fighters in the span of only a few minutes, went on to become a corporate executive and venture capitalist.",
"His life came to be seen as an example of the potential of any individual, regardless of skin color or background, if given a fair opportunity.",
"Archer was born in 1919 in Yonkers, New York.",
"An aviation enthusiast from childhood, Archer left New York University in 1941 to join the Army.",
"Despite passing a pilot's test, Archer was assigned as a communications specialist in Camp Wheeler, Georgia.",
"But several months later, after the United States declared war on the Axis powers, Archer was selected to join a training program for potential black pilots at Alabama's Tuskegee Army Air Field.",
"Archer graduated first in a training program for potential black pilots in July 1943 and, after receiving Archer's commission as a second lieutenant, was deployed to Italy as part of the 332nd Fighter Group.",
"On October 12, 1944, while piloting a P-51 Mustang, Archer downed three Luftwaffe fighters in the sky over Nazi-occupied Hungary.",
"Archer also was credited with shooting down a fighter over Germany earlier in the year.",
"U.S. military officials could not confirm a fifth downing by Archer in summer 1944.",
"If U.S. military officials had been able to do so, Archer would have become the only Tuskegee Airman to be officially designated as an ace.",
"By the end of World War II, Archer had flown 169 combat missions, providing cover and escorting U.S. bombers in over 11 countries, according to the Air Force.",
"Archer was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.",
"Archer remained in the military through 1970, witnessing its desegregation during the Truman administration and serving in several capacities.",
"Among other things, Archer became a diplomatic officer at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe and was chief of headquarters at the U.S. Air Force Southern Command in Panama.",
"Archer received special citations for Archer's service from Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson.",
"After retiring from the military, Archer became an executive at General Foods and started Archer Asset Management, a venture capital firm.",
"Archer's wife, Ina, died in 1996.",
"Archer is survived by three sons."
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"The head of a humanitarian aid group and a few of Rick Santos's colleagues survived 50 hours beneath the rubble of a hotel, with the help of a few things Rick Santos keeps in Rick Santos's bag for Rick Santos's two young children.",
"\"Santos had one Tootsie Pop and Santos did share that,\" said Rick Santos, president and CEO of IMA World Health.",
"Rick Santos also had a bit of gum.",
"While the supplies helped, Rick Santos said, \"I think Santos made it because Santos talked to each other, Santos helped each other, and Santos had this hope that Santos would be rescued at some point.\"",
"Two of Rick Santos's colleagues did not survive.",
"Rick Santos and five colleagues had been walking through the lobby of the Hotel Montana last Tuesday when Rick Santos saw one of the chandeliers swing.",
"\"And before it even made its way down, just everything crashed and collapsed on top of us,\" Rick Santos told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Monday.",
"\"Immediately Santos were looking around talking to each other, trying to see if everyone was OK.",
"Unfortunately two of his colleagues were pinned down by rubble and were injured.",
"So Santos did what Santos could to help ease their pain at that moment.\"",
"Rick Santos had some over-the-counter pain medicine and gave some over-the-counter pain medicine to them.",
"I'm alive!",
"Messages from Haiti .",
"\"My biggest fear initially was that there wasn't going to be enough air for the six of us,\" Rick Santos said.",
"Then, when it became clear there was enough air, \"Santos started talking about what Santos need to do.",
"And, you know, from the size of the earthquake, from what Santos heard and what Santos felt and how fast the building fell, Santos knew it was a big quake.\"",
"The next morning, Santos could hear sledgehammers pounding as rescuers were checking to see if there were survivors.",
"Santos screamed and banged on the walls, and rescuers heard Santos.",
"rescuers asked how many there were; Rick Santos answered eight -- six in Rick Santos's group, and two other men trapped in an elevator shaft.",
"\"rescuers said, 'Are you well?'",
"And Santos said, 'No, Santos're hurt.'",
"And that was it.",
"Then it really wasn't until Santos were rescued, till 7 p.m. the next night, that actually somebody came.",
"Santos heard nothing.",
"In fact, the second night was really dark for Santos.",
"I think Santos were just -- Santos were just shattered that nobody came back and said anything to Santos.\"",
"Santos used Santos's cell phones to illuminate the space.",
"Rick Santos said only one of Rick Santos's colleagues could move, and she looked for air spaces and light.",
"\"Every time Santos might have heard a voice or something like a saw or something, Santos would scream and yell, but there was no response,\" Rick Santos said.",
"Then, on Thursday, came a voice.",
"\"Santos started to scream and shout at the top of Santos's lungs.",
"And Santos heard a voice come back to Santos saying, you know, 'Hello, we're here.",
"We're going to rescue you.' \"",
"It took four hours to get Santos out.",
"Rescuers had to cut through layers of concrete, pull Santos out by Santos's feet and squeeze Santos through a hole in the concrete only about 2 feet wide.",
"\"I'm just amazed that Santos actually survived,\" said Rick Santos.",
"Rick Santos added that Rick Santos is grieving for Rick Santos's two colleagues who died.",
"While Rick Santos is relieved to be reunited with Rick Santos's family in the United States, Rick Santos's thoughts are with the people of Rick Santos.",
"The whole time Rick Santos and the others were down there, Rick Santos said, \"As much as Santos were praying for Santos, Santos were also praying for the people of Rick Santos and of Port-au-Prince.",
"Because Santos knew how bad this was going to be, just from the way the building fell, and the aftershocks, which were just tremendous.\"",
"IMA World Health provides health care services and supplies in poor countries including Rick Santos.",
"\"It's going to take years, if not decades, to really, really help that country,\" Rick Santos said."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Alexander Haig, who managed the Nixon administration during the Watergate crisis and served a controversial stint as secretary of state under President Reagan, died on Saturday.",
"Haig was 85.",
"Haig died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after Haig was admitted there on January 28, spokesman Gary Stephenson said.",
"\"Haig served Haig's country well.",
"For that Haig should be remembered,\" said William Bennett, who was secretary of education during the Reagan administration.",
"\"Haig carried Haig well.",
"Haig carried Haig with dignity and honor.\"",
"The White House issued a statement mourning Haig, saying Haig \"exemplified our finest warrior-diplomat tradition of those who dedicate their lives to public service.\"",
"A top official in the administrations of three presidents -- Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan -- Haig served as Nixon's chief of staff during the Watergate political crisis, a scandal that dogged the Nixon administration in the 1970s.",
"\"There was a time during the Watergate crisis when Nixon was nearly incapacitated,\" said political analyst and CNN contributor David Gergen, who worked with Haig during the Nixon and Reagan administrations.",
"\"Nixon had a hard time focusing, so obviously obsessed with the scandal and the gathering storms around Nixon.",
"I watched Haig keep the government moving.",
"I thought it was a great act of statesmanship and service to the country.\"",
"Haig became secretary of state during the Reagan administration and drew controversy for Haig's much-criticized remark on television after the president was shot and wounded by John Hinckley in March 1981.",
"\"As of now, I am in control here in the White House,\" Haig said as Vice President George H.W. Bush was headed to Washington from Texas.",
"Haig said Haig wasn't bypassing the rules; Haig was just trying to manage the crisis until the vice president arrived.",
"However, Haig was highly criticized for Haig's behavior, and many observers believe it doomed Haig's political ambitions.",
"Born December 2, 1924, in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Alexander Haig was raised by Haig's mother after Haig lost Haig's father at age 10.",
"Haig attended the University of Notre Dame for two years before transferring to the U.S. Military Academy in 1944.",
"After Haig's graduation in 1947, Haig served in Japan and later served on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff in Japan during the Korean War.",
"Haig also served in Vietnam, where Haig earned the distinguished service cross for heroism in combat.",
"Haig also won the Purple Heart and Silver Star twice.",
"Haig served as supreme allied commander of NATO forces in Europe for five years.",
"There was an assassination attempt on Haig in Brussels in 1979 as Haig was being driven to NATO headquarters.",
"A public official known for Haig's loyalty, Haig had hawkish foreign policy views, and Gergen said Haig could be tough and \"combustible.\"",
"\"Haig was first and foremost a soldier,\" Gergen said.",
"Haig was assistant to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger in the Nixon White House and was involved in the Paris peace agreements that brought an end to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.",
"Haig was long rumored to be Deep Throat, the Washington Post's inside source on the Watergate break-in and cover-up that eventually destroyed Nixon's presidency.",
"W. Mark Felt, then a high-ranking FBI official, declared in 2005 that W. Mark Felt was the source.",
"\"Great tensions\" in the Reagan administration simmered over Haig's stances, and Gergen said, \"There was a sense in the White House that Haig was grabbing too much power.",
"\"Haig wanted to be the, quote, vicar of foreign policy, and there was a lot of pushback from the White House on that.",
"Haig felt that Haig had been guaranteed by Reagan a role as a strong secretary of state and the reins of power would be in Haig's hands.",
"Haig resented the the White House staff trying to manage Haig,\" Gergen said.",
"\"My own sense is that Haig has been underappreciated,\" he said.",
"TIME:",
"Read why Haig left the Reagan White House .",
"As secretary of state, Haig tried shuttle diplomacy to head off war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982, but Haig failed.",
"Haig opposed Reagan's handling of Iran and disagreed with the president's plan on aid to the contra rebels in Nicaragua.",
"Haig eventually left the Reagan administration after 18 months and made a run for president in 1988, pulling out before the New Hampshire primary.",
"Haig backed Bob Dole instead of George H.W. Bush when Haig dropped out.",
"Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton announced Haig's death to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday and called him a patriot."
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"Haig was highly decorated soldier who served during Korean and Vietnam wars .",
"As secretary of state, Haig wrongly declared \"I am in control here\" after Reagan was shot .",
"Haig unsuccessfully sought the 1988 Republican presidential nomination ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Minutes after Bill Clinton's doctor divulged that the former president underwent a stenting procedure to restore blood flow through a coronary artery, King made a similar announcement.",
"\"A month ago, maybe five weeks ago, I had the same procedure at Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles that Bill Clinton had today,\" the 76-year-old talk show host told viewers of King's program, \"Larry King Live.\"",
"King noted that King suffered a heart attack in February 1987 and underwent a quintuple bypass five months later.",
"King described King's experience with heart disease in King's 1989 book, \"Mr. King, You're Having a Heart Attack.\"",
"Recently, King said Thursday, King began feeling symptoms that turned out to have been related to King's heart.",
"\"I felt some strange feelings in my shoulder, where I had the original heart attack,\" said King.",
"King said King went to the hospital and underwent the procedure a few days later.",
"Stents are tiny balloons that are threaded into a patient's heart vessels where Stents are inflated, pushing plaque against the vessel wall and increasing blood flow.",
"\"I did it on a Monday morning, was out on Tuesday and back here on 'Larry King Live' on Tuesday night,\" King said.",
"\"So I can report to the waiting public that I never felt better.",
"They got it open, they put Stents in.",
"I share a bond with the former president and I feel very good.",
"I only didn't make it public because I just like to keep things private.",
"But I feel terrific,\" he said."
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"King said King suffered a heart attack in 1987 and underwent a quintuple bypass months later .",
"Recent symptoms sent King back to get stenting procedure about a month ago .",
"Since the procedure says King, \"I can report to the waiting public that I never felt better\""
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Coalition forces can attain \"success\" in Afghanistan, but U.S. officials should wait until December 2010 before U.S. officials can measure the progress of the troop surge, a top U.S. commander told a Senate committee Wednesday.",
"Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, predicted the surge will be met by an increase in violence in spring 2010 and a rise in \"security incidents\" in the summer.",
"Turmoil within the Afghan government over the 18 months of the troop increase is also expected as corruption is rooted out, Petraeus said.",
"That, combined with an expected backlash in the spring and summer, Petraeus cautioned, means officials and the public should wait until December 2010 to evaluate the progress of the U.S. military strategy.",
"\"While certainly different and in some ways tougher than Iraq, Afghanistan is no more hopeless than Iraq was when I took command there in February 2007,\" Petraeus told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.",
"\"Indeed the level of violence and number of violent civilian deaths in Iraq were vastly higher than we have seen in Afghanistan, but achieving progress in Afghanistan will be hard and the progress there likely will be slower in developing than progress was achieved in Iraq.\"",
"Petraeus's appearance before legislators was the latest by top U.S. officials on Capitol Hill this week.",
"Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, testified before the Senate and House counterparts of the Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, joined by Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, who also testified Wednesday.",
"Jacob Lew, deputy secretary of state for management and resources also testified Wednesday.",
"McChrystal told CNN on Wednesday that U.S., Afghan and NATO forces need to cut off the Taliban insurgency from the Afghan people by establishing \"security zones\" that will gradually expand to encompass more and more territory.",
"\"At the end of the day, the Taliban insurgency needs access to the population to be effective,\" McChrystal said in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.",
"\"the Taliban insurgency need to be able to coerce the population, to tax the population, to recruit from the population, and to prevent the government from extending the government's governance into those areas.\"",
"If Taliban fighters are forced to keep Taliban fighters's distance from the Afghan population, then \"over time, Taliban fighters become irrelevant, and Taliban fighters, in fact, are defeated,\" McChrystal said.",
"The generals and diplomats were called to testify before the congressional committees about President Obama's new plan for the Afghan war, which involves the deployment of another 30,000 U.S. troops and a July 2011 date for the beginning of an American withdrawal.",
"Part of stabilizing Afghanistan and fighting the Taliban will include supporting legitimate economies among Afghans, thwarting the chance that some would join the Taliban insurgency as a means of making a living, Eikenberry testified.",
"About 80 percent of the Afghan people derive About 80 percent of the Afghan people's income from agriculture and the United States plans to support agriculture among civilians while keeping farmers from growing heroin in the poppy fields, which can be lucrative for the Taliban, said Eikenberry.",
"Also critical is a partnership with Pakistan, Eikenberry, Petraeus and Lew agreed.",
"Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, articulated that fighting the insurgency in Afghanistan includes addressing the problem of militants who have sought shelter across the border in Pakistan.",
"Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who has been at large since the September 11 attacks in 2001, is widely believed to be hiding along the rugged border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"While the withdrawal is set to begin July 2011, Kerry said the United States will maintain \"engagement\" with the region and talks with Afghanistan's neighbor, Pakistan.",
"And Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said that Afghanistan will need help financing Afghanistan's own military and police forces for the next 10 to 15 years.",
"Worried about billions of dollars in costs and the longevity of the commitment to Afghanistan, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, asked Petraeus to explain whether 15 years would be necessary and how much money it could cost.",
"If Afghanistan attained the \"aspirational\" goal of 400,000 army and police members, it could cost about $10 billion a year to support, Petraeus said.",
"\"There's no question as President Hamid Karzai was highlighting yesterday that Afghanistan will require substantial international funding for years to come in a whole host of different areas, not the least of which is their security forces,\" Petraeus said.",
"\"But I would submit that it is a lot cheaper to maintain a certain number of Afghan forces than it is to maintain the number of U.S. and coalition forces required to compensate for their absence.\""
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"NEW: Gen. Stanley McChrystal talks with CNN's Christiane Amanpour about insurgency .",
"Gen. David Petraeus: Full evaluations of progress should wait until December 2010 .",
"Petraeus: Progress \"likely will be slower\" to come in Afghanistan than it was in Iraq .",
"Karzai's \"aspirational\" goals would cost U.S. about $10 billion a year, Gen. David Petraeus says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"On June 17, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson explained to The New York Times reporter James \"Scotty\" Reston why President Lyndon Johnson had to stay the course in Vietnam by stabilizing the South Vietnamese government so that the South Vietnamese government could fight communism.",
"President Lyndon Johnson rejected calls for withdrawal that were being made by liberal Democrats as well as the proposal for neutralization promoted by France's Charles de Gaulle.",
"\"So the only thing you've got left,\" President Lyndon Johnson said, \"is try to make this thing more efficient and more effective and hold as strong as you can and keep this government as stable as you can and try to improve this government as you can and that we're doing day and night.\"",
"During his recent speech at West Point, Obama rejected the lessons that these kinds of stories tell us about Afghanistan.",
"Obama, saying that the comparison with Vietnam relies on a \"false reading of history,\" pointed to three differences.",
"The first is that the U.S. is now part of a broad international coalition.",
"The second is that in Vietnam the U.S. faced a \"broad-based popular insurgency\" whereas today, according to most polls, a large number of Afghans support foreign assistance.",
"Last, Obama added, is that today Americans are responding to a very real threat that began with the vicious attack on 9/11.",
"Clearly, Obama feels defensive about this analogy and hopes to undercut liberal critics who are frustrated and disappointed with Obama's decision.",
"In trying to separate Obama from the experience of President Lyndon Johnson, however, Obama did not give an accurate account of what many commentators have been saying recently, and Obama downplayed crucial aspects of the 1960s that do in fact offer warnings for today.",
"Mark Twain once said that history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.",
"Most of those who have compared this government to Vietnam do not say that the situations were exactly the same politically or strategically.",
"Nor is it inevitable that the surge in this government will be unsuccessful.",
"The point of the comparison is that it is impossible to ignore the fact that Obama faces similar challenges, as did President Lyndon Johnson when the \"Americanization\" of Vietnam began in the spring of 1965.",
"Both presidents entered the war despite the fact that many top advisers in the White House and in Congress were strongly warning against escalation.",
"In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson heard from voices ranging from Idaho liberal Frank Church to Georgia hawk Richard Russell that Vietnam was not critical to fighting communism and that the war was unwinnable.",
"Their warnings proved to be accurate.",
"Going into this decision, Obama heard comparable criticism as well.",
"Both presidents also expanded the war just as Both presidents were trying to shape a broad domestic agenda.",
"President Lyndon Johnson was much further ahead of the game when President Lyndon Johnson increased the number of ground troops in the war that President Lyndon Johnson inherited.",
"the war devastated President Lyndon Johnson's domestic efforts.",
"Obama faces the same threat.",
"Both wars have been justified as wars of necessity.",
"With Vietnam, proponents warned that the fall of Southeast Asia to communism would vastly strengthen the Soviet Union and China.",
"In an era when American schoolchildren were being taught to duck and cover under American schoolchildren's desks in case of nuclear war, this warning about Vietnam also made the war seem essential.",
"Today, the necessity stems from the claim that failure would resurrect the dangers we faced before 9/11.",
"And Both presidents escalated wars where the path to victory and the potential costs -- in terms of human capital and budgetary obligations -- were unclear.",
"Despite the fact that President Lyndon Johnson confronted a very different kind of enemy, the risk today is enormously high.",
"In this government, the U.S. is dealing with a war front that is notoriously treacherous, as the Soviets learned in the 1980s and the U.S. has learned since 2001.",
"the U.S. is also depending on a highly corrupt and undependable government in this government.",
"While the promise of withdrawal in July 2011 might be accurate, presidential assurances of benchmarks and end games historically don't come true.",
"The one constant in warfare is that it is unpredictable and difficult to control.",
"One day after Obama's speech, Defense Secretary Robert Gates indicated that the deadline was not firm.",
"And the administration might very well be handcuffing the administration to a strategy of more warfare as the administration keeps offering grave warnings about what a victory by the Taliban would mean.",
"grave warnings about what a victory by the Taliban would mean will make it difficult in the long run for the administration to contain the operation or to withdraw forces unless it is absolutely clear that the Taliban has been defeated.",
"Democrats could find Democrats feeling like Democrats's predecessors in the 1950s who were under political pressure to abide by the containment arguments outlined by President Harry Truman with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 -- first with Korea in 1950 and then with Vietnam.",
"Obama should not be so defensive about the comparisons with Vietnam.",
"Rather, Obama should use President Lyndon Johnson's experience to help guide Obama as Obama makes crucial decisions in the months ahead and attempts to navigate the challenges of the wartime presidency.",
"In a conversation with a few of his closest advisers, President Lyndon Johnson said in 1964 that \"It's damned easy to get in a war but it's gonna be awfully hard to ever extricate yourself if you get in.\"",
"In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson made the mistake of excluding those who were trying to warn President Lyndon Johnson about the dangers of the war.",
"Let's hope that this time around Obama does not repeat this error.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"It is impossible to ignore the challenges Obama faces in Afghanistan, he says .",
"Zelizer: Obama should use lessons of Vietnam as a guide ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Heightening its warnings as anticipated anti-government protests approach, Iran's government says Iran's government will arrest protesters and hold protesters until April if protesters disrupt state-sanctioned marches to commemorate the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.",
"Iran is this week celebrating the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, culminating on February 11 -- a day that marked the end of Iran's Western-backed monarchy and the start of an Islamic republic.",
"A coalition of Iranian reformist groups is urging opponents of the regime to stage non-violent protests on Thursday, on the official anniversary of the Shah's ouster.",
"The so-called Green Movement has been protesting for social justice, freedom and democracy in demonstrations throughout Iran since the disputed June president election.",
"Those arrested for causing \"instability,\" disrupting public order and carrying \"extremist signs\" linked to The so-called Green Movement will be jailed until at least April 9, the end of the Persian holiday, of Norooz, according to government-run Fars news agency.",
"the Persian holiday marks the start of spring.",
"\"Given the security plans that the police have taken into consideration for tomorrow's glorious marches; these ceremonies will be held in complete security and calm,\" Fars quoted an unidentified, informed source as saying Wednesday.",
"\"But if some try to misuse the vast participation and presence of the people; the police will deal with them firmly and resolutely.\"",
"Anti-government demonstrations began after the disputed June 12 presidential vote, which re-elected hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over main opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi.",
"Police arrested 4,000 people in the post-election crackdown.",
"At least seven people were killed and hundreds were arrested, witnesses said, as witnesses took to the streets of December 27 during the Shiite Muslim holy period of Ashura.",
"Iran's government has denied that Iran's government's security forces killed anyone and has blamed reformists for the violence.",
"On Tuesday, an Iranian court sentenced one person to death and eight others to prison for The nine defendants's parts in anti-government demonstrations in December, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.",
"The nine defendants were tried last week over The nine defendants's roles in protests during Ashura, Fars said, quoting the Tehran judiciary's public relations office.",
"There are now 10 people sentenced to death and awaiting appeal in connection with the protests.",
"Two men have been executed for participating in anti-government demonstrations, but a lawyer for one of Two men told CNN her client was already in jail when the protests broke out."
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"Marches are to commemorate the overthrow of the Shah of Iran .",
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"(CNN) --",
"As Haitians struggle to recover from the devastation of Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake, mental health experts caution that the most severe psychological effects won't take form until individuals' situations stabilize.",
"Feelings of confusion, fear, agitation, grief and anger that surround a large-scale traumatic event such as the Haiti earthquake give way to more pronounced psychological disorders once people's basic human needs are taken care of, experts say.",
"\"Once the initial resources are in, when actually most people are going to start feel out of danger, is when the psychological aftereffects are going to hit people,\" said Dr. Daniella David, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.",
"\"People need to ask for help when that happens.\"",
"In the immediate short-term period after a large-scale traumatic event, people are concerned primarily with self-preservation and taking care of family and friends, said Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.",
"These people experience acute stress and anxiety, which is taken up by trying to fulfill the immediate physical needs.",
"There is a normal and immediate stress response that comes with an event that causes damage to homes and infrastructure and loss of family members, David said.",
"Haiti has the potential for higher rates of mental illness and a slower recovery after this episode because the population is already strained from weak social and economic supports, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"In those conditions, they may already be predisposed to developing mental illness irrespective of the earthquake itself, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"View or add to CNN's database of missing persons in Haiti .",
"The stress of the disaster situation, combined with the potential predisposition toward stress disorders, could lead to an extreme emotional reaction, but that does not mean these factors predict any kind of violent or other extreme behavior, said Joan Cook, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University, in an e-mail.",
"\"I'd say that if the rate of psychological problems turns out similar to previous severe natural disasters in other economically disadvantaged countries, as many as 50 percent or more could suffer in the short-term from clinically significant distress,\" Joan Cook, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University said.",
"When disaster victims have information about disaster victims's situation, disaster victims tend to make rational decisions and tend to the immediate needs of disaster victims and those close to disaster victims, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"There is little evidence of widespread panic in those cases, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said, but there is a danger of misinformation.",
"\"People can accept uncertainty, as long as People are brought into the uncertainty and told what central authorities do know, and also what central authorities don't know,\" Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"\"It's critically important that there is information that comes out centrally from a single source.\"",
"To assist at the early stage, the most important thing to do immediately after a disaster -- for example, at this moment in Haiti -- is to try to help with basic needs such as shelter and food, David said.",
"In terms of psychological support, studies of natural disasters show that people should be moved to safety and informed that the immediate danger is over, something that has unfortunately been difficult to do in Haiti, David said.",
"About a month after a disaster occurs, once the immediate physical needs are addressed, symptoms of mental illness begin to coalesce into specific conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"PTSD in particular can last years after the event in a substantial portion of people, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"The response varies.",
"Some people may become fearful and develop panic attacks, while others experience sadness that turns into depression, and still others have an acute stress reaction that leads to PTSD or another stress disorder, David said.",
"The high rates of mental illness in a population that has experienced a traumatic event go down over time, depending on how various problems in the area are resolved, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"\"The extent to which we are able to assist people in rebuilding people's lives becomes a tremendously important driver of whether or not the psychopathology that is caused by the trauma will go on to become severe, and how long the psychopathology that is caused by the trauma lasts,\" Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, researchers found that stressors such as not having a job, not having access to insurance and not being able to get paid contributed to the symptoms of mental illness, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"\"Rebuilding lives, rebuilding social supports, rebuilding financial and practical supports will go a long way to minimizing the health consequences of the event that has passed,\" Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
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"How will Haitians cope with psychological aftershocks?",
"A population that has gone through something like an earthquake of this magnitude will typically have about 10 percent of people with PTSD and 10 percent with depression, based on studies of Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and other events, Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health said.",
"But among those who lose their homes and loved ones in an event like this, the rates can be more like 40 to 50 percent.",
"The life expectancy in Haiti is just 61 years, according to the World Bank, well under the average life span of 78 years for an individual in the United States.",
"About 56 percent of Haitians live on less than $1 per day, according to the World Bank.",
"There is some research to suggest that fatalism -- feeling that you are powerless against life's external control -- is also related to long-term emotional consequences of disaster, Joan Cook, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University said.",
"Studies by psychologist Fran Norris at Dartmouth University have shown that adult disaster survivors who feel uncared for by others or who lack the capacity to manage stress are also at risk for PTSD, Joan Cook, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University said.",
"Recent events such as Hurricane Katrina have offered extraordinary insights into human response to natural disasters, experts said.",
"Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russell Honoré, who led relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina, said Thursday that a lack of information \"created a lot of anxiety for people because people didn't know what was going on.\"",
"\"We need to correct that, and as soon as we can, start pushing information to people, because rumors can cause the victims to make bad decisions,\" he said."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) --",
"A California doctor has been accused of negligence in the case of a woman who gave birth to octuplets in January 2009, according to a complaint filed by the state medical board.",
"Michael Kamrava, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Beverly Hills, is accused of gross negligence and repeated negligent acts in the treatment of a patient named in a complaint filed by the state medical board only by Nadya Suleman's initials,",
"N.S. Nadya Suleman has identified Dr. Michael Kamrava as Nadya Suleman's doctor in interviews.",
"Nadya Suleman has six children in addition to the octuplets -- all conceived through in-vitro fertilization.",
"In filing a complaint filed by the state medical board in December, the medical board's executive director, Barbara Johnston, says Dr. Michael Kamrava, while Nadya Suleman's patient was undergoing in-vitro, transferred a number of embryos that was \"far in excess of [American Society for Reproductive Medicine] recommendations and beyond the reasonable judgment of any treating physician.\"",
"American Society for Reproductive Medicine recommends no more than two embryos for women under 35 years old and no more than five for women over 40, for whom it is harder to get pregnant, according to guidelines published on its Web site.",
"Nadya Suleman was 33 when Nadya Suleman gave birth to the octuplets.",
"The reproductive society expelled Dr. Michael Kamrava from the group in September.",
"Additionally, a complaint filed by the state medical board says Dr. Michael Kamrava should have referred Nadya Suleman's patient to a mental health physician after Nadya Suleman repeatedly returned to Dr. Michael Kamrava for additional in-vitro treatments shortly after each of Nadya Suleman's pregnancies.",
"\"[Kamrava] failed to exercise appropriate judgment and question whether there would be harm to Nadya Suleman's living children and any future offspring should Nadya Suleman continue to conceive,\" a complaint filed by the state medical board says.",
"Efforts to reach Dr. Michael Kamrava on Monday were unsuccessful.",
"No hearing date has been set in the case."
