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[ "CHARLESTON, South Carolina (CNN) -- Tropical storm Cristobal was forecast to move \"parallel and very close\" to the North Carolina coast Sunday morning, but the storm is not expected to make landfall along the eastern U.S. shores.", "Satellite image taken at 1:15 p.m. Saturday shows Tropical Storm Cristobal off the coast of the Carolinas.", "At 11 p.m. ET Saturday, the center of the storm was about 45 miles southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina, and about 170 miles southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.", "The National Hurricane Center said Cristobal was moving northeast at about 6 mph, with maximum sustained winds of about 45 mph and some higher gusts.", "\"The center of the tropical storm is expected to move parallel and very close to the coast of North Carolina for the next day or so,\" the NHC said.", "It is expected to dump between three and five inches of rain along the Carolina coast this weekend, it said.", "The storm had not strengthened beyond the 45 mph top winds measured earlier on Saturday, according to the NHC.", "A discussion posted online by NHC forecasters called Cristobal \"convectively challenged\" and predicted the storm would \"become absorbed ahead of an approaching cold front\" by late Monday.", "Although the center of the storm was forecast to remain off the coast through the weekend, tropical storm warnings were in effect from the South Santee River in South Carolina to the North Carolina-Virginia state line, including Pamlico Sound.", "Flood advisories were posted for coastal counties, and Wilmington, North Carolina, received 2½ inches of rain Saturday, said Stephen Keebler, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service there.", "Cristobal's winds were not expected to be a problem, Keebler said.", "\"It's some rain and a little bit of relief for the coastal areas and a lot of excitement, but that's about it,\" he said.", "The rain bands were weakening as they spun farther inland, providing little relief for parched areas near Interstate 95 in North Carolina, he said.", "Forecasters predicted up to 5 inches of rain along the North Carolina coast, with heavier amounts in some areas.", "Eastern North Carolina is under a moderate drought, and areas along South Carolina's northern coast are considered abnormally dry, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.", "Officials have blamed the persistent drought for a massive wildfire that has burned more than 40,000 acres in eastern North Carolina since it began June 1 with a lightning strike.", "As Cristobal lurked offshore, the storm was keeping many boaters off the waters -- and surfers in the waves.", "On North Carolina's Outer Banks, surfers reveled in the waves as the storm churned offshore well to the south.", "Bradley Rose, a surf instructor at SandBarz in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, said the waves were a bit choppy.", "\"It looks pretty fun out there,\" Rose said.", "At the By the Sea Motel in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, out-of-state vacationers took to the beach, trying to photograph the outer rain bands of Cristobal, hotel manager Charlie Peterson said.", "Intermittent rain showers during the afternoon were not enough to chase them away, and there were even brief moments of sunshine.", "\"They've got their cameras set, and they think there is going to be lightning over the water and all,\" he said.", "\"They have never seen this.\"", "Elsewhere Saturday, Hurricane Fausto strengthened far off Mexico's Pacific coast, while Hurricane Bertha, located east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, was downgraded to tropical storm status.", "Neither of those storms currently threatens land.", "Bertha had blustered across Bermuda this week, knocking out electricity to thousands there." ]	[ "Tropical Storm Cristobal \"very close\" to North Carolina coast .", "Storm expected to dump three to five inches of rain along coast .", "Cristobal evolved Saturday from a tropical depression on Friday ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Michelle Rhee says she runs at 100 miles per hour.", "As the chancellor of one of the nation's lowest-performing school districts, she says she has no choice -- too much bureaucracy to cut through, too many problems to fix after decades of neglect.", "Michelle Rhee says a sense of urgency has been missing for years in the District of Columbia's schools.", "Rhee closed 23 schools in her first year as the head of the District of Columbia's public schools, fired 36 principals and cut 15 percent -- about 121 jobs -- from the central office staff.", "And she's making no apologies.", "\"I think it's that sense of urgency that has been lacking for far too long in our public schools,\" Rhee told CNN as she began her second year on the job in late August.", "\"We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.\"", "Watch fighting for \"radical changes\" » .", "Rhee said \"radical\" changes are needed because only 12 percent of the District's eighth graders are proficient in reading and just 8 percent are proficient in math, but was quick to add that they're already seeing improvement.", "She highlighted gains in elementary reading and secondary level math and reading in the past year that outstripped all of the four prior years put together.", "An annual report card by Education Week, a newspaper that follows the nation's education system, earlier this year ranked the District's school system last, giving it a D+ overall and an F for student achievement in kindergarten through 12th grade.", "Those grades were based on data prior to Rhee's arrival.", "\"We need to see radical changes because the outcomes for kids that are happening right now are robbing them of their futures,\" said Rhee, a Democrat who supports President Bush's landmark education law known as No Child Left Behind.", "Watch Rhee describe telling employee: \"You need to find another job\" » .", "\"We have scores of kids in this city who don't have the advocates that they need in their lives who are able to maneuver and jockey through the public school system.", "And we can't allow those children to languish in classrooms where teachers are not performing.\"", "Her plan is ambitious: To completely transform the District's system within eight years for its 50,000 children.", "The plan focuses on top-down accountability, quantitative results like standardized test scores and, ultimately, working to close what she describes as \"the achievement gap between wealthy white kids and poor minority kids.\"", "\"I think it's absolutely possible within an eight-year period,\" she said.", "Watch D.C. schools need \"urgency\" » .", "Rhee, who is Korean-American, is operating in a largely African-American district.", "It is a district where 57 percent of the students qualify for the free or reduced lunch program.", "Rhee said when she first arrived on the job in 2007 she first heard whispers of: \"She's not from D.C., she's not African-American: Is she going to be able to relate to students and their families?\"", "\"I think that all dissipated quite quickly after I started getting out into the community and talking to people,\" said Rhee, a 38-year-old mother of two children attending local public schools.", "\"I think one of the things that comes across very clearly is the fact that I'm very passionate about this work.", "I'm very focused on it.\" But her plan to turn the failing school district on its head has met protest every step of the way, even from teachers.", "\"I think the people who view her aggressive actions as a positive thing, I think they are missing the boat because if it results in more chaos and more dysfunction, it's not the solution that we need,\" said Kerry Sylvia, a teacher at Cardozo Senior High School in her ninth year.", "Sylvia says the District has seen far too many superintendents over the years and fears Rhee is just another in the long list of those who come in touting their reforms and then leave.", "She does offer praise for Rhee holding teachers and administrators accountable for their lack of performance.", "However, she doesn't always care for Rhee's style, saying Rhee makes it seem like \"there's a lot of lazy teachers.\"", "\"She's pitting adults against children.", "She couches things in terms of 'I'm not here to keep jobs for adults.", "I'm not here to keep people's paychecks.", "I am here for the children,' \" Sylvia said.", "\"Well, guess what?", "I'm here for the children too.\" Before taking on her current role, Rhee founded The New Teacher Project, a non-profit organization that recruits quality teachers to high-poverty schools.", "Rhee holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University.", "One of the most controversial programs Rhee has introduced is a joint venture between D.C. schools and Harvard that pays middle school students cash -- up to $100 a month -- for good behavior and attendance.", "Rhee says such pilot programs have worked in other cities.", "She says the District's students have far too many bad incentives on the streets, from hustling to drug dealing, and need something to keep them focused.", "\"We're preparing them to understand that if you do the right thing, then good things will happen to you,\" Rhee said.", "Some in the District are skeptical, including Clarence Cherry, a fourth-generation Washingtonian and father of five.", "He calls the cash and Rhee's overall direction misguided and reckless.", "\"It's a very dangerous game that she's playing with,\" he said.", "But Cherry added, \"I want to give her an opportunity to prove to me as a parent that she genuinely ... is here for the kids.\"", "Others are fervent supporters of the new superintendent.", "Dr. Waheedah Shakoor, another teacher at Cardozo, has been in the District since 1979.", "He says he's been stunned at the amount of change that's happened in just one year under Rhee, from freshly painted walls to improved athletic facilities.", "\"Things that we've been asking for for many, many years have come to fruition within just the last 12 months,\" Shakoor said.", "Rhee is an appointee of Mayor Adrian Fenty, who has backed her every move.", "\"I had the highest expectations of Michelle Rhee when she came into the job.", "She has exceeded every expectation,\" Fenty said.", "\"When you have a system that's been as underperforming as the District of Columbia public schools, you need to shake things up.\"", "Rhee says she'll continue to shake things, working at break-neck speed to improve the education and opportunity for her students and urban students across the country as fast as she can." ]	[ "D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee closed 23 schools, fired 36 principals in first year .", "\"We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights ... of adults\"\nCritic says Rhee has created \"more chaos and more dysfunction\"\nMayor backs his appointee, says when schools fail, \"you need to shake things up\"" ]	[ 3, 6, 19, 49, 52 ]
[ "JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli police divers found a suitcase Thursday containing human remains that are believed to be the body of a missing 4-year-old girl, an Israeli police spokesman said.", "French-Israeli girl Rose poses for a photograph with her mother, Marie Pizem.", "The suitcase was pulled out of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, where police have been searching for Rose Pizem, Mickey Rosenfeld said.", "Two weeks ago, the girl's grandfather Roni Ron, 45, told police he stuffed her body in a suitcase and dumped it in the Yarkon River.", "The remains will be tested to confirm the identification of the body, and the tests could be completed within 24 hours, Rosenfeld said.", "\"The body was found in a very bad, severe condition, as you can imagine after being in the water for weeks,\" Rosenfeld said, explaining why the tests could not be completed sooner.", "Ron initially told police he accidentally killed Rose when he slapped her in a fit of rage but then changed his account.", "Police transcripts quote Ron as saying, \"I parked the car on the sidewalk.", "I opened the trunk, pulled out the suitcase and when I reached the banks of the river, I threw it.", "She's finished. I finished her. I saw the water seeping in and the suitcase slowly sinking.\"", "The family drama centers on Rose's mother, Marie-Charlotte Renault-Pizam, 23, and Ron -- her estranged husband's father -- with whom authorities say she has had two more daughters.", "Rose's father lives in France.", "Both the mother and grandfather are in custody.", "Renault-Pizam has denied any role in her daughter's disappearance.", "She told police she thought Ron sent Rose to an institution in France, although police, without elaborating, have said they have a telephone conversation that shows she knew the child's fate.", "Rose's great-grandmother, Vivienne Yaakov, reported the girl missing in late July, saying she had not seen her great-grandchild for about two months.", "Rose and her mother had been staying with Yaakov, who told police that Ron had taken the child and she never returned.", "Police searched Ron's apartment in mid-August and arrested him.", "The investigation has uncovered a twisted family love triangle that may have contributed to the girl's murder.", "The British media call the case Israel's Madeleine McCann, a reference to the 3-year-old child who disappeared May 3, 2007, while on vacation with her British family at the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.", "She has never been found.", "Rose was born in France in 2003.", "Her mother moved to Israel after a custody battle with Rose's father, Benjamin Pizem.", "Renault-Pizam had fallen in love with Ron on a previous trip to Israel with her father-in-law.", "Israel's minister of interior security, Avi Dichter, said everything would be done to find Rose and give her a proper burial.", "\"There is no doubt that as a society, Israel was not there for the child when she was in need of help,\" Dichter said.", "Benjamin Pizem told Israel's Haaretz newspaper that he still hopes Rose is alive.", "He described his father, from whom he is estranged, as manipulative and said more details may be uncovered.", "\"When I see him in videos, I see in his face, even if it's quite a neutral one, he has an expression that says, 'You don't know everything, and I'm manipulating all of you.'", "That's the reason why we think there's hope Rose is still alive.\"" ]	[ "Israeli police divers on find suitcase with human remains inside .", "Body believed to be that of missing 4-year-old girl .", "Disappearance of Rose Pizam likened to that of Madeleine McCann ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted Wednesday that the symbol of the neutral Red Cross organization was used in a hostage rescue mission that freed 15 people from leftist rebels two weeks ago.", "What seems to be part of a red cross is seen on a bib worn by a man involved in the rescue in this official image.", "Uribe made the admission after CNN reported on unpublished photographs and videos that clearly showed a man wearing a Red Cross bib.", "Wrongly using the Red Cross logo is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.", "The man was a member of the Colombian military intelligence team involved in the daring rescue, Uribe said in an address carried on national TV and radio.", "The president said that as the constitutional head of the armed forces, he takes full political responsibility for what he described as a slip-up.", "\"This officer, upon confessing his mistake to his superiors, said when the [rescue] helicopter was about to land ... he saw so many guerrillas that he went into a state of angst,\" Uribe said.", "\"He feared for his life and put on the Red Cross bib over his jacket.\"", "However, the confidential military source who showed CNN the photographs that included the man wearing the bib said they were taken moments before the mission took off.", "Uribe said he was sorry for the mistake and has apologized to ICRC officials.", "There will be no official sanction against the man wearing the bib, he indicated.", "Such a use of the Red Cross emblem could constitute a \"war crime\" under the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law and could endanger humanitarian workers in the future, according to international legal expert Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association.", "The ICRC mission in Bogota said in a written statement that it \"noted\" Uribe's announcement.", "The ICRC mission in Bogota said in a written statement: \"As guardian of international humanitarian law, the ICRC reminds that the use of the Red Cross emblem is specifically regulated by the Geneva Conventions and its additional protocols.", "\"The Red Cross emblem has to be respected in all circumstances and cannot be used in an abusive manner.", "\"The ICRC as neutral and impartial must have the confidence of all the sides in the conflict in order to carry out its humanitarian work.\"", "Colombian military intelligence used the Red Cross emblem in a rescue operation in which leftist guerrillas were duped into handing over 15 hostages, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.", "Photographs of the Colombian military intelligence-led team that spearheaded the rescue, shown to CNN by a confidential military source, show one man wearing a bib with the Red Cross symbol.", "The military source said the three photos were taken moments before the mission took off to persuade the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels to release the hostages to a supposed international aid group for transport to another rebel area.", "Ellis said the conventions were \"very strict\" regarding use of the symbol because of what it represented: impartiality, neutrality.", "Watch possible misuse of emblem » .", "\"If you use the emblem in a deceitful way, generally the conventions say it would be a breach.", "[Based on the information as explained to me,] the way that the images show the Red Cross emblem being used could be distinguished as a war crime, \" Ellis added.", "The unpublished video and photos of the mission, hailed internationally as a daring success, were shown to CNN by a military source looking to sell the material.", "CNN declined to buy the material at the price being asked; it was therefore unable to verify the authenticity of the images.", "Uribe and his top generals had categorically denied that international humanitarian symbols were used in the July 2 rescue mission that freed the prized hostages.", "The hostages had endured years of harsh captivity and deprivation in jungle camps since being captured or kidnapped.", "Some were held for as long as 10 years.", "The rescue ruse also included bogus communications, sent electronically and by human couriers, to convince FARC rebels that superiors were ordering them to hand over hostages to the group posing as aid workers for transfer to another rebel camp.", "Misuse of the Red Cross emblem is governed by articles 37, 38 and 85 of Additional Protocol One to the Geneva Conventions, the international rules of war.", "The articles prohibit \"feigning of protected status by the use of ... emblems\" of neutral parties and say that such misuses are considered breaches of international humanitarian law that qualify as a \"war crime.\"", "Colombia signed the Geneva Conventions in 1949.", "That prohibition was put in place to protect the neutrality of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations in an armed conflict and to guarantee their access to all sides.", "Use of those emblems by one side of a conflict, for example, could endanger aid workers because those on another side might no longer trust that symbols they see really represent those humanitarian organizations.", "Among the photos shown to CNN are some bearing a date stamp of July 2, taken at an unidentified landing site in the jungle alongside a farm house.", "In one of those photographs, about 15 members of a Colombian military intelligence-led team pose for a photo alongside a helicopter.", "One of the members, dressed in a dark red T-shirt or polo shirt, khaki cargo pants and a black-and-white Arab-style scarf, also wears a bib of the type worn by Red Cross workers.", "The bib bears the Red Cross symbol in the center of two black circles on a white background.", "In the space between the two black circles appear in capital letters the French words \"Comite International Geneve\" (International Committee Geneva).", "The same man is standing in the doorway of the helicopter, a Russian-made MI-17 painted white and orange, in another photo.", "In a third photo, he is pictured walking near the helicopter still wearing the bib.", "The same man pictured in the photos can be seen fleetingly in a heavily edited video of the rescue mission issued to the media by the Defense Ministry two days after the hostages were freed.", "In one frame, part of what appears to be the Red Cross bib is visible as the man wearing it stands in a jungle clearing alongside guerrilla commanders Gerardo Antonio Aguilar, alias Cesar, and Alexander Farfan, known as Enrique Gafas, who were captured in the operation.", "The red blur of a Red Cross can be seen and part of the two black circles of the emblem and the capital letters \"EVE\".", "Those are also the last three letters of word Geneve (Geneva), which appears on the official ICRC emblem and bib.", "In two other frames of the officially released video, the same man, dressed in the same clothes as in the pre-departure photos, can be seen still wearing the predominantly white bib tied at the sides.", "In those shots the ICRC logo is not visible.", "The unpublished video also reveals an emblem that bears the Spanish words \"Mision Internacional Humanitaria\" (International Humanitarian Mission) and a stylized red bird made up of wavy red lines above two curved branches of blue leaves.", "In the 3½-minute video of the operation issued by the military, emblems pasted on the side of the rescue helicopter cannot be seen.", "But in the unpublished video and photos shown to CNN, emblems measuring about one square meter (one square yard) are pasted onto the outside of the chopper.", "The same emblem appears on the Web site for Mision Internacional Humanitaria, which describes itself as a non-governmental organization based in Barcelona, Spain, that \"works to improve the processes of development to guarantee equality of opportunity for individuals and peoples.\"", "Although the site says the group is registered with the Spanish Interior Ministry and the regional Department of Justice, the site is littered with misspellings, and the telephone number that's listed is 000000000.", "CNN was unable to contact the group to verify its existence.", "The group's Web site could not be accessed early Tuesday.", "Additional video clips show how the emblems on the side of the helicopter were stripped off and burned once the rescue mission had been completed.", "The fate of the bib is not clear from the clips." ]	[ "NEW: .", "President Alvaro Uribe says one Red Cross symbol was used in hostage rescue .", "Photos from military source show man wearing bib with Red Cross logo .", "Such misuse of symbol could be violation of Geneva Conventions ." ]	[ 0, 3, 17 ]
[ "(Travel + Leisure) -- It's no surprise: Americans are super-opinionated, especially about the cities they live in and the places they visit.", "In fact, their feelings are so strong that in the 2008 America's Favorite Cities survey -- conducted by travelandleisure.com and CNN Headline News -- Americans voted more than 600,000 times on 45 characteristics of 25 cities, weighing in on things like shopping, food, culture and nightlife, as well as cleanliness and affordability.", "New Orleans earned No.", "1 rankings for fine dining and live music.", "In 2007, there was a lot of cheering from cities that clinched the No.", "1 spots, like Chicago, Illinois, (dining) and Austin, Texas, (best singles scene).", "But we also saw a lot of upsets -- upset people, that is.", "After all, someone had to come in last.", "Unfortunately for the proud people of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America voted them dead last in the category of attractive people.", "And Los Angeles, California, took the prize for least friendly city, a category that most expected New York City to sweep.", "Notable changes .", "For the winners in each category, 2008 brought some surprises.", "New Orleans, Louisiana, elbowed New York aside as the best city for fine dining.", "Las Vegas, Nevada, took the No.", "1 spot for best singles scene as former No.", "1 Austin tumbled to No.", "5. In the cleanliness category, Portland, Oregon, swept Minneapolis, Minnesota, out of first place this year.", "See all the America's Favorite Cities results -- and play the new AFC game, What's YOUR Fave?", "But other cities maintained their dominant positions.", "New York held its No.", "1 ranking as the country's best spot for people-watching, while Charleston, South Carolina, was once again voted America's friendliest city.", "Find your vacation .", "There's plenty more to explore beyond the rankings.", "If you're in the market for a great destination, the Vacation Finder at travelandleisure.com can help you find the perfect city for your interests.", "Austin and New Orleans, for example, are rollicking destinations for live music, cheap ethnic food and vintage shopping.", "If something more high-minded is your style, check out Washington D.C. (No.", "1 for museums) or New York (No.", "1 for classical music).", "Travelers seeking the sophistication of cities paired with the exhilaration of the outdoors should head to Honolulu, Hawaii, (No.", "1 for active/adventure vacations), Portland (No.", "1 for public parks and access to outdoors), or Denver, Colorado, (No.", "1 for athletic/active citizens).", "If you're planning a trip with the kids, Orlando, Florida, is still on top, but alternatives like San Diego, California, and Washington D.C. still rate high with travelers.", "Seekers of romantic getaways should try their luck in Honolulu, Charleston or San Francisco, California, which hold their own particular charms.", "And what happened at the bottom of the scale?", "Did Philadelphia rally voters and push themselves up the attractiveness scale?", "Did Angelenos take the criticism about being the least-friendly city to heart and begin using a kinder, gentler salute to fellow drivers on the freeway?", "Read on to find out. Here are the top three cities » in some of the categories, as voted by visitors.", "Visit travelandleisure.com for the full results, best and worst, for each city and category, as ranked by residents and by visitors.", "'What's YOUR Fave?' You've voted on your favorite cities' characteristics, but what's America's Favorite City overall?", "Tell us! Vote for America's best in our new bracket game, What's YOUR Fave?", "Go to travelandleisure.com/afc and each week for the next four weeks, we'll pit cities head-to-head.", "Your vote decides whether they move on to the next round or get eliminated!" ]	[ "New Orleans elbowed New York aside as the best city for fine dining .", "Portland, Oregon, swept Minneapolis out of first place for cleanliness .", "New York held its No.", "1 ranking as the country's best spot for people-watching ." ]	[ 12, 16, 19, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Residents living in single-family homes in some parts of coastal Texas face \"certain death\" if they do not heed orders to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ike's arrival, the National Weather Service said Thursday night.", "Texans sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic Thursday on a highway from Galveston County into Houston.", "The unusually strong wording came in a weather advisory regarding storm surge along the shoreline of Galveston Bay, which could see maximum water levels of 15 to 22 feet, the agency said.", "\"All neighborhoods ... and possibly entire coastal communities ... will be inundated during the period of peak storm tide,\" the advisory said.", "\"Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes will face certain death.\"", "The maximum water level forecasts in nearby areas, including the shoreline of Matagorda Bay and the Gulf-facing coastline from Sargent to High Island, ranged from 5 to 8 feet.", "But authorities warned that tide levels could begin rising Friday morning along the upper Texas coast and along the shorelines of the bays.", "The advisory summoned memories of the language used to describe 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which devastated parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast.", "\"Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks ... if not longer,\" an advisory issued at the time said.", "\"The vast majority of native trees will be snapped or uprooted.", "Only the heartiest will remain standing.\"", "The Ike advisory follows comes on the heels of similarly urgent messages earlier Thursday from federal authorities, who warned of a \"massive storm\" that could affect roughly 40 percent of the U.S. Gulf Coast.", "\"Do not take this storm lightly,\" Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Thursday afternoon.", "\"This is not a storm to gamble with.", "It is large; it is powerful; it carries a lot of water.\"", "Chertoff and representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency said their efforts were focused on evacuations as Ike moved northwest at 12 mph across the central Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph.", "Track the storm » .", "Chertoff also urged people not to succumb to \"hurricane fatigue,\" referring to concerns that authorities were overestimating Ike's potential impact.", "\"Unless you're fatigued with living, I suggest you want to take seriously a storm of this size and scale,\" he said Thursday.", "Houston Mayor Bill White said he's heard that people who live in areas under a mandatory evacuation order say they plan to stay in their homes.", "He strongly urged against it.", "\"If you think you want to ride something out, and people are talking about a 20-foot wall of water coming at you, then you better think again,\" White said.", "At 5 p.m. Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said a hurricane warning was in effect between Morgan City, Louisiana, and Baffin Bay, Texas.", "A warning means hurricane conditions are likely within 24 hours.", "Ike's forecast track was through Galveston and the Houston metro area as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph.", "Currently a Category 2 storm about 700 miles across, Ike could make landfall near Galveston Island as early as Saturday morning.", "Watch CNN meteorologists track Hurricane Ike » .", "At 11 p.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center said hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 115 miles from Ike's center, and tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 275 miles.", "The storm was centered 445 miles east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, and about 340 miles east-southeast of Galveston, and was moving west-northwest at near 10 mph.", "Watch: National Hurricane center predicts Ike's path » .", "Roughly 3.5 million people live in the hurricane's potential impact zone, FEMA Administrator David Paulison said Thursday.", "In Galveston, Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas told the island's 60,000 people that they should leave.", "By 7:30 ET, the city had finished evacuating to Austin thousands of residents who needed assistance leaving because of age, disability or lack of reliable transportation.", "Mandatory evacuations remained in effect for low-lying coastal areas northeast and southwest of Galveston, in Chambers, Matagorda and Brazoria counties.", "Some Brazoria County residents said they didn't want to leave but realized it was in their best interest to do so.", "\"You don't have a choice when you have kids,\" Deborah Davis of Freeport told CNN affiliate KPRC-TV in Houston.", "Farther inland, about 100,000 residents in low-lying areas surrounding Houston began evacuating Thursday afternoon as Ike headed for the Texas coast, officials said.", "Watch Gov. Rick Perry warn residents of Ike's potential » .", "But the remaining 4 million residents were told they could stay home, even as government offices and schools prepared to close Friday in Houston in anticipation of the hurricane.", "\"We are only evacuating areas subject to a storm surge,\" said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the county's chief executive officer.", "\"Yes, we know you will lose electricity.", "But you're not in danger of losing your life, so stay put.\"", "Ships in port were told to leave, said Port of Houston spokeswoman Linda Whitlock.", "The area's two major airports, George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby, also halted all commercial flights.", "More than 1,300 inmates from the Texas Correctional Institutions Division's Stevenson Unit in Cuero were being evacuated to facilities in Beeville and Kenedy, Perry's office said, and 597 were transferred from the substance abuse Glossbrenner Unit in San Diego, in south Texas, to Dilley.", "CNN's Mike Mount contributed to this report." ]	[ "Life-threatening floods expected in parts of coastal Texas, agency says .", "Hurricane Ike could make landfall near Galveston Island as early as Saturday .", "About 100,000 evacuated from Houston; 4 million more told to stay .", "All of Galveston Island ordered to evacuate; special needs evacuations completed ." ]	[ 25, 38 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate who says he is too overweight to be executed took his plea to the Supreme Court on Friday.", "Richard Cooey, 41, and an accomplice were convicted of the 1986 murders of two college students.", "Richard Cooey is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday and has exhausted most of his state and federal appeals.", "Gov. Ted Strickland earlier Friday denied the 41-year-old prisoner's clemency petition.", "Cooey murdered two college students in 1986.", "The justices were expected to decide whether he should receive a stay of execution, and whether to address the larger constitutional claims over when a convicted person is medically unfit for capital punishment.", "His lawyers have argued that the inmate-- at 5-foot-7 and 267 pounds -- is \"morbidly obese,\" and has gained about 70 pounds since his incarceration at age 19.", "Prison food and confinement in his cell for 23 hours a day, limiting his opportunities for exercise, contributed to his weight problem, his legal team said in recent court filings.", "Cooey also says regular medication he takes for migraines will weaken the effectiveness of an anesthetic used in the a three-drug cocktail administered during execution.", "He says his veins are weakened because of his health issues, and the lethal drugs would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.", "In 2003, one day before Cooey was scheduled to die, a judge stopped his execution on issues unrelated to his health claims.", "A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Cooey waited too long to raise the medical issues, saying he \"knew of and could have filed suit over vein access prior to July 2005.\"", "Cooey and a then-17-year-old accomplice were convicted of the brutal murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery, students at the University of Akron.", "The men had been tossing concrete slabs onto Interstate 77, and one of them struck Offredo's car.", "Pretending to rescue the women, Cooey and Clinton Dickens took them to a remote field, according to prosecutors.", "There, the students were subjected to 3½ hours of rape, torture, stabbings and fatal bludgeonings.", "Cooey had carved an \"X\" into the stomachs of both women, prosecutors said.", "Each man blamed the other for delivering the fatal blows, but both were convicted of murder.", "Dickens received a life sentence because of his age.", "Cooey tried to escape from death row in 2005, when corrections officials said he constructed a ladder from magazines and bedsheets in an effort to scale the barrier around an outdoor recreation area.", "At an August clemency hearing, Jon Offredo, brother of one of the victims, said, \"Our family has never gotten an apology from Richard Cooey.", "We've gotten blatant lies and excuses.", "Is an apology too much to ask?", "How could he commit such a heinous act and not feel regret?\"", "But Cooey's lawyer, Dana Cole, said his client is sorry for his crimes.", "The high court has not offered clear guidelines on what medical standards need to be met before an inmate is eligible for death.", "But in a case five years ago, the justices allowed inmates to at least make a claim that their specific physical or medical issues could be cause to block an execution.", "The high court had sided with a convicted Alabama killer who claimed his veins were so damaged from years of drug abuse that executioners might have to cut deeply into his flesh to administer the deadly drugs.", "Writing for the unanimous court, then-Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the court was not going to \"open the floodgates to all manner of method-of-execution challenges,\" as Alabama feared.", "\"Our holding is extremely limited.\"", "That inmate is still on death row.", "Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center, a data-resource group that opposes capital punishment, said the Supreme Court indicated that \"how you're going to be executed is a civil rights matter, the same as if you were discriminated [against] on the basis of race or gender or something like that.\"", "A Washington state killer was given a reprieve in 1994 after claiming he was too obese to hang.", "Mitchell Rupe at one time was more than 425 pounds, but weight-loss surgery in prison had reduced that to 275 pounds over the years.", "Subsequent legal efforts to execute him failed.", "He died in prison two years ago from a long illness.", "The Ohio case is Cooey v. Strickland." ]	[ "Richard Cooey, set to die Tuesday, has exhausted most state, federal appeals .", "Justices are expected to decide whether he should receive stay of execution .", "They could also address constitutional claims about medical fitness for execution .", "Cooey: Drug interaction, weakened veins would make punishment cruel, unusual ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Maoist insurgents killed a dozen soldiers and two civilians during an ambush in southeastern Peru, the military said Friday.", "The military blamed \"narco-terrorists\" of the Shining Path for the attack Thursday night in Tayacaja province as the soldiers were returning by truck to their counterterrorism base in Cochabamba Grande.", "The region is where most of the country's coca leaf and cocaine are produced.", "\"At the height of the place named Sajona Curve, terrorists detonated an explosive charge under a civilian truck carrying villagers, and immediately fired with long-range weapons on all vehicles,\" the military said in a statement.", "\"The military reacted immediately, engaging in a clash that lasted several hours,\" the statement said.", "\"This unfortunate act shows that the narco-terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path] is continuing in its bloodthirsty actions ... without discriminating among women and children.\"", "The Shining Path and the smaller Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement are blamed for the deaths of thousands of Peruvians.", "The rebels have been targets of a fierce government crackdown in the mountainous region of Peru." ]	[ "Ambush kills 12 soldiers and two civilians in southeastern Peru .", "Peru's military blames \"narco-terrorists\" of the Shining Path for attack .", "Rebels have been targets of a fierce government crackdown ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A tropical storm watch was issued Friday for Bermuda as Hurricane Bertha moved closer to the Atlantic island, causing swells and high turf on its beaches.", "A satellite picture from 5:45 a.m.", "ET Friday shows Hurricane Bertha over the Atlantic.", "As of 8 p.m. ET Friday, the center of Bertha was about 250 miles (402 km) southeast of Bermuda.", "The Category 1 storm was moving north-northwest at near 5 mph (8 km/h).", "The National Hurricane Center said a gradual turn toward the north is expected Friday night and Saturday, followed by a continued slow motion toward the north or north-northeast on Sunday.", "\"On this track, the center of Bertha is expected to slowly pass to the southeast and east of Bermuda during the next couple of days,\" the agency said in an advisory.", "Bertha's maximum sustained winds are at near 90 mph (145 km/hr), with higher gusts, the hurricane center said.", "See Bertha's path » .", "The Bermuda Weather Service issued a tropical storm watch for the island around midday, meaning tropical storm conditions are possible in the area, the hurricane center said.", "The center advised those on the island, a self-governing British colony, to monitor Bertha's progress closely.", "Bertha's intensity has fluctuated.", "At its peak Monday, it was a major Category 3 hurricane with top winds of 120 mph (193 km/h).", "Its wind speed dropped to 75 mph (121 km/h), barely hurricane strength, before picking up once again and reaching Category 2 intensity late Wednesday, with top sustained winds of 105 mph (169 km/h).", "See how hurricanes are classified » .", "The storm formed July 3 off Africa near the southern Cape Verde Islands.", "It strengthened into a hurricane Monday.", "The first tropical storm of the season, Arthur, formed May 31 near the coast of Belize and dumped heavy rain on Central America and southern Mexico." ]	[ "NEW: Bermuda Weather Service issues tropical storm watch .", "NEW: Hurricane Bertha's fringes expected to reach Bermuda on Saturday .", "The Category 1 hurricane is causing large swells, high surf on Bermuda beaches ." ]	[ 0, 8 ]
[ "NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Police in India have charged 63 people with murder in the beating death of a company boss who fired them.", "Labor minister Oscar Fernandes was criticized for saying Chaudhary's death was warning to management.", "The 63 were among 137 people police had rounded up by Wednesday -- two days after a mob of fired employees attacked L.K.", "Chaudhary, the chief executive of an Italian car parts manufacturing company.", "The others were charged with disturbing the peace in the Monday incident in Noida, located in the outskirts of the capital New Delhi.", "More arrests are likely, said R. K. Chaturvedi, the senior superintendent of police in Noida.", "The former employees of Graziano Transmissioni had gone to meet with company management over their reinstatement, said Noida police Inspector Manoj Pathak.", "The meeting turned violent, and the mob attacked Chaudhary with iron rods, Pathak said.", "On Tuesday, India's labor minister, Oscar Fernandes, drew sharp criticism after he said Chaudhary's death should serve as a warning to management, according to CNN's sister network in India, CNN-IBN.", "\"The workers should be dealt (with) with compassion and should not be pushed so hard that they resort to whatever that had happened in Nodia\" CNN-IBN quoted Fernandes as telling reporters.", "The minister later apologized, telling CNN his comments had been taken out of context.", "He said the murder of the boss could never be justified.", "The Italian Embassy said the company had, for several months, been facing \"violent forms of protest by self-proclaimed workers' representatives.\"", "\"The situation had been repeatedly brought to the attention of the competent Indian authorities, both at central and local level,\" it said in a statement.", "Business groups condemned the killing with the Confederation of Indian Industry calling it \"tragic, unwanted and gory.\"", "\"Such instances of industrial violence cannot be a solution to any problem and must not be tolerated,\" said Salil Singh, chairman of the group that promotes industrial growth.", "Meanwhile, authorities sought to appease businesses that police were aggressively investigating the case.", "\"The legal course will be followed and all culprits brought to book,\" Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said.", "\"This stray tragic occurrence would not be allowed to mar India's position as an investment-friendly destination.\"", "CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report." ]	[ "Police in India charge 63 people with murdering company boss who fired them .", "Mob of fired employees attacked chief executive of Italian car parts company .", "India's labor minister apologizes for saying death is warning to management ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Terrorism, a slow economy and rising gas prices are issues that can keep American voters awake at night.", "Undecided voters gathered at Emory University, where Dr. Drew Westen studies how brains react to messages.", "Political strategists know that the most successful candidates are masters at capitalizing on fears such as these, and that can make a huge difference at the polls.", "In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was running for president against conservative Barry Goldwater when his campaign unleashed the \"daisy ad.\"", "It showed a little girl counting as she plucked a daisy, charmingly mixing up her numbers.", "Then a baritone voice takes over, counting down to an overwhelming nuclear explosion.", "It's followed with a warning that the stakes are too high not to vote for Johnson.", "The ad, which ran only once, was so chilling and effective, analysts say, it helped Johnson win the presidency by one of the widest margins in U.S. history.", "CNN recently gathered eight undecided voters to see how they would respond to attack ads and how the ads might affect their choices.", "They met at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where psychologist Drew Westen studies how brains react to candidates' messages.", "Westen, who wrote \"The Political Brain,\" said fear-based attack ads are effective because they tap into a voter's subconscious.", "\"Those kinds of gut-level reactions tell us things like, 'I don't feel like this person is telling us the truth,' \" Westen said.", "\"Unless someone is a really good con man, those reactions are extremely helpful.", "The conscious brain processes only a tiny percent of information.\"", "Westen and his business partner, Joel Weinberger, have created software, through their company ThinkScan, that looks into a voter's subconscious.", "The software does this by measuring people's reaction time to certain words after they watch attack ads.", "The undecided voters in CNN's group watched the ads and were then asked to identify the color of words such as \"weak,\" \"inexperienced\" and \"terrorist.\"", "If they hesitated, even for one-thousandth of a second, before they clicked on the color that corresponded with the word, Weinberger said, it meant the word had an impact.", "\"If the word is on their mind, if the word was activated, it will slow them down,\" Weinberger said.", "Westen predicted that the undecided voters would say they didn't like the ads and that the ads had no impact on them.", "He was right. The group watched Hillary Clinton's \"3 a.m.\" campaign ad, which was intended to make voters question Barack Obama's experience.", "Viewers said that the ad was fear-mongering and that it did not make them think Clinton was a stronger leader than Obama.", "But the data, Westen said, showed that their brains reacted differently.", "Voters had the greatest hesitation with words like \"weak\" and \"lightweight\" during the color test.", "Westen said this meant the ad made them question Obama's readiness.", "\"The purpose, too, is to make him seem scary, dangerous.", "'You need to be afraid of this guy as president,' \" Westen said.", "\"That message unconsciously got through.\"", "The undecided voters also watched an ad attacking John McCain for saying the U.S. could be in Iraq for the next 100 years.", "After watching the ad, the group gave it a thumbs-down.", "But researchers said the data showed that it left them feeling McCain has poor judgment and is too close to President Bush.", "The results were identical when the same test was given to a much larger group of 100 voters.", "This happens because the ads trigger a response in the part of the brain called the amygdala, which experiences emotions such as fear.", "When it is aroused, it overrides logic, according to Westen.", "Despite the ability of attack ads to affect voters' subconscious thinking, Westen cautions that fear-based ads are risky because they can backfire.", "What advice does Westen have for presidential hopefuls?", "\"They should make voters feel inspired by them and worried about their opponent at the same time,\" Westen said. \"It works.\"" ]	[ "Fear-based attack ads are sometimes used by candidates to influence voters .", "CNN gathered eight undecided voters to measure the impact of attack ads .", "Psychologist Drew Westen says fear-based ads appeal to voters' subconscious ." ]	[ 8, 34 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Residents of a western Pennsylvania neighborhood can return home Sunday after a chemical leak forced them to evacuate the night before.", "Hundreds of residents were forced to flee Saturday after a chemical leak in Petrolia, Pennsylvania.", "Authorities surveyed the neighborhood in Petrolia and determined that no traces of the toxic chemical remained, said Freda Tarbell, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.", "A leak at the Indspec Chemical Corp. plant in Petrolia on Saturday formed a cloud affecting at least 2,000 residents -- some of whom fled their homes.", "Others huddled indoors with their windows shut, authorities said.", "Three people were taken to hospitals, but officials could not immediately say why.", "Watch why residents were asked to evacuate » .", "It was not immediately clear how many people were injured, though plant manager Dave Dorko said all employees and inspectors at the plant were safe and accounted for.", "Tarbell described the chemical as fuming sulfuric acid, which is also known as oleum.", "The plant uses the chemical during its production process, she said.", "The plant produces a chemical called Resorcinol -- essentially a strong glue used in the tire industry.", "The leak affected between 2,000 and 2,500 residents, Tarbell said.", "Some stayed the night with friends and relatives and some sought refuge in shelters.", "Others opted to stay indoors and \"shut their windows and doors to make sure the acid cloud was not entering their home,\" she said.", "Ed Schrecengost, a former Indspec employee, said firefighters showed up at his son's wedding reception, urging the guests to leave.", "\"It's about as dangerous as you can get,\" Schrecengost told CNN affiliate WPXI.", "\"It's a very fuming acid.", "A quart bottle of this material could fill a household in two seconds.\"", "Dorko said the leak was caused by an overflow from a tank.", "The material, he said, evaporates easily, creating a toxic cloud.", "CNN's Saeed Ahmed and Janet DiGiacomo contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Environmental official says area surveyed, no traces of chemical remain .", "Toxic cloud forms Saturday after chemical leak at Pennsylvania plant .", "Three residents taken to hospital; extent of injuries not known ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sarah Palin: politician and mother.", "iReporters weigh in on the difficulty of balancing those two roles.", "iReporter Christina Walker says its very challenging to balance work and caring for her 1-year-old child.", "Since Sen. John McCain named Alaska Go.", "Sarah Palin as his vice presidential pick, she has been closely scrutinized by both the public and the media.", "Palin has served as governor of Alaska for almost two years.", "She also has five children, including a 4-month-old son with Down Syndrome and a 17-year-old daughter who is 5-months pregnant.", "Her choice to run as the Republican vice presidential nominee has drawn both praise and criticism from the left and right alike.", "Now iReporters are asking: Was it the right decision?", "Some feel that Palin's choice to run shows poor judgment.", "\"I think she made the wrong call.", "It's not her time,\" said Andy Stably of Salem, New Hampshire.", "\"Given her personal situation and her special circumstances, it does seem more important than the nomination she's accepting.", "I don't think that should be blanket statement for all moms.", "But the job she's about to interview for is the job of jobs, and it's going to require her to sacrifice what she has at home.\"", "Stably has children of his own, and his wife works full-time.", "He says this experience has helped shape his views on Palin: \"Doesn't everyone, male or female, think about the impact a job offer would have on their personal life before accepting the offer?\"", "\"It's not a sexist thing,\" said Jeanette Lee, who is raising a 15-month-old baby of her own.", "\"If my family was having these sorts of issues, I wouldn't be putting them in the spotlight and making them go through this publicly.", "For her to walk away from her baby with special needs just shows her character.", "I feel like she should pay more attention to her whole family.\"", "\"If her children were older, it wouldn't be an issue,\" Lee added.", "Others feel Palin's family situation would have a negative impact on her effectiveness as vice president.", "\"I want my president to be my president.", "It is a difficult, sometimes thankless, and emotionally devastating job that requires 100 percent resolve at all times,\" said Carlton Madden, from West Monroe, Louisiana.", "\"I think she has a lot on her plate ...", "I have no problem with a woman being president, but I'm going to hold her to the same standards I'd hold a man.", "If [Obama] had a pregnant teen daughter and a child with special needs, I'd have serious reservations about his ability to make a split-second decision, too.\"", "Christina Walker, of Austin, Texas, who has a 1-year-old daughter, says her experience as a mom has led her to the same conclusion.", "\"I opted to change my career path so I could spend more time with my child, and I'm trying to manage both the career and the child,\" she said.", "\"It's very challenging, and I'm not in nearly the type of stressful role that she would be in.\"", "But some think Palin's experience as a mom would only make her a better vice president.", "Carolyn Jasper of Shreveport, Louisiana, says Palin's experience as a mother makes her a better candidate because she knows what it's like to balance life and work and can understand the lives of \"regular\" Americans.", "\"I can tell you one thing about being a mom.", "You learn real quick how to work through all of life's huge problems and bring them down to a manageable size,\" said Jasper, who has three children of her own.", "\"I do think she'll be more capable of understanding what the regular American people need from their government because she is a mom and a family person.\"", "So is there a double standard at work?", "Some iReporters think so.", "\"Why aren't we questioning how Obama can raise his kids?\"", "asked Shawn Strode of Orlando, Florida.", "\"Mind you, having a Down Syndrome child is going to be more challenging, but are we assuming the dad can't step in and be a parent?", "We automatically assume that first ladies can be great parents and that it won't take away from the father being the president.", "I don't think it will affect her job that much.\"", "\"I'm a little tired of hearing about Bristol and her pregnancy,\" said Katy Brown, a freshman at Kent State University in Ohio.", "\"This has nothing to do with the campaign.", "It has nothing to do with how well Sarah Palin will lead the country.", "...This just shows that they're a normal family.\"", "Lisa Stiles, of Richmond, Virginia, has been involved in grassroots campaigning for nuclear energy throughout her career and says Palin inspired her to consider running for office in the future.", "She thinks this discussion would never have come up if Palin was a man.", "\"Are people forgetting that she has a husband?\"", "Stiles asked.", "\"I would think people would be applauding the fact that such a reversal of traditional gender roles is possible.\"", "And Jordan Saver of Athens, Georgia, believes there is a different kind of sexism going on in the race: \"We're giving [Palin] credit for being a mother and a politician, but Barack Obama doesn't get credit for being a father and a politician,\" he said.", "\"It's reverse discrimination.", "But if they mentioned it, it would be seen as sexist.\"", "\"It's the wrong conversation to be having,\" added Kathryn Ova of New York City, who describes herself as a \"die-hard feminist.\"", "\"Our overall belief system of putting work ahead of family for both men and women is kind of dominating right now.", "It's coming up because she's a woman, but putting work ahead of family is a major issue regardless of gender.\"" ]	[ "iReporters weigh in on Sarah Palin's roles of politician and mother .", "Some say she can't be both a good mother and a good vice president .", "Others say Palin is being held to an unfair standard as a woman .", "iReport.com: Is there a double-standard?" ]	[ 1, 22, 32, 36, 37, 52 ]
[ "Editor's note: Glenn Beck is on CNN Headline News nightly at 7 and 9 ET and also is host of a conservative national radio talk show.", "Glenn Beck has some lines McCain can use in tonight's speech to articulate his vision for change .", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Campaigns are ugly.", "Watching the way politicians act makes you long for the respect and self-control of the Sopranos.", "Throughout, there are legitimate attacks and outright lies.", "Every once in a while, I get a call on my radio show from someone telling me that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim, who admitted it in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, and has a fake birth certificate.", "No, no, and no. As I tell them, there are legitimate reasons not to vote for Barack Obama, no need to make them up.", "But the newest target is Sarah Palin.", "Let's take a quick look at just a fraction of what she has faced in her first few days as John McCain's choice for vice president.", "iReport.com: Do you think Palin is being treated unfairly?", "\"Sarah Palin believes God told her to go to war with Iraq!\"", "There has been some hard-core journalistic malpractice on this one.", "The Associated Press ran this headline about a speech she gave at her church: \"Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God'\" In the story, they omit the first part of the sentence they're quoting along with the entire previous sentence for good measure.", "Here are her actual words: \"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right.", "Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God.", "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.\"", "Palin is clearly praying that we're doing the right thing in Iraq, something sensible for an introspective woman of faith concerned about the lives of our troops to do.", "She's not saying that she just received a text message from heaven's BlackBerry ordering her to launch missiles.", "Sorry to disappoint you.", "And for those of you who think politicians asking God for guidance is offensive, might I remind you of this famous politician's prayer: .", "\"Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just.", "And make me an instrument of your will.\"", "--Barack Obama .", "\"She has no experience!\" It's fair to assume that Barack Obama believed he was qualified to be in the White House when he announced he was running for president.", "At that point, he had been a U.S. Senator for 767 days.", "When Sarah Palin was announced as a vice presidential candidate, she had been the governor of Alaska for 634 days.", "While I'm sure those extra 133 days were filled with personal discovery, I can't imagine anyone seriously trying to make the case that Obama is experienced and Palin isn't.", "Unless, of course, you're Matt Damon, who said a Palin presidency would be a really \"scary thing\" because she has been \"governor of Alaska for...for less than two years!\"", "(Damon originally expressed his presidential preference for Obama in December 2006, when he had been a senator for less than two years.)", "More importantly, Palin's career has been filled with executive experience.", "She's the only one of the four in this race who has run a business, town, and/or state (a state that gives her crucial energy experience in the middle of an energy crisis).", "When Obama's campaign complains that Palin would be one heartbeat away from the presidency, they should consider that their candidate would be zero heartbeats away.", "\"But Obama is running a huge campaign -- Palin was just a small town mayor!\"", "Believe it or not, this one was actually trotted out by Obama himself.", "\"My understanding is, is that Gov.", "Palin's town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees.", "We've got 2,500 in this campaign.", "I think the budget is maybe $12 million a year.", "We have a budget of about three times that just for the month.\"", "Apparently, Barack missed that she's become the governor of Alaska in the interim.", "Why would he compare his current duties with her former duties?", "Well, since he announced his candidacy, Barack Obama has raised about $22 million a month.", "That's a large organization for sure, unless you are directly comparing it to Sarah Palin, who is handling state revenues that are about 61 times as large, or more than $1.3 billion per month.", "\"Palin only supports abstinence to be taught in sex-ed!\"", "This claim is usually followed by a super classy comment about her daughter and the use of contraception, but the premise is false.", "Palin hasn't said she doesn't want condoms discussed in sex-ed, calling their discussion \"relatively benign.\"", "\"I'm pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues.", "So I am not anti-contraception.", "But, yeah, abstinence is another alternative that should be discussed with kids.", "I don't have a problem with that,\" Palin said.", "Hers is hardly an extreme point of view in America today.", "\"If she cares about children with special needs, then why did she cut spending on them by 62 percent?\"", "Actually, Palin almost tripled their funding in only three years from $26,900 per student to $73,840 per student.", "Incidentally, the amount of government money you spend on a specific group doesn't equal the amount you care for that group, but that's another story for another column.", "All of these represent just a small percentage of the bizarre collection of claims being thrown at Palin by her opponents and some in the media -- who are desperately hoping something will stick.", "I leave you with my favorite so far: The Internet rumors that she harbors racism against Eskimos.", "If true, she sure has a strange way of expressing it -- her husband, Todd, is half Yupik Inuit Eskimo.", "To balance that out, she must really love his other half.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Glenn Beck: Many of the things you've heard about Sarah Palin aren't true .", "Beck: She didn't say the Iraq war is a task from God .", "Palin has substantial executive experience in several jobs, Beck says.", "Beck: She doesn't oppose teaching contraception in sex-ed classes ." ]	[ 12, 18, 29, 45 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ambitious plans to build a revolutionary 420-meter shape-shifting skyscraper in Dubai have been unveiled by architects.", "The 80-story Dynamic Tower, described as the \"world's first building in motion,\" will also be the first skyscraper constructed from prefabricated units, according to a press statement released by New York-based architect David Fisher's Dynamic Group.", "Each floor would be capable of rotating independently, powered by wind turbines fitted between each floor.", "\"You can adjust the shape the way you like every given moment,\" Fisher said.", "\"It's not a piece of architecture somebody designed today and that's it.", "It remains forever.", "It's designed by life, shaped by time.\"", "Watch how the tower would spin and twist » .", "Apartments will sell for about $3,000 per square foot, making each unit range in price from about $4 million to $40 million.", "Work on the tower is to be completed by 2010, according to Dynamic's Web site.", "Fisher said that plans to build a second rotating skyscraper in Moscow were at an advanced stage and that the group intended to build a third tower in New York.", "He said developers and public officials in Canada, Europe and South Korea had also expressed interest in the project.", "But some have expressed skepticism.", "Fisher has never built a skyscraper before.", "He says he has teamed up with reputable architects and engineers in the United Kingdom and India.", "Although he has received a development license for construction in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, he has not disclosed the site of the building.", "The Moscow mayor's office said that it was looking into the project and that a decision had not been made.", "Fisher has called prefabricated construction techniques the \"future of architecture\" and says they will radically transform 4,000-year-old \"brick-on-brick\" building methods.", "By using preconstructed parts, Fisher said each story could be built in just seven days, resulting in environmentally cleaner building methods.", "He said that just 600 people on an assembly site and 80 technicians on the construction site would be needed to build the tower, compared with about 2,000 workers for a traditional project of a comparable scale.", "\"It is unbelievable that real estate and construction, which is the leading sector of the world economy, is also the most primitive,\" Fisher is quoted as saying on Dynamic's Web site.", "\"Most workers throughout the world still regularly use trowels that was first used by the Egyptians and then by the Romans.", "Buildings should not be different than any other product, and from now on they will be manufactured in a production facility.\"", "Dubai is experiencing a construction boom, with the Burj tower set to claim the title of the world's tallest building when it is completed in 2009.", "It is already home to the world's largest mall, and despite being in the Middle East, it boasts the largest indoor snow park in the world." ]	[ "Plans for revolutionary 420-meter rotating skyscraper in Dubai unveiled .", "80-story Dynamic Tower has been designed by architect David Fisher .", "Advanced plans to build second tower in Moscow .", "Tower will be built from prefabricated units; due to be completed by 2010 ." ]	[ 0, 1, 13 ]
[ "HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Robert Mugabe's political rivals Saturday accused the Zimbabwean president of \"ambush\" in allocating key ministries to his own party in defiance of a power-sharing agreement aimed at ending political turmoil in the country.", "The opposition MDC accuses Mugabe of \"ambush.\"", "Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper reported that ministries inlcuding defense, justice, and media, were being placed in the hands of Mugabe's ZANU-PF.", "Party spokesman Bright Matonga said the move had cross-party support but the Movement for Democratic Change's Nelson Chamisa decried the move is an \"ambush\" that puts the power-sharing deal in jeopardy.", "Under the deal reached last month, Mugabe stays in office but shares power with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who became vice president.", "Arthur Mutambara, who leads a splinter MDC faction, became deputy vice president.", "\"The MDC dismisses ZANU-PF's unilaterally gazetted wish list of ministries, which is a betrayal of the wishes, expectations and aspirations of the majority of Zimbabweans,\" the MDC said in a statement.", "\"It is a giant act of madness which puts the whole deal into jeopardy.\"", "The plan outlined in The Herald would give 14 government ministries to ZANU-PF and 13 to the MDC.", "Three ministries would go to Mutambara's faction.", "Among the ministries reportedly allocated to ZANU-PF are defense, home affairs, foreign affairs, justice and legal affairs, and media and information.", "Ministries given to Tsvangirai's MDC would include constitutional and parliamentary affairs, economic planning, health, labor, and sport, arts and culture, the paper said.", "Mutambara would oversee education, industry and commerce, and regional integration and international cooperation.", "The ministry of finance, the paper said, remains in dispute.", "The MDC accused the ZANU-PF of trying to undermine the work of former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who helped broker a deal to end months of violence following a disputed election.", "The paper said Mbeki was due to to go Zimbabwe to resolve the question of the finance ministry.", "Mbeki mediated the power-sharing talks that aimed to resolve the disputed March election.", "Tsvangirai won the most votes in March but not enough to avoid a runoff, according to the government's official count.", "Tsvangirai withdrew from the June 27 runoff days before the vote, saying Mugabe's supporters had waged a campaign of violence and intimidation against opposition supporters." ]	[ "MDC decries Mugabe move to allocate key ministries to his ZANU-PF party .", "Defense, justice, and media given to party, report says .", "MDC says move violates power-sharing agreement ." ]	[ 0, 8, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Seven years after devastating terrorist attacks brought death to New York's World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, the first permanent, on-site memorial is being dedicated Thursday at the Pentagon.", "An artist's rendering shows the New York 9/11 memorial, with the museum entry pavilion between two pools.", "Official memorials at the other two sites are still years away.", "In New York, construction has begun on a complex that will include a memorial with a tree-shaded plaza and reflecting pools, and an underground museum with an entry pavilion.", "It's part of a bigger project, including new office towers and a transportation hub, whose target date has been repeatedly delayed.", "The goal is to open the memorial to the public by the 10th anniversary of the attacks, in 2011, and the museum by the year after.", "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stressed the importance of those dates and called progress \"frustratingly slow\" in an opinion piece published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.", "\"The memorial must be completed by the 10th anniversary,\" Bloomberg wrote.", "\"No more excuses, no more delays.\"", "Watch and listen to Thursday's memorial services » .", "However, on CNN's \"American Morning\" Thursday, Bloomberg said quality is more important than speed of construction.", "\"We want to make sure what we build is the right thing, that 100 years from now people will look back and say, 'They built it well and built the right thing,'\" Bloomberg said.", "\"Nobody's going to remember if it took five years or 10 years.", "I'd like it to go faster.", "I've recommended we reduce the level of bureaucracy, but that's not our number one priority.\"", "Federal, state and local governments, as well as several agencies and private developers are involved in the planning and construction.", "\"It's a complex site, and there was an extensive public process involved in determining the plans for the site,\" Lynn Rasic of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum said Wednesday.", "\"And I think what's important now is that we look forward and do everything possible to meet the 10th anniversary date.\"", "iReport: How are you observing 9/11?", "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site, says it's on board as far as the date for opening the memorial.", "Completion dates for the museum and pavilion are part of a review to be finished by September 30, Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman said.", "\"We don't want to put any more false hopes, false dates out there in the public domain that can't be met.", "That's why they want to make sure this thing is a thorough review and we have realistic and achievable dates that we come out with,\" he said.", "Coleman said the Port Authority hasn't felt pressure from families of September 11 victims to speed up the process.", "\"What we're hearing from family members is that they want to see it done right, rather than rushed,\" he said.", "The memorial will feature two huge reflecting pools, with waterfalls flowing down their sides, where the iconic twin towers stood, according to the memorial's Web site.", "Engraved around the pools will be the names of those who died in the September 11 attacks as well as the victims of a 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.", "Watch and listen to sights and sounds from 9/11 » .", "The steel and glass entry pavilion will include two large steel columns salvaged from the twin towers.", "As visitors descend underground into the museum, they'll see the slurry wall, the bedrock that held back the Hudson River when the towers collapsed.", "The Pennsylvania memorial is also scheduled to be completed by the 10th anniversary of the attacks.", "It will center on the site where United Flight 93 crashed after passengers apparently wrested control of the plane from the hijackers.", "A plaza will surround the crash site, known as Sacred Ground.", "Plans call for a Tower of Voices, with 40 windchimes representing the 40 passengers and crew members who died.", "The Pentagon memorial, opening Thursday, includes a bench, a tree and a pool for each of the 184 people killed there when another hijacked airliner crashed into the building.", "Watch a victim's family tour Pentagon memorial » .", "The areas are arranged in order of the victims' ages, ranging from the youngest, 3-year-old Dana Falkenberg, to the oldest, John D. Yamnicky, 71, according to a Defense Department Web site.", "\"When we learned that there were five children who lost their lives that day, that's really what sparked the idea,\" designer Keith Kaseman said.", "To read the name of a person killed in the Pentagon, a visitor must look toward the building; if the victim was on board the airplane, the name can be seen by looking up.", "After dedication ceremonies, the memorial opens to the public at 7 p.m.", "ET. \"This place is really all about the visitor's thoughts, your interpretation,\" Kaseman said." ]	[ "World Trade Center memorial plaza scheduled to open in 2011, museum in 2012 .", "Memorial at Pennsylvania plane crash site also due to open in 2011 .", "Pentagon memorial including benches, trees, pools is dedicated Thursday .", "Watch 9/11 memorials in New York and Washington on CNN.com Live ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5 ]
[ "SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- A wildfire threatened to decimate historic Angel Island, the largest in the San Francisco Bay, and a Marin County fire official warned it could take up to four days contain the blaze.", "At 9:15 p.m. Sunday the fire was burning only on the southeast side of the island.", "The fire, which began about 9 p.m. Sunday, had consumed about 250 acres of vegetation near the top of Mount Livermore's 788-foot peak, Battalion Chief Mike Giannini said Monday.", "iReporter Bob Austrian, 45, of Tiburon, said he could see the blaze from his home about 4 or 5 miles from the island.", "He noticed the blaze at 9:15 p.m. Sunday.", "It \"started as a little red glow\" on the southeast side of the island and worked its way over the top and around the side of Mount Livermore, he said early Monday morning.", "Watch the island burn » .", "\"It's still ripping right now,\" Austrian said at 5 a.m., noting that the blaze posed \"quite a spectacle\" with the town of Belvedere in the foreground and the Bay Bridge that connects Oakland and San Francisco serving as a backdrop.", "Fire crews and equipment were being ferried to the island to battle the blaze, Giannini said.", "About 200 firefighters were already involved in the effort or en route, he said.", "None of the blaze is contained, and Giannini said he expects the firefighting effort to last for three to four more days.", "Austrian, who has visited the island at least a dozen times, said he's concerned that firefighters won't be able to douse the blaze.", "The island is mostly vegetation with a few historic buildings, foot trails and access roads.", "iReport.com: See, share images of the blaze .", "Even with the necessary manpower and firefighting resources, he said, it will be difficult to reach the actual blaze.", "\"It's just the saddest thing because there's no way to stop it,\" Austrian said.", "Fire officials said earlier that all of the park workers and campers on the island were safe.", "Angel Island -- a hilly grass- and forest-covered island -- is the largest in San Francisco Bay.", "The island was used as a quarantine station for immigrants suspected of carrying diseases starting in the late 19th century.", "It's now a place for hiking, biking, camping and boating." ]	[ "Blaze not contained, firefighting efforts could last four days, official says .", "iReporter: \"It's just the saddest thing because there's no way to stop it\"\nBlaze burning vegetation near the top of Mount Livermore's 788-foot peak .", "All park workers, campers are safe, fire official says ." ]	[ 2, 10, 15, 16 ]
[ "HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Even with Hurricane Ike more than 100 miles away, authorities began rescue efforts Friday, picking up more than 120 people stranded by rising seas along the southeast Texas coast.", "The U.S. Coast Guard rescues a person trapped in a car on Friday as Hurricane Ike hits Texas.", "Most of the rescues occurred in Galveston County, where rising water and other effects of the storm began hours before expected landfall early Saturday.", "Stranded residents have been airlifted from Crystal Beach, Bolivar Peninsula and other communities in the Galveston area.", "Many of those rescued were motorists stranded on flooded roads.", "In Surfside Beach, police waded through chest-high rushing water to rescue five people trapped in their homes.", "One man refused to leave, said Surfside Beach police Chief Randy Smith.", "Watch rescuers save a motorist from floods » .", "\"Some of them took convincing, some of them didn't,\" he said.", "Police also rescued another five people who waded out to meet the officers.", "About half of those rescues were done by helicopters out of several bases along the coast, said Coast Guard Petty Officer David Schulein.", "Three HH-65C helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Houston rescued more than 20 people and were continuing to fly round-the-clock rescue missions until weather grounds them, said Petty Officer Renee Aiello, a station spokeswoman.", "The Coast Guard helicopters from Air Station Houston could make their last flights Friday afternoon as rain starts to move in, Aiello said.", "Watch Ike begin to spill water into Texas » .", "\"We'll be out as long as the weather permits us,\" she said.", "\"We're still working.\"", "Some 37,000 people may need to be rescued after Hurricane Ike strikes, a U.S. military official said Friday.", "Texas already has asked for help, and the active-duty military has 42 search-and-rescue helicopters on standby, the official said.", "iReport.com: Commander briefs Coast Guard crews .", "Meanwhile, the Coast Guard and Air Force were unable to rescue 22 people aboard a freighter adrift in the Gulf of Mexico because of weather, the two military branches said Friday.", "\"Weather on scene deteriorated to a point that made the rescue impossible,\" the Coast Guard said in a statement issued Friday.", "First Lt. Lauren Johnson, an Air Force spokeswoman, confirmed the report.", "Aircraft were used in the effort, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Coast Guard said.", "Coast Guard officials had said earlier they thought the best way to help the 584-foot freighter might be to let the storm push it to shallow water where it can drop anchor.", "Watch the captain of the freighter talk with CNN » .", "The freighter had been headed south from Port Arthur, Texas, and is loaded with petroleum coke -- a petroleum byproduct.", "The Coast Guard said in a news release it received a distress call around 4 a.m. from the Antalina, a Cypriot-flagged freighter.", "It said the vessel had \"lost main propulsion 90 miles southeast of Galveston\" and was unable to steer.", "Coast Guard Capt.", "Bill Diehl said the freighter had been \"in the direct line of the path of the storm and lost its engines.\"", "He said the Coast Guard is keeping radio communications with the freighter, and its news release said the Coast Guard is in hourly contact with the crew.", "There had been warnings for residents to evacuate beforehand, and Chief Petty Officer Michael O'Berry, interviewed by CNN, was asked why they didn't get out in time.", "Watch last-minute evacuees explain their change of heart » .", "He said he thinks the residents \"didn't understand, I guess, the strength of the storm.", "As it came about, they realized it's a lot stronger than they may have anticipated.\"", "CNN's Mike Ahlers, Jeanne Meserve and Barbara Starr contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Coast Guard helicopters airlift stranded residents from Galveston area .", "NEW: Many of those rescued were motorists stranded on flooded roads .", "Coast Guard, Air Force unable to rescue 22 people stranded on freighter .", "Active-duty military has 42 search-and-rescue helicopters on standby ." ]	[ 3, 4, 17, 19, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When Sen. John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin, announced that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter was pregnant, the news prompted a big response from the iReport.com community.", "iReporter Darla Jones, who had a child at a young age, said she sympathizes with the Palin family.", "Palin revealed Monday that her daughter Bristol is pregnant and plans to marry the father.", "The announcement followed Internet rumors that Sarah Palin's 4-month-old baby was actually Bristol's.", "iReport.com users posted dozens of stories and hundreds of comments in response to the news.", "Many iReporters said that the issue is a personal matter, while others believed that the pregnancy deserves public attention.", "Republican presidential candidate McCain was aware of Bristol's pregnancy before he chose Palin as his running mate, a top adviser to the Arizona senator said.", "Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama said that families should be off-limits in presidential campaigns after learning of the news.", "\"Let me be as clear as possible,\" Obama said.", "\"I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits.\"", "iReporter Darla Jones of Roseburg, Oregon, who supports McCain, agrees that the media and public should leave Bristol and the Palin family alone.", "iReport.com: Were you married at a young age?", "\"I had a daughter very young,\" Jones wrote on iReport.com, explaining that being a young mother made it difficult to get jobs and complete her education.", "\"This should not affect the presidency in any way.\"", "Sabrina Lee also had a child at a young age, but believes that the news of Bristol Palin's pregnancy merits attention.", "\"Personally, I have a right to know anything and everything about the next president and vice president,\" she wrote on iReport.com.", "\"I want to know the truth,\" Lee said.", "\"I feel as a voter I have the right to know everything about each nominee.", "This is just my opinion, but it's also my vote and it's precious.\"", "The Laveen, Arizona, resident said that she plans to vote for Obama.", "Although Lee said she was previously undecided, she decided to vote for Obama after McCain announced his running mate.", "\"Family values are a Republican platform,\" she said, describing the news of Bristol's pregnancy as \"a travesty.\"", "Alicia Summers of El Mirage, Arizona, agrees that the vice presidential candidate and her family deserve scrutiny.", "\"Did Palin really think she could come into a race at the 23rd hour and not be subjected to questions?\"", "she asked. iReport.com: See, share your thoughts on Sarah Palin .", "Summers, an Obama supporter, noted, \"the press only has two months to find out info about you that they took years to get on everyone else.\"", "She suggested that Palin drop out of the race out of respect for the privacy of her family.", "Graduate student Kristine Phillips also believes that Palin should withdraw.", "\"An unmarried 17-year-old pregnant daughter is not consistent with conservative principles,\" she wrote on iReport.com.", "Phillips, who describes herself as politically moderate, said conservatives' support of Palin is \"absolutely hypocritical.\"", "\"While I understand that Palin's role as a mother may or may not be debated here for the political sphere, this situation does call into question some of her policies during her role as governor and her character as a person,\" Phillips said.", "iReport.com: Read more from Phillips .", "Mark Swiger of Jonesboro, Georgia, urged iReporters to \"be professional and ethical by not bringing Sarah Palin's teenage daughter into politics.\"", "Swiger cited Obama and senior McCain adviser Steve Schmidt, who both asked the media and public to leave politicians' children out of the spotlight.", "Swiger, who is leaning toward McCain, said he usually votes based on moral issues.", "He believes that Bristol's pregnancy should have no bearing on her mother's political career.", "\"This is a moral line of decency that must not be crossed by Democrats, Republicans or human beings,\" he said." ]	[ "iReporters react to news that Gov.", "Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant .", "Sabrina Lee questions McCain's judgment in picking Palin .", "Darla Jones sympathizes with the Palin family .", "iReport.com: Share your thoughts on McCain's running mate ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 25 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Los Angeles fire officials say they're worried that nighttime winds could push two major wildfires, which already are blamed in two deaths, closer to pricey neighborhoods on the Pacific coast.", "Fire draws near homes in the Los Angeles-area community of Porter Ranch, California, on Monday.", "\"We are concerned about what will happen tonight when the winds pick up,\" Los Angeles Fire Chief Douglas Barry said Monday.", "California Gov.", "Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday declared a state of emergency Monday in Los Angeles and Ventura counties because of the fires.", "Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman, whose district covers the area where the fire is burning, called on President Bush to issue a federal disaster declaration for the area.", "At least two people have died because of the blazes, which have burned 8,000 acres in the hills and mountains of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, fire and police officials said.", "One was identified as a man who died in a makeshift wood-and-cardboard shelter and appeared to be homeless.", "A dog's body also was found.", "The other victim was killed in a collision of motorists who were trying to exit a freeway that was closed because of one of the wildfires, a fire official said.", "No identity or age was available for either victim.", "\"Winds are causing fire conditions to change by the hour,\" Schwarzenegger said in a statement released Monday.", "\"Several thousand acres have already burned with minimal containment and more acres are threatened.\"", "iReport.com: Are wildfires affecting you?", "Residents downwind were warned to remain alert into the night.", "\"It can go from here to the ocean in a matter of two to three hours,\" said Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, The Associated Press reported.", "Barry said investigators have not determined a cause for either blaze.", "Fire officials warned that strong winds, predicted to reach more than 60 mph after 11 p.m., could send fire roaring south down the Pacific coast near Highway 101.", "Officials have shut two freeways north of Los Angeles and authorities dispatched water-dropping helicopters and more than 200 fire engines as the blaze \"started to push toward the city,\" said John Tripp of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.", "About 350 police officers are on the scene, patrolling evacuated neighborhoods and warning residents ahead of the flames.", "Officials shut down part of Interstate 210, also known as the Foothill Freeway, and any residents north of the freeway were under a mandatory evacuation order.", "The fire jumped the interstate in one spot and headed toward the Lake View Terrace area.", "A portion of State Route 118, known as the Ronald Reagan Freeway, also was closed.", "The larger of the two fires has charred more than 3,500 acres in the Angeles National Forest, officials said.", "See video of the Angeles National Forest fire » .", "That fire destroyed several structures, including about 30 mobile homes in the Lopez Canyon area, said Los Angeles County fire inspector Sam Padilla.", "The mobile homes had been evacuated Sunday.", "The other fire, burning nearby, is expected to expand as the winds push the flames away from the center.", "In San Diego County, a wildfire that began on an explosives training range at Camp Pendleton had grown to more than 1,500 acres by nightfall and forced the evacuation of 1,400 homes, The AP reported.", "In northern California, a wildfire that started Sunday on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay had spread across 250 acres as of Monday morning but hadn't damaged any buildings in the historic state park, a Marin County fire official said.", "See video of the Angel Island fire » ." ]	[ "NEW: California Gov.", "Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday declares a state of emergency .", "NEW: Officials warn fire could possibly reach ocean in matter of hours .", "Winds could push fires to pricey neighborhoods near coast, officials say .", "Two deaths are connected to fires in Los Angeles, Ventura counties, officials say ." ]	[ 0, 3, 4 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Krishna Rajarman's classmates and friends remembered him Tuesday as a mentor and scholar who preferred to go home on weekends to spend time with his younger brothers than party on campus.", "Krishna Rajarman, a Fulbright Scholar and honors student, was a junior at UCLA.", "\"We asked him, 'Why not stay a weekend because we might do something fun?'", "\" said Ashwin Bhongir, Krishna's roommate and childhood friend.", "\"He said, 'I want to be here for my brothers.", "I like to spend time with my brothers, it's important.'\"", "Krishna, a 19-year-old junior at UCLA, a Fulbright Scholar and an honors student, was found Monday fatally shot at his parents' home in suburban Los Angeles.", "Police said his father killed the teen, his two younger brothers, ages 7 and 12, his grandmother and mother.", "Karthik Rajaram, a 45-year-old unemployed financial services expert, then killed himself, police said.", "The six bodies were discovered in their neatly tended home in an upscale suburb 20 minutes outside Los Angeles on Monday.", "A neighbor called police to report that the wife had failed to pick her up to take her to her job.", "Inside the house, police also found letters from the father explaining that mounting financial pressure had led him to kill.", "Fraternity member Vim Mahadev remembered Krishna as a devoted L.A. Lakers fan who occasionally mentioned family problems, but nothing unusual.", "\"Nothing ever came up serious,\" said Mahadev.", "\"It was mostly his dad, about financial problems.", "But most of the time it was how he was his hero because he was intelligent and he always knew the right decisions to make.", "\"It's just so ironic.\" Krishna's friends Bhongir and Nahel Patel grew up around the Rajaram family and told CNN they never saw signs of family turmoil during their teenage years.", "\"I knew his family very well, and every time I went there, it was one of the most welcoming homes I've ever been to,\" said Bhongir.", "\"It was always a fun loving place to be.\"", "\"He was one of the most promising friends that I ever knew, he was literally the smartest person I've ever known,\" said Bhongir.", "\"He was going to make it.\"", "Bhongir and Nahel, both business economic majors at UCLA, said Krishna's father was a role model to them.", "Krishna had wanted to follow his father's footsteps in studies and career.", "The father received his MBA from UCLA in 1987, according to UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton.", "Police said he went on to work in a financial holding company and for major accounting firms, such as Price Waterhouse.", "As a freshman, Krishna joined the campus co-ed fraternity Delta Phi Beta, organized by South Asian students.", "Fraternity member Natasha Parikh said she was one of Krishna's closest friends.", "\"I just talked to him on Wednesday, and he was so excited about the new recruits we were having,\" she said.", "\"He was so excited about this year, and it's so painful that he can't be here to experience the rest of our time at UCLA.\"", "\"He really didn't talk about his personal life; I always saw him as a happy guy who never once said he was going through any major difficulty, so this has come as a complete shock.\"" ]	[ "Krishna Rajarman went home on weekends to be with family rather than party .", "Friends say he was committed to mentoring his two younger siblings .", "Police: Teen's father, jobless and in financial trouble, killed him and his family .", "Friend describes Krishna: \"He was literally the smartest person I've ever known\"" ]	[ 0, 7, 19 ]
[ "(OPRAH.com) -- Oprah has always said that mothers have the most difficult job on earth, and actress Jenny McCarthy is one mom who has never backed down from a challenge.", "Doctors removed Monica's uterus, ovaries, gallbladder and part of her colon, along with her legs and arms.", "Jenny has been an outspoken advocate for parents of children with autism since her son was diagnosed with the disease two and a half years ago.", "In her new book, \"Mother Warriors,\" Jenny tells the story of other moms fighting for their special-needs kids.", "So when Oprah heard about Monica, another mom fighting for her children, she thought Jenny would be just the person to get this mother warrior's story.", "After going through a painful divorce, Monica met Tony when she least expected it.", "Monica already had a 9-year-old daughter, but soon after she and Tony got engaged, they were thrilled to be expecting another bundle of joy.", "In August 2007, she had a C-section, and though she worried about complications, Monica delivered a healthy baby girl.", "But hours after Sofia was born, Monica began running a fever.", "No one was concerned at first -- Monica figured it was just hormones -- but three days later the fever hadn't broken, and Monica's abdomen was swollen and painful.", "iReport.com: What do you think about this story?", "Sound off on video .", "The doctors at Monica's hospital thought she might be infected with a deadly strain of bacteria.", "They flew her to a hospital in Boston where she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating bacteria.", "Defying the odds, Monica survived, but many of her organs didn't.", "The doctors removed Monica's uterus, ovaries, gallbladder and part of her colon that same day.", "Within four weeks, Monica's infection had restricted the blood flow to her arms and legs.", "Her nurses cleaned her limbs every day, and she knew they were trying to keep her from seeing the damage.", "But Monica wanted to face the disease head on.", "\"I needed to know what I was up against.", "I didn't want to be shielded anymore,\" Monica says.", "Eventually, doctors told Monica they had to amputate both arms and both legs.", "The surgery sounded scary, but Monica was determined to put it behind her and get back to her daughters.", "\"I was frightened at first, but when they told me [my arms and legs] had to be amputated, it was: 'Do it.", "I've got to go home,'\" Monica says.", "\"[I thought,] 'I have a life to live and it's not here, and until you amputate, I can't move forward.'\"", "After her amputation, Monica spent two months in the hospital, where she underwent a total of 37 surgeries.", "As Monica grew stronger, Tony realized there was no reason to postpone their wedding any longer -- they got married in the hospital chapel in October, 2007.", "Monica spent the next two months going through grueling rehabilitation.", "\"She's a fighter,\" Tony says.", "\"If they told her two hours of physical therapy a day, she'd ask to double it up to four.", "She wanted to come home as soon as possible.", "They didn't think she'd ever walk again, but she made it happen.\"", "Right before Christmas, Monica got what she'd been waiting for.", "She was given the okay to go home to her husband and two daughters.", "A year later, Jenny visited Monica and her family at their home outside Boston, Massachusetts.", "\"I had a big aha! moment after spending six hours with her.", "Monica accepted what is.", "She looked down and said: 'Okay, this is the situation.", "I can't change this, so I might as well surrender to it,'\" Jenny says.", "\"When she does that, she is able to move forward in peace.\"", "Oprah.com: Jenny McCarthy answers parenting questions .", "Nurses and doctors say they expected a \"why me?\"", "breakdown from Monica while she was in the hospital, but it never happened.", "\"I did have moments of 'If God just left me one arm or one leg, life would be a little bit easier,' but that's not the way it went,\" Monica says.", "\"You make do with what you have. I could still love my girls.", "The bottom line was I am still here.\"", "Monica's not the only warrior in this family.", "Jenny calls Tony a daddy warrior because he always stood by Monica and their family.", "\"I actually considered not marrying him because I wasn't the person he agreed to marry,\" Monica says.", "\"But then I realized he loves me.", "He's here, and he's my heart. I'm still a woman, and I still have a heart and a mind, regardless of whether I have arms or legs.\"", "Tony says that there was never even a moment when he considered leaving Monica.", "\"She was the same person inside, so nothing had changed,\" he says.", "\"At one point, they went to bring in a preacher to give her last rights, and I turned him away and said: 'No, she's got a lot to fight for.", "She's not going anywhere, she'll be here for our family.'", "And she was. She is.\" Monica's family has been there for her too.", "When 9-year-old Madalyn found out about the surgeries, she took the news well.", "\"She'd been watching 'Dancing with the Stars,' and Heather Mills was on,\" Monica says.", "\"I told her, 'Well, I won't be doing back flips.'", "But she was excited and said, 'You can be bionic mom.'\"", "At Monica's house, she and Jenny had a mom-to-mom chat about the issues that mother warriors face.", "\"Within the autism community, one of the things that we, as mothers, miss so much is being able to caress our children, because they don't want to be touched,\" Jenny says.", "\"Do you experience that?\" Monica says she has similar moments of sadness.", "\"For a while, I really couldn't lift Sofia up,\" she says.", "\"I could hug Madalyn and have her hug me back, so that was good, but I miss being able to braid her hair, paint her fingernails, toenails -- the things that moms and daughters do.\"", "All mothers face frustrations, but Monica's come with tasks that used to be simple.", "\"I get frustrated about not being to do everything that I used to do,\" she says.", "\"Everything is different -- things as simple as picking up a pen or signing a paper for Madalyn at school.\"", "Monica hasn't let any of these obstacles stop her from living her life to the fullest.", "She does everything a mom would do, including paying the bills, which can take her up to three hours.", "\"It's the ultimate practice in patience,\" Jenny says.", "Oprah.com: Meet more inspirational moms!", "\"What good are you to your children if you're miserable?", "What are you teaching them? That you give up? That's not what I want to teach my kids,\" Monica says.", "\"I want my girls to know that their mother's a fighter.\"", "Monica's been adjusting to her new life for a little over a year, and she says her strength comes from her support system -- from family and friends to people at the hospital and rehab facility.", "There are more surgeries to come, she says, but she's taking it one day at a time.", "\"I've come to the realization that things are as they are, and you have to move forward.", "Life goes on,\" she says.", "\"There's no sense dwelling on it -- that just hurts too much and you don't live your life the way you want to.", "And with a wonderful husband and two great girls, life is fun.\"", "From \"The Oprah Winfrey Show,\" \"Actress Jenny McCarthy: Warrior Moms\" Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.", "That's like getting 18 issues FREE.", "Subscribe now! TM & © 2008 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ]	[ "Monica was diagnosed with deadly, flesh-eating bacteria after C-section .", "Doctors amputated Monica's limbs, did 37 surgeries .", "\"She's a fighter,\" husband says of Monica's strength and determination .", "Monica now does everyday things for her two girls no matter how long they take ." ]	[ 12, 13, 26, 29, 37, 56 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A tugboat on Saturday reached a disabled freighter carrying 22 people, hours after the ship rode out Hurricane Ike without power, Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said.", "O'Berry said the tugboat Rotterdam arrived shortly before 2 p.m. (3 p.m. ...", "Repairs will be made aboard the Antalina, which has a broken fuel pump, while at sea, O'Berry said.", "The tugboat will then tow the ship to Port Arthur, Texas, where it will undergo additional repairs and eventually offload more of its cargo -- petroleum coke, a petroleum byproduct -- O'Berry said.", "The crew members aboard the Antalina, a Cypriot-flagged freighter, are all in good health, said Coast Guard Cmdr.", "Ron Labrec.", "The freighter suffered no major damage from the storm, said Darrell Wilson, a spokesman for the company that manages the ship.", "Aircraft from the Coast Guard and Air Force were sent Friday afternoon to try to rescue the crew of the freighter, which is loaded with petroleum coke, a petroleum byproduct.", "But high winds forced the military to abort the rescue, O'Berry said.", "The Coast Guard then instructed the freighter to contact it each hour.", "It also told told the crew to turn on the ship's emergency radio beacon so its position could be monitored, O'Berry said.", "Watch the Coast Guard conduct a rescue operation » .", "Onshore as well, rescuers found it too dangerous to respond to calls for help.", "In Liverpool, Texas, south of Houston, a family called for help around 1 a.m. Saturday when a tree crashed into their house, but authorities concluded that strong winds made it too dangerous to respond, said Doc Adams, Brazoria County's emergency management coordinator.", "\"You want to take care of people, and when you can't, it's tough,\" Adams said.", "\"Unfortunately, someone has to make the decision about whether the risk is worth the benefit.", "Are you willing to risk three or four lives to save one?", "It's not easy.\" Adams said he didn't know if anyone in the house was hurt.", "\"As far as I know, they're still there in the house with a tree over it,\" he said at about 3:40 a.m.", "The stranded freighter had been headed south through the Gulf of Mexico from Port Arthur, Texas, but \"lost main propulsion 90 miles southeast of Galveston\" and was unable to steer, the Coast Guard said.", "The Coast Guard received a distress call from the vessel at 4 a.m. Friday.", "The Antalina was \"basically adrift, at the mercy of the wind and sea currents,\" Coast Guard Petty Officer Tom Atkeson said at the time.", "\"We are in hell,\" one of the men aboard the freighter told CNN on Friday before the rescue was called off.", "The man said the winds around the ship were strong but that the freighter still had power.", "On Friday before the storm hit, authorities picked up more than 120 people stranded by rising seas along the southeast Texas coast.", "Most of the rescues occurred in Galveston County, where rising water and other effects of the storm began hours before landfall early Saturday.", "Stranded residents were airlifted from Crystal Beach, Bolivar Peninsula and other communities in the Galveston area.", "Many of those rescued were motorists stranded on flooded roads.", "In Surfside Beach, police waded through chest-high rushing water to rescue five people trapped in their homes.", "One man refused to leave, said Surfside Beach police Chief Randy Smith.", "\"Some of them took convincing, some of them didn't,\" Smith said.", "Police also rescued five other people who waded out to meet the officers.", "About half of those rescues were done by helicopters out of bases along the coast, said Coast Guard Petty Officer David Schulein.", "Three HH-65C helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Houston rescued more than 20 people and continued to fly rescue missions until weather grounded them Friday evening, said Petty Officer Renee Aiello, a station spokeswoman.", "Some 37,000 people may need to be rescued in the aftermath of the hurricane, a U.S. military official estimated Friday.", "Texas already has asked for help, and the active-duty military has 42 search-and-rescue helicopters on standby, the official said." ]	[ "NEW: Tugboat reaches stranded freighter .", "Ship's crew of 22 endures night without power in Gulf of Mexico .", "Coast Guard, Air Force had to abandon rescue because of poor conditions .", "Authorities onshore find it too dangerous to respond to calls for help ." ]	[ 7, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia could have helped the United States prevent al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on New York and Washington if American officials had consulted Saudi authorities in a \"credible\" way, the kingdom's former ambassador said in a documentary aired Thursday.", "The comments by Prince Bandar bin Sultan are similar to the remarks this week by Saudi King Abdullah that suggested Britain could have prevented the July 2005 train bombings in London if it had heeded warnings from Riyadh.", "Speaking to the Arabic satellite network Al-Arabiya on Thursday, Bandar -- now Abdullah's national security adviser -- said Saudi intelligence was \"actively following\" most of the September 11, 2001, plotters \"with precision.\"", "\"If U.S. security authorities had engaged their Saudi counterparts in a serious and credible manner, in my opinion, we would have avoided what happened,\" he said.", "Watch Bandar's comments » .", "Bandar was the Saudi ambassador to Washington for nearly 22 years before he was replaced in 2005.", "A knowledgeable U.S. official told CNN that Bandar's comments should be taken \"with a grain of salt.\"", "On Monday, Abdullah told the BBC that Saudi Arabia had sent warnings to British authorities before the London subway bombings that killed 52 people -- the city's bloodiest day since World War II.", "\"We have sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist attacks in Britain,\" Abdullah said.", "\"But unfortunately, no action was taken, and it may have been able to avert the tragedy.\"", "The September 11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.", "All but four of the suicide hijackers who carried out the plot were Saudi nationals, and after the attacks, the kingdom was widely criticized for having tolerated Islamic militancy.", "The Saudis have called the criticism unfair, pointing out that al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden's original grievance was against the country's ruling family, which invited U.S. troops into the kingdom after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.", "A string of attacks on Western compounds, oil installations and Saudi institutions between 2003 and 2006 were blamed on al Qaeda's followers.", "And Saudi officials say that since 9/11, they have taken steps to ensure charitable donations do not fall into the hands of al Qaeda.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Pam Benson contributed to this report." ]	[ "Prince Bandar bin Sultan: U.S. did not engage Saudis in serious, credible way .", "All but four of September 11 hijackers were Saudi nationals .", "U.S. official: Bandar's comments should be taken \"with a grain of salt\"\nBandar was the Saudi ambassador to Washington for nearly 22 years ." ]	[ 4, 5, 6 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military announced Wednesday that coalition forces recently killed al Qaeda in Iraq's \"charismatic\" senior leader in northern Iraq.", "Abu Qaswarah was second only to Abu Ayyub al-Masri (pictured) in al Qaeda in Iraq leadership.", "Abu Qaswarah, also known as Abu Sara, was killed during an operation in Mosul on October 5, the military said.", "The Moroccan native was second-in-command to al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, according to the military.", "He had \"historic ties\" to al-Masri's predecessor, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and senior al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the military said.", "Abu Qaswarah -- who became AQI's senior leader in northern Iraq in June 2007 -- was the target of the military raid in Mosul earlier this month, the military said.", "Coalition forces tracked him down inside a building in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which \"served as a key command and control location for AQI,\" according to the military.", "\"Upon entering the building, forces were immediately fired upon,\" the military said.", "\"Coalition forces returned fire in self-defense, leading to the death of five terrorists.", "It was later determined that one of the five was positively identified as Abu Qaswarah.\"", "The U.S. military described Abu Qaswarah as a \"charismatic\" leader who rallied al Qaeda in Iraq's northern network after \"major setbacks to the terrorist organization across Iraq.\"", "Groups comprised mainly of former Sunni insurgents -- known as Awakening Councils or \"Sons of Iraq\" -- have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq, helping to diminish its presence in several parts of the country.", "The U.S. military credits them with playing a key role in bringing about the nationwide drop in violence that coincided with the \"surge\" of U.S. forces.", "Abu Qaswarah -- who trained with al Qaeda in Afghanistan -- helped bring foreign terrorists into northern Iraq, where they carried out a spate of suicide attacks, according to the military.", "He also organized and led AQI's attacks in Mosul, including the \"failed attempt to destroy the Mosul Civic Center during the holy month of Ramadan,\" which took place in September, the military said.", "That attack, the military said, \"could have killed hundreds of innocent Iraqis.\"", "The military said Abu Qaswarah's death \"will significantly degrade AQI operations in Mosul and northern Iraq, leaving the network without a leader to oversee and coordinate its operations in the region.\"" ]	[ "Abu Qaswarah killed during an operation in Mosul on October 5 .", "He was second-in-command to al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri .", "Coalition forces tracked him down inside a building in the northern Iraqi city .", "U.S. military described Abu Qaswarah as a \"charismatic\" leader ." ]	[ 2, 3, 6 ]
[ "DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- A court in Dubai has sentenced two Britons to three months in prison for having sex on a public beach in the Muslim country.", "File image of one of the co-accused -- Vince Acors -- arriving at court in Dubai in September.", "After they complete their sentence, the pair will be deported.", "They also have to pay a 1,000 dirhams ($367) fine for public indecency.", "Police charged Michelle Palmer, 36, and Vincent Acors, 34, with illicit relations, public indecency and public intoxication after their arrest at a beach shortly after midnight on July 5.", "Both denied that they had intercourse.", "\"The public (prosecutor) failed to produce corroborative evidence against my clients concerning having consensual sex and committing indecent gestures in public,\" said the pair's lawyer, Hasan Mattar.", "He said the pair will appeal the verdict.", "Watch how case stirs up Dubai's bar scene » .", "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- where Dubai is located -- is home to thousands of expatriates and is among the most moderate Gulf states.", "Still, the oil-rich Gulf kingdom adheres to certain Islamic rules.", "More than a million British visitors traveled to the UAE in 2006, and more than 100,000 British nationals live there, according to the British Foreign Office.", "The country is in the midst of a building boom to position itself as one of the world's premier tourist destinations.", "It is already home to the world's largest mall, the world's largest tower, and -- despite being in the Middle East -- boasts the largest indoor snow park in the world.", "-- CNN's Caroline Faraj contributed to this report ." ]	[ "The two Britons will be deported after they complete their sentence .", "The pair were arrested at a Dubai beach shortly after midnight on July 5 .", "They were charged with with illicit relations, public indecency, public intoxication .", "Although a relatively moderate Gulf state, Dubai adheres to certain Islamic rules ." ]	[ 2, 4, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Saudi Arabian blogger detained in December, ostensibly because he supported reform advocates accused by the Saudi government of backing terrorism, has been released, a fellow blogger posted Saturday.", "Web sites like this one pushed for Fouad al-Farhan's release.", "Ahmed al-Omran said on his blog, saudijeans.org, and later told CNN that he was awakened by a text message from the wife of Fouad al-Farhan, saying he had been released and was at home with his family.", "\"That's great news, and this is just how I wanted to start my morning,\" al-Omran wrote.", "He said he later spoke with al-Farhan for several minutes on the telephone.", "\"He sounded fine; he seems to be in good spirits,\" al-Omran said.", "\"He said he would have more to talk about later but not at this point.", "He said now he'd like to take some time to spend with his family, with his children that he hasn't seen for so long.\"", "Watch al-Omran describe his conversation with al-Farhan » .", "A Web site set up to call for al-Farhan's release said, \"Fouad is free.", "He is back home in Jeddah after 137 days in custody.\"", "The Saudi Interior Ministry said it had no immediate comment on the reports.", "In January, a ministry spokesman said al-Farhan was arrested December 10 \"because he violated the regulations of the kingdom.\"", "But in an e-mail posted on al-Farhan's Web site after his arrest, he told friends that he faced arrest for supporting 10 reform advocates the Saudi government accused of backing terrorism.", "In the e-mail, al-Farhan said a senior Interior Ministry official promised that he would remain in custody for three days at most if he agreed to sign a letter of apology.", "\"I'm not sure if I'm ready to do that,\" he wrote.", "\"An apology for what? Apologizing because I said the government is [a] liar when they accused those guys of supporting terrorism?\"", "Al-Farhan, who blogs at alfarhan.org, is one of the few Saudi Web commentators to use his own name, according to the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists.", "In January, the Bush administration expressed its concerns to the Saudi government regarding al-Farhan's detention at \"a relatively senior level,\" U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.", "\"The U.S. stands for freedom of expression,\" McCormack said at the time.", "\"Wherever people are seeking to express themselves, via the Internet or via other areas, whether in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere in the world, we stand with that freedom of expression, and that was our message to the Saudi government.\"", "The American Islamic Congress, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, launched an online letter-writing campaign aimed at freeing al-Farhan, whom it called \"the godfather of Saudi blogging.\"", "\"All he did was express his opinions in a very obvious way, and he didn't threaten anyone,\" al-Omran said.", "\"He was advocating against violence and terrorism.\"", "Al-Omran said al-Farhan had stopped blogging for a few months in late 2006, after the Interior Ministry ordered him to take down a blog he was operating, but he began again at a new site.", "He said al-Farhan told him he was treated well in jail.", "He also called al-Farhan's release a turning point for the blogging community in Saudi Arabia.", "\"It showed the community of bloggers in Saudi Arabia can come together and support this cause -- support his freedom of speech -- even those who didn't agree with some of the things he wrote,\" he said.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Friend says blogger \"in good spirits\" and spending time with family .", "Fouad al-Farhan detained in December by Saudi government for his blog .", "Al-Farhan was held because he supported reform advocates, a blog says .", "Saudi government accused him of supporting terrorism through his blog ." ]	[ 0, 2, 25 ]