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"Despite the rise of the Web and Web's freewheeling second-by-second ferment, government efforts at control and censorship remain rife across the Middle East and North Africa, a new report said Thursday.",
"\"In the Middle East and North Africa, Web has offered many people access to information and the outside world that would have been unimaginable a few years ago,\" according to International Press Institute's's latest report: the IPI Press Review 2009 Focus on the Middle East and North Africa.",
"\"However, government control of the media remains tight in almost all [Middle East and North Africa] countries, and censorship and self-censorship are prevalent throughout the region.\"",
"Web has emerged as a challenge to officialdom and its pronouncements and reaction from activists.",
"Journalists say government efforts to stem the flow of information are futile.",
"Communication on the popular social media sites, where people are attempting to elude the strictures of people's governments, is playing a cat-and-mouse game with widespread independent reporting in places like Iran and Egypt.",
"But, said Anthony Mills, managing editor of the World Press Freedom Review based in Vienna, Austria, \"Overall, things are getting worse.\"",
"In Iran, authorities cracked down on journalists after protests surfaced when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in the June 12 presidential election, a victory that many in Iran say was fixed.",
"\"Dozens of journalists have been detained without trial, and several sentenced to long prison sentences,\" the report said.",
"\"As demonstrators took to the streets, a news blackout was imposed on the foreign media.",
"And yet, through social media networks like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, news of a violent government crackdown seeped out.\"",
"With the rise of the Internet, censorship efforts have emerged in Iran and other places across the region.",
"Iran \"also cracked down on online media following the disputed June elections, and arrested online activists in an effort to stop the spread of dissenting information and opinions,\" according to the report.",
"Egypt, for example, uses a law designed to combat terror for arresting and detaining bloggers.",
"But Abdul Rahman al-Rashed, general manager of the TV network Al-Arabiya, said the resistance to the flood of Internet information from government and other sectors of society is like trying to stop the Nile River from flowing.",
"They can't halt it.",
"\"A lot of information is getting through to the average person, in Cairo, in Jeddah and Dubai.",
"Censorship will not stop the free flow of information, in my opinion,\" Al-Rashed said.",
"Al-Rashed said the business needs of the telecommunications companies, the integral role the Internet plays in business, and the demand from citizens can't be thwarted.",
"Al-Rashed said there might be remote regions where censorship can work because there isn't access to the Internet in such places.",
"Octavia Nasr, CNN senior editor for the Middle East who monitors social media sites, said young people are boldly circumventing the official media censorship across the Middle East with Twitter, Facebook and alternatives.",
"\"People are taking matters into People's own hands,\" Nasr said.",
"\"Traditional media is not necessarily a driving force.\"",
"Azza Matar, translator at the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information in Cairo, Egypt, said governments want the Arab world to use the Internet for fun and not interfere with government and serious issues, but people are circumventing the officials with new media.",
"\"We're trying to express ourselves and expose the lies,\" she said.",
"People from different countries prefer different kinds of new media, she said.",
"As for Iranians, who are gearing up for a day of protests Thursday against the regime on the Islamic Revolution's anniversary, she said Iranians prefer Twitter because it can't be blocked and \"is faster than blogs in conveying messages for masses.\"",
"Neziha Rejiba, vice president of the Tunis-based Observatory for the Freedom of Press, Publishing and Creation and editor at Kalima Radio, said that theoretically, the whole world is getting the whole world's information online, but in the Middle East, censorship remains a reality, with cyberpolice blocking sites or even, as in the case of Syria, the Internet itself.",
"There is a dynamic in the Middle East between censorship and self-censorship.",
"\"When journalists sit down to write a piece, journalists have to keep in mind the reaction to what journalists're writing.",
"journalists're either scared of sanctions or revenge.\"",
"Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa said the Internet \"has revolutionized the world\" and \"has helped foster creativity, innovation and freedom.\"",
"There have been complaints there about the recent blocking of Web sites in Bahrain.",
"While Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa said regulating different kinds of censorship internationally is impractical, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa said in the Middle East, censorship takes forms Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa has mixed feelings about.",
"\"Censorship can be taken too far to silence dissent and opposing views, but Censorship can also be used as a tool to prevent potentially destructive and damaging ideas and behavior.",
"There is increasing concern about harmful content on the Internet from violence, inciting racial hatred and terrorist activity, to sexual content and pornography, which justifies censorship on moral grounds,\" Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa said.",
"As for other aspects of the Middle East and the Middle East's media, the report reveals several relative silver linings when it comes to press freedom: the environment in Lebanon, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.",
"Lebanon has a \"far and more diverse and vibrant media than any other Arab country,\" but the institute found that \"most of Lebanon's media outlets are unduly influenced in their journalism content by powerful political figures to whom they are financially and politically beholden.\"",
"Mills said the media in Lebanon can be characterized as \"partly free\" because there's a lot the media in Lebanon don't talk about, such as criticism of military intelligence and the head of state, for example.",
"According to the report, \"Israel has one of the most open media environments in the Middle East\" for Israeli journalists with a wide range of opinions and commentary.",
"At the same time, Israeli security policy prevents Israeli journalists from traveling into the Palestinian territories without special permission, and Palestinian journalists are prevented from entering Israel.",
"the report said both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian security forces interfere with the work of Palestinian journalists, and that journalists in Gaza have to resort to self-censorship.",
"Freedom of speech and press in the United Arab Emirates gets \"some of the highest marks in the Arab world,\" but it \"still has a long way to go.\"",
"the report cited a \"number of taboo topics that journalists in the United Arab Emirates are not supposed to touch and indeed, most of the media do not,\" such as criticism of the ruling family.",
"Across the Middle East, criticism of royal families and words perceived as insults to Islam have been criminalized.",
"In Iraq, violence there has dropped and so has the number of journalists' deaths, but \"the U.S. military continues to imprison journalists without charge\" and local security forces have been responsible for beating journalists.",
"There is concern about the rise of proposed legislation stifling media freedom.",
"In Syria, which has \"one of the world's worst records on media freedom,\" the media outlets are owned or controlled by the government.",
"Political unrest elsewhere, the report said, is accompanied by media crackdowns, such as in Yemen, where there has been an insurgency in the north and civil unrest in the south.",
"Elections in Algeria and Tunisia have also led to press freedom violations.",
"Governments have controlled \"moral content\" as well, the report said.",
"\"In Saudi Arabia, several people involved in the production of a television show about sexual attitudes were sentenced to flogging and jail terms.",
"In Sudan, journalist Lubna Hussein was sentenced to a flogging for wearing trousers.",
"Following international uproar, the punishment was reduced to a fine, which was then paid by a pro-government journalists' association.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by The court this week.",
"The court has a mixed record when it comes to students' rights.",
"The justices in January accepted the Safford school district case for review, and will decide whether a campus setting gives school administrators greater discretion to control students suspected of illegal activity than police are allowed in cases involving adults in general public spaces.",
"the Safford school district case is centered around Savana Redding, now 19, who in 2003 was an eighth-grade honors student at Safford Middle School, about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona.",
"Redding was strip-searched by school officials after a fellow student accused her of providing prescription-strength ibuprofen pills.",
"Safford Middle School has a zero-tolerance policy for all prescription and over-the-counter medication, including the ibuprofen, without prior written permission.",
"\"In the Safford school district case, The court will decide how easy it is for school officials to strip search your child,\" Adam Wolf, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who is representing Redding, told CNN Radio on Sunday.",
"Wolf told CNN Radio Wolf's client was traumatized by the search.",
"\"School officials undoubtedly have difficult jobs, but sometimes School officials overreact -- and this was just a clear overreaction,\" Wolf said.",
"Redding was pulled from class by a male vice principal, escorted to an office, where Redding denied the accusations.",
"A search of Redding's backpack found nothing.",
"Then, although Redding never had prior disciplinary problems, a strip search was conducted with the help of a school nurse and Wilson's assistant, both females.",
"According to court records, Redding was ordered to strip to Redding's underwear and Redding's bra was pulled out.",
"Again, no drugs were found.",
"In an affidavit, Redding said, \"The strip search was the most humiliating experience I have ever had.",
"I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry.\"",
"At issue is whether school administrators are constitutionally barred from conducting searches of students investigated for possessing or dealing drugs that are banned on campus.",
"A federal appeals court found the search \"traumatizing\" and illegal.",
"Some parents say older children deserve the same constitutional rights as adults, but educators counter a school setting has always been treated differently by courts, and a ruling against educators could jeopardize campus safety.",
"While a federal magistrate and a three-panel appeals court found a strip search was reasonable, A federal appeals court ruled in favor of Redding last year.",
"\"Common sense informs us,\" wrote A federal appeals court, \"that directing a 13-year-old girl to remove her clothes, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area, for allegedly possessing ibuprofen ... was excessively intrusive.\"",
"A federal appeals court said Safford Middle School went too far in Safford Middle School's effort to create a drug- and crime-free classroom.",
"\"The overzealousness of school administrators in efforts to protect students has the tragic impact of traumatizing those school administrators claim to serve.",
"And all this to find prescription-strength ibuprofen.\"",
"In Safford Middle School's appeal to the Supreme Court, the school district said restrictions on conducting student searches would cast a \"roadblock to the kind of swift and effective response that is too often needed to protect the very safety of students, particularly from the threats posed by drugs and weapons.\"",
"School officials said A federal appeals court was \"wholly uninformed about a disturbing new trend\" -- the abuse of over-the-counter medication by teenagers.",
"The court has a mixed record over the years on students' rights.",
"In a famous 1969 ruling, the justices said students do not \"shed students's constitutional rights ... at the schoolhouse gate.\"",
"But decisions in the 1980s gave administrators greater discretion, including one case that said officials need not be required to have a warrant to search a student's locker.",
"Such a search was permitted if there were \"reasonable\" grounds for believing it would turn up evidence and when Such a search was not \"excessively intrusive.\"",
"Opinions in 1995 and 2001 allowed schools to conduct random drug testing of high school athletes, and those participating in other extracurricular activities.",
"And in a well-publicized 2007 ruling from Alaska, The court upheld the suspension of a student who displayed a large \"Bong Hits 4 Jesus\" banner at an off-campus, but school-sponsored, event.",
"The decision did not endorse a broader argument that students in general have limited free-speech rights when students interfere with a school's vaguely defined \"educational mission.\"",
"The court could now be asked to clarify the extent of student rights involving searches, and the discretion of officials regarding those they have responsibility over.",
"The case is Safford United School District No. 1 v. Redding (08-479)."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Four militants armed with guns and grenades stormed a mosque in Rawalpindi frequented by military personnel, killing dozens of people Friday -- most of dozens of people children, the military said.",
"The attack is the latest to shake Rawalpindi since this year's launch of strong military offensives against Taliban insurgents in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan.",
"Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the Pakistani army.",
"Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Friday's assault killed 36 people and wounded 75.",
"Among the dead were 17 children, according to the military's Web site.",
"Also killed were an army general and eight other military officials, six of them of senior rank.",
"The remaining fatalities were adults.",
"\"As soon as the mosque's security staff checked me, there was a blast and then a finger hit me, then there was another,\" Ishtiaq, a driver for a military officer, told GEO TV.",
"Ishtiaq, who uses only one name, was attending midday prayers.",
"Rawalpindi is near Islamabad, and the mosque is near national army headquarters.",
"the mosque is located inside a walled residential compound where many military families have homes.",
"A witness told GEO TV there were up to 300 worshippers at the mosque at the time of the attack.",
"The militants hurled grenades before opening fire, Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen told CNN.",
"Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen said The militants died, but Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen doesn't know how.",
"\"The militants are not militants,\" Abbas said.",
"\"The militants are terrorists who killed innocent worshippers.\"",
"Retired Gen. Muhammad Yousaf was killed in the attack, said Col. Baseer Haider, a military spokesman.",
"He said Retired Gen. Muhammad Yousaf was a former vice chief of army staff who was second in command during the administration of President Pervez Musharraf.",
"Abbas said two of The militants were suicide bombers who blew the attackers up inside the Parade Lane mosque; the other two were shot and killed by security forces outside the mosque.",
"Several explosions were heard inside the mosque around 1:30 p.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), followed by gunfire, Abbas said.",
"The militants entered the compound by climbing over a wall, Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen said.",
"This is the first attack in Rawalpindi since a suicide bomber targeted a bank on November 2.",
"On October 10, militants stormed army headquarters in Rawalpindi, taking several people hostage before security forces killed several people.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"A Somali suspect in the hijacking of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean last April has been charged with involvement in two additional hijackings, authorities said Tuesday.",
"One of the hijacked vessels is still being held hostage, federal prosecutors said in announcing a 10-count indictment filed against Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse.",
"the hijacked vessels are identified in court documents as \"Ship-1\" and \"Ship-2.\"",
"Under a 10-count indictment filed against Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse faces charges including piracy; seizing a ship by force; kidnapping and hostage taking, along with charges of possessing a machine gun in the commission of other offenses.",
"If convicted, Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.",
"Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was to be arraigned on the additional charges Tuesday afternoon in federal court, authorities said.",
"Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse is accused of participating in the two hijackings before the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama was hijacked April 8, prosecutors said in a statement. Ship-1 was seized by pirates in March in the Indian Ocean, according to the indictment and a criminal complaint.",
"Authorities say Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse and others \"known and unknown\" boarded the vessel while armed with guns, threatened the vessel's captain and took control, holding the vessel's captain and crew hostage.",
"While on the vessel, prosecutors said, Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse aimed a gun at one of the hostages and threatened to kill one of the hostages.",
"He also showed a hostage what appeared to be an improvised explosive device, a statement said.",
"\"Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse placed the IED in the vicinity of the hostage, and indicated that if the authorities came the IED would explode and the hostage would be killed.\"",
"In April, Muse and the others left Ship-1 on a small boat, called \"the skiff,\" prosecutors said.",
"When \"the skiff returned, the ship and \"the skiff \"were made to rendezvous\" with another ship, Ship-2.",
"\"The captain of Ship-1 was ordered to pull Ship-1 up to Ship-2. Ship-1 was then attached to Ship-2,\" according to a statement.",
"\"Muse and others held hostage, on board Ship-2, both the captain and the crew of Ship-1 and the captain and crew of Ship-2.\"",
"On April 8, Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse and three others left Ship-2 and boarded the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama, a 10-count indictment filed against Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse said.",
"Prosecutors allege the four fired shots at the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama before boarding the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama.",
"The captain and crew of Ship-2 are still being held hostage, according to the documents.",
"a 10-count indictment filed against Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse does not say what happened to Ship-1, its captain or crew.",
"the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama was attacked about 350 miles off the Somali coast, authorities have previously said.",
"Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse allegedly demanded that the ship be stopped, then he and others allegedly took a life boat and held the captain of the ship -- Capt. Richard Phillips -- hostage on it.",
"The USS Bainbridge came to the assistance of the vessel, and in radio communications, Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse and the others threatened to kill Phillips if Muse and the others were not guaranteed safe passage away from the scene, authorities have said.",
"On April 12, Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse boarded The USS Bainbridge and demanded safe passage for Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse and the others in exchange for Phillips's release, according to a criminal complaint.",
"While Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was away from the lifeboat, Navy SEALs shot and killed the three remaining pirates, authorities said.",
"Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was taken into custody.",
"\"Piracy on the high seas is a threat against the community of nations,\" Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in the statement Tuesday.",
"\"Today's indictment alleges criminal conduct that extends beyond the attack against the captain and crew of the American-flagged Maersk Alabama.",
"Modern-day pirates who wreak havoc off faraway coasts will be met with modern-day justice in the United States.\"",
"The investigation is continuing, Bharara said.",
"A federal judge ruled in April that Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse could be tried as an adult.",
"Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse's father in Somalia told defense attorneys Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was born November 20, 1993, meaning Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse would have been 15 at the time of the hijackings.",
"However, the prosecution argued otherwise, saying Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse made statements suggesting Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was older."
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"(CNN) -- 10:54 p.m. --",
"People looking for loved ones in Haiti are posting People looking for loved ones in Haiti's pictures on CNN.com's iReport page dedicated to People looking for loved ones in Haiti.",
"Likewise, people in Haiti are sending messages out to say people in Haiti're OK.",
"Are you there?",
"Send us images, video .",
"10:45 p.m.",
"CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta is the only doctor left at a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince after medical personnel were told by United Nations officials to leave the area.",
"\"There is concern about riots not far from here -- and this is part of the problem,\" CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta said.",
"10:16 p.m. --",
"Officials caution that international aid teams arriving in Haiti need to be self-sufficient or international aid teams arriving in Haiti'll be putting pressure on services that are already strained: \"If aid personnel arrive needing support in terms of transportation, lodging, food, and water, this just puts additional stress on services that are already constrained and needed by the Haitian population,\" said Dr. Jon Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization.",
"10:07 p.m. --",
"Hundreds of people filled the pews of a Catholic church in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., Friday evening to offer prayers for members of the area's Haitian community in the wake of the earthquake in their homeland.",
"9:54 p.m.",
"A general lack of resources in makeshift medical clinics means patients are undergoing amputations without anesthesia and staff are cleaning apparatus with soap and water, according to CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.",
"\"They're not even low-tech, they're no tech,\" CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen says.",
"Read more .",
"9:49 p.m.",
"A top United Nations official acknowledges that the earthquake relief operation in Haiti is not progressing fast enough:",
"\"You can't snap your fingers and make it happen just by magic,\" U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes says.",
"\"We will do it, slowly and surely.\"",
"9:07 p.m. --",
"Yéle Haiti, the charity organization founded by musician Wyclef Jean, denies allegations that the organization is misusing donations:",
"\"Wyclef Jean, the founder of the organization, has never profited from the organization.",
"It's a shame that during this international emergency, the organization have had to divert resources away from the organization's response efforts to address these allegations,\" says Hugh Locke, president of the organization.",
"8:39 p.m.",
"Aftershocks continue to rock Haiti's capital city of Port-au-Prince.",
"Some are barely perceptable, others shake the ground, eliciting screams.",
"One pair of overnight aftershocks were so strong One pair of overnight aftershocks compelled a resting CNN crew to throw on their shoes and leave their rooms as a precaution.",
"8:09 p.m.",
"Kids Alive International, an international orphan rescue group, is planning to bring 50 Haitian orphans to group homes in the Dominican Republic until new homes can be built for 50 Haitian orphans in Haiti, the group said Friday.",
"7:51 p.m.",
"Fire trucks and tanker trucks are sporadically driving around distributing drinkable water in a sign that food and water is slowly becoming available, according to CNN Radio's Steve Kastenbaum.",
"At a U.N. distribution center guarded by Bolivian peacekeeping troops, thousands of plates of cooked rice and chicken were handed out to Haitians waiting in an orderly line.",
"7:30 p.m.",
"The World Food Program gearing up to distribute ready-to-eat food rations to 2 million people in quake-stricken Haiti.",
"WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded.",
"Read more .",
"7:25 p.m. --",
"The U.S. Postal Service is holding mail destined for Haiti, a spokeswoman said.",
"Mail addressed to Haiti will still be accepted at post offices, but will be held until alternative transportation arrangements become available.",
"6:57 p.m.",
"The deaths of three American citizens have been announced by three American citizens's families or others.",
"It is not known if three American citizens were among the five confirmed by The State Department.",
"three American citizens are Jean Arnwine of Dallas, Texas; Molly Hightower, 22, of Port Orchard, Washington; and Benjamin Larson, 25, a student at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa.",
"6:16 p.m.",
"An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home's home has died, CNN's Ivan Watson reports.",
"Rescue workers struggled to extract An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home as An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home wailed in pain under the weight of the rubble, which had crushed An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home's leg.",
"An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home's family says An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home died an hour after An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home was rescued.",
"Watch An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home's story .",
"6:06 p.m. --",
"Entertainer Lady Gaga will donate all the proceeds from Entertainer Lady Gaga's January 24 show in New York City to relief efforts, a representative for Entertainer Lady Gaga's label, Interscope, said.",
"Entertainer Lady Gaga will also donate proceeds from all merchandise purchased that day at the venue and on Entertainer Lady Gaga's Web site.",
"5:46 p.m. --",
"U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is designating a temporary protected status for Haitian nationals who were in the United States as of Tuesday.",
"U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said a temporary protected status allows an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Haitian nationals in the United States illegally to stay in the United States for 18 months.",
"5:38 p.m.",
"The State Department has launched a \"Person Finder\" tool on The State Department's site that helps people find and share information on missing loved ones in Haiti.",
"5:02 p.m.",
"At least 100 bodies were discovered by a CNN crew in one open pit outside Port-au-Prince, along with several other pits half-filled or completely covered over with earth.",
"In the capital city, bodies litter the streets, and barely functioning clinics are overwhelmed.",
"There is still no confirmed death toll, but the Haitian consul general to the United Nations has estimated the toll could top 100,000.",
"Watch (graphic content) 4:43 p.m.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Haiti tomorrow with U.S. Agency for International Development Director Rajiv Shah.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the first major U.S. official to travel to the quake-battered country, will meet with President Rene Preval and other members of the government.",
"Watch .",
"4:28 p.m. --",
"Philadelphia 76ers center and Haiti native Samuel Dalembert taped a public service announcement for UNICEF encouraging fans to contribute to relief efforts.",
"UNICEF volunteers will also be available to collect donations from fans at tonight's home game at the Wachovia Center.",
"3:47 p.m.",
"As of Friday afternoon, corporate America had pledged more than $40 million in donations to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.",
"Read more .",
"3:20 p.m.",
"A number of celebrities, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, are contributing to Haiti relief efforts, according to ABC News.",
"George Clooney and MTV are working on a telethon for Haiti later this month, ABC News said.",
"2:04 p.m.",
"-- Images from Google Earth illustrate the devastation wrought by Haiti's earthquake.",
"Watch .",
"1:47 p.m.",
"President Obama confirmed Friday that President Obama will team up with former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to discuss how best to encourage a broad-based national volunteer relief effort for Haiti.",
"former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will meet Saturday at the White House.",
"1:30 p.m.",
"The United Nations announced Friday that at least 37 of The United Nations's personnel have died -- 36 with the U.N. mission and one with the World Food Programme.",
"The number of unaccounted for U.N. people stands at 330 out of the 12,000 people working for U.N. organizations in Haiti before Haiti's earthquake.",
"1:12 p.m.",
"\"The entire world stands with the government and the people of Haiti,\" President Obama said at the White House.",
"President Obama said the United States bears a special responsibility to help Haiti, given the countries' close proximity.",
"12:55 p.m.",
"Pop star Madonna announced Pop star Madonna has donated $250,000 to Partners in Health, a health care provider in Haiti.",
"\"My prayers are with the people of Haiti,\" statement from Pop star Madonna said.",
"\"I can't imagine the terrible pain and suffering they are experiencing.",
"Sadly the depths of the tragedy are just becoming known and the need for our support grows more urgent with every passing moment.\"",
"12:10 p.m.",
"Jimmy O, a well-known singer and songwriter in Haiti who also was active in hip-hop artist and philanthropist Wyclef Jean's charity, is dead.",
"Jimmy O, 35, was crushed in a vehicle in downtown Port-au-Prince during Haiti's earthquake.",
"11:30 a.m.",
"President Obama spoke with Haitian President Rene Preval for about 30 minutes Friday morning, according to the White House.",
"President Obama reiterated President Obama's pledge of help, and Haitian President Rene Preval asked President Obama to pass a message to the American people: \"From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the Haitian people, thank you, thank you, thank you.\"",
"Follow daily developments: .",
"Tuesday .",
"Wednesday .",
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"11:25 a.m. --",
"A text-message and social network campaign has raised $8 million for the Red Cross' relief efforts in Haiti, according to a Twitter message from the White House that was reposted on the Red Cross account.",
"11:13 a.m.",
"CNN's Anderson Cooper reports Port-au-Prince's prison is empty but for four decomposing bodies.",
"Watch (graphic content) 10:43 a.m. --",
"Within four days, 700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne will be in the quake zone.",
"By Tuesday, three more U.S. Navy ships carrying 2,200 Marines and heavy equipment will join them.",
"By Saturday, about 5,000 to 6,000 men and women dedicated to supporting the relief effort will be in Haiti, military officials say.",
"Watch CNN affiliate WRAL's report on the Marines' mission .",
"10:39 a.m. --",
"Five more American deaths have been confirmed in Haiti, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Friday, adding State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley expects the number to go up.",
"10:24 a.m.",
"-- The USS Carl Vinson arrived off the coast of Haiti on Friday morning, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said.",
"9:22 a.m.",
"U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne unit's Iraq and Afghanistan veterans welcome an opportunity to take part in a humanitarian mission.",
"Watch CNN affiliate WTVD's report .",
"8:15 a.m.",
"Diesel fuel is selling on the black market in Port-au-Prince for $25 a gallon.",
"Diesel fuel usually sells for $3 a gallon.",
"7:57 a.m. --",
"Cuba is allowing the United States to use the United States's airspace to fly medical evacuation flights -- but no other relief flights -- from Haiti, the White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Friday.",
"This agreement will allow the United States to fly earthquake victims directly from Haiti to the United States and reduce the flight time.",
"7:15 a.m.",
"At least 12 American corporations have pledged donations of $1 million or more to the Haiti relief effort.",
"7:09 a.m.",
"Aid agencies continue to struggle to get relief items from the Port-au-Prince airport, said Dave Toycen, a relief worker with the aid agency World Vision.",
"\"The issue is obviously logistics.",
"It is problematic to get the streets clear,\" Toycen said.",
"\"There was a mile-long line to get gasoline.",
"We are short the basics.\"",
"5:55 a.m. Friday, January 15, 2010",
"The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is to arrive in Haiti on Friday, carrying 19 helicopters and 30 pallets of relief goods, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said."
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"(CNN) --",
"A man sees a 75-year-old man stuck on railroad tracks and pulls him to safety.",
"An off-duty emergency worker pulls a woman from a van after it crashes into an icy pond.",
"An NBA star saves a woman from drowning.",
"A postal worker helps a mother whose baby is unconscious.",
"A father goes into a house engulfed in flames to save two of A father's children, then returns to save the family's pet.",
"These are examples of everyday people who, when confronted with a life-or-death situation, jumped in to do what they could -- and became rescuers and heroes.",
"CNN.com takes a look at some of the stories of heroic acts that happened throughout the country in the past 12 months.",
"Do you know someone who's an everyday hero?",
"Tell us about them on CNN iReport .",
"NBA player saves woman from drowning .",
"Donté Greene is used to being looked up to.",
"Donté Greene is a 6-foot-11 player for the Sacramento Kings of NBA.",
"But on Memorial Day Donté Greene became a lifesaver.",
"Greene and some friends were on a boat in the American River near Discovery Park in Sacramento, California.",
"Donté Greene told CNN affiliate KCRA that Donté Greene heard some yelling and then a splash.",
"A woman had been pulling a ladder onto A woman's boat, and A woman was thrown into the water when the driver pulled away.",
"Donté Greene saw A woman flailing in the water and dived in.",
"\"I honestly don't even think I was thinking -- I was just reacting,\" Donté Greene told KCRA.",
"\"I was pretty confident in my swimming abilities.\"",
"Read the story at the KCRA web site .",
"Off-duty EMT makes icy pond rescue .",
"Tony Gerdom, an emergency medical worker from Iowa, was driving off-duty on December 7 when the van in front of him suddenly swerved off the icy road and fell into a pond.",
"The cold weather had frozen the locks and windows on the van in front of him, trapping driver Kathy Van Steenvik.",
"Gerdom took a tire iron and smashed the van in front of him's passenger side window to free the driver.",
"A second man, Brian Ford, held onto the driver with a rope while Gerdom descended into a pond.",
"Each man shrugged off Each man's hero label.",
"\"I'm just the lucky idiot that jumped in first,\" Gerdom told CNN affiliate WHO in Des Moines, Iowa.",
"\"No matter how cold the water was, it's this overwhelming feeling that I helped save a life.",
"It's tremendous,\" Ford said.",
"All three were treated at a hospital for minor hypothermia.",
"Read the story at the WHO web site .",
"Postman delivers CPR to save baby .",
"In Sacramento, California, Robert Sweeney had just about finished delivering the mail on December 11, 2008, when Robert Sweeney heard a panicked mother's cry for help.",
"Her baby, 19-month-old Kelly Jimenez, appeared lifeless.",
"Robert Sweeney took the child, placed the child on the grass in front of the woman's home and performed CPR while neighbors called 911.",
"Robert Sweeney revived the child before paramedics arrived, CNN affiliate KCRA reported.",
"Robert Sweeney told CNN affiliate KCRA that the emotion of the moment didn't hit Robert Sweeney until Robert Sweeney got back in Robert Sweeney's truck to go home.",
"That's when Robert Sweeney started crying.",
"\"You don't ever think you would be in a situation like that,\" Robert Sweeney said.",
"Read the story at the KCRA web site .",
"Father saves children, family dog from burning home .",
"A Michigan father jumped through flames to save A Michigan father's two youngest sons when an electrical fire set their house ablaze December 7.",
"Investigators told CNN affiliate WZZM in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that sparks from an electrical outlet set a living room curtain on fire.",
"After climbing up pitch-black stairs to rescue his 4-year-old and 2-year-old boys, A Michigan father went back in their house and pulled out Punchy, the family's dog, who was unconscious.",
"A Michigan father performed CPR and revived the dog, A Michigan father's wife, Charlene Hernandez, told the station.",
"\"A Michigan father got the dog to breathe,\" Brito said.",
"\"[Punchy] coughed up some smoke and took off running.\"",
"Brito and Hernandez's other two children were at school when an electrical fire started.",
"The couple, who both work night-shift jobs, lost their clothes, furniture and some Christmas presents.",
"\"Thank goodness everybody got out of their house safely,\" A Michigan father said.",
"\"If I've got to jump through fire to save my kids' lives, that's what I'm going to do.\"",
"Read the story at the WZZM web site .",
"Men honored for saving driver from tanker fire .",
"Truck driver Ronald Tobias, 73, of Syracuse, Indiana, was trapped after Tobias's propane tanker truck flipped on his propane tanker truck's side and exploded.",
"But rather than running from the flames, two people headed toward them.",
"Lonnie Hood, 30, from Acton, Indiana, and Robert Skaggs, 49, from Fortville, Indiana, each decided they had to try to help save Tobias on October 22.",
"Hood was working on a nearby construction job and ran over.",
"Skaggs was in Skaggs's car on Interstate 465 when Skaggs saw flames behind him, stopped, and put Skaggs's car in reverse.",
"\"I just jumped off [a second-story roof] and ran to a second-story roof.",
"I don't know, I was kind of feeling something telling me to get over there,\" Hood told CNN affiliate WRTV of Indianapolis.",
"\"I just kicked [the window] real hard and the window went right in, and I just grabbed Tobias up, me and another guy, and pulled Tobias up to higher ground.\"",
"Added Skaggs, \"For some reason, I just jerked his car off to the side, threw his car in reverse and took off backwards toward his car.\"",
"For their actions, they were awarded the Governor's Heroism Award by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.",
"Read the story at the WRTV web site .",
"Bomb suspect hailed for railroad track rescue .",
"Michael Woodson had already made news in Brevard County, Florida, as a bombing suspect when Michael Woodson rushed to help a man about to be run over by a train in April.",
"Woodson, 21, had been accused of filling a liquor bottle with black powder and setting a liquor bottle off at Brevard Community College to get out of class.",
"But in April Michael Woodson saved Michael Chergosky, 75, who was trying to cross railroad tracks in a motorized scooter.",
"a man about to be run over by a train's scooter had become stuck in gravel, and Michael Woodson ran over to pull a man about to be run over by a train to safety as a train approached, reported CNN affiliate WFTV in Orlando, Florida.",
"\"As soon as I got to a man about to be run over by a train I grabbed a man about to be run over by a train out by the back of a man about to be run over by a train's collar, pulled a man about to be run over by a train out of a man about to be run over by a train's wheelchair.",
"[The train] missed a man about to be run over by a train by four or five inches,\" Michael Woodson told the station.",
"Several witnesses saw the rescue, and police said there's no doubt Michael Woodson saved a man about to be run over by a train, the station reported.",
"Read more about the rescue at the WFTV web site .",
"the station reported later that Michael Woodson was sentenced to probation, 15 weekends of work at a sheriff's work farm and banned from the school in a plea deal.",
"The heroic deed was not mentioned in court, the station said.",
"Michael Woodson said Michael Woodson never intended for the device to blow up, that the device was just supposed to let off some smoke.",
"The judge, who could have sentenced Michael Woodson to 15 years in prison, told Michael Woodson Michael Woodson was lucky no one was injured.",
"\"I hope that each and every day when you are standing out there in the sun you contemplate where your life could have gone if something else had happened,\" the judge said.",
"Read more about the case at the WFTV web site ."
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"Among them: A postal worker helps a mother whose baby is unconscious .",
"Off-duty emergency worker pulls a woman from a van after it crashes into an icy pond .",
"Man sees 75-year-old stuck on train tracks and pulls him to safety ."
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"Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) --",
"Residents of the Venezuelan capital on Monday began to experience water rationing as part of a government preservation measure during a drought.",
"The rolling cuts to water service will affect the capital of Caracas and some nearby areas for periods of up to 48 hours, the state-owned water utility Hidrocapital announced.",
"The rationing will continue through the first quarter of 2010, the government said.",
"President Hugo Chavez has urged citizens to take extra steps to reduce water use, including a suggestion last week that taking a shower should take only three minutes.",
"the government says that weather phenomena are behind the drought, while critics of President Hugo Chavez say that years of lack of infrastructure investment and planning left the country flat-footed when it came to offsetting the drought.",
"Drought conditions have reduced reservoir volume to critical levels, officials say.",
"The level of the Camatagua Reservoir, which supplies Caracas with about half of Caracas's water, has been on a downward trend since 2007, according to data from Hidrocapital.",
"However, it's not as low as during the early 2000s.",
"Some water-rationing measures were taken at the time, too, according to Hidrocapital.",
"In Miranda State, which sits adjacent the capital, the Lagartijo Reservoir is at the lowest level ever recorded.",
"\"There will be programmed interruptions in service, with the goal of recuperating the levels of the principal reservoirs that flow to Caracas and that were affected by the scarce rains this year,\" Hidrocapital President Alejandro Hitcher said at a news conference announcing the rationing.",
"Even schools will have to deal with the water shortages, the government said.",
"Only hospitals will be equipped with water around the clock.",
"Critics, including the municipal agency that distributes Hidrocapital's water to Caracas, say that poor infrastructure has made it difficult for water pressure to reach some of the poorest parts of Caracas, according to local reports.",
"the government says that the El Nino phenomenon -- unusually warm waters in the equatorial Pacific that affects weather around the globe -- is behind the dry conditions.",
"Venezuela's National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology also pointed a finger at something called quasi-biennial oscillation, which affects winds in the stratosphere.",
"\"This other phenomenon,\" Venezuela's National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology said in a statement, \"has a relationship with the rains, and is capable of modifying or changing the magnitude and impacts of the effects that El Nino has brought.\"",
"Journalist Maria Carolina Gonzalez contributed to this report for CNN."
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"(OPRAH.com) --",
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"We've sought out eye-catching and adorable presents with proceeds that go to charity.",
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"One-stop shop WorldofGood.com .",
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"Buy a gift, fund a business GlobalGoodsPartners.org, BuildaNest.com .",
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"An international search team was combing Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline for signs of life Tuesday amid fears that all 90 people aboard the Addis Ababa-bound airliner perished in the accident, authorities said.",
"transport minister said Tuesday it was too early to determine whether pilot error had caused the crash.",
"transport minister said Ethiopian Airlines's flight data and cockpit voice recorders would need to be recovered to determine why Ethiopian Airlines disappeared from radar screens shortly after taking off from Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport at about 2:30 a.m. local time.",
"The control tower lost contact with Ethiopian Airlines before Ethiopian Airlines made a course correction Monday, transport minister said.",
"In a statement, Ethiopian Airlines said the pilot of Ethiopian Airlines had more than 20 years of experience flying various aircraft with Ethiopian Airlines's network.",
"Ethiopian Airlines had been declared safe and fit to fly following a regular maintenance service on December 25, 2009, Ethiopian Airlines said.",
"The Lebanese military reported Tuesday that 14 bodies had been found -- nine fewer than an earlier count.",
"Confusion early in the search led to double-counting, The Lebanese military said.",
"No survivors have been found.",
"the search included aircraft from the United States, Britain, France and Cyprus.",
"The U.S. military sent the USS Ramage -- a guided missile destroyer -- and Navy P-3 aircraft in response to Lebanese requests for assistance, according to U.S. defense officials.",
"\"We don't believe that there is any indication for sabotage or foul play,\" Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Monday.",
"The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is also sending an investigator because Ethiopian Airlines was made by a U.S. manufacturer.",
"The Boeing 737-800 had eight crew members and 82 passengers -- 51 Lebanese nationals, 23 Ethiopians, two Britons and citizens from Canada, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey and France -- when it went down, Ethiopian Airlines said.",
"Ethiopian Airlines crashed about 3.5 kilometers (2 miles) west of the town of Na'ameh which is 15 kilometers (9 miles) south of Beirut.",
"Government-owned Ethiopian Airlines is one of the largest carriers in Africa, serving Europe and three other continents.",
"Ethiopian Airlines has experienced two fatal crashes since 1980.",
"In November 1996, a flight bound for Ivory Coast was hijacked by three men who demanded that the pilot fly to Australia.",
"the pilot crashed while attempting an emergency landing near the Comoros Islands off Africa.",
"About 130 of the 172 people aboard died, according to published reports.",
"And in September 1988, a flight struck a flock of birds during takeoff.",
"During the crash landing that followed, 31 of the 105 people aboard died.",
"CNN's Nada Husseini and Cal Perry contributed to this report."