[ "HONOLULU, Hawaii (CNN) -- Bobby Maxwell kept a close eye on the oil industry for more than 20 years as a government auditor.", "But he said the federal agency he worked for is now a \"cult of corruption\" -- a claim backed up by a recent government report.", "Bobby Maxwell, a long-time auditor of the oil industry, says his former agency is corrupt \"top to bottom.\"", "\"I believe the management we were under was showing favoritism to the oil industry,\" Maxwell told CNN.", "Maxwell is referring to a tiny agency within the Department of the Interior called the Minerals Management Service, which manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on federal lands.", "A report, conducted by the Interior Department's inspector general and released earlier this month, found that employees at the agency received improper gifts from energy industry officials and engaged with them in illegal drug use and inappropriate sexual relations.", "It looked at activities at the agency from 2003 through 2006.", "Maxwell said the report doesn't surprise him.", "The agency, he said, is corrupt \"top to bottom.\"", "Watch a failure to \"protect America's interests\" » .", "\"It sounds like they forgot they work for the government,\" he said.", "\"It's disgusting. ... There's no excuse for that. Those people should not be working in those positions at all.", "\"They crossed a lot of lines that should never have been crossed,\" he said.", "\"They lost all objectivity.\"", "Maxwell was in charge of keeping track of the millions in royalty payments owed taxpayers by oil and gas companies who explored and found oil on U.S. government lands.", "He estimates he and his team were responsible for saving the government close to $500 million in royalties, either underpaid or somehow skipped by oil and gas companies, over the years.", "He received the Interior Department's highest award in 2003 for his work.", "But not long afterward, his job was killed.", "He believes it was retribution for his cracking down on Big Oil and blowing the whistle on what he believes was a \"cult of corruption\" within the agency.", "The Interior Department denies that, saying his job was reorganized as part of routine restructuring.", "Just before he lost his job, he said, one of his superiors in Washington ordered him not to investigate why Shell Oil had raised its oil transportation costs.", "Maxwell said it jumped from 90 cents to $3 a barrel without adequate explanation.", "The government paid Shell to transport oil from offshore platforms.", "When asked why a government worker would tell an auditor not to investigate, he said: \"I believe it started from the top down,\" he said.", "Shell Oil told CNN it \"pays the same rate any shipper does\" and that it has \"never engaged in fraudulent transactions or entered into sham contracts as Mr. Maxwell alleges.\"", "Maxwell, a registered independent, said the shift in attitude at the agency began about seven or eight years ago, about the time the Bush administration came into power.", "He said he was discouraged from aggressively auditing oil companies.", "\"Laws and regulations were not applied, also not enforced,\" he said.", "The inspector general's 27-page summary says that nearly a third of the roughly 60 people in Maxwell's former office received gifts and gratuities from oil industry executives.", "Two received improper, if not illegal, gifts at least 135 times, the report says.", "It goes on to describe a wild atmosphere in which some staff members admitted using cocaine and marijuana.", "In addition, two female workers at the Minerals Management Service were known as the \"MMS chicks\" and both told investigators they had sex with oil industry officials they were supposed to be auditing.", "One e-mail from a pipeline company representative invited government workers to a tailgating party: \"Have you and the girls meet at my place at 6 a.m. for bubble baths and final prep ... Just kidding.\"", "Inspector General Earl Devaney said in a letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne accompanying the report that it details \"a textbook example of improperly receiving gifts from prohibited sources.\"", "Maxwell is now retired from the government and teaches at the University of Hawaii.", "He said it was just a matter of time until the agency's behavior was exposed.", "He feels vindicated now in the wake of the inspector general's report, but is still disgusted by what he was happening at the Minerals Management Service.", "\"Their job is to protect United States taxpayers' interest.", "It's like they completely forgot that, like they just became part of the oil companies,\" he said.", "The Interior Department said it could not comment on Maxwell's specific allegations or removal, saying his former supervisor no longer works for the Interior Department either.", "Kempthorne said he was \"outraged\" by the disclosures in the inspector general's report and that the actions \"of a few has cast a shadow on the entire agency.\"", "But the department said there is no evidence taxpayers lost money as a result of unethical behavior between government workers and the oil and gas industry.", "Maxwell doubts that.", "The former auditor said he'd love to put all the government royalty records under his magnifying glass.", "\"I think the government should be transparent.", "We are for the people, by the people.", "This is the government. We're here to serve,\" he said.", "Maxwell has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the Kerr-McGee Corp., an energy company involved in oil and gas exploration.", "In it, he claims the company defrauded taxpayers out of millions in oil royalty payments.", "The company denies the accusation.", "If Maxwell wins, the government would receive about $40 million in additonal revenue and Maxwell would be entitled to about a third of that." ]	[ "Whistleblower said oil regulators in bed with oil industry: \"It's disgusting\"\nDepartment of Interior said it can't comment on Bobby Maxwell's specific claims .", "Maxwell was auditor for 20-plus years, said he lost job due to scrutiny of oil giants .", "Recent report found the agency Maxwell worked for took improper gifts from oil reps ." ]	[ 0, 5, 7, 14, 20, 39 ]
[ "ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN) -- A suburban Washington man was bitten Monday by a rattlesnake that found its way into his luggage, a fire department spokesman said.", "An Eastern diamondback rattlesnake appears in a photo from the U.S. Geological Survey.", "\"He felt a sharp pain, brought his hand out and saw the bite,\" said Benjamin Barksdale, assistant chief and chief fire marshal of the Arlington County, Virginia, Fire Department.", "Andrew Bacas zipped his bag shut and called 911 at about 9:30 a.m.", "ET, the official said.", "\"He was conscious and alert but a little anxious,\" Barksdale said of the victim.", "The bite from the young Eastern diamond rattlesnake was not life-threatening, and the man is being treated at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, he said.", "\"We took the bag outside and used a [carbon dioxide] fire extinguisher to freeze the snake,\" killing it, Barksdale said.", "Bacas, a high school rowing coach, had been on a six-day trip to Summerton, South Carolina, with about 80 students, said Mike Krulfeld, director of student activities at Yorktown High School in Arlington.", "Krulfeld said he did not think the incident was a student prank.", "\"It's been rare to find a coach who is as well-liked and highly regarded as Andy.", "I would find it hard to believe they would do anything even in the name of a prank that would cause harm to him,\" Krulfeld said.", "The Web site of the school's crew team warned members to take precautions unpacking from the trip, adding, \"It's advisable to open bags and unpack outdoors.\"", "\"It got into his bag somehow at the location where they were staying,\" said Kay Speerstra, executive director of the Animal Welfare League of Arlington.", "\"Nobody noticed it until he was unpacking, and then he definitely noticed it.\"", "Speerstra said the snake was about 10 inches long and appeared to be a juvenile.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "NEW: High school rowing coach had been on trip with students to South Carolina .", "A 10-inch-long diamondback rattlesnake killed by blast from fire extinguisher .", "Victim treated at hospital; bite reportedly not life-threatening ." ]	[ 6, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said golden parachute payments would be banned and the salary deals of bankers \"clawed back\" as part of the government's $250 billion bailout of the financial sector.", "U.S. President George W. Bush announces his government's bank bailout plan.", "Meanwhile, U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday of a $250 billion bailout plan to help stabilize the financial system.", "In Washington, Bush said the Treasury would buy into banks in return for shares using authority granted in the country's $700 billion bailout bill.", "However, Paulson stressed taxpayers would get a return on their money and banking excesses would be brought to an end.", "\"Institutions that sell shares to the government will accept restrictions on executive compensation, including a clawback provision and a ban on golden parachutes during the period that Treasury holds equity issued through this program,\" he said.", "The world's sharemarkets climbed again after European governments Monday announced bank bailouts worth more than $1 trillion and in anticipation of the U.S. bailout.", "Watch market prices .", "The Dow Jones industrial average surged 363 points in early trading after Bush and Paulson spoke before dropping back and eventually closing down by 76 points, or 0.82 percent.", "Bush said the measures taken in Europe were right, and had brought stability to the system.", "Watch the European Central Bank chief's assessment » .", "\"This new capital will help struggling banks to fill the hole filled by crisis during the time we are in,\" Bush said.", "\"This is a short-term measure to insure the viability of America's banking system.\"", "Watch Bush announce the plan » .", "He also announced that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would \"temporarily guarantee most new debt\" issued by banks.", "\"This will address one of the central problems plaguing our financial system -- banks have been unable to borrow money and that has constricted their ability to lend to consumer and businesses,\" Bush said.", "\"When money flows freely between banks, it will make it easy for Americans to borrow money for homes and cars.\"", "The government, through the FDIC, would also immediately and temporarily insure non-interest-bearing transaction accounts which were used mainly by small businesses \"to cover day-to-day operations.\"", "\"By insuring every dollar in these accounts, we will give small business owners piece of mind and bring greater stability to the banking system,\" Bush said.", "Governments have rushed to pump capital into banks after a series of large failures left the financial system teetering on the edge of insolvency.", "Banks have stopped lending to each other and customers for fear they will not be able to recoup debts and over concerns that many institutions are still hiding massive sub-prime mortgage losses.", "Watch Nobel prize winner praise UK plan » .", "Paulson said the government would get preference shares in return for its investment.", "\"Nine large financial institutions have already agreed to participate in this program.", "They have agreed to sell preferred shares to the US government, on the same terms that will be available to a broad array of small and medium-sized banks.\"", "Watch more on the bailout funding » .", "According to reports banking giants Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch would be among those to receive funding.", "Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said: \"I strongly believe that the application of these tools, together with the underlying vitality and resilience of the American economy, will help to restore confidence to our financial system and place our economy back on a path to vigorous, healthy growth.\"", "Markets in Europe saw big early gains drop back in afternoon trading.", "However, London's FTSE, the Paris CAC 40 and Frankfurt's DAX closed between 2.7 and 3.3 percent higher.", "Across the Middle East markets were up between 6.5 and 11 percent.", "Earlier, Japan's Nikkei 225 posted a record 14.15 percent gain.", "South Korea's KOSPI index gained 6.1 percent and Australia's All Ordinaries picked up more than 4 percent.", "Watch the Nikkei Index bounce back » .", "Jesper Koll, of Tantallon Capital Research in Tokyo, said: \"The system is starting to work.", "We can see that credit markets are starting to stabilize.\"", "Meanwhile Iceland's stock exchange reopened Tuesday for the first time since trading was suspended last Wednesday, with a value 76 percent lower than at its close value last week.", "Icelandic officials cautioned, however, that the new value reflected the absence of the three big banks that were nationalized last week and which represented 80 percent of Iceland's stock market.", "Taking that into account, exchange spokeswoman Kristen Johannsdottir said the market was down only 2 percent in early trading." ]	[ "U.S. President George W. Bush announces $250 billion bailout .", "Henry Paulson: Golden parachute payments and excesses will end .", "Japan's Nikkei closes Tuesday up 14 percent, a one-day record ." ]	[ 1, 2, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Bush is \"a disgrace, frankly,\" film director Oliver Stone said Wednesday, two days before the release of his biopic on the 43rd U.S. president.", "Director Oliver Stone says he believes the timing was right for his upcoming film, \"W.\" Stone, who has endorsed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president, seems to thrive on controversy, and his latest foray into filmmaking, \"W.,\" will likely hold true to form.", "In an interview with CNN's Kiran Chetry, Stone discussed the rationale behind the release date, his troubles securing financing for the film, and why he thinks President Bush's relationship with his father, President George H.W.", "Bush, played a role in the decision to invade Iraq.", "Kiran Chetry: We had a chance to see the screening of this movie and I want to ask you a little bit about the timing.", "This is coming out three weeks before our 2008 presidential election.", "Why did you want to it come out now? Oliver Stone: Those events are beyond my control.", "We made the movie as fast as we could starting last May.", "If I couldn't have completed it, it would have come out in January perhaps for the inauguration.", "It's not about this election. It's about the last eight years with one man, George W. Bush.", "It's his story, how he became the man that he is, how we elected him -- basically, if you start to think about it, where we are now as a country.", "Watch Stone discuss why he finds Bush \"fascinating\" » .", "Chetry: Is it an anti-war movie?", "Stone: Of course it's an anti-war movie, because I happen to be an anti-war person.", "That's not to say I'm a pacifist.", "I believe you fight for the right reasons.", "This man has us in three wars right now -- Iraq, Afghanistan, and basically, the war on terror.", "We have a foreign policy which is a very preventive one, a pre-emptive one.", "It's a Bush doctrine.", "It's a very dangerous place.", "Whoever wins the election, Obama or McCain, I think is going to live in the shadow of the events of these last eight years.", "This man ... will be around, his influence will be felt for 20 years, 40 years.", "Chetry: What did you want viewers of your movie to come away with?", "Stone: ... I can't control that. We made the movie to make people think, to make themselves feel, to walk in the shoes of George Bush and to understand him.", "This is not a job done with malice.", "This is a fair portrait of the man.", "I think it's empathetic.", "You care for him and your feelings for him.", "An activist said, \"I never thought I could feel something for George Bush.", "I came out of this movie feeling compassionate for him, and even more important, feeling compassion for our country and where we are now.\"", "Chetry: You had trouble getting financing because people felt it was too, I guess, sympathetic for the president.", "Stone: Not for that reason.", "No, I think that the issues that we had with the American corporations were essentially that it was an inconvenient subject.", "They thought, he's gone from office, and they don't want to know, and he's controversial, and blah, blah, blah.", "These are corporations -- large corporations.", "They're not going to take risks like this.", "So, the movie business you've got to make movies with risks, and unfortunately, America's moving away from that in all forms, not just movies.", "Chetry: It's very interesting.", "You had a soliloquy, a great monologue, by the character playing Vice President Dick Cheney ... about the rationale for Iraq.", "It was very detailed and it's safe to say you didn't have Dick Cheney's cooperation.", "Where did you compile some of these scenes, some of these dialogues from those scenes?", "Stone: [Writer] Stanley Weiser and myself did a lot of research.", "There's not much known about the first [George W.] Bush administration, the first few years.", "It's coming out gradually from [\"Price of Loyalty\" author Ron] Suskind and [\"The Bush Tragedy\" author Jacob] Weisburg, and it's coming out gradually.", "We're finding out about oil and the secret meeting.", "It is supposition. There are geopolitics involved.", "There are other issues at stake.", "We're trying to do justice.", "We allowed Cheney to speak for himself and [former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld to speak for himself.", "And [former Secretary of State Colin] Powell, by the way, is the guy that argues with Cheney in that scene.", "iReport.com: Will you see 'W.'?", "Chetry: You say President Bush changed the world.", "Is it something you believe is permanent?", "Stone: Put it this way: We have practically an $800 billion Pentagon budget every year.", "That's a huge amount -- the amount of the bailout right there.", "Are we going to be in a state of reaction in force for everything that happens?", "Is it an us-versus-them foreign policy?", "Of course, I'm very concerned about the Constitution and about the stripping of liberties, torture, Guantanamo.", "Do you want the whole list?", "This guy ... he's a disgrace, frankly.", "And his legacy is going to be a hard one to live down.", "But I hope we take steps in the positive direction.", "And I am an optimist. Chetry: Variety's review said Oliver Stone's \"W.\" feels like a rough draft, that it may behoove to make in 10 or 15 years.", "They say it lacks an ending because we don't have time as perspective.", "Did we need some more time? Stone: I think the film is quite satisfying in that it shows you the marks for Iraq.", "It ends at the moment he goes to war.", "We know how things turn out.", "It's not a film about those eight years.", "It's a film about the character of a man.", "There's a first act when he's in his 20s, a second act in his 40s and the third act when he's in his mid-50s.", "It's a character study and we get to the place at which we know the way he's going to behave.", "It's a father-son story because a lot of his actions are motivated by, let's call it, rivalry to be stronger than his father.", "And that's part of the reason he goes to Iraq." ]	[ "Director insists \"W.\" presents \"a fair portrait of the man,\" is empathetic .", "Bush's \"rivalry to be stronger than his father\" helped prompt Iraq war, Stone says .", "Stone says he is anti-war, has concerns about torture, \"stripping of liberties\"\n\"W.,\" a biopic of President Bush, hits theaters Friday ." ]	[ 0, 11, 13, 25, 57, 71 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When news breaks, D.L.", "Hughley will be ready to mock it.", "D.L. Hughley starred in \"The Hughleys\" and \"The Original Kings of Comedy.\"", "CNN announced Wednesday that it will premiere a new, \"unconventional\" weekend show hosted by comedian D.L.", "Hughley. \"D.L. Hughley Breaks the News,\" as the show is currently titled, will feature Hughley's humorous take on the week's events.", "It will also include interviews with newsmakers and reporters, according to the network.", "\"D.L. Hughley Breaks the News\" is scheduled to debut Saturday, October 25.", "\"I am very excited for the opportunity to work with the network that I have watched for a very long time, and that to a large extent, has shaped my comedic view,\" Hughley said in a press release.", "\"CNN offers the perfect blend of news and information on a local, national and international level.", "What more can a comedian ask for?\"", "\"D.L. is a news junkie who is bursting with things to say about what is going on in the world -- most of them funny, all of them thoughtful, none of them predictable,\" said Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S.", "\"When you watch as much news as our audience does, there comes a time you just want to stop and laugh -- and that time will be Saturday nights at 10 on CNN.\"", "The show will resemble the late-night talk shows of Jay Leno and David Letterman more than Jon Stewart's \"Daily Show,\" according to Hughley.", "Hughley is known for his acting and his standup performances.", "The comedian spent four seasons on his own sitcom, \"The Hughleys,\" and was one of the stars of Aaron \"West Wing\" Sorkin's series, \"Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.\"", "The performer was also one of the \"Original Kings of Comedy,\" along with Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer.", "CNN and CNN.com are units of Time Warner." ]	[ "\"D.L.", "Hughley Breaks the News\" premieres on CNN October 25 .", "Comedian Hughley known for \"The Hughleys,\" \"Studio 60\"\nShow to feature interviews, comedic takes on the news ." ]	[ 4, 6, 9 ]
[ "WHEATON, Illinois (AP) -- A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.", "Hostages were released Friday after a gunman killed himself in suburban Chicago, police say.", "The standoff began around 1:30 p.m., after a Wheaton police officer responded to a call of a hit-and-run accident near the bank.", "When the officer arrived, the suspect grabbed the officer from behind, held a knife to his throat and demanded his gun, Deputy Chief Thomas Meloni said.", "During an ensuing struggle, the officer was cut on a forearm and the suspect was able to take the gun and run the lobby of the Wheaton Bank & Trust, where he ordered everyone to the floor, Meloni said.", "Police in Wheaton, about 20 miles west of Chicago, did not immediately release the gunman's identity.", "As officers evacuated nearby businesses and homes and shut down streets and rail service, hostage negotiators talked to the gunman by phone.", "They were able to persuade him to release 10 hostages, leaving two behind, Meloni said.", "\"At one point the suspect began to close the blinds from inside the bank and he disconnected the phone contact with the hostage negotiators,\" Meloni said.", "Shortly afterward, about 4:15 p.m., officers heard a single gunshot and they rushed in, Meloni said.", "He said the man was dead of a single gunshot wound to the head.", "A spokeswoman for Central DuPage Hospital, Amy Steinbruecker, said the hospital treated and released the police officer who scuffled with the suspect for minor injuries.", "Television footage showed dozens of people running from the four-story bank building, which includes other businesses, with their hands above their heads.", "\"We locked our office door, turned off the lights, drew the blinds,\" said Donna Price, 52, of McHenry, who works in the office building.", "\"Then we heard a knock on the door and it was a SWAT guy.", "He told us to get out right now.", "\"I said, 'Let me get my purse.'", "He said, 'No, now.\"' Price said police held people in a stairwell of the building before ordering them out.", "\"We all had to put our hands up on the back of our heads and run,\" Price said from a convenience store across the street where more than 100 people were crowded." ]	[ "Gunman took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank Friday .", "Police: Suspect held knife to officer's throat and demanded his gun .", "Suspect was found with a bullet wound to his head, officials said ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama cautioned supporters Thursday against becoming complacent during the final days leading up to the election, noting he lost the New Hampshire primary despite a lead in the polls.", "After debating Sen. John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama says there's still plenty of campaigning to be done.", "\"For those of you who are feeling giddy or cocky and think this is all set, I just [have] two words for you: New Hampshire,\" the Democratic presidential nominee said during a fundraiser breakfast in New York.", "\"You know I've been in these positions before where we were favored and the press starts getting carried away and we end up getting spanked.", "And so that's another good lesson that Hillary Clinton taught me.\"", "About 10 hours after debating Sen. John McCain, Obama urged top campaign contributors at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan to not be overconfident, despite leading in a number of national polls.", "A CNN Poll of Polls calculated Wednesday showed him leading 51 percent to 42 percent.", "\"We've got 19 days,\" Obama said.", "\"We're going to have to work absolutely as hard as we've ever worked in our lives in order to just to get to the start of what is going to be a very difficult and very challenging but ultimately a very fulfilling four years where we can get this country back on track.\"", "Watch more of Obama's comments » .", "Hours later, Obama spoke to a crowd in Londonderry, New Hampshire, lashing out at McCain's debate tactics.", "\"Well, New Hampshire, last night we had a debate.", "I think you saw a bit of the McCain attack strategy in action,\" he said.", "\"But here's what Sen. McCain doesn't seem to understand: With the economy in turmoil and the American dream at risk, the American people don't want to hear politicians attack each other -- you want to hear about how we're going to attack the challenges facing middle-class families each and every day.\"", "Obama urged McCain to \"debate our genuine differences on the issues that matter\" rather than making the Arizona senator's campaign \"all about me.\"", "\"The truth is, this campaign is about you.", "It's about your jobs. It's about your health care.", "It's about your retirement. It's about your children's future,\" he added.", "Watch Obama discuss the economy » .", "McCain, speaking at an event in Downington, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, touched on his debate performance.", "\"We had a good debate last night.", "It was a lot of fun. ... I thought I did pretty well,\" he said to loud cheers.", "McCain reiterated his position for taking America forward as economists say a recession is all but inevitable.", "\"We can't spend the next four years waiting for our luck to change ...", "I'll take us in a new direction,\" he said.", "\"Our troubles are getting worse, our enemies watch and we have to fight, and that's what I'll do for you ...", "I'm not afraid of the fight, I'm ready for it.\"", "McCain also urged voters there to help him win Pennsylvania -- a state where a CNN Poll of Polls shows Obama leading his counterpart 50 percent to 40 percent.", "\"I need your vote. We will carry Pennsylvania.", "... We need your help. ... It's a close race, my friends,\" he said.", "McCain also responded to Obama's assertions that his crowds are unruly and use dangerous language to describe the Illinois senator.", "\"I cannot tell you about how proud I am of you,\" he said.", "It was a line that he used in Wednesday night's debate.", "iReport.com: Obama survived knock-out punch .", "Obama and McCain are scheduled to speak Thursday night at the Alfred E. Smith dinner, a political tradition that dates back to 1945.", "It honors the first Catholic ever nominated for president and was begun by Francis J. Spellman, the archbishop of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese at the time.", "The Republican presidential nominee will also appear on the \"Late Show with David Letterman,\" after canceling an earlier appearance, which left the host fuming.", "Also Thursday, McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin, sounded a note of triumph about Wednesday's presidential debate while campaigning in Bangor, Maine.", "\"They [Obama and Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden] look to the past because they'd rather run against the current administration, it sounds like, and that strategy though, thankfully, it's really starting to wear very very thin,\" Palin said.", "\"As John McCain reminded Barack Obama last night, if he wanted to run against George Bush, he had his chance four years ago.", "This year, the name on the ballot is John McCain -- and America knows that John McCain is his own man, he is the maverick.\"", "Though Maine has trended Democratic for nearly two decades, the McCain campaign is making a push in the state's rural 2nd Congressional District, which is allotted one electoral vote independent of how the state votes at large.", "Despite the McCain camp's efforts, the Republican National Committee has stopped running advertisements in the state.", "Palin later traveled to Elon, North Carolina.", "At an afternoon rally at Elon University, near Greensboro, Palin pressed the audience to stand firm against accusations of negative campaigning, and told them to pay \"close attention\" to Obama's record.", "\"It's not mean-spirited and it's not negative campaigning when you call someone out on their record,\" she said.", "\"So don't let anyone, don't let them make you believe that you're being negative or mean-spirited or unpatriotic or unfair when you are asking about somebody's record, OK?\"", "After the rally, Palin continued on to a fundraiser at a home in Greensboro.", "Biden is traveling to Los Angeles, California, taping appearances on \"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\" and the \"Ellen Degeneres Show.\"", "CNN political producer Ed Hornick contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Palin in North Carolina: Pay \"close attention\" to Obama's record .", "Obama to New Hampshire crowd: McCain has become \"all about me\"\nMcCain says \"I thought I did pretty well\" in Wednesday's debate .", "Obama: I was ahead in New Hampshire, and we wound up \"getting spanked\"" ]	[ 3, 10, 11, 21, 44, 45 ]
[ "Editor's note: Glenn Beck is on CNN Headline News nightly at 7 and 9 ET and also is host of a conservative national radio talk show.", "Glenn Beck says Wall Street's troubles began with a wild craze for subprime mortages.", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- \"Greed is good.\"", "At least, that's what Michael Douglas' character Gordon Gekko claimed in the movie Wall Street.", "But, just like Gekko, the modern-day companies that followed that motto now find themselves wondering how everything could collapse so fast.", "You know the names by now: Countrywide Financial, Bear Stearns, IndyMac, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, AIG.", "And that's not even counting companies like Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs that, while still in existence, have lost untold billions in market value and have laid off thousands of employees.", "Maybe greed isn't so good after all.", "Lehman was founded in 1844 when Henry Lehman, a German immigrant, opened a small shop in Montgomery, Alabama.", "His brothers joined him six years later and, by 1858 they were busy turning cotton provided by local farmers into a cash crop -- a business that didn't have anything to do with helping low-income families afford 27-bedroom McMansions.", "More than 150 years later, after surviving the Great Depression, Black Monday, the savings and loan crisis and the dot-com bust, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection.", "They had gone 14 years as a public company without ever reporting a single quarterly loss.", "Now they will never again post a profit.", "Bear Stearns' story is eerily similar.", "Founded in 1923.", "Survived every crisis.", "Never posted a quarterly loss until last year.", "Gone without a trace.", "So how did 235 years of rock-solid American finance disappear virtually overnight?", "Well, it's not as complicated as you think.", "If you replace all of the acronyms invented by the brainiacs on Wall Street with references to things that Main Street understands, it becomes a lot easier to see how it all happened.", "Here's a quick story I invented that does just that.", "(Note to any Wall Street executives who might be reading this: I know this simple little story isn't perfect, but let's remember that you're the ones who tried to make everything complicated and I'm the one who still has a job.)", "It's just before Christmas,1996, and as you watch overeager parents trample each other to buy Tickle Me Elmo dolls for their kids, you see an opportunity.", "\"This isn't a Tickle Me Elmo bubble,\" you think to yourself, \"this is a long-term trend.", "Every person in America will soon own a Tickle Me Elmo, maybe even two.", "It's the American dream.\"", "You approach your local banker about a loan and, naturally, he loves your idea.", "In fact, he loves it so much that for every $1 you have in your account, he's willing to lend you $34.", "Great deal, you think, as you max out your credit line and buy as many Tickle Me Elmos as you possibly can.", "Sales are easy at first.", "People are lining up to buy your dolls and the prices are going far higher than you ever thought.", "The only person happier than you is your banker.", "But the following year something unexpected happens: Kids stop asking for Tickle Me Elmos.", "You try to cut the price, but no buyers show up.", "You cut the price more, but your store remains empty.", "Panic sets in.", "You're pretty sure that this downturn is just temporary (after all, who wouldn't want a Tickle Me Elmo?)", "but you're quickly running out of cash.", "Your only option is to buy time and hope that Tickle Me Elmos start flying off your shelves again.", "You visit every bank in town and, using your piles of Tickle Me Elmo dolls as collateral (which, of course, you purchased with money you didn't have) you get as much new capital as possible.", "Soon that money is also gone.", "Even your friends and family refuse to give you any more loans.", "At the end of your rope, you go to your town council, which gives you a \"bridge loan\" to get you through the next few months (something that makes your Furby-selling competitors extremely upset).", "Unfortunately, no matter how much you borrow, there's still one nagging little problem: No one wants to buy your stupid Tickle Me Elmo dolls anymore.", "The longer you wait, the less they're worth.", "You sell some for pennies on the dollar, but pretty soon you can't even do that.", "Then things get even worse: News breaks that China is poisoning some Tickle Me Elmos before shipping them to the United States.", "Now your dolls are not just out of favor, they're toxic.", "You literally can't even give them away.", "Soon the rest of your money dries up, as do the people who are willing to lend you any more of it.", "Now you're out of cash; out of a job, and, if not for the pile of poisonous Tickle Me Elmo dolls in your basement, completely alone -- which sounds kind of like the CEOs of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.", "Believe it or not, this ridiculous story may be far from reality, but it's not that far off from describing what these financial and mortgage companies did to themselves.", "Just replace the Tickle Me Elmo references with the once popular, then discounted, now completely toxic subprime mortgages and you're pretty much there.", "When you cut through all the noise about \"bridge loans\" and \"discount windows,\" what you're left with is the fact that too many companies still own way too many Tickle Me Elmos that no one wants to buy.", "Giving those companies more money doesn't solve anything, it just buys time.", "Unless and until the underlying problem is fixed, no real turnaround can happen.", "But we all know that investors (and elected leaders worried about their careers this November) aren't all that patient.", "That's why the new chorus you're likely to soon hear will be from people arguing that the only way out of this mess is for the federal government to step in and purchase all of the toxic mortgages themselves.", "That would allow the companies with eyes bigger than their balance sheets to start over, with barely any repercussions whatsoever and without ever taking responsibility for their mistakes.", "Come to think of it, maybe greed isn't so bad after all.", "Would the government actually consider that idea?", "They already are. In fact, the only thing stopping politicians from \"rewarding\" us with a new government agency that will put billions more of our tax dollars at stake is, ironically enough, the election of new politicians.", "Disclaimer: Tickle Me Elmo is still an extremely popular, non-toxic product and, to the best of my knowledge, is not responsible for the credit crisis.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Glenn Beck: Hundreds of years of Wall Street history vanished this week .", "Major companies collapsed due to the subprime mortgage fiasco, he says .", "Beck: Firms still own too many toxic mortgages they can't sell .", "A new government agency could form to buy up mortgages, Beck says ." ]	[ 1, 46, 58 ]
[ "Editor's note: Fareed Zakaria is a foreign affairs analyst who is the host of \"Fareed Zakaria: GPS\" on CNN at 1 p.m.", "ET Sundays.", "\"America will have to fight to attract capital and investment like every other nation,\" says Fareed Zakaria.", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The crisis in global financial markets will top the agenda as finance ministers from the world's top industrialized nations and central bank governors meet in Washington.", "In an effort to breathe some life into economies around the world, the Federal Reserve, in tandem with five other central banks, lowered its key lending rate to 1.5 percent from 2 percent.", "However, the global financial crisis has sunk its teeth in to the point that analysts say the $700 billion bailout plan and coordinated rate cut were merely steps in the right direction, and it will take much more to really get credit moving.", "CNN spoke to world affairs expert Fareed Zakaria about the most recent developments.", "CNN: Is the economy as bad as everyone is saying?", "Zakaria: What is happening now is a deep, wrenching financial crisis unlike any we've seen since the 1930s.", "It's contributing to a broad slowdown of the American economy.", "The pain is spreading across the world.", "It's ugly. But the history of capitalism is filled with credit crises, panics, financial meltdowns and recessions.", "It doesn't mean the end of capitalism.", "CNN: Then why can't we just let the free markets resolve the current economic problems without the federal government getting involved?", "Zakaria: We just can't accept the downswings that used to be routine for Western countries in the 19th century, when we saw much less intervention by the government.", "Can you imagine the political fallout from 20 percent unemployment or 5 percent growth rates?", "The government must experiment with massive interventions in the market to ensure credit starts flowing smoothly again.", "These interventions have become part and parcel of modern capitalism.", "CNN: So what should the government do?", "Zakaria: That is the real question: How to regulate the markets so you get the maximum innovation and growth, but temper their wilder movements?", "The government will have to do this by trial and error.", "No one knows in theory what the perfect system would look like.", "In the short run, whatever it takes, including buying up mortgages, debt, equities.", "Clearly, America's financial system needs new, different and better regulations for the 21st century, and this crisis should help produce those.", "CNN: What does it mean for the United States?", "Zakaria: People around the world once saw the United States as the most modern, sophisticated and productive economy in the world.", "Now they wonder, was this all a house of cards?", "They listened to American policymakers with respect, even awe.", "Today, they wonder if these officials know what they are doing.", "This loss of credibility will have hard consequences.", "For decades, the United States has attracted massive amounts of capital -- 80 percent of the surplus savings of the world -- which has allowed it to live beyond its means.", "That era is drawing to a close.", "America will have to fight to attract capital and investment like every other nation.", "CNN: What can we do? Zakaria: We need to wake up and get serious about our challenges.", "We must address all these issues, and fast -- restore confidence, reform the system, return the country to fiscal sanity.", "We have the opportunity to remain the pivotal player in a richer, more dynamic, more exciting world.", "But we have to take a substantial shift in our approach." ]	[ "Zakaria: Credit crises, financial meltdowns, recessions aren't end of capitalism .", "Government must try massive market interventions to get credit to flow, he says .", "Zakaria: America's financial system needs new, different and better regulations .", "We must quickly restore confidence, reform system, return fiscal sanity, he says ." ]	[ 11, 16, 23, 34 ]
[ "Editor's note: Join Roland S. Martin for his weekly sound-off segment on CNN.com Live at 11:10 a.m.", "ET Thursday.", "If you're passionate about politics, he wants to hear from you.", "A nationally syndicated columnist and Chicago-based radio host, Martin has said he will vote for Barack Obama in November.", "He is the author of \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith\" and \"Speak, Brother!", "A Black Man's View of America.\"", "Visit his Web site for more information.", "Roland Martin says Gov.", "Sarah Palin talks tough but ducks a lot of difficult questions.", "(CNN) -- Do you know what was so great about Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan?", "They were three of the biggest trash talkers in the history of the NBA, but they had the game to back it up.", "Somebody should tell that to Gov.", "Sarah Palin.", "Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate has been running around the country, firing up her -- yes, her, and not necessarily McCain's -- loyal supporters by blasting Sen. Barack Obama for \"palling around with terrorists\" and demanding that the American people know exactly when he learned of the past of 1960s radical William Ayers.", "She has stoked the crowds by saying, \"This is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America.\"", "We all know what that is designed to do: Portray Obama as a foreigner who isn't as American as she.", "Or you. Or Joe Six-pack, the hockey mom, soccer mom, Wal-Mart mom, NASCAR dad and the other coded words she uses regularly.", "But what is truly pathetic is that Palin talks tough, but is really scared of facing her own issues.", "Since she is good at proclaiming that the American people need to know who Barack Obama is -- an attempt to paint him as a shady figure who might occupy the White House -- the American people deserve to hear Palin answer if her husband, Todd, a former member of the Alaska Independence Party, agreed with its founder, who wanted to secede from the union.", "Is there anything more anti-American than wanting to sever ties with the country?", "Send Roland Martin your questions and listen to his program on CNNRadio and CNN.com Live, Thursday at noon ET.", "It's critical that Palin answer questions about whether she disagrees with John McCain's criticism of the Bush administration's decision to remove North Korea from the terrorist nation list.", "She spoke in favor of it.", "McCain didn't. Are they on the same page or not? The American people deserve to hear from Palin as to why she didn't say a word to rebuke the hateful, pathetic and degrading comments made at rallies featuring her, such as when someone in the crowd called Obama a terrorist, someone else shouted, \"Off with his head\" and others suggested he is a traitor.", "Lastly, don't you think the self-described maverick needs to own up to what really happened with the firing of the commissioner in Alaska?", "She was declared by a special investigator to have been within her rights in firing the commissioner, but she was blasted for abuse of power and violating the state's ethics act.", "So what did she say in a conference call with Alaska reporters -- who were not allowed by the McCain camp to ask follow-up questions?", "That she was cleared of all wrongdoing, legally and ethically.", "That's right. She repeated over and over and over an absolute lie, and we are supposed to say, \"Hey, it's all fine.", "She winks at us. We love her hockey mom schtick.", "Don't worry about that abuse of power thing.\"", "Well, after having to deal with Vice President Dick Cheney being accused of beating the drum for war by berating and pushing our intelligence apparatus to match his political views on Iraq, don't you think we should really care about someone who has been accused in a report, authorized by Democrats and Republicans, of using their power and influence to get their way?", "Sure, her supporters will say she's talked to the \"media.\"", "She was questioned by Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and that self-described journalist -- yes, he really called himself that -- Fox's Sean Hannity.", "Palin has done interviews with ABC's Charlie Gibson and CBS's Katie Couric, and local TV folks.", "But why is she so scared of NBC's Brian Williams?", "And why is she so fearful of CNN?", "Does she somehow think that our big guns like Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Campbell Brown are just too tough in asking questions?", "My goodness, Tina Fey has actually done more interviews about playing Sarah Palin than Sarah Palin has done about being Sarah Palin!", "Hmmm. McCain, Sen. Joe Biden, Barack and Michelle Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Cindy McCain and even McCain's 95-year-old momma and Palin's daddy have all done interviews with CNN, sharing their thoughts on the campaign.", "But Palin? Not a whisper. It's clear that Palin really isn't a true frontier woman.", "See, when you tote a gun, carry a big stick and spit fire, you aren't afraid to take on all comers.", "So, Sarah, if you want to talk big on the campaign trail to those audiences that don't talk back, go right ahead.", "But if you truly are the maverick politician you say you are, come on and talk to us soft, coddled, elitist journalists.", "Surely we aren't as tough as the moose you like to take down with your Second Amendment-protected hunting rifle.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Roland Martin: Gov.", "Palin talks tough on the campaign trail .", "Martin: Palin has ducked questions about many difficult issues .", "Palin has given only a limited number of interviews, Martin says .", "Palin hasn't been forthcoming on the Alaska ethics investigation, he says ." ]	[ 4, 7, 8, 38 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Global markets were reeling Monday after a historic day on Wall Street that saw two famous names become the latest victims of the credit crunch.", "The leading U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and brokerage Merrill Lynch was the subject of a $50 billion buyout by Bank of America.", "The fate of other big name financial institutions remained in doubt and stock prices plunged in Asia, Europe and the United States.", "In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 504 points down, or about 4.4 percent.", "The Nasdaq composite lost 3.6 percent, its worst single-session percentage decline since March 24, 2003.", "It left the tech-fueled average at its lowest point since March 17 of this year.", "In Europe, FTSE index in London declined 3.92 percent while the Paris CAC 40 was down 3.78 percent.", "It was the worst day for the index since the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001.", "Major Asian indexes were closed but India's Sensex fell 5.4 percent, Taiwan's benchmark dropped 4.1, Australia's key index dropped 2 percent and Singapore fell 2.9.", "Check markets .", "The turmoil at Merrill Lynch and Lehman is bound to mean job losses in the already hard-hit financial services industry, but so far neither company has indicated how many will be cut.", "\"This crisis is clearly deeper than anybody had imagined only a short time ago,\" Peter Stein, an associate editor at the Wall Street Journal in Asia, told CNN.", "The chaos followed a roller-coaster weekend for a Wall Street already concussed by woes at other major financial firms and mortgage-financing titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.", "Sound off: What do you think?", "At one point the U.S. Federal Reserve was forced to step in, announcing plans to loosen lending restrictions to the banking industry in an effort to calm markets, while a consortium of 10 leading domestic and foreign banks agreed a $70 billion fund to lend to troubled financial firms.", "U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday he is confident that the markets are resilient and can deal with the latest financial blows.", "\"We are working to reduce disruptions and minimize the impact these financial market developments on the broader economy.\"", "Watch what went wrong » .", "He added: \"In the short run, adjustments in the financial markets can be painful for people worried about their investments and for employees of the firms.\"", "U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said eight years of Bush \"brought us the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression.\"", "His Republican rival said John McCain said he was happy the federal government decided not to use taxpayer dollars to bail out Lehman Brothers.", "In an effort to calm market jitters, the European Central Bank on Monday said it has pumped $42.6 billion into money markets.", "The Bank of England in London also took steps, offering nearly $9 billion in a three-day auction.", "In another development, American International Group, the world's largest insurer, was reportedly struggling to secure billions of dollars in capital after months of seeing its share values slide.", "Police cordoned off Lehman's headquarters in New York on Sunday as staff, some in suits, others in casual clothes, left the building with cardboard boxes while tourists and onlookers gathered to watch the spectacle.", "The 158-year-old bank, which has weathered previous financial upheavals and saw its offices destroyed in the September 11 World Trade Center attacks, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which grants protection while it works out a plan to pay back creditors.", "The collapse of Lehman came after shares declined 94 percent in the space of a year, prompting speculation over its fate.", "It took a turn for the worse Sunday when Bank of America and British bank Barclays, both viewed as potential \"white knights,\" pulled out of deal talks, sources told CNNMoney.com.", "Both Lehmans and Merrill have been caught with huge exposures to unsecured mortgages, the bad debts at the heart of the so-called credit crunch that has devalued the U.S. housing market and sent financial shockwaves worldwide.", "Analysis: Different rules for different names » .", "Lehman's collapse and the sale of Merrill reduces the number of independent firms on Wall Street to two -- Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs -- following the sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan at a bargain price earlier this year.", "\"Acquiring one of the premier wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies is a great opportunity for our shareholders,\" Bank of American Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ken Lewis said in a statement Monday.", "\"Together our companies are more valuable because of the synergies in our businesses.\"", "Like Lehman, Merrill Lynch has been suffering from bad real estate bets, and its stock price lost 27 percent last week -- shares are down 65 percent this year.", "Watch why Bank of America thinks Merrill is the opportunity of a lifetime » .", "Merrill, known for with its famous bull logo, has been an icon of Wall Street and investing.", "But billions of dollars in losses in the last year due to fallout in the U.S. mortgage market proved too much for the 94-year old firm.", "David Ellis of CNNMoney.com contributed to this report ." ]	[ "U.S. investment banking giant Lehman Brothers to file for bankruptcy .", "Merrill Lynch agrees to be taken over by Bank of America .", "Job losses certain but numbers not yet known .", "NEW: Dow Jones suffered worst day since 9/11; Asia, Europe markets tumbled ." ]	[ 1, 7, 9, 10 ]
[ "Editor's Note: David Hawkins is Director of Public Policy and Research for the National Association for College Admission Counseling, a nonprofit organization that represents more than 11,000 high school counselors and college admission officers from across the country.", "He was the author of a report last month by the organization's commission on the use of standardized tests.", "David Hawkins says test scores shouldn't be used to rank college quality .", "ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN) -- A recent controversy at Baylor University has brought new attention to the widespread misuse of standardized college admission tests to rank the quality of America's colleges and universities.", "The SAT and ACT have achieved nearly iconic status in America and throughout the world.", "As the late author and scholar Stephen Jay Gould noted, the tests are viewed by many as \"abstruse and mysterious,\" with powerful effects on public policy, social mobility, and even individual identity.", "Misuse of test scores as college ranking criteria creates undue pressure on admission offices to pursue increasingly high test scores and fuels the tests' disproportionate influence.", "Last June, Baylor University encouraged its already admitted first-year students to retake the SAT.", "The reward for students who retook the test was $300 in bookstore credits.", "Students who increased their score by more than 50 points got a $1,000 merit aid scholarship.", "If enough students retook the SAT and increased their scores, the gains might be enough to move Baylor up the rankings list.", "The scarce financial resources allocated for this plan are too badly needed elsewhere, particularly among low-income students in rural and urban areas around the country, to spend on an effort to raise a college's SAT profile.", "A Baylor spokesman told The Associated Press Thursday that the university \"goofed\" and would likely end the incentives.", "It's critical to understand that high SAT and ACT scores alone do not equate to merit.", "Last month, our organization's Commission on the Use of Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission issued a report calling for change in the way everyone involved in college admissions uses the tests.", "Test misuses feed the public perception that the scores are the most influential factor in college admission.", "For the past 15 years, National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) research has shown that students' grades in high school, particularly grades in college preparatory courses, are by far the most important consideration in college admission decisions.", "One of the most pressing problems regarding the SAT and ACT scores is their misuse in the U.S. News and World Report college rankings formula.", "The SAT and ACT were designed to provide information about a student to colleges and universities and were never meant to be measures of college quality.", "Accordingly, the commission encouraged U.S. News and World Report to eliminate test scores as a measure of institutional quality.", "The U.S. News ranking formula includes a \"student selectivity\" score that constitutes 15 percent of a college's overall rank.", "SAT or ACT scores of enrollees make up 50 percent of the student selectivity score.", "In response to the NACAC report, U.S. News and World Report said, \"As long as standardized tests play an integral role in the college admissions process, U.S. News will use them as part of our ranking methodology.\"", "The situation at Baylor is a reminder of the inflated value assigned to the SAT and ACT in higher education.", "The fervor surrounding the rankings, as well as the lengths to which colleges go to increase them, are unfortunate distractions in higher education and admissions.", "The impression students and families get from the rankings is that higher test scores mean higher quality colleges.", "To borrow a phrase familiar to admission deans, many colleges recruit great students and then graduate great students.", "Is that because of the institution, or the students?", "Some credit undoubtedly should go to both.", "But is a college of lower quality because its students' SAT scores are lower than those of students at another college?", "Generally speaking, the ability of admission tests to predict success in higher education is much more limited than most people think.", "Colleges most often determine the utility of admission test scores by assessing how well they predict first-year grades.", "Colleges are wrong to place so much emphasis on test scores as measurements of their institutional worth when admission offices across the board consider the scores to be one among many indicators of a student's merit.", "As influential as the rankings have been with students and families, is it any wonder that colleges whose stakeholders often demand higher ranks go to such lengths to influence their position in the rankings?", "Misuse of test scores has real ramifications for students and families.", "For every student able to afford test-performance tutoring and fees for taking the test many times, there are many qualified students from under-served backgrounds who become discouraged that they will be unable to compete.", "For every college that raises its SAT or ACT profile for rankings purposes, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of qualified students who will never apply because artificially inflated test scores signal yet another barrier to higher education.", "It is critical to re-evaluate the varied uses of admission tests, and protect against their misuse in all forms.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Hawkins." ]	[ "David Hawkins: Admission tests are wrongly used to rank college quality .", "Hawkins says Baylor University's incentives for test scores are a mistake .", "Grades are much more important than test scores in admissions decisions, he says .", "Hawkins: U.S. News should drop SAT and ACT scores in rankings ." ]	[ 2, 3, 15, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At 51 years of age, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has come a long way.", "As part of the Kashubian minority living in the Gdansk Region, he was born to working-class parents -- his father a carpenter and his mother a nurse.", "Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was elected in November 2007.", "As a student of History at the University of Gdansk in the late 1970s, a period of growing discontent with the Communist regime in Poland, he became actively involved in the creation of the opposition Students' Solidarity Committee.", "This was founded in reaction to the murder of student activist Stanislaw Pyjas by the State Security Service.", "Despite his anti-communist activities, he successfully finished his studies in 1980 and joined the Independent Solidarity Trade Union movement.", "When the Communists imposed martial law in 1981 he continued with his underground activities, writing pamphlets about the ideas of liberal economist Friedrich Hayek and the concept of private property.", "His heroes became former U.S. president Ronald Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.", "With the fall of Communism in 1989, the Solidarity Movement splintered.", "Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity Leader was elected President, while Tusk went on to co-found the KLD (Liberal and Democratic Congress Party) with other well-known figures.", "The Party stood for among other things: free market economy, privatization, individual freedom of Polish citizens and Polish accession to the EU.", "The following year, during the 1991 Parliamentary elections, the KLD won 37 seats in the lower house of the Polish Parliament.", "Not being able to follow up on their success in the 1993 elections, the KLD merged with the larger Democratic Union Party (UD) to form a new party called Freedom Union (UW).", "Tusk soon became Deputy Chairman and in the 1997 elections, he was voted into the Senate.", "In 2001, Tusk formed the Civic Platform Party (PO), winning seats in that year's parliamentary elections and becoming Deputy Speaker in parliament.", "But the Civic Platform was not able to sustain its success in the 2005 elections.", "Tusk and his party lost both the presidential and parliamentary elections to Lech Kacczynski's PiS (Law and Justice Party).", "This setback was not to last as Tusk triumphed over Jaroslaw Kaczynsky's PiS in the October 2007 elections and became prime minister of Poland.", "Tusk's economic policies are pro-business: less bureaucratic hurdles and state interference making it easier for entrepreneurs to start businesses.", "He is also trying to woo back more than a million Poles who left the country to work in other European Union countries after it joined the EU in 2004.", "Tusk is a keen footballer, viewed in his youth as a promising striker.", "He is married to historian Malgorzata and has two children, Kasia and Michal." ]	[ "Involved in anti-communist activities as a student in Gdansk .", "In 1989 Tusk co-founded the KLD (Liberal and Democratic Congress Party)\nIn 1997 he was voted into the Polish Senate .", "Became prime minister of Poland after 1997 parliamentary election ." ]	[ 2, 3, 13 ]
[ "(Coastal Living) -- Barefoot on the sandy shore of Catalina Island, Kim Francis shades her eyes from the sun and peers back to mainland California.", "\"I can't believe we're 22 miles from Los Angeles,\" she says, grinning.", "\"I may never go back.\"", "Paddlers can experience Catalina from the water's surface.", "Behind her, the rugged terrain of Two Harbors stretches over rolling hills crossed by winding paths.", "Near the ferry dock, the modest village (a gift shop, an activities booth and one restaurant) buzzes with visitors.", "They come here to Catalina's west end -- away from Avalon, the island's much larger settlement -- to hike and watch wildlife.", "Many have their first try at snorkeling and paddling, says kayak guide Jason Clarke.", "Adjusting his colorful mask and snorkel, Jason plunges from the 45-foot catamaran Garibaldi into Isthmus Cove and encourages a tour group to do the same.", "\"You won't find kelp forests like this just anywhere,\" Clarke says.", "\"And always cross your fingers for a dolphin.\"", "Paddlers can experience Catalina from the water's surface, with tours that visit secluded coves and mysterious caves, all open for exploration.", "A few strokes of the paddle separate kayakers from pelicans, sea lions and a bison, which watches from land.", "\"If his tail wags, the buffalo is in a good mood,\" says Rod Jackson, who helps run Hummer tours to see bison.", "\"But never get too close.\"", "The bison have been on the island since the 1920s, when they were brought in as film extras.", "Today, they number nearly 250 and are protected by the Catalina Island Conservancy.", "\"Sometimes we get a rebel,\" Jackson says, gesturing to a lone bison across from the area's only inn, The Banning House Lodge.", "Free hiking permits allow visitors to wander the island at will.", "Adrenaline junkies will want to tackle Boushay Trail, which climbs 1,800 feet to Silver Peak, the highest point west of Two Harbors.", "Those who make it to the top will be rewarded with sweeping Pacific views.", "And, like Kim Francis, they may not want to leave.", "Best of the west end .", "For comprehensive information about all of the businesses listed, visit visittwoharbors.com.", "Stay: The Banning House Lodge, a rustic 1910 bed-and-breakfast with 11 rooms, has no TVs, clocks or telephones.", "Some rooms provide views of Isthmus Cove and Catalina Harbor.", "(Room 11 has spectacular cove vistas.)", "Winter rates start at $89; call 310/510-4228.", "To camp in the area, call 310/510-8368, or to rent a cabin between November and April, call 800/626-0720.", "Play: Visitor's Center; 310/510-4205.", "Dive and Recreation Center; 310/510-4272.", "For charter-fishing day trips to Two Harbors, call Afishinado Charters at 323/447-4669 or visit fishcatalina.com.", "Dine: The Harbor Reef Restaurant and the Harbor Reef Saloon serve fresh seafood entrées, steaks and unique cocktails.", "We recommend the signature Two Harbors \"Buffalo Milk\" -- a sweet (and strong) concoction of liqueurs, vodka and whipped cream; 310/510-4215.", "E-mail to a friend .", "Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .", "Copyright © Coastal Living, 2008 ." ]	[ "Two Harbors, on Catalina's west end, is much quieter than Avalon .", "Paddling tours visit secluded coves and mysterious caves .", "Free hiking permits allow visitors to wander the island at will ." ]	[ 6, 18 ]
[ "Editor's note: Ruben Navarrette is a nationally syndicated columnist and a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune.", "Read his column here.", "Ruben Navarrette asks whether Obama's cool, calm demeanor will be a plus in negotiating with world leaders.", "SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Make no mistake, Barack Obama is one cool customer.", "Now, after the last debate, it seems all but certain that the Iceman cometh to the White House.", "Radio talk show hosts and rank-and-file Republicans spent the last few weeks pleading with John McCain to take the gloves off and take the fight to Obama.", "How's that working out, folks?", "In this week's match-up, Obama snatched the gloves out of McCain's hands and slapped him silly with them.", "I suppose the hope was that Obama would get rattled and make a mistake.", "But Obama doesn't get rattled or make many mistakes.", "I still have no idea what type of president Obama would make.", "But he's an extraordinary politician.", "In fact, he may even be better than Bill Clinton who, while he had the IQ and EQ, also had the burden of a legendary red-hot temper.", "Obviously, it takes a lot to get under Obama's skin.", "McCain sure tried.", "Maybe this is the guy we want negotiating with world leaders.", "Maybe after eight years of George W. Bush stubbornness, on the heels of eight years of Clinton emotiveness, we need to send out for ice.", "In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, 58 percent of those who watched the debate said Obama did the better job and 31 percent said that about McCain.", "That makes three skins for Obama.", "In earlier polls, 54 percent of those who watched thought Obama won the second debate, and 51 percent thought he won the first one.", "This week, McCain turned in his best performance of the debates, and the first 30 minutes -- with McCain bringing up Obama's problematic encounter with the now famous Joe the Plumber; and the quip about how he isn't Bush and how Obama should have run four years ago -- were near flawless for the Republican.", "iReport.com: Are you Joe the Plumber?", "Get out your plunger and share your thoughts .", "McCain put Obama on the defensive, and it showed.", "If McCain had been that aggressive throughout the first two debates -- firm but not necessary unlikable -- we might be looking at a different race right now.", "But, over the next hour, Obama regained his stride and eventually dominated the exchange.", "And, in the end, with his sarcastic crack about school vouchers -- \"Because there's not enough vouchers; therefore, we shouldn't do it, even though it's working.", "I got it.\" -- McCain was profoundly unlikable.", "So said the polls.", "In the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, 70 percent of debate watchers found Obama more likable.", "Only 22 percent said that about McCain.", "McCain's supporters wanted him to bring up some of the allegedly shady characters from Obama's circle of acquaintances that give some Americans pause and lead them to question the Democrat's values.", "There are good reasons to have that conversation, and bad ones.", "A friend and fellow journalist told me Obama's Chicago posse was important because it formed \"the political womb where the fetal Obama grew into a politician.", "... That tells us who he is and what either he believes himself or is at least willing to tolerate as president.\"", "Frankly, that argument makes a lot more sense than what many of the Obama haters are saying about how these \"Friends of Barack\" prove he is a couple of flag pins short of being a full-blooded American.", "That's nonsense. For instance, with William Ayers -- the unrepentant domestic terrorist who Obama first claimed was just a guy who lived in his neighborhood but with whom we now know the Illinois senator had a more substantial relationship -- the issue isn't Obama's patriotism but his truthfulness.", "Still, it was obviously a mistake for McCain to bring up Ayers during the debate.", "The tactic backfired.", "In the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, 62 percent of debate watchers said Obama's connection to Ayers mattered to them \"not much\" or \"not at all.\"", "Only 23 percent said it mattered \"a great deal.\"", "McCain should leave it to the press to mine the question of whether Obama has been totally honest about his relationship with Ayers -- well, at least those in the press who haven't already sent in requests for tickets to the Barack Obama inaugural ball.", "As for McCain, he is an American hero who has given his life to public service, and the country is better for it.", "That record of service need not come to an end.", "He can still contribute and finish out his term in the Senate.", "But, unless the political wind changes -- and quickly -- a promotion to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue doesn't appear to be in the cards.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette." ]	[ "Ruben Navarrette: McCain tried to get under Obama's skin with attacks .", "Obama remained cool and wound up ending strongly in the debate, he says .", "Navarrette says Ayers attacks backfired even though issue is legitimate .", "America may need the cool-headedness of Barack Obama, he says ." ]	[ 2, 3, 7, 12, 13, 14, 38, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police have recovered two of the four Impressionist paintings stolen earlier this month in a daring museum heist, police in Zurich, Switzerland said Tuesday.", "Claude Monet's \"Poppies near Vetheuil\" has been recovered by Swiss police.", "The Monet and van Gogh oil paintings were in good condition, police said, and the search continued for the other two -- a Cezanne and a Degas.", "A parking lot attendant at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich found the paintings Monday afternoon in the back of an unlocked white car, police said.", "It was not clear how long the car, an Opel Omega with stolen license plates, had been parked on the lot, police said.", "\"The two paintings, worth about 70 million francs($64 million), are in good condition and are still protected by the original glass covering,\" police said in a statement.", "Three masked men stole the four paintings in what police called a \"spectacular\" heist Feb. 11 at the E.G.", "Buhrle Collection -- among the finest collections of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art in the world.", "One of the men threatened personnel at the museum's front door with a pistol and forced them to the ground, police said, while the other two men went into an exhibition room and stole four oil paintings by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh.", "Afterward, the three men loaded the paintings into a white car parked in front of the museum and then drove off, police said.", "The paintings recovered Monday are Monet's \"Poppies near Vetheuil\" and van Gogh's \"Blossoming Chestnut Branches.\"", "Still missing are Degas' \"Count Lepic and his Daughters\" and Cezanne's \"Boy in a Red Vest.\"", "The four paintings are worth a total of about $163 million (180 million Swiss francs).", "A reward of $91,000 (100,00 Swiss francs) has been posted for information leading to the return of the paintings, police said.", "A Zurich police task force, which includes an art expert, had received tips from around the world, police said.", "The task force was looking into possible connections with other art thefts inside Switzerland and abroad.", "The Zurich heist followed the recent theft in Switzerland of two paintings by Pablo Picasso, said Bjoern Quellenberg, a spokesman for the Kunsthaus, another major art museum in Zurich.", "The director of the Kunsthaus serves on the E.G.", "Buhrle private art foundation's council, Quellenberg said.", "In that theft, thieves stole the 1962 \"Tete de Cheval\" (\"Horse's Head\") and the 1944 \"Verre et Pichet\" (\"Glass and Pitcher\") by Picasso.", "They were on loan from a German museum and valued at $4.5 million when they were stolen February 6, according to news reports.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Police in Switzerland have recovered two artworks stolen earlier this month .", "Masterpieces stolen in Zurich art heist were worth $163 million .", "Haul included pieces by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Degas and Monet .", "The van Gogh and Monet were found, the Cezanne and Degas remain missing ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Editor's note: Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor at Columbia University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for his work on the economics of information and was on the climate change panel that shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008.", "Stiglitz, a supporter of Barack Obama, was a member and later chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration before joining the World Bank as chief economist and senior vice president.", "He is the co-author with Linda Bilmes of the \"Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict.\"", "Economist Joseph Stiglitz says federal regulators and executives helped create the Wall Street crisis.", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Many seem taken aback by the depth and severity of the current financial turmoil.", "I was among several economists who saw it coming and warned about the risks.", "There is ample blame to be shared; but the purpose of parsing out blame is to figure out how to make a recurrence less likely.", "President Bush famously said, a little while ago, that the problem is simple: Too many houses were built.", "Yes, but the answer is too simplistic: Why did that happen?", "One can say the Fed failed twice, both as a regulator and in the conduct of monetary policy.", "Its flood of liquidity (money made available to borrow at low interest rates) and lax regulations led to a housing bubble.", "When the bubble broke, the excessively leveraged loans made on the basis of overvalued assets went sour.", "For all the new-fangled financial instruments, this was just another one of those financial crises based on excess leverage, or borrowing, and a pyramid scheme.", "The new \"innovations\" simply hid the extent of systemic leverage and made the risks less transparent; it is these innovations that have made this collapse so much more dramatic than earlier financial crises.", "But one needs to push further: Why did the Fed fail?", "First, key regulators like Alan Greenspan didn't really believe in regulation; when the excesses of the financial system were noted, they called for self-regulation -- an oxymoron.", "Second, the macro-economy was in bad shape with the collapse of the tech bubble.", "The tax cut of 2001 was not designed to stimulate the economy but to give a largesse to the wealthy -- the group that had been doing so well over the last quarter-century.", "The coup d'grace was the Iraq War, which contributed to soaring oil prices.", "Money that used to be spent on American goods now got diverted abroad.", "The Fed took seriously its responsibility to keep the economy going.", "It did this by replacing the tech bubble with a new bubble, a housing bubble.", "Household savings plummeted to zero, to the lowest level since the Great Depression.", "It managed to sustain the economy, but the way it did it was shortsighted: America was living on borrowed money and borrowed time.", "Finally, at the center of blame must be the financial institutions themselves.", "They -- and even more their executives -- had incentives that were not well aligned with the needs of our economy and our society.", "They were amply rewarded, presumably for managing risk and allocating capital, which was supposed to improve the efficiency of the economy so much that it justified their generous compensation.", "But they misallocated capital; they mismanaged risk -- they created risk.", "They did what their incentive structures were designed to do: focusing on short-term profits and encouraging excessive risk-taking.", "This is not the first crisis in our financial system, not the first time that those who believe in free and unregulated markets have come running to the government for bail-outs.", "There is a pattern here, one that suggests deep systemic problems -- and a variety of solutions: .", "1. We need first to correct incentives for executives, reducing the scope for conflicts of interest and improving shareholder information about dilution in share value as a result of stock options.", "We should mitigate the incentives for excessive risk-taking and the short-term focus that has so long prevailed, for instance, by requiring bonuses to be paid on the basis of, say, five-year returns, rather than annual returns.", "2. Secondly, we need to create a financial product safety commission, to make sure that products bought and sold by banks, pension funds, etc.", "are safe for \"human consumption.\"", "Consenting adults should be given great freedom to do whatever they want, but that does not mean they should gamble with other people's money.", "Some may worry that this may stifle innovation.", "But that may be a good thing considering the kind of innovation we had -- attempting to subvert accounting and regulations.", "What we need is more innovation addressing the needs of ordinary Americans, so they can stay in their homes when economic conditions change.", "3. We need to create a financial systems stability commission to take an overview of the entire financial system, recognizing the interrelations among the various parts, and to prevent the excessive systemic leveraging that we have just experienced.", "4. We need to impose other regulations to improve the safety and soundness of our financial system, such as \"speed bumps\" to limit borrowing.", "Historically, rapid expansion of lending has been responsible for a large fraction of crises and this crisis is no exception.", "5. We need better consumer protection laws, including laws that prevent predatory lending.", "6. We need better competition laws.", "The financial institutions have been able to prey on consumers through credit cards partly because of the absence of competition.", "But even more importantly, we should not be in situations where a firm is \"too big to fail.\"", "If it is that big, it should be broken up.", "These reforms will not guarantee that we will not have another crisis.", "The ingenuity of those in the financial markets is impressive.", "Eventually, they will figure out how to circumvent whatever regulations are imposed.", "But these reforms will make another crisis of this kind less likely, and, should it occur, make it less severe than it otherwise would be.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Joseph Stiglitz: Fed pumped too much money, aiding housing bubble .", "New-fangled instruments hid overuse of borrowing, Stiglitz says .", "Executives followed short-term interests and magnified risks, he says .", "Stiglitz: Widespread changes needed to prevent future crises ." ]	[ 3, 10, 12 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. troops or contractors who commit \"major and premeditated murders\" in Iraq while off-duty and outside U.S. facilities would fall under Iraqi jurisdiction, according to a copy of a draft U.S.-Iraq agreement obtained by CNN.", "Shiite demonstrators protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact Saturday in Baghdad.", "All other crimes -- including murders committed inside U.S. facilities or by on-duty forces -- would fall under American jurisdiction, according to the draft, which would govern U.S. troops' presence in Iraq.", "The issue of whether U.S. troops would remain immune from Iraqi prosecution has been a sticky one for negotiators crafting the Status of Forces Agreement draft, which Iraqi lawmakers are reviewing.", "The United States had preferred its troops and contractors retain immunity.", "The draft also calls for U.S. combat troops to be out of Iraqi cities by July 30, 2009, and out of the country entirely by December 31, 2011.", "The agreement allows for an earlier withdrawal or an extension of the U.S. forces' stay in Iraq, by agreement of both parties.", "It also allows the Iraqi government to \"request from the United States government to leave certain forces for training and for support purposes for the Iraqi forces.\"", "The governments have been trying to get a deal before December 31, when a U.N. mandate authorizing the U.S. troop presence in Iraq expires.", "Iraq's ruling Shiite parliamentary bloc said Sunday it needs more time before it can approve the draft.", "The United Iraqi Alliance bloc found several \"points\" in the draft that \"need more time for discussion, dialogue and amendments [to] some of its articles,\" according to the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, the most powerful party in the bloc.", "It was unclear what specific \"points\" the parliamentary bloc was questioning.", "Thousands of people marched in central Baghdad on Saturday to protest the draft U.S.-Iraqi security agreement.", "The political party of Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the rally.", "Watch marchers protest the agreement » .", "Baghdad had sought the power to arrest and try Americans accused of crimes that are not related to official military operations, plus jurisdiction over troops and contractors who commit grave mistakes in the course of their duties.", "The United Iraqi Alliance on Sunday night discussed the draft, which was presented by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose Dawa Party is also a member of the ruling bloc.", "Iraq's Political Council for National Security needs to approve the draft before al-Maliki sends it to his cabinet.", "The council includes the leaders of various political blocs -- including the United Iraqi Alliance -- as well as Iraq's president, prime minister, vice presidents, and speaker of parliament.", "If the cabinet passes the draft by a two-thirds majority, al-Maliki will submit it to the Iraqi parliament for approval.", "A senior Bush administration official said last week that the U.S. is examining \"contingencies\" in case the Iraqi government is unable to sell the status-of-forces deal to the country's various factions.", "If Iraq does not approve the deal, fallback options include \"a new U.N. Security Council resolution legally authorizing the extension of the U.S. footprint\" or an \"informal agreement between the United States and the Iraqis,\" the official told CNN last week.", "The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions.", "Other points covered in the draft agreement include Iraqi ownership of \"all the buildings, facilities and structures that cannot be transported and are connected to the ground\" and used by American forces.", "Such facilities will be returned to Iraq when the agreement expires, it says.", "Further, the agreement requires the United States to immediately return to Iraq any \"historic or cultural site\" it discovers at facilities it is using.", "The agreement allows the United States to use whatever defensive systems it deems necessary in areas under its control.", "Yet it bars \"systems of weapons of mass destruction (chemical, nuclear, radiological, biological weapons and waste related to these weapons).\"", "The United States is to transfer control of Iraqi airspace to Iraq when the agreement goes into effect, although Iraq can ask for assistance for airspace control and surveillance.", "The agreement also covers environmental issues; the comings and goings of troops in and out of Iraq; movement of vehicles, planes and ships; and the movement of equipment in and out of Iraq.", "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is lobbying Iraqi leaders to pass the draft text of the agreement by the end of the year, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said last week." ]	[ "NEW: U.S.-Iraq draft: Troops committing murder in Iraq could face Iraqi prosecution .", "Iraq's ruling United Iraqi Alliance found several \"points\" needing more discussion .", "Ruling bloc did not make clear what issues they had regarding troop agreement ." ]	[ 0, 10 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thousands of people marched in central Baghdad on Saturday to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that would extend the presence of U.S. troops in the country after the end of the year.", "Thousands staged a mass march through Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday to protest a planned U.S.-Iraq security deal.", "The political party of Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the rally.", "At one point, several speakers at a podium addressed the mass of people, urging the Iraqi government to reject the proposal.", "\"End the U.S. occupation of Iraq!\"", "one speaker shouted in English.", "Hazem al-Araji, a senior al-Sadr aide, told protesters their voices would be heard in America.", "\"Thanks to you, to these voices and the millions of voices, George Bush will hear these millions of calls in his 'Black House' -- in which you shouted out, 'No, no, America!'\"", "he said. Watch protesters wave flags, swarm street » .", "\"This talk and these words are that of the leader, Muqtada al-Sadr: Baghdad is free, free!", "America, get out.", "This voice does not reach the Green Zone.", "We want to hear everyone who is occupied in that area saying Baghdad is free, free, America get out!\"", "al-Araji exclaimed.", "Protesters clogged several streets in the capital, waving Iraqi flags and kicking up dust.", "The demonstration, the largest in Baghdad in several months, was largely peaceful.", "Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said in Washington on Thursday a draft status-of-forces agreement authorizing the U.S. troop presence in Iraq had \"been agreed upon by U.S. and Iraqi negotiators\" and was being reviewed by the two governments.", "A U.N. mandate authorizing the U.S. troop presence in Iraq expires December 31, and U.S. officials are examining \"contingencies\" in case the Iraqi government is unable to sell the status-of-forces deal to the country's various factions, a senior Bush administration official said this week.", "The same official said negotiations on the pact had finished and the text was final.", "The official said the \"final\" draft calls for U.S. troops to be out of Iraqi cities by June 2009 and out of Iraq by the end of 2011 unless the Iraqis ask the United States to stay.", "The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions, said negotiators had also \"reached a compromise\" on the issue of U.S. troops remaining immune from Iraqi law -- an issue that was a major hurdle in the talks.", "Baghdad has sought the power to arrest and try Americans accused of crimes not related to official military operations, plus jurisdiction over troops and contractors who commit grave mistakes in the course of their duties.", "The United States has insisted its troops and contractors remain immune from Iraqi law.", "CNN State Department Producer Elise Labott contributed to this report." ]	[ "Proposed deal would extend U.S. troop presence in Iraq after end of the year .", "Thousands of protesters urged Iraqi government to reject the proposal .", "U.N. mandate authorizing U.S. troops in Iraq expires December 31 ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "DUNN, North Carolina (CNN) -- Barack Obama's campaign announced Sunday the Democratic presidential candidate raised $150 million in donations in September, setting a new high-water mark in campaign fundraising.", "Barack Obama calls a prospective voter from a headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday.", "In a campaign video, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said a record 632,000 new donors gave to the campaign, with the average contribution under $100.", "More than 3 million donors have given so far.", "The Obama campaign raised $65 million in August.", "Regardless of the stunning haul, Plouffe told supporters the campaign still needed more money because of \"the slime that we're getting from the McCain campaign.\"", "Plouffe cited recent attack ads and automated phone calls in battleground states and said the campaign needed to have every resource to \"fight back.\"", "\"Their campaign is going to descend even more into the gutter,\" he said.", "Plouffe also said the campaign was expanding its reach to compete \"aggressively\" in West Virginia.", "Tightening polls in Georgia and North Dakota meant more money and resources could be sent to those two states in the remaining days, he said.", "\"We can't afford to make any cuts.", "We have to execute everything we think is required to win,\" Plouffe said of their battleground strategy.", "\"None of us can look back on the night of November 4 or the morning of November 5 and wished we had done something extra.\"", "The McCain campaign accepted $85 million in federal matching funds for the last two months of the campaign.", "The Obama campaign opted out of the matching funds program and is free to raise and spend as much money as it can.", "CNN's Paul Steinhauser and Sasha Johnson contributed to this report." ]	[ "September amount is biggest monthly fundraising total for a presidential campaign .", "Obama campaign added 632,000 new donors in September .", "McCain accepted $85 million in federal funds for last two months of campaign ." ]	[ 0, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For a world-class shopping experience you should head to glitzy Ginza.", "As well as flagship fashion outlets, the area boasts one of the city's best department stores, Mitsukoshi (4-6-16 Chuo Dori).", "The real treat here, as at many Tokyo department stores, is the fantastic basement-level food hall (\"depachika\").", "For the complete Mitsukoshi experience, there's an ever bigger store in Nihombashi.", "The \"Electric Town\" of Akihabara is tech-head's heaven.", "Next door is Matsuya, another big department store, and while you're in the area don't miss the Sony Building (5-3-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku).", "Your inner games geek won't be able to resist the entire floor devoted to the PlayStation.", "If you've ever wondered where Tokyo teenagers buy their wacky cyber-goth manga-inspired attire, the answer is Takeshita-Dori, a narrow street in Harajuku.", "On Sundays the street fills with fashion-conscious teens, dressed to impress.", "For the less adventurous, but more discerning shopper, Harajuku's main thoroughfare, Omotesando is lined with elegant boutiques, including Louis Vuitton, Prada and Loveless (3-17-11 Minami-Aoyama).", "Looking unlike any shop you've seen before, Loveless has three floors of hip Japanese clothing and a basement decked out like the dungeon of some deranged medieval aristocrat.", "Harajuku is also home to six-floor Kiddy Land (6-1-9 Jingu-mae), one of the city's best toy stores, with a huge selection of Hello Kitty products.", "The area around Shibuya Station is a buzzing epicenter of shopping activity.", "Among its highlights are Tokyu Hands (Takashimaya Times Square, 5-24-2 Sendagaya), a department store that sells everything you could ever need, and plenty of stuff you had no idea even existed (electrically heated pilllows anyone?).", "A Bathing Ape (1 - Rise Bld.", "13-17 Udagawa-Cho) offers funky T-shirts and trainers in an art gallery-style space, and Mandarake (Shibuya Beam B2 31-2 Udagawacho) is the place to satisfy your manga cravings, should you have any.", "For more manga, and a glimpse into the future, you'll want to go to Akihabara.", "Also known as Electric Town, Akihabara is a district of electronics stores clad in illuminated signs.", "Visit after dark for the full \"Blade Runner\" experience.", "Yodobashi Camera sells everything from next generation cell phones to cameras that aren't yet available outside Japan.", "For something more sedate, Daikanyama is a refined area popular with in-the-know fashionistas, while Jimbocho is the city's used-book quarter.", "Marunouchi was once a drab business district but is fast becoming the city's hottest shopping area.", "Shin-Marunouchi (just opposite the Marunouchi exit of Tokyo Stations) is a huge building, with the lowest seven floors devoted to chic shopping.", "The basement \"depachika\" is a feast for foodies.", "Tokyo International Forum (5-1 Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku) is a vast space used for art exhibitions and as a concert hall.", "It also boasts excellent shopping and hosts a flea market every other Sunday.", "Where to stay \| What to see \| Where to be seen \| Where to eat \| Where to shop .", "...................... Do you agree with our Tokyo picks?", "Send us your comments and suggestions in the \"Sound Off\" box below and we'll print the best." ]	[ "Ginza offers world-class shopping - check out the food hall in Mitsukoshi .", "Takeshita-Dori is where teenagers pick up their \"cosplay\" costumes .", "Omotesando is lined with boutiques, including Louis Vuitton and Prada .", "Akihabara, or \"Electric Town,\" is the place to buy electronics and manga ." ]	[ 0, 7, 9, 17 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Space travel, security threats and increasing passenger numbers are forcing major changes in the way airports are designed.", "Elegant space: the interior of the proposed Virgin Galactic spaceport in New Mexico .", "In fact, when discussing the future of the airport it is now appropriate to consider both conventional air travel hubs we are familiar with, as well as the imminent 'spaceports'.", "The rush of interest in setting up 'space tourism' companies has seen proposed spaceport projects in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and California, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Florida, Virginia, Alaska and Wisconsin in the United States.", "Russia, Australia, Sweden and Portugal have also been rumored as potential spaceport locations.", "Meanwhile, the air travel industry is continuing to expand operations despite the challenges facing some airlines.", "And there are some radical new ideas being developed for future air and spaceports.", "See a picture gallery of futuristic airport and spaceport designs » .", "The adventurous views of Dave Evans, chief technologist at business solutions company Cisco Systems, highlight the types of changes we could soon see in airports and indeed the new features we may witness in spaceports.", "Speaking at a FAA/NASA/Industry Airport Planning Workshop in 2006, Evans suggested that pilots of the future could fly without hands and from the comfort of their own home (using brain-machine interfaces, in which the human brain actually exchanges electronic signals with a computer).", "He also said future airports would have virtual intelligence personnel to perform the jobs of many airport workers; and that people would be able to check-in remotely using a cell phone embedded with a RFID (radio frequency identification) chip.", "But what will these new airports and spaceports look like?", "Graeme Johns, who is an architect at British airport design company, The Design Solution, believes airports of the future will continue to expand, with bigger security and commercial areas.", "Johns, who is involved in projects in London (the new Heathrow T2 terminal), Delhi, Mumbai, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Oman, said many new airports were being more adventurous with designs.", "\"I think there is definitely a move towards more avant-garde designs.", "People are trying to do things more site-specific rather than keeping to the same old formula.", "\"Definitely in the Middle East they throw everything at it, also in the Far East there are some large developments.", "They are all vying for transit passages,\" he said.", "Johns said one of the biggest challenges was balancing commercial space with operational space.", "\"There's lots of pressure to make larger security areas ... but a big thing for us is trying to move up the commercial side of airports.\"", "Future airports would likely include a better range of shops, he said.", "\"We are definitely looking at broadening the offering of shops and bringing in things that haven't traditionally been in airports,\" John said.", "If all of this isn't exciting enough for you -- then of course there are spaceports.", "Internationally renowned design company Foster and Partners won a competition to build Virgin Galactic's spaceport in New Mexico.", "Company founder Lord Norman Foster said the project was one of the most exciting and futuristic he had been involved in .", "\"This technically complex building will not only provide a dramatic experience for the astronauts and visitors, but will set an ecologically sound model for future spaceport facilities.\"", "And what will this magnificent new structure include?", "A tunneled entrance, a 'super-hangar' for the space-craft, and retaining walls that form an exhibition documenting the history of space exploration alongside the story of the region, are just some of the features.", "So whether or not you have the money to make the space flight, Virgin Galactic's spaceport is going to be a place well worth visiting." ]	[ "Airports are likely to see bigger security and commercial areas in future .", "Foster and Partners is building a spaceport in New Mexico for Virgin Galactic .", "The Middle East and Far East are creating the most futuristic new airports ." ]	[ 6, 12, 16, 23 ]
[ "JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin charged into the culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a radical on abortion rights.", "Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Saturday.", "The stop comes amid news that Palin violated Alaska ethics law by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator's report for the bipartisan Legislative Council concluded Friday.", "Ethics woes aside, Palin focused her attention on abortion -- an issue that rallies the conservative base but some say alienates independent and women voters.", "\"In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may be easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life, and it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that,\" Palin told a crowd in Johnstown.", "\"He hopes that you won't notice how radical, absolutely radical his idea is on this, and his record is, until it's too late.\"", "Palin has mostly avoided raising her opposition to abortion rights on the campaign trail since she was tapped as Sen. John McCain's running mate, a fact she readily acknowledged in her remarks.", "Watch more of Palin's views on abortion » .", "But Palin said Obama's record on the matter is too extreme to be ignored, and she spent 10 minutes of her 30-minute speech discussing abortion.", "\"A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for activist courts that will continue to smother the open and democratic debate that we deserve and that we need on this issue of life,\" she said.", "\"Obama is a politician who has long since left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life.\"", "Obama opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade and disagreed with Supreme Court ruling to uphold the \"Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.\"", "He did not cast a vote on Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007.", "Palin opposes abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, except when a mother's life is in danger, and said she believes Roe v. Wade should be overturned and the decision given to the states.", "McCain voted for the Prohibit Partial Birth Abortion bill in 2003 and \"yes\" for Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007.", "He believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and also supports the Supreme Court ruling upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.", "Palin also talked about a remark Obama made about sex education while campaigning in Johnstown in March, when he told a voter he didn't want his daughters \"punished with a baby\" or \"punished with an STD\" if they were not educated about sex and made a mistake.", "\"So I listened when our opponent defended his unconditional support for unlimited abortions and he said he said that a woman shouldn't have to be 'Punished with a baby,' \" Palin said as the audience jeered at Obama.", "\"Ladies and gentlemen, he said that right here in Johnstown.", "'Punished with a baby.'", "It's about time we called him on it.\"", "Obama is also in Pennsylvania Saturday -- campaigning in the heavily Democratic city of Philadelphia.", "During his four-stop swing around the city, Obama acknowledged McCain's efforts to \"tone down the rhetoric\" on the campaign trail.", "\"I appreciated his reminder that we can disagree while still being respectful of each other.", "I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- Sen. McCain has served this country with honor, and he deserves our thanks for that,\" Obama told an early morning crowd assembled in the northern part of the city.", "Watch more of Obama's comments » .", "Ever since last weekend, when Palin first accused Obama of \"palling around with a terrorist,\" referring to 1960s radical William Ayers, rowdy crowds have called Obama a liar, terrorist and worse.", "At an event Friday in Lakeville, Minnesota, McCain referred to Obama as a \"decent person\" and praised him as a \"family man\" after two voters expressed fear over Obama being elected.", "Watch McCain tell voters not to be afraid of Obama » .", "But the Arizona senator was met by a sea of boos when asking the crowd to be more respectful toward Obama.", "When the crowd began to boo, McCain told them \"No, no.", "I want everyone to be respectful.\"", "Obama later dispensed with polite talk and pivoted to his main campaign trail argument that McCain is out of touch on the economy.", "\"Sen. McCain's campaign manager actually said that Sen. McCain wasn't talking about the market because there's just not much a candidate for president can say -- and they aren't sure what he'd say each day even if he did talk about it,\" Obama said.", "\"But here's the thing Philadelphia.", "They can run misleading ads, and pursue the politics of anything goes, they can try to change the subject.", "They can do that what they want to do because the American people understand what's going on -- but it's not going to work.", "Not this time.\" CNN's Peter Hamby, Ed Hornick and Sasha Johnson contributed to this report." ]	[ "Sarah Palin, Barack Obama both campaign Saturday in Pennsylvania .", "Palin hammers Obama on the abortion issue in Johnstown .", "Obama acknowledges McCain's efforts to \"tone down the rhetoric\"" ]	[ 1, 3, 24 ]