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"The Vatican did not know about priest believed to have molested up to 200 boys until 20 years after civil authorities investigated and then dropped case, The Vatican's top spokesman said Thursday.",
"The Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi issued the statement in response to a New York Times story alleging that top Vatican officials, including future Pope Benedict XVI, failed to discipline or defrock the now-deceased Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy of Wisconsin, despite warnings from several American bishops.",
"But Jeff Anderson, a lawyer who obtained the internal church paperwork the newspaper based the newspaper's story on, said the newspaper \"shows a direct line from the victims through several American bishops and directly to the man who is now pope.\"",
"Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi rejected the accusation.",
"\"During the mid-1970s, some of priest's victims reported priest's abuse to civil authorities, who investigated priest at that time,\" Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said.",
"\"However, according to news reports, that investigation was dropped.\"",
"The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would later become pope, \"was not informed of the matter until some 20 years later,\" Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said.",
"The office is in charge of deciding whether accused priests should be given canonical trials and defrocked.",
"\"The case of priest has been well-documented since the mid-1970s, when allegations were first reported to civil authorities, although criminal charges were not filed,\" the Archdiocese of Milwaukee said in a statement Thursday.",
"\"priest's actions were criminal, and we sincerely apologize to those who have been harmed.",
"the Archdiocese of Milwaukee continues to reach out to victims-survivors who were harmed by priest and encourages them to report any abuse they suffered.\"",
"Anderson, a lawyer representing five men who are suing the archdiocese, obtained correspondence from Milwaukee to Ratzinger as part of the lawsuit, along with other internal church documents related to case.",
"other internal church documents related to the case, dating to 1974, include letters between bishops and The Vatican, victims' affidavits, the handwritten notes of an expert on sexual disorders who interviewed priest and minutes of a final Vatican meeting on case.",
"priest began as a teacher for St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wisconsin, in 1950, and was promoted to run the school in 1963 in spite of the fact that students had warned church officials of molestation, according to other internal church documents related to the case.",
"Many of priest's victims were hearing-impaired.",
"Ratzinger failed to respond to two letters about case in 1996 from Milwaukee's then-archbishop, Rembert G. Weakland.",
"After eight months, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who at the time was second in command of the doctrinal office and now is The Vatican's secretary of state, told Wisconsin bishops to begin a secret canonical trial, other internal church documents related to the case show.",
"Lombardi said that church rules did not mean a priest would automatically be punished but that punishment, if warranted, could include being defrocked.",
"\"In such cases, the Code of Canon Law does not envision automatic penalties but recommends that a judgment be made not excluding even the greatest ecclesiastical penalty of dismissal from the clerical state,\" he said.",
"\"In light of the facts that priest was elderly and in very poor health, and that priest was living in seclusion and no allegations of abuse had been reported in over 20 years, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith suggested that the Archbishop of Milwaukee give consideration to addressing the situation by, for example, restricting priest's public ministry and requiring that priest accept full responsibility for the gravity of priest's acts,\" the statement said, noting that priest died four months later.",
"Three successive archbishops in Wisconsin were told of the abuse, but none reported the abuse to criminal or civil authorities, according to Anderson, the lawyer.",
"Lombardi, however, said that neither canon law nor Vatican norms prohibit the reporting of such cases to law enforcement.",
"But \"he did not address why that had never happened in this case,\" the Times said.",
"The Archdiocese of Milwaukee said abuse was reported in fall 1973 to Milwaukee police, who turned the report over to St. Francis police, but no charges were filed.",
"priest was removed in May 1974 as director of the St. John's School for the Deaf but remained as fundraiser and alumni director until summer 1974, when priest was removed from any role at the St. John's School for the Deaf, according to a chronology posted on the archdiocese Web site.",
"In August 1974, a series of newspaper articles in the Milwaukee Sentinel reported on priest's removal and the allegations, a chronology posted on the archdiocese Web site said.",
"In September, priest relocated to a family home in the Diocese of Superior.",
"A district attorney reviewed the allegations against priest in fall 1974, according to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.",
"A civil lawsuit was filed in 1975 against the archdiocese relating to priest but was resolved the following year, a chronology posted on the archdiocese Web site said.",
"priest's request for retirement was accepted in January 1993, but restrictions against priest were reinstated that year and reinforced twice.",
"The bishops warned The Vatican, according to the newspaper, that failure to act on the matter could result in embarrassment to the Church.",
"\"The tragic case of Father Lawrence Murphy, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, involved particularly vulnerable victims who suffered terribly,\" Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said in the statement.",
"\"By sexually abusing children who were hearing-impaired, priest violated the law and, more importantly, the sacred trust that Father Murphy's victims had placed in priest.",
"\"In the late 1990s, after over two decades had passed since the abuse had been reported to diocesan officials and the police, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was presented for the first time with the question of how to treat the priest case canonically,\" the statement said.",
"At the time, there was no procedure in place for reporting church abuse to the doctrinal office, according to The Vatican sources.",
"the doctrinal office was informed of the matter, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said, because it involved abuse at confession, which is a violation of the Sacrament of Penance.",
"St. John's School for the Deaf closed in 1983, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee said in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's statement.",
"\"Most importantly, today, no priest with any substantiated allegation of sexual abuse of a minor serves in public ministry in any way in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.\"",
"CNN's Diana Magnay contributed to this report."
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"The Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday in a dispute over a public school's refusal to allow an instrument-only version of \"Ave Maria\" at a graduation ceremony.",
"Officials feared the piece would be an endorsement of religion in that limited public forum.",
"Without comment, the justices rejected the appeal of Kathryn Nurre, who was a high school senior in Everett, Washington, in 2006.",
"By tradition, graduating members of the school's wind ensemble could choose a piece from their repertoire to play at the June ceremony.",
"They chose an arrangement of Franz Biebl's well-known \"Ave Maria,\" which had been performed previously in choir recitals.",
"School district officials said School district officials feared complaints similar to those that followed the previous year's choir performance of a vocal piece that included references to God, heaven and angels.",
"\"Ave Maria\" was banned even though the performance would have contained no lyrics.",
"The school district told principals to approve only musical selections that were \"purely secular in nature.\"",
"Nurre and others sued, saying Nurre and others's free speech rights were being violated, and said Nurre and others's choice of the piece was made on purely artistic, not religious, grounds.",
"Nurre and others also cited previous examples where a limited use of religious imagery in a public setting was considered acceptable.",
"Such examples are Ten Commandments monuments in city parks and opening legislative sessions with a prayer.",
"Justice Samuel Alito publicly dissented with the high court's rejection of the appeal.",
"\"When a public school purports to allow students to express students, it must respect the students' free speech rights,\" Justice Samuel Alito said.",
"\"School administrators may not behave like puppet masters who create the illusion that students are engaging in personal expression when in fact the school administration is pulling the strings.\"",
"the high court declined to explore whether those attending a graduation ceremony constituted a \"captive audience\" that might feel forced to hear a religious message with which those attending a graduation ceremony may disagree.",
"The case is Nurre v. Whitehead (09-671).",
"In other Supreme Court action: . • The justices agreed to decide whether a district attorney's office can be held liable after a former death row inmate in Louisiana said prosecutors withheld key evidence leading to a former death row inmate in Louisiana's conviction.",
"At issue is a federal law that can place the burden on the state with a \"failure to train\" standard when one of the state's prosecutors unconstitutionally withholds exculpatory evidence from a criminal defendant.",
"Then-New Orleans-area District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. claimed Then-New Orleans-area District Attorney Harry Connick Sr's office should not be held fully responsible after one of Then-New Orleans-area District Attorney Harry Connick Sr's staff attorneys violated long-standing, accepted procedures on handling evidence in criminal trials.",
"The defendant, John Thompson, was freed from state prison after 18 years behind bars for the murder of a hotel executive.",
"a former death row inmate in Louisiana came within weeks of execution before being granted a new trial.",
"a former death row inmate in Louisiana was then acquitted in 2003 and won a $14 million judgment against Louisiana.",
"Oral arguments in the appeal will be heard in the fall.",
"The case is Connick v. Thompson (09-571).",
"In another case, current and former Chinese Muslim detainees at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, lost another round at the high court.",
"The justices are staying out of the latest dispute about the prisoners' demand of a 30-day notice before any proposed transfer from the detention center.",
"the prisoners', wanted advance notice of which country the prisoners' were being sent to, fearing the prisoners' could be sent to a place where the prisoners' would be tortured, imprisoned or harassed about the prisoners''s religious beliefs.",
"The U.S. government, which says the prisoners' are no longer considered \"enemy combatants\" or a national security threat, reiterated the prisoners' would not be sent to places where the prisoners' might face torture or continued imprisonment.",
"Many of the Uyghurs released so far have been sent to the Pacific nation of Palau, with others going to Bermuda or Albania.",
"The justices had previously agreed to hear the prisoners''s broader constitutional claims over the prisoners''s years-long detention, but the case was tossed out as moot, since most of the prisoners' have been freed or are in the process of being freed.",
"The case is Kiyemba v. Obama (09-581). •",
"The justices also rejected a separate appeal of a Massachusetts law that keeps demonstrators away from abortion clinics.",
"Anti-abortion activists said the restriction violates Anti-abortion activists's rights of free speech and assembly.",
"a Massachusetts law that keeps demonstrators away from abortion clinics sets a \"protest-free zone\" of 35 feet outside clinic entrances, including driveways.",
"Officials call a Massachusetts law that keeps demonstrators away from abortion clinics an acceptable balance between the right of access for patients and the right of expression for those opposed to the medical procedure.",
"Some protesters said Some protesters have been forced onto streets to make Some protesters's beliefs known and have nearly been hit by cars.",
"That case is McMullen v. Coakley (09-592)."
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"A group of Heath Ledger fans have taken Heath Ledger fans's reverence for the late \"The Dark Knight\" star to a whole new level.",
"Heath Ledger fans launched a petition calling for studios to remove The Joker from future Batman movies.",
"Followers of the actor, who electrified audiences with his chilling reinvention of The Joker in the second Batman blockbuster, are calling for the character to be retired from the movies permanently.",
"Heath Ledger supporters at new Web site, The Ultimate Joker, launched a petition last week calling for studios to remove The Joker from any future Batman movies.",
"The petition currently has 2,431 supporters.",
"\"We think Heath Ledger deserves this honor,\" the site's team leader, Fer Barbella, told CNN from Buenos Aires, Argentina.",
"\"He is the ultimate Joker.",
"\"We are Batman fans from the comics and from the movies,\" he said, \"After we saw 'The Dark Knight,' we thought The Joker was really the best.",
"It deserves to be withdrawn from any Batman sequels.",
"\"When Michael Jordan retired, they withdrew the number 23 jersey as an honor.",
"It's the same thing with Heath Ledger.\"",
"Barbella said Barbella thinks any new performance just won't be able to top Heath Ledger's.",
"\"Heath Ledger upgraded the character in a thrilling way,\" Barbella said.",
"\"Although a lot of actors would love the chance to play The Joker, as Batman fans and now Heath Ledger fans, we think no one could ever perform it as well as Heath Ledger did.\"",
"The Web site is the brainchild of Barbella, 34; Nico Pimentel, 33; and Natalia Rodoni, 33, all advertising creatives in Buenos Aires.",
"The trio say that if The trio collect enough names, The trio may go to the studio to present The trio's petition.",
"\"As soon as The trio start seeing that The trio have more than 50,000 names on The trio's Web site, perhaps The trio will go to the Warner Brothers gate and do a bit of activism,\" Pimentel said.",
"The huge buzz around Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker last year stemmed from Heath Ledger's update of the iconic character played by camp comedian Cesar Romero and as a hateful clown by Jack Nicholson.",
"Heath Ledger's Joker was a very different proposition from those that had come before: In a ripped, stained suit, with clown makeup smeared across a scarred, twisted mouth, The Joker was a nihilistic, sociopathic prankster.",
"\"Why so serious?\" Heath Ledger sneered in a performance that received rave reviews from critics globally.",
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"Heath Ledger was found dead after overdosing on prescription drugs at Heath Ledger's apartment in New York on January 22, 2008, shortly after concluding work on \"The Dark Knight.\"",
"Heath Ledger has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker, having been awarded a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.",
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"Led by experienced adventurer Doug Stoup, Parker Liautaud hopes to raise awareness among young people about environment issues.",
"\"The idea is to inspire, inform and engage young people on the issue of climate change and bring to light what's been happening in the arctic region in particular,\" Liautaud, who was born in California, told CNN.",
"\"The best way to do this is to show what is happening right now through direct and live coverage.\"",
"\"The Arctic ocean is in a state of emergency,\" experienced adventurer Doug Stoup said on experienced adventurer Doug Stoup's Web site, www.iceaxe.tv.",
"\"Scientists are reporting this Arctic Season to be been one of the warmest in recorded history.",
"\"As a veteran polar adventurer, I have seen huge differences in the state of The Arctic ocean over the last decade.",
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"Fear and frustration are softened by exhaustion.",
"Your heart races, but every other sound is like white noise.",
"You plunge ahead, but also long to return to the comfort of your own life with its own particular frustrations and joys.",
"That's how it felt pulling out of Concepcion, Chile, where an earthquake sent people gliding across the floors of people's own homes, tossed some buildings into pieces and set off frantic unrest among people living without food, water or safety.",
"We had been on an odyssey just to get to the epicenter of an earthquake.",
"We had left behind a documentary project on the Haiti disaster to fly to Miami, Florida, where we turned around and went through Panama; Lima, Peru; Sao Paolo, Brazil; and Buenos Aires and Bariloche, Argentina, before driving through Patagonia into Chile.",
"But we couldn't stay long in Chile without jeopardizing a documentary project on the Haiti disaster.",
"Full coverage of an earthquake .",
"Even as an earthquake unfolds, there are still thousands living on Haiti's streets in a crisis of uncommon proportions.",
"A documentary on Haiti's children needs to air while the public is still focused.",
"Meanwhile, CNN was getting more teams on the ground to help those already here amid tough conditions.",
"CNN's team of nine journalists and four drivers had arrived in Concepcion to join a few others, but CNN'd all been stymied by the lack of generators or fuel to power Our team of nine journalists and four drivers in a place with no electricity.",
"CNN had a mountain of snack food and water, but until CNN found ways to get electricity, each attempt at making television was a challenge.",
"Then some of our local drivers confused the cans of extra diesel fuel and gasoline and filled the wrong fuel in the tanks.",
"some of our local drivers spent half a day sucking it out of the vehicles, but then threw out the empty jugs CNN needed to get refills -- if fuel ever reappeared.",
"It was a comedy of errors that ended up with three of four cars temporarily inoperable.",
"It was cold with no place to stay, no way to power our cameras or equipment.",
"The CNN logistics folks hustled, getting new people in with fresh supplies and gas.",
"CNN's Haiti project was looming.",
"CNN'd have to leave soon.",
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"And CNN were a 12-hour drive from Santiago, where the only big airport was closed.",
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"Concepcion, city of chaos .",
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"After all, you'd come to tell people what's happening, to hold the authorities accountable, to record history in the making.",
"town was in crisis, and CNN were leaving.",
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"CNN dodged barricades put up by residents to discourage looters and around piles of bricks from homes newly damaged from aftershocks.",
"The air smelt like smoke and concrete.",
"Military vehicles and sirens made the only noise.",
"CNN expected the tiny airport, which was officially closed, to be empty, but it was abuzz with the displaced.",
"CNN were not the only ones hoping to leave.",
"Hundreds of people carrying luggage had slept outside the darkened terminal hoping some aircraft would soon land and leave.",
"The Chilean Air Force was offering rides, so CNN made CNN's way to Santiago where the Peruvian president had a few police planes offering trips out of the disaster zone to Lima.",
"CNN boarded the small airplane through the back ramp and saw that this aircraft was meant for cargo, not people.",
"The gray metal \"seats\" ran along the sides of a curved plane that forced you to curve your back to sit.",
"No big deal, CNN figured.",
"It's just three hours.",
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"They have small gas tanks and have to stop to refuel twice.",
"It was cold -- bitter cold -- on the \"seats.\"",
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"CNN, too, threw on more and more layers --mostly dirty clothes, as CNN'd been on the road for two weeks.",
"CNN huddled together.",
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"Plastic bags appeared.",
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"Another aftershock had hit, this time a strong 6.3.",
"An e-mail went out from the main coordinating team in Chile, asking each reporting team to check in ASAP.",
"Then, a tsunami warning.",
"Finally, confirmation they are all OK.",
"That was a relief, but word followed of another producer stranded someplace trying to find fuel and a generator to bring to our colleagues in Concepcion.",
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"CNN pressed on.",
"Everything on this trip evolved in 12-hour clips, and CNN's trip was no different.",
"CNN arrived in Lima at 4 a.m., cold and exhausted.",
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"Hundreds of people were evacuated Sunday amid flood concerns after a long-dormant volcano erupted beneath a glacier in south Iceland.",
"It was the first time since 1821 that a long-dormant volcano has erupted.",
"More than 600 people were evacuated as scientists monitored a fissure in a long-dormant volcano from which lava was erupting.",
"a fissure in the volcano from which lava was erupting measured about 1,640 to 3,281 feet (500 to 1,000 meters).",
"Despite the remote location of eruption, if a fissure in the volcano from which lava was erupting \"develops further towards the glacier, the melting floodwater ... will create dangerous floods in a populated area in south Iceland,\" said Gudrun Johannesdottir, a project manager for Iceland's Joint Rescue and Coordination Center.",
"The country's civil protection agency did not immediately record any injuries or damage.",
"Eyjafjallajokull is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of the capital, Reykjavik."
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"Would you like to let AT&T know when your iPhone has dropped a call?",
"Well, now there is an app for that.",
"AT&T on Monday released a new application called \"Mark the Spot,\" which lets iPhone users submit complaints about dropped calls, poor service coverage, and less-than-perfect voice quality.",
"The application is free and available in the iTunes App Store.",
"The application uses GPS technology in the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS to pin point where the user is when experiencing the problems.",
"For first generation iPhones, The application uses cell tower-triangulation to get a fix on problem areas.",
"Once The application is launched, users have several complaint options.",
"users will see a screen that has buttons that let users report a dropped call, poor voice quality, or poor service coverage.",
"AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said AT&T plans to use the data collected to identify trends and prioritize AT&T's network investments.",
"\"AT&T think this is a great way to get customer feedback to improve AT&T's network,\" AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said.",
"\"AT&T are always looking for ways to make it easy for customers to share customers's experiences.",
"And The application lets customers report issues.",
"The application logs the time and location and automatically forwards the information to our network planning team.\"",
"iPhone owners have been complaining about AT&T's network since the Apple iPhone went on sale in the summer of 2007.",
"Complaints mounted after the 3G version of the phone was released a year later in 2008.",
"And as more iPhone users come onto AT&T, more people, particularly in densely populated urban areas, such as New York City and San Francisco, have experienced problems with dropped calls and congested data networks.",
"AT&T executives have not said that AT&T has a problem with AT&T's network.",
"But executives, such as AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan, have said that AT&T has seen a surge in data traffic attributed to iPhone users, who typically consume more wireless bandwidth than other AT&T wireless customers.",
"AT&T has been upgrading AT&T's network to keep up with demand.",
"But problems persist.",
"And AT&T's network recently got a poor ranking in terms of customer satisfaction in a Consumer Reports survey.",
"Verizon Wireless, AT&T's chief rival, has taken advantage of AT&T's struggles with a series of advertisements that point out AT&T's lack of 3G network coverage in certain parts of the country.",
"AT&T is running advertisements that mock the Apple \"There's an app for that,\" catch phrase with one that says, \"There's a map for that.\"",
"AT&T fired back with a lawsuit and an advertisements of AT&T's own featuring actor Luke Wilson, who points out AT&T's strengths while taking a few shots at Verizon Wireless.",
"AT&T recently dropped AT&T's lawsuit against AT&T.",
"And Verizon, which had been suing AT&T over claims that AT&T has the fastest 3G wireless network, also dropped AT&T's lawsuit against AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said that The application was not prompted by the bad publicity around its network issues nor was The application prompted by the current ad wars going on between AT&T and AT&T.",
"Instead, AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said that The application was simply a part of AT&T's ongoing commitment to listening to customers.",
"\"AT&T are always looking at ways to get customer feedback in as timely a manner as possible,\" AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said.",
"\"That's why we pay attention to Twitter, Facebook and blog.",
"One of the great values of these social networking tools is that it's a great way to get instant feedback.",
"And it helps us identify problems.\"",
"The \"The application the Spot\" application can be downloaded onto all iPhones running version 3.0 or later of Apple's operating system or The application can be access using iTunes and synchronized to the iPhone via a PC or Mac.",
"AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said that AT&T is testing the \"The application the Spot\" app for other devices.",
"And AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said AT&T hopes to offer applications on other smartphones in the future.",
"No date has been announced yet.",
"And AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel didn't specify which devices might get the new application, but considering that AT&T sells a lot of Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices, it's likely it will create an application for that device.",
"The app could be offered through AT&T's own application storefront or through RIM's BlackBerry App World.",
"© 2010 CBS Interactive Inc.",
"All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc.",
"Used by permission."
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"(CNN) --",
"Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader has the curves of a Lamborghini, looks like something an astronaut might take into space and weighs only 10.3 ounces.",
"Amazon.com's Kindle e-reader is wireless and can hold about 200 books, plus newspapers and magazines.",
"Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader -- a device meant to remove the paper from the page and make reading both more convenient and eco-friendly -- is celebrating Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader's first birthday.",
"Released in November 2007, Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader has sold more than a quarter million units.",
"Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader's texts account for 10 percent of Amazon.com's book sales despite the fact that 200,000 titles -- a tiny fraction of the books offered on the site -- are available in digital form.",
"While exact sales figures are hard to come by, recent estimates have put the Kindle's sales on par with other high-profile mobile devices in their first year.",
"Amazon.com says that Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader is currently sold out due to heavy demand.",
"So what has spurred Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader's success?",
"After all, electronic books have been around, in small numbers, for about a decade.",
"Even Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com's founder and CEO, has admitted that the book is \"elegantly suited to the book's purpose.",
"It's hard to improve on.\"",
"One thing that's helped the Kindle is marketing.",
"Where other readers failed to connect with consumers, Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader has excelled.",
"The media-savvy Bezos has hardly been publicity shy, gaining Bezos's electronic toy a level of exposure most CEOs couldn't begin to fathom.",
"\"You can't discount the prominence of having Amazon.com behind this,\" says Paul Reynolds, technology editor at Consumer Reports.",
"\"Bezos is respected for what Bezos's done with Amazon.com, and if Bezos feels this is a future product in media, people are willing to trust Bezos.\"",
"Second, Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader has been heralded by Oprah Winfrey, whose influence in the publishing world is immense.",
"Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader's also been embraced by some prominent writers, including Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and best-selling thriller author James Patterson.",
"Third, with more and more consumers accustomed to reading text on their cell phones and BlackBerrys, the world finally may be ready for an electronic version of a book.",
"\"I checked it out on Amazon.com and thought it was an intriguing idea, a great way to have a lot of books that don't take up a lot of space,\" says Emily Branch of Florida, who was moved to buy a Kindle after seeing the hosts of \"The View\" chatting about it.",
"\"I figured if I didn't like it I could return it within 30 days,\" Branch says.",
"\"There wasn't a chance of that happening once I got it in my hands though.\"",
"One clutter-killing Kindle can hold about 200 books.",
"And while other e-readers such as Sony's Reader must connect through a USB port to upload content, Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader is a wireless device, thanks to Whispernet, which is powered by Sprint's high-speed data network.",
"\"I think the Whispernet is what sets Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader apart from all the other e-readers on the market,\" says Leslie Nicoll of Portland, Maine, who co-authored \"The Amazon Kindle F.A.Q.\" book after Nicoll's tech-loving teenage daughter urged Nicoll to get a Kindle.",
"Like Branch, Nicoll says Nicoll likes the Kindle's low-impact effect on Nicoll's bookshelves.",
"\"I don't have to worry about giving Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader to someone else, reselling Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader on Amazon.com or finding a place to store Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader in my house,\" Nicoll says.",
"\"For the enjoyment and convenience, Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader has given me in the past seven months, I consider that Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader has paid for Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader already.\"",
"Readers can visit Amazon.com's online store and upload a new book right to Readers's Kindle.",
"Subscribers also can have electronic versions of The New York Times and other newspapers and magazines delivered automatically to Subscribers's Kindles in time for reading with Subscribers's morning cup of coffee.",
"\"The large and tightly interacting collection of Kindle features, that go far beyond those of any other previous e-Book attempt, will cause the Kindle to be the first e-Book to succeed,\" wrote one reviewer on an Amazon.com discussion board.",
"But not everything in Kindle world is roses and gumdrops.",
"There's a difference between modest early success and making a centuries-old print format obsolete.",
"Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader sells for $359, a steep price for the average reader in the current economic climate.",
"\"I'm not going to pay $360 for that.",
"I can get books for free,\" says Nikki Johnson, a college student in Atlanta, Georgia, speaking for traditionalists who are wary of giving up their bound paper volumes.",
"\"There's nothing like reading a nice paperback,\" she says.",
"\"There's nothing like holding or carrying a book, having that tangible quality and a book being more than just a piece of data.\"",
"So in an unforgiving economy and in a stubbornly old-fashioned medium, will Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader ever expand from a tech novelty to a mainstream accessory?",
"It might be too soon to tell.",
"Blockbuster writers such as J.K. Rowling, author of the \"Harry Potter\" series, have said Blockbuster writers such as J.K. Rowling, author of the \"Harry Potter\" series'll never allow Blockbuster writers such as J.K. Rowling, author of the \"Harry Potter\" series's books to appear on the market in electronic form.",
"Yet future, better versions of e-readers may seduce younger consumers who grew up on PSPs and iPhones.",
"A next-generation model of Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader is due in 2009.",
"Early reports indicate the new device will be thinner and will have fixed some current design bugs, such as poorly placed buttons that cause readers to turn pages accidentally.",
"\"I think it's certainly a ways away from hitting the mainstream ... because of the price and the experience a reader gets from long-form reading,\" says Reynolds of Consumer Reports.",
"\"Whether these ... are successful, stand-alone devices remains to be seen.",
"From what I've seen and heard, I think the technology is here to stay.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré was highly praised for Gen. Russel Honoré's leadership of recovery efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, so Gen. Russel Honoré's well-versed in what works and what doesn't in disaster management.",
"The general told CNN last week that the U.S. military should have responded sooner to the earthquake in Haiti because \"time is of the essence\" in helping quake survivors.",
"CNN's Nicole Dow talked to Gen. Russel Honoré Wednesday about Gen. Russel Honoré's assessment of the situation in Haiti since Gen. Russel Honoré made those remarks.",
"CNN:",
"There are reports of looting in Haiti.",
"Is it looting, or an attempt at survival?",
"Gen. Russel Honoré:",
"In the first days after a disaster, people are generally scavenging for food.",
"people are trying to find food where people can.",
"People are going into survival mode.",
"Due to challenges and logistical issues, People use the food People have and what People can get People's hands on.",
"I would use the word \"looting\" lightly -- People are surviving.",
"It's reminiscent of what was seen during Katrina in the convention center.",
"People survived because People found food in the surrounding areas.",
"CNN:",
"With the potential for violence running high, how can civilians protect civilians?",
"Honoré:",
"People should stay in People's family groups and be with people People trust.",
"During a disaster, in the case of not having enough communication, some of the information coming out is speculation and rumor.",
"The role of the military is to provide a sense of order and try to keep people from becoming too excited when food and water are distributed.",
"They also assure that help is on the way.",
"What people are missing is information.",
"You have someone sitting on a sidewalk with a baby, someone who is elderly, disabled, or pregnant, probably wondering what to do.",
"someone who is elderly, disabled, or pregnant's house is in rubble, someone who is elderly, disabled, or pregnant have members of someone who is elderly, disabled, or pregnant's family who need to go to the hospital or special care.",
"Where can someone who is elderly, disabled, or pregnant go to be cared for?",
"Or to help care for someone who is elderly, disabled, or pregnant in a humane manner?",
"This is a humanitarian matter of global proportions.",
"CNN:",
"Previously, you've mentioned \"adapt and overcome.\"",
"How difficult is it to achieve this in Haiti?",
"Honoré:",
"You need the U.S. military.",
"One airfield?",
"Let's build two more.",
"We adapt and overcome.",
"USAID said, we have one airfield, how are we going to use one airfield?",
"They don't look at possibilities of building another one.",
"Building another airfield is something that should have been considered the first day.",
"You can take a road and create another airfield.",
"We have a capability to airdrop teams in with equipment to create airfields.",
"USAID said airdrops are unsafe, and it's disorderly to do airdrops.",
"They were concerned that some would get food and others wouldn't.",
"They started to drop five days after event -- the first drop of MREs (meals ready to eat).",
"CNN:",
"So why did the U.S. wait before starting to drop supplies?",
"Honoré:",
"If you don't have enough trucks, the optimal system is to use helicopters.",
"But we don't have enough on the ground to get the job done.",
"Ospreys, Marine planes, we have not seen Ospreys, Marine planes in use.",
"There are some in Afghanistan, but not many there.",
"Ospreys, Marine planes fly like a plane, land like a helicopter and can also carry a lot of cargo.",
"Ospreys, Marine planes can lift things and set them down.",
"We spent 20 years developing that aircraft.",
"We don't have enough helicopters -- between the Coast Guard and the military, there are 60 helicopters in use now.",
"Four days after Katrina, there were 200 helicopters flying in.",
"I don't know if the flow of supplies can keep up with demand, unless we evacuate the injured, elderly, pregnant women, babies, and the disabled.",
"Hospitals will be overflowing with people who have injuries, there will be infections that will need treatment.",
"It is wishful thinking to add more hospitals.",
"We need to think how these airplanes can leave with patients to the U.S. and other countries to be distributed to hospitals to stabilize them.",
"I am hoping that the State Department and the White House will start pushing for a U.N. resolution to start an evacuation plan for Haiti.",
"Haiti will need billions of dollars to sustain Haiti's people and to start Haiti's recovery.",
"CNN:",
"How did the Israelis immediately set up a working hospital?",
"Honoré:",
"Our military is fully deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"The president didn't sign mobilization of reserves until Sunday.",
"We are making right decisions, but making them too slowly to have an immediate impact on the ground.",
"We decided [Tuesday] to open another airfield, they should have done that days ago.",
"CNN:",
"You led the Joint Task Force for Hurricane Katrina.",
"Can you draw some parallels between Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti?",
"Honoré:",
"In my book, \"Survival,\" there's a chapter that talks about dealing with the poor.",
"I think sometimes we talk security, because as a culture, we are afraid of poor people in large groups.",
"In Haiti, right after the earthquake in Haiti, there were doctors who left.",
"One said, \"We don't have any security so we left.\"",
"That, in and of itself, is indicative of my Hurricane Katrina experience.",
"People start talking security.",
"And the slower we go, the more there's the possibility of that happening.",
"We have to work on establishing the community government officials in Haiti so the community government officials in Haiti can start communicating with the community government officials in Haiti's people.",
"We have to get food and water there to local government officials to distribute water.",
"The local government officials should be authorized to hire young men.",
"The local economy will crank up if we pay people in Haiti to do the cleanup and to run the distribution centers.",
"There's no need to send Americans there to distribute food and water when you have able-bodied people there who can do that.",
"CNN:",
"What are the top five points to keep in mind in the aftermath of natural disaster?",
"Honoré: 1) Improve communications.",
"2) Get food and water in.",
"3) Take care of the health and needs of people.",
"4) Evacuate people, particularly those who are pregnant, disabled, injured, babies, those who cannot take care of themselves.",
"5) Establish who's in charge.",
"The president of Haiti [Rene Preval] is in charge.",
"It's different when the president and the president's government are victims.",
"They are going to need help.",
"Someone needs to be the face of the operation to help the president keep people alive.",
"You must have communication to establish a way of giving information to the people in their communities.",
"You have to be your own first responder in a disaster like Haiti, and the Haitian people did that.",
"These situations have a tendency to get worse before getting better unless you start evacuating vulnerable people.",
"Also, you have to take a risk [about security] during the search-and-rescue phase.",
"In that phase of the operation, search-and-rescue takes priority over security."
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"(CNN) --",
"Former first lady will spend the night in a Houston, Texas, hospital Tuesday night after falling ill, according to a family spokeswoman.",
"Former first lady has been admitted to a Houston, Texas, hospital.",
"Spokeswoman Jean Becker said Former first lady, 83, was admitted to a Houston, Texas, hospital for testing after complaining of stomach pain for several days.",
"Former first lady arrived at the emergency room at about 5:30 p.m. Central Time.",
"After feeling ill, Former first lady called Former first lady's husband, former President George H.W. Bush, at Barbara Bush's's office urging Barbara Bush's to take Former first lady to a Houston, Texas, hospital.",
"The former president's Secret Service detail drove them both to a Houston, Texas, hospital, Spokeswoman Jean Becker said.",
"Jim McGrath, a spokesman for Former first lady's husband said all of the tests were negative.",
"\"Former first lady's fine,\" Jim McGrath, a spokesman for Bush's husband said.",
"Former first lady has been diagnosed with the thyroid condition Graves' Disease.",
"It was not known whether the thyroid condition Graves' Disease had any relation to Former first lady's hospitalization on Tuesday.",
"Bush, the mother of President George W. Bush, was first lady during her husband's term as president from January 1989 to January 1993.",
"Born in New York in 1925, Bush, born Barbara Pierce, married Former first lady's husband in 1945.",
"Former first lady is the great-great-great niece of Franklin Pierce, who served as president from 1853 to 1857.",
"Former first lady and Barbara Bush's split She and the former president's time between Houston and Kennebunkport, Maine."