[ "BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- A Thai court has found deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra guilty of corruption, and sentenced him in absentia to two years imprisonment.", "Thaksin Shinawatra lives in self-imposed exile in London.", "The case stemmed from a Bangkok land deal while Thaksin was in office.", "He was convicted of violating a law that bans ministers or their wives from conducting business with government agencies.", "Thaksin, who now lives in the United Kingdom, is unlikely to serve any jail time.", "He fled from Thailand in August just as he was to appear in court.", "In the land deal, Thaksin's wife, Pojama, is accused of using her husband's political influence to buy undeveloped land from a government agency for about a third of its estimated value.", "Watch more about the verdict » .", "The case is one of several corruption cases against Thaksin and his family that are winding their way through the legal system.", "The billionaire is accused of abusing the country's system of checks and balances and bending government policy to benefit his family's business.", "Thaksin has consistently denied that he or his family was involved in any wrongdoing.", "In August, Thaksin and his wife skipped a court appearance and fled to the United Kingdom rather than testify in the real-estate case.", "He said he did so because he did not think he would get a fair trial in Thailand.", "Thaksin, a telecommunications tycoon, once owned the English Premier League Manchester City Football Club but sold his stake this year.", "His party won two landslide victories before he was deposed in a bloodless military coup in September 2006 after massive anti-government street protests.", "He returned to Thailand after his allies in the People Power Party won nearly half the seats in the lower house in December's parliamentary elections and formed the ruling coalition.", "In recent weeks, the country has seen daily demonstrations from anti-government protesters who want PPP leaders purged from the Cabinet.", "They have laid siege to the Government House -- the seat of the Thai government -- since August 26.", "The protesters -- led by the People's Alliance for Democracy -- contend that the PPP is trying to amend the constitution so Thaksin does not have to face charges.", "In September, Thailand's Constitutional Court stripped then-Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej of his position, ruling that he had violated the constitution by appearing as a paid guest on a television cooking show.", "The PPP responded by picking Thaksin's brother-in-law as Samak's replacement -- further inflaming the protesters.", "CNN's Dan Rivers contributed to this report." ]	[ "Ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra convicted of corruption, sentenced to jail .", "Court rules Thaksin facilitated wife's purchase of Bangkok real estate in 2003 .", "Thaksin, who lives in exile in UK, unlikely to serve time in jail ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Eight people were killed and 101 were wounded in two explosions during a celebration of Mexico's independence day Monday night, a Mexican official said Tuesday.", "Wounded people get help after blasts Monday night during an independence day event in Morelia, Mexico.", "Two people remained in grave condition, said Roman Armando Luna Escalante, secretary of health in Michoacan state.", "Eleven of the wounded were children, Luna Escalante said.", "None of them are gravely injured.", "The explosions occurred around 11 p.m. near the governor's residence in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.", "The second blast happened shortly afterward a few blocks away.", "Officials would not say if they have any suspects or if any group has claimed responsibility.", "Some experts pointed to drug cartels or insurgents.", "\"It could be a warning to the federal government, which has put a lot of money and manpower to deal with drugs, which are very powerful there,\" said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank on Western Hemisphere affairs.", "\"It could be leftist guerrilla groups that occasionally throw a bomb.", "\"The problem is that this is part of a real wave of violence that is consuming Mexico.\"", "Last week the bodies of 24 people, bound and shot execution-style, were found in Atlapulco, a town just south of Mexico City.", "Those killings Friday came roughly two weeks after tens of thousands of Mexicans marched on the nation's capital, calling for greater government action against the wave of violent crime.", "Non-governmental groups estimate there have been more than 1,500 killings in Mexico this year linked to organized crime.", "In late August, Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors to develop a plan to battle the rise in violent crime.", "Calderon, who was born in Morelia, condemned the attacks and said federal officials will redouble efforts to help state authorities investigate.", "More than 1,500 soldiers and federal police were maintaining order Tuesday, which marks the 198th anniversary of what Mexicans regard as their independence day.", "Festivities typically start the night before because on September 16, 1810, shortly before dawn, a priest in a village in the state of Guanajuato rang a church bell and called on Mexicans to fight for independence from Spain.", "The celebration in Morelia on Monday night was one of hundreds nationwide to celebrate that call for independence, which Mexico formally achieved in 1821." ]	[ "NEW: Death toll rises to eight in two blasts, official says; more than 100 wounded .", "NEW: Mexican president says federal officials will help investigate .", "Explosions occurred during independence day celebration in Morelia ." ]	[ 0, 1, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Thousands of people turned out Saturday in the southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt for the funeral of politician Joerg Haider, a popular but polarizing figure who led right-wing Austrian politics for decades.", "Harald Scheucher, mayor of Klagenfurt, speaks in front of the coffin of Joerg Haider Saturday.", "Among those attending the service at the town's central Neuen Platz square were Austrian President Heinz Fischer and Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer.", "Haider's widow sat in the front row with her two daughters, all of them dressed in black.", "\"Many people expected things of Joerg Haider that they themselves weren't able to fulfill, and he too expected things of people that he wasn't able to fulfill,\" Gusenbauer said at the funeral.", "\"Therefore his death, and the end of his life, may be a time to think about whether death's only consolation is that we can now reconcile things that seemed irreconcilable during his lifetime.\"", "Haider's coffin was draped in the yellow, red and white flag of the southern state of Carinthia, where he was governor, and topped with red roses.", "Haider, 58, died last Saturday in a car accident while driving out of Klagenfurt, the state capital.", "He had just passed another car on a highway when his car hit a concrete post and rolled over several times, police said.", "His spokesman said this week that Haider was drunk at the time of the crash.", "Besides being Carinthia's governor, Haider was also head of the right-wing BZO party (Alliance for the Future of Austria), which he founded in 2005 after years with the conservative Freedom Party.", "Haider came to prominence in 1986, when he became head of the Freedom Party while still in his 30s.", "A politician who projected youth and style, Haider appealed to many working-class Austrians, promising to cut their taxes and give money to those with children.", "Some older Austrians responded to his demands for strict law and order.", "But he drew widespread criticism both at home and abroad for his anti-immigrant stance and remarks considered anti-Semitic, and in 1991 he publicly praised Nazi Germany's employment policy.", "Asked in 2000 about the statement, Haider told CNN the quote was taken from a long speech and that he never praised the Third Reich.", "He called the remarks a mistake and publicly denounced Nazism.", "But Haider continued to draw attention for his controversial remarks.", "They included an address to veterans of the Waffen S.S., Adolf Hitler's elite soldiers, in which he praised their character.", "The address created an uproar after it was broadcast on German television.", "Haider said he had simply been speaking to elderly citizens of Carinthia who included some former Waffen S.S. members.", "Despite the controversy, Haider said he was not racist: \"You will not find any anti-Semitic position in our party program, and you will not find any anti-Semitic speech or statement by me.\"", "The policies of the Freedom Party drew international attention during the elections in 1999.", "Party campaign posters urged voters to stop the flood of immigration and used the term \"over-foreignization,\" the same word used by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1933 to criticize what he called Jewish influence in Germany.", "Haider told CNN he favored restricting immigration simply because of Austria's small size, but that he wanted to keep an open border for refugees.", "It was his family background, Haider said, that kept singling him out for criticism.", "Haider's parents were activists in the Nazi Party long before Austrian-born Hitler annexed Austria to Germany in 1938.", "Haider's father, Robert, volunteered for the S.A., the notorious brown shirts who terrorized Jews and others before the war.", "He then served in the German army.", "His biographer, Melanie Sully, said Haider felt a strong sense of loyalty to his parents and those in the war generation.", "\"He feels that what they sacrificed after the war in rebuilding Austria in very difficult circumstances needs to be honored and that they weren't all criminals,\" Sully told CNN in 2000.", "Under Haider's leadership, the Freedom Party made a strong showing in the 1999 elections, winning 27 percent of the vote and shaking up the traditional two-party system that had ruled Austria since World War II.", "When the two main parties in that election failed to agree on forming a government together, the Freedom Party was invited to share power.", "Haider retired as party leader after that but remained governor of Carinthia.", "When Haider formed the BZO party three years ago, he took with him a number of Freedom Party lawmakers.", "Haider was credited with helping the BZO make significant gains in last month's general elections alongside the Freedom Party, though Austria's two largest parties, the Social Democrats and the People's Party, came out on top.", "The vote reflected reflected public dissatisfaction with the two largest parties as well as support for the social populism, anti-European Union and anti-immigrant rhetoric of the BZO and Freedom Party.", "southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt ." ]	[ "Thousands attend the funeral of right-wing politician Joerg Haider in Austria .", "Chancellor: Many people expected things of Haider they themselves could not fulfill .", "Haider died last Saturday in a car accident, spokesman confirms he was drunk .", "Haider drew support from many but criticized for his praise of some Nazi policies ." ]	[ 0, 4, 7, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The discovery of millions of extra ballots proves that President Robert Mugabe intends to rig next week's elections in his favor, Zimbabwe's main opposition party said Sunday.", "President Robert Mugabe gestures during a pre-election rally in Harare on Saturday.", "Tendai Biti, secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change, said that leaked correspondence from the election commission showed it had asked the company that is printing paper ballots to make 9 million.", "However, the African country has an electorate of 5.7 million registered voters, he said.", "Also, 600,000 postal paper ballots were requested for soldiers and police officers, Biti said.", "Postal ballots are usually requested for civil servants serving abroad, and the total number of soldiers and police in Zimbabwe add up to no more than 50,000, he said.", "\"Remember, when they stole this election away from us the last time, they stole it with 350,000 votes,\" Biti said.", "\"Six hundred thousand is double insurance.", "They cannot win a free and fair election in this country.\"", "The elections are slated for Saturday.", "Mugabe survived a hotly contested presidential challenge from MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in 2002 amid widespread accusations of vote rigging.", "The president's other challenger this time is former Finance Minister Simba Makoni, who recently announced his bid to unseat Mugabe and was promptly booted out of the ruling party.", "Last week, New York-based Human Rights Watch raised doubts about the elections, saying it was likely to be \"deeply flawed.\"", "\"As the elections near, all indications are that once again the people of Zimbabwe will not be able to freely exercise their civil and political rights and vote for the candidates of their choice,\" the nongovernmental organization said in a 48-page report.", "The elections are expected to provide Mugabe with the toughest challenge yet in his nearly 28 years of rule.", "The report said the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission was partisan toward the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and had neither the expertise nor the resources to run the elections properly.", "Watch Mugabe threaten to expel companies under British rule. ...", "That report brought derision from a Zimbabwean official.", "\"What qualifies them to do what they're doing -- policing the world and Africa in particular?\"", "asked Wilbert Gwashavanhu, political consul at Zimbabwe's embassy in Washington.", "\"Why don't they go to America and oversee how America holds its own elections?\"", "he said. \"Come on, give me a break!", "You can't judge the elections before they are held.\"", "No matter the final outcome of the election, the international community may never find out whether the vote proved to be free and fair.", "Independent news organizations are banned from Zimbabwe, and there are no credible monitors in place.", "Since 1980, the 84-year-old Mugabe has been the country's only ruler.", "But his odds of winning this time may be handicapped by Zimbabwe's dire economic situation.", "The rate of inflation reported in January was 100,000 percent, and food and fuel are in short supply, the Human Rights Watch document said.", "With more than three in four Zimbabweans unemployed, few could afford such food and fuel anyway.", "The country's downward economic spiral began in 2000, when Mugabe sanctioned the violent seizure of commercial farms, turning some of the land over to insiders and cronies.", "For his part, Mugabe remains defiant, blaming his country's economic woes on the West.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report." ]	[ "Zimbabwe's main opposition party says millions of extra ballot papers printed .", "Movement for Democratic Change secretary suspects elections will be rigged .", "President Robert Mugabe expected to face toughest challenge yet Saturday .", "Mugabe, 84, has ruled the African country for nearly 28 years ." ]	[ 0, 9, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Gas prices across the Southeast and Midwest soared over the weekend, and while many would blame Hurricane Ike, human nature may be a more likely scapegoat.", "iReporter Stacy Haynes said this Harriman, Tennessee, station was selling regular gas at $5.09 a gallon Saturday.", "Experts say that when a perception exists that gas is limited -- warranted or not -- consumers flock to the pumps even if officials implore them to stay calm.", "It's a combination of fear, desire, distrust and protectionism, experts say.", "\"When you have a perceived scarcity of any product, research shows the attractiveness of that product goes up,\" said Dr. Rao Unnava, marketing professor at Ohio State University.", "Grocery and department stores are keenly aware of the phenomenon, Unnava said, which is why sale flyers often declare things like, \"limit three items per customer\" or \"price valid only through Friday.\"", "Research shows that such advertisements can actually double or triple sales of a product, Unnava said.", "\"People don't feel comfortable with scarcity,\" he said.", "With gasoline, scarcity is a false perception, Unnava said.", "There is ample gas in the United States, even after Ike delivered 110-mph winds to Galveston and Houston, an area that's home to a significant portion of the nation's oil refineries.", "Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that Texas' oil and gas industry \"dodged a bullet\" and that \"some of those refineries are actually back in operation as we speak.\"", "This isn't to say human nature alone drove the spike in gas prices; the oil market's supply side certainly played its part.", "Refineries, pipeline and oil platforms are still being assessed after Ike, but the damage apparently isn't as severe as predicted, said Gregg Laskoski, spokesman for the southern region of the American Automobile Association.", "Despite the rosier-than-expected outlook, prices spiked all over the nation after Ike struck the Gulf Coast -- about 6 cents a gallon Saturday, another 6 cents Sunday and about 5 cents Monday.", "Particularly hard hit was the central and eastern United States.", "From Sunday to Monday alone, 23 states saw the average price of gas jump about a nickel or more a gallon, according to AAA.", "iReport.com: Send, see photos of gas prices .", "In Tennessee, the price jumped about 17 cents to $4.12 Monday.", "In Georgia, the price climbed about 14 cents to $4.16.", "Michigan saw an almost 13-cent increase, and Indiana's gas went up 12 cents a gallon.", "See gas prices state by state » .", "Several factors drive these fluctuations, Laskoski said, including the method in which gasoline is delivered to a state.", "In Florida, he said, the price went up nominally (about 5 cents) from Sunday to Monday because the Sunshine State relies more heavily on gas shipped on boats out of Louisiana and Mississippi, he said.", "Though Georgia abuts Florida, it doesn't have as many ports and relies more on tanker trucks to deliver gas from the Galveston-Houston area, Laskoski said.", "Hear how man ran out of fuel looking for gas in Atlanta, Georgia » .", "Another factor, Laskoski said, is that Ike prompted many oil companies to shut down operations ahead of the storm.", "It could take up to two weeks to get some refineries operational again because it's not as simple as flipping a switch, he said.", "The hiatus in oil production has ripple effects, and retailers often raise prices in anticipation of gas shortages.", "Gas station owners earn only a few pennies of profit on each gallon of gas, Laskoski said, explaining that proprietors essentially use gas to lure consumers into convenience stores to buy cigarettes, beer and potato chips -- items that draw better profits.", "When supply is low and retailers are uncertain when they'll receive their next gas shipment, some proprietors actually raise their gas prices so they can keep their gas supply longer and maintain profits from their snacks and sundries.", "But while diminished refinery capacity helps drive prices upward, there is also an element of \"consumer behavior that goes beyond the norm,\" Laskoski said.", "\"When you have consumer behavior that's irrational, it's hard for retailers to schedule it,\" he said.", "Dr. Lars Perner, assistant professor of clinical marketing at the University of Southern California, said natural disasters often spawn irrational behavior.", "The media can also compound fears, he said.", "\"As soon as somebody starts running for the gas pumps, that's where the TV cameras go, so it does become a vicious cycle,\" Perner said.", "Even though everyone would be better off if consumers continued their normal patterns, people don't always trust their neighbors to cooperate.", "This is especially true with an \"emotional commodity\" like gas, Perner said.", "\"Because you can't count on other people doing that, your best bet is to go ahead and fill up yourself,\" he said.", "\"If people get excited, rationality tends to be reduced somewhat.\"", "Perner and Ohio State's Unnava both note that consumers are often reluctant to trust government officials so an appeal to remain calm might be met with suspicion rather than acquiescence.", "Memories -- whether they're of the calamitous response after Hurricane Katrina or of the gas shortages of the 1970s -- also play roles in a consumer's reaction to an event, the professors said.", "According to Unnava, \"It's all perception -- what you conclude from what you see around you -- that quickly sets up these behaviors.\"" ]	[ "Perception of limited gas sends more people to the pumps, experts say .", "Gas prices spiked across the nation after Hurricane Ike hit Gulf Coast .", "Reduced supply after storm plays part, but so does consumer rush .", "Professor: Consumers' fears, TV coverage lead to \"a vicious cycle\"" ]	[ 2, 13, 34, 38 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- There are few things in the world shrouded with as much secrecy as the super-yacht industry.", "Maritime mysteries: the design and building processes for super-yachts are tightly guarded secrets.", "The boats are built and kept in exclusive locations, they're owned by the notoriously inaccessible super-wealthy, and for most of us the closest we'll get to them is in the pages of glossy magazines.", "In a bid to gain a stronger insight into the super-yacht world I've organised an interview with Dr William Collier, the owner of Liverpool's G.L.", "Watson & Co - the oldest yacht design company in the world.", "The company formed in 1873 and in its time has produced four America's Cup yachts and more presidential and royal yachts than any other yacht designer.", "It seems the logical business to profile.", "But, there's a catch. In this industry 'loose lips' really do 'sink ships'... or at least destroy business, anyway.", "Collier can't tell me anything about the projects the company is working on, the people he's working for, or how much these ocean-going beasts cost to produce.", "\"We enter into very strict confidentiality agreements with our clients.", "We find it frustrating at times because we would like to approach people about doing a project because we have done a similar project - but we can't mention it.", "\"These guys can get into the press whenever they want.", "Unfortunately in the United Kingdom due to the nature of the press they have nothing to gain from having their personal property displayed for all to see,\" Collier told CNN.", "And when most of G.L. Watson & Co's business comes from client referrals, the company is wise not to jeopardize confidentiality agreements.", "Collier confirmed the company would have less than 100 clients on its books and it tries to manage several projects on differing scales at the one time.", "He said a usual workload was to have one 200-feet plus project, one around 100-150 feet and a few smaller projects on the go simultaneously.", "The 'smaller' vessels Collier refers to are often in the range of 60-80 feet long.", "Just tiny. Though Collier declines to comment on the net worth of his clients, I infer from the discussion that most of them are multi-millionaires, if not billionaires.", "This is certainly not a place for someone with shallow pockets.", "He said the current 'credit crunch' hitting many consumers was unlikely to have too much impact on his business.", "\"They would be generally insulated from that.", "Budget is always an issue for people but that is more because people don't like change.", "A lot of what we do is to protect the client's interests - to make sure they don't pay too much,\" he said.", "Collier said the company had two major strands: design and owner representation.", "While the first aspect is self-explanatory, the second involves the full management of entire building or restoration projects from the owner's point of view.", "The full process of building or restoring a boat usually took between three to five years and became quite an intimate affair, he said.", "\"We have a very close relationship with the clients.", "Inevitably because we are designing someone's ideal home we are finding out a lot about them and what they like and don't like.", "You get to know them very well.\"", "However, it's not all fairytales.", "The privileged position his job places him in also has its downfalls.", "\"Anyone who says these things go smoothly is lying,\" he laughed.", "Collier said although he had not experienced any disappointed clients, he had heard of cases where multi-million dollar vessels had not been to the satisfaction of the buyer.", "After buying the company in 2001 at a time when he had been personally working towards restoring a G.L.", "Watson & Co original, Collier -- a passionate sailor himself, said the market was changing.", "The company worked on both sailing and motor-powered yachts, and he said it was going back to the future in some respects.", "\"The company originally came very much out of a racing sailing design.", "From the 1880s it became more involved in cruise yacht design.", "What we are doing now is getting back into that big yacht market.\"", "He said there was a trend towards creating replicas or restorations with as many of the original materials as possible.", "\"People for many years have been restoring sailing yachts and in many instances they tend not to use original materials.", "But, people are becoming more educated in this market.", "\"Now, if people are going to do something in this market they want to do something special, something worthwhile,\" he said.", "One of the projects which Collier does detail is the Nahlin, a 296-foot 1930s G.L.", "Watson & Co original, which is set for restoration.", "After being returned to British waters only in 1999, Collier said the vessel would have a complete overhaul based on the company's archives of the original design, and it would become the \"biggest restoration project ever\".", "Collier said the company also planned to expand the range of services it provides to clients.", "Although there's plenty to look forward to at G.L.", "Watson & Co and business is flourishing -- Collier drops in a strong reminder that the job of pleasing wealthy clients does not open the door to excessive levels of wealth for himself.", "\"We are not yacht owners - we don't own these.", "We are here to produce them for orders.\"", "In fact, for one of the most glamorous industries in the world, Collier said there was plenty of hard graft done behind-the-scenes, and for him, a lot of travel to and from his Liverpool base.", "\"We don't always need to be in the Mediterranean!", "The lifestyle isn't always attractive.\"" ]	[ "G.L.", "Watson & Co. is the oldest yacht design company in the world .", "The company is bound to tight confidentiality agreements about its projects .", "The restoration of 1930s vessel 'Nahlin' will be the biggest of its kind .", "Most yachts take three-to-five years to complete ." ]	[ 4, 13, 43 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Police have launched an investigation after a young disabled sportsman traveled to Switzerland to commit suicide, UK media report.", "Daniel James, who played rugby for England under-16s, was paralyzed during match practice last year.", "Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England was paralyzed from the chest down in March 2007 when a rugby scrum collapsed on top of him during match practice, dislocating his spine, the UK's Press Association has reported.", "Worcestershire Coroner's Service, which is conducing an inquest into the circumstances of his death, states on its Web site that James died on September 12 after he \"traveled to Switzerland with a view to ending his own life.", "He was admitted to a clinic where he died.\"", "The inquest was adjourned on September 19 for reports.", "West Mercia police say that a man and a woman are helping the force with their enquiries.", "Assisting someone to commit suicide is illegal in the UK, as it is in most other European countries.", "What do you think of assisted suicide?", "James, who played rugby for England under-16s, was a university student at the time of his injury last year.", "He is believed to be the youngest person from the UK to have traveled to Switzerland to commit suicide.", "In a statement Friday, reported by PA, James' parents said that he had attempted to kill himself several times already.", "Watch why James opted for suicide » .", "\"His death was an extremely sad loss for his family, friends and all those that care for him but no doubt a welcome relief from the 'prison' he felt his body had become and the day-to-day fear and loathing of his living existence, as a result of which he took his own life.", "\"This is the last way that the family wanted Dan's life to end but he was, as those who know him are aware, an intelligent, strong-willed and some say determined young man,\" PA reported James' parents as saying.", "\"The family suffered considerably over the last few months and do wish to be left in peace to allow them to grieve appropriately.\"", "James' parents added that their son, \"an intelligent young man of sound mind,\" had never come to terms with his condition and was \"not prepared to live what he felt was a second-class existence\".", "Adrian Harling, the family solicitor, would not comment on the investigation, PA reported.", "More than 100 people from the UK who have committed suicide in Switzerland have traveled to the Dignitas Clinic in Forch.", "It is not known if James attended the clinic.", "Switzerland, along with Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, are the only European countries where authorities will not prosecute those who assist with suicide." ]	[ "Young rugby player, paralyzed after accident, commits suicide in Switzerland .", "Police interview man and woman about the death of Daniel James, 23 .", "It is illegal in UK and much of Europe to assist with suicide .", "Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg ." ]	[ 0, 1, 7, 8, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An animal rescue group on Sunday picked up a U.S. soldier's adopted dog from Iraq, ending the soldier's weeks-long struggle to send the animal to her Minnesota home.", "Sgt. Gwen Beberg adopted Ratchet after soldiers rescued him from a burning pile of trash in May.", "Operation Baghdad Pups, which said the U.S. military prevented its first attempt to take Ratchet the dog on October 1, picked up the animal in Baghdad with military clearance and flew it to Kuwait on Sunday.", "The dog is expected to be flown to Washington on Monday, and if a veterinarian determines it is healthy, sent to Sgt.", "Gwen Beberg's home state on Wednesday, Baghdad Pups publicist Larry Garrison said.", "Beberg, who adopted the dog after soldiers rescued it from a burning trash pile in May, tried to have the group fly Ratchet to the United States on October 1 as her deployment neared an end.", "But the military, which prohibits soldiers from adopting pets abroad and bringing them to the United States, confiscated the animal after Beberg put it on a convoy bound for Baghdad Airport, according to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which runs OBP.", "Ratchet and Beberg, 28, drew the attention of thousands of people who signed two online petitions -- linked through the SPCA's Web site -- urging the military to let Ratchet go to the United States.", "The military cleared OBP to take Ratchet on Wednesday, but not in time for the group's flight from Baghdad that day, the SPCA said.", "On Sunday, private security contractors took Ratchet from a base to the airport, where OBP -- which works with soldiers to help them bring adopted animals home -- put Ratchet on the charter flight to Kuwait, Garrison said.", "Northwest Airlines will donate the flights from Kuwait to Minnesota, Garrison said.", "The SPCA said Ratchet helped Beberg deal with her Iraq deployment, which started in September 2007 and is scheduled to end in November.", "\"She was absolutely miserable in the war and was really struggling to keep going every day.", "Ratchet turned it around for her,\" SPCA spokeswoman Stephanie Scroggs said last week.", "Beberg's mother, Patricia Beberg, in a statement released by the SPCA, said Ratchet \"was the savior of her [daughter's] sanity\" in Iraq.", "SPCA representatives said the military euthanizes some animals that it confiscates, and that Gwen Beberg worried that Ratchet would be killed.", "Beberg was thrilled to hear last week that the military would let OBP take Ratchet, the SPCA said.", "\"Your persistence and amazing work has astonished me throughout this whole thing,\" Gwen Beberg said in an e-mail to the SPCA, according to the society.", "Scroggs said one of Beberg's friends helped spread the news about Ratchet through blogs.", "One of the petitions, which had more than 65,000 signatures as of Sunday night, was started by a blogger, Scroggs said.", "The SPCA says although active-duty soldiers aren't allowed to adopt animals in the Middle East, many soldiers befriend animals in the course of their service there.", "Garrison said the program relies on donations, saying it generally costs $3,000 to $4,000 to bring a servicemember's animal to the United States.", "\"This isn't a one-time story This is a program making a difference for our soldiers,\" Garrison said." ]	[ "U.S. soldier adopted dog in Iraq; military prohibits such adoption .", "Military took dog during soldier's first attempt to send it home, group says .", "Dog helped soldier cope with her deployment, group says .", "Animal could be in Minnesota by Wednesday ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Negative attacks are as American as apple pie.", "Since the early days of the republic, candidates attacked with a vigor that contemporary strategists would admire.", "In the 1800 presidential election, for example, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams criticized one another with a stunning ferocity on everything from foreign and domestic policy to private character and personal behavior.", "Later campaigns weren't much better.", "Critics of Andrew Jackson in 1836 accused him of murdering Indians.", "In 1884, Grover Cleveland was ridiculed for fathering an illegitimate child.", "William Jennings Bryan was characterized as a dangerous radical in 1896 who would ruin the economy.", "Despite these historical precedents, the 2008 campaign has reached all-time lows in the use of misleading and inaccurate political appeals.", "Even Karl Rove, the architect of negative ads in previous campaigns, has complained about the tenor of this year's campaign.", "John McCain broadcast an ad taking Barack Obama's words out of context and suggesting Democrats were trying to compare GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to a pig.", "The McCain campaign ran another spot erroneously claiming Obama favored comprehensive sex education for kindergarteners.", "Democrats have not been above reproach either.", "After McCain secured the GOP nomination this spring, outside groups falsely claimed the Republican supported a 1,000-year war in Iraq and therefore was not worthy of the presidency.", "These misleading appeals suggest voters must remain vigilant about candidate, party, and group claims.", "Generally, the most misleading commercials have come from independent groups uncoordinated with the candidates.", "These organizations feel free to run emotional and inaccurate content designed to play on voter's fears and anxieties.", "Some of the worst ads in recent memory, such as the Willie Horton ad in 1988, have been broadcast by these kinds of groups.", "In past years, the only upside of attack ads was that they generally contained more issue content than other types of ads.", "Since reporters police campaign appeals, the ads generally stick to the issues and rely on factually-accurate information.", "Ad sponsors and candidates realize they will be held accountable for unfair ad content.", "However, commercials run this year represent a break with this general pattern.", "Attack ads broadcast in recent months have twisted the truth, lied about personal background, taken statements out of context, and clearly sought to manipulate voter sentiments.", "Most worrisome from a factual standpoint is McCain's claim that Obama will raise taxes on the middle class.", "Although Obama has pledged to increase income taxes on those earning more than $250,000, he has been careful not to make proposals that would raise taxes on the middle class for fear of being labeled a tax-and-spend liberal.", "McCain's tax claims have been condemned by leading editorial boards and surely will attract considerable attention in upcoming debates.", "With all the factual inaccuracies that have taken place, voters need to protect themselves from efforts at political manipulation.", "Non-partisan Web sites such as www.factcheck.org represent one source of unbiased information.", "They analyze ads and compile factual information in support of or in opposition to ad claims.", "Other trustworthy fact-checkers include ad watches and reality checks run by leading news organizations.", "These features dissect candidate claims in regard to accuracy, strategy, and impact.", "But the best thing for voters to do is to watch the candidate debates and judge for themselves.", "Study the statements and the factual bases of policy claims.", "Pay attention to how the candidates speak and what they say.", "Find out what non-partisan groups think and see what they have to say regarding the major issues.", "By the time the campaign is over, the presidential candidates are expected to have spent 55 percent of their overall budget on ads.", "Strategists put together spots very carefully and pre-test major messages on small groups of voters.", "Most of this money will be devoted to television spots.", "But increasingly amounts are being targeted on radio, direct mail, and Internet appeals.", "In the end, voters are going to have to decipher competing charges and counter-charges amid considerable noise from all sides.", "The 2008 election is unusual in having so many big issues on the agenda: the economy, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, health care, taxes, immigration, education and climate change.", "It is an election that truly matters because of the stark differences between the parties and the closeness of the campaign.", "Voters need to pay serious attention to the facts in order to make a wise choice.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Darrell West: Negative attacks have long history in U.S. politics .", "This year's ads have hit new lows for distorting the truth, West says .", "Ads against McCain and Obama have twisted their words, he says .", "West: Voters should use fact-checking resources in media and on the Web ." ]	[ 8, 21, 22, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"At this time, we need a leader.\"", "\"I would try to stop the war in Iraq because I think they should have a talk with them, not a big war.\"", "Trevor Dougherty is too young to vote, but is doing everything he can to make sure others do.", "\"I'd probably go for the drilling in Alaska.", "Nuclear power, I'd keep that in mind.\"", "These Americans sounding off on the issues and the 2008 presidential election have a lot to say, but they won't be saying it at the ballot box -- they're all too young to vote.", "In fact, most won't be voting for quite a few years.", "But that doesn't mean that they have no interest in the race for the White House between Sens.", "Barack Obama and John McCain.", "As evidenced in videos posted at iReport.com, they care a great deal.", "Several of these videos were put together by school classes, like Matt MacFarlane's 7th and 8th graders at Templeton Middle School in Templeton, California, who made a short video on the importance of voting.", "The students called for a \"person with integrity who knows right from wrong\", \"a person of vision who not only knows what is but also what can be,\" \"a person with a moral compass to help [set] a course for our nation,\" and \"a person who has the ability to unite and inspire us as we face challenging times.\"", "MacFarlane's students urged voters to consider their decisions carefully on November 4.", "\"What's at stake in this election?\"", "asked one student.", "\"Everything. We're counting on you.\" iReport.com: Watch the full video from Mr. MacFarlane's class .", "Some children took to portraying the candidates, complete with clothes and wigs, like the students of Cabot Middle School in Cabot, Arkansas.", "All of the presidential and vice presidential \"candidates\" gave speeches, with Secret Service, prospective first ladies and family members in tow.", "Most members of Gov.", "Sarah Palin's family were present, including a baby doll portraying Trig.", "This video was just a part of their learning experience about presidential elections.", "Library media specialist Jill Weir, who submitted the video to iReport.com, said that the students also participated in mock-campaigning, voter registrations, precincts and exit polling.", "iReport.com: The 'candidates' speak .", "A church youth group in Winter Haven, Florida, took a more humorous approach, putting together campaign ads from \"John McHinkle\" and \"Barack Yo Mama,\" featuring cameos from \"Sarah Mailin'\" and \"Joe Hidin'\".", "It was still a learning experience, though, said Pastor James Blewett, who posted two videos to iReport.com in which the pretend candidates teach lessons about dating and parental conflicts.", "iReport.com: Watch the campaign ad spoofs .", "Some iReporters decided to ask children directly what they thought about the election.", "\"I have a 6-year-old and he watches the debates with me,\" Vijay Sureshkumar of Seattle, Washington, said.", "\"He's interested in what's going on and that's what triggered me.", "Why don't I go around the neighborhood and ask the kids?\"", "The responses he got were both funny and thought-provoking.", "Some children saw the war as a major issue, one wanted more funding for education, and another said he was in favor of drilling for oil in Alaska.", "Some children seemed to be in favor of Obama, some for McCain, at least one liked both, and two of them started yelling at each other over which candidate was better.", "When asked about the candidates' families, one boy could easily name Obama's wife and daughters' names.", "When asked about McCain, he was a little fuzzier.", "\"He's been around for a long time.", "Like he's been around, [since] like 1966.\"", "iReport.com: Kids sound off on the election .", "Tony Stampalia of Utica, New York, had a similar idea, asking students in an elementary school class whom they would vote for, based purely on the pictures of the candidates.", "Stampalia said that it was a tie between McCain and Obama, with one child for Ralph Nader.", "Obama \"voters\" in the class voted for their candidate because \"he has a cool suit,\" \"because he has the hair,\" \"because he has a nice smile.\"", "One Obama voter mistook him for President Bush, while another wore an Obama button but said she was supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton.", "McCain \"voters\" in the class liked his blue shirt and tie, and thought he was \"cute.\"", "One liked his \"white hair.\"", "Another one found that McCain \"made people do good stuff,\" but admitted that Obama did the same.", "All the children seemed to agree that \"your vote counts.\"", "iReport.com: Children pick their favorite candidate .", "Of course, this is not quite the first election in which children were asked about their choice for president.", "The Scholastic Election Poll has been doing that for at least 68 years.", "Poll takers said their poll has reflected the outcome of the actual election all but twice since 1940.", "A quarter of a million students participated in the poll.", "This year, Obama won with 57 percent to McCain's 39 percent.", "In many videos on iReport.com, children and teenagers speak out for their candidate of choice.", "In one case, a 4th grader named Liam Coakley of Long Beach, California went the extra mile by setting up a lemonade stand for Obama.", "iReport.com: Lemonade stand for Obama .", "Trisha Prabhu, 8, of Naperville, Illinois, was so excited about Obama's candidacy that she told her mother Bhanu to make a video of her giving reasons to vote for him.", "iReport.com: Watch Prabhu's video .", "Trevor Dougherty of Ithaca, New York, said in a video: \"I'm 16 years old and in this presidential election, I cannot vote.", "That's why I'm begging you this November, if you can, to get out this November and vote.\"", "Trevor has been following the election very closely, and first submitted an iReport while en route to the Democratic National Convention.", "As part of the \"Voter Vlog Tag\" movement, Dougherty went out and registered voters in his hometown, then submitted the video evidence to iReport.com.", "\"Getting other people registered is a way to express myself and allow other people to be heard.", "iReport has helped me do all of this.\"", "iReport.com: Watch Dougherty register people to vote .", "Dougherty has iReported about many aspects of this campaign: the conventions, the debates and everything in between.", "He also rallied together a dozen members of the iReport community to speak about the importance of voting.", "iReport.com: Dougherty, iReporters urge others to vote .", "Although these young people aren't able to vote, the decisions made by the next president could certainly affect them." ]	[ "iReports show how interested young Americans are in the campaign .", "iReports range from serious issues to silly spoofs .", "Does your kid have something to say about the election?", "Tell us at iReport.com ." ]	[ 5, 25 ]
[ "(InStyle.com) -- The co-star of \"27 Dresses\" discusses his personal style.", "\"I just feel dirty,\" says James Marsden.", "Not to be alarmed: There's nothing indecent going on here.", "James Marsden talks about his favorite kind of clothes and how his style has changed over the years.", "The 34-year-old is explaining what it feels like to be sporting facial hair for a film he's working on with Cameron Diaz.", "Yet even the newly grown whiskers can't hide the finely chiseled features of an actor who seems to have cornered the Hollywood market on hottie-who-loses-the-girl roles (\"Enchanted,\" \"Superman Returns\" and, of course, \"The Notebook.\")", "But the Oklahoma-bred star doesn't mind his wholesome image.", "\"That's really me,\" he says.", "\"I'm a little dorky -- awkward.\"", "However, his onscreen luck could be changing with his latest film, \"27 Dresses,\" a romantic comedy co-starring Katherine Heigl.", "Scruffy or not, we'll be watching.", "You've played a prince in \"Enchanted\" and the superhero Cyclops in the \"X-Men\" movies.", "Is that a big deal to your kids and their friends?", "My daughter, Mary, is only 2, and my son, Jack, is 7.", "He has a Cyclops action figure, but he's really into Spider-Man and Pixar movies -- Buzz Lightyear is his guy.", "No \"Superman,\" no \"X-Men.\"", "I think he just assumes that everyone at his school has a dad who's a big superhero.", "You also played Corny Collins, the TV dance-show host in \"Hairspray.\"", "What were you like in high school?", "That's when I came out of my shell and became more social -- people thought I was funny.", "I got into a whole preppy thing -- Duck Head shorts and Dockers.", "How would you describe your style now?", "Functional comfort.", "For a guy, it shouldn't ever look like you thought about it too much, like the clothes are wearing you.", "Whose clothes do you like?", "Paul Smith off the rack -- it's a slim cut, and I don't need to have it tailored.", "I always feel like an 8-year-old when I dress up in a suit, like, when can I take this thing off?", "But I wore a black Dolce & Gabbana suit to the première of \"Hairspray\" that was like, OK, now I know what a great suit is.", "Classic, clean lines -- sharp, sharp, sharp.", "Do you change your style from coast to coast?", "In L.A. it's too easy to throw on a pair of American Apparel sweats, a T-shirt and running shoes and just wear those for days.", "In New York, I actually like looking nice.", "Maybe I'm just getting older, but young guys need to pull their pants up.", "Do you ever shop for your wife?", "I love shopping for dresses, and I actually do a pretty good job.", "When I was in New York, I went into J.", "Crew in Soho and got her a cool fifties type dress with tiny polka dots.", "Style-wise I'm good, but figuring out sizing is a different story.", "What do you find sexy on a woman?", "I like spaghetti straps for my wife -- she has great shoulders and a great neck.", "I love when she puts her hair up, because I can see the back of her neck, so delicate and vulnerable.", "It's the vampire in me. Or my obsession with cheerleaders -- their hair up in a ponytail.", "When I was young, I could never have that.", "Never got the cheerleader?", "Eventually -- my wife was a cheerleader.", "What does your wife find sexy on you?", "A button-front shirt with [baby] spit-up on the shoulder.", "That means a guy is taking care of the kids and is a good father -- that's sexy to a woman.", "The adult version of rose petals and champagne is if I let my wife sleep in and I get up to change the baby's diaper, feed the kids, and do the dishes.", "Who inspires you? Paul Newman.", "My middle name is Paul, and my grandfather once said I was going to look like Paul Newman.", "That stuck with me. Beyond being a good-looking guy, Newman is a great actor with a long career, and he's got a life.", "He's married with kids and lives in Connecticut, sells popcorn and marinara sauce, and gives the money to charity.", "Anyone else?", "George Clooney dresses like Gary Cooper might have.", "Cary Grant.", "\"A Streetcar Named Desire\"-era Marlon Brando.", "They all made it look effortless.", "Their clothes framed their personalities really well -- comfortable, classic, but sharp.", "These guys could pull off a great suit, or jeans and a T-shirt.", "Don't you agree that guys have it easy -- they are considered \"distinguished\" as they grow older?", "I don't think it's guy-specific.", "As women get older, they become more comfortable with themselves.", "Susan Sarandon is the poster woman for that.", "A lot of guys fantasize about being with women who are in their forties or fifties.", "So your advice is ...? Act your age. Dress your age. Look your age. That doesn't mean you can't have fun. And isn't it time you got the girl in one of your movies?", "There are a couple of things I need to do [onscreen]: One, get the girl; two, pack a gun.", "Don't you love my career philosophy?", "E-mail to a friend .", "Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright © 2008 Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "In high school Marsden showed off his preppy side .", "While it's easy for him to throw on sweats, Marsden likes to dress up .", "Actor says he is inspired by Paul Newman .", "Marsden: I can shop style for women, but size is a different issue ." ]	[ 4, 7, 18, 25, 30, 37, 49 ]
[ "GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- Rescuers in Galveston, Texas, were going door-to-door Saturday to check on the estimated 20,000 people who failed to flee Hurricane Ike, which has slowed to tropical storm status.", "Park benches are strewn about in downtown Houston Saturday during Hurricane Ike.", "As of Saturday afternoon, the Galveston Fire Department had taken 27 people to a shelter in a high school on the coastal island, which was without electricity or water pressure.", "No casualties had been discovered so far in the search and rescue efforts, which have been hampered by heavy flooding and scattered debris.", "Galveston had ordered evacuation of the island, but Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said about 40 percent of the city's 57,523 residents chose to stay.", "LeBlanc said the island would be closed while authorities assess damages, including to the causeway, which was in \"bad shape\" because of debris and road damage.", "\"The road buckled in a number of places,\" LeBlanc said.", "\"Even if we opened it up you couldn't get through.\"", "LeBlanc said 17 buildings on the island had been destroyed by fires, potent winds and a strong storm surge.", "\"We are in a recovery mode,\" Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said in a press conference Saturday afternoon.", "\"This eye came right over us, stayed a while and went on, but it brought a lot of damage to our city.\"", "Ike was downgraded Saturday to a tropical storm 11 hours after it crashed ashore as a Texas-sized hurricane that walloped southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.", "In its wake, Ike -- which smashed into the coast as a Category 2 hurricane -- left four people dead, millions without power and destroyed homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast with powerful winds, rain and floodwaters.", "President Bush declared 29 Texas counties and parts of Louisianans major disaster areas, making federal funds available for recovery from the storm.", "View images of places hit by Ike » .", "Many people, like D.J.", "Knight of Pearlman, Texas, decided to ride out the storm at home, despite voluntary and mandatory orders issued across the region.", "\"The windows looked like they would explode,\" said Knight, a mother of two.", "\"It just wouldn't stop.\" Now, without electricity and surrounded by flooded roads and wreckage, Knight wonders whether it was worth enduring a sleepless night as the storm shook her home, located about halfway between Galveston and Houston.", "\"I didn't think it would be as bad as it was,\" she said.", "\"It was horrible.\" Knight is one of thousands waiting for assistance as the state rolls out the largest search and rescue operation in Texas history.", "See pictures of the storm's destruction » .", "Gov. Rick Perry dispatched a 1,000-strong search and rescue team, including state troopers, pilots and members of the National Guard.", "Lines of National Guard trucks and ambulances were deployed from San Antonio even as officials are trying to grasp the extent of damage and the number of Texans stranded by the storm.", "However, flooding and debris have impeded rescue efforts in some areas, adding to the uncertainty about how many Texans actually survived the storm.", "\"We're obviously concerned that there may be people we find who didn't get out and who are going to be in the rubble of what we uncover,\" said Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.", "\"We hope for the best, but I do want to prepare people for the fact they we may have some fatalities.\"", "Chertoff said 40,000 Texans were in 250 shelters, and that food and water would be distributed in about 20 coastal locations as rescue efforts continue.", "In Galveston, which bore the brunt of the storm, floods filled the historic district with 7 feet of water at the storm's peak, said Galveston County official Margaret Bunch.", "Watch how a spunky little girl braved the storm » .", "A foot of water flooded the city's main courthouse, where many people rode out the storm, she said.", "Wanda Collins' garage filled with 5 feet of water, ruining everything inside, including a 2002 pickup truck, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, a freezer and a washer and dryer.", "\"I have never in my life seen water like this,\" the 30-year Galveston resident said.", "Burle and Jamie Holmes also refused to leave their Galveston home despite a grim warning from the National Weather Service.", "Ike forced the couple and their dog, Trouble, into the attic, tossing their furniture like toys across the house.", "\"We lost everything,\" Jamie Holmes.", "Curfews are in place in Galveston until dawn Monday and in Houston's Harris County until 6 a.m. Sunday.", "Houston Mayor Bill White said his city appears to have avoided loss of life, but streets blocked by floodwaters, downed trees and power lines hampered efforts to determine the full extent of the damage.", "Authorities shut down downtown Houston, where the streets were littered with traffic lights and glass, for cleanup and damage assessment.", "The city's tallest skyscraper, the 75-story JP Morgan Chase Tower, was missing many of its windows.", "See iReporter's images of destruction » .", "White advised residents to drink bottled or boiled tap water as a precaution after a power outage reduced water pressure, but he said nothing indicated that the water supply was contaminated.", "Brennan's, a popular restaurant in downtown Houston for almost four decades, burned down Friday night as Ike battered the city.", "North of Houston, a 10 -year-old boy died when a falling tree limb hit him in the head, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said.", "The boy's father was cutting down a dead tree in the family's yard in preparation for Ike's heavy winds early Saturday.", "Nearly 2.6 million customers in Texas and Louisiana lack power because of Ike, the U.S. Energy Department said on Saturday.", "In Brazoria County, emergency management officials said the main power line for the Texas/New Mexico grid was down.", "CenterPoint Energy said 90 percent of its customers were without electricity and it could take a month or more to get power restored to all of them.", "iReporter Jackie Hensler of Houston said her apartment building's power was restored quickly on Saturday morning after a stormy night.", "\"There are lots of trees down; they've been uprooted or snapped,\" she said after venturing outside.", "\"There's lots of debris in the streets, like boards and plywood from homes.\"", "Watch how the roof peeled off a building » .", "Hurricane Ike proved to be a huge storm system, 900 miles across at its largest.", "It remained a hurricane hours after crashing ashore over Galveston at 2:10 a.m. Its maximum sustained winds were near 80 mph, with higher gusts.", "It was expected to continue to weaken and move into western Arkansas by Saturday night.", "Track the storm » .", "The storm surge, however, was smaller than forecast.", "The greatest surge, of 15 feet, happened at Sabine Pass, near the Texas-Louisiana line.", "Authorities had predicted surges of 20 to 25 feet.", "Authorities in Orange County, Texas, on the Louisiana line, were using large dump trucks Saturday to rescue residents trapped on their roofs by massive flooding, a county judge told CNN.", "The city of Orange and the town of Bridge City were flooded, Beaumont emergency official Brad Peneffon said.", "Watch the storm surge in Beaumont » .", "Rescuers fanned out in boats Saturday in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, after the storm surge flooded 1,800 homes.", "Gas prices soared across the country amid fears the storm would disrupt fuel supplies.", "Ike hit a region that is home to about 25 percent of the United States' oil refining capacity, and the storm's progress across the Gulf of Mexico shut down crude oil collection from Gulf oil fields.", "The U.S. Department of Energy said 14 refineries were closed by the storm, along with two Texas strategic petroleum reserve sites.", "In Knoxville, Tennessee, Sean Kennedy expressed dismay at the difference a day made to gas prices.", "iReport.com: Evacuees, San Antonio mayor talk about Ike .", "\"I filled up my tank yesterday morning on the way to work for $3.59 a gallon,\" he said.", "\"This morning, gas prices at the same station were $5 a gallon for regular and $5.25 for premium.\"", "The Coast Guard said early Saturday that 22 people aboard a freighter that was adrift in the Gulf of Mexico were safe after the storm.", "Some good news came out of the region Saturday.", "About 175 miles west of Houston, a storm evacuee delivered a baby in the ladies' bathroom at a shelter in New Braunfels.", "\"The credit goes to the mother,\" said Dr. Mark Burns, who helped deliver the baby.", "\"She did a beautiful job with her delivery.\"", "CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Rusty Dornin, Sean Callebs, Rob Marciano, Gary Tuchman, Arthur Brice, Deb Krajnak and Elise Miller contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Wreckage impedes rescue efforts, adding to uncertainty about survivors .", "Texas woman wonders whether it was worth it to ride out storm in home .", "Four deaths in Texas attributed to Ike, now a tropical storm with 45 mph winds .", "2.6 million affected by power outages, U.S. Energy Department says ." ]	[ 18, 24, 45 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- John Darwin's wife said her husband faked his own death to avoid mounting debts and holed up in the family home for years, hiding from his own sons, according to UK media reports.", "Anne Darwin said her husband, believed by police and his sons to have been lost at sea five years ago, recently returned to the UK, faking amnesia, because he missed his now-adult children, according to The Daily Mirror.", "\"I didn't think he would get away with it but he had had enough of being dead,\" she is quoted as saying.", "John Darwin, 57, is being questioned by police in northeastern England following his arrest on suspicion of fraud, a spokesman for Cleveland, England, police said.", "Darwin walked into a police station in London last weekend -- five years after he was thought to have died after the remains of a canoe he paddled into the North Sea, off northeastern England, washed up on shore.", "Darwin was declared dead by a coroner in 2003, 13 months after his disappearance in March 2002.", "His wife, the paper reported, described how the prison officer and former teacher discussed faking his death just before he disappeared because of mounting debts.", "When John Darwin vanished she said she thought he was dead -- until, she is reported to have said, he turned up on the doorstep of the family home at Seaton Carew, northeastern England, one year later.", "\"I didn't even recognize him at first,\" Anne Darwin told the newspaper, adding that her husband looked thin, dirty and smelled dreadful.", "\"I was relieved he was alive, of course.", "But I was also very angry with him.\"", "She said that her husband stayed at the home on and off before he got a one-room apartment in another part of the large house so he could vanish if friends or family arrived, also disguising himself with a hat or limp when he went outside.", "But hiding away began to take its toll, Anne Darwin reportedly said, and the pair decided to leave Britain.", "Her husband traveled on a false passport to look at property in Cyprus and inquire about buying a catamaran in Gibraltar, she said, before they finally settled in Panama.", "She went to live there six weeks ago.", "She is believed to be in the United States after leaving Panama on a flight late Thursday, a Panamanian immigration representative has told CNN.", "Anne Darwin, the newspaper said, stated that it was always her plan to repay two insurance policies in her husband's name: one, a life insurance policy, for £25,000 ($50,000); and another for £130,000 ($265,000), which was paid to their home loan company to pay off the mortgage in the event of her husband's death.", "The newspaper said she was not paid for her story and accepts she is likely to be arrested upon her return to Britain.", "Following his reappearance last weekend, John Darwin was initially reunited with his two sons, who released a joint statement saying their father claimed to have amnesia dating back to June 2000.", "But in a statement released by Cleveland police Thursday, the sons, Mark, 31, and Anthony, 29, said they were in an \"angry and confused state of mind\" and they wanted no further contact with their parents.", "After media reports Thursday that Anne Darwin had confessed to knowing her husband was alive, the sons said: \"If the papers' allegations of a confession from our mam are true, then we very much feel that we have been the victims in a large scam.\"", "\"In the short space of time following our dad's appearance in London on Saturday, we have gone through a rollercoaster of emotion,\" the statement said.", "\"From the height of elation at finding him to be alive to the depths of despair at the recent stories of fraud and these latest pictures,\" it added.", "\"How could our mam continue to let us believe our dad had died when he was very much alive?", "We have not spoken to either of our parents since our dad's arrest and at this present time we want no further contact with them,\" the statement said.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Reports: Wife says he faked his death to avoid debts, hid in their home for years .", "John Darwin, 57, thought to have drowned at sea off northeastern England in 2002 .", "Reappeared last week; being questioned on suspicion of fraud .", "Sons of the couple say they are in an \"angry and confused state of mind\"" ]	[ 0, 3, 9, 19 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Eric Hahn thought his financial situation was set after he was approved for a private student loan with an 8 percent interest rate to supplement his federal education loans.", "Eric Hahn, 21, estimates he will be in debt for the next five to seven years for his undergraduate tuition.", "Just a few weeks later, Hahn, 21, was forced to cash in his savings and investments so he could make his rent and tuition after finding out that the lender, MyRichUncle.com, had suspended its private student loan program.", "\"Due to continued disruptions in the capital markets, combined with the continued demand we have experienced this year, we are reaching funding capacity limits,\" a message on his cell phone said, mimicking a statement on the company's Web site.", "The sudden news left Hahn, a senior-year finance major, scrambling to find additional funding after maxing out his borrowing options from the federal government.", "Eventually, the country's leading student loan provider, Sallie Mae, approved him for a private loan at 12 percent.", "After he graduates, Hahn estimates it will take him anywhere from five to seven years to repay about $30,000 he will have borrowed by then.", "\"Money isn't cheap,\" said Hahn, who transferred to Georgia State University in Atlanta from the University of Connecticut last year because the tuition was less expensive.", "\"The process is time-consuming, and there's also the stress of having to liquidate my investments and wonder where I'm going to find money.\"", "About 8 percent of student borrowers rely on private loans, which tend to be costlier and stricter than federal loans, said Robert Shierman, executive director of the Institute for College Access and Success.", "In doing so, Hahn and others like him are getting a crash course in market volatility and its effects on the consumer's ability to find money.", "Watch how the current economic troubles affect consumers » .", "MyRichUncle.com is the most recent lender to suspend its private student loan program, joining the ranks of major financial institutions like Wachovia and Bank of America and companies specializing in student loans such as College Loan Corporation and Campus Door, which was backed by Lehman Brothers.", "MyRichUncle's president and co-founder, Raza Khan, told CNN: \"We are currently working with a number of investors so we can resume loan origination as soon as possible.", "\"Meanwhile, students and parents should not lose sight of the value of education.", "Funds do remain available -- we encourage families to do all the homework and research, and to make prudent decisions on borrowing,\" he added in a written statement.", "Since August 2007, 33 lenders have suspended private loans programs, according to the Web site FinAid.org, which tracks activity in the student loan market.", "Unlike federal lending programs, private loans rely on liquidity from investors.", "Even though private loans are considered strong by industry standards, they are feeling the effects of a turbulent capital market.", "\"The only reason lenders had to stop making the loans was that they ran out of liquidity,\" said financial aid expert Mark Kantrowitz, who created FinAid.org.", "\"It's a contagion effect of the sub-prime crisis,\" said Kantrowitz.", "\"It's an overreaction that has affected the student loan market.\"", "With their strong resemblance to consumer loans, where lenders set the terms based on your credit score, financial advisers often recommended private loans as a means of last resort.", "But with rising tuition and increased enrollment putting a squeeze on the student aid market -- which disbursed about $60 billion in federal funds and $17 billion in private loans last year -- students are turning to private loans after they've exhausted all other avenues, or for expenses that federal aid won't cover.", "In response, Congress passed legislation this year to increase the maximum amount of federal loans that students can obtain.", "\"With federal student loan limits increasing, you can borrow now more than last year, regardless of income, assets, collateral or income,\" said Martha Holler, vice president of corporate communications of Sallie Mae.", "Despite the uncertainty in the capital market, many lenders, including Sallie Mae, are still able to offer private student loans by securing lines of credit and raising liquidity on their own.", "Holler says other options also exist, from scholarships for skills as random as skateboarding, to tuition payment plans -- an interest-free option that allows borrowers to make payments in monthly installments.", "But students like Hahn remain on the fringe.", "Even after being awarded an out-of-state tuition waiver, which lets him pay the same tuition as a resident from Georgia, he says he has borrowed all he can in federal loans.", "His parents, who are facing their own financial struggles, can't co-sign for a loan with a lower interest rate or better terms.", "Nevertheless, Hahn has accepted his fate.", "As school begins, he is returning his focus to his studies.", "\"It's a pain in the neck, but it is what it is,\" he said in a telephone interview in between classes Wednesday.", "\"The reason this all happened is due to the credit crisis and the housing crisis.", "So I guess the lesson is don't hop on what everyone else is doing.\"", "CNN's Taylor Gandossy contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Lender My Rich Uncle suspended its private student loan program on Friday .", "The move left Eric Hahn, 21, scrambling to find alternative funding sources .", "The company says it is working to resume loaning money as soon as possible .", "Financial advisers say investors are pulling out even though loans considered strong ." ]	[ 2, 4, 12, 13, 18 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, on Monday urged the Cuban government to think again about its refusal of direct U.S. assistance for hurricane victims.", "\"We call on the Cuban government to reconsider their decision on the United States offer, which we made with no preconditions and whose only objective was to get relief to people in dire need.\"", "USAID administrator Henrietta Fore said in a Monday afternoon conference call with reporters.", "Fore said the United States over the weekend had offered to begin relief flights as soon as Tuesday to Cuba, on civilian aircraft, delivering plastic sheeting, blankets and hygiene kits.", "The first flight would have brought aid worth $349,000.", "\"And while we wait for the Cuban government's reconsideration of the United States offer we will continue to implement other components of our $5 million assistance package,\" Fore added.", "The United State will immediately obligate approximately $1.5 million in emergency humanitarian assistance to reputable international relief organizations and nongovernmental organizations.", "Fore said she will be in Honduras on Tuesday to inspect hurricane damage and review aid needs there.", "Earlier in the day, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack gave the first information that United States had made a weekend offer -- and the Cuban government had refused -- of $5 million in hurricane relief.", "The United States on Saturday \"informed the Cuban government that the U.S. government is committed to providing up to $5 million in relief assistance to Cuban hurricane victims and that we could fly emergency relief supplies to Cuba as soon as the Cuban government authorized such assistance,\" McCormack said at his daily briefing.", "\"On the 14th of September, just yesterday, the Cuban government informed us they would not accept a donation from the United States,\" he said.", "The United States has temporarily suspended some restrictions on private aid groups, sending assistance and money to Cuba.", "And McCormack said Monday he United States had in recent days licensed agricultural exports to Cuba worth $250 million, including lumber for reconstruction." ]	[ "U.S. State Department says Cuba rejects $5 million in aid .", "Island nation reeling from storms, including hurricanes Ike and Gustav .", "U.S. temporarily suspends some restrictions on groups sending aid to Cuba ." ]	[ 6, 11 ]