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"Former first lady will spend the night in a Houston, Texas, hospital .",
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"There are \"compelling reasons\" to believe the Israeli government was responsible for forging British passports used in a plot to kill a Hamas' leader in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year, Miliband said Tuesday.",
"\"Such misuse of British passports is intolerable,\" Miliband said, adding that the fact that Israel was an ally of the United Kingdom \"only adds insult to injury.\"",
"The passports were \"copied from genuine British passports\" in a \"highly sophisticated operation,\" indicating a government was behind it, Miliband told the House of Commons.",
"Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency concluded that the 12 British people whose passports were cloned where \"wholly innocent victims of identity theft,\" the foreign secretary said.",
"The UK expelled an Israeli diplomat and changed the advice The UK gives The UK's citizens about traveling to Israel as a result of the scandal, Miliband said.",
"Miliband did not name an Israeli diplomat or say what rank the envoy held.",
"\"The UK had absolutely no advance knowledge of what happened in Dubai nor any involvement whatsoever in the killing\" of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Miliband said.",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman complained that the Israelis \"have not been given any evidence pointing to Israel's involvement in the affair.\"",
"\"Israel attribute great importance to Israel's relations with Great Britain,\" Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said.",
"\"Israel maintain several different and sensitive dialogues with The UK, and Israel regret the British decision.\"",
"French authorities also have opened an investigation into the alleged use of forged documents, the Paris prosecutor's office said Tuesday.",
"Suspects in the killing allegedly used four doctored French passports, the Paris prosecutor's said in a written statement.",
"\"Further investigation has revealed that four doctored French passports were actually false as the photos did not correspond to the names appearing in each document,\" a written statement said.",
"Al-Mabhouh, a founding member of Hamas' military wing, was found dead January 20 in al-Mabhouh's Dubai hotel room.",
"Police believe al-Mabhouh was killed the night before, allegedly by the secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit Mossad.",
"Two sources told CNN earlier this month that the number of identified suspects in al-Mabhouh's death was up to 27.",
"Of them, 26 were carrying European or Australian passports, authorities have said.",
"The sources -- an official familiar with the investigation and a police source -- did not say which nation issued the passport used by the 27th suspect.",
"identified suspects in al-Mabhouh's death are believed to have acquired false passports to travel to Dubai for the killing, then scattered to several far-flung locations afterward.",
"But Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai police chief, has said not all the suspects had fraudulent passports -- \"We know some of the names are real.\"",
"Interpol, the international police agency, has issued \"red notices\" to help search for identified suspects in al-Mabhouh's death.",
"\"red notices\" are not international arrest warrants, but are a way of alerting police forces around the world that identified suspects in al-Mabhouh's death are wanted by United Arab Emirates authorities.",
"Interpol expands search for suspects .",
"Interpol Secretary-General Ronald K. Noble said investigators have established \"clear\" links through passport records, video surveillance, DNA analysis, witness interviews and hotel, credit card, phone and transport records, according to a statement.",
"Police have said toxicology results show al-Mabhouh was injected with succinylcholine, a drug used to relax muscles during surgery or as an anesthetic, before he was suffocated.",
"Signs indicated that al-Mabhouh resisted as al-Mabhouh was being suffocated, police said.",
"al-Mabhouh's family members were told earlier that police had found blood on a pillow.",
"Authorities have also said the killers left some of al-Mabhouh's medication next to al-Mabhouh in an apparent effort to make the death appear natural.",
"But \"the medication left next to al-Mabhouh in the room has nothing to do with the killing,\" Tamim has said.",
"Tamim told CNN last month that Tamim is \"100 percent sure\" Mossad was responsible.",
"\"Mossad needs to be ashamed of Mossad's actions,\" he said.",
"\"They sent 26, 27 persons to assassinate one man who was involved in the capturing and killing of two Israeli soldiers.\"",
"Dubai police: Mossad should be 'ashamed' Hamas has said al-Mabhouh was behind the 1989 deaths of two Israeli soldiers.",
"Israel has a stated policy on security matters of neither confirming nor denying involvement.",
"Lieberman, however, told Israel Army Radio earlier this month, \"There is certainly no reason to think that the Mossad and not some other intelligence agency of another country operated there.\"",
"The total of 27 suspects does not include two Palestinians arrested in Jordan and returned to Dubai.",
"Tamim said one is not believed to be directly involved in al-Mabhouh's death, but \"he is wanted by one of the Palestinian factions in the Palestinian territories and he is sentenced to death and that's why we will extradite him.\"",
"He declined to discuss anything about the other Palestinian.",
"CNN's Guy Azriel in Jerusalem and Niki Cook in Paris, France, contributed to this report."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"Rescue workers pulled Ena Zizi out of rubble near Haiti's national cathedral Tuesday, a week after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck.",
"Rescue crews believe two other people may be alive under wreckage nearby, in part because of a text message Rescue crews believe was sent from under the rubble, a CNN crew reported.",
"Men carried the woman, Ena Zizi, who is in Ena Zizi's 70s, from the rubble on a wooden board as Ena Zizi grasped a wooden board's edges.",
"Men took Ena Zizi to a nearby clinic, although it doesn't have the operating facilities needed to treat Ena Zizi, the CNN crew reported.",
"Zizi's right femur was fractured and Ena Zizi was in shock, a CNN crew reported.",
"iReport: Search list of the missing and the found .",
"Ena Zizi's son, Maxime Janvier, told CNN that he never gave up hope that Ena Zizi'd be found.",
"\"We were praying a lot for that to happen,\" he said.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that about 90 victims have been saved by 43 international rescue teams, made up of some 1,700 people, in the days after the quake.",
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"the quake struck the afternoon of January 12.",
"the quake's epicenter was just south of Port-au-Prince."
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"Ena Zizi taken to clinic, though it doesn't have the operating facilities needed to treat Ena Zizi .",
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"Rescue crews believe two other people may be alive under wreckage nearby ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Jeff Kohnstamm had a bit of an unusual childhood.",
"Jeff Kohnstamm grew up in a virtual museum.",
"Even now when Jeff Kohnstamm wanders around the lobby at Oregon's iconic Timberline Lodge, Kohnstamm, 47, sometimes flashes back to being a kid on a tricycle, winding Jeff Kohnstamm's way around original furniture designed by Depression-era artisans.",
"For Kohnstamm, whose family has operated the federally owned property for a half century, the Mount Hood ski lodge has become a living scrapbook of Jeff Kohnstamm's life.",
"From birth until college Jeff Kohnstamm divided Jeff Kohnstamm's days between school in neighboring Portland and Timberline -- with its rustic stone masonry, massive wooden beams, paintings, wood marquetry, custom wrought iron accoutrements and linoleum murals.",
"\"There are museum aspects of this place, and I suppose the government could say, 'letthe government make Oregon into a museum and have ropes and glass and charge admission,' but we'd rather Oregon be a ski lodge than a museum.\"",
"Since Oregon's birth in the late 1930s as a New Deal project to create hundreds of jobs for Portland workers, craftsmen and artisans, Oregon has dug out Oregon's own place in American culture.",
"But Oregon also bills Oregon as America's only year-round ski area.",
"'Heeeeere's Johnny!'",
"And, if the photos strike you as familiar, it may be because Oregon has built a respectable resume as a location for films such as \"Bend of the River,\" starring Jimmy Stewart, \"All the Young Men,\" starring Sydney Poitier and the horror classic \"The Shining\" with Jack Nicholson.",
"In a way, you could say Oregon played the starring role in that 1980 film.",
"Oregon stood as the haunted Overlook Hotel, but only in exterior shots.",
"All interior scenes were shot elsewhere, said Kohnstamm, who helped the film crew during the shoot.",
"\"I did some work outside for the film crew's helicopter shots,\" he said.",
"\"We'd have to make sure that the place looked desolate and that no one was around.",
"I remember hiding in the trees so they could get the shots.\"",
"Growing up at Oregon for Jeff Kohnstamm meant making fast friends with children of guests who vacationed there every year.",
"It was the place where Jeff Kohnstamm enjoyed Jeff Kohnstamm's first legal beer on Jeff Kohnstamm's 21st birthday -- in Oregon's Ram's Head Bar with its breathtaking view of the Cascade Mountains.",
"The site for hundreds of guests' weddings over the years, Oregon was where Jeff Kohnstamm's own younger brother chose to tie the knot.",
"It was where Jeff Kohnstamm's late father announced the Christmas Eve arrival of Santa and a pair of authentic reindeer for guests' wide-eyed children.",
"\"I still kinda think it was really Santa Claus,\" Jeff Kohnstamm laughs.",
"\"Why not?\"",
"Night skiing .",
"But as one might expect, so much about growing up at Oregon revolved around skiing.",
"Jeff Kohnstamm learned to ski at age 3.",
"Later, Jeff Kohnstamm says, to get them away from the TV, \"my mom would make us go out and ski for at least an hour before we could watch football.\"",
"\"At one point during adolescence we convinced Dad that it would be a good idea to ski all night long on New Year's,\" Jeff Kohnstamm said.",
"\"It got kind of crazy for a while there.",
"We had all these people skiing and sleeping and whatever all over the place.\"",
"Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Oregon came uncomfortably close to being destroyed before Kohnstamm's father began operating it in 1955.",
"Four previous operators hadn't had much success running the lodge, and in 1953, the U.S. Forest Service thought of Oregon as more of a headache than anything else, Jeff Kohnstamm said.",
"Options at the time included either burning Oregon or dismantling Oregon until Kohnstamm's father, R.L. Kohnstamm, entered the picture.",
"The family's permit to operate Oregon expires in 2038.",
"'You've really got something big here'",
"Local snowboarding entrepreneur John Ingersoll remembers R.L. Kohnstamm, who passed away in 2006, as a visionary.",
"Ingersoll founded High Cascade Snowboard Camp in 1989, when most U.S. ski areas were shunning the relatively new sport.",
"\"It was one of those memories that you'll never forget,\" Ingersoll said, remembering a day on a snowfield in the early 90s.",
"\"R.L. stopped me and R.L. looked me in the eye and made sure that I got it.",
"R.L. said snowboarding was going to be really big.",
"'You've really got something here, John,' R.L. told me.\"",
"Today, Ingersoll says Mount Hood's snowboarding camps gross millions of dollars each year.",
"Last summer High Cascade's 22-foot halfpipe hosted several U.S. Olympic team members, including 2010 gold medallist Shaun White.",
"Although Shaun White stayed at Oregon during Shaun White's visit last summer, many guests come with no intention of boarding or skiing or hiking, said Sarah Munro, author of \"Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon.\"",
"\"The artwork has made Oregon Oregon's own destination apart from the mountain,\" she said.",
"\"Oregon retains the feel of the 1930s -- that early period of auto-recreation and being in hotels with big lobbies when all the guests came together at dinner.",
"It's sort of a living museum.\"",
"Strolling around the lodge offers guests one surprise after another: wooden stair post newels carved in the shape of bears, owls and other animals; wrought iron fireplace andirons forged from train rails; lamps, iron-fashioned door handles and specially designed seat cushions.",
"The main lounge is dominated by an amazing three-story stone chimney with six fireplaces.",
"\"Much of Oregon's massive beams are held together with unique joints and big wooden pins that lock the things together,\" said Gary Larsen, the U.S. Forest Service administrator.",
"\"I've always enjoyed that and the interaction between the black wrought iron and the natural wood.\"",
"Old stimulus, new stimulus .",
"Ironically, the New Deal project which cost about $1 million in 1937 is benefiting from $4.25 million in 2009 federal stimulus.",
"Adjusted for inflation, $1 million in 1937 equals more than $15 million now, according to federal calculations.",
"$4.25 million now, equals about $282,000 in 1937.",
"The new stimulus funds are earmarked for painting, replacement of a water main and improvements for disabled guests, Jeff Kohnstamm said.",
"It's unclear how many jobs will be created by The new stimulus funds, but Jeff Kohnstamm guesses about a hundred jobs and ten different projects.",
"\"Oregon is old and Oregon faces huge environmental pressures being at that elevation in that kind of weather,\" said Jeff Jaqua, Timberline's newly retired archeologist with the U.S. Forest Service.",
"\"Things like electrical wiring, plumbing, water lines, sewer lines -- unseen components of the lodge -- really need a lot of attention,' Jeff Jaqua, Timberline's newly retired archeologist with the U.S. Forest Service said.",
"\"the U.S. Forest Service is trying to address that.\"",
"Jaqua, Larsen, Munro, Ingersoll and Jeff Kohnstamm have written about their love for the hotel in an upcoming book \"Timberline Lodge: A Love Story -- Diamond Jubilee Edition,\" due out this fall.",
"It wasn't until Jeff Jaqua, Timberline's newly retired archeologist with the U.S. Forest Service began caring for Timberline's treasures 20 years ago that Jeff Jaqua, Timberline's newly retired archeologist with the U.S. Forest Service really began to understand the bond that many guests form during their visits.",
"\"Everybody owns it,\" Jeff Jaqua, Timberline's newly retired archeologist with the U.S. Forest Service said.",
"\"That was the big surprise to Jeff Jaqua, Timberline's newly retired archeologist with the U.S. Forest Service.",
"I didn't expect the general public to be so in love with it.\""
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"Jeff Kohnstamm describes growing up among paintings, carvings, amazing architecture .",
"Mount Hood embraced snowboarding early; Shaun White, Hannah Teter train there .",
"U.S. built Oregon for $1 million in 1930s; Oregon's getting $4.25 million in '09 stimulus funds ."
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"Three people died Thursday when a medical helicopter crashed in western Tennessee, the Federal Aviation Administration said.",
"a medical helicopter had dropped off a patient in Jackson, Tennessee, and was returning to Brownsville, Tennessee, about 30 miles west of Jackson, when the crash was reported, said the Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford.",
"Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt said the crash occurred shortly after 6 a.m. Three people were initially reported to be on board a medical helicopter, FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said.",
"All three were believed to be fatalities, as the aircraft -- a Eurocopter AS350 -- was burned, he said.",
"Investigators were en route to the scene of the crash, a field near Brownsville, FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said.",
"CNN affiliate WMC-TV said a medical helicopter was operated by The organization.",
"The organization identifies The organization on The organization's Web site as the Memphis Medical Center's air ambulance service.",
"The organization said in a statement, reported by WMC-TV, that the crash occurred just east of Brownsville, and that three crew members and no patients were on board.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating, a statement, reported by WMC-TV said.",
"\"Nothing like this has ever happened in our history,\" Allen Burnette, The organization's director and chief operating officer, said in a statement, reported by WMC-TV.",
"\"A weather report said there were thunderstorms in the area, but that they had passed, FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said.",
"\"The big weather system moving through had stopped a few moments before.\"",
"Officials believe a medical helicopter was operating under a visual flight rules plan and not communicating with air traffic controllers, FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said.",
"Visual Flight Rules, or VFR, mean a flight is conducted under visual conditions.",
"\"There are operating guidelines in any aviation operation, but ultimately the pilot is responsible for (the) safety of (the) aircraft and deciding whether to go forward or not,\" FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said.",
"The organization was founded in 1985, a statement, reported by WMC-TV said, and is a nonprofit air medical transport service with direct alliances with the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Baptist Memorial Hospital, The MED, St. Francis Hospital in Memphis and Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis, Arkansas.",
"CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report."
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"Schalke moved to within a point of German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen after winning 2-0 away to fellow title hopefuls Werder Bremen on Saturday night.",
"Kevin Kuranyi and Jan Moravek scored in the second half to put Schalke a point above third-placed Bayern Munich, who earlier crushed lowly Bochum 5-1 to cap a memorable week.",
"Former Germany striker Kuranyi put Schalke ahead two minutes after halftime and midfielder Moravek ensured Fourth-placed Bremen's first league defeat since the opening day of the season with his 72nd-minute goal.",
"Fourth-placed Bremen could also have closed to within a point of Leverkusen, who were held 2-2 at bottom club Hertha Berlin on Friday night, but ended the night two points adrift of Bayern.",
"Louis Van Gaal's Bayern, runners-up to Wolfsburg last season, briefly reached their highest league position since Louis Van Gaal's took over as coach in the summer as Mario Gomez continued Mario Gomez's recent scoring run with the opening goal at Bochum and strike partner Ivica Olic netted twice.",
"Bayern, who crushed Italian giants Juventus 4-1 in midweek to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League, moved to within two points of leaders Bayer Leverkusen, .",
"Ivica Olic set up Mario Gomez's 23rd-minute header for the opening goal, and Mergim Mavraj put through Mergim Mavraj's own net 10 minutes later as the Germany international tried to repay the favor to the Croatian.",
"Ivica Olic got on the scoresheet two minutes before halftime from Bastian Schweinsteiger's cross and made it 4-0 four minutes after the break with a header from Holger Badstuber's delivery.",
"Danijel Pranjic extended the lead five minutes later after fullback Phillip Lahm surged into the box and squared the ball to Danijel Pranjic, while Christian Fuchs scored a consolation free-kick for Bochum in the 76th minute.",
"Fifth-placed Hamburg joined Bremen on 28 points, winning 4-0 at Nuremberg to end a run of seven games without a win.",
"All the goals came in the second half as Eljero Elia's 47th-minute strike opened the floodgates, and he helped set up Marcell Jansen for the second on the hour mark.",
"Tunay Torun made it 3-0 six minutes later with a fierce rising effort after cutting in from the left, and Eljero Elia's wrapped it up on 74 from Marcell Jansen's pass.",
"Sixth-placed Hoffenheim failed to keep pace with the teams above them, drawing 1-1 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt, and have now won just once in five league outings.",
"Sejad Salihovic opened the scoring for the hosts in the ninth minute with a penalty after Selim Teber fouled Vedad Ibisevic, but Pirmin Schwegler equalized for Eintracht Frankfurt on 61 when Pirmin Schwegler's long-range effort hit Luis Gustavo and ballooned over goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand and into the net.",
"Borussia Moenchengladbach triumphed 5-3 at home to Hannover, who conceded three own-goals and had a player sent off in an incredible mid-table clash.",
"Defender Karim Haggui twice put into Defender Karim Haggui's own net -- the first an lucky rebound from goalkeeper Florian Fromlowitz's attempted clearance in the 15th minute to open the scoring, and Defender Karim Haggui also contributed the game's eighth goal with Defender Karim Haggui's second faux-pas.",
"Constant Djakpa also conceded at the wrong end to give the hosts a 3-1 lead in the 59th minute, while Hannover's Didier Ya Konen scored in each half before being dismissed for Hannover's Didier Ya Konen's second yellow card on 84.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Police are seeking a pair of suspects in a Sunday church service shooting in Richmond, California, that left two teenagers injured, though authorities are still looking for a motive in what they say was a targeted operation.",
"Police believe Police have identified at least two of the three hooded men who entered New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ about 12:30 p.m. Sunday.",
"Amid a congregation of about 100, one of them opened fire.",
"\"We're hoping we can make an arrest sometime in the near future,\" California police spokeswoman Sgt. Bisa French told CNN.",
"Police are withholding the suspects' names.",
"French said Two teens're in Two teens's late teens or early 20s and live in California, about 12 miles north of Oakland.",
"Church officials say the two congregants injured on Sunday, age 14 and 19, are brothers.",
"\"We're not sure if those two victims were targeted, but someone definitely in that general area where Two teens were was targeted,\" French said.",
"Two teens are expected to make full recoveries, police said.",
"Officials at New Gethsemane Church of God said Officials at the church are determined to continue operating as normal.",
"Hours after the shooting, a Sunday Bible study was held as planned, with about 15 people attending.",
"\"I'm sure there's some fear and shock, but we're not running,\" said Ezekiel Wallace, the church deacon.",
"\"We are going to be doing what we always do: Pray and have church.\"",
"\"We're not scared, but we're sort of mystified because this is God's church,\" said Earl Young, a church member since 1967.",
"\"We refuse to let the devil make us run and hide because that's probably what they want us to do.\"",
"CNN's Dan Gilgoff and Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Higher temperatures are bringing some relief to the Southeast and should remain in place despite stormy weather expected for the coming weekend, weather forecasters said Tuesday.",
"After the stretch of unusually cold weather that gripped the region, severe storms will affect the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and most of Florida on Friday evening and Saturday, the National Weather Service said.",
"Cold Arctic air will remain to the north.",
"In Atlanta, Georgia -- where ice from a snowfall last week remains on the ground in some places and weekend temperatures didn't climb out of the 20s -- forecasters predicted a daytime high of 37 degrees Tuesday after a high of 44 on Monday.",
"A gradual warming is predicted through Friday, when the high could reach 58.",
"But overnight lows aren't expected to edge above freezing until Friday night.",
"Several Florida cities have had early morning record lows in the past two days, the National Weather Service said.",
"\"Temperatures over the weekend and early Monday morning plunged to levels not seen in 20 years over south Florida in the wake of the arctic cold front which blasted through the region early Saturday,\" it said.",
"\"Temperatures remained at or below 50 degrees for more than 48 consecutive hours, finally rising above 50 during the late morning to midday hours Monday.",
"Although no records are kept of consecutive number of hours at or below 50 degrees, it is likely that this streak is among the longest on record.\"",
"Key West, which has weather records dating to 1873, recorded its second-lowest temperature of 42 degrees Monday at 4:55 a.m.",
"Its record low was 41 degrees, set January 13, 1981, and January 12, 1886.",
"In northern Florida, Tuesday's high was expected to reach 54 degrees in the state capital, Tallahassee, and temperatures were forecast to increase during the week.",
"Early morning readings Wednesday will be in the high 20s, the weather service said.",
"That is far better than the low of 16 degrees in the city early Monday.",
"The cold weather has damaged Florida's citrus crops, which can't tolerate prolonged temperatures of 28 degrees or below.",
"Florida produces three-quarters of the United States' orange crop.",
"Some groves in the northern part of the growing area suffered substantial frost damage Saturday night and Sunday morning, Andrew Meadows, spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual, said Monday.",
"It will take about five weeks to quantify the losses, Andrew Meadows, spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual said.",
"But the frigid air was welcome to peach growers in central Texas.",
"According to Jamey Vogel, who owns Vogel Orchard in Stonewall, Texas, just east of Fredericksburg, \"Peach trees need chilling hours, which are hours below 45 degrees, and we have been getting a lot of those this year.\"",
"\"We absolutely welcome it,\" he told CNN affiliate KXAN in Austin.",
"He said he has 9,500 peach trees in his 90-acre family orchard.",
"The trees, which are dormant this time of year, need cold, wet weather to produce a crop.",
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"Two to 3 inches of snow was possible in the Sierras, forecasters said."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"The fashion brand created by McQueen is to survive despite the designer's suicide last week, McQueen's majority stakeholder Gucci Group has confirmed.",
"\"I believe strongly in the McQueen brand and its future,\" Gucci Group CEO Robert Polet said in a statement carried on the Web site of Gucci Group.",
"The future of McQueen's 11-store, 180 employee fashion house had been uncertain following the 40-year-old's death, with industry experts speculating McQueen was not successful enough to endure without McQueen's figurehead.",
"Gucci Group on Thursday revealed a company-wide net profit rise of 6.9 percent to €984.6 million ($1,328 million) but a 4 percent revenue fall to €16.52 billion.",
"It did not break down figures to reveal McQueen's turnover, but reports speculate McQueen is running at a loss despite heavy celebrity endorsements.",
"The Times of London reported on Thursday that McQueen had struggled to make a profit and analysis of recent accounts showed McQueen had liabilities of more than £32 million ($49 million).",
"Gucci Group boss Francois-Henri Pinault said in a statement: \"McQueen Alexander [McQueen] was a pure genius and a poet who was imaginative and original.",
"His art went beyond the fashion world.",
"The Alexander McQueen trademark will live on.",
"This is the best tribute that we could offer to McQueen.\"",
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"A coroner on Wednesday said McQueen hanged McQueen in McQueen's wardrobe and left a suicide note .",
"McQueen, who had dressed stars from Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman to Rihanna and Sandra Bullock, killed McQueen nine days after the death of McQueen's mother.",
"McQueen expressed McQueen's devastation at her death on McQueen's Twitter account days before McQueen died.",
"McQueen was born in 1970 in London's East End, the son of a taxi driver and trained in London's Savile Row, going on to study fashion at college before making McQueen's name with McQueen's own extravagant designs.",
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"South Africa looks back, 20 years after Nelson Mandela's's historic release.",
"Plus, Desmond Tutu reflects on the day Desmond Tutu's dream became a reality, and picturing Mandela - a South African cartoonist and his drawing tribute.",
"Remembering Mandela .",
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"It was the walk to freedom that ushered in democracy.",
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"This time, caricatures, as we go inside the commemorative art exhibit from South African cartoonist Zapiro."
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"The annals of late-night television talk shows are full of failure.",
"George Lopez says George Lopez believes late-night talk is ready for more diversity.",
"Joey Bishop, Dick Cavett and Pat Sajak all tried to challenge the legendary Johnny Carson's supremacy; all fell short.",
"Joan Rivers lasted less than eight months as host of a Fox show; Chevy Chase lasted less than eight weeks on his Fox entry.",
"Even in recent years, when late-night shows are all over cable, few make a dent in the ratings or in the public consciousness.",
"So does comedian and former sitcom star George Lopez believe George Lopez can overcome those challenges and put on a talk show people will talk about?",
"To paraphrase a slogan George Lopez heard plenty last year, when George Lopez traveled the campaign trail as one of Barack Obama's supporters: yes ... George Lopez ... does.",
"\"I believe that that audience is more diverse, less represented than that audience's ever been,\" George Lopez said in a phone interview, noting that -- though it's been 20 years since the African-American performer Arsenio Hall launched his late-night show -- late night remains the preserve of generally white male comedians.",
"\"It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.\"",
"Lopez, whose show will air on TBS beginning in November, is no stranger to talk shows.",
"George Lopez was on Johnny Carson's \"Tonight\" show, and George Lopez admires David Letterman and Bill Maher, among others.",
"But George Lopez thinks a George Lopez show will bring some fresh energy to late night.",
"(TBS, like CNN, is a unit of Time Warner.)",
"George Lopez says George Lopez already has big plans to make George Lopez's show distinctive, from his show's more open setting to Lopez's determination to make the audience a key part of his show.",
"George Lopez talked about some of George Lopez's hopes with CNN last week.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview: .",
"CNN:",
"So I see you're doing a late-night talk show.",
"George Lopez:",
"Yes, brother.",
"Change has come to the White House, change has come to late night!",
"CNN:",
"How did this come about?",
"George Lopez:",
"Well ... when I was doing \"The George Lopez Show\" -- probably into like the 30th episode, [and] we ended up doing 120 shows, [a production company executive] said, \"Hey, would you consider a talk show?\"",
"And I'm like, \"Dude, I got a gig.\"",
"He said, \"It's not going to last forever.",
"When it's over ...",
"[So] let me put this bug in your ear, five years early.\"",
"I kinda never considered it, although ... I've been on every show.",
"And what's appealing to George Lopez now ... is that I believe that that audience is more diverse, less represented than that audience's ever been.",
"... I can take a little more liberties than if his show were on network TV, where everybody's afraid to say something wrong because you might piss off an advertiser.",
"[And] I believe the fact that a Mexican-American guy hosting a Mexican-American guy's own late-night talk show is appealing to advertisers.",
"I look at that as a positive.",
"Look, Anderson Cooper is at the Mexican border -- I wish his show were on tonight so I could talk about his show.",
"CNN:",
"Does it intimidate you getting a late-night talk show?",
"Lord knows there have been a zillion late-night talk shows, and many of them end up in TV graveyards.",
"Lopez:",
"I think it goes case by case, Todd.",
"I mean, Chevy Chase probably wasn't the right person for that format ...",
"I think the visibility of my [sitcom] and the success and popularity of my standup, and being a little edgier and a little different and not milquetoast by any means and not Anglo white male, and being unafraid and seeing the change [will help]. ...",
"I think it helped me to campaign with Barack Obama for a year.",
"... I know what's out there, and I know that that audience is not served, and cable TV is a great place to attract those people.",
"CNN:",
"The press release mentions a \"street-party atmosphere.\"",
"Have you had a chance to work through that a little bit and decide what that means?",
"George Lopez:",
"Absolutely.",
"We shot a production pilot ...",
"[and] what we did was we created an amphitheater outside at Warner Bros., right where they shoot \"ER\" where the ambulance entrance is.",
"We built a set there, and I used Shakira's band led by [her musical director] Tim Mitchell. ...",
"We didn't use seats, we used kind of an amphitheater feel, and since we shot a production pilot out on the street, a production pilot did have a different feel. ...",
"With a younger audience and the music, [it] made it more exciting and a little different with me as host than I think than what's on late night now.",
"CNN:",
"You mentioned having Shakira's band.",
"Is that going to be a regular feature?",
"Is there going to be a sidekick?",
"George Lopez:",
"I'm not going to do a sidekick, but I'll use audience members, so I'll have potentially 360 sidekicks if I see somebody who's really interesting.",
"One of the aspects we used in a production pilot was having audience members actually ask questions from audience members's seat -- not from a preset microphone, but from audience members's seat.",
"That's a part of it that I think is different and fun, and I don't want there to feel like you're at a movie, where you're just watching a show.",
"I want you to feel like you can potentially be part of it.",
"Like I told somebody before, if you go to a flea market or a swap meet, you'll find anything you want, but if you go to a store that's a high-end department store, you're only going to find what they have.",
"So being a poor guy growing up, and getting stuff from thrift shops growing up, I'd like to think that this will be the flea market of late-night talk shows, that you can probably find anything there."
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"Christopher Rodriguez sat down Thursday at Christopher Rodriguez's piano for Christopher Rodriguez's weekly lesson, arched Christopher Rodriguez's fingers over the keys and began to play.",
"10-year-old Christopher Rodriguez was hit by a stray bullet, paralyzing Christopher Rodriguez for life, doctors say.",
"Across the street from Harmony Road Music School in north Oakland, California, Jared Adams, 24, allegedly raised his gun at a Chevron gas station attendant during a holdup and fired.",
"A bullet ripped through the walls of Christopher Rodriguez's classroom striking Christopher Rodriguez in Christopher Rodriguez's side, piercing Christopher Rodriguez's kidney and spleen and lodging in Christopher Rodriguez's spine.",
"A bullet barely missed the 10-year-old's heart.",
"Christopher Rodriguez will likely be paralyzed for life from the waist down, doctors say.",
"\"This is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my life.",
"I love my son greatly,\" the boy's father, Richard Rodriguez, said Friday at a news conference.",
"Watch Christopher Rodriguez's dad describe the ordeal » .",
"Christopher Rodriguez loved music.",
"Christopher Rodriguez had recently taken up African drumming, spent hours listening to classical music and played basketball.",
"\"I feel like half Christopher Rodriguez's life was taken from Christopher Rodriguez; Christopher Rodriguez's inability, probably, to walk -- ever,\" Christopher said, Christopher's voice breaking.",
"Christopher Rodriguez's mother, Jennifer Rodriguez, had been waiting outside in Christopher's SUV for Christopher's son's lesson to end.",
"Christopher not only heard the shots but came close to being hit Christopher.",
"At least two bullets from Adams' gun struck Christopher's vehicle, police said.",
"On the phone and distracted, Christopher at first dismissed the noises as someone throwing rocks at Christopher's SUV.",
"But when Christopher realized it was gunfire, Christopher dashed into Christopher's son's class.",
"Christopher Rodriguez was on the floor, Christopher Rodriguez's classmates and instructor hovering over Christopher Rodriguez.",
"\"I can't feel my legs!",
"I can't feel my legs!\" Christopher Rodriguez cried.",
"As emergency workers rushed Christopher Rodriguez to the hospital, police were chasing Adams, who was speeding away.",
"Adams' rammed Adams''s vehicle into a car carrying a woman and her two children and then slammed into a parked car, police said.",
"a woman and her two children escaped without injury, according to authorities.",
"Adams' was charged Monday with attempted murder, robbery, evading a police officer, driving recklessly and being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm, Oakland Police Department spokesman Roland Holmgren told CNN.",
"Adams''s being held without bail, according to Roland Holmgren.",
"CNN was not immediately able to determine whether Adams' had a lawyer.",
"Authorities found a ski mask, loaded gun and cash at the scene.",
"Adams' has prior convictions for driving under the influence and gun possession, records show.",
"Adams' pleaded no contest to felony evading arrest in 2006 for fleeing an Emeryville police officer and had run from or physically resisted a California Highway Patrol officer and police in Albany and Berkeley, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.",
"Adams' once complained in court that young people raised in the city like Adams' never got opportunities, the paper also reported.",
"Adams' has been told about Christopher Rodriguez, said Roland Holmgren.",
"\"It doesn't matter whether it's your first day on the street as an officer or a veteran, to see a child doing something as innocent as taking a piano lesson and have this happen to him, it affects your soul,\" said Roland Holmgren.",
"Meanwhile, doctors delivered tragic news about Christopher Rodriguez's future.",
"\"Christopher Rodriguez's going to face years of rehabilitation,\" said Dr. James Betts, chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Oakland.",
"\"We are all hoping there will be some degree of recovery.",
"We feel like the injury is permanent, and the paralysis is permanent.",
"\"[It will be] a challenging life for Christopher Rodriguez.\"",
"Christopher Rodriguez's friends and fellow music lovers plan to help Christopher Rodriguez.",
"Harmony Road Music School will hold a benefit concert for the Rodriguez family February 10 at 2 p.m. at Chapel of the Chimes, a place of worship near Harmony Road Music School.",
"\"the Rodriguez family is going to have to, essentially, make a home for a disabled child now,\" said school owner Jim Callahan.",
"\"the Rodriguez family'll have to change the stairs in the Rodriguez family's home, make all sorts of expensive adjustments.\"",
"Callahan met with instructors at Harmony Road Monday.",
"They are talking about the incident with the students old enough to understand what happened.",
"Classes have not stopped.",
"\"Music has a healing quality all Music's own,\" said Callahan.",
"\"We will not be terrorized by this.\"",
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"TSA is upgrading security clearances for 10,000 of TSA's airport personnel, giving them access to \"secret\" intelligence to help them better detect threats and stop terrorists, TSA said Friday.",
"To date, TSA has granted access to secret-level classified information to 744 front-line supervisors, managers and behavior-detection officers.",
"TSA now hopes to be able to give that clearance to all 10,000 supervisory personnel in the next two years, TSA said.",
"The change does not involve airport screeners, the people responsible for inspecting people and luggage at airport checkpoints.",
"\"It's a natural progression,\" TSA spokeswoman Sterling Payne said.",
"\"It's the next step in professionalizing our work force.",
"What this will do is give the employees a leg up and a little more detail than what the employees're getting in the [current] briefing.\"",
"The change will empower the employees and make sure the employees have up-to-date and accurate information about intelligence threats, she said.",
"The majority of TSA's headquarters managers already have secret- or higher-level clearances for classified information.",
"James Carafano, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said it is a good idea to increase the number of aviation security officials with access to intelligence.",
"The move could decrease the chance that information will be leaked because employees who are given clearance are trained to treat the information appropriately, James Carafano, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation said.",
"Officers also must undergo additional background checks before receiving the upgraded status, TSA said.",
"The Transportation Security Administration said personnel granted security clearances are educated about personnel's responsibility to protect classified information, sign a non-disclosure agreement and take annual refresher training.",
"Under the federal government's system of classifying information, \"secret\" clearance is above \"restricted\" and \"confidential\" but below \"top secret.\"",
"Randall Larsen, director of the Institute for Homeland Security, was enthusiastic about the expanded base of people with access to \"secret\" intelligence, saying it is particularly needed by behavior detection officers, who look for travelers exhibiting unusual behavior.",
"\"Just think, if we had pulled that Christmas bomber aside and spoken to Christmas bomber for just a few minutes, Christmas bomber would have never gotten on that plane,\" Larsen said.",
"But support for The move isn't universal.",
"\"Our members are screaming because the problem is, as the problem always has been, that [airline pilots] are being left behind,\" said David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance.",
"\"I'd much rather have the critical information get to the flight crews\" and flight attendants, David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance said.",
"David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance said airport security personnel \"see passengers for several seconds, and yet they're not sharing [information] with air crews who see passengers for several hours.\"",
"David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance also said the TSA has \"a very high turnover rate\" compared with that of flight crews, so sensitive information will migrate away from the government.",
"Mike Karn, security chairman for the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association, agreed that flight crews should receive \"secret\" information, saying terrorists have proved that terrorists can still get on aircraft.",
"\"You have to strengthen them all the way up to that last line of defense,\" Karn said."