[ "Editor's note: Join Roland S. Martin for his weekly sound-off segment on CNN.com Live at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.", "If you're passionate about politics, he wants to hear from you.", "A supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, Martin is a nationally syndicated columnist and Chicago, Illinois-based radio host.", "He is the author of \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith\" and \"Speak, Brother!", "A Black Man's View of America.\"", "Please visit his Web site.", "Roland S. Martin urges the candidates to stop with the lofty talk and simplistic solutions and be specific.", "(CNN) -- If you are a member of America's middle class in this presidential year, you are sort of like a blue-chip football recruit, lavished with praise, attention and adoration from fawning coaches and alumni who would love nothing better than to land the prized player to win the national championship.", "For \"Coach\" John McCain and \"Coach\" Barack Obama, the title to win is president of the United States, and like the big-time football coaches, they will say and do anything to make it happen.", "Tax cuts? Oh, absolutely, we don't want you to feel any more pain.", "Let the rich -- and the poor -- deal with carrying the burden.", "You want more jobs? Sure, we're going to force companies that send jobs overseas to make them stay at home because we know you need those long disappearing and high-paying manufacturing jobs that helped build this nation.", "Can't afford to send your kids to college?", "Don't sweat it. We've got tax credits, Pell grants, super-duper loans and all kinds of other options to make this a reality.", "Are they cutting back on health care at your job?", "No big deal. Coach McCain says he's got some nifty tax credits lined up to tickle your fancy and ignite your soul.", "Coach Obama?", "He's going to go for the whole enchilada by pushing for virtual universal health care.", "Oh, these guys are wonderful with their sales pitches.", "They have the ability to make every single one of you feel so special and loved; no one else is more important to them -- at that moment.", "I must admit, the pathetic pining and pandering for middle-class votes has turned so moronic that at times it drives me nuts.", "First, who in the world are we even talking about?", "If you listen to the candidates and their campaigns, those in the middle class could make upward of $200,000 a year, while some suggest middle class means earning as little as $20,000.", "I moderated a panel Tuesday for the National Black MBA Association and heard descriptions of the lower middle class, the middle class and the upper middle class.", "Someone even suggested that it's really about a \"state of mind.\"", "That's right. It boils down to how we feel and think.", "If that's the case, then you can have $5 million in the bank, but if you love your family, go to church and share the same values as others around you, you're middle class.", "Please, can we just stop with lofty talk and plain-spoken and simplistic solutions and be as specific as possible?", "There are really four fundamental issues affecting middle-class voters.", "Jobs . We've seen a loss of 600,000 jobs under President Bush, so how exactly will McCain and Obama create jobs?", "Is there anything in their past that shows they have the ability to do just that?", "I've heard \"drill, drill, drill!\"", "from McCain, and Obama says we're going to turn the old textile and steel mills into a green machine by targeting wind and other sources of energy.", "Housing . Congress is providing a backstop for Wall Street -- making billions available if cash is needed.", "What will McCain and Obama actually do to keep folks from losing their homes?", "Oh, I know a lot of people suggest that these middle-class folks should have read the fine print and not gotten in over their heads, but if something is good for Wall Street, why not Main Street?", "Health care .", "This is no joke, and a primary reason why Americans file for bankruptcy.", "I know. My appendix ruptured in 2000 while covering the Democratic National Convention, forcing me to spend five days in a Los Angeles hospital and accruing more than $70,000 in hospital bills.", "Yep, I didn't have health insurance.", "I was just a 29-year-old never-been-sick freelancer stuck out in the cold.", "The pressure of that led to falling behind on my mortgage, and the start of foreclosure proceedings.", "Bankruptcy was the only thing that saved me, and by the grace of God, my finances turned around, and this month, I'm making my final payment.", "McCain says a $5,000 tax credit for health care will help, but the problem with that is you have to pay the dough upfront, and then claim it on your taxes.", "But what happens when they want the money now?", "Obama says the answer is his health care plan, but that switch won't be flipped immediately.", "So what happens while the laborious debate takes place?", "I just wait for my MRI until Washington finishes debating and the special interests pick the plan to death?", "Education . For many Americans, education is a ticket to the middle class and beyond.", "Much of the time the candidates talk about vouchers.", "Look, that's not going to solve the education problem.", "What we should be hearing them talk about is the inequity of the school systems.", "Children living in wealthy school districts get tons of money and the best qualified teachers, while poorer districts are forced to make do with less qualified teachers and without computers or even basic amenities.", "The bottom line .", "Remember those blue-chip players?", "Today, they are telling a coach: If you want me to sign, promise that I'll start.", "No play, no sign. That's what middle-class Americans must tell the candidates.", "If you are unwilling to put your personal credibility and integrity behind your campaign pledges, then you don't get my vote.", "And if you give away your vote just because someone is a Democrat or Republican, or a man or a woman, or black or white, and you end up getting screwed in the end, you have no one to blame but yourself.", "So use the most powerful thing you have to demand real answers to your real problems from McCain, Obama, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin: your vote.", "The power is literally in your hands.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Roland S. Martin: Candidates offer anything and everything to snag middle class .", "Martin: \"Pathetic pining and pandering for middle-class votes ... moronic\"\nMartin: Jobs, housing, health care, education are the big middle-class issues ." ]	[ 6, 14, 20, 23, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- iReporters have a message for Richard Wright: Shine on, you crazy diamond.", "Jessica Schuette's tattoo reminds her of her late friend, who was a big fan of Pink Floyd.", "Wright, a founding member of epic rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday.", "The keyboardist had been battling cancer and succumbed at his home in Britain.", "Wright is credited with writing some of the band's most well-known hits, such as \"The Great Gig in the Sky\" and \"Us and Them.\"", "Pink Floyd has thousands of devoted fans across the world, and the news of Wright's death inspired many of them to write into iReport to share how Richard Wright and the rest of the group touched and changed their lives.", "Jessica Schuette shared a photo of her Pink Floyd-inspired tattoo: a shimmering diamond above the words \"shine on.\"", "She got the tattoo in 2005 in memory of her best friend, who died in a car accident.", "\"This was her favorite song.", "I got this tattoo to remember her,\" Schuette said.", "\"If that doesn't say something about the impact that this band has had on people, I don't know what will.\"", "Pink Floyd touched the lives of Schuette and her friend even though they were never able to see one of the band's legendary live shows.", "Schuette, who is a dedicated Pink Floyd fan herself, pointed out that she's only 21 -- born 13 years after they released the epic album \"Dark Side of the Moon,\" and too young to have seen the band live when they were touring.", "iReport.com: Read more of Schuette's thoughts .", "Omar Pelea of Miami, Florida, hopes the tragedy of Wright's death will give Schuette and other fans their long-awaited chance to see the group live.", "He hopes the death will inspire the other members of Pink Floyd to begin touring again.", "Pink Floyd has not toured with lead singer and songwriter Roger Waters since 1981, although Rogers reunited with the band in 2005 for a concert at Live 8 in London.", "\"Now would be a good time for the remaining members to contemplate the fact that a reunion is running short on time,\" he said.", "\"There are bigger things in life than their differences.", "Perhaps they should put those differences aside and play for the world one last time.\"", "\"To me, Pink Floyd is the greatest band ever to play on this Earth,\" he added.", "iReport.com: Pelea compares Wright to the late George Harrison .", "Long-time Pink Floyd fan Pamela Keenan had the chance to perform some of the group's greatest works herself.", "She is a member of Endicott Performing Arts Center, a theatre company in Endicott, New York, that has performed its own adaptations of \"The Wall\" and \"Dark Side of the Moon.\"", "\"We had a band on the stage with us.", "We had images and films projected on the back of the stage and we had full choreography and vocals for all the songs from each album,\" she said.", "\"I listened to all of the music over and over again as a teen, but to be able to perform it in my 30s brought a new respect for the lyrics and the sheer musical genius.\"", "iReport.com: See a Pink Floyd-themed bike ride .", "Keenan described Pink Floyd as \"one of the greatest bands that's ever been in existence,\" but thinks the group is underrated by mainstream society today.", "\"Children aren't exposed to it anymore,\" she said.", "\"My kids are exposed to it because we did the shows -- and they love it.\"", "iReport.com: Keen recalls Pink Floyd stage show .", "\"I credit Pink Floyd for being a big part of my imagination,\" said Dean Spiegal, who creates psychedelic videos inspired by the group's music.", "\"Floyd was not a band, it was an experience.", "They did not make music for the people, they made music for their minds.\"", "iReport.com: Watch Spiegel's video tribute .", "And Eric Beck put it simply: .", "\"It changed my life.", "It changed my life,\" he said of \"Dark Side of the Moon.\"", "\"Rick Wright made a major contribution to my life.", "And I will forever be so grateful to him and the rest of the band.\"", "iReport.com: Beck shares his memories via webcam ." ]	[ "Pink Floyd fans shared their memories of late keyboardist Richard Wright .", "iReporters include theater company member who paid tribute to the band .", "Jimi Lee remembers the first time he heard \"Dark Side of the Moon\"\nShare your memories of Pink Floyd and Wright at iReport.com ." ]	[ 5, 12, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain is just holding on like a boxer before he gets knocked out, comedian Chris Rock says.", "Comedian Chris Rock told Larry King he's proud of Barack Obama's character.", "Rock, an avid supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, spoke with CNN's Larry King on Thursday.", "He said Obama is more grounded with your average American -- not somebody like McCain with \"12 houses.\"", "\"The other guy [McCain] can lose five houses,\" Rock said.", "\"I'll go with the guy with one house.", "The guy with one house is scared about losing his house.\"", "Watch Chris Rock describe a beaten up McCain » .", "King began the interview by asking Rock about Thursday's economic bailout talks when Obama and McCain went to the White House for discussions with the nation's top leaders.", "KING: Obama and McCain at opposite ends of the table.", "What do you make of it? ROCK: What do I make of it? If this was a boxing match, McCain would be holding.", "KING: Holding on?", "ROCK: Yes. It's like he got hit really hard in the stomach like, 'OK.", "I can't let him go. He's going to knock me out.'", "So that's what appears to be going on right now.", "Just a hold. KING: Has the financial crisis affected you?", "ROCK: Larry, I drove a cab over here tonight.", "When it's over, I'm going to try to pick up some more fares.", "I'm losing everything, Larry.", "KING: Really downtrodden?", "ROCK: Yes, it's real bad.", "KING: Have HBO paid you already?", "ROCK: They have paid me, but the money is worthless now.", "Haven't you heard? Your money's worth nothing.", "KING: You must be ... proud that at this stage in our history a black man is running for president on a major ticket.", "ROCK: Um, you know what?", "I'm proud Barack Obama's running for president.", "You know? If it was Flavor Flav, would I be proud?", "No. I don't support Barack Obama because he's black.", "KING: I said just as a proud feeling.", "That's normal. ROCK: There's a proud feeling because of the character of the man.", "You know, I was -- I supported John Kerry and, you know -- and what's my man?", "Al Gore. KING: Al Gore.", "ROCK: But this guy seems to be a little bit more.", "He seems to have watched other peoples' mistakes and, you know, seems to have a little bit more going on.", "KING: From a comedic stand point, who is funnier, McCain or Obama?", "Seriously. Is Obama not -- it's hard to be funny about Obama?", "ROCK: No, no. It's weird. People ask me that all the time.", "... McCain jokes are just easy jokes, like I don't want a president with a bucket list.", "That's like a McCain joke.", "Those jokes are easy.", "It's like you basically, you know, you know, take the dust off your Reagan jokes and tell them again.", "You know? But Obama, oh, this is a whole new set of jokes.", "I got to find a whole new move to the basket here.", "So I kind of hope he wins.", "KING: Didn't you introduce Obama at a rally?", "ROCK: I introduced Obama at the Apollo Theater not too long ago.", "I think Obama would be great.", "I mean, just look the big thing right now is the economy.", "And people are going broke.", "And here: The choice isn't Republican or Democrat.", "The choice is you got a guy that's worth $150 million with 12 houses against a guy who's worth a million dollars with one house.", "KING: Well -- . ROCK: The guy with one house really cares about losing a house, because he is homeless.", "The other guy can lose five houses and still got a bunch of houses.", "Does this make any sense?", "Am I the only one that sees this? KING: It's unique way of ... ROCK: I'm just saying, John McCain could lose half his houses.", "KING: You got a point.", "ROCK: And sleep well.", "KING: You and Bill Clinton were on Letterman on Tuesday.", "You had some problems with the tone of his endorsement of Barack Obama.", "... Do you think Bill is hesitant about Barack Obama?", "ROCK: You know what? You know, he did a great speech in Denver.", "And Hillary's been on the campaign trail.", "Just at that moment, if you watched what happened on David Letterman, it appeared he was holding back.", "And when you tell a joke and everybody laughs, it is not because they disagree with what you're saying.", "So -- . KING: They get it? ROCK: Yes, they get it.", "The whole audience was in on it.", "But, you know, hey, the guy's in a weird position there.", "His wife ran for the thing and she didn't win.", "KING: The next night, on \"The Daily Show,\" Jon Stewart asked Clinton about the Letterman appearance and Clinton suggested that Obama supporters who questioned commitment are missing the point.", "ROCK: It was great.", "It was great. And you're right, [Obama] does need to get some of the votes that went to Hillary and all that.", "I don't understand any Democrat that voted for Hillary that doesn't support Obama.", "Because their views are pretty similar.", "You know what I mean? ... I understand people supporting Mr. McCain.", "But a Democrat that's going to just be mad is -- there's something kind of really messed up about that.", "KING: Have you always done political humor?", "ROCK: You know -- . KING: When you started, did you do politics?", "ROCK: I'm interested in the world.", "Jon Stewart does political humor.", "Bill Maher does political humor.", "I talk about stuff the way guys would talk about it at the barber shop.", "I don't belong on any panel on this show.", "You know what I mean? I don't deserve to be near Roland Martin and Anderson Cooper and all these guys.", "I try to talk about politics in a way a guy that works at UPS would understand.", "KING: You did a lot of Brooklyn stuff.", "ROCK: I do all sorts of stuff, Larry.", "All sorts of stuff.", "You know, I hope Obama wins just because, you know, the country needs it.", "The country needs a change.", "We kind of seen what this whole McCain thing is.", "KING: I never thought of it that way.", "ROCK: It is that simple." ]	[ "Chris Rock tells Larry King that McCain is on the verge of getting knocked out .", "\"I hope Obama wins just because ... the country needs it\"\nRock says he can't support a guy like McCain with \"12 houses\"\nSays vote for the guy with one house, cause he's scared of losing it ." ]	[ 0, 51, 52, 88 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Some experts are skeptical that anything could have stopped Robert Hawkins from going on a murderous rampage at an Omaha, Nebraska, shopping mall on Wednesday.", "A police car sits outside the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, on Thursday.", "\"This is not something that anybody can reasonably anticipate,\" said Don Greene, a former FBI agent who has written a book on mall security.", "\"If the people closest to him didn't see any indicators or signs that he was going to go off so drastically ... how is some public safety officer supposed to recognize this person?\"", "Greene asked.", "In fact, security at Omaha's Westroads Mall did find Hawkins' behavior suspicious before the shooting, Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren said Thursday.", "Mall surveillance initially flagged Hawkins \"based on his actions\" when he entered the mall through the Von Maur store's main entrance on the second floor, Warren said.", "He said Hawkins exited quickly after entering, then re-entered within six minutes and appeared to be concealing something in a balled-up sweatshirt.", "He then went up the elevator to the third floor, and when he got there, he immediately began firing, Warren said.", "\"It doesn't appear as though there was an opportunity for intervention,\" he said.", "Shopping malls around the country were expected to review their emergency plans and consider additional security measures in light of Wednesday's shooting, which killed eight.", "Watch what experts say about keeping malls safe » .", "\"There is always a fear of copycats when something like this happens,\" said Malachy Kavanaugh, spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers.", "He said malls would be considering whether to close some entrances, bring in additional officers, and make security more visible.", "There are 1,200 enclosed malls in the United States and about 50,000 shopping centers.", "Although some include police substations, most are patrolled by unarmed private mall and store security guards.", "Should these private security guards be armed?", "\"Absolutely not,\" said Greene.", "Greene said if a security officer were to pull a gun on an armed individual in a mall, it could result in \"the gunfight at the 'OK corral,' and then we might have 23 people killed instead of eight.\"", "\"These random events are very challenging to prevent and difficult to deal with when they occur.", "Law enforcement and security prevention measures, no matter how good, cannot forestall a tragedy such as this from happening,\" said a statement issued Wednesday night by the Simon Property Group, which operates regional and outlet malls across the United States.", "\"We do not disclose or discuss our enhanced security measures and/or procedures that we have in place or may institute at any given time, some of which are visible to the public, with others intentionally less noticeable,\" the statement said.", "\"Disclosure of such information could potentially compromise our efforts to provide a safe and secure environment.\"", "Security expert Lou Palumbo told CNN one useful strategy was having trained law enforcement personnel watching people as they enter the mall.", "\"You start to observe the people coming into the mall area,\" he said.", "\"To let them in your door and then try to figure out what they're doing, you know, it's not as effective as catching them as they're coming in the door.\"", "The International Council of Shopping Centers has conducted focus groups with shoppers to test how they would react to even tighter \"airport style\" security measures, including bag checks and magnetometers.", "According to Kavanaugh, the results have shown that shoppers would accept the measures only if the national threat advisory system was raised to its highest level, red.", "Such extreme measures are \"in the mall industry playbook ... but it is something no one wants to do,\" said Kavanaugh.", "While some mall owners have increased training of security personnel and have upgraded their emergency systems, many security experts believe more should and can be done.", "Those experts suggest it's a matter of money.", "They say until shoppers start staying away, mall owners will not make significant changes.", "There are no national standards for security guards, and according to a 2006 study by the Police Foundation, only a few states require background checks, minimum hiring standards, or training.", "The study also notes that drills to test security staffs' knowledge of what to do in an emergency, when done at all, \"are seldom rigorous, seldom done with first responders, and are usually done without clear standards to measure their success.\"", "The report goes on to say that \"many malls do not even have plans to limit access to sensitive areas in times of heightened alert.\"", "Since that report was written, the International Council of Shopping Centers, in conjunction with George Washington University, has developed a DVD to train mall security guards.", "According to Kavanaugh, about 6,000 of the nation's estimated 20,000 mall security guards have participated in the course, including 10 at Westroads Mall, where Wednesday's shootings took place.", "The FBI and other federal agencies have reached out to private security firms to share information on best practices.", "The FBI also sends out alerts regarding possible threats to the private sector -- but warnings of possible terrorist plans are clearly of no help in anticipating an attacker like Hawkins.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Eliott McLaughlin and Kelli Arena contributed to this report." ]	[ "Malls expected to assess security arrangements in wake of Wednesday shooting .", "Gunman at Omaha, Nebraska, mall killed 8 people and himself .", "Some security experts say such incidents are impossible to anticipate .", "Study by Police Foundation says training drills for mall guards are inadequate ." ]	[ 0, 10, 32 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles.", "The RAND Corporation said one option would be for domestic intelligence to operate under the FBI.", "Canada has CSIS -- the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.", "Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have its own domestic intelligence agency?", "On Monday, at the request of Congress, the RAND Corporation outlined the pros and cons of establishing a domestic intelligence agency.", "It also discussed different ways to organize a new entity, either as part of an existing department or as a new agency.", "But there's one thing you won't find in the report -- a recommendation on what to do.", "\"We were not asked to make a recommendation, and this assessment does not do so,\" the report says.", "Instead, says RAND's Gregory Treverton, the report provides a \"framework\" for policymakers to use when deciding whether and how to reorganize counter-intelligence efforts at home.", "RAND is a nonprofit think tank seeking to help improve policy and decision making through objective research and analysis.", "Collecting intelligence domestically always has been a sensitive issue, at least partially because of episodic abuses by the government, notably against civil rights leaders, unions, antiwar organizations or even communists and hate groups.", "But the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks renewed calls for increased domestic intelligence to prevent future attacks.", "Critics said that in the lead-up to the attacks, the FBI devalued counterterrorism agents and failed to heed signs that an attack was imminent.", "\"If you didn't carry a gun, you didn't count so much,\" Treverton said.", "After the attacks, the FBI moved to transform its primary mission from law enforcement to counterterrorism intelligence and prevention.", "It now focuses on terrorism through its National Security Branch and the National Counterterrorism Center.", "The RAND report focuses on two options to the current system.", "In one, a new agency would be created using intelligence agencies from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and intelligence community.", "A second option is to create an \"agency within an agency\" in the FBI or DHS.", "The first option would result in an organization with a clear, unambiguous mission, and might be able to draw on a more diverse recruitment pool, such as linguists and historians who are not normally attracted to law enforcement.", "On the flip side, such massive reorganizations typically involve political compromises that could affect its performance.", "The second option -- an \"agency within an agency\" -- could involve less short-term disruption, but could be hindered by a \"lack of clarity of a single mission,\" the report says.", "RAND also suggests a range of actions short of reorganization that could improve domestic intelligence gathering, such as increasing resources, improving leadership and changing bureaucratic cultures.", "The report does not assess the FBI's performance since 9/11, Treverton said, but he believes Congress should seek an independent assessment.", "A panel of experts that RAND convened guessed that the probability of a terrorist attack had decreased about one-third since the September 11, 2001.", "But \"they were not enthusiastic about alternatives\" to current counterterrorism organizations.", "In a cautionary note, the report says that while public acceptance of domestic intelligence activities is imperative, public attitudes about what is considered acceptable \"can both be fragile and shift significantly over time.\"", "\"Public demand for domestic intelligence is driven by the perceived threat, and those perceptions can change much more rapidly than the threat itself,\" the report says.", "For instance, immediately after the 9/11 attacks, 49 percent of people surveyed were worried \"a great deal\" about more attacks.", "Two years later, that had dropped to 25 percent." ]	[ "Nonprofit think tank RAND outlines pros and cons at request of Congress .", "Group says government could create new agency specifically for domestic intel .", "Other option includes agency operating under Homeland Security or FBI .", "September 11 attacks renewed calls for domestic intel to help prevent future ones ." ]	[ 4, 11, 18 ]
[ "Founded in 1805 in Geneva, Pictet & Cie is today one of Switzerland's largest private banks, and one of the premier independent asset management specialists in Europe.", "Moreover, it is considered one of the leading independent asset management banks in Europe.", "Pictet & Cie is a partnership owned and managed by eight general partners with unlimited liability for the bank's commitments.", "\"Banque de Candolle Mallet & Cie\" was founded on 23 July 1805.", "It was run by two partner-managers, Jacob-Michel François de Candolle and Jacques-Henry Mallet, and three limited partners, Jean-Louis Mallet, Paul Martin and Jean-Louis Falquet.", "Following a period of relative stagnation, marked by two world wars and the economic depression of the 1930s, Pictet & Cie began to develop extensively from the 1950s on.", "Despite the negative outlook in the aftermath of war, the western world experienced a period of prosperity and economic growth.", "Geneva became one of the world's leading diplomatic and financial centres.", "Since the turn of the millennium, the Pictet Group has experienced some significant changes and events, such as its continued strong growth, the Bank's Bicentennial in 2005 and, the following year, the inauguration of its new headquarters in Acacias, Geneva.", "The company boasts more than CHF 430 billion ($390 billion) in assets under management and custody as at end-September 2007.", "The Group employs over 2,800 people in the following locations: Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, Barcelona, Florence, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Paris, London, Luxembourg, Rome, Turin, Montreal, Nassau, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Pictet & Cie is one of Switzerland's largest private banks, founded in 1805 .", "Managed by eight general partners with unlimited liability for its commitments .", "In 2007, Pictet boasts more than $390 billion in assets under management, custody ." ]	[ 0, 2, 9 ]
[ "NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- More than a dozen trucks loaded with fruits, spices and other goods Tuesday crossed the line dividing Kashmir as India and Pakistan opened a symbolic trade route in the disputed region for the first time in more than 60 years.", "Kashmiris watch as Indian trucks cross into the border town of Chakothi in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.", "To cheers and band music, the first trucks rumbled from the Pakistani side across a white bridge to a brightly decorated trade center festooned .", "Apple-laden Indian trucks heading the other way were also warmly welcomed.", "It is hoped the move will ease tensions in the troubled Himalayan region, which has been a conflict flashpoint between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan who both lay claims to the territory.", "\"Today, we have regained our lost market,\" said Ghulam Rasool Bhat, president of the Kashmir fruit growers' association.", "Watch more about the historic day » .", "\"We are sending the sweet Kashmir apple as the first consignment.", "This is sure to sweeten the relation between the two neighbors.", "The beginning of the trade between the two Kashmirs will further improve the relations and lead to a peaceful resolution of the bitter problem,\" he said.", "The trucks were subjected to thorough security checks before they crossed the bridge, one of the few crossing points in the heavily militarized 742-kilometer (460-mile) Line of Control, the de facto frontier that divides the region.", "Kashmir has been a major source of dispute between India, and Pakistan since the two countries were partitioned at the end of British rule in 1947.", "Muslim Kashmiris sided with Pakistan to the north, while the Hindu south joined India.", "For the past 18 years, Kashmir has been wracked by a bloody separatist campaign.", "Authorities say up to 43,000 people have died, but rights groups and non-governmental organizations put the death toll at twice that.", "Violence had dropped off since the countries began a peace process in 2004, but it surged after the state government in Indian-controlled Kashmir announced plans in June to donate land for a Hindu shrine.", "Muslim protests following the decision prompted a government U-turn that triggered Hindu demonstrations calling for it to be restored.", "Subsequent violence left 40 dead and hundreds wounded.", "It is hoped Tuesday's route opening will bolster the peace agreement and combat lingering mistrust between India and Pakistan.", "A bilateral cease-fire has been holding in the region for more than four years.", "A bus service connecting the divided Kashmir began amid much fanfare in 2005 but struggled under the weight of elaborate security checks and stifling bureaucracy.", "\"This is a great emotional moment, as it brings to mind my grandfather, who used to drive lorries on this road,\" said Muzhar Hussain Naqvi, who drove the leading Pakistani truck.", "CNN's Sara Sidner and Mukhtar Ahmad contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Trade route between the two sides the first in six decades .", "A heavy military presence occupies strip of land known as the Line of Control .", "Kashmir a source of bitter dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 .", "Trade meant to bolster a 2004 peace accord between the South Asian rivals ." ]	[ 9, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Republican vice presidential nominee Gov.", "Sarah Palin vowed on Tuesday to use her executive experience to tackle government reform and energy independence if she and Sen. John McCain win this year's presidential election.", "Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin speaks with CNN's Drew Griffin Tuesday.", "\"It's going to be government reform because that, that is what I've been able to do as a mayor and as a governor, you, you take on the special interests and the self-dealings.", "Yep, you ruffle feathers and you have the scars to prove it,\" Palin said Tuesday in an interview with CNN's Drew Griffin.", "\"You have to take that on to give the American people that faith back in their own government.", "This is their government and we've got to put it back on their side,\" she said.", "Palin said she and McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, discussed the possibility of her working on the issue of energy independence if she becomes vice president.", "Watch Palin talk about potential plans for the vice-presidency » .", "\"That's been my forte as the governor of an energy producing state and as a former chair of the, of the energy regulator -- entity up there in Alaska,\" she said.", "\"[I] look forward to that and that's a matter of national security and, and our economic prosperity opportunities.\"", "Palin also said helping families with special needs children and cleaning up Wall Street were among the other \"missions\" she and McCain had discussed.", "Palin emphasized her executive credentials as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and governor of Alaska, contrasting them with what she said was Sen. Barack Obama's lack of leadership experience.", "\"We don't like to toot our own horn so we don't,\" Palin said.", "\"But, I have, I do have more experience than Barack Obama does.", "You know, he had served for his 300 days before he became a presidential candidate and that wasn't in, in executive office.\"", "Watch Palin say she has more experience than Obama » .", "Palin also apologized Tuesday for any misunderstanding caused when she referred last week to the patriotic values of \"the real America\" and \"pro-America areas of this great nation.\"", "Democrats and others criticized Palin for seeming to imply that some parts of the country are more patriotic than others.", "Palin denied that was her intention in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.", "\"I don't want that misunderstood,\" Palin said.", "\"If that's the way it came across, I apologize.\"", "The Alaska governor made the remarks at a fundraising event in North Carolina last week.", "\"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation,\" she told the crowd.", "On Tuesday, Palin also addressed Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden's comment that Sen. Barack Obama would be tested from the very beginning of his time in office.", "At a fundraiser Sunday night, Biden said that after taking office, \"it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.", "... We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.\"", "Palin told Griffin that the comment points to the dangers of electing a relatively inexperienced person .", "\"We need to thank Joe [Biden] for the warning,\" Palin said.", "Watch Palin say the media gave Biden a pass » .", "Biden's point, according to a statement issued later, was that \"we need steady leadership in tumultuous times, not ... the stubborn ideology of John McCain.\"", "Palin stopped short of labeling Obama a socialist Tuesday, although she and others have previously called his tax policies socialist.", "\"I'm not going to call him a socialist, but as 'Joe the Plumber' has said, it looks like socialism to him,\" she said of Joe \"the plumber\" Wurzelbacher.", "The GOP ticket and their supporters have invoked Joe the Plumber numerous times ever since the Ohio man confronted Obama about his tax policy in an impromptu campaign moment.", "Palin said Wurzelbacher is representative of \"Jane the engineer and Molly the dental hygienist and Chuck the teacher.\"", "Obama defended his decision to raise taxes on couples earning more than $250,000 a year while cutting taxes for people with lower incomes, telling Wurzelbacher that \"when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.\"", "Palin said the policy was \"not good for the entrepreneurial spirit that has built this great country,\" the economy or small businesses.", "Watch the entire interview with Gov.", "Sarah Palin » .", "Obama brushed off McCain and Palin's characterization on Sunday in Fayetteville, North Carolina.", "\"John McCain thinks that giving these Americans a break is socialism,\" Obama said.", "\"Well, I call it opportunity, and there is nothing more American than that.\"" ]	[ "NEW: If elected, Palin says she will address energy issues, government reform .", "NEW: Palin says she has more executive experience than Sen. Barack Obama .", "Palin says she did not intend to imply that parts of America more patriotic than others .", "Palin made the controversial remarks at a rally in North Carolina last week ." ]	[ 1, 17, 19, 23, 39 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Getting \"out of this world\" with civilian space travel is not quite as simple as you may think.", "Ready for launch: video game programmer Richard Garriott shown in training for his space flight in October.", "Aside from the obvious financial limitations which restrict space tourism to the rich and the ridiculously rich, there are also significant training programs and testing to be completed before proceeding to lift-off.", "To gain a better insight into this training, well-known video game programmer and designer Richard Garriott, who is preparing for his own space adventure in October, is detailing in a blog what he and others have to go through in order to make it into orbit as a space traveler.", "Garriott has been in training since the beginning of the year and told CNN the first major thing to surprise him was the intensity of preparations.", "\"When I first came here in January, I thought nine months to get trained for this is going to be plenty of time.", "Of course, very quickly, I realized that I had signed up for a very complex task, something much more difficult that I had anticipated.", "I immediately knew that nine months was going to be a lot of work to get everything prepared for the flight.", "\"And now that I am so close to the flight, I am still feeling the pressure, I definitively have been working very long days and most nights,\" Garriott said.", "The training regime has three major strands: physical training, which includes preparation to acclimatize to the space environment; practical training for day-to-day living in space; and like any flight, be it 10 minutes or 10 days, training in safety procedures for emergency situations.", "Trainees generally spend nine months or more on and off-site to complete the requirements, which include everything from flight simulations to learning how to use the toilet.", "Eric Anderson, president and CEO of Space Adventures, the company sending Garriott into space, told CNN the training program is extensive, but does not exclude people from making the flight.", "\"Their total training program is a few months, but we tend to spread it out so they can fit it around their normal lives.", "They are not training to the same degree as the professionals.\"", "As long as space hopefuls are in reasonable health, they can usually go ahead with their adventure, he said.", "\"There's some fitness involved.", "There are certainly [medical] things that are not allowable in space, but they are generally more serious conditions.\"", "He said the major fitness issue with space travel was preparing for the change in \"Gs.\"", "\"The body is designed to live on one 'G,' so when you expose it to higher 'Gs' it has an effect.", "With the training and given the [short] length of the visits there's a minimal effect on the body.\"", "In his blog on the training process, Garriott said one part of the training was indisputably the worst.", "\"Hardest of all was the 'Spinning Chair of Ultimate Sickness.'", "I can't imagine that I will ever again voluntarily sit in a device designed to make you sick, or ride it as long as I can.", "Ugh, this is definitely my least favorite part of training!\"", "Despite such disturbing preparations, Anderson said much of the training, which takes place at Space Adventures' base in Star City, Russia, is centered upon general living in space.", "\"There's a few requirements about what you need to know to live in the space station ... how to eat, how to drink, and how to use the restroom, for example,\" he said.", "\"There's also a lot of simulation you go through ... there's preparation to acclimatize you to the space environment.\"", "Garriott said many of the procedures for living in space, or for emergencies, are very complex.", "\"There are a lot of technical details behind all the different systems we need to understand ... fire detection and alarms, plus procedures and equipment for dealing with fire emergencies; protective breathing apparatus in case of chamber decompression or malfunction; the toilet (everybody's favorite piece of space trivia!", "), including powering up the can for suction and waste removal; and lastly, onboard water sources.\"", "He admits the learning requirements had him preparing for exams by \"cramming like any good college kid.\"", "And the most fascinating part of the training?", "In Garriott's opinion, it was running in a hypobaric chamber, where the altitude was set at 10,000 meters (about 2,000 meters higher than Mount Everest).", "\"I felt no physical or mental problems, but I did notice an odd physiological issue that is quite hard to describe.", "Basically, it was possible to make a tennis ball-sized pocket in my mouth, but one which had no air in it as it was just a vacuum!", "\"By that I mean try to imagine creating a cavity inside your mouth without any air bubbles and by letting in no air through your lips or throat -- it's basically impossible at sea level because the air pressure outside your mouth pushes the air pocket closed,\" he said.", "\"However, at 10,000 meters the air is so much thinner that you can pull off this oral stunt without a hitch!", "Weird.\" It truly is." ]	[ "Richard Garriott will fly with Space Adventures into space in October .", "Training involves physical, practical and safety preparation .", "Garriott says the toughest part is a spinning chair designed to make you vomit .", "Learning to go to the toilet in space is part of the training ." ]	[ 3, 9, 20, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama will take a break from campaigning Thursday so he can visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, an Obama spokesman said Monday.", "Sen. Barack Obama will take a break from campaigning so he can visit his ailing grandmother.", "\"Sen. Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham has always been one of the most important people in his life,\" spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.", "\"In the last few weeks, her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious.", "It is for that reason that Sen. Obama has decided to change his schedule on Thursday and Friday so that he can see her and spend some time with her,\" Gibbs said.", "The interruption will cause Obama to cancel Thursday events in Madison, Wisconsin and Des Moines, Iowa.", "He will do an event in Indianapolis, Indiana, Thursday morning before leaving and will return to the campaign Saturday, Gibbs said.", "Michelle Obama will fill in for her husband on Friday at previously scheduled events in Columbus and Akron, Ohio, his campaign said.", "Obama speaks about his grandmother often on the stump, describing her as an integral figure in his youth who struggled against the glass ceiling in to make a better life for him.", "\"She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life,\" he said in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August.", "\"She poured everything she had into me.", "And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well.\"", "He and his family traveled to Hawaii in August to visit her.", "The Obama team made the announcement after a busy day of trading attacks with Sen. John McCain on the Democratic presidential hopeful's readiness for office.", "Monday also marked the first time that Obama appeared with Sen. Hillary Clinton during the general election season.", "Clinton went to Florida, a state she won in the primary but whose delegates she could not claim, to urge her supporters to turn out for Obama on Election Day.", "Clinton called Orlando and central Florida \"the battleground of the battleground\" and practically begged the crowd to vote early.", "\"We are 15 days from the finish line and we cannot falter, we cannot stop, we cannot take a single vote for granted,\" Clinton said Monday.", "\"I am asking you to work as hard for Barack as you worked for me.", "If you made phone calls for me, make them for Barack.", "If you walked streets for me, make them for Barack.", "If you talked to your friends and neighbors for me, do it again for Barack.", "We cannot risk four more years of the same failed Republican policies.\"", "Earlier in the day, McCain told a crowd in Belton, Missouri, that the next president \"won't have time to get used to the office.\"", "He was addressing comments made Sunday by Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, in which he said Obama would be tested within the first six months of his presidency.", "\"We don't want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars,\" McCain said.", "\"What is more troubling is that Sen. Biden told their campaign donors that when that crisis hits, they would have to stand with them because it wouldn't be apparent Sen. Obama would have the right response.", "The Obama-Biden campaign released a pre-emptive response after reading McCain's scheduled remarks.", "\"With our nation facing two wars and 21st century threats abroad, Sen. Biden referenced the simple fact that history shows presidents face challenges from day one,\" Obama spokesman David Wade said.", "\"After eight years of a failed foreign policy, we need Barack Obama's good judgment and steady leadership, not the erratic and ideological Bush-McCain approach that has set back our security and standing in the world.\"", "Earlier Monday, Obama denounced the \"say-anything, do-anything politics\" of McCain's camp, but said \"careless, outrageous comments\" won't distract him from addressing the nation's ills.", "Obama added that Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, rejected some of the tactics when she spoke out against a flood of automated phone calls tying Obama to former radical William Ayers.", "The calls were reported in several battleground states.", "\"It's getting so bad that even Sen. McCain's running mate denounced his tactics last night,\" Obama said at a campaign event in Tampa, Florida.", "\"As you know, you really have to work hard to violate Gov.", "Palin's standards on negative campaigning.\"", "Sunday night, Palin told reporters traveling with her that if she had her way, the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee would not be flooding battleground states with the automated phone calls, which she said the Obama campaign was using too.", "Over the next 15 days, Obama said Monday, he will continue his quest for the Oval Office while disregarding the divisive politics that he said McCain is endorsing \"to keep us from working together.\"", "The McCain campaign, meanwhile, continued its weekend assault on Obama's tax plan, which it called an attempt to \"spread the wealth.\"", "iReport.com: Send your questions for Sen. John McCain .", "Speaking at a campaign event in St. Charles, Missouri, a chorus of boos rang out as the Arizona senator described his take on the plan.", "\"He believes in redistributing wealth -- not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs and opportunities for all Americans.", "Sen. Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than in growing the pie.\"", "In Colorado Springs, Colorado, Palin also continued her line of attack from the weekend, but softened her tone in that she didn't call Obama's plan socialism.", "Watch Palin say Obama sounds like a socialist » .", "Over the weekend, Palin and Sen. Mel Martinez, a Cuban-American GOP senator from Florida, called Obama's plan socialism.", "Martinez compared the plan to the tax structure in communist Cuba.", "McCain has taken a softer tone.", "On Sunday, he dodged a question from Fox News' Chris Wallace about whether Obama was a socialist, but said his rival's tax plan was an effort \"to spread the wealth.\"", "\"That's one of the tenets of socialism,\" McCain said.", "Watch Obama defend his plan » .", "Obama's tax plan calls for tax relief for 95 percent of workers and their families.", "Though nonpartisan tax policy organizations agree that 40 percent of Americans don't pay income tax, many of those are lower-income earners who file payroll taxes through their employers.", "See the fact check .", "After receiving an endorsement from Colin Powell, a former Republican secretary of state and retired Army general, Obama asked if Powell and billionaire Warren Buffett -- No.", "2 on Forbes magazine's 2008 list of richest Americans -- would have extended their backing if he was a socialist.", "Watch Obama explain Powell's influence » .", "Obama said he simply wants to give the middle class a tax cut.", "Powell came to Obama's defense after endorsing the senator from Illinois.", "Powell said he had grown tired of McCain's negative campaigning and that the American people would prefer to focus on issues like education, infrastructure and the economy.", "He specifically slammed Palin's allegation that Obama's tax plan is socialist, calling it misleading.", "iReport.com: What do you think about Powell's endorsement?", "\"For us to say that makes you a socialist, I think, is an unfortunate characterization that isn't accurate.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Sen. Hillary Clinton urges Floridians to back Obama in appearance with him .", "Obama will leave campaign trail Thursday after Indiana stop and return Saturday .", "Rest of Thursday events canceled; Michelle Obama will stand in on Friday .", "McCain references Biden comment that Obama will be tested with early crisis ." ]	[ 6, 7, 14, 26, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The parents of a Tennessee preacher shot to death by his wife convinced a judge to keep the convicted killer at home, but they couldn't keep her off the air.", "Mary Winkler describes her troubled marriage during a taped segrment of \"The Oprah Winfrey Show.\"", "Seven months in custody wasn't a long enough sentence for what she did, Mary Winkler said Wednesday in an exclusive, pre-recorded interview with Oprah Winfrey.", "\"There's no amount of time I think you can put on something like this.", "I was just ready for them to lock the door and throw away the key,\" she told Winfrey.", "Winkler had sought permission to travel to Chicago, Illinois, to appear live on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show,\" but the judge who presided over her trial would not give her permission to travel.", "Her in-laws, who are suing Winkler for wrongful death and are seeking to revoke her parental rights, also fought the television appearance.", "Watch Winkler's interview with Oprah » .", "Winkler was convicted earlier this year of the shotgun slaying of her husband, Matthew, at the time the minister of the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer, Tennessee.", "She told Winfrey that she killed her husband following years of abuse, including physical violence and being forced to dress \"slutty\" for undesirable sex acts.", "All she remembers, she said, is the \"boom\" as the shotgun went off.", "Winkler's account on the show was virtually identical to her testimony during her trial earlier this year.", "A jury of 10 women and one man found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter.", "Prosecutors had been pushing for a first-degree murder conviction.", "She was released last month from a Tennessee mental heath facility.", "Winfrey said on the show that Matthew Winkler's parents did not respond to requests for an interview.", "Dan and Diane Winkler, who have filed a $2 million wrongful-death suit against Mary Winkler, are pitched in a bitter custody battle over the couple's three daughters.", "The grandparents are trying to terminate her parental rights and adopt the three girls.", "Mary Winkler's attorney, Steve Farese, said a hearing in the case is scheduled for next week .", "During the trial, Diane Winkler chastised Mary for never apologizing to them or his children.", "Mary Winkler told Winfrey she is sorry she killed her husband and she would like a chance to sit down with her in-laws, whom she loves, misses and prays for every day.", "Asked by Winfrey what she would say to them, Winkler said she couldn't hone it down to two or three sentences.", "\"Just when that time comes, my heart will tell me what to say,\" she said.", "In her interview with Winfrey -- for a show titled \"The wife who killed her minister husband\" -- Winkler said tensions began when her husband tried to put their crying 1-year-old daughter, Brianna, back to sleep by \"covering her mouth and nose.\"", "\"I don't think he had intentions of killing; he just tried to get her to pass out,\" Winkler said, recounting the events just prior to her husband's March 2006 death at the church parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee.", "Winkler, then 31 and a mother of three, said she was used to his temper, saying, he often \"would just get irate with the baby monitor and Brianna crying.\"", "\"That's just something that would set him off,\" she told Winfrey.", "After putting Brianna to bed, she returned to the bedroom where Matthew was \"and I just wanted to talk to Matthew.", "And there's just that awful -- awful sound,\" she said, referring to the shotgun blast.", "Asked what she wanted to say to her husband when she went back to the bedroom, Winkler said, \"Just to stop.", "Be happy. He had to be miserable the way he acted and to just stop being so mean and just relax and enjoy life.\"", "She said she doesn't remember retrieving the shotgun from the closet, but she remembers thinking the gun was not loaded and that she \"never in a million years would've dreamed that there would've been something in that.\"", "\"I was so afraid,\" she said, adding that she feared for her life and it was \"not realistic\" to try reasoning with her husband.", "She doesn't know if she was using the gun to intimidate him or to get his attention, she said.", "\"When I heard the boom, I just thought that it would've hit the ceiling, the window.", "And I just thought, 'Oh my goodness, he's going to think I meant to do that on purpose' and so I took out of there and took off running,\" she said.", "\"At some point, I just realized he wasn't chasing me and I just had to go back in and face the realization.\"", "The realization was that the shotgun blast had sent 77 pellets into her husband's back.", "An autopsy report indicated he survived for a few minutes, said Winfrey, who grilled Winkler on what she did next.", "\"He was bleeding and it was just instinct to wipe his mouth, but it just kept coming.", "I didn't know how he was hurt. I couldn't see anything wrong with him,\" she said.", "\"When you actually see somebody that's just died, they just change appearance in a matter of seconds.", "It was just terrible.\" Winkler told Winfrey she had never fired a shotgun before she killed her husband, but he had turned the weapon on her in the past.", "He also had threatened more egregious violence, she said.", "\"Did he say he would chop you up?\"", "Winfrey asked.", "\"Yeah, he would do it himself,\" Winkler replied.", "\"He would do what?\" \"Chop me into a million pieces\" Winkler never stood up for herself, nor did she tell anyone about her husband's allegedly abusive behavior, she said, because she wanted to maintain the image of a perfect couple.", "She used makeup to cover up bruises.", "Her father, Clark Freeman, recalled to Winfrey a time he confronted her about her injuries.", "She just hung her head and said, \"Everything's all right.", "Everything's all right.\"", "Freeman said.", "Her husband also sexually abused her, Winkler said.", "He made her wear platform shoes and wigs and made her perform \"sexual acts that I didn't want to do.\"", "She said she regrets never standing up for herself, she said.", "\"That's where I will always grieve the fact that I failed Matthew in not bringing it to his attention how bad it was,\" she said.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "NEW: Wife says sentence for shooting preacher was too short .", "Judge wouldn't allow woman to travel for show; taped segment airs .", "Mary Winkler convicted of manslaughter in shotgun slaying .", "She is battling her in-laws for custody of her three daughters ." ]	[ 2, 8, 20 ]
[ "BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Graphic footage of death and destruction has been shown on China's state-run news networks in the days following the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week.", "Such telling video has rarely been shown by domestic media so extensively and so quickly after a national disaster.", "CCTV, China's state-run television network, as well as some local TV stations, have interrupted their regular programming to provide 24-hour coverage of the disaster.", "Field reporters give live reports of search-and rescue operations.", "News about China's deadly earthquake is being updated around the clock -- tallying death tolls, the horrendous damage and the government's swift response.", "Footage shows Premier Wen Jiabao surrounded by grieving villagers, his arms tightly holding two young girls.", "\"Your sorrow is our sorrow,\" he assures them.", "\"As long as people are still alive, we can start all over again.\"", "Premier Wen traveled to the disaster areas within hours of the massive earthquake.", "Chinese television covered his movements while leading rescue operations and comforting people in distress.", "Wearing a hard hat, he was shown standing on rubble and consoling trapped survivors through a loud speaker.", "The message is compelling: This disaster is terrible but the government is doing everything it can.", "Such swift reaction and extensive news coverage has not been seen in previous disasters.", "When the Great Tangshan earthquake struck 32 years ago, the Chinese media kept the information secret for a long time, even though over 240,000 people were killed.", "In the early stages of the 2003 SARS outbreak, domestic media downplayed reports on the deadly epidemic, even as it spiraled out of control and spread globally.", "More recently, severe snowstorms hit southern China during Spring Festival, the nation's most important holiday.", "Local media initially downplayed the crisis, following the government's cue; Premier Wen Jiabao was later forced to apologize for the government's slow response.", "With the Beijing Olympics just three months away, China is in the spotlight.", "Wenran Jiang, acting director of the Chinese Institute at the University of Alberta, believes the nation has drawn lessons from its past experiences with disaster.", "\"China made mistakes before.", "They seemed to have learned their lessons from the earlier episodes and this one -- they probably want to manage it as well as they can.\"", "Watch latest report on rescue efforts » .", "Why China's new approach?", "Jiang notes that \"the media follow-up is quite transparent,\" in part because it \"is politically less sensitive covering such a natural disaster.\"", "Besides, Chinese officials see tangible benefits in allowing media transparency.", "By showing the leaders helping people and coordinating search and rescue efforts, he explains, \"the result is that the whole [of] China is being mobilized.", "The disaster has now become a rallying point of the country.\"", "Experts in the region note the stark contrast between China's open response in the aftermath of the earthquake and Myanmar's defensive, clumsy response in the aftermath of a deadly cyclone earlier this month.", "Unlike its southern neighbor, China appears open to accepting international help and providing accurate information.", "Chinese officials say they welcome offers of sympathy and international assistance.", "Aid groups have been on standby, ready to help as soon as the Chinese government gives the green light.", "Officials say that will come \"when the time is ripe.\"", "Today's more open, quick and aggressive reporting is a stark departure from China's poor performance in recent years." ]	[ "Graphic footage of death, destruction has been shown on state-run networks .", "TV stations have interrupted regular shows to provide 24-hour coverage .", "Swift reaction, extensive news coverage not seen in previous disasters .", "When earthquake struck 32 years ago, Chinese media kept information secret ." ]	[ 0, 2, 12, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Rev. Rick Warren, often called America's most influential pastor, will be hosting Sens.", "Barack Obama and John McCain for what's being called the civil forum on the presidency.", "Rick Warren will be hosting the civil forum on the presidency .", "Warren, who heads up the country's fourth largest church, is also an author whose books have sold more than 30 million copies.", "The candidates will appear together at Warren's 20,000-member Saddleback mega-church in southern California where they each will be interviewed for an hour.", "Warren spoke with John Roberts on CNN's American Morning about what he hopes to accomplish at the forum.", "John Roberts: What do you want to hear from candidates Saturday night?", "Rick Warren: You know, John, we're going to look at four different segments.", "One is a segment on leadership.", "What is the personal character, competence, and experience of each of these guys.", "One section will be on what I call stewardship -- the role and responsibility of presidency, what they believe about the constitution, the role of America.", "We're going to look at a section on world view -- all of the minefield questions that no matter how you answer them, somebody's not going to like it.", "Then we're going to look at America's role internationally.", "How we've been a blessed nation and how should we bless others.", "Roberts: Are you going to ask them about issues like abortion and same-sex marriage?", "Pro-life advocates are hoping you do.", "There has been some criticism in some corners you have been soft-pedaling political issues that are central to evangelicals.", "Warren: I think everybody will be surprised.", "I'm going to ask all of the tough questions.", "I just intend to ask them in a civil way.", "This is called a civil forum, which means you can disagree without demonizing the opposition.", "I think everybody wants to hear questions not just about those \"moral issues,\" but also about a lot of other things, too.", "I'm trying to stake out a common ground for the common good.", "Roberts: When you take a look at the evangelical vote in 2004, George Bush captured more than 75 percent of people who identify themselves as either born again or evangelical.", "Our recent polling, CNN Opinion Research Corporation polls, found when it comes to John McCain, only 67 percent of evangelicals say they'll support him.", "Are you surprised at the shift?", "Warren: It's interesting to me.", "Both of these men have been around for some time.", "Obama's written two books.", "Still a lot of people say, I'd like to know the real person.", "What are they really like?", "I'm hoping that'll happen in this forum.", "Evangelicals have never been a monolithic voting base.", "Never. And the people who try to predict which way they're going to go in this election I think may be surprised after Election Day.", "You don't really know.", "I don't know, and I don't think anybody knows.", "Roberts: As you know, John McCain in 2000 during the primaries ran afoul of evangelicals when he criticized Pat Robinson.", "He's tried to repair the relationship.", "Has he gone far enough?", "Warren: The religious right, fundamentalists and evangelic evangelicals aren't synonyms for each other.", "I think John may have been talking about certain groups that he was worried about at that time.", "But he certainly rebuilt bridges among them today.", "It's just a question of whether they're going to vote on his issues or if they're going to vote on Obama's, and we'll see.", "Roberts: As for you yourself in the most recent edition of Time magazine on which you're the cover, they've suggested you're evolving into the \"superpolitical.\"", "Others have suggested you're becoming a spiritual entrepreneur.", "What do you make of the titles people are ascribing to you?", "Warren: When you try to line out a middle ground -- common ground for the common good of America -- you get pot shots from both sides.", "If I were just the left, I'd only get it from the right.", "If I were just the right, I'd only get it from the left.", "Because I believe in the monogood and don't happen to think either party gets it right all the time.", "I don't think anybody bats 1,000.", "I get it from both sides. That's to be expected." ]	[ "Those who think they can predict the evangelical vote may be surprised, Rick Warren says .", "Pastor plans to ask candidates about America's role internationally .", "Warren: Forum won't just focus on \"moral issues,\" but try to find a middle ground .", "Tough questions will be asked, but in a civil way, pastor says ." ]	[ 2, 12, 21, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama on Friday called for an economic plan for working families, saying, \"We cannot only have a plan for Wall Street.", "Sen. Barak Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Coral Gables, Florida, Friday.", "\"We must also help Main Street,\" he said.", "While \"tough new regulations on financial institutions\" are needed, the Illinois senator called for an emergency economic plan for working families.", "Obama spoke after meeting with his economic advisers in Coral Gables, Florida.", "Watch Obama call for help for Main Street » .", "Obama on Friday also backed administration and congressional leaders' efforts to develop a \"a more stable and permanent solution\" to the U.S. financial crisis.", "Watch Obama talk about how working Americans need help in this economy .", "Obama's statement came after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox met with congressional leaders to discuss a plan that would allow banks to get rid of bad mortgage-related assets that have been a drag on their balance sheets.", "\"What we're looking at right now is to provide the Treasury and the Federal Reserve with as broad authority as necessary to stabilize markets and maintain credit,\" Obama said.", "\"We need a more institutional response to create a system that can manage some of the underlying problems with bad mortgages, help homeowners stay in their homes, protect the retirement and savings of working Americans.\"", "After meeting with his economic advisors, Obama said his team would not present a detailed economic plan at this time, \"given the gravity of this situation, and based on conversations I have had with both Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke.\"", "Obama said he would not present his plan until the Treasury and Federal Reserve have presented theirs.", "\"It is critical at this point that the markets and the public have confidence that their work will be unimpeded by partisan wrangling, and that leaders in both parties work in concert to solve the problem at hand,\" Obama said.", "Later, Obama held a rally, at the University of Miami, which was disrupted by protesters who held up signs saying \"Blacks against Obama\" and \"Obama endorsed by the KKK.\"", "Obama said the protesters could stay and hold up their signs if they stopped shouting, but they were later escorted out after they continued to disrupt the rally.", "Obama spoke after Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said Friday morning that he would establish a new agency to deal with the U.S. financial crisis that many experts say is the worst since the Great Depression.", "Watch McCain blast Washington corruption » .", "That agency, a Mortgage and Financial Institutions trust, would work with the private sector and regulators to identify institutions that are weak and fix them before they go broke.", "\"The underlying principle of the MFI or any approach considered by Congress should be to keep people in their homes and safeguard the life savings of all Americans by protecting our financial system and capital markets,\" McCain told the Green Bay Chamber of Commerce in Wisconsin.", "McCain said the agency would be an early intervention program to help financial institutions avoid bankruptcy, expensive bailouts and damage to their customers.", "Obama, at the rally in Florida, lashed out at McCain's plan.", "\"This morning Sen. McCain gave a speech in which his big solution to this worldwide economic crisis was to blame me for it.", "\"This is a guy who spent nearly three decades in Washington and after spending the entire campaign saying I haven't been in Washington long enough ... he apparently now is willing to assign me responsibility for all of Washington's failure,\" he said.", "Wall Street witnessed the federal government take unprecedented steps this week to stabilize the economy, including the takeover of the insurance giant American International Group Inc. in exchange for an $85 billion loan from the Federal Reserve.", "In his speech, McCain blamed the crisis on \"the corruption and manipulation of our home mortgage system\" and blasted Congress and the administration for not addressing the problems at the two mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which he said \"led our housing system down a path where quick profit was placed before sound finance.\"", "McCain also blasted his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, for not working to clean up the \"corruption\" at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.", "Fact Check: Did Obama 'profit' from Fannie and Freddie?", "\"We've heard a lot of words from Sen. Obama over the course of this campaign.", "But maybe just this once he could spare us the lectures and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems.", "The crisis on Wall Street started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and he was square in the middle of it.\"", "Although action must be taken to avoid future panics, the Arizona Republican said that ultimately, the economy would have to grow to get through \"this tough time for America.\"", "McCain touted his economic plan, which includes tax cuts, and again said Obama would increase taxes on Americans who make as little as $42,000.", "McCain's charge that his opponent would raise taxes on those making $42,000 is misleading, however.", "The McCain campaign cites Obama's vote for a nonbinding 2008 budget resolution that outlines budget priorities through 2013 and assumed that President Bush's tax cuts would expire in 2011.", "Fact Check: Does Obama want to raise taxes?", "The Obama campaign says its economic plan would raise taxes only on those making over $250,000.", "The economic crisis has given Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, the opportunity to go on the offensive.", "Most Americans see Obama as more capable than McCain when it comes to the economy, polls indicate.", "The two campaigns have traded shots all week, most recently over the government takeover of AIG.", "As the economy has dominated the headlines, Obama has widened his lead over McCain, according to CNN's latest \"poll of polls.\"", "Obama gains in national polls ." ]	[ "NEW: Sen. Obama says any recover plan must help workers and homeowners .", "McCain repeats misleading charge against Obama on taxes .", "John McCain calls for agency to help weak financial institutions .", "McCain blasts Barack Obama for not working to fix Freddie Mae, Freddie Mac ." ]	[ 2, 3, 5, 26, 33, 35 ]
[ "Editor's Note: Republican strategist Alex Castellanos was a former campaign consultant for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and has worked on more than half a dozen presidential campaigns.", "Castellanos is a partner in National Media Inc., a political and public affairs consulting firm that specializes in advertising.", "He has produced many Republican political ads and has clients such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.", "Alex Castellanos says Barack Obama's change theme has buckled to \"top-down liberalism.\"", "(CNN) -- In theater, they say the second act is the hardest to write.", "It requires relentless focus and discipline.", "The writer must give himself fearlessly to one central idea and never waver, though temptation is the opposite: There are many paths a story can take.", "So it is in politics, as Barack Obama's campaign is learning.", "The clear campaign of change ran into trouble in Act II when it was tasked with explaining what change actually meant.", "Obama, as they say in show business, \"ran out of script.\"", "The wind in his sails stalled in the hot calm of August and he has yet to recover.", "After John McCain's improbable resuscitation to seize the GOP nomination, the Arizona senator's top aides briefed him about his exacting challenge: He would go into the conventions trailing Obama by at least 8 percentage points and then battle back through the fall to parity.", "Yet, as cooler days and hotter rhetoric mark the start of the fall finale, it is Obama who finds himself clawing back, forced to attack, launching uncharacteristic partisan and personal attacks against a McCain who has \"lost track\" of and is \"confused\" about how many houses he owns.", "How did the soaring campaign of change become grinding politics-as-usual and crash so thunderously to earth?", "The Obama campaign's clear message in the primaries was a bottom-up, organic populism that cast voters themselves as the agents of change.", "\"We are the change we have been waiting for,\" Obama told his supporters during the primaries.", "In return, they sang, \"Yes we can.\"", "This heady mix of populism and change swelled his campaign into a cause.", "In marketing terms, it is called \"voter as hero.\"", "Obama empowered his supporters, telling them they, not the old political establishment, could achieve anything.", "Bottom-up politics is one thing, however.", "Bottom-up government, another.", "When Barack Obama became the nominee of the national Democratic establishment, the candidate of hope ran into political reality: His party's canons of governing are the opposite of change.", "Barack Obama may believe \"change doesn't come from the top down, it comes from the bottom up,\" but the leadership of his party doesn't.", "The national Democratic establishment, from the Daily Kos and MoveOn.org to Pelosi and Reid in Congress, still believe in top-down big-government from Washington, especially if they get to run the factory.", "Politically, they are industrial-age dinosaurs .", "They believe the era of big government is back, not over.", "They would keep money and power in their hands, not devolve it to the average American.", "That was not something the Denver Democrats were eager to confess.", "Instead, they advocated a sly European-style socialism that would not speak its intent.", "\"Decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege,\" the Democrats offered during the first night of their convention.", "A big-government health-care factory run by Washington?", "That's change? Why not the same for food, clothing and shelter?", "But relax, Joe Lunchbucket, an even bigger public-sector industrial plant will impose no cost on your family.", "Obama's party promises not to tax you, just business -- the people who sell you your groceries and gasoline and sign your paychecks.", "As Fred Thompson noted in his GOP convention speech, \"They won't take any water out of your side of the bucket.", "Just the other side.\" This is not \"voter as hero\" but, instead, \"voter as victim.\"", "A heroic Washington has all the money, the power, and the answers.", "Same old, same old. So the candidate of change fell silent.", "And he sang change never again.", "Barack Obama could have spoken truth to power.", "He could have pledged to confront the Democratic Party establishment.", "He could have brought a more natural, organic era of bottom-up government, not just bottom-up politics, to a dated party clinging to a decaying philosophy of authority.", "But when the irresistible force of Obama's bottom-up politics met the immovable object of Democratic Party power, it was the dream, not the power, that conceded.", "\"Yes we can\" turned out to mean not \"Yes the people can\", just \"Yes Washington can.\"", "Too bad. It would have refreshed the Democratic Party and the country.", "This movie is not new: The candidate who runs to change the establishment doesn't.", "Instead, we see it change him.", "The hope for real change in Washington has been suffocated by an older generation's embrace.", "Now, Barack Obama finds himself trapped without a post-partisan message.", "Instead of challenging politics-as-usual, he sells the usual partisan politics: \"Bush-McCain\", he shouts from rooftops, sounding like every other Democrat in the chorus, pretending partisanship is fresh.", "The story? Bottom-up change ran into top-down liberalism.", "Old-fashioned liberalism won.", "That's Act II. Stand by for the play's end.", "This opinions in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Alex Castellanos: Obama's message was populism and bottom-up change .", "Obama campaign taken over by Democratic establishment, he says .", "Castellanos: Democratic party champions big government and opposes change .", "\"Yes we can\" turned into \"Yes Washington can,\" Castellanos says ." ]	[ 3, 14, 31, 41, 44 ]
[ "NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India launched its first lunar mission on Wednesday, with hopes of achieving high-resolution images of the moon's topography and diving into the international space race.", "The spacecraft carrying India's first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, lifts off in Sriharikota on Wednesday.", "The unmanned lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1, or \"moon craft\" in ancient Sanskrit, came at 6:20 a.m. Wednesday (8:50 p.m.", "ET) from the Sriharikota space center in southern India.", "The two-year mission seeks high-resolution imaging of the moon's surface, especially the permanently shadowed polar regions, according to the Indian Space Research Organization.", "It will also search for evidence of water or ice and attempt to identify the chemical breakdown of certain lunar rocks, the group said.", "Despite the numerous missions to the moon over the past 50 years, \"we really don't have a good map of the moon,\" said Miles O'Brien, CNN chief technology and environment correspondent.", "\"The goal is to come up with a very intricate, three-dimensional map of the moon.\"", "The Chandrayaan-1 is carrying payloads from the United States, European Union countries Germany, Britain, Sweden and Bulgaria, and India plans to share the data from the mission with other programs, including NASA.", "Watch the launch of India's first lunar mission » .", "ISRO said on its Web site that the mission would lay the groundwork for future lunar missions and \"probe the physical characteristics of the lunar surface in greater depth than previous missions by other nations.\"", "\"It will also give us a deeper understanding about the planet Earth itself or its origins,\" a statement on the Web site said.", "\"Earlier missions did not come out with a full understanding of the moon and that is the reason scientists are still interested.", "This will lay the foundation for bigger missions and also open up new possibilities of international networking and support for planetary programs.\"", "Until now, India's space launches have been more practical, with weather warning satellites and communiations systems, The Associated Press cited former NASA associated administrator Scott Pace as saying.", "To date, only the U.S. Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China have sent missions to the moon, according to AP.", "Critics of the mission have questioned its $80 million price tag, saying the money should have been spent by the government to improve education and fight poverty.", "But, \"there are scientists that would argue that there are plenty of things we don't know about the moon ... and India might have the know-how\" to find answers, said CNN's Sara Sidner in New Delhi.", "The United States and the Soviet Union dominated the field of lunar exploration from the late 1950s.", "The United States is preparing for its own mission slated for next spring -- the first U.S. lunar mission in more than a decade, according to NASA.", "Soviet spacecraft were the first to fly by, land on and orbit the moon.", "Luna 1, launched on January 2, 1959, and sped by the moon two days later.", "Luna 2 was launched on an impact mission on September 12, 1959, striking the surface two days later.", "Luna 9 launched on January 31, 1966, becoming the first craft to successfully land on the moon and send back data, touching down on the surface on January 31, 1966, and transmitting until February 3, 1967, when its batteries ran out.", "Luna 10 was launched March 31, 1966, entered lunar orbit on April 3, and operated for 56 days.", "But the United States' Apollo missions were the first manned missions to reach the moon, culminating with six missions that set down on the surface.", "The first, Apollo 11, left earth on July 16, 1969, and landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the lunar surface on July 20 while command module pilot Michael Collins orbited above.", "The astronauts returned safely to earth on July 24.", "Most recently India's fellow Asian nations, China and Japan, put lunar orbiters in place.", "Japan launched the Kaguya orbiter in October 2007, followed by China's launch of the Chang'e mission a few weeks later.", "Watch what is shaping up to be a new space race » .", "\"Each nation is doing its own thing to drive its research technology for the well-being of that nation,\" AP quoted Charles Vick, a space analyst for the Washington think tank GlobalSecurity.org, as saying.", "Copyright 2008 CNN.", "All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.", "Associated Press contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Chandrayaan-1 is carrying payloads from the U.S., EU and Bulgaria .", "Two-year mission seeks high-resolution, 3-D imaging of the moon's surface .", "Chandrayaan-1 follows Japan and China's missions to the moon .", "Chandrayaan means \"moon craft\" in ancient Sanskrit ." ]	[ 2, 4, 8, 15 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- More than 1,300 pounds of explosives were packed into a construction truck that detonated outside an Islamabad hotel, killing 57 people, including two Americans and a diplomat, officials said Sunday.", "A truck burns at the gate to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad before a larger, deadly explosion Saturday.", "Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the Saturday attack at the Marriott Hotel \"is the biggest attack, volume-wise\" in Pakistan in seven years.", "Two American military personnel who worked for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad were among those killed, the U.S. military said.", "A Lithuanian and the Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, Ivo Zdarek, also were among the fatalities, police superintendent Sheikh Zubair said.", "The suicide truck blast injured 266 people, including 11 foreigners, according to Malik.", "Watch guards scatter after an explosion » .", "British Airways temporarily suspended its flights to Islamabad as a result of the security situation, according to an airline spokeswoman who did not want to be named.", "A Sunday night flight has been canceled, and the airline is reviewing its operations for later in the week.", "British Airways operates at least three flights a week to the Pakistani capital out of London's Heathrow Airport.", "At a news conference in Islamabad on Sunday, Pakistani authorities released security video of the blast, showing a small explosion inside the truck before the larger, deadly explosion.", "Watch the truck bomb caught on tape .", "In the video, a large truck crashes into the security gate, sending one security officer scurrying for safety.", "Then, as security guards approach the truck, the top of the vehicle explodes and the security guards flee.", "A small cloud of smoke appears above the truck, which is engulfed in flames minutes later.", "One of the security guards tries to put out the fire with a hand-held extinguisher, to no avail.", "The guards then walk away, and the camera freezes on the burning truck.", "Pakistani officials said the blast apparently disrupted electricity to the area, causing the closed-circuit television camera to malfunction.", "No arrests have been made in connection with the attack, Malik said Sunday, adding that militants in Pakistan's tribal regions are suspected of orchestrating the attack.", "\"I am not in a position to tell you who has done it, but [in] all the previous investigations, all the roads have gone to South Waziristan,\" he said.", "South Waziristan is one of Pakistan's seven tribal areas where Taliban and al Qaeda militants are active.", "At the bombing site, video showed a deep crater in the pavement where the bomb detonated.", "More than a dozen cars were reduced to twisted steel.", "The crater was 24 feet deep and nearly 60 feet wide, Malik said.", "The blast also caused a natural gas leak that set the top floor of the five-story, 258-room hotel on fire, police said.", "The blaze quickly engulfed the entire structure.", "Watch a witness describe walking over bodies » .", "Most of the fatalities appeared to be drivers, who were waiting with their cars outside the Marriott, and hotel security guards, Geo TV's Hamid Mir said.", "The hotel, where a standard room costs more than $300 per night, is near the compound that contains the Parliament building, the prime minister's house, the Supreme Court and the presidency.", "The blast occurred about 7:50 p.m., after the breaking of the fast during the holy month of Ramadan, Malik said.", "Trees were felled by the explosion, which occurred hours after newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari addressed a joint session of Parliament and promised to root out terrorism.", "Watch the scene the morning after the blast » .", "A few hours after the attack, Zardari addressed the nation on television, saying he knows the pain of terrorism after his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in December on the campaign trail.", "\"My heart cries tears of blood.", "I can understand your pain.", "I want to ask you to turn this pain into your strength,\" he said, describing extremism as \"a cancer, which we will finish.\"", "\"In the holy month of Ramadan, no Muslim can act in this way.", "These people are not Muslims,\" he said.", "\"I appeal to all democratic nations to help us get rid of this menace.\"", "The Marriott, a Western brand-name hotel, has been the site of attacks in the past.", "See where the attack occurred » .", "Malik said authorities had received a threat against Parliament two days ago.", "\"We had taken all security measures,\" he said.", "\"There was heavy security in the city.\"", "Located near the diplomatic section of the city and heavily guarded by police and the military, the hotel is popular among tourists and had been packed Saturday night.", "Any vehicle entering the facility is searched, its underside checked for bombs, before it is allowed to pass through heavy steel gates.", "Watch bombing victims rushed into hospital » .", "The British High Commission in Islamabad said six British nationals -- five adults and one minor -- were injured in the attack, including three commission members.", "A Pakistani staff member of the commission was also injured, it said.", "A spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry said six Germans in the hotel were slightly hurt in the attack, and that all embassy personnel were accounted for.", "CNN's Zein Basravi and Reza Sayah, and journalist Tomas Etzler contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Truck loaded with more than a half-ton of explosives, official says .", "U.S. military says two Americans assigned to embassy among dead .", "Pakistani president says of perpetrators: \"These people are not Muslims\"\nPolice: Ivo Zdarek, Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, died in hotel bombing ." ]	[ 0, 3, 4, 37 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A mother suspected of killing her four children, whose decomposing bodies were found in her home, told police they were possessed by demons, according to court records.", "Banita Jacks, 33, is charged with three counts of felony murder and one count of first-degree murder while armed.", "The victims, who range in age from 5 to 17 years, are thought to be her daughters.", "Their bodies were found when U.S. marshals served an eviction notice at Jacks' apartment in southeast Washington, D.C. Court documents say Jacks identified the victims as her daughters Brittany Jacks, 17; Tatianna Jacks, 11; N'kiah Fogle, 6; and Aja Fogle, 5.", "Earlier Thursday, Mayor Adrian Fenty said the bodies' decomposition has hindered their identification, although they were believed to be Jacks' children.", "Marie Pierre-Louis, Washington's chief medical examiner, said all four of the girls had been dead for at least 15 days.", "Jacks is being held without bail.", "Her next court appearance is scheduled for February 11.", "If convicted, she could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison.", "Jacks told police that her daughters were possessed by demons and that each died in her sleep during a seven- to 10-day period, court documents said.", "Aja died first, she told police, then N'kiah, Tatianna and Brittany.", "\"She said that as the first three younger children died, she placed them side by side in the room in which they died,\" according to court documents.", "She reported that all the deaths occurred sometime before the electricity in her house was disconnected, which records show was September 5, 2007, documents said.", "Jacks said she never tried to call authorities to remove the bodies \"because she didn't trust either agency and because she thought if she notified emergency personnel, that would cause her more problems,\" the documents said.", "She also said she had not fed her daughters food \"for a substantial period of time prior to their deaths.\"", "No one besides herself or the children had been in the home since May 2007, Jacks said.", "Pierre-Louis ruled the deaths homicides, according to a court document.", "Watch Pierre-Louis describe the condition of the bodies » .", "Preliminary findings are that Brittany was stabbed to death and that Aja died from blunt-force impact to the back of her head and possible ligature strangulation.", "Both Tatianna and N'kiah also had \"apparent ligature evidence\" on their necks that was \"somewhat more defined than that noted on Aja Fogle's neck,\" court documents said.", "However, the documents said, further tests are needed to confirm the causes of the deaths.", "All four children were wearing white T-shirts and were discovered in unfurnished bedrooms -- three in one and a fourth in another, the documents said.", "\"What appeared to be a metal steak knife\" was found next to the fourth.", "Also, the fourth body was found in a bedroom with hardwood floors, and a T-shirt with duct tape was found at the bottom of the bedroom door, filling the gap between the floor and the bottom of the door when it was closed.", "A witness told police they saw Jacks treat Brittany differently from her other children, sometimes withholding food from her while feeding the others, court documents said.", "In addition, the witness said Jacks once drove Brittany to Jacks' mother's home in Waldorf, Maryland, and left her there.", "Jacks' mother was not home, the witness said, and Brittany was left on the porch unattended for more than 10 hours.", "City officials are trying to determine how the children could have been dead for at least two weeks without anyone noticing their absence.", "Fenty said the city had determined that Jacks' children were \"in and out of the public school system\" and that the child welfare caseworkers and the metropolitan police had each had at least \"one contact\" with the family.", "Watch Fenty explain how a \"routine\" eviction became a death investigation » .", "\"There may be other contacts with the government ... in the case of the Jacks family,\" he said.", "He did not divulge further details.", "\"Somebody should have known that these young people were not in school or someplace,\" Councilman Marion Barry said Wednesday.", "The former Washington mayor represents the ward in which the bodies were found.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Larry Lazo contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: One child appeared to be stabbed to death, another strangled .", "Mother Banita Jacks, 33, told police her children died in their sleep .", "Jacks faces 3 counts of felony murder, 1 count of first-degree murder while armed .", "Officials trying to determine how kids' deaths, absences went unnoticed ." ]	[ 1, 9, 27 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy is having hundreds of its older F/A-18 fighter jets inspected, including some flying operations over Afghanistan, for cracks in part of a wing assembly, officials said Friday.", "Inspectors looking at F/A-18 fighter jets have found 15 with stress crack problems on the wings.", "Some 636 F/A-18 A through D model Hornets in both the Navy and the Marine Corps are being inspected for stress cracks on a hinge connecting the aileron to the flaps on the back side of the wings, according to Navy spokesmen.", "Inspectors started looking at the planes Thursday and have found 15 aircrafts with the problem.", "A panel on the wing can be swapped out with a new one to get rid of the problem.", "The Navy is still looking at the hinge in question to see whether the problem is severe enough to ground the Hornets and come up for a permanent fix for the hinge.", "Navy officials said there are no immediate plans to ground the 636 planes.", "This month, a post-flight inspection of one F/A-18 found a crack, and it was determined to be systemic enough to warrant an inspection of the older F/A-18s, according to Navy officials.", "The Navy also flies the Super Hornet, a newer version of the F/A-18.", "That plane is not part of this inspection.", "Navy flight operations around the world will not be interrupted because of the inspections, officials said." ]	[ "636 F/A-18 A through D model Hornets being inspected for stress crack .", "Inspectors started looking at planes Thursday and have found 15 with problem .", "Navy officials said there are no immediate plans to ground the planes ." ]	[ 3, 6 ]
[ "SHANGHAI, China (CNN) -- Natalie Williams, a 21-year-old Special Olympics basketball player from Kentucky, says she's never really been treated like a true athletic star.", "But that was before she came to the Games in China, which has undergone a major change in its treatment of the mentally disabled.", "Hong Kong's Special Olympics team marches into the stadium during last week's opening ceremony.", "\"They are able to accept special needs people in a way that maybe some other countries do not,\" Williams says.", "Last week, organizers rolled out the red carpet for athletes arriving at the Special Olympics in Shanghai, China.", "Never before in the 39-year history of the Special Olympics has there been such an extravagant, star-studded opening ceremony.", "And everywhere in this city, there are billboards with the smiling faces of the mentally disabled promoting the Games.", "China spent millions ensuring the 7,500 competitors are cared for -- and more importantly accepted.", "Watch 'This is a highlight to their lives' » .", "That's quite a turnaround for a country whose leadership, less than 20 years ago, refused to even acknowledge any of their citizens were intellectually disabled.", "At the time, former Prime Minister Li Peng was quoted as saying, \"Mentally retarded people give birth to idiots.\"", "\"There's a long way to go -- there's a long way.", "But the good news is we're moving,\" says Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics.", "China's transformation is so far mostly from the top down, beginning with no less than President Hu Jintao whose presence at the Opening Ceremony was particularly notable.", "See photos of the opening ceremony » .", "Also notable was the president's visit to one of Shanghai's \"Sunshine Homes\" this month.", "The shelters are a direct result of this city winning the rights five years ago to host the Special Olympics.", "Back then, officials quickly realized their treatment of the city's 70,000 mentally disabled was woefully inadequate.", "Now there are 240 Sunshine Homes spread across this sprawling city, caring for about 15,000 of those most in need, like 25-year-old Chen Xiaohan.", "She still struggles to speak with strangers, but her parents boast of her many achievements since enrolling a year ago.", "Xiaohan can make her own bed, walk to school and is learning piano.", "But more notable, says her father, Chen Zhixiang, is the change in recent years in the way his daughter is treated by neighbors.", "\"If in the past you looked down on them and now you still look down, it only proves your thinking is bad.", "Now when our neighbors see her, they're very nice.", "They ask, 'Chen Xiaohan, how are you today?'", "There isn't any more discrimination.\" The Special Olympics may have been a watershed moment for China's mentally disabled, but perhaps a breakthrough came a few years earlier, when Special Olympian Judy Yang appeared in a splashy spread on the front cover of a mainstream teen-age magazine.", "Photogenic and well-spoken, Yang has been an unofficial ambassador of sorts and, after her magazine debut, she noticed a real shift in how the Chinese related to the disabled.", "\"A lot of people are accepting now.", "They're willing to be friends, to let their children play with one another, and they can learn from each other as well.\"", "That may be true in China's biggest, richest and most Western city, Shanghai, but in the countryside not much appears to have changed.", "Intellectually disabled children that are hard to manage are often locked in caged rooms.", "Humanitarian officials say stories of doctors recommending disabled children be killed at birth are common.", "In addition, programs like Sunshine Homes are almost unheard of outside of Shanghai and caring for the almost 13 million intellectually disabled in China remains a major challenge.", "Earlier this year, authorities exposed a human trafficking ring selling young men, many of them intellectually disabled, to work in brick kilns.", "\"Neglect and discrimination is still quite prevalent.", "People tend to be ashamed of children with disabilities.", "They tend to hide them away.", "They tend not to let them have access to schooling or education,\" says Yin Yin Nwe, the head of UNICEF in China.", "But Nwe is optimistic.", "As China's economy grows, she said she thinks the government will continue to devote more resources to the country's weakest and most vulnerable.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "China has undergone major change in attitude toward intellectually disabled .", "Shanghai is hosting the Special Olympics to great fanfare .", "City has opened special homes to help care for some of city's mentally disabled .", "Helping China's remaining 13 million intellectually disabled remains challenge ." ]	[ 1, 2, 8, 32 ]
[ "TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived Monday in Iran on his first official visit to the country, the Iranian Press TV reported.", "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, greets Bolivia's leader, Evo Morales, on Monday in Tehran.", "Morales is expected to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to \"review issues of mutual interest\" between the Islamic republic and the leftist South American nation, according to the national news agency IRNA.", "The Bolivian leader arrived in Tehran from Libya, where he met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.", "Morales has described Iran and Bolivia as \"two friendly and revolutionary countries,\" Press TV said.", "\"The two countries are both energy producers and are staunchly opposed to U.S.", "hegemony.\" Morales, a former labor organizer and the country's first indigenous president, was elected in 2005.", "Like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, with whom he maintains strong ties, Morales has sought to improve his relationship with Tehran." ]	[ "Bolivian leader to \"review issues of mutual interest\" with Iran's president .", "Bolivian President Evo Morales has sought to improve ties with Iran .", "Bolivia, Iran \"staunchly opposed to U.S. hegemony,\" Morales says .", "Morales met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi before Iran trip ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 ]