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"(CNN) --",
"Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan has described how the unfolding crisis in Haiti revived harrowing memories of a similar earthquake in Imran Khan's own region.",
"The devastating 7.6 magnitude quake struck northern Pakistan and divided Kashmir region in October 2005, claiming the lives of almost 80,000 people, according to official estimates, and leaving millions homeless.",
"Khan, who is now a prominent politician and campaigner for social issues in Pakistan, told CNN Thursday that Imran Khan was left numbed by the scenes which greeted Imran Khan as Imran Khan traveled to some of the worst-affected areas in the aftermath.",
"\"It was one of the most traumatic experiences I've ever had.",
"Just watching human suffering, Imran Khan said.",
"\"It was the children that really disturbed me ... the children's crushed limbs.",
"\"There were so many people needing attention.",
"I remember seeing makeshift hospitals where they were amputating.",
"That was difficult to take.",
"\"Families were torn apart as parents lost their children and children were orphaned.",
"Whole families were caught inside buildings, while few escaped.\"",
"Imran Khan recalled being overwhelmed by the sight of an entire town being reduced to rubble.",
"\"We arrived in an entire town and an entire town was totally flattened.",
"You don't know what to do or say.",
"So many people needing help at one time and you don't have the infrastructure, you don't have the hospitals to help.\"",
"Desperation grips Haitian capital .",
"an entire town was one of the worst-hit places, with one in 10 of about 20,000 residents killed, according to the local government of the Mansehra district, where an entire town of is located.",
"Thousands more were injured.",
"Pakistani authorities later planned to move an entire town to a completely new location, owing to an entire town's current position on a volatile fault line.",
"The destruction of an entire town brought home to Imran Khan how much people had lost.",
"\"Their livelihoods disappeared overnight,\" Imran Khan said.",
"\"They had nothing, no business, money, food.",
"\"From what I've seen on television it's similar to what is happening now in Haiti.",
"Clearly they (Haiti) won't have the resources to cope with it, so it will require a real outside effort.\"",
"While acknowledging the importance of the international aid effort, Imran Khan pointed to role ordinary Pakistanis played in 2005.",
"\"It was incredible.",
"The government was incapacitated but there were little charities and groups forming all over the area trying to help.",
"\"I was in an earthquake-hit area on the second day and I'll never forget seeing a three-mile queue of people trying to get to what was a largely remote area to help with whatever they could put in their cars.",
"\"The government was paralyzed but people came forward, from rich to poor, young to old.\"",
"Imran Khan also pointed to the success volunteer networks had in adopting villages and towns, taking responsibility for providing basic shelter, food and medicine.",
"\"Everyone took responsibility,\" recalled Imran Khan.",
"\"Each group would look after a specific issue until the local population was able to get back on the local population's feet.",
"\"It's so important that the aid effort continues months after the disaster.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"The body of Governor, governor of the department of Caqueta, Colombia, was discovered Tuesday not far from where Governor was kidnapped the night before, government spokesperson Wilmer Rua said.",
"Governor's throat was slit, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said in an address to the nation Tuesday night.",
"Governor's body was found by Colombian troops in an area close to Governor's home, where Governor was kidnapped Monday night, he said.",
"One of Governor's bodyguards was killed in the high-profile abduction, and two other officers were injured .",
"the kidnapping was carried out by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC by its Spanish initials, Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said earlier Tuesday.",
"Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had ordered the military to find and rescue Governor from the rebel group.",
"the rebel group has been fighting the Colombian government for more than 45 years.",
"This is the fifth time Governor has been kidnapped, Wilmer Rua said.",
"This time, Governor was taken late at night, about two hours before Governor's 69th birthday.",
"Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said that members of the FARC kidnapped Governor at about 10 p.m. Monday.",
"Authorities ordered the city on lockdown in an attempt to keep the kidnappers from carrying out the kidnappers's plan, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said.",
"Instead, the the guerrillas burned the vehicle that authorities believe was used in the kidnapping, and then slit Governor's throat to avoid leaving evidence that may have been traced from a firearm to the killers, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said.",
"Colombian President Alvaro Uribe offered a $1 billion peso reward (U.S. $485,000) for information leading to the arrests of those responsible."
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"Five-time gold medal speed skater Eric Heiden was hanging out in a Team USA locker room Saturday, watching TV as a much younger phenom named Apolo Ohno broke Apolo Ohno's 30-year Olympic record.",
"That record, for the most decorated American man in Winter Olympics history, stood since 1980, when Eric Heiden shot to fame at the Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York.",
"To hear Eric Heiden tell it, watching the 27-year-old Ohno eclipse Apolo Ohno's record didn't matter much.",
"\"Apolo Ohno and I couldn't have cared less,\" said Eric Heiden, now 51.",
"\"All of us at this level don't really look at medal records as very important.",
"We're very proud of what we are doing and what we've done as athletes -- and if you happen to win a medal all of us consider that to be a great thing.\"",
"The difference between Apolo Ohno's medals and Eric Heiden's is that Eric Heiden won Eric Heiden's all during the same Winter Olympics, an unprecedented feat that astonished Olympic fans around the world.",
"Fast forward 30 years and Eric Heiden's passion for athletic competition and camaraderie hasn't faded.",
"Now an orthopedic surgeon, he treats and helps train the 2010 men's speed skating team, including Apolo Ohno.",
"\"Apolo Ohno is very dedicated and focused in Apolo Ohno's pursuit of the sport,\" said Eric Heiden.",
"\"But Apolo Ohno needs to understand that when an event is coming up Apolo Ohno needs to really start backing off some of those outside interests so Apolo Ohno can put in the time and effort to be a world-class skater.\"",
"With a smile in his voice, Eric Heiden offers an example of Apolo Ohno's recent appearance on ABC's \"Dancing with the Stars.\"",
"\"Apolo Ohno's more of a celebrity personality than most of the skaters,\" said Eric Heiden.",
"Heiden's fairly familiar with celebrity.",
"Those five medals in Lake Placid got Eric Heiden's boyish Wisconsin face plastered on newspapers and TVs worldwide.",
"Although Eric Heiden said Eric Heiden isn't recognized much anymore, once in a while Eric Heiden's name \"will fire a synapse in many people's minds.\"",
"Living a quiet life in Park City, Utah, with Eric Heiden's wife, who is also an orthopedic surgeon, and two children, Eric Heiden advises some of the world's fastest men on skates, including Ohno's friend and fellow Olympian Shani Davis.",
"Helping Davis, who won speed skating gold Wednesday night in the 1000m long track, requires \"making sure that all his needs are taken care of,\" said Eric Heiden.",
"\"Sometimes that can be very demanding and very hard.\"",
"fellow Olympian Shani Davis accepts little training guidance from others.",
"One of the younger skaters on the U.S. team, 19-year-old J.R. Celski won his first Olympic medal Saturday with a bronze in the men's 1500m short track.",
"What's remarkable, according to Eric Heiden, was that Celski had been badly injured in competition just five months earlier.",
"Celski, who crashed into the boards during trials in September slicing a deep gash into Celski's left thigh, has made a near complete recovery, said Eric Heiden.",
"Eric Heiden said Celski's race on Saturday answered important questions about Celski's mental recovery.",
"\"Physically, we were sure Celski was good, but we weren't sure about Celski's confidence level before Celski's race on Saturday.\"",
"Celski said Celski'd met Eric Heiden before Celski's injury, but it was while the doctor was treating Celski that they got to know each other well.",
"\"Celski's very humble and very down to earth, and I strive to be like that as well.",
"It was great to get to know Celski and talk to Celski for who Celski was -- and not for what Celski did,\" said Celski.",
"\"Celski was one of the hardest working guys in the sport, and that's why Celski did so well.\"",
"The cheese remedy: A second opinion .",
"Would Eric Heiden offer a second opinion about U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn's much talked-about home remedy for a bruised shin?",
"U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn injured U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn during practice just days before winning gold Wednesday in the alpine downhill.",
"U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn's remedy: wrapping U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn's shin with a soft Austrian cheese.",
"\"We like to practice evidence-based medicine,\" Eric Heiden said jokingly.",
"\"I don't think anybody is going to take that remedy home and practice that remedy on anybody's patients.\"",
"The closest thing to a home remedy for Eric Heiden was the random newspaper, moleskin or felt Eric Heiden and fellow skaters would use to pad he and fellow skaters's skate boots to make them fit better.",
"\"You're always trying to work with what you've got,\" Eric Heiden said.",
"\"But I've never gone as crazy as telling somebody to do a cheese wrap.\"",
"Let's remember that before Eric Heiden became a doctor Eric Heiden set four Olympic records and a world record at Lake Placid.",
"Shortly after Eric Heiden's history-making feat, Eric Heiden launched a second career racing bicycles, eventually competing in the Tour de France.",
"This year, Eric Heiden enjoyed Vancouver's opening ceremonies with other Olympic veterans, some of whom also gained fame on ice: figure skaters Kristi Yamaguchi and Scott Hamilton.",
"Each Olympian, he said, knows what the other has gone through to reach their athletic dreams.",
"\"We enjoy the limelight,\" said Eric Heiden.",
"\"We were recognized for what we did.",
"And when you go back for each Olympics you sort of get your ego stroked again.\"",
"Much has changed about long track speed skating in the past 30 years, but Eric Heiden said no single development has done more to push athletes faster around the icy oval than the clap skate.",
"Unlike traditional skates with blades well-fixed at the bottom of the boots, the blades on clap skates are hinged at the balls of the feet, shaving a precious 2 seconds off a skater's time with each lap.",
"\"I'm jealous, I wish I'd had a chance to try those things.\"",
"Has anything else changed in the sport over the years?",
"Yes, Eric Heiden said, most speed skaters now perform in warmer indoor venues.",
"Laughing Eric Heiden describes the effects of brutally cold temperatures on the male anatomy.",
"\"Oh boy, these guys have no clue how cold it can be out on an open rink.\""
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"\"When you go back for each Olympics you sort of get your ego stroked again,\" said the skating icon ."
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"Authorities hunting the killer of a police officer in Northern Ireland last week say they have seized a gun and ammunition.",
"Two people in masks prepare to throw petrol bombs in Lurgan, Northern Ireland.",
"Two people in masks were found Saturday in Craigavon, the town where Stephen Carroll, 48, was shot dead on Monday, a police statement said Sunday.",
"Authorities also arrested two more people in connection with the killing of Carroll -- a 37-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman.",
"That brings the total in custody to five, police told CNN.",
"And they arrested another person over the killing of two soldiers just days before Carroll was killed.",
"A total of four people are now in custody in the killing of soldiers Cengiz \"Pat\" Azimkar, 21, and Mark Quinsey, 23, at the Massereene barracks March 7.",
"The Massereene barracks killings were the first fatal attack on British troops in Northern Ireland for more than 12 years.",
"Carroll was the first police officer killed in political violence since 1998.",
"The shootings have raised fears that Northern Ireland could plunge back to the sectarian violence that claimed the lives of 3,600 people over three decades before the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.",
"The Continuity IRA, a republican splinter group that does not accept the Good Friday Agreement, said the Good Friday Agreement had killed Carroll, while the Real IRA, another splinter group, said it had killed the soldiers, Britain's Press Association reported.",
"Northern Ireland's top police officer, Hugh Orde, insisted Sunday that the militant groups that want Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and become part of Ireland are \"small ... disrupted, infiltrated and disorganized.\"",
"\"The current wisdom is that they number around 300 in a population of 1.75 million,\" he wrote in Britain's News of the World newspaper.",
"But, he said: \"In the past 18 months or so there have been at least 25 attempts by dissident terrorists to kill officers on and off duty.\" Rioting flared near Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, after an earlier round of arrests Saturday.",
"Police said petrol bombs were hurled at police in Lurgan, west of Belfast.",
"There were no arrests or injuries reported, despite gangs of youths on the streets, authorities said.",
"One of the men arrested in connection with the killing of the soldiers, Colin Duffy, 41, is from Lurgan.",
"He was among three whose arrests were announced Saturday.",
"A fourth man was arrested Saturday night, said the police spokeswoman, who declined to be named in line with policy.",
"She released no details about the man or the location of the arrest.",
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"the soldiers had packed the soldiers's bags and changed into the soldiers's uniforms, authorities said.",
"Two masked gunmen with automatic rifles shot them as the soldiers picked up a pizza delivery at the barracks, authorities said.",
"Two other soldiers and the two pizza delivery men were seriously wounded.",
"Politicians from across the political spectrum have condemned the killings, with Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness calling the killers \"traitors to Northern Ireland.\"",
"Sinn Fein is a predominantly Catholic party that wants Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and become part of the Republic of Ireland.",
"The party is widely thought to be linked to the Irish Republican Army.",
"Danny Kennedy, deputy leader of the loyalist Ulster Unionist Party, which wants Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, also condemned the attack as \"wicked and murderous.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"A possible merger between the two of the largest companies in the concert business has raised protests from Bruce Springsteen and prompted a congressman to call for a federal anti-trust investigation.",
"A possible merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation has drawn interest.",
"Ticketmaster, which has long dominated ticket sales, is reportedly in merger talks with Live Nation, the world's largest concert promoter, which just recently began selling its own tickets.",
"Live Nation did not respond to a CNN inquiry, while Ticketmaster's spokesman said \"we cannot comment on rumor or speculation.\"",
"\"Being two public companies, they can't really comment on A possible merger between the two of the largest companies in the concert business right now, but A possible merger between the two of the largest companies in the concert business seems very real to me,\" said Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter.",
"iReport: What do you think of A possible merger between the two of the largest companies in the concert business?",
"\"You're talking about a hugely powerful entity if these two combine forces,\" Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter said.",
"\"They're locking up a whole lot of the revenue streams for live music, and that is really the most consistent and profitable part of the music business right now.\"",
"Ticketmaster, long a target of fan and artist criticism, drew Bruce Springsteen's ire this week when it routed some of Bruce Springsteen's fans trying to buy tickets to Bruce Springsteen's show in New Jersey to a \"secondary site\" where they were charged far more than face value.",
"Tickets on that site -- which Ticketmaster owns -- cost between $200 and $5,000, while face value starts at $54.",
"Bruce Springsteen, in a message posted on Bruce Springsteen's Web site, accused Ticketmaster of \"in effect 'scalping' \" the tickets.",
"Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff apologized to Bruce Springsteen in a letter Wednesday, saying it wouldn't happen again.",
"New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell, who said he was \"deluged this week by calls from angry music fans,\" sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission chairman asking that the FTC look into Ticketmaster's practices.",
"After reports that Live Nation might merge, Pascrell sent another letter to the House Judiciary Committee calling for a probe.",
"\"There is an incredible potential for abuse when one company controls the primary and secondary market for concert tickets,\" Pascrell wrote.",
"\"an incredible potential for abuse when one company controls the primary and secondary market for concert tickets will surely be magnified exponentially should one company be able to control every aspect of recording, record sales, licensing, venue ownership and ticket sales.\"",
"Bruce Springsteen's Web message asked Bruce Springsteen's fans to \"make it known to your representatives\" if they opposed a merger.",
"\"The one thing that would make the current ticket situation even worse for the fan than it is now would be Live Nation coming up with a single system, thereby returning us to a near monopoly situation in music ticketing,\" said the message, signed by Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Springsteen's agent.",
"Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter, who has covered the friction between Ticketmaster, artists and fans, said combining the two companies could mean some fan-friendly changes, including rolling all fees into one ticket price to eliminate \"sticker shock\" when fans look at their credit card bill.",
"Ticketmaster's practice of stacking \"convenience fees\" onto purchases inflated ticket prices and drew fan resentment.",
"Ticketmaster pioneered online ticket sales, a modern convenience that did away with long lines at the box office.",
"\"What Ticketmaster has done to ticketing, Ticketmaster've really revolutionized it as far as the old days, when you had to camp out for a high-demand show,\" Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter said.",
"Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter said Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter doesn't expect ticket prices would \"just blow up\" after a merger.",
"\"Traditionally, when there's competition taken out of the marketplace it really doesn't do a lot for lowering prices, but both these companies are very sensitive to the market and what the fans can pay,\" Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter said.",
"A combined company, though, would control \"everything before, during and after a concert takes place over the course of an entire tour, and that's pretty sizable,\" Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter said."
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"Peggy Bourland's can't eat.",
"When Peggy Bourland's lies down to sleep, Peggy Bourland's fights the urge to go outside and curl up on the cold, hard ground.",
"\"Bourland can't eat right now.",
"Bourland can't sleep in our bed,\" Peggy Bourland's said, Bourland's husband's military dog tags around Peggy Bourland's's neck.",
"\"I won't have what Bourland cannot have.\"",
"Last Tuesday, from Bourland's room at the Hotel Montana near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, U.S. Air Force Maj. Ken Bourland sent an e-mail to Bourland's wife telling Peggy Bourland's that Bourland was fine and had just settled in for what was going to be an exciting time taking a disaster preparedness course.",
"It was 4:51 p.m. ET.",
"Less than 10 minutes later, an earthquake leveled much of the Haitian capital, including the Hotel Montana.",
"\"I had just clicked off the e-mail and was trying to find some cartoons for the kids to watch,\" Peggy Bourland's said.",
"\"And then I saw this breaking news.",
"An earthquake.",
"I thought, 'Did California get hit again?'",
"Then I saw Haiti.\"",
"Peggy Bourland's popped Peggy Bourland's's laptop open and fired off an e-mail: \"Please tell me you're OK.\"",
"No response.",
"View or add to CNN's database of missing persons in Haiti .",
"Crews have spent the past six days searching mounds of rubble, 30 feet high in places, that was the Hotel Montana, popular with tourists and visiting officials.",
"Some United Nations employees who lived there remain unaccounted for, the U.N. said Sunday, and Alain Joyandet, the French minister of cooperation, said approximately 200 French tourists staying there had not been heard from.",
"There is reason to hope.",
"On Friday, a woman trapped in the hotel's collapsed bar was rescued.",
"In the past few days, students from South Florida's Lynn University, who were in Haiti on a humanitarian mission to feed the poor, were freed from the Montana's rubble.",
"Six others with the university are reportedly still missing.",
"Peggy Bourland's gets two calls a day at Peggy Bourland's's suburban South Florida home -- one at night, one in the morning -- from the family's assigned military liaison.",
"There's nothing to say, really.",
"Peggy Bourland's's told to be optimistic.",
"Peggy Bourland's tries.",
"After the second call, when Peggy Bourland's has tucked the couple's sons, 16-month-old Andrew and 3-year-old Charley into bed, Peggy Bourland's allows Peggy Bourland's to cry.",
"\"I don't do it in front of the couple's sons, 16-month-old Andrew and 3-year-old Charley.\"",
"Peggy Bourland's finds it overwhelming to return to thoughts about the Sunday before Bourland left.",
"It was Charley's birthday, and another military family came over.",
"\"Bourland sang to him and we all said, 'Daddy's going on another trip.'\"",
"The Bourlands' fifth wedding anniversary will be in March.",
"The Bourlands''s first date -- set up by Peggy Bourland's's boss and his sister -- was one with hours of talk and lost time.",
"Peggy Bourland's liked the fact that he asked questions about every conceivable scenario that might arise from a decision.",
"He analyzed, where Peggy Bourland's just went with it.",
"He prepared for the small and big things.",
"He had been mulling for weeks, exhausting Google, over what kind of television to buy.",
"Bourland's steady demeanor has rubbed off on Chance, his stepson.",
"The helicopter pilot was 9 when Peggy Bourland's introduced The helicopter pilot to Bourland.",
"The helicopter pilot endeared The helicopter pilot quickly with camping and a mutual zest for video games and remote control cars.",
"Now 13, Chance understands what's going on.",
"\"I let The helicopter pilot talk when The helicopter pilot wants to,\" Peggy Bourland's said.",
"\"But sometimes there's nothing to say.",
"You just wait and continue to wait, hoping for something good.\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Barack Obama's victory Tuesday over John McCain capped an unprecedented rise in American politics.",
"Barack Obama, addressing supporters after Barack Obama's victory, was an unlikely nominee not that long ago.",
"The obscure state legislator with, as Barack Obama put it, \"a funny name\" propelled Barack Obama onto the national stage at the Democratic National Convention four years ago with a speech so electrifying that commentators declared Barack Obama would become America's first black president.",
"Election Day showed that, in this case at least, you can believe the hype.",
"But Barack Obama did not win the White House on hype, any more than Barack Obama won the White House on hope.",
"Barack Obama won the White House with an organization that even opponents called brilliant.",
"Barack Obama won the White House with a clear strategy that was stuck to with remarkably little internal drama.",
"Barack Obama won the White House with unparalleled fundraising and an overwhelming ground game.",
"And Barack Obama won the White House after facing various challenges and turning various challenges to Barack Obama's advantage.",
"Turning points .",
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"Barack Obama's victory in the Iowa caucuses knocked almost all of Obama's Democratic competitors out in the first nominating contest, and it pushed the \"inevitable\" Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, back on Hillary Clinton's heels.",
"Barack Obama'd built an organization strong enough to haul supporters out of supporters's homes on a frigid January night to debate, harangue and cajole supporters's neighbors into backing Barack Obama.",
"Tens of thousands of new voters became the key to Barack Obama's Iowa win and revealed the outline of a general election plan: Create a wide coalition to bring new voters to the polls in record numbers.",
"Ted Kennedy:",
"Within weeks of Iowa, all of Barack Obama's Democratic competitors had dropped out of the race except for Clinton, who split the races with Barack Obama in the run-up to Super Tuesday.",
"It was then that Ted Kennedy, head of the only Democratic family to outrank the Clintons, came out for Barack Obama, comparing the Illinois senator to his assassinated brother, President John F. Kennedy.",
"The move was deeply symbolic, not just for the public but also the party.",
"The Obama-Clinton battle then hinged on who could sway more superdelegates -- the party leaders who could decide the winner if the primary voters could not -- and few superdelegates had the stature of Ted Kennedy.",
"Addressing race: Race was always going to be a factor in Barack Obama's campaign, even if Barack Obama hoped Barack Obama's candidacy would transcend it.",
"Clips of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's longtime pastor, making hateful remarks hit the Internet and television and put Barack Obama on defense.",
"Barack Obama responded with a speech in March hailed by commentators as among the most thoughtful ever delivered on race by an American politician.",
"When the Rev. Jeremiah Wright went further, so did Barack Obama -- condemning the Rev. Jeremiah Wright outright and later quitting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church.",
"All this time, black voters were rallying behind Barack Obama, switching black voters's allegiance from Hillary Clinton in such large numbers that party elders, such as civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, had to do the same.",
"Fundraising:",
"Flush with cash from a nationwide network of small and large contributors, Barack Obama announced in June Barack Obama would opt out of public financing -- the first presidential candidate to pay for Obama's campaign with donations rather than government money since the system began in 1976.",
"McCain hammered Barack Obama for reneging on a promise to stick with public financing, but the issue failed to resonate with voters.",
"Barack Obama kept raising and spending record amounts of money, using it to send staff across the country -- even to dozens of states Democrats hadn't won in years -- and to swamp the airwaves with advertising.",
"Working with Hillary Clinton:",
"The long and bitter primary battle turned many Hillary Clinton supporters off Barack Obama.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll a month after Barack Obama sealed the nomination found that nearly 50 percent of Hillary Clinton's supporters did not plan to vote for Barack Obama in November.",
"McCain tried to exploit the Democrats' divisions and attract Hillary Clinton supporters to McCain's side, but the former rivals came together to stop that.",
"Obama and Hillary Clinton worked behind the scenes to create a show of public unity, epitomized by Hillary Clinton dramatically marching onto the convention floor in Denver to call for the party to nominate Barack Obama by acclamation.",
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"Barack Obama won all three debates in the eyes of the public, polling for CNN suggested, even if he came up with few, if any, memorable promises or knockout blows.",
"The debates showed the classic Obama -- thoughtful, deliberate and steady.",
"Critically, Barack Obama made no gaffes, rounding out a campaign that was remarkably free of them.",
"Barack Obama may have looked an unlikely candidate and an even unlikelier victor only a year ago.",
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"Obama started small but with big ideas and worked, inexorably, to make big ideas reality.",
"Like any candidate, Barack Obama faced challenges, but Barack Obama always seemed to take the path that would make Barack Obama stronger.",
"And, by the end, the campaign and the support was so large, so well organized and so powerful that nothing could prevent Barack Obama's march to victory.",
"CNN's Richard Allen Greene, Rebecca Sinderbrand and Laura Haring contributed to this report."
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"Torrential rainfall unleashed flooding and spawned a rare tornado warning in California on Tuesday as a series of storms moved through, with more expected Wednesday and Thursday.",
"Weather-related problems also affected Northern California, where Fresno's Yosemite International Airport lost the ability to send passengers through security because of a power outage.",
"Landings and takeoffs were not affected, because a backup system kicked in, said Vikkie Calderon, airport spokeswoman.",
"However, the backup system for the lobby did not kick in.",
"Airlines were remotely checking passengers in Tuesday afternoon, but the outage prevented security screenings until power was restored, Calderon said.",
"By midafternoon, security screenings had resumed.",
"In Southern California, a possible tornado was reported in Huntington Beach by the Orange County emergency manager, the National Weather Service reported.",
"Boats in the nearby harbor and some buildings in the area were damaged, and a vehicle was flipped.",
"As of Tuesday afternoon, about 50 people were in the process of being evacuated from homes in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles because of severe flooding, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Gregory Baek.",
"About 20 vehicle rescues took place in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Gregory Baek said.",
"Video from CNN affiliate KCAL showed flooding in Long Beach, where a boater was using a raft to navigate flooded streets lined by cars with water up over their headlights.",
"Watch and read KCAL's reports .",
"A rare tornado warning was issued Tuesday afternoon for southeastern Orange County, including the cities of Mission Viejo and San Clemente, and northwestern San Diego County, including the cities of Oceanside and Carlsbad.",
"The National Weather Service said radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado.",
"A 93 mph wind gust was reported by lifeguards at the Newport Beach pier, The National Weather Service said.",
"Gusts of 72 mph and 73 mph were also measured.",
"Are you there?",
"Send us your stories and images.",
"Piers in Orange County were closed because of high surf, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.",
"There were some reports of damage and flooding, but no known injuries, officials said.",
"Forecasters warned the rainfall could trigger slides in recent burn areas and also warned about damaging winds.",
"Some areas received as much as 3 inches of rain on Monday and could see an additional 2 inches Tuesday, The National Weather Service said.",
"Even stronger storms, with heavy rain and powerful winds, are forecast to hit the region Wednesday and Thursday.",
"Wind and rain prompted power outages Monday in Southern California, according to Southern California Edison.",
"CNN's Sara Pratley, Chad Myers, Rosalina Nieves and Lynn Lamanivong contributed to this report."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"The members of the band Naturally 7 are experts at blowing their own horns -- and they do it without a trumpet or trombone in sight.",
"Naturally 7 engages in \"vocal play\" in performance, emulating the sounds of musical instruments.",
"In fact, you won't see a single instrument when they hit the stage.",
"They are the instruments.",
"\"People are always imitating instruments,\" said first baritone and arranger Roger Thomas.",
"\"People are driving; People hear People's favorite song; it gets to the guitar solo part.",
"... People don't stop singing.",
"People actually start imitating the instrument People hear.",
"We just decided to be crazy enough to bring [that idea] to the stage.\"",
"The septet even came up with a name for it: \"vocal play,\" a total reliance on the human voice to mimic a range of instruments and sounds, including the harmonica, bass guitar, trumpet and DJ scratches.",
"Watch the band do the band's thing » . arranger Roger Thomas takes beatboxing to a whole new level with arranger Roger Thomas's imitation of a drum kit, complete with snare.",
"(arranger Roger Thomas also impersonates a mean guitar.)",
"Rod Eldridge has never played a real trumpet before, though you wouldn't think that if you saw Rod Eldridge duplicate the sound of one, lips pursed, Rod Eldridge's hands in front of Rod Eldridge, pressing on imaginary valves.",
"\"To produce the sound, I have to visualize that I'm holding that instrument or whatever in my hand,\" Rod Eldridge said.",
"Only one Naturally 7 member has ever played the instrument he imitates, and that's Armand \"Hops\" Hutton, who uses his incredibly deep voice -- you have to step closer when he speaks -- to portray a thumping bass guitar.",
"the band initially formed a decade ago in New York as an a cappella group (oh, yeah, the band sing, too).",
"But to make the band stand out, Naturally 7 decided to be both a singing group and a band.",
"The concept caught on when video of the band performing on a Paris subway -- to hilariously mixed reactions from Parisian commuters -- hit YouTube.",
"It has racked up almost 3 million views.",
"And standing ovations became a regular part of the band's experience touring as the opening act for crooner Michael Bublé in 2007 and 2008.",
"the band are about to embark on the band's own tour of Asia, Australia and Europe.",
"With a recent performance of the band's aptly named song \"Wall of Sound\" on \"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\" and a new album in the works, the band hope to boost Naturally 7's profile in the United States over the next year.",
"Naturally 7 -- which also includes Jamal Reed, Dwight Stewart and Garfield Buckley -- spoke to CNN about the challenges of becoming instruments.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN:",
"Traveling and sound checks must be very easy for you.",
"arranger Roger Thomas:",
"the band don't have to lug around instruments with all the traveling the band do, and that does make that part easier.",
"The sound check part of actually becoming the band, where we're actually the singers and the instruments, that probably takes a longer time.",
"CNN:",
"How so?",
"arranger Roger Thomas:",
"I often call the band's sound man \"Octopus Hands\" because he's just got to do so many different things.",
"the band switch from being the backgrounds to being the lead vocals and then going back to doing a trombone.",
"And these have different sounds and settings, so it's a lot of work on the performance side if the band're using microphones.",
"CNN:",
"Are your \"instruments\" ever out of tune?",
"Rod Eldridge: Every now and then.",
"It is the voice, and if you're suffering and you have a cold, its not like you can have a guy come in and [say], \"Oh, let me change my guitar string out.\"",
"It's a human thing.",
"Every now and then, you're not as perfect as you would like, but you are always working at it.",
"CNN:",
"Are you continually adding new instruments?",
"arranger Roger Thomas: the band definitely are.",
"When the band hear something that's brand new, the band'll just try to get really close to that sound.",
"There are a couple of things the band can't do, like a piano.",
"Piano is like a percussive and a string instrument at the same time, so the band leave pianos alone.",
"CNN:",
"Who has the hardest job here, do you think?",
"arranger Roger Thomas:",
"I think we all think the band have the hardest job.",
"(laughs)",
"Probably arranger Roger Thomas.",
"arranger Roger Thomas has to keep up that drum flow for songs that go for five or six minutes and shows that go for almost two hours.",
"That's a pretty difficult job.",
"CNN:",
"You were the opening act for Michael Bublé for a while.",
"That must have been a great way to introduce you to a whole new audience.",
"Armand \"Hops\" Hutton:",
"Yeah, it was great.",
"the band started off with him in Rotterdam, and I don't think the band were supposed to keep going after Europe, but the marriage between his set and the band's set was just so perfect that he kept saying, \"I want to introduce you to my fans here, my fans there.\" the band've been to Australia and Canada ... all over the world.",
"CNN:",
"How do people respond when you perform?",
"arranger Roger Thomas:",
"Shock, usually.",
"On the Bublé tour, it would take people usually by the third song to actually get it.",
"By then you can see them bouncing around, hitting each other, going, \"This really is all voice!\"",
"CNN:",
"Are you working on a new album?",
"arranger Roger Thomas:",
"the band are working in the studio right now, getting ready for what will probably be the band's first world release.",
"the band don't know what the band are going to call it yet, but the band do know one thing: It will be all vocal."
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"Manny Pacquiao has put failed talks of a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jnr behind Manny Pacquiao as Manny Pacquiao turns Manny Pacquiao's focus to a bout with Joshua Clottey at the Cowboys Stadium.",
"Manny Pacquiao will defend Manny Pacquiao's World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title against Ghanaian Clottey on March 13 at the $1.2billion home of the Dallas Cowboys football team.",
"Manny Pacquiao had been scheduled to face Floyd Mayweather Jnr on the date before the proposed super-fight collapsed when Manny Pacquiao rejected requests from Manny Pacquiao's opponent to have unprecedented random blood testing.",
"But the 31-year-old confirmed that Manny Pacquiao is now fully focused on Manny Pacquiao's new opponent, not any possible fight with Floyd Mayweather Jnr.",
"It's going to be a good fight,\" Manny Pacquiao said at a press conference to promote Joshua Clottey.",
"\"Joshua Clottey, Joshua Clottey is a good fighter, a top fighter, and Joshua Clottey is bigger than me.",
"I have to prepare hard for Joshua Clottey and train hard and focus.\"",
"When asked about Floyd Mayweather Jnr, Manny Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach said things had moved on but revealed Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach's fighter would be ready to take on the American on the right terms.",
"\"Life goes on without Floyd Mayweather Jnr.",
"Floyd Mayweather Jnr wouldn't agree to a limit of 14 days before Joshua Clottey.",
"We did our best to appease Floyd Mayweather Jnr but Floyd Mayweather Jnr wouldn't go along with it,\" Roach explained.",
"\"Floyd Mayweather Jnr's people agreed to it but Floyd Mayweather Jnr wouldn't go along with it.",
"I don't think Floyd Mayweather Jnr wants to fight Manny.",
"It was a smoke screen for Floyd Mayweather Jnr to say no.",
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"We will fight Floyd Mayweather Jnr any day of the week.",
"But Floyd Mayweather Jnr doesn't make the rules.\"",
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"We were very aggressive and we were pretty quick to make a deal,\" Jerry Jones said.",
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"(CNN) --",
"After the gloom of December's postal strikes, Britain's Royal Mail has started the new year in the right tune with the launch of 10 stamps which feature iconic album covers.",
"And who better than guitar shaman Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page to give it the official stamp of approval?",
"The Led Zeppelin guitarist launched the new set of stamps in London which went on sale Thursday.",
"The special New Year stamps feature classic album sleeves from the last four decades.",
"One of the 10 selected albums was Led Zeppelin's's 32 million-selling album, \"IV,\" which Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page helped design.",
"the 10 selected albums shows a painting of an unknown faggot-bearing man which is said to have been found by Robert Plant in a Reading junk shop.",
"It is not known who the painter was.",
"\"Almost 40 years after the 10 selected albums came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him,\" said Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page in a media statement released by Royal Mail.",
"\"That sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time,\" he added.",
"It was after extensive research into lists and polls and trawling through thousands of album covers that the final list of 10 was agreed upon, Royal Mail said.",
"Royal Mail added that key factors in choosing the covers were the art and album design and not necessarily the music.",
"\"For decades, the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world, and this issue celebrates this unique art form and some of its greatest examples,\" said Juliette Edgar, Head of Special Stamps at Royal Mail in a media statement released by Royal Mail.",
"Other chosen album covers include The Rolling Stones' 1969 album \"Let It Bleed,\" which features a cake on the cover baked by a then unknown Delia Smith, Pennie Smith's photography for The Clash's \"London Calling\" and a bent chrome pipe on the cover of Mike Oldfield's \"Tubular Bells.\""
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"The pilots' union of German airline Lufthansa began a strike Monday after a last-ditch effort at negotiations over pay and job security failed, a spokeswoman for German airline Lufthansa told CNN.",
"The four-day work stoppage by the pilots' union of one of the world's largest airlines threatened to disrupt travel on more than two dozen partner airlines later on Monday.",
"German airline Lufthansa and the pilot's union, Vereinigung Cockpit, met over the weekend as a last-ditch effort to avoid a strike.",
"More than 4,000 pilots walked off the job at midnight Monday (6 p.m. Sunday ET) through Thursday over protracted contract negotiations centering around pay and job security.",
"The action by German airline Lufthansa pilots signaled growing labor unrest across Europe.",
"The action by Lufthansa pilots started the same day that British Airways cabin staff were expected to announce the outcome of British Airways's strike vote.",
"On Wednesday in Greece, a mass public and private sector strike is being planned to protest the government's austerity plan.",
"German airline Lufthansa had already canceled two-thirds of German airline Lufthansa's scheduled flights Monday to Thursday ahead of a strike.",
"The bulk of the disruptions are expected to begin later Monday since most German airports prohibit flights overnight.",
"Still, passengers at Frankfurt Airport on Sunday were already feeling inconvenienced.",
"\"It makes me angry because for me, normally I would (leave) on Monday morning,\" said one passenger.",
"\"Now I have to go Sunday evening and my family's at home and I have to (return) tomorrow night with the train.",
"So it's uncomfortable.\"",
"\"It's inconvenient and it's not justified at all,\" another passenger said.",
"Company officials admitted it would have a \"heavy influence\" on its international operations, which includes flights to 80 countries worldwide.",
"Send your views and experiences to CNN iReport .",
"In 2008, German airline Lufthansa was the number two international carrier by passengers with 42.2 million, according to the International Air Transport Association.",
"The threatened walkout came as the airline industry is digging out of the worst one-year drop-off in flights, according to IATA.",
"In 2009, revenues dropped nearly 15 percent worldwide after generating a record $535 billion the previous year.",
"Passenger travel fell a record 3.5 percent and freight fell more than 10 percent, according to IATA figures.",
"German airline Lufthansa officials said at a news conference last Thursday it would cost German airline Lufthansa about $33 million a day.",
"Many of German airline Lufthansa's pilots have been working without a contract since March and more than 90 percent of The pilots union's members voted to strike, said Jorg Handwerg, a pilot and representative for The pilots union.",
"The pilots union sought a 6.4 percent pay increase.",
"The pilots union is also concerned with German airline Lufthansa's recent buying spree of small regional carriers, such as BMI and Austrian Airlines which, The pilots union says, is cannibalizing flights away from union-flown routes.",
"\"German airline Lufthansa fly less hours and have less potential for (performance-related bonuses),\" Handwerg said.",
"\"German airline Lufthansa want to have the opportunity to grow, but instead the opportunity to grow shrinks.\"",
"In a statement, German airline Lufthansa said: \"In addition to demands on job security, however, The pilots union also insisted on a greater say on fundamental entrepreneurial issues, equating to intervention in business management at German airline Lufthansa.",
"That demand cannot be accepted.\"",
"German airline Lufthansa is allowing passengers to rebook flights for tickets purchased before February 18 and plans to give German domestic passengers rail vouchers.",
"But one German airline Lufthansa passenger said one Lufthansa passenger is having trouble reaching a compromise with German airline Lufthansa.",
"\"I spent several hours on the phone with German airline Lufthansa to try and figure out what I can do, but now I've been told that I can't even get a refund,\" said Ruth Winblad, who is supposed to fly Monday from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Rome, Italy.",
"German airline Lufthansa is one of the largest carriers on Star Alliance, a network of 26 airlines that share ticketing and routes for international travel.",
"Travelers on Star Alliance flights are advised to check Travelers on Star Alliance flights's tickets for German airline Lufthansa flights and contact Travelers on Star Alliance flights's carrier about any potential changes, said Markus Ruediger, Star Alliance spokesman.",
"Star Alliance member airlines are: Adria, Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Blue 1, BMI, Brussels Airlines, Continental Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Egypt Air, Lot Polish Airlines, German airline Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, Swiss, Tap Portugal, Thai Airlines, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines and U.S. Airways.",
"Partner airlines were preparing for a strike.",
"\"Some of Singapore Airlines's codeshare flights with German airline Lufthansa may be affected during the period of a strike.",
"Singapore Airlines are in contact with German airline Lufthansa and will be informed of the affected flights as soon as details are made available,\" said Nicholas Ionides, Singapore Airlines spokesman.",
"\"Should there be customers traveling on affected Lufthansa-operated codeshare flights, customers traveling on affected Lufthansa-operated codeshare flights will be contacted and re-accommodated on the best next available schedule.\"",
"A spokeswoman for Continental Airlines told CNN on Sunday that Continental Airlines will offer passengers refunds or rebook their travel if they are affected.",
"CNN's Kevin Voigt, Stefan Simons, Phil Han and Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"The pilots union says strike focuses on pay and conditions issues .",
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"German airline Lufthansa flies to 80 countries with German airline Lufthansa's main hub being Frankfurt, Germany ."
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"CAF president Issa Hayatou has exclusively told CNN that Togo were not disqualified from the Africa Cup of Nations but were granted permission to leave.",
"Togo flew back home from Angola on January 9 after three of Togo's travelling party were killed and two players seriously injured by a machine-gun attack which occurred as Togo's bus crossed the border into the northern, oil-rich state of Cabinda two days earlier.",
"It had initially been first thought that Togo had been disqualified after Togo failed to show for Togo's first group game against Ghana on Monday.",
"But Confederation of African Football CAF president Issa Hayatou has since confirmed to CNN that Togo had not been expelled from the Africa Cup of Nations but were granted special dispensation.",
"\"Togo wasn't disqualified - I want to tell you that Togo wasn't disqualified.",
"Togo left the competition following the tragic events that Togo went through,\" CAF president Issa Hayatou told CNN.",
"\"Because of what happened Togo didn't have the morale or the conscience for Togo to participate in the Africa Cup of Nations.",
"\"We tried to convince Togo to stay and that life continues after all and that we share Togo's sorrow and suffering.",
"\"We completely understand what happened.",
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"Angolan authorities have arrested two people involved in the attack, state media reported, while goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale remains in a stable condition in a South African hospital but needs a ventilator as goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale recovers from being shot.",
"CAF president Issa Hayatou also defended CAF's handling of the incident and, in particular, criticism about the amount of time they took to respond.",
"CAF president Issa Hayatou added: \"When we were told that Togo was attacked we immediately stopped our meeting that we were organizing.",
"We are in Luanda and Togo were attacked far away!",
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"CAF president Issa Hayatou insisted Togo had not been expelled from the tournament in Angola but were granted dispensation.",
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"Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) --",
"In a stunning upset that reshaped the U.S. political landscape, Republican Scott Brown won Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy.",
"Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley, the state attorney general.",
"Republican Scott Brown's victory made real the once unthinkable prospect of a Republican filling the seat held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion, for almost 47 years until his death due to brain cancer last August.",
"Before liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy won Ted Kennedy's seat for the first time in 1962, liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy's older brother John held it for nearly eight years until his election as U.S. president in 1960.",
"\"This really does change everything, you know that?\" said Mitt Romney, the former GOP governor of Massachusetts who introduced Republican Scott Brown at Brown's victory rally.",
"Share your thoughts on the election results .",
"Voters across Massachusetts braved winter cold and snow for an election with high stakes -- the domestic agenda of President Obama, including President Obama's top domestic priority, health care reform.",
"Brown's victory strips Democrats of Democrats's 60-seat Senate super-majority, needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities.",
"Senate Democrats needed all 60 votes in Senate Democrats's caucus to pass the health care bill, and the loss of one seat now imperils generating that support again for a compromise measure worked out with the House.",
"\"Forty one, forty one,\" chanted the crowd at Republican Scott Brown's rally, referring to Republican Scott Brown's new status as the Senate's 41st Republican.",
"Brown, a state senator until now, heralded Brown's victory as the start of more election surprises in 2010.",
"No Republican had won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation.",
"\"When there's trouble in Massachusetts, rest assured there's trouble everywhere, and they know it,\" Republican Scott Brown said of the Democratic Party.",
"Republican leaders sounded a similar theme, saying Americans were fed up with what Republican leaders called Democratic arrogance in Washington.",
"\"Americans are investing Americans's hopes in good Republican candidates to reverse a year-long Democrat trend of ignoring the American people on the issues of health care, spending and the growth of government,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said in a statement.",
"The seat vacated by Kennedy's death is currently held by his former aide and longtime friend Paul Kirk, who was appointed on an interim basis.",
"President Obama called Republican Scott Brown and Coakley on Tuesday night, and a White House statement said President Obama \"told Republican Scott Brown that he looks forward to working with Republican Scott Brown on the urgent economic challenges facing Massachusetts families and struggling families across our nation.\"",
"Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin said last week that certifying Tuesday's election results could take more than two weeks -- potentially enough time to allow congressional Democrats to pass a final health care bill before Republican Scott Brown is seated.",
"But multiple Democratic sources said that is unlikely.",
"Even if House and Senate Democrats could reach a deal to meld House and Senate Democrats's bills and pass them in the next couple of weeks, there would be a huge outcry from not only Republicans, but also an increasingly distrustful public if House and Senate Democrats appeared to be rushing it through.",
"Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin had predicted as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary.",
"In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to Brian McNiff, Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin's spokesman.",
"Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Kennedy, who made health care reform the centerpiece of his Senate career.",
"Until recently, Republican Scott Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide.",
"Waging a nationally backed campaign that included driving Republican Scott Brown's pickup around the state, Republican Scott Brown surged in the weeks preceding Tuesday's vote and led in all the final polls.",
"In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Republican Scott Brown.",
"McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they received pre-marked ballots.",
"pre-marked ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said.",
"Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the \"disturbing incidents\" raised questions about the integrity of the election.",
"In response, the Republican Scott Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team.",
"\"Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that the Coakley campaign are a desperate campaign,\" Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement.",
"President Obama had been \"surprised and frustrated\" by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.",
"Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail in the final week in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say was hampered by complacency and missteps.",
"President Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points.",
"\"If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in today's election,\" President Obama urged a crowd at a Coakley campaign rally on Sunday.",
"Vicki Kennedy, the late senator's widow, called on state Democrats to turn out to save her husband's legacy.",
"\"We need your help.",
"We need your support.",
"We need you to get out there and vote on Tuesday,\" Kennedy said.",
"\"We need you to bring your neighbors.",
"We need you to bring your friends.\"",
"Brown, who has trumpeted his 30 years of service in the National Guard, hewed to traditional GOP themes in Republican Scott Brown's victory speech.",
"Republican Scott Brown promised to back tax cuts and be tough on terrorists, and to oppose President Obama's health care overhaul effort.",
"\"People do not want a trillion dollar health-care plan that is being forced on the American people,\" Republican Scott Brown said.",
"Republican Scott Brown said Republican Scott Brown's victory defied \"the odds and experts\" who predicted that the Senate seat held by Democrats for more than 50 years would not change hands.",
"Instead, independent voters who outnumber registered Democrats and Republicans combined in Massachusetts strongly supported Republican Scott Brown.",
"\"Tonight, the independent majority has delivered a great victory,\" Republican Scott Brown said, later adding: \"What happened here in Massachusetts can happen all over America.\"",
"Facing the possibility of Coakley's defeat, Democrats were trying to figure out whether Democrats could pass a health care overhaul without that crucial 60th Senate vote.",
"But top White House aides publicly insisted top White House aides were not engaging in any talk of contingency plans because top White House aides thought Coakley would win.",
"Two Democratic sources in close contact with White House told CNN on Monday that Two Democratic sources in close contact with the White House'd urged the administration, in the event of a Brown victory, to push House Democrats to pass Senate's health care bill as currently written.",
"Doing so would prevent the plan from having to be taken up by Senate again.",
"\"I think the plan clearly is better than nothing,\" House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, said Tuesday.",
"A third option would be for Democrats to revisit the idea of trying to push health care through Senate with only 51 votes -- a simple majority.",
"But to do that Democrats would have to use a process known as reconciliation, which presents technical and procedural issues that would delay the process for a long time.",
"A number of Democrats are eager to put the health care debate behind A number of Democrats and move on to economic issues such as job creation as soon as possible this election year.",
"Senate Democrats could also try again to get moderate GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine to vote for a compromise health reform plan.",
"Multiple Democratic sources, however, have said Multiple Democratic sources think that is unlikely now.",
"CNN's Jim Acosta, Dana Bash, Kevin Bohn, Ed Henry, John King, Suzanne Malveaux, Shawna Shepherd, Jessica Yellin, Kevin Bohn, Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"At least 42 people were killed and 120 injured by flash flooding and mudslides on the Portuguese island of Madeira, the local civil protection agency said Sunday.",
"An unknown number of people are still missing, the authorities told CNN.",
"About 250 people were evacuated to military bases and other safe locations, said Pedro Barbosa of the local civil protection agency.",
"\"the local civil protection agency have some parts where the local civil protection agency can't go because the bridges are down,\" Pedro Barbosa of the civil protection agency told CNN earlier in the day, saying the numbers of victims may rise as more information comes in.",
"Pedro Barbosa of the civil protection agency said all the damage occurred in just a few hours Saturday morning due to \"very concentrated, very intense\" rains that sparked flooding and mudslides.",
"The mudslides and flooding damaged roads and homes in the capital, Funchal, and in Ribeira Brava, which are both on the southern portion of the Portuguese island of Madeira.",
"Floodwaters overturned cars and knocked down trees.",
"Search-and-rescue teams have been reinforced, according to the local civil protection agency.",
"Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said \"the situation is under control\" and the government is offering the government's support to regional authorities.",
"President Cavaco Silva expressed President Cavaco Silva's condolences in a televised statement and promised to do everything to help.",
"Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, is a popular resort destination.",
"There have been no reports of any dead or missing tourists.",
"Barbosa said Saturday's heavy rains were the worst in the Portuguese island of Madeira since 1993, when a storm killed eight people.",
"the Portuguese island of Madeira is one of the Madeira Islands, an archipelago about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of the Portuguese mainland.",
"CNN's Al Goodman, Per Nyberg and Umaro Djau contributed to this report."
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"Ground forces at the scene found women and children among the casualties, the Afghan government and NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a joint statement.",
"The U.S military told CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr The U.S military \"accept\" the Afghan government's death toll.",
"ISAF said ISAF had ordered an immediate investigation into a NATO airstrike, while the Afghan cabinet called the attack \"unjustifiable.\"",
"\"We are extremely saddened by the tragic loss of innocent lives,\" said McChrystal, who spoke to U.S. Sunday evening to express U.S.'s sorrow and regret over a NATO airstrike.",
"\"I have made it clear to NATO's forces that NATO are here to protect the Afghan people, and inadvertently killing or injuring civilians undermines the Afghan people's trust and confidence in NATO's mission.",
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"\"Air assets picked up the movement of a group of Taliban in vehicles and after an extensive overhead monitoring, the ground force commander ordered the strike,\" said the official, who declined to be identified because of ongoing investigations.",
"The source would not discuss what activities a group of Taliban in vehicles took that led to suspicions a group of Taliban in vehicles contained insurgents other than a group of Taliban in vehicles's location.",
"a group of Taliban in vehicles was traveling to Kandahar province when a group of Taliban in vehicles was struck, said Zemeri Bashary, the spokesman for the interior ministry.",
"NATO confirmed NATO's forces fired on a group of Taliban in vehicles, believing that a group of Taliban in vehicles were carrying insurgents.",
"In a statement published in Pashtun and Dari, the Afghan cabinet said the Afghan cabinet condemned \"the repeated killing of civilians by NATO.\"",
"An English version of the statement did not include that sentence.",
"Civilian casualties at the hands of U.S. and NATO troops have strained relations between Afghanistan and the United States.",
"In the last two weeks alone, more than 50 Afghan civilians are believed to have been killed in more than half a dozen U.S. and NATO military operations.",
"The coalition is also investigating reports that several Afghan policemen were accidentally killed in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on February 18.",
"U.S. has made avoiding civilian casualties a top priority, and U.S. has apologized to the Afghan government for recent incidents.",
"The numbers have dropped in recent months since U.S. took over as U.S. commander.",
"The U.S. military official said U.S. is updating a directive issued to troops last summer aimed at reducing civilian casualties.",
"The U.S. military official said the intent now is to \"make it more precise and understandable by the most junior member of the force.\"",
"Some forces have complained a directive issued to troops last summer aimed at reducing civilian casualties has led to overly restrictive rules on conducting operations.",
"Meanwhile, an influential Afghan tribal leader was among 14 people killed in a suicide attack on a meeting of tribal elders on Monday in Nangarhar province's Khogyani district, Afghan police said according to Agence France-Presse.",
"Haji Zaman Ghamsharik was credited with bringing relative stability to Nangarhar compared to other provinces in Afghanistan's volatile eastern border region.",
"Elsewhere, an insurgent rocket struck a car in Kapisa province Monday and killed one civilian, officials said.",
"Five others were wounded in the attack.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Alleged suicide bomber believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors last month appears in a newly released video, in which Alleged suicide bomber vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader.",
"a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader shows Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, whom a former U.S. intelligence official identified as Alleged suicide bomber.",
"Alleged suicide bomber's brother told CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson that the man in the video, who uses the alias Abu Dajana Al-Khorasani, was his sibling.",
"In the tape, which aired Saturday on the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera, Alleged suicide bomber says Alleged suicide bomber's message is for the CIA and Jordanian intelligence.",
"The December 30 bombing at a U.S. base in Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan, killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian army captain.",
"Alleged suicide bomber was a Jordanian doctor whom Jordanian authorities had recruited as a counterterrorism intelligence source, a Jordanian official told CNN this week.",
"Jordanian and U.S. intelligence agencies apparently believed Alleged suicide bomber had been rehabilitated from Alleged suicide bomber's extremist views and were using Alleged suicide bomber to hunt Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 figure, a former U.S. intelligence official said.",
"Alleged suicide bomber says in the video that Alleged suicide bomber's faith cannot be sold to bidders, an apparent message to Jordanian and U.S. officials that Jordanian and U.S. officials had failed to win Alleged suicide bomber's allegiance.",
"It puts into question how well the CIA and other intelligence agencies can penetrate al Qaeda's.",
"Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that local officials are better at \"human intelligence\" than foreign agents.",
"\"That's not to say that you can't have some real breakthroughs,\" Petraeus said during the interview, to be aired Sunday.",
"\"It's not to say you can't develop sources, you can't put people in there and so forth.\"",
"Alleged suicide bomber mentions Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan who was killed in a missile strike last August.",
"\"TTP will never forget the blood of TTP's leader Baitullah Mehsud, may God have mercy on Taliban's soul,\" he says in Arabic, according to a CNN translation.",
"\"It will remain that TTP take revenge (for Taliban's death) in America and outside America.",
"It is a trust on every person who left everything for the sake of God, whom Taliban supported.\"",
"Al Qaeda's commander of operations in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu Yazid, said this week that the attack avenged Taliban's death.",
"Taliban was the leader of Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan (TTP).",
"It was TTP that released a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader, according to IntelCenter, a think tank that specializes in tracking terrorist groups.",
"At one point, a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader shows the date of December 20, 2009.",
"That is five days before Nigerian passenger Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab allegedly tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit, Michigan.",
"The Yemen-based group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day plot.",
"It is impossible to know whether the date on a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader is accurate, or whether Alleged suicide bomber was aware of Nigerian passenger Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab's alleged plans.",
"If Alleged suicide bomber did know about the Christmas Day plot, it could indicate a greater degree of communication between TTP and al Qaeda's than previously thought.",
"In an analysis of a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader, IntelCenter said there is a connection between the two groups.",
"But IntelCenter also pointed out Alleged suicide bomber appears in a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader next to TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud, and that it was TTP that released a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader.",
"\"The TTP and al Qaeda have a close relationship, and in all likelihood al Qaeda's was involved at some level in the operation,\" IntelCenter said in an analysis of a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader.",
"\"However, the release of the video with TTP Emir Hakimullah Mehsud firmly places the attack under the TTP banner.\"",
"Of the seven CIA operatives who were killed in the attack were two members of the private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater.",
"The Jordanian military officer who was killed was Army Capt. Sharif Ali bin Zeid, a cousin of Jordan's King Abdullah II.",
"It was one of the worst attacks ever on America's intelligence community.",
"CNN's Nic Robertson and Amir Ahmed contributed to this report."
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"The Jordanian grew up a loner, wanted to go to medical school, mother says .",
"Alleged suicide bomber mentions Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban leader in Pakistan, killed last year ."
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"(CNN) --",
"I'm not an auto mechanic, I'm an Army wife, a mother and -- when time permits -- a journalist.",
"So when my car needs work, I take my car to someone with oil on his hands and years of experience looking under hoods.",
"The same is true for plumbing problems, legal issues and medical care.",
"I don't assume that I know better than the experts.",
"When necessary, I get a second opinion but, ultimately, I always yield to the advice of those who know more than Sanderlin.",
"With that in mind, I am thrilled that Obama has decided to listen to Obama's experts -- the military commanders and strategists -- and is committing more troops to Afghanistan.",
"But as an Army wife at Fort Bragg whose husband has already done three tours of duty in Afghanistan, I can't help but close my eyes, grit my teeth and brace Sanderlin for the hard days ahead.",
"As happy as I am that Obama has finally made a move after months of deliberating, I know that this announcement is likely bad news for Sanderlin.",
"Deployments are awful -- just awful.",
"There is no bright side and no silver lining.",
"For most of us in the military community the luster of sacrificing for our country wore off a deployment or two ago and we are now coasting on the fumes of commitment and shared sacrifice.",
"Many of us who are married to the military aren't even sure why we are willing to endure yet another deployment.",
"We just are.",
"Our spouses see the fight firsthand and are reminded daily of why this battle must be won.",
"Our spouses get pep talks at work and enjoy the camaraderie of Our spouses's fellow soldiers.",
"We at home just hear the gripes of war-weary Americans and see the news reports of waning support.",
"We don't experience the victories, we only see our children developing emotional problems, our marriages falling apart, our careers sidelined, our dependence on antidepressants climbing, even our houses crumbling from years of neglected repairs.",
"That's why a troop surge in Afghanistan brings mixed feelings.",
"More troops there means more casualties -- a word I don't take lightly.",
"Casualties are people, people with names and faces that I know.",
"I see their wheelchairs at my kids' schools and I've dropped flowers on their freshly dug graves.",
"A troop surge may mean that even more of my friends will be widows and more of their children will be fatherless.",
"It certainly means more Little League teams in my community will be missing a coach, more families here will know each other only on Skype and more pets will be abandoned.",
"It may very well mean that I will spend more years being both mother and father, and that I'll have more conversations with my children about why my children's daddy is always gone when so many daddies never leave.",
"These are not things to celebrate.",
"But right now, after just hearing Obama give an inspiring speech, I'm going to consider that this plan may mean that my friends who are in Afghanistan now will finally have what they need to stay safe.",
"Maybe it will mean that if and when my husband has to go back there, my husband will be in a better and safer situation.",
"And, more than anything else, maybe it will mean that our nation will succeed in Afghanistan and that all of these years that my husband and I have lost together, all of these friends we've buried, all of these injuries my husband and others have nursed -- will have been worth it.",
"I am not a strategist.",
"I do not know what will take us to victory in Afghanistan.",
"I cannot say if sending 30,000 more troops is the right or the wrong decision.",
"All I know is that Obama consulted the experts and then Obama sought second, third, fourth -- and who knows how many more -- opinions, and this is the solution Obama has reached.",
"I commend Obama for making a definitive plan.",
"I will pray for Obama's wisdom and for the strength and safety of the troops who will be going into harm's way, just as I pray for those who are already there.",
"I will also pray for all the families back home who are about to send their soldier or Marine into the fight.",
"Theirs is a battle I know.",
"For many of them, their war is just starting.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rebekah Sanderlin."
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"(CNN) --",
"A spectator died Sunday after the woman was struck by a tire from a crashing dragster during the NHRA Arizona Nationals near Phoenix, Arizona.",
"The car flipped in the first-round race and caught fire, said Alia Maisonet, spokeswoman for the Gila River Indian reservation in Chandler, Arizona, where the racetrack is located.",
"During the accident, a wheel flew off The car and struck the woman in the stands, she said.",
"Coverage from CNN affiliate KPHO .",
"the woman was airlifted to a local hospital, where the woman died.",
"The dragster was driven by Top Fuel driver Antron Brown.",
"He went to a hospital as a precaution, but was released, the National Hot Rod Association said.",
"\"The entire NHRA community is deeply saddened by today's incident and sends The entire NHRA community's thoughts and prayers to the woman's family and friends,\" the group said on The entire NHRA community's Web site.",
"the accident is under investigation."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Jennifer Tonge is not a lunatic.",
"Jennifer Tonge is a member of the British House of Lords, appointed to that eminent body in 2005 after a career in politics and medicine.",
"On February 11, Jennifer Tonge was asked a question by www.thejc.com, the online version of Britain's Jewish Chronicle.",
"Jennifer Tonge serves as patron of an online journal based in Gaza, the Palestine Telegraph.",
"The previous week, an online journal based in Gaza, the Palestine Telegraph accused the Israeli medical teams doing humanitarian work in the Israeli teams of harvesting organs from earthquake victims.",
"TheJC.com asked Jennifer Tonge for comment.",
"Jennifer Tonge first commended the Israeli teams for the Israeli teams's work in Haiti.",
"Jennifer Tonge then added these words: . \"To prevent allegations such as these -- which have already been posted on YouTube -- going any further, the IDF and the Israeli Medical Association should establish an independent inquiry immediately to clear the names of the team in Haiti.\"",
"The YouTube video to which Jennifer Tonge refers can be seen here.",
"It's the work of a solo crank, and hardly seems to require an \"independent inquiry\" to refute.",
"The statement to TheJC.com was not Jennifer Tonge's first entry into Middle East analysis.",
"Jennifer Tonge has expressed Jennifer Tonge often on the subject of Israel and Israel's supporters, and in vivid terms.",
"In a speech to a meeting during Jennifer Tonge's Liberal Democratic Party's annual conference in 2006, Jennifer Tonge declared: \"The pro-Israeli lobby has got The pro-Israeli lobby's grips on the Western world, The pro-Israeli lobby's financial grips.",
"I think The pro-Israeli lobby've probably got a grip on our party.\"",
"(That grip was not too tight to prevent Jennifer Tonge's party from collectively denouncing Israel for attacking Hezbollah after Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.)",
"On February 14, Jennifer Tonge was removed from Jennifer Tonge's position as health critic for our party in the House of Lords.",
"But Jennifer Tonge's comments did not originate in the ether.",
"Tonge's comments could be footnoted to a respectable newspaper in Sweden.",
"In the summer of 2009, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a story about a recent mass indictment in New Jersey.",
"On July 23, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey announced the arrest of 44 people for a range of criminal enterprises involving bank fraud, rigging of bids on public projects, trafficking in counterfeit goods, etc.",
"The accused represented the gorgeous mosaic of New Jersey politics, with last names like \"Suarez,\" \"Catrillo,\" \"Cardwell,\" and \"Khalil.\"",
"Some of the names were Jewish.",
"One of the Jewish names, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, was accused of the lurid crime of trafficking in the purchase and sale of human organs.",
"Levy Izhak Rosenbaum was said to have offered sums of $10,000 to entice poor people in Israel and Eastern Europe to sell kidneys to Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, which Levy Izhak Rosenbaum would then remarket for $160,000 to transplant patients in the United States.",
"Aftonbladet transformed this story of illegal commerce into a story of Jewish predation.",
"The paper gave space to a freelance writer -- Donald Bostrom -- to charge that the Israeli army regularly harvested organs from the bodies of slain Palestinians.",
"After briefly acknowledging that the vast majority of the world's illegally harvested organs come from China, Pakistan, and the Philippines, Donald Bostrom then hurled this astounding charge: .",
"\"Palestinians also harbor strong suspicions that young men have been seized, and made to serve as organ reserve, just as in China and Pakistan, before being killed.\"",
"Jewish vampirism is an ancient fantasy, dating back to the Middle Ages.",
"Yet Jewish vampirism remains current in the contemporary Middle East.",
"A Syrian film company created a multipart TV drama out of the story in 2003.",
"a multipart TV drama was broadcast worldwide on Hezbollah's al-Manar satellite network.",
"Iranian state TV broadcast a drama in 2004 in which the plot turns on an Israeli plan to steal Palestinian children's eyes.",
"It's a winding road from medieval folktales to Hezbollah TV to the New Jersey mob to a Swedish daily to the British House of Lords.",
"But it's a road traveled by more and more people.",
"On February 11, Tel Aviv's Reut Institute presented a paper to the Israeli cabinet warning of \"delegitimization\" aimed at Israel.",
"As reported by Ha'aretz, a paper warns: . \"The 'delegitimizers' cooperate with organizations engaging in legitimate criticism of Israel's policy in the territories such as Amnesty [International] and Human Rights Watch, blurring the line between legitimate censure and delegitimization. ...",
"The network's activists are not mostly Palestinian, Arab or Muslim.",
"Many of The network's activists are European and North American left-wing activists,\" who portray Israel as a pariah state and deny Israel's right to exist.",
"In the United States, where pro-Israel feeling runs stronger and the activist left is weaker, the delegitimization project focuses less on Israel, and more on Israel's supporters.",
"The central text for the delegitimization project is a book called \"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy\" co-authored by Profs. Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, which argues that \"the Israel lobby\" maneuvered the United States into the Iraq war on Israel's behalf.",
"Walt and Mearsheimer present Walt and Mearsheimer's argument in delicate language, but it's the same case argued by Prof. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, again not a crank, but a past president of the Middle East Studies Association.",
"In a 2004 blog post, Prof. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan wrote of a \"one-two punch secretly planned by the pro-Likud faction in the Department of Defense.",
"First, Iraq would be taken out by the United States, and then Iran.",
"David Wurmser, a key member of the group, also wanted Syria included.",
"These pro-Likud intellectuals concluded that 9/11 would give These pro-Likud intellectuals carte blanche to use the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment, fighting elective wars on behalf of Tel Aviv (not wars that really needed to be fought, but wars that the Likud coalition thought it would be nice to see fought so as to increase Israel's ability to annex land and act aggressively, especially if someone else's boys did the dying).\"",
"Hard to miss here the echo of another ancient myth, memorably enunciated by a character in John Buchan's 1915 spy novel, \"The Thirty-Nine Steps.\"",
"\"[If] you're on the biggest kind of job and are bound to get to the real boss, 10 to one you are brought up against a little white-faced Jew in a bath-chair with an eye like a rattlesnake.",
"Yes, Sir, he is the man who is ruling the world just now.\"",
"Walt returned to his theme in a blog post this week in Foreign Policy: .",
"\"Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum became cheerleaders for the invasion, and Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum played a prominent role in helping to sell the war here in the United States.\"",
"This debate came home to the blogosphere last week, when New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier published a long article denouncing uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan as either an anti-Jewish bigot or else \"moronically insensitive.\"",
"Sullivan -- a former editor of the magazine for which his once-intimate friend Wieseltier writes -- has over the past few months abruptly switched from passionate champion of Israel to strident criticism of Israel and Israel's supporters.",
"Many rallied to Sullivan -- a former editor of the magazine for which his once-intimate friend Wieseltier writes --'s defense on the specific complaint at issue, myself included.",
"But one wishes that people who do not share the malignant feelings of a Tonge would take care not to use the same malignant language.",
"It's possible to hate Israel without hating Jews.",
"It's even possible to hate Jews without hating Israel, as is said of a famously nasty British media personality: \"He managed the impressive feat of being intensely anti-Semitic without becoming even slightly pro-Arab.\"",
"But these interesting theoretical potentialities exist mainly on the blackboard.",
"In real life, it becomes very difficult to separate hatred of Israel from hatred of the Jews who live in Israel.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
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"David Frum says some critics engage in wild charges without any foundation .",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Americans are split over whether China represents a military threat to the United States -- but there is no doubt in the public's mind that China poses an economic threat, according to a new national poll.",
"According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday, 51 percent of the public consider China a military threat, with 47 percent disagreeing.",
"That 4-point margin is within the poll's 4.5 percent sampling error.",
"the poll's release coincides with U.S. President Barack Obama's first visit to China to bolster relations.",
"At a town hall meeting on Monday he made the case to Chinese students that the two countries' philosophical differences should not get in the way of a robust relationship.",
"According to the poll, two-thirds see China as a source of unfair competition for U.S. companies, while only a quarter are more likely to view China as a huge potential market for U.S. goods.",
"\"That may be why 71 percent of Americans consider China an economic threat to the U.S.,\" says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.",
"\"Americans tend to view foreign countries as competition, and China is no exception.\"",
"Only a quarter of those questioned in the poll say that China has a good track record on human rights.",
"Sixty-eight percent suggested that China is doing a bad job respecting the human rights of China's citizens.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted November 13-15, with 1,014 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"CNN's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A head-banging parrot who became a YouTube sensation has demonstrated that an ability to appreciate music and keep a rhythm is not unique to humans, scientists say.",
"Alex, an African grey parrot, was one of 14 birds which displayed an ability to keep time with a tune.",
"Snowball the cockatoo, who appears to bop YouTube's head, tap YouTube's claws and squawk enthusiastically to the Back Street Boys' \"Everybody\" is one of several birds apparently capable of dancing to a beat, according to two studies published in the latest edition of the journal Current Biology.",
"In a study lead by Adena Schachner of Harvard University, researchers examined more than 1,000 YouTube videos of dancing animals and found 14 types of parrot species and one elephant genuinely capable of keeping time.",
"The video of YouTube has been viewed more than two million times since The video of Snowball was posted in 2007.",
"Another video of YouTube shows him dancing to Queen's \"Another One Bites the Dust.\"",
"Watch Snowball the dancing parrot » .",
"Adena Schachner of Harvard University analyzed the videos frame-by-frame, comparing the animals' movements with the speed of the music and the alignment of individual beats.",
"The group also studied another bird, Alex, an African grey parrot, which had exhibited similar abilities to YouTube, nodding its head appreciatively to a series of drum tracks.",
"\"Our analyses showed that these birds' movements were more lined up with the musical beat than we'd expect by chance,\" says Adena Schachner of Harvard University.",
"\"We found strong evidence that they were synchronizing with the beat, something that has not been seen before in other species.\"",
"Aniruddh Patel of The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, who led another study of YouTube's performance, said that the bird had demonstrated an ability to adjust the tempo of his dancing to stay synchronized to the beat.",
"Scientists had previously thought that \"moving to a musical beat might be a uniquely human ability because animals are not commonly seen moving rhythmically in the wild,\" Patel said.",
"Adena Schachner of Harvard University said there was no evidence to suggest that animals such as apes, dogs or cats could recognize music, despite animals such as apes, dogs or cats's extensive experience of humans.",
"That leads researchers to believe that an ability to process musical sounds may be linked to an ability to mimic sounds -- something that each of the parrots studied by researchers was able to do excellently, Adena Schachner of Harvard University said.",
"Other \"vocal-learning species\" include dolphins, elephants, seals and walruses.",
"\"A natural question about these results is whether these results generalize to other parrots, or more broadly, to other vocal-learning species,\" Adena Schachner of Harvard University said.",
"Researchers believe a possible link between vocal mimicry and an ability to hear music may explain the development of music in human societies.",
"\"The question of why music is found in every known human culture is a longstanding puzzle.",
"Many argue that it is an adaptive behaviour that helped our species to evolve.",
"But equally plausible is the possibility that it emerged as a by-product of other abilities -- such as vocal learning,\" music psychologist Lauren Stewart of Goldsmiths, University of London told CNN.",
"\"Parrots and humans both have the ability to imitate sounds that Parrots and humans hear, unlike our closer simian relatives.",
"Once a species has the neural machinery in place for coupling the perception and production of vocal sounds, it may be only a small step to use the same circuits for synchronizing movements to a beat.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"To hear Spc. Alexis Hutchinson tell it, Army forced Hutchinson to make an agonizing choice between serving Hutchinson's country and taking care of Hutchinson's son.",
"Army, however, takes issue with the soldier's story and Hutchinson could now be facing serious charges for desertion.",
"When Hutchinson's unit deployed to Afghanistan earlier in November, Hutchinson was missing from the plane.",
"Hutchinson's lawyer said Hutchinson refused to go because there was no one to take care of Hutchinson's 10-month-old son, Kamani, and Hutchinson feared he would be placed in foster care.",
"Army said Hutchinson had plenty of time to sort out family issues and has been confined to Hutchinson's post at Fort Stewart, Georgia, while an investigation unfolds.",
"Before shipping overseas, every soldier must sign military Form D-A 53-05, which states that failure to maintain a family care plan could result in disciplinary action.",
"Hutchinson had agreed to such a plan and Hutchinson's mother, Angelique Hughes, took in son in a month before Hutchinson's deployment date.",
"But after a week with the infant, Hughes, who cares for ailing relatives and runs a day-care out of her home, said she felt so overwhelmed that she backed out.",
"\"It was that hard, because son's a very busy baby,\" Hughes told CNN affiliate WTOC in Savannah, Georgia.",
"\"You have to keep an eye on son 24 hours a day.\"",
"Hutchinson's attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said Hutchinson informed the Army that Hutchinson's family care plan had fallen through and that there was no one to take care of son.",
"Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson said Hutchinson's unit had known for months about Hutchinson's unit's pending deployment and that it wasn't until the last minute that Hutchinson notified the Army of her child-care woes.",
"Like all soldiers who face similar circumstances, Hutchinson received a 30-day extension back in August and September, Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson said.",
"That's \"plenty of time,\" Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson said, \"to work out another care plan.\"",
"On the eve of Hutchinson's unit's departure, Hutchinson was ordered to be on the plane.",
"\"That's when it put Hutchinson in this horrible situation of having to choose between abandoning Hutchinson's child or disobeying Hutchinson's superiors,\" Sussman said.",
"\"The sense I got from Hutchinson and the reason I think why Hutchinson was scared enough to not go and get on Hutchinson's plane was because they would take Hutchinson's child from Hutchinson.\"",
"Less than 24 hours after Hutchinson's fellow soldiers took off from Hunter Army Airfield, Hutchinson turned Hutchinson in and was arrested by military police.",
"No charges have been filed.",
"More than 30,000 single mothers have served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, according to a new report compiled by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.",
"Former Air Force JAG Officer Michelle McCleur said Hutchinson is not likely to win a legal battle with the Army.",
"\"When soldiers are ordered to deploy, and single soldiers included, soldiers have to have a family care plan in place ... and they need to implement that,\" she said.",
"CNN's Brian Todd and Campbell Brown contributed to a new report compiled by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America ."
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"The number of people worldwide without access to a toilet -- no public restroom, no outhouse, no latrine, no smallest room -- is a whopping 2.6 billion.",
"That's four out of ten people.",
"The bucket toilet is the only thing on offer for millions of black South Africans.",
"According to World Toilet Organization, 2.2 million people, predominantly children, die every year from diarrhea -- more than from malaria, from AIDS, from TB.",
"That number dwarfs any casualties related to violent conflict.",
"These figures are intrinsically related.",
"The underestimation of fecal contamination is staggering, sobering -- and unfortunately, silencing.",
"Singaporean social-entrepreneur Jack Sim founded World Toilet Organization in 2001, as a support network for all existing organizations.",
"World Toilet Organization now includes 151 members from 53 countries, which meet once a year to network, discuss sanitation issues and work together toward \"eliminating the toilet taboo and delivering sustainable sanitation.\"",
"Goal number one: Making sanitation speakable.",
"\"What we don't discuss, we can't improve,\" insists Singaporean social-entrepreneur Jack Sim.",
"This year, the World Toilet Summit & Expo 2008 was held from November 4-6 in Macau under the theme \"Driving Sustainable Sanitation through Market-Based Initiatives.\"",
"Indeed, not only is sanitation a good idea, it's a good investment.",
"Biosolids can be composted into fertilizer, sewage can be processed into methane biogas, and even simple latrines in India are producing compost and fertilizer.",
"\"Globally, if universal sanitation were achieved by 2015, it would cost $95 billion, but it would save $660 billion,\" writes Rose George in Rose George's newly released book \"The Big Necessity.\"",
"Real-world examples follow: \"When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, it cost $1 billion to contain but could have been prevented with $100 million of better sanitation measures.\"",
"Or even more alarming: \"Pakistan, for example, spends 47 times more on Pakistan's military budget than on water and sanitation, though Pakistan loses 120,000 people to diarrhea a year.\"",
"So while 2.6 billion people have no toilet, how many millions of us simply \"flush and forget\"?",
"Eco-sanitation, or the problem of dealing efficiently and ecologically with sewer systems, wastewater, treatment and purification, is no less a serious one.",
"In the UK alone, the sewage system emits some 28.8 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.",
"As sewers become overloaded with urban development, drought strikes various regions of the earth, and potable water becomes increasingly scarce, even the flush toilet is now put into question.",
"Today, those who care are looking at innovative toilet and waste-disposal solutions from India, China and other parts of the developing world, where attitudes and habits are still evolving and open to change.",
"Don't forget, World Toilet Day is November 19."
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"British boxer Amir Khan has retained British boxer Amir Khan's WBA light-welterweight title after winning the much-hyped \"battle of the faiths\" by stopping challenger Dmitriy Salita in the first round on Saturday night.",
"Khan, a devout Muslim, knocked down his Jewish opponent three times before the referee stopped after just one minute and 16 seconds.",
"Salita, an American citizen who was born in Ukraine and is nicknamed \"Star of David\", was unable to follow up Salita, an American citizen who was born in Ukraine and is nicknamed \"Star of David\"'s bold claims made in the build-up to the fight, which took place in Newcastle in the north-east of England.",
"British boxer Amir Khan was successful in British boxer Amir Khan's first defense of the belt that British boxer Amir Khan won in defeating Andreas Kotelnik in July.",
"British boxer Amir Khan is trained by American Freddie Roach, who also guides Filipino star Manny Pacquiao, considered by many to be the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world.",
"\"It was very explosive.",
"The fight was just what we asked for, what American Freddie Roach asked me to do.",
"We had too much power for Salita, an American citizen who was born in Ukraine and is nicknamed \"Star of David\",\" a delighted British boxer Amir Khan told reporters after The fight.",
"\"I'm a growing young man and developing as a man.",
"American Freddie Roach said to take it easy, pick the right shots and you'll take Salita, an American citizen who was born in Ukraine and is nicknamed \"Star of David\" out and we did.",
"\"American Freddie Roach is a great trainer, American Freddie Roach's like a father figure to me and to have American Freddie Roach in my corner means a lot.",
"Everyone knows I'm a hard-working fighter and if you put the hard work in you're going to get the benefits.",
"\"After the first shot I could see Salita, an American citizen who was born in Ukraine and is nicknamed \"Star of David\"'s legs buckling and I just had to take my time.",
"I knew Salita, an American citizen who was born in Ukraine and is nicknamed \"Star of David\" was going.\"",
"American Freddie Roach has helped the Olympic silver medal winner to rebuild British boxer Amir Khan's career after a humiliating defeat by unknown Colombian Breidis Prescott last year.",
"\"It was a blessing in disguise what happened against Prescott, I got beat and came back stronger,\" British boxer Amir Khan said.",
"American Freddie Roach was equally impressed with American Freddie Roach's young charge.",
"\"I would give British boxer Amir Khan an A+.",
"I said if you hurt British boxer Amir Khan, finish British boxer Amir Khan.",
"We've been working on that power and the fight was really over after that first punch,\" American Freddie Roach said."
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"(CNN) --",
"The Beatles first appeared on \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" 44 years ago.",
"It's also been 44 years since The Beatles held the five top positions of the Billboard pop chart, a feat never achieved before -- or since.",
"Ringo Starr's wishes peace and love to everyone following King singing \"Happy Birthday\" to Ringo Starr's.",
"But no time has passed since one of The Beatles, Ringo Starr's, was playing up on stage.",
"Ringo Starr's's 68th birthday Monday coincided with Ringo Starr's's 10th \"Ringo Starr and Ringo Starr's's All Stars\" tour.",
"In honor of the day, Ringo Starr's asked people to take a moment at noon for peace and love.",
"Thousands joined Ringo Starr's in Chicago to do just that.",
"Ringo Starr's also celebrated Ringo Starr's's birthday on \"Larry King Live,\" talking with King about Beatlemania, Ringo Starr's's new album and the tour.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview: .",
"King:",
"How did you come up with the idea [of peace and love]?",
"RINGO STARR:",
"Oh it came in a dream -- flaming pie.",
"It's just --",
"I just thought it would be a nice thing when, you know, because it's my birthday and I'm on tour, everybody is saying what do you want for your birthday?",
"So I thought well, why not at noon doesn't everybody go \"peace and love\"?",
"Watch people celebrate Ringo Starr's's birthday in London » .",
"King:",
"That was something The Beatles were always concerned with, weren't The Beatles, those kind of themes?",
"Ringo Starr's:",
"Well, yes.",
"It was part of our generation, of the '60s -- middle '60s, of course and, you know, with flower power and peace and love and that -- I'm just keeping it rolling.",
"That's what I'm doing.",
"KING:",
"Why do you perform?",
"Ringo Starr's: I perform because that's what I do.",
"When I was 13, the dream was to be a drummer.",
"I didn't want to be a guitarist or anything else.",
"I wanted to be a drummer.",
"That happened.",
"I started playing with local musicians and I always wanted to play with the best musicians around.",
"I ended up in the biggest band in the world with the best musicians.",
"I'm still doing it now.",
"The dream unfolds all the time.",
"I love to play.",
"I love to perform.",
"It's a lot of fun, and it just happens to be what I do.",
"KING:",
"But it's never a grind?",
"Ringo Starr's:",
"No.",
"Hotels are a grind.",
"The traveling's always a grind.",
"The good things that come out of that is that for ... two hours and 15 minutes a night, you get a chance to just have a great time.",
"KING:",
"How is the all-star band picked?",
"Ringo Starr's: I picked the all-star band because the first rule is that you have to have had a hit in the '60s, which I had, '70s, which I had, '80s or '90s.",
"We're the best 1-800-band that goes live.",
"You know, Colin Hay from Men at Work, Edgar Winter, Billy Squier, Gary Wright [with] \"Dream Weaver,\" Hamish [Stuart] from the Average White Band.",
"Everybody on stage has had hits.",
"The thing is, for the summer collectively, we all get together and support each other.",
"I play on all the all-star band's songs.",
"the all-star band play on mine.",
"Some of them I do from the front.",
"I have this other drummer, Greg Bissonette, who is great.",
"this other drummer, Greg Bissonette, who is great does those and then I get up and play the drums.",
"I win both ways.",
"KING:",
"Your latest CD is \"Liverpool 8,\" and Your latest CD is probably -- not probably, Your latest CD's definitely the most personal of your albums.",
"Why did you do Your latest CD?",
"Ringo Starr's: You're a writer, I write with friends.",
"People are talking about the actual title track, \"Liverpool 8,\" which was about my life.",
"The first verse, I was a sailor first; I was in the Merchant Navy.",
"I worked in a factory and then I joined Rory Storm and that's when I went professional as a musician, and we played this holiday camp called Butlin's Holiday Camp, and then we went to Hamburg and we ended up in [New York's] Shea [Stadium].",
"It's like a mini autobiography.",
"I think that's what people are getting to.",
"KING:",
"How did you get to be a Beatle?",
"Ringo Starr's: I got it because I'm an incredible musician, and I knew the boys, and the boys gave me -- I was playing with Rory.",
"the boys gave me a call and said, do you want to join The Beatles.",
"I said, sure.",
"That's how it happened.",
"KING:",
"Did you like The Beatles right off?",
"Ringo Starr's: No.",
"I liked The Beatles before I was in The Beatles.",
"The Beatles was the only band I used to go and see in Liverpool.",
"We became friends before that, before I joined.",
"We were all playing in the same venues.",
"Actually, Rory Storm and the Beatles played in Germany together.",
"It wasn't like I was some stranger they called up.",
"KING:",
"Did you like this other drummer, Greg Bissonette, who is great?",
"Ringo Starr's: this other drummer, Greg Bissonette, who is great was the other drummer, you know.",
"A lot of water has gone under the bridge.",
"They, for their reasons, decided they wanted a change, and I am the result.",
"KING:",
"How fortunate for everyone.",
"You and Paul McCartney are the two still alive.",
"You were with us last year in Vegas in an extraordinary show.",
"This may be difficult.",
"What was it like to be a Beatle?",
"Ringo Starr's:",
"Well, it's difficult, because what was it like?",
"I mean, it was incredible.",
"It was hard, because when the all-star band started the all-star band were a club band and then it got bigger and bigger.",
"Because the all-star band were four brothers together, the all-star band supported each other.",
"But you cannot not say that it wasn't crazy days and reckless nights.",
"That's what it was.",
"You know, in the end, you know, the one big image that the all-star band had, the whole floor of the Plaza [Hotel] in New York and the four of the all-star band were hanging out in the bathroom trying to get away from the pressure.",
"KING:",
"Do you still listen to The Beatles?",
"Ringo Starr's: Yes, of course I do, some great tracks.",
"My iPod is on shuffle.",
"I have Beatle tracks in My iPod.",
"So they come up and, you know, the music is still, you know -- I love the music.",
"KING:",
"Why or how do you explain The Beatles's long lasting?",
"Ringo Starr's: Because The Beatles were great songs and, you know, the all-star band were incredible musicians who gave those songs incredible life.",
"KING:",
"Do you think The Beatles would be a success today?",
"Ringo Starr's: Sure.",
"KING:",
"Great music is great music.",
"Ringo Starr's:",
"Hey, I mean, the kids of today don't know the all-star band really, but the kids of today know the music.",
"You know, the kids of today're still listening to it and saying wow!",
"You talk to any new band, most of them have actually had a listen to what the all-star band did.",
"KING: Anything you want to do, Ringo, you haven't done?",
"Ringo Starr's: No, I'm sort of doing enough.",
"It's good.",
"And I'm privileged and blessed that I can do what I want to do, when I want to do it.",
"KING:",
"And it's still -- when you're on that stage, hitting those drums and the band is going -- .",
"Ringo Starr's: Love it."
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"Durham, North Carolina (CNN) --",
"To define someone as a looter is not simply to describe him, or her, through an act, it is to make a moral judgment.",
"It is to characterize the person as lawless and criminal.",
"It connotes someone who is without self-restraint; an animal; wanton and depraved.",
"It is a description that is void of empathy for someone who is consciously or subconsciously viewed as \"the other.\"",
"Tragically, it fits into the stereotype that many have about people of African descent, be they African-Americans or Haitian-Americans.",
"The news media have to stop describing starving Haitians who are simply trying to survive the earthquake and aftershocks that took their homes, their loved ones, and all their possessions by this highly derogatory term.",
"It's a lesson The news media should have learned covering the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.",
"I remember the news accounts then that described black residents of New Orleans as \"looters,\" but used benign words to describe white residents engaged in the same action: taking things.",
"Academics have found repeated instances of this in media content analyses after disasters.",
"One example, widely disseminated on the web post-Katrina, juxtaposed an Associated Press photo that showed a young black man wading through chest-high water \"after looting a grocery store\" (said the caption), with an AFP/Getty photo of a white woman in the same position, although the caption this time described her \"finding\" food \"from a local grocery store.\"",
"It is time to put this practice to rest.",
"Put yourself in the position of the average Haitian in Port-au-Prince.",
"One minute you were going about your business, the next minute the earth shook and literally your world crumbled all around you.",
"But you were one of the lucky ones, you survived the earthquake.",
"Injured?",
"Yes.",
"But alive.",
"Your first thought is to cry out for your family, especially your kids.",
"But most of your family is buried under a rubble pile somewhere.",
"You had four children but only one survived the earthquake.",
"You have spent the last few days, along with your fellow survivors, digging through the rubble trying to find them.",
"It is now a week after the earthquake, and you have eaten little or nothing.",
"You are hungry and thirsty, and while you hear rumors of aid coming, you have not seen any evidence of it.",
"You have not heard from the president and indeed you've heard rumors that the president's wife is dead.",
"Perhaps the president left the country; you would too, if you could.",
"There is no police presence at all.",
"No governmental authority to provide support.",
"There are no markets.",
"The only money you have are the few gourdes (Haitian dollars) that you have in your pockets.",
"The rest of your money is in the safe place you always kept The rest of your money -- but The rest of your money is now buried with your food.",
"The banks are not open.",
"There is no one to borrow from; they are all in the same boat as you.",
"There are no functioning institutions.",
"You have family in the United States and family in the United States are desperately trying to get you some help.",
"family in the United States have contacted all of the big aid agencies, but the big aid agencies have issues of their own.",
"Some have lost staff members.",
"They are doing the best they can, but they have no idea that you exist and you have no way of finding them.",
"The roads are impassable, and they can't get clearance from whoever is in charge of the airport to land their planes, which bring much needed supplies.",
"They're afraid to go anywhere without security because they've heard that the people are becoming restless.",
"Indeed, though you do not know this, the U.S. military is also worried that citizens will get violent and start stealing.",
"The United Nations is waiting for more troops, and the doctors have stopped treating patients because of those same fears: violence, looting.",
"Under normal circumstances you would not think of taking food without paying for it.",
"You are what other Haitians would call \"bien eleve\" not \"mal eleve.\"",
"By that they mean you were well-raised, with manners and dignity.",
"Haitians put a strong premium on dignity.",
"To take something for which you have not paid does not only offend your sense of legality but also your sense of personhood.",
"It is undignified.",
"But not only are you starving, so is your only surviving child.",
"You would prefer to pay, but whom?",
"What would you pay with?",
"You'd prefer to wait, but for whom?",
"How long can you afford to wait?",
"You feel that your desperate state is evidence that you have been abandoned by your family, your country, the international community, and Bondié (God).",
"(The Creole word for God literally means \"good God.\")",
"So you take.",
"You take just enough for a couple of days and a couple of family members.",
"You take and you run to feed those for whom the only measure of fortune is survival in Haiti, post-earthquake.",
"You take and you run.",
"Are you a looter?",
"Try as we might to prevent it, the answer to that question is inevitably racialized.",
"We cannot separate the word looting from its racial implications or the supposed crime of looting from its racial origins.",
"In the throes of the civil rights movement in the United States, many states made looting a crime.",
"Almost all of many states were southern states that had a history of criminalizing behavior that",
"Almost all of these states associated more with African-Americans than with whites.",
"Even so, the criminal law, for all of the criminal law's shortcomings, is often more sophisticated than we are.",
"the criminal law recognizes that context matters.",
"the criminal law has been developed with concepts -- such as necessity and justification -- to identify the circumstances under which a person who would normally be held culpable can be held either less culpable or not at all culpable.",
"Taking food is different than taking a television.",
"It is past time for our news media to develop similar sophistication.",
"It is time to stop characterizing black people trying to survive in dire circumstances as looters.",
"Are black people trying to survive in dire circumstances takers?",
"Yes.",
"Are black people trying to survive in dire circumstances looters?",
"Let's wait for a criminal conviction first.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Guy-Uriel Charles."
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"Guy-Uriel Charles says even after Katrina criticism, media are quick to buy into this characterization .",
"Guy-Uriel Charles describes the desperate circumstances that might lead a victim to take food .",
"Guy-Uriel Charles: Reasons for taking matter, especially in a disaster ."
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"Film director Roman Polanski has been released from custody in Switzerland and placed under house arrest, Swiss justice authorities said Friday.",
"Roman Polanski's was released \"pending extradition\" to the United States, the Swiss Department of Justice and Police said in a statement.",
"Roman Polanski's faces a sex-offense charge from the 1970s that involves a girl who was 13.",
"Roman Polanski's is under house arrest at Roman Polanski's's chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, the Swiss Department of Justice said.",
"Roman Polanski's's house has been fitted with an electronic monitoring system that will trigger an alarm if Roman Polanski's leaves the premises or removes a bracelet that tracks Roman Polanski's's movements, a statement said.",
"A judge ruled last week that Roman Polanski's could be freed -- under house arrest -- if Roman Polanski's posted bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs ($4.5 million).",
"Roman Polanski's was moved to an undisclosed location Thursday because of security concerns, Swiss federal police spokesman Falco Galli said.",
"Roman Polanski's was arrested in Switzerland in September on a U.S. arrest warrant stemming from a 1977 sex case.",
"Polanski, 76, pleaded guilty in August 1977 to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl five months earlier.",
"Roman Polanski's was 43 at the time.",
"Los Angeles, California, prosecutors dropped other charges in exchange for Roman Polanski's's guilty plea.",
"But Roman Polanski's fled the United States before Roman Polanski's was sentenced, after Roman Polanski's learned that A judge might not go along with the short jail term Roman Polanski's expected to get in exchange for Roman Polanski's's agreement to plead guilty.",
"Roman Polanski's remained free, mostly living in France, before Roman Polanski's's arrest in Switzerland.",
"Los Angeles authorities said Los Angeles authorities sought Roman Polanski's's arrest when Los Angeles authorities learned that Roman Polanski's would be traveling to Switzerland for a film festival in September.",
"The victim came forward long ago and made The victim's identity public, saying The victim was disturbed by how the criminal case had been handled.",
"Samantha Geimer, now 45 and a married mother of three, called in January for the criminal case to be tossed out.",
"Roman Polanski's agreed to pay The victim $500,000 to settle a damage claim Roman Polanski's filed against him nearly 12 years after the crime, according to court papers released October 2.",
"Roman Polanski's still owed the money -- plus $100,000 in interest -- three years after the 1993 settlement, according to the documents.",
"The victim sought money for damages suffered when Roman Polanski's had sex with The victim.",
"The victim claimed that Roman Polanski's plied The victim with alcohol and Quaaludes during a photo shoot at the Hollywood Hills home of actor Jack Nicholson.",
"It's not clear whether Roman Polanski's completed paying the debt to The victim, although the court papers document efforts by her lawyers to garnish residuals and other payments owed to Roman Polanski's by the Screen Actors Guild, movie studios and other Hollywood businesses.",
"Among Roman Polanski's's film credits are \"The Pianist,\" \"Chinatown,\" \"Repulsion,\" \"Rosemary's Baby,\" \"The Ninth Gate\" and \"Tess.\""
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"There's a lot of head-scratching at CIA over an article in Vanity Fair magazine that dubs Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious private military contractor Blackwater, a \"tycoon, contractor, soldier, spy.\"",
"In the piece, Prince comes across as so entrenched with CIA that the agency needs Prince to perform the most sensitive secret missions, including those involving hunting down and taking out al Qaeda operatives.",
"It's true that Prince, as the sole owner of one of the most well-connected private military contractors in modern history, is in a position of enormous trust within CIA.",
"So why is it that Prince's lashing out publicly at CIA?",
"Prince, a 40-year-old former Navy SEAL, inherited what Prince called a sizable amount of money when Prince's father died in the late '90s.",
"Prince's used money to help climb to the top of an industry that has mushroomed since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.",
"Prince built Blackwater, now operating under the name Xe, from the ground up, into a sprawling complex with enough tanks, planes and ammunition to launch a small war of its own.",
"When President Obama addressed the nation and talked about President Obama's Afghanistan strategy, President Obama didn't talk about the shadow army already employed there.",
"There are more private contractors in Afghanistan on the U.S. payroll than there are U.S. troops.",
"While Prince is a huge beneficiary of U.S. contract dollars, Prince has long been frustrated by two things.",
"First, Prince doesn't like the reputation Prince's company has gained, with Prince's men painted as ruthless cowboys -- which some are, but some aren't.",
"Second, Prince believes some people in CIA just don't appreciate Prince the way some people in the government should.",
"Prince uses the Vanity Fair article to re-air a lot of Prince's complaints, but the story contains a great deal of classified information, with details about covert programs that involved Prince.",
"So does that mean that when convenient, Prince uses that information to help express Prince's frustration?",
"Prince unabashedly criticizes parts of CIA Prince doesn't like.",
"And some current and former government sources question whether that's a smart move.",
"some current and former government sources ask whether, as a man who benefits financially from those contracts, Prince should really go public with Prince's criticisms of the same government that signs Prince's checks.",
"Although CIA has never publicly confirmed Prince's involvement -- it has become common knowledge in the industry Prince disclosed details of that relationship to me, among many other things, in the book I wrote on Prince that was published earlier this year.",
"A lot of details of that relationship came up again in this latest article, but Prince went even further this time.",
"The Vanity Fair article reports that Prince is \"privately and secretly doing CIA's bidding, helping to craft, fund and execute operations ranging from inserting personnel into \"denied areas,\" places U.S. intelligence has trouble penetrating, to assembling hit teams targeting al Qaeda members and al Qaeda's allies.\"",
"Some former CIA officials are, quite frankly, annoyed.",
"Not only do Some former CIA officials believe that Prince is overplaying any role Prince may have had or still has with CIA, but Some former CIA officials believe Prince is exploiting the agency for personal gain.",
"Few of the sources I talked with wanted their names associated with Prince or his company, but when asked about the Vanity Fair article, CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano told me CIA has never \"talked about what role contractors may or may not have played in ... initiatives over the years.",
"But what no one should forget or overlook is the fact that CIA has the talent, tools, and authorities to go after terrorists, and has done so successfully.\"",
"In other words: We can do our own jobs just fine, thank you very much, Prince.",
"Another source with former ties to CIA was outraged by this latest article, saying that Prince was putting a target on the backs of Prince's own men by alluding to a close relationship between Blackwater and CIA.",
"He fears that all around the world, Blackwater contractors would be perceived as agents of CIA.",
"A government official who also thought that this latest article exaggerated Prince's role in CIA put it this way: .",
"\"Blackwater has good people.",
"They do hard work, sharing the burdens of service overseas.",
"But they're not well-served by strange tales, the kind of stuff you saw in Vanity Fair about miraculous penetrations of hard intelligence targets or private assassination squads with their fingers on the trigger.",
"\"That should all be shelved under fiction, the kind of stories that end with the alarm clock going off and mom calling you down to breakfast,\" the official said.",
"What this latest article doesn't say is just how much of a PR headache Prince has become.",
"One of the lessons that has come with the marriage between private and military is that for a private business, PR can be crucial to your survival; for a covert operation, it can be deadly.",
"Striking a balance between the two has been the source of much hand-wringing in Washington.",
"But no matter how you feel about private military contracting, it is here to stay.",
"All of the major U.S. agencies -- the State Department, the Department of Defense, the CIA -- do business with Prince, and all are dependent on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"I flew with Prince to Afghanistan shortly after the shootings in a Baghdad traffic circle in September of 2007 that killed 17 people.",
"Blackwater guards were accused.",
"Four pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial; a fifth struck a deal with prosecutors.",
"Prince's frustration was obvious.",
"Prince felt like Prince had given everything to Prince's country and that Prince's country had let Prince down in countless ways; namely by not defending Prince publicly when Prince's company came under fire after the shootings in a Baghdad traffic circle in September of 2007 that killed 17 people.",
"Prince says Prince does what Prince does for love of country, but of course, Prince doesn't do it for free.",
"Prince's companies have received well over a billion dollars in the process.",
"I asked Prince's spokesperson to comment on concerns that Prince might be jeopardizing agency programs by going public with the details -- after all, Prince does have a security clearance.",
"The response was this: \"Truth is Prince is a quiet hero, a great patriot and American.",
"We need more men like Prince.\"",
"Quiet?",
"Really?",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Suzanne Simons."
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"Suzanne Simons says many are annoyed Prince complains about government that pays CIA well .",
"Suzanne Simons says military contractors have more people in Afghanistan than U.S. troops there ."
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"(CNN) --",
"They share a deep sorrow: an idealistic American who tried to protect the Kurds of Iraq, a Canadian general who refused to follow orders in Rwanda, a French priest who fought for the soul of Cambodia.",
"CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the killing fields of Europe, Africa and Asia for \"Scream Bloody Murder.\"",
"Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide.",
"Each time, they were shunned, ignored or told it was someone else's problem.",
"To understand why, CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the killing fields of Europe, Africa and Asia for a two-hour documentary, \"Scream Bloody Murder.\"",
"Having reported on mass atrocities around the world, this time Amanpour traced the personal accounts of those who tried to stop the slaughter.",
"The yearlong CNN investigation found that instead of using a U.N. treaty outlawing genocide as a springboard to action, political leaders have invoked reason after reason to make intervention seem unnecessary, pointless and even counter-productive.",
"Map: See the locations featured in the documentary » .",
"December marks the 60th anniversary of the U.N.'s Genocide Convention, when -- in the aftermath of the Holocaust -- the nations of the world pledged to prevent and punish future attempts to eliminate ethnic, religious and national groups.",
"Read the 1948 Genocide Convention (pdf) \"The Genocide Convention should have stopped genocide, but it didn't,\" said Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.",
"Intervention is a daunting challenge, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel believes, because of a tendency to minimize accounts from refugees and victims.",
"\"It's better not to believe, because if you believe, you don't sleep nights.",
"And how can you eat?",
"How can you drink a glass of wine when you know?\"",
"See images from locations in the documentary » .",
"1970s: Cambodia .",
"Father François Ponchaud was a Catholic missionary in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge guerillas -- communist revolutionaries -- seized power in 1975.",
"the Khmer Rouge expelled all foreigners from Cambodia.",
"But working from France, Father François Ponchaud gathered refugee accounts and monitored radio broadcasts to document the slave labor, torture and executions the Khmer Rouge were using to kill one-fourth of Cambodia's population.",
"Father François Ponchaud published Father François Ponchaud's findings in a major French newspaper and wrote a book, \"Year Zero.\"",
"But even so, Father François Ponchaud tells Amanpour, \"No one believed us.\"",
"Watch a behind-the-scenes look at the making of 'Scream Bloody Murder' » .",
"1980s: Iraq .",
"CNN found that intervention is often weighed against political and economic costs.",
"Declassified U.S. government documents show that while Saddam Hussein was gassing Iraqi Kurds, the U.S. opposed punishing Iraq with a trade embargo because it was cultivating Iraq as an ally against Iran and as a market for U.S. farm exports.",
"According to Peter Galbraith, then an idealistic Senate staffer determined to stop Saddam Hussein from committing genocide, the Reagan administration \"got carried away with the Reagan administration's own propaganda.",
"the Reagan administration began to believe that Saddam Hussein could be a reliable partner.\"",
"Read once-secret U.S. documents .",
"1990s: Bosnia .",
"Even extensive news coverage may not lead to intervention.",
"During the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the media reported on the Bosnian Serbs' ethnic cleansing of Muslims: the siege of Sarajevo, the concentration camps, the use of rape as a weapon of war.",
"It was like watching \"a color remake of the black-and-white scenes we'd seen in World War II,\" said U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, whose Jewish grandfather fled Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power.",
"Holbrooke was an early advocate for a U.S.-led military operation against the Bosnian Serbs.",
"\"I took a stand that I believed was correct,\" Holbrooke told Amanpour.",
"\"I didn't think it was so controversial.\"",
"But it would take three years -- and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica -- for Holbrooke to make Holbrooke's case within the Clinton administration.",
"1994: Rwanda .",
"In Rwanda, where Hutu soldiers and militias massacred their Tutsi countrymen, the Clinton administration tried to avoid characterizing the ethnic slaughter as genocide.",
"According to an internal memo, the State Department worried that under the 1948 Genocide Convention, using the term \"genocide\" could force the U.S. \"to actually 'do something.'\"",
"The head of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, begged for additional troops.",
"Instead of reinforcements, Dallaire got an order to withdraw completely.",
"Dallaire would not leave Rwanda.",
"\"I refused a legal order,\" Dallaire told Amanpour, \"but a legal order was immoral.\"",
"Dallaire's tiny U.N. force was not enough to stop the ethnic slaughter.",
"2003: Darfur .",
"Some human rights advocates consider Darfur, the western region of Sudan, to be the scene of the first genocide of the 21st century.",
"The atrocities in Darfur grow out of a civil war between rebels from Sudan's African tribes and the country's Arab-led government.",
"In 2003, when the rebels attacked government outposts in Darfur, a U.N. human rights monitor warned that in the \"escalating conflict,\" Sudan's government may be \"engaged in ... ethnic cleansing aimed at eliminating African tribes from Darfur.\"",
"At the time, world attention was on Iraq, where the United States was fighting to overthrow Saddam Hussein.",
"The early warning on Darfur \"disappeared into a big hole,\" according to Mukesh Kapila, then the U.N.'s top official in Sudan.",
"Even when the U.N. Security Council put Darfur on the U.N. Security Council's agenda, it took more than three years to authorize a robust peacekeeping force.",
"\"There was no lack of information,\" says activist Eric Reeves.",
"\"There was a lack of will to stop genocide.\"",
"In July, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court accused Sudan's president of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges Sudan denies.",
"Read the ICC prosecutor's charges (pdf) How will history judge the world's response to Darfur?",
"\"It will applaud the young people ... who believe in solidarity,\" says Wiesel.",
"\"It will certainly criticize the leaders of the world.\"",
"And the next time somebody screams bloody murder to stop a genocide, will anyone listen?",
"CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Andy Segal, Jennifer Hyde and Ken Shiffman contributed to this report."
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"Each time A few strong voices were shunned, ignored or told it was someone else's problem .",
"CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the world's killing fields to understand why ."
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"Editor's note: Junot Díaz's novel \"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.",
"(OPRAH.com)",
"-- It wasn't that I couldn't write.",
"I wrote every day.",
"I actually worked really hard at writing.",
"At my desk by 7 a.m., would work a full eight and more.",
"Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium.",
"I did everything I could.",
"But none of it worked.",
"My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark.",
"Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense.",
"Nothing.",
"Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.",
"But the first 75 pages were cool, showed a lot of promise.",
"Would also have been fine if I could have just jumped to something else.",
"But I couldn't.",
"All the other novels I tried sucked worse than the stalled one, and even more disturbing, I seemed to have lost the ability to write short stories.",
"It was like I had somehow slipped into a No-Writing Twilight Zone and I couldn't find an exit.",
"Like I'd been chained to the sinking ship of those 75 pages and there was no key and no patching the hole in the hull.",
"I wrote and I wrote and I wrote, but nothing I produced was worth a damn.",
"Want to talk about stubborn?",
"I kept at it for five straight years.",
"Five damn years.",
"Every day failing for five years?",
"I'm a pretty stubborn, pretty hard-hearted character, but those five years of fail did a number on my psyche.",
"On Junot Diaz.",
"Five years, 60 months?",
"It just about wiped me out.",
"By the end of that fifth year, perhaps in an attempt to save Junot Diaz, to escape my despair, I started becoming convinced that I had written all I had to write, that I was a minor league Ralph Ellison, a Pop Warner Edward Rivera, that maybe it was time, for the sake of my mental health, for me to move on to another profession, and if the inspiration struck again some time in the future...well, great.",
"But I knew I couldn't go on much more the way I was going.",
"I just couldn't.",
"I was living with my fiancée at the time (over now, another terrible story) and was so depressed and self-loathing I could barely function.",
"I finally broached the topic with my fiancée of, maybe, you know, doing something else.",
"my fiancée was so desperate to see me happy (and perhaps more than a little convinced by my fear that maybe the thread had run out on my talent) that my fiancée told me to make a list of what else I could do besides writing.",
"I'm not a list person like my fiancée was, but I wrote one.",
"It took a month to pencil down three things.",
"(I really don't have many other skills.)",
"I stared at that list for about another month.",
"Waiting, hoping, praying for the book, for my writing, for my talent to catch fire.",
"A last-second reprieve.",
"But nada.",
"So I put the manuscript away.",
"All the hundreds of failed pages, boxed and hidden in a closet.",
"I think I cried as I did it.",
"Five years of my life and the dream that I had of myself, all down the tubes because I couldn't pull off something other people seemed to pull off with relative ease: a novel.",
"By then I wasn't even interested in a Great American Novel.",
"I would have been elated with the eminently forgettable New Jersey novel.",
"Oprah.com: The real meaning of your \"true calling\"",
"So I became a normal.",
"A square.",
"I didn't go to bookstores or read the Sunday book section of the Times.",
"I stopped hanging out with my writer friends.",
"The bouts of rage and despair, the fights with my fiancée ended.",
"I slipped into my new morose half-life.",
"Started preparing for my next stage, back to school in September.",
"(I won't even tell you what I was thinking of doing, too embarrassing.",
"While I waited for September to come around, I spent long hours in my writing room, sprawled on the floor, with the list on my chest, waiting for the promise of those words to leak through the paper into Junot Diaz.",
"Maybe I would have gone through with it.",
"Hard to know.",
"But if the world is what the world is so are our hearts.",
"One night in August, unable to sleep, sickened that I was giving up, but even more frightened by the thought of having to return to the writing, I dug out the manuscript.",
"I figured if I could find one good thing in the first 75 pages I would go back to the manuscript.",
"Just one good thing.",
"Like flipping a coin, I'd let the first 75 pages decide.",
"Spent the whole night reading everything I had written, and guess what?",
"It was still terrible.",
"In fact with the new distance the lameness was even worse than I'd thought.",
"That's when I should have put everything in the box.",
"When I should have turned my back and trudged into my new life.",
"I didn't have the heart to go on.",
"But I guess I did.",
"While my fiancée slept, I separated the 75 pages that were worthy from the mountain of loss, sat at my desk, and despite every part of Junot Diaz shrieking no no no no, I jumped back down the rabbit hole again.",
"There were no sudden miracles.",
"It took two more years of heartbreak, of being utterly, dismayingly lost before the novel I had dreamed about for all those years finally started revealing itself.",
"And another three years after that before I could look up from my desk and say the word I'd wanted to say for more than a decade: done.",
"Oprah.com: 4 writers answer \"What makes you you?\"",
"That's my tale in a nutshell.",
"Not the tale of how I came to write my novel but rather of how I became a writer.",
"Because, in truth, I didn't become a writer the first time I put pen to paper or when I finished my first book (easy) or my second one (hard).",
"You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because a writer writes well and easily, because a writer has amazing talent, because everything a writer does is golden.",
"In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.",
"Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.",
"Oprah.com: 11 ways to find your calling .",
"By Junot Diaz from O, The Oprah Magazine, November .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now!",
"TM & © 2010",
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"All Rights Reserved."
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"Junot Diaz had 75 good pages but couldn't write anything else Junot Diaz liked .",
"After putting away hundreds of filled pages, Junot Diaz tried to think of other professions .",
"Says a writer is someone who can't stop writing -- even though no hope, no promise ."
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"Austin, Texas (CNN) --",
"The former accountant for Andrew Joseph \"Joe\" Stack III -- who officials say flew his plane into a Texas building housing an Internal Revenue Service office -- says Stack had never threatened him, a spokesman for the accountant said.",
"Bill Ross was mentioned in a 3,000-word message on a Web site registered to Stack, which railed against the government, particularly the IRS.",
"The online message believed to have been written by Stack criticizes accountant Ross for \"representing himself and not me.\"",
"Bill Ross had not heard from Stack since October, when Stack's client \"disengaged\" services in a letter, spokesman Chad Wilbanks told CNN.",
"According to Bill Ross, Stack had not expressed any threats toward the accountant or the IRS, spokesman Chad Wilbanks said.",
"\"Stack contacted my firm to help with Stack's personal taxes in 2008.",
"Stack failed to provide me with all Stack's income and other information resulting in an the IRS audit,\" Bill Ross said in a written statement Saturday.",
"\"Unfortunately, Stack ignored the audit and my advice which only complicated Stack's situation, at which time our firm disengaged our services with Mr. Stack whom we have not been in contact with since October 2009.\"",
"Bill Ross did not provide any further details in the statement on Bill Ross's work with Stack.",
"spokesman Chad Wilbanks said Ross, who has worked as a CPA for at least 30 years, thinks Stack located Bill Ross in the phone book.",
"They only met four times and did not have a personal relationship, spokesman Chad Wilbanks said.",
"The FBI has taken over the investigation into the crash, and Bill Ross has spoken to investigators, spokesman Chad Wilbanks said.",
"While Bill Ross does not fear for Bill Ross's safety, Bill Ross has \"taken precautions,\" though those steps were not detailed by spokesman Chad Wilbanks.",
"The online message, in a hit to the IRS, states, \"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different.",
"\"I am finally ready to stop this insanity.",
"Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.\"",
"Read the apparent suicide note (PDF)",
"The seven-story building attacked in northwest Austin held offices for nearly 200 IRS workers.",
"Two people were killed and two others were hospitalized when Stacks crashed his plane into",
"The seven-story building attacked in northwest Austin Thursday, federal officials said.",
"One of the injured, Shane Hill, announced his release from the hospital Saturday.",
"\"I am very grateful to the first responders who were there to assist me, and to those who have cared for me in San Antonio,\" Hill said in a written statement.",
"\"I am so blessed to be home today, and I ask for your courtesy and our privacy as my family and I focus on making a quick and full recovery.\"",
"Though the remains of two people found in The seven-story building attacked in northwest Austin have been identified, two people found in the IRS building's identities will not be revealed until after a forensic examination, said Ralph Diaz, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio field office.",
"Watch one of crash victim's sons say he's \"still a little shocked\"",
"Agents were looking into whether the seats of his plane were removed to accommodate a fuel drum in an effort to cause maximum damage, an official familiar with the investigation said Friday.",
"The official, who could not speak on the record because of the investigation, said the Piper Cherokee PA-28 had several seats removed and a fuel drum was missing from the airport Bill Ross took off from.",
"his plane has a fuel tank capacity of 38 gallons and is equipped with four seats, according to the Web site risingup.com.",
"Authorities say Bill Ross also torched Bill Ross's $230,000 home in Austin on Thursday morning before embarking on Bill Ross's fatal flight.",
"Stack's wife, Sheryl Stack, expressed her \"sincere sympathy to the victims and their families\" in a statement read by family friend Rayford Walker on Friday.",
"Like Ross, friends and former colleagues said friends and former colleagues had no inkling of the rage apparently building inside Bill Ross.",
"\"Bill Ross hid that very well,\" said Billy Eli, in whose band Stack played bass until a few years ago.",
"\"Obviously Bill Ross was in some serious distress and had some real despair.",
"I never saw that.\"",
"CNN's Tracy Sabo contributed to this report."
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"Bill Ross had not heard from Stack since October, when Stack's client \"disengaged\" services in a letter .",
"One of the injured, Shane Hill, announced his hospital release Saturday: \"I am very grateful\""
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"Dallas, Texas (CNN) --",
"Two men were arrested and charged Sunday in connection with a string of deliberately set church fires in east Texas, authorities said.",
"Jason Robert Bourque, 19, and Daniel George McAllister, 21, were charged with one count of arson each in a February 8 fire set at the Dover Baptist Church in Tyler, Texas, according to the state Department of Public Safety.",
"Authorities say Authorities believe Two men are connected to nine other church fires that have been set in the area since January 1.",
"Bourque and Daniel George McAllister also are suspects in the attempted break-ins at three separate churches earlier this month, said Steve McCraw, director of the state Department of Public Safety.",
"A federal law enforcement source told CNN that multiple pieces of evidence have been linked to one of Two men through DNA and that many of the fires were ignited the same way.",
"\"East Texans can rest easier tonight,\" Steve McCraw, director of the public safety department said at a news conference announcing the arrests.",
"Steve McCraw, director of the public safety department called the arsons \"despicable and cowardly acts.\"",
"A call to a tip hot line led to the arrests, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which was offering a $25,000 reward for information about the fires.",
"Investigators were first made aware of Two men about two weeks ago and had been trying to build a case against Two men since then, ATF Special Agent Thomas Crowley said.",
"Authorities have been interviewing Two men since Two men's arrest but there's still no information on motive, ATF Special Agent Thomas Crowley said.",
"Authorities on February 12 released sketches of three people sought in connection with the fires.",
"On Sunday, officials said that those \"persons of interest\" are not related to the arrests.",
"An 11th church arson in Temple, Texas, is not related to the other 10, said Robert Champion of the ATF in Dallas, Texas.",
"Earlier this month, authorities said authorities were trying to determine whether the Temple fire was connected to the others.",
"CNN's Ed Lavandera contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Source: Evidence linked to one of the suspects through DNA .",
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"Moments after marine explorer Sylvia Earle finished Sylvia Earle's passionate plea to preserve vast stretches of the world's oceans at last year's TED conference, a foundation executive walked up to Sylvia Earle and pledged a million dollars for the cause.",
"It was one of nearly 400 offers of support Sylvia Earle received after revealing the wish Sylvia Earle wanted to be granted as a winner of the TED Prize, given by the nonprofit organization whose motto is \"Ideas worth spreading.\"",
"the nonprofit organization whose motto is \"Ideas worth spreading grants the winners $100,000 and organizational support but the impact of the prize is typically magnified by the backing of the influential audience attending the conferences.",
"On Wednesday, Winner Jamie Oliver will reveal Winner Jamie Oliver's wish as the winner of the 2010 prize.",
"\"Every year TED're looking around for someone who can inspire the world to do something big and interesting,\" says Chris Anderson, who runs TED with the title of curator.",
"\"The issue of obesity, both in the US and worldwide, is a big deal, a shocking problem in a world where you've got a lot of people starving and a lot of people killing themselves by overeating... or eating the wrong things.",
"TED were interested in finding an inspirational figure who could address that.\"",
"Past TED prizes have gone to former President Bill Clinton, rock star and philanthropist Bono and biologist E.O. Wilson.",
"Since 2005, TED has granted wishes to three people a year and continues to work with past winners on achieving their wishes.",
"But this year, the only winner will be Oliver, who has built an empire of cooking shows, cookbooks and restaurants.",
"Oliver, the 34-year-old son of the owners of a pub/restaurant in Essex, England, came to public attention when Winner Jamie Oliver starred in a BBC television series, \"The Naked Chef.\"",
"Winner Jamie Oliver has followed that up with many other series, including one on nutrition in America due to launch this spring on ABC.",
"Winner Jamie Oliver branched out into advocacy with a \"Feed Me Better\" campaign for improved school lunches in the U.K.",
"Winner Jamie Oliver presented a petition with more than 270,000 signatures to the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street in 2005, and officials promised to spend an added 280 million pounds ($437 million) to improve school food quality.",
"TED Prize winners typically keep TED Prize winners's wishes secret until the conference.",
"Anderson told CNN last week that Anderson did not know what Winner Jamie Oliver's wish is.",
"\"The whole idea is that the winner can actually wish for anything.",
"We're taking a bit of a gamble here, for all we know he could wish for a hot tub full of models.\"",
"The suspense is \"part of the magical nature of the prize ...",
"that moment of unveiling is special and that moment of unveiling excites people.\"",
"Winner Jamie Oliver's not tipping Winner Jamie Oliver's hand about Winner Jamie Oliver's wish, saying -- through a spokesman -- \"I humbly but passionately hope that my wish and my speech will inspire everyone in the room -- and watching on the Internet -- to take action on an issue that affects the whole world.\"",
"TED began in the 1980s as a conference in California focusing on technology, entertainment and design but has since expanded to include virtually any subject and conferences in other locations.",
"Speakers, dressed informally, prowl a big stage -- there's no lectern -- and present Speakers's views as a clock ticks away the 18 minutes each is allotted.",
"This year's conference in Long Beach, California, with 1,500 people attending in person and 500 watching a simulcast at the TEDActive conference in Palm Springs, features Bill Gates, Sheryl Crow, Sarah Silverman, James Cameron, David Byrne and Eve Ensler, among a roster of speakers in fields such as technology, science, philosophy, art, music and design.",
"Anderson, who built and eventually sold a magazine publishing empire in the 1980s and 1990s, first attended a TED conference in 1998 and was intrigued that many people said it was the highlight of many people's year.",
"Anderson acquired TED in 2001 and hosted Anderson's first conference in 2003.",
"Three years later, TED began posting videos of TED's talks on the Web.",
"They have been viewed more than 200 million times and many have now been given subtitles in 70 languages, through the work of volunteer translators.",
"With the nonprofit organization whose motto is \"Ideas worth spreading, TED goes beyond simply spreading ideas.",
"\"Whenever I've been to TED, I've been struck by how towards the end of TED, you had a room full of influential connected people absolutely burning with the possibility of inspiration, and it felt like something could be done with that,\" Anderson said.",
"After a brainstorming session with participants, the idea of a TED Prize emerged, \"a prize that instead of looking back, it looked forward.",
"You brought someone to TED and instead of just honoring them, you granted them a wish, a chance to make a difference in the world, a wish without restrictions.\"",
"Amy Novogratz, director of the nonprofit organization whose motto is \"Ideas worth spreading, said the year after biologist E.O. Wilson wished for a database to document every species on earth, TED helped launch the \"Encyclopedia of Life.\"",
"\"Bono, the humanitarian rock star, won in 2005,\" Novogratz said, \"and wished for a million Americans to sign up to say that Americans care about poverty in Africa.",
"With Bono and Bono's organization we launched one.org, and Bono delivered a petition to the G8 that summer with almost 2 million signatures.\"",
"Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist, has led dozens of expeditions, including an all-female team that lived for weeks underwater in 1970.",
"Earle also walked on the sea floor untethered at a lower depth than any other woman.",
"In Earle's talk last year, Earle pointed out that in the past 50 years, 90 percent of the big fish in the oceans have been consumed and nearly half of the ocean's coral reefs have disappeared.",
"Less than one percent of the ocean is protected from destructive fishing, and Earle believes the seas will go into irreversible decline unless a much larger portion - some experts say as much as 30 percent - is protected.",
"Earle said the world needs to act swiftly to protect what Earle calls \"the blue heart of the planet that basically keeps us alive.\"",
"Earle told CNN in an interview that a major public awareness campaign will be launched this year and that plans are underway for a conference at sea to get \"influential people to use influential people's talents and intellect to come up with new ways to address these problems.\"",
"Earle attributes these initiatives to the involvement of TED.",
"\"It allows us to tap into individuals and organizations all over the world that I wouldn't be able to do as an individual,\" Earle said.",
"\"They create this awareness and they frame the issues in such a way that people get it and they're inspired to help.",
"And that is a true gift.",
"That's the real prize.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Several weeks ago, President Obama announced that $8 billion in government-loan guarantees would be made available to Southern Co. to begin construction of two nuclear reactors in Georgia.",
"If built, it would be the first nuclear power plant constructed in the United States in almost 30 years.",
"More importantly, this would be the first of what is expected to be many such projects initiated in coming years.",
"I am a big believer in the necessity for energy independence.",
"I accept that we will all have to make some compromises in achieving that goal.",
"I am willing to consider that nuclear power may have to be one piece of the plan we put together for how to break ourselves free from our dependence on foreign oil.",
"I would submit, however, that before we start building reactors we need to address another urgent matter.",
"We need to make current reactors secure.",
"Roughly 18 months ago I started work on a project that ultimately lead to the writing of my recently published book, \"Willful Neglect,\" on homeland security in the United States.",
"I examined security at a wide range of potential targets inside the United States, including chemical plants, liquefied natural gas facilities, biological research laboratories and nuclear power plants.",
"This was not a theoretical study.",
"I did my homework up front, but after that, I went out on the street and I did what my 20 years in the CIA had trained me to do.",
"I looked at all these targets in the same way as an adversary would.",
"What I found was deeply disturbing.",
"Eight years after 9/11, we had done little or nothing to enhance security in most areas.",
"Nuclear power plants were no exception.",
"Security at nuclear power plants is in the hands of private security companies hired to protect the facilities by the power companies that own them.",
"Before 9/11, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission mandated that there would be five to 10 private security guards on duty at each site per shift.",
"After 9/11 that number was increased.",
"On average, there are now a total of 20 such security personnel on duty at any one time to guard a nuclear power plant.",
"That is 20 individuals to secure the entire perimeter and interior of what may be a vast facility.",
"These guards are grossly underpaid.",
"In many cases, These guards make less than the janitors at the facilities in question.",
"These guards train with These guards's weapons no more than two to three times a year.",
"Some of These guards are prior military and have combat experience.",
"Many others are hired off the street and given less than a week's worth of training before Many others begin to stand post.",
"Much of that week of training is consumed with administrative matters, which have nothing to do with learning how to repel a terrorist attack.",
"Morale among the guards at nuclear power plants is chronically low.",
"I was told by many individuals during my research that it was common to hear discussions among guards about where they would hide if there were an attack.",
"These guard forces are typically trained to respond to a limited number of scenarios.",
"scenarios are always designed around attacks by very small numbers and are artificially constrained so as to not allow these attackers to use many weapons, such as rocket launchers and machine guns, commonly in use by terrorist groups today.",
"Even so, These guard forces are defeated at least half the time.",
"These deficiencies have been pointed out for years by any number of watchdog organizations.",
"Likewise, detailed recommendations have been put forth regarding how to improve the situation and increase the size and ability of power plant guard forces.",
"These include requiring them to demonstrate the capacity to repel attacks by teams of terrorists using the weapons and tactics commonly in use around the world today.",
"These have been largely ignored.",
"An interest in nuclear power plants by al Qaeda or another terrorist group is not theoretical.",
"Among the targets considered for the 9/11 attacks were nuclear power plants.",
"Yemeni security forces recently captured a suspected member of al Qaeda, a New Jersey native named Sharif Mobley.",
"Between 2002 and 2008, he worked at several U.S. nuclear power plants.",
"It does not take a counterterrorism expert to imagine what al Qaeda might be able to do with the knowledge supplied by an individual who had spent the better part of six years inside nuclear facilities.",
"The stakes here are enormous.",
"A team of terrorists, which was able to seize control of a nuclear power plant, could cause a nuclear power plant to melt down with relatively basic knowledge of a nuclear power plant's operation.",
"A full-scale meltdown of a major reactor would be catastrophic.",
"Such an incident at the Indian Point Plant in New York state, for instance, would likely render large parts of the metropolitan New York City area uninhabitable for decades and likely kill tens of thousands.",
"We have neglected this issue for too long.",
"this issue needs to be addressed, and the decision to push the building of reactors simply adds urgency.",
"Before we move ahead with any new nuclear power plants, let's attend to unfinished business and fix security at the ones we have.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Charles S. Faddis."
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"Obama administration is backing expansion of nuclear power .",
"Charles Faddis says U.S. should first make existing plants secure .",
"Charles Faddis says security forces aren't well-trained or numerous enough to counter threats .",
"Charles Faddis: A terrorist attack at a nuclear plant could have dire consequences ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Holmes the movie has already made more than $300 million at the box office worldwide and British tourism officials are hoping it means money for British tourism officials too.",
"Britain's tourism board has been promoting films for the past 15 years, so Britain's tourism board know just how lucrative a movie like \"Sherlock Homes\" can be.",
"\"To give you an example of a typical blockbuster film, a typical blockbuster film is normally seen by about 120 million people in the first three weeks of opening,\" Visit Britain official Laurence Bresh told CNN.",
"\"Even if a small percentage of those come to visit Britain as a result of this particular film, that's going to have a huge boost in some of those tourism attractions featured in our promotion.\"",
"As much of \"Sherlock Holmes\" is set in London this means big business for museum officials and gift shop operators.",
"The Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street is the address where the fictional detective lived, according to the stories by Conan Doyle.",
"Nearby, a nine-foot statue of Holmes greets visitors at the Baker Street Underground station.",
"Inside the museum, visitors can check out Holmes's study, sit in Holmes's armchair by the fireside, examine Holmes's calabash pipe and observe Holmes's chemistry equipment.",
"\"I think Hollywood has put Hollywood's magic touch on the legend, and Hollywood've put, as it were, a magnifying glass over the character and of course things you could say are slightly exaggerated, but that's the wont of Hollywood and that's what makes these blockbusters successful,\" John Riley, Assistant Curator of the museum said.",
"\"So any new perspective, any new angle always just helps to perpetuate the legend of Holmes.",
"And that indirectly will obviously benefit the museum.\"",
"About 70,000 visitors a year stop by the Victorian lodging house, though officials are expecting a spike of interest fueled by the new movie.",
"While thousands of tourists flock to visit the museum, many of its visitors are unaware that Holmes was actually not real person.",
"\"A few people do think Holmes is a real character, particularly with the tour of Holmes's house on 'Baker Street' adding fuel to the fire so to speak,\" Mark Di-Toro from Visit Britain said.",
"\"That is just testament to Doyle's brilliant writing with Doyle's true to nature locations in the books meaning tourist can really relate and visit all the fantastic locations.\"",
"A. Pawlowski and Phil Han contributed to this report."
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"New movie \"Sherlock Holmes\" inspires guides to places of interest to fans of the detective .",
"British tourism officials hope the movie will bring more tourists to London .",
"Many are unaware that Holmes was a fictional character .",
"the movie has already made more than $300 million worldwide ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Portugal declared three days of national mourning Monday amid fears the death toll from devastating floods and mudslides on the island of Madeira could rise above 42.",
"Search teams have been working to find more victims after floodwaters caused by heavy rains swamped the capital Funchal, unleashing a torrent of mud that swept away homes, roads and trees.",
"At least 120 people were injured.",
"Rescuers were trying to drain a two-story undergound car park at a shopping center where many people are thought to have become trapped.",
"Rescuers feared were that when rains started on Saturday many people may have rushed to retrieve many people's cars, but ended up trapped in the car park, CNN's Portuguese affiliate, RTP state TV, reported.",
"Flags were flying at half staff on government buildings in Lisbon in respect of the victims.",
"European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso was due there later Monday to give a news conference describing what assistance the European Union can offer to Portugal.",
"Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo also paid tribute to the victims as Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's team Real Madrid played Villarreal on Sunday.",
"Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo lifted Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's jersey after scoring a goal to reveal a white T-shirt with \"Madeira\" written on it.",
"Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo wrote on Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's blog later that Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was \"incredulous, shocked and dismayed\" by the disaster, and offered Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's assistance.",
"The mayor of Funchal, Miguel Alburquerque, has warned it was \"very probable\" the toll will rise.",
"\"Our main concern is for the damaged and flooded homes, the cars buried and swept away by water, where we fear we will find new bodies,\" he told the Jornal de Madeira newspaper, according to Agence France-Presse.",
"Rescuers were still hunting for other people believed missing in the deluge as efforts to clear up got under way.",
"Authorities said about 250 people had been evacuated to military bases and other safe locations.",
"Pedro Barbosa of the Civil Protection Agency told CNN all the damage occurred in just a few hours Saturday morning due to \"very concentrated, very intense\" rains that sparked flooding and mudslides.",
"The mudslides and flooding damaged roads and homes in Funchal, and in Ribeira Brava, which are both on the southern portion of the Atlantic island.",
"Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, is a popular resort destination.",
"There have been no reports of any dead or missing tourists.",
"Pedro Barbosa of the Civil Protection Agency said Saturday's heavy rains were the worst in Portugal since 1993, when a storm killed eight people.",
"Portugal is one of the Madeira Islands, an archipelago about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of the Portuguese mainland.",
"CNN's Al Goodman contributed to this report."
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"Portugal announces three days of mourning to victims of floods on island of Madeira .",
"Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo also paid tribute to victims .",
"At least 42 people killed, 120 injured in disaster .",
"Hundreds of residents were evacuated to military bases and other safe locations ."
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"NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) --",
"Heavy rains triggered by El Nino weather patterns could potentially prove devastating for east African nations that have been water-starved for months, the United Nations has warned.",
"A Turkana boy holds an empty cup in a village in northwestern Kenya.",
"Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda are facing mudslides, crop destruction, waterborne diseases and disrupted road networks, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Friday.",
"Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia could also be affected.",
"The effects of flooding are expected to be exacerbated because so much greenery has disappeared in the drought.",
"\"More than 23 million people in pastoral, agricultural and suburban communities, as well as internally displaced people and refugees in the region, are reeling from the impact of water and food shortages, pasture scarcity, conflict and insecurity,\" said John Holmes, the under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs who is coordinating emergency relief operations.",
"\"While we cannot prevent these climatic shocks, we certainly can mitigate these climatic shocks's disastrous effects through forward planning and the right funding from the donor community,\" John Holmes, the under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs who is coordinating emergency relief operations said.",
"Uganda, hit by El Nino a decade ago, is planning to apply some of the lessons learned this time around, said Fred Opolot, a government spokesman.",
"\"The government has allocated funds and resources to areas that will be affected,\" he said.",
"\"Our disaster preparedness department is using press briefings, among other ways, to inform the public.\"",
"Though Our disaster preparedness department is not very well-funded, he said, The government is working with groups such as the United Nations and international aid agencies to prepare for floods.",
"\"It is a multifaceted effort ...",
"we want to ensure citizens are sensitized to the dangers of El Nino and things such as bridges are in good condition.\"",
"The rainy season begins in the Horn of Africa in mid-October and runs through the end of the year.",
"Meteorologists have forecasted that the year's rains will be more intense than usual because of the El Nino phenomenon, caused by a rise in temperature in the Pacific and Indian oceans.",
"Aid agencies are already buckling under the weight of helping millions of people who have suffered through months of failed crops, drought and erratic rains caused by climate change.",
"In Somalia, 450,000 people in the Juba and Shabelle river basins could suffer, the United Nations estimates.",
"In neighboring Kenya, some 750,000 people -- 150,000 of whom are refugees -- could be affected.",
"The Turkana, a pastoral tribe in northeastern Kenya, is already reeling from a severe drought that has left scores of people dead and remains of skeletal cows strewn across the flat, arid land.",
"The remote region has no access to resources, making The remote region especially vulnerable to natural disasters such as floods.",
"CNN's Moni Basu and Faith Karimi contributed to this report."
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"U.N. humanitarian agency: East African nations facing flooding, mudslides .",
"Warning comes after months of drought in region which has decimated greenery .",
"Rainy season in Horn of Africa usually begins in mid-October, runs to end of year .",
"Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia set to be affected ."
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