[ "BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder.", "More than 1,200 others have been sickened, according to China's Health Ministry.", "Of that number, 340 infants are hospitalized and 53 are considered to be in serious condition.", "Government inspectors are testing baby formula around China and plan to release their results on Tuesday, said Li Changjiang, head of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, according to the Xinhua news agency.", "The manufacturer, Sanlu Group, has recalled more than 8,200 tons of the tainted formula following reports of babies developing kidney stones, Xinhua said.", "Watch what Sanlu has done » .", "Sanlu, one of China's leading dairy producers, has also sealed off more than 2,100 tons of contaminated product, and another 700 tons still need to be recalled, the news agency said.", "It is not the first time Sanlu has been connected to a scandal involving tainted milk powder, according to China Daily.", "In 2004, at least 13 infants in the eastern Anhui province died of malnutrition after drinking milk powder that had little to no nutrition.", "The illegally manufactured milk was falsely labeled with the Sanlu brand, according to the paper.", "More than 170 other babies were hospitalized as a result of drinking the cheap milk powder.", "Chinese police have questioned 78 people -- including dairy farmers and milk dealers -- about the most recent contamination, a Chinese official told Xinhua Saturday.", "Sanlu would not say whether its employees are being investigated, Xinhua said.", "Testing by Sanlu found tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine, in 700 tons of its product, said Zhao Xinchao, the vice mayor of Shijiazhuang, the news agency reported.", "Zhao told the news agency that the suspects added water to the milk they sold to Sanlu to make more money, then added the chemical so the diluted milk could still meet standards.", "Inspectors found the chemical in Sanlu infant formula produced by one of the company's partner producers in northwest Gansu Province, an official said Sunday.", "Two of 12 samples randomly selected from the Sanlu milk powder produced by the Haoniu Dairy Company in Jiuquan City tested positive for melamine, said Xian Hui, the vice-governor of Gansu.", "Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.", "The chemical is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.", "Hundreds of Wal-Mart and Carrefour stores in China are pulling the Sanlu milk powder from their shelves, Xinhua said.", "This episode marks the latest in a string of tainted products produced in China.", "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled more than 150 brands of cat and dog food last year after finding that some pets became ill or died after eating food tainted with melamine, the same chemical found in the powdered milk.", "Two Chinese businesses, a U.S. company and top executives of each were indicted by a federal grand jury in February in connection with tainted pet food, which resulted in deaths and serious illnesses in up to thousands of U.S. pets, federal prosecutors said.", "In October 2007, regulators and retailers in the United States recalled at least 69,000 Chinese-made toys over concerns of excessive amounts of lead paint, which can cause hazardous lead poisoning.", "In November, shipments of the popular toy Aqua Dots were found to have been contaminated with a toxic chemical that turned into a powerful \"date rape\" drug if swallowed, causing some children who ate the craft toys to vomit and lose consciousness.", "And in February, a Maryland candy distributor pulled Pokemon-brand Valentine lollipops from store shelves after bits of metal were found in the sealed treats, authorities said.", "Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder.", "Of the more than 1,200 others who have been sickened, 340 infants were hospitalized, and 53 considered to be in serious condition, according to China's Health Ministry.", "Chinese police have questioned 78 people, including dairy farmers and milk dealers, about the contamination, a Chinese official told Xinhua Saturday.", "Ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation, health experts said.", "The chemical was also involved in the massive pet food recall last year.", "Hundreds of Wal-Mart and Carrefour stores in were pulling the Sanlu milk powder from their shelves, Xinhua said." ]	[ "Government inspectors plan to release test results Tuesday; 2nd death announced .", "Sanlu is one of China's leading dairy producers .", "Melamine found in 700 tons of Sanlu's product, Xinhua cites mayor as saying .", "Ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, eye and skin irritation ." ]	[ 6, 29 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- Everybody has a \"type.\"", "Personally, I like a man with a big schnozz -- bonus points if he's got a collection of acne scars a lá Tommy Lee Jones.", "The \"OverEater\" is one of the nine types of men that women should avoid.", "My pal Annie likes preppy men -- but only after they've gone to seed and become a little bloated in the process.", "Suzanne has a weakness for thin Japanese guys who like indie rock music, while Maddy adores bike messengers of all shapes and sizes.", "But there are certain types of guys who should be NOBODY'S type.", "These guys are distinguished by one thing -- an overabundance of one or more very bad qualities.", "Here's your guide to boys to avoid: .", "1. The OverSharer: The current Overshare Poster Boy is Phillip Nobel, who wrote a highly hide-chapping account of his extramarital affair for Elle.", "The Oversharer will broadcast intimate episodes from your relationship to his mother, your mother, his blog readers and anyone else he can rope into paying attention.", "2. The OverThinker: One of the great things about dating men is that you aren't subjected to long, excruciating interrogations over what you really meant when you reassured him that no, he didn't look fat in those pants.", "However, though they're rare birds, there are guys who will want to spend hours dissecting even the most innocuous comment, examining it for tone, content and what you might've been implying.", "3. The OverTalker: Your friends say they've never known you to be so quiet.", "That's because this man does enough talking for both of you (and then some).", "When you do finally eke out a sentence or two he interrupts and talks over you anyway.", "You have two choices -- accept the fact that you will never speak again or tell him goodbye.", "Your call. 4. The OverDresser: This dandy makes Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass look sloppy and mismatched.", "That he takes longer than you to get ready is strike one against him, but the fact that he matches his socks to his underwear and to his ascot drives him out of the park.", "5. The OverEater: It's an irritating fact that men can eat more than women.", "The overeater doesn't care.", "Food is his first love and he'll push cannolis and baked ziti on you like a crazed Italian granny.", "Unless you don't mind a future spent in stretch-pants, you might want to give this dude a pass.", "6. The OverReactor: Remember when Russell Crowe threw a phone at that hotel clerk who somehow displeased him?", "That's this guy. From the old lady who accidentally bumped into him at the grocery store, to the SUV that cut him off on the highway -- everyone in his path will hear his wrath.", "You, most of all. Do not walk away -- run.", "7. The Over-The-Topper: He's the life of the party and thinks nothing of driving his motorcycle through the bar if he thinks it'll get a laugh.", "He's certainly cute, but he just never stops.", "He's always on. And that, will quickly turn into a turn-off.", "8. OverAchiever: Picture the male version of Tracy Flick in the movie \"Election\" in perfectly fitted jeans, a crisp white oxford shirt and a copy of his (perfect, naturally) SAT scores in his wallet.", "Now imagine making love to him.", "You can't, can you? 9. The OverCompensator: Maybe he was the homeliest kid in his eighth-grade class, but that doesn't mean you need to sit through a monologue about how much money he makes, how jealous his friends are over his new BMW, and how he totally could date supermodels if he wanted to.", "Next! TM & © 2008 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "There are certain types of men who should be nobody's type .", "Run from the \"OverReactor\" -- you and everyone in his path will hear his wrath .", "The \"OverCompensator\" brags about how much money he makes .", "The \"OverTalker\" does enough talking for both of you ." ]	[ 5, 13, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Russia announced Monday it might hold joint military maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean, and the United States said it is scrapping a once ballyhooed deal with Moscow on nuclear technology.", "The declarations come in the wake of increased tension between Russia and the United States over Russia's invasion last month of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a U.S. ally that aspires to join NATO.", "Russian ships will make a port of call in Venezuela later this year and the two nations could hold joint naval exercises for the first time, both sides said.", "Russia denied there was any link between Monday's announcement and the conflict in the Caucasus, although Russia has criticized U.S. support for Georgia, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has long antagonized Washington.", "\"This is a planned event unrelated to the current political situation and Caucasian developments,\" Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said Monday.", "\"The exercises will not be targeted against any third party.\"", "The agreement on the Russian visit to Venezuelan ports was reached long before the conflict in the Caucasus broke out, he said.", "But he appeared to suggest Monday that Russia had proposed the joint naval maneuvers.", "\"If the Venezuelan side finds the proposal interesting and an agreement is reached, Russia and Venezuela may hold joint naval exercises in line with international practice,\" he said.", "Several hours later, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Washington is canceling the proposed \"123 Agreement\" with Moscow, which would have cleared the way for more trade of nuclear technology, services and goods between the two countries.", "He denied the pullout was directly linked to Moscow's actions in the Caucasus.", "\"Over a period of time, we've had some deep concerns about Russian behavior.", "And quite clearly the president has taken this action looking at the facts,\" he said.", "Both countries had accepted the agreement and it was awaiting congressional approval.", "Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned in an exclusive interview with CNN last week that Russia would not be pleased at the collapse of the 123 Agreement, which is named after a section of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act of 1954.", "\"This would effectively kill any possibility for our cooperation to promote the Bush-Putin initiative on nuclear nonproliferation -- which is important for the entire world,\" he said.", "\"As I said, it wouldn't be our choice, but if the United States does not want to cooperate with us on one or another issue, we cannot impose ourselves on Washington.\"", "But experts say Congress was unlikely to have given the deal a green light, and that the White House was making the best of a bad situation.", "\"I think [the administration is] making a virtue out of a necessity\" by pulling out, said Russia analyst Jon Wolfsthal of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, last week.", "On the possibility of Russian-Venezuelan naval exercises, Latin America expert Wayne S. Smith warned against reading too much into the proposal.", "\"The Russians have complained about U.S. warships operating in the Black Sea, which is an area of intense interest to them.", "It would not be surprising if they returned the favor by having joint exercises in the Caribbean,\" said Smith, a 25-year foreign service veteran who ended his State Department career as chief of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana.", "\"It's a way of saying: 'Two can play at this game.", "If you think you can send ships into the Black Sea without response, you are mistaken.'", "\" But he said the mere fact of Russian ships operating in the Western hemisphere would not necessarily be dangerous.", "\"The act itself is not. Having naval exercises?", "Fine, as long as both sides take it for what it is.", "It's not a threatening gesture, it's a message.\"", "Frank Mora, a Latin America expert at the National Defense University in Washington, said the announcement could be part of a complicated bargaining process, depending on whether relations improve between Moscow and Washington.", "\"Something tells me that soon enough something will happen to tone this down, and possibly this exercise with the Venezuelans could be used to pull back on this issue,\" Mora said.", "\"If things improve [the Russians] could pull back as a sign of commitment to improving the relationship.", "If tensions remain I see the possibility that this kind of exercise would occur.\"", "He said the Venezuelans have little to contribute to a military alliance with Russia.", "\"They have a couple of destroyers, a couple of old submarines, and frigates that can launch surface-to-air missiles -- not anything sophisticated or robust.", "This would not be a robust exercise.", "It would be more about indicating strategic cooperation.\"", "But he suggested that if the exercise does go ahead, it would be a sign of increased Russian confidence vis-a-vis the United States.", "\"They feel they are strong enough and bold enough to do something in our sphere of influence,\" he said.", "Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman appeared to shrug off the announcement.", "\"We exercise all around the globe and have joint exercises with countries all over the world; so do many other nations,\" he said.", "Chavez said Sunday that Caracas was prepared to receive the Russians in late November or December, according Venezuela's ministry of communications.", "But he indicated Venezuela might not be prepared for military exercises by then.", "\"We're only in the planning phase.", "We're not ready yet for the visit and the probable maneuvers to happen in September or October, or even November.", "So it could happen, if not at the end of November, then at the beginning of December,\" he said.", "Nesterenko said the Russian flotilla will include \"the heavy nuclear-propelled missile cruiser Pyotr Veliki and the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko.\"", "The announcement comes only days after a U.S. Navy command ship, the USS Whitney, arrived in the Georgian port town of Poti in what the United States called a humanitarian mission.", "The ship reached Poti on Friday.", "Russia said the fact that a military vessel is being used in a relief mission raises concerns.", "Russia has become a major supplier of arms to Venezuela since 2001.", "The two countries signed a series of deals worth $3 billion in 2006, including fighter aircraft, transport and attack helicopters, and assault rifles, according to Jane's, the defense intelligence publication.", "Chavez visited Moscow in July for his first meeting with new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.", "CNN's Maxim Tkachenko and Matthew Chance in Moscow and CNN State Department producer Charley Keyes in Washington contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Pentagon downplays development, says cooperation happens across globe .", "Move comes amid U.S.-Russian tensions over ex-Soviet republic of Georgia .", "Russian official denies link to \"political situation and Caucasian developments\"\nRussia and Venezuela may hold joint naval exercises, both countries say ." ]	[ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]
[ "BEIJING, China (CNN) -- The head of China's quality watchdog is reported to have resigned over the tainted baby milk scandal that has killed four children and sickened nearly 53,000 others.", "The official Xinhua News Agency said Li Changjiang had quit with the approval of China's State Council.", "Li's agency is responsible for ensuring that China's food supply chain is safe.", "Monday's resignation came hours after the World Health Organization said the scandal had highlighted flaws in the country's entire food supply chain.", "The chemical melamine blamed for causing kidney stones and kidney failure has been detected in formula milk powder from 22 dairies across China.", "The crisis was initially thought to have been confined to baby milk powder, but tests have found melamine in samples of liquid milk taken from China's two largest dairy producers, Mengniu Dairy Group and Yili Industrial Group, as well as Shanghai-based Bright Dairy.", "WHO China representative Hans Troedsson said on Monday quality issues could occur anywhere from the farm to the retail outlet.", "He said \"it's clearly something that is not acceptable and needs to be rectified and corrected,\" according to The Associated Press.", "Troedsson said the WHO was discussing with officials how to strengthen China's food quality system.", "Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called milk manufacturers \"heartless\" and promised stricter laws to protect the public.", "China's Health Ministry said Sunday that about 13,000 children were hospitalized, while another 40,000 had undergone outpatient treatment for illnesses related to suspected melamine-tainted milk products.", "The scandal has spread beyond the mainland with melamine being found in three Chinese-made dairy products in Singapore.", "The country's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority said tests on \"White Rabbit Creamy Candy\" showed that it was contaminated with melamine and it ordered stores to remove the product from shelves.", "Taiwan announced Monday it was banning the importation of all dairy products from China because of melamine contamination in milk supplies on the mainland, Taiwan's Health Ministry said Monday.", "And a second child in Hong Kong has been diagnosed with a kidney stones after drinking the tainted milk as worried parents continued to take their children for health checkups, the government said Monday, AP reported.", "The 4-year-old boy was in hospital in a stable condition, the Hong Kong government said in a statement.", "A three-year-old girl was sickened by a suspected melamine-tainted milk over the weekend -- the first known illness outside of mainland China.", "The Chinese premier visited Beijing hospitals and a supermarket Sunday to show his concern for the crisis.", "\"What we need to do now is to ensure that nothing like this happens in the future, not only in dairy products, but in all foods,\" he said.", "\"Manufacturers and owners of dairy companies should show more morality and social responsibility in these cases.", "They are heartless, so we have to create strict law and legislation.", "I'm sorry.\" Investigators arrested two brothers who sold milk used to produce the contaminated baby milk powder last week.", "They could face death if convicted, according to China Daily, a state-run newspaper.", "The raw milk had been watered down and the chemical added to fool quality checks, the newspaper said.", "Melamine is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.", "Watch CNN visit the company at the center of the scandal » .", "But anger has been directed not just at the producers accused of adulterating their milk to increase profits, but also at government regulators, Time magazine reported.", "\"Xinhua was quick to blame the dairy industry for their skewed rules, but what it didn't say was that the government also played a part in that ugly game,\" the magazine quoted a blogger, identified as sadmoon109, as saying.", "Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.", "It also robs infants of much-needed nutrition.", "Thousands of tons of the tainted milk powder have been recalled.", "Melamine is the same industrial contaminant from China that poisoned and killed thousands of U.S. dogs and cats last year.", "The chemical, a byproduct of plastic manufacturing, can be used to mimic high-protein additives.", "Learn more about the chemical melamine » .", "A senior dairy analyst said Chinese farmers were cutting corners to cope with rising costs for feed and labor.", "\"Before the melamine incident, I know they could have been adding organic stuff, say animal urine or skin,\" Chen Lianfang of Beijing Orient Agribusiness Consultant told Time.", "\"Basically, anything that can boost the protein reading.\"", "Copyright 2008 CNN.", "All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.", "Associated Press contributed to this report." ]	[ "Head of China's quality watchdog resigns over tainted baby formula scandal .", "WHO representative said scandal shows up flaws in China's food supply chain .", "Four infants in China dead, 53,000 reported ill from tainted milk powder ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- They first met in the autumn of 1979; she playing the role of the lovelorn terrorist, he dressed as a rather sloppy Ayatollah Khomeini.", "Pamela Stephenson first met Billy Connolly on the set of a comedy show in 1979.", "They married in Fiji in 1990.", "It may not have been love at first sight on the set of British comedy show \"Not the Nine O'Clock News,\" but love, marriage and children eventually followed.", "Australian comedienne, now psychotherapist, Pamela Stephenson, describes being captivated by Billy Connolly's wildman looks, his mane of grey hair and devil-may-care demeanor.", "She tells CNN's Revealed about her first impressions of her husband, his unique ability to keep audiences entertained and what she learnt about his addictions and childhood abuse while writing his best-selling biography, \"Billy.\"", "CNN: Take us back to the beginning.", "How did you meet Billy Connolly?", "Pamela Stephenson: I'm not quite sure what Billy's version of how we met is like because he was very drunk.", "I met him when I was a performer on \"Not The Nine O'Clock News\" and he was a guest.", "He was just shaggy and some kind of terrible beastie.", "But I was attracted to him immediately, maybe because he was so unusual.", "I think what I picked up on was his dichotomy -- that beastiness and the underlying sensitivity that he has.", "I think that's something that audiences relate to, you're aware of all the toughness, but underneath you just know that there's philosophy and this poetic, Celtic nature that speaks to people.", "Also his pain, his underlying sadness and the pain of his childhood ... when I first met him I think I connected with that.", "He played the Ayatollah Khomeini in a scene on \"Not The Nine O'Clock News\" and I played a demented fan singing a love song to him, it was in days when you could do stuff like that, I suppose.", "And then we did an interview, I pretending to be British TV personality Janet Street-Porter, with giant fake teeth which kept falling out.", "Of course, he could never keep a straight face; I thought he was dreadfully unprofessional because he just kept laughing, especially when my teeth fell out -- my fake teeth -- fell out.", "CNN: What's it like being married to him?", "PS: People always think that being married to Billy means that I get non-stop Billy Connolly concerts.", "It's not nearly as exciting as that, although he's adorable.", "But it's boring sometimes and he would say the same.", "There are moments when I wish he would go and make me a cup of tea, which he does very often.", "Actually, Billy is quite a quiet person.", "He's a little reclusive and I don't think it's necessarily his personality.", "With the highs he experiences on stage he needs to be very quiet when he's not.", "Billy Connolly takes CNN's Revealed on a tour of his home » .", "CNN: What made you write a biography of his life?", "Was it the first time he opened up about his childhood?", "PS: When I wrote \"Billy,\" it was the first time that Billy really looked at his childhood in a chronological order and with depth.", "It was a painful process, but cathartic.", "The book gave me the opportunity to understand a lot more about him.", "Just putting some of this together, the sexual abuse, for example, that he received from his father, the physical abuse he received from his aunts, helped me understand why there's a part of him that's very closed off.", "Watch Billy recall his troubled childhood » .", "His learning disability was never understood.", "Now we'd call it an attention disorder.", "In those days, he had difficulty concentrating, for which he was beaten and taunted at school.", "People told him he was stupid and to this day there's a part of him that thinks that's he's not as clever as other people and yet he is absolutely brilliant.", "He's incredibly well-read and very erudite.", "CNN: Can you tell us about Billy's problems with alcohol and drugs and how you helped him?", "PS: Billy was extremely famous in Scotland, and you know what happens, especially with people who don't think they are very worthy.", "As with Billy, they don't handle fame because they don't feel they deserve it and they'll turn to alcohol and drugs.", "It became very serious and by the time I met him he was on a very self-destructive path.", "At first, that was appealing to me, but later I realized I can't be with somebody like that because I don't want to watch him destroy himself.", "I didn't tell him, \"You've gotta clean up your act,\" I just said I can't deal with this.", "I discovered you can't make anyone stop drinking or stop taking drugs, you have to just protect yourself and if they want to jump on the good train, they will.", "Fortunately it worked.", "CNN: How would you describe Billy's style of comedy?", "PS: Billy doesn't have a style, because to have a style it would mean that there have to be other people with a similar way of working.", "He goes on stage and it's like he's got these comedy angels whispering in his ear.", "He makes this extraordinary connection with the audience, and of course he's very astute and funny about politics.", "He sees the funny side of all kinds of things -- human nature, human behavior, world events, politicians.", "He'll talk about that with such passion.", "It's what many of us think but don't want to say.", "Billy will see something on television or notice something on the street or he'll just think something and it'll go into his computer of a brain and it'll stumble out when he's on stage.", "See Billy Connolly perform on a recent tour of Ireland » .", "CNN: Is he the same person on and off stage?", "PS: He's honest and real.", "He's a man of the people, a working class hero.", "It's a cliché, but people know that he has struggled; they know he's come from the tough part of Glasgow.", "Billy just loves an audience, he loves speaking to people if they're nice to him, and they usually are.", "When he's finished his show, he doesn't go home.", "He stays in his dressing room and people will come and see him and he'll talk to them for another hour.", "CNN: He says he's getting more and more nervous when he goes on stage -- have you noticed a change?", "PS: I don't think he's getting more nervous.", "At his age, maybe he thinks that it should have become easier -- well, it's not going to become easier.", "It's incredibly tough to go on stage in front of four or five thousand people and sustain [their interest] by yourself.", "And one thing that really impresses me, again as a psychologist, is that I think he is really healing.", "I think that people really have the opportunity to just laugh like that and it's so good for you.", "I feel fantastic when I go to one of his shows and come out and I'm just sick with laughter.", "CNN: How does he feel when he comes off stage?", "He says it can be tough and envies the audience.", "They can go home and forget about it.", "PS: Most performers struggle with the letdown after a show, and Billy's no exception.", "It's tough because it takes time for adrenalin to leave the system.", "That's actually one reason why a lot of comedians turn to alcohol, because it's a depressant and takes you down.", "Now that Billy doesn't drink he's found another way -- he goes back to his hotel and stays quiet.", "Sometimes he likes to eat after the show but not very often.", "He will just want to veg out, watch TV.", "Playing his banjo is a great way for him to relax.", "Watch a rare performance of Billy on banjo » .", "He doesn't like me being around when he's touring because he just likes to do his thing.", "I want to have some food or go and do something.", "He becomes a bit of a hermit, and that's appropriate for someone who expends that amount of energy and brainpower on stage.", "CNN: Billy says he finds the routine of touring increasingly tough -- do you think he will stop soon?", "PS: When Billy's touring, he'll say, \"Oh I don't want to tour anymore, I've had enough it's too hard on the road.\"", "But the truth is, when he's not touring, he wants to go back.", "It's probably his happiest time.", "I have been a comedian so I know a little bit about what it's like to be on stage and know that when things are working fantastically, and you're getting that appreciation from the audience.", "It is an incredible high.", "It's pretty hard for me as a wife or us as a family or any of his fans or friends to match up to that kind of adulation and so, you know, he deserves it and I have to remind him that it is a lot of fun for him.", "CNN: How would you describe his dress sense?", "PS: Billy is a fashion maven.", "He spends most of his time in New York now so, you know, the New York \"Black is the new black\" is ... that's got to him a bit.", "He's influenced by Rock 'n' Roll and Vivienne Westwood and edgy stuff.", "But he just puts it together in his own unique way.", "He also takes great pride in his body.", "His closet is still extremely fun.", "It's far more colorful than mine.", "I have grey and black suits and things for work -- he loves colorful shirts.", "It will be a shame if he tones himself down, but I don't think that will happen.", "He borrows my clothes sometimes, if he sees something particularly mad.", "We used to say, \"First up, best dressed,\" which is the Glasgow expression for a particularly fun brooch or hat." ]	[ "Pamela Stephenson talks about marriage to Scottish comedian Billy Connelly .", "They met on the set of British comedy show \"Not the Nine O'Clock News\"\nShe says writing his biography, \"Billy,\" helped her understand him better .", "Stephenson: \"It's like he's got these comedy angels whispering in his ear\"" ]	[ 3, 31, 33, 49 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A diamond unearthed in the southern African nation of Lesotho could yield one of the largest and highest quality round polished diamonds, according to a statement Monday from company that found it.", "A mining company unearthed this 478-carat diamond in the southern African nation of Lesotho.", "Experts in Antwerp, Belgium who analyzed the 478-carat stone determined it to be of the highest color grading available for a white diamond, said a statement from Gem Diamonds Ltd., the company that found the stone.", "\"What makes it more remarkable is the color and quality of this stone,\" said diamond consultant Neil Buxton.", "\"It's a D color, which is the highest possible graded color you can get, and we believe there is a chance -- a very good chance -- of getting a 100-carat plus\" round stone with the highest color and clarity rankings.", "The company said such a stone would \"to the best of our knowledge\" be \"the first one in history.\"", "Watch more on the diamond » .", "The diamond, which was found in September, ranks as the 20th largest rough diamond ever found, but is not the biggest ever taken from the Letseng Mine, which is co-owned by Gem Diamonds Ltd. and the Kingdom of Lesotho, a country of 2.1 million that is surrounded by South Africa.", "Two bigger stones -- 603 and 493 carats -- were found in the mine in 2006 and 2007, respectively, the company said.", "A 601-carat diamond was mined there in 1960, it said." ]	[ "Diamond could yield one of the largest and highest quality round polished stones .", "478-carat stone determined it to be of the highest color grading available .", "Diamond found in Letseng Mine, in Lesotho ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Formula One is about putting on a 90-minute show every other weekend at locations the world over.", "McLaren's huge 'brand center' motorhome dominates the F1 paddock at all European grands prix.", "But getting that show on the road -- and in the air and on the sea -- is a remarkable feat of well-oiled logistics and organization.", "With an F1 team clocking up around 100,000 miles (160,000 km) between tests and grands prix, the need to have moving and packing down to a fine art is imperative.", "\"Once the calendar is released, we sit down with all the different departments,\" explained Toyota team manager Richard Cregan.", "\"We look at the dates for the freight, the dates for the trucks leaving, when we want to have the people there and when we want to have all the equipment there.", "Then we go away and arrange it.\"", "As F1 moves further away from its European heartland, more races -- such as next week's title shootout in Sao Paulo, Brazil -- are what are known as 'flyaways.'", "They are the responsibility of Formula One Management.", "Freight company DHL has specialized units in England and Italy to coordinate the transport of cars, equipment and fuel to all F1 tracks around the world by air, sea and land.", "Around 300 tonnes or 20,000 individual items of F1 material -- from race cars, replacement parts, pit equipment, TV equipment and the furnishings of the VIP Paddock Club -- are moved for each grand prix.", "Each team is allowed 22-24 tonnes of freight, plus their cars, which is packed in specially designed pods at a UK-based team's HQ and transferred to Stansted airport by road.", "Three chartered Boeing 747 freighters then fly to the destination and the next time the team sees its freight is at their allocated garage at the circuit.", "At the end of the race the process starts again in reverse, with a team packed up by around 10pm.", "Read more about F1 at The Circuit.", "If there are two weeks between races, as is the norm, the cars will return to the UK to be painted, re-built and polished.", "'Double-headers,' races that take place only a week apart, rule this movement out -- then getting the cars from one circuit to the next is the sole focus.", "While last-minute deliveries can be made in under 24 hours, it takes seven weeks for equipment to travel by sea from Europe to Melbourne, Australia for the traditional season curtain-raiser.", "Cheaper sea freight has become more popular to move bulkier items such as heavy electrical cables.", "Bridgestone, the grid's tire supplier, are among those who have increased their shipping in recent years.", "\"We send about five-and-a-half tonnes by sea and we send this three months in advance of each race,\" said Williams race team coordinator Paul Singlehurst.", "\"It costs around $9,000 to send it by sea -- that's a fraction of the air freight cost.", "We've made some huge savings by doing this.\"", "The European races are a little more straightforward.", "Up to four $2m team-liveried articulated lorries are driven to continental grands prix, carrying up to 37 tonnes of equipment each for around 18,600 miles (30,000km) per year.", "Three trucks will also go to a two-car test session.", "They carry all the kit the team needs for the weekend, including the cars, engines, parts, tools, computers and radios.", "It takes two days to fully load the trucks after cleaning and maintenance checks, using an 80-page checklist.", "Nothing is left to chance.", "They leave a week before the next race, get to the circuit late on a Monday and by Thursday, the team's working area is ready for the drivers.", "It takes eight hours just to fit out the team's pit area at the circuit.", "Motorhomes, the standard of which is set by McLaren's gargantuan 'brand center', also travel to European races.", "They provide a place for drivers to debrief with their engineers, team members to refuel and corporate guests to be entertained.", "Renault's race team includes 15 engineers, 35 mechanics/technicians, 15 'truckies', 11 motorhome/catering personnel, two logistics personnel, 10 marketing and PR staff, three drivers, two managers and two physios.", "This is why motorhomes supply around 1,250 meals for the team and its guests during a race weekend.", "\"Obviously our sponsors' backing is crucial.", "It's not just a matter of having their name and logo on the car -- we have a marketing team that helps to service their needs,\" added Singlehurst.", "Occasionally, at places like Turkey, where the traffic between the circuit and downtown Istanbul is horrific, drivers can also spend their nights in the motorhomes.", "But normally, a fleet of about 20 vehicles is required to ferry team personnel between their hotel -- block-booked months in advance -- and racetrack all weekend.", "As far as Cregan is concerned, how a team performs during a race weekend can be influenced by its logistical set-up.", "\"Quite often you have very long days, you have people working late into the evening and it's an important part of our responsibility to create the atmosphere for people to be able do their job,\" he added.", "It takes a Herculean effort and millions of dollars to make sure 20 cars circulate for 90 minutes every two weeks.", "But you would never know it." ]	[ "F1 uses air, sea and land to transport huge amounts of freight to each race .", "Teams must meticulously coordinate their shipping plans each season .", "Team trucks carrying cars and equipment cover almost 19,000 miles per year ." ]	[ 9, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- People along the Texas coast were leaving home or planning to evacuate Thursday as Hurricane Ike churned toward them, slowly intensifying on its march west.", "Forecasters say the storm could slam into the Texas coast -- south of Galveston -- as a powerful Category 3 storm late Friday or early Saturday.", "Mandatory and voluntary evacuations were planned or underway in at least seven coastal counties.", "Aransas County, on the eastern coast of Texas, has ordered a mandatory evacuation of all nonessential government employees, becoming the latest county in the state to urge residents to flee.", "In Galveston, city officials ordered mandatory evacuations for part of the island town beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday.", "The rest of the town will be under a voluntary evacuation order.", "Only residents will be required to evacuate on the western end of the island.", "Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas defended that, saying current models call for Galveston to be hit with winds and rain only equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane.", "\"We do not intend to evacuate Galveston Island,\" she said.", "\"It's the last thing we want to do.", "Our job is to protect lives and property, [and] right now we feel that sheltering in place is the best action for our citizens to take.\"", "Farther up the Gulf Coast and closer to where the National Hurricane Center predicts a direct hit, Brazoria County ordered a mandatory evacuation to begin at 8 a.m. Thursday.", "Some other Texas localities have ordered mandatory evacuations, while others have left the decision to depart up to residents.", "As of 5 a.m. ET Thursday, the Category 2 storm -- with top sustained winds near 100 mph -- was about 620 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, and about 285 miles southeast of the Mississippi River, the hurricane center said.", "Track the storm » .", "Hurricane-force winds extended out up to 115 miles from the storm's center, and tropical storm-force winds extended out up to 255 miles forecasters reported.", "About 15,000 residents were leaving Galveston's Brazoria County Wednesday after a mandatory evacuation order was issued at 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m.", "ET) governing one ZIP code -- 77541 -- and residents throughout the county with special needs.", "Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc issued a warning to residents of the city's West End, citing forecasters' estimates that the area could get tides of 6 feet above normal if the storm arrives there.", "The West End is the area of Galveston most susceptible to flooding, LeBlanc said.", "Other Brazoria residents were being allowed to remain as of 6 p.m.", "ET. In Matagorda County, southwest of Galveston, officials ordered a mandatory evacuation for all areas except the cities of Bay City and Van Vleck.", "The evacuation must be completed by at 6 p.m. (7 p.m.", "ET) Thursday.", "Galveston is likely to experience a high tidal surge, officials said, urging people living in low-lying areas or mobile homes to get out soon.", "\"One of the things that the public has to understand if they decide to stay, there will be a period of time during this storm when they will absolutely be on their own,\" Brazoria County Sheriff Charles Wagner said.", "\"There will be no medical services; there will be no fire department; there will be no law enforcement, groceries, gasoline, drugs, electricity.\"", "The center issued a tropical storm warning from the Mississippi River's mouth to Cameron, Louisiana, and a hurricane watch from Cameron to Port Mansfield, Texas, about 60 miles south of Brownsville.", "Tropical storm warnings mean winds of 39 to 73 mph (63 to 118 kmh) are expected within a day, and a hurricane watch means winds of 74 and higher are expected within 36 hours.", "\"Hurricane Ike is now in the Gulf of Mexico and making its approach toward our coast,\" Gov.", "Rick Perry said in a statement.", "\"The next few days will be crucial for residents to follow the direction of local leaders and to take the necessary steps to protect themselves and their families.\"", "Perry put 7,500 National Guard members on standby this week, his office said, and issued a disaster declaration for 88 counties.", "About 1,350 buses, several ambulances and paramedic buses were available to support evacuations.", "The vehicles were positioned near Houston, Matagorda County, Nueces County and Victoria County, the governor's office said.", "President Bush declared an emergency in the state, making federal funds available for the state to prepare for the storm.", "Corpus Christi officials also began the evacuation process for residents with special needs, supplying buses to transport them out of town.", "Voluntary evacuations were issued in San Patricio and Victoria counties and parts of Jackson County, according to the governor's office.", "More than 1,300 inmates from the Texas Correctional Institutions Division's Stevenson Unit in Cuero were being evacuated to facilities in Beeville and Kenedy, Perry's office said, and 597 were transferred from the substance abuse Glossbrenner Unit in San Diego, in south Texas, to Dilley.", "Naval air stations in Texas also began to prepare for Hurricane Ike's expected arrival.", "Naval Air Station Kingsville was to begin moving about 50 aircraft to El Paso, San Antonio and Fort Worth on Wednesday afternoon, the public affairs office there said.", "Naval Air Station Corpus Christi will also move about 75 aircraft to other Texas locations, its public affairs office said.", "Evacuations appeared to have saved lives in Cuba when Ike slammed into the island.", "Four deaths were reported from the storm, according to the Cuban government.", "The Cuban Civil Defense brought buses or trucks to take people to shelters.", "See the damage from the storm » .", "Cuban state television reported that two people were killed when they tried to remove an antenna, The Associated Press said.", "One man died when a tree crashed into his home, and a woman died when her home's roof collapsed, according to the AP.", "The storm shredded hundreds of homes and caused some dilapidated buildings in Havana's older areas to collapse, the AP reported.", "Watch as winds and waves pound Cuba » .", "The United States, which provided $100,000 in emergency aid to communist-run Cuba through private aid agencies after Hurricane Gustav hit the island August 30, said Tuesday that it was considering additional emergency aid for Cuba because of Ike.", "Also, the United States said it will lift restrictions on cash and humanitarian assistance sent to Cuba for the next 90 days.", "The move will allow nongovernmental organizations to provide assistance and cash donations.", "The storm pounded Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos chain, putting a strain on the British territory's tourism industry.", "Watch houses lie in heaps on Grand Turk » .", "Flooding and rains from Ike's outer bands have been blamed for 70 deaths in Haiti.", "Watch the devastating aftermath » .", "CNN's Mike Mount contributed to this report.", "Copyright 2008 CNN.", "All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.", "Associated Press contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Ike could swell to Category 3 when it hits Texas coast Saturday .", "Mandatory evacuations ordered for residents with special needs in one county .", "Hurricane-spawned tornado causes damage in Key Largo, Florida .", "Texans in low-lying areas and mobiles homes urged to get out ." ]	[ 3, 17, 24, 39 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- Don't you just hate the type of person who smugly informs you, \"I don't watch TV,\" like that's something to be proud of?", "They think they're so great with all their fancy book learning.", "What they don't realize is that TV isn't for dummies -- there's tons of educational programming available -- you just need to know what to watch.", "I mean, you can learn your ABCs with \"Sesame Street's\" Grover, how to make gnocchi with Mario Batali, and the ins and outs of prettying up your home with any number of programs on HGTV.", "Television is also a great romance resource.", "Think of all the great TV twosomes we've seen over the years -- Lucy & Ricky Ricardo, Judy & George Jetson, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag ... but not all TV personalities set such a sincerely loving example.", "It's also a good place to learn which type of guy you should avoid.", "Here are a few examples: . Chuck Bass (\"Gossip Girl\"): Few men can pull off lavender argyle, but Chuck Bass is definitely one of them.", "Moody and sinister, when Chuck Bass Types (CBTs) like you, it's as though you've been inducted into a secret society of two.", "It's you against the world and the CBT will bring out a dark side you might not have even realized you possessed.", "Whip smart with a caustic wit, he'll charm you all the while tucking away your secrets for use at a later date.", "And use them he will. Because when a CBT tires of you, he won't just say \"see ya,\" he'll decimate you.", "Hank Moody (\"Californication\"): Some boys take longer than usual to grow out of their Charles Bukowski-wannabe phase.", "Exhibit A is Hank Moody.", "Actor David Duchovny, playing what the tabloids would have you believe is an autobiographical role, has managed to hang onto his Bukowski-phase well into his forties.", "Drinking, partying, and resisting monogamy, Hank still manages to attract more ladies than hotter men half his age.", "Of course the only women drawn to Hank are either damaged girls with daddy issues or the type of dame who doesn't feel complete unless she has some mess to clean up after.", "If you see yourself dating a Hank Moody type, do not walk -- run -- to your nearest mental health professional.", "Vince Chase (\"Entourage\"): Those big blue eyes and that floppy mop o' hair... you can forgive him for making a stinker like \"Medellin,\" can't you?", "Sure, but do you really want to deal with someone who lives in a dude cocoon?", "Not only does he live with his brother and two best friends, he can't make any decisions without polling the group.", "On the upside, he's rich!", "On the downside, he's famous, which means other women are throwing themselves at him constantly.", "Vince might be fun for a fling, but forget about bringing him home to mama.", "Don Draper (\"Mad Men\"): Why is it when unattractive people are quiet we just assume they're stupid and/or boring, but verbally challenged hot people get pegged as mysterious and smoldering?", "Mad Men's smokin' hot Don Draper actually is mysterious (and smoldering!", "), so I don't know what point I was trying to make (because I'm all distracted from the photos on his IMDB page)... oh, wait!", "The point I'm trying to make is that while Draper is indeed mysterious, he's also a liar, a cheat and a cad.", "So if a DDT tries to slip you his number, just say no and send it to me.", "What? Strictly for research purposes.", "TM & © 2008 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "Learn about men NOT to date by studying male characters on TV shows .", "\"Gossip Girls\" Chuck Bass is charming type who decimates women .", "\"Mad Men\" Don Draper is a smoldering liar and cheat Aging party boy Hank Moody of \"Californication\" attracts damaged women ." ]	[ 7, 13, 16, 25, 27 ]
[ "HIMACHAL PRADESH, India (CNN) -- Amar and Kundan Singh Pundir are brothers.", "Younger brother Amar breaks rocks in a mine for a living.", "Kundan farms their small piece of inherited land.", "They live in a beautiful but remote hillside village in the clouds of Himachal Pradesh, India.", "Kundar Singh Pundir, left, and his brother Amar, right, share Indira Devi, centre, as their wife.", "Both aged in their forties, the two brothers have lived together nearly their whole lives.", "They are poor and share just about everything: Their home, their work and a wife.", "\"See we have a tradition from the beginning to have a family of five to 10 people.", "Two brothers and one wife.\"", "Kundan says.", "They practice what is known as fraternal polyandry -- where the brothers of one family marry the same woman.", "Why? Tradition and economics.", "Life is hard here. The village is precariously perched on the side of a very steep hill about 6,000ft up.", "Most of the villagers survive off tiny plots of cropland.", "In this difficult terrain there isn't enough land to go around.", "So, instead of finding separate wives and splitting up their inherited property, the brothers marry the same woman and keep their land together.", "Wife Indira Devi says life with two husbands isn't easy.", "\"We fight a lot.\" But like any married couple they fight mostly over mundane stuff, except there are three spouses instead of two.", "\"Usually it's about chores, why didn't you do this?", "Why didn't you do that?\" she says. Watch Sara Sidner's interview with the brothers » .", "One thing they agreed on was the need to have children; They have three.", "So how does a married trio deal with sex?", "\"We make shifts, change shifts and sleep on alternate days.", "We have to make shifts otherwise it won't work,\" Kundan says.", "\"To run our families we have to do this, overcome the hurdles as well and then we have to control our hearts from feeling too much,\" Amar adds.", "To outsiders their arrangement may seem odd, but in the village of about 200 it is the norm.", "Typically the marriages are arranged and women have two husbands.", "But some wives have three or four depending on how many brothers there are in a family.", "Polyandry is illegal in India but socially acceptable here.", "No one from the government seems to bother the villagers about the law.", "\"It's been going on for ages.", "My sister in law has two husbands, my mother in law also has two husbands,\" Indira says.", "And as to the question of which husband is the biological father of the children -- the Pundir's don't know and don't care.", "\"For me everyone is the same, my mother and my fathers are the same.", "My mother and my fathers are like God to me,\" 17-year old daughter Sunita Singh Pundir says.", "Even as modern society arrives in this ancient village through satellite dishes and mobile phones, the Pundirs say they want their age-old tradition to continue with their children.", "\"Absolutely,\" eldest son Sohna says.", "He and his younger brother have already discussed it and will marry the same woman.", "Daughter Sunita isn't so sure.", "\"I would like one husband,\" she says.", "But when asked if she will marry for love or tradition, Sunita's answer makes it clear the tradition of marrying more than one man will continue with the next generation.", "\"I will never leave our tradition even if I have to forgo love.", "I will never spoil my parents' reputation and my brothers.'\"" ]	[ "Amar and Kundan Singh Pundir are brothers who share a wife .", "The brothers have married the same woman to ensure their land isn't divided .", "Practice is illegal in India but common in their mountain village ." ]	[ 0, 14, 15, 25 ]
[ "MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Barack Obama sometimes gets ribbed for his outsized ideas, like the massive stage built in Denver, Colorado, to accept the Democratic presidential nomination.", "But an artist in Barcelona, Spain, may be about to outdo the candidate himself.", "Large-format sketches have long been a focus of artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's work.", "The artist plans to create a gigantic face of Obama sculpted from gravel and sand, which will cover nearly 2.5 acres (1 hectare) of Barcelona beachfront before the U.S. elections.", "\"The size of the piece is intrinsic to its value,\" the artist, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, said Saturday.", "He hopes it will be big enough to be seen on Google Earth.", "\"Obama's personality -- his youth, personal history and message of a new politics -- has fused with the historical moment to create someone larger than life,\" says the artist's dossier about the work, titled \"Expectation.\"", "The huge size also alludes \"to the global impact of this election,\" the dossier adds.", "iReport.com: What do you want to ask Sen. Obama?", "Rodriguez-Gerada, 42, is a Cuban-born American who grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey, near New York, and now lives in Barcelona.", "The artist, who has long focused on large-format sketches and other designs, said he had been planning to put an anonymous face on Barcelona's Mediterranean beachfront but shelved the idea.", "Then, six weeks ago, he decided it should be Obama's face.", "\"Everybody's doing work about Obama,\" he said.", "\"I was talking to my wife about the importance of this election internationally.", "It all came together.\"", "The idea, that is. The execution of the project is still a work in progress, but with a lot of help pouring in.", "The artist has created what he calls a \"vectored image\" from different photos of Obama, showing the candidate's face looking left over his shoulder.", "He will use 500 tons of material -- mainly gravel but also sand and possibly some soil in black, brown and white tones -- to create the image on a flat piece of land slightly raised and overlooking the Mediterranean, near downtown Barcelona.", "The artist and a Barcelona newspaper say the city has temporarily ceded use of the land for the project.", "The portrait of Obama's face will be 445 feet long by 264 feet wide (139.28 by 82.67 meters) and the artist hopes to have it done by late next week or no later than November 3, the day before the U.S. elections.", "The materials have been donated, along with bulldozers and their drivers.", "The crews will initially spread the materials along white lines, and other markers that will be laid out according to the sketch.", "Then, the artist's technical team will direct volunteers with garden rakes to put the final touches on the materials, making sure the various colors are spread properly on the ground in order to depict Obama's eyes, hair, cheeks and collar, according to the plans.", "Rodriguez-Gerada said he'll need to raise about $18,700 (15,000 euros) for other costs, such as rakes and gloves for volunteers, documentation, even portable toilets for the crew.", "He said it's his \"biggest work ever, in scale and complexity.\"", "He's a self-described political independent until recently, when he joined Democrats Abroad in Spain.", "But he added that the art project is his alone, without help from any political organization or campaign, and he won't be paid for it.", "Rodriguez-Gerada said this project also aims to address the issue of \"trying to find heroes with empathy for the problems of the world.", "We really need empathy from Barack Obama.", "There's a need to do positive things for the future.\"", "Obama's giant face would be environmentally friendly, with all natural colors, so the materials could be recycled, the artist said.", "Rodriguez-Gerada's not sure how long the face would remain in place in Barcelona, because the site is slated to be used for a new municipal building.", "But even if the face isn't permanent, it might be the start of outsized artistic images of Obama.", "Barcelona journalist Matt Elmore contributed to this report." ]	[ "Cuban-American artist plans to finish work before U.S. elections .", "500 tons of material will cover 2.5 acres of beachfront .", "Democratic presidential candidate is \"larger than life,\" artist says .", "Project also aims to address issue of \"trying to find heroes\"" ]	[ 3, 27 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani authorities have arrested four men in connection with the suicide truck bombing of a Marriott Hotel last month in Islamabad that killed more than 50 people, officials said Friday.", "More than 50 people died in last month's attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.", "The men appeared Friday before a magistrate in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, police and Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency investigators said.", "Although they have not been charged, the magistrate is allowing police to hold them for a week while the investigation continues.", "The magistrate ordered them back to court on October 31.", "Authorities have not said how they believe these men are connected to the September 20 bombing.", "The men -- one of whom is a doctor -- were arrested at different times in different places, authorities said, but gave no additional details.", "They identified them as: Dr. Muhammad Usman and Tehseen Ulla Jaan, both from Peshawar; Ilyas Rana Muhammad, from a village near Faiselabad in Pakistan's Punjab province; and Hameed Afzal Muhammad, from Toba Taik Singh district, also in Punjab province.", "In addition to the dozens killed, some 250 people were wounded in the suicide truck attack, which sparked a fire that left the hotel in ruins.", "The hotel, located near the diplomatic section of Islamabad, had been popular among tourists visiting Pakistan.", "It was crowded the night of the bombing." ]	[ "Four arrested on suspicion of involvement\" in hotel blast in Pakistani capital .", "More than people died in September 20 attack on Marriott hotel, 250-plus injured .", "Authorities have not said how they believe the men are related to the blast ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- U.S. and Pakistani troops exchanged fire Thursday along the Pakistani-Afghan border minutes after the Pakistani military fired shots at two American helicopters that were providing cover for the troops, a U.S. military spokesman said.", "Pakistan says it shot at two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo.", "The U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowas, part of NATO's International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan, were patrolling the Pakistani-Afghan border when the Pakistani military fired on them, NATO and U.S. officials said.", "The Pakistani military said the fire was warning shots, and President Asif Ali Zardari said it was flares.", "Both Zardari and the Pakistani military said the helicopters had crossed into Pakistani territory -- a charge U.S. officials denied.", "Rear Adm. Greg Smith of U.S. Central Command said the helicopters were providing cover for a small U.S. military unit accompanying an Afghan border police unit on a routine patrol.", "After the shots were fired at the helicopters, Smith told CNN, the U.S. troops fired \"suppressing rounds\" into a nearby hill to get the Pakistanis to stop.", "That prompted the Pakistani troops to stop firing at the helicopters and fire instead in the direction of the troops, he said.", "The U.S. troops then returned fire, Smith said.", "No injuries were reported in the five-minute incident.", "Smith and other U.S. officials said the helicopter crews did not fire back.", "But the Pakistanis disagreed, asserting in a written statement that the helicopters \"returned fire\" after the initial shots were fired.", "\"The helicopters passed over our border post and were well within Pakistan territory\" at the time that \"security forces fired anticipatory warning shots,\" the Pakistani statement said.", "After the shots were fired, \"the helicopters returned fire and flew back.\"", "The Pakistani statement did not mention exchanging fire with ground troops and did not identify the shots as flares, as Zardari did in New York in an appearance with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.", "\"They are flares,\" he said in response to a question asking why the Pakistani military was firing on NATO helicopters.", "\"Just to make sure that they know they crossed the border line.\"", "Asked if such warnings will continue, he replied, \"Sometimes the border is so mixed that they don't realize that they crossed the border.\"", "Rice, off camera, agreed that \"the border is very unclear\" and \"inhospitable.\"", "Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman reiterated the United States' stance that the two helicopters were over Afghan territory.", "\"The Pakistanis need to provide the U.S. a reason to why this took place,\" he said.", "The ISAF issued a news release saying that \"ISAF helicopters received small-arms fire from a Pakistan military checkpoint along the border near Tanai district, Khowst.\"", "\"At no time did ISAF helicopters cross into Pakistani airspace.\"", "The ISAF did not mention ground troops or say whether the helicopters returned fire.", "Both the ISAF and Pakistani military said they are working to resolve the issue.", "Last week, Zardari said Pakistan would not allow foreign nations to violate its sovereignty to pursue terrorists.", "\"We will not tolerate the violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism,\" he said in his first speech to Parliament as president.", "His remark followed a similar declaration from Pakistan's military chief, Gen. Parvez Kayani, who said this month that Pakistan's territorial integrity \"will be defended at all cost, and no external force is allowed to conduct operations.\"", "A senior defense official in the Pentagon said the Pentagon is trying to determine the details of Thursday's incident.", "\"What we don't know if this was just a case of trigger-happy members of the Frontier Corps,\" the official said, \"or whether in fact the Pakistani military does have orders to fire on our helicopters.\"", "\"We are confident our helicopters were on the Afghan side of the border, and we have no report they fired back,\" the official added.", "Top U.S. commanders will be talking to the Pakistani military about the incident to determine if there was a misunderstanding and to ensure it doesn't happen again, a U.S. official familiar with details of the incident said.", "The official said this is the first verified incident of U.S. troops being fired upon by Pakistani forces.", "There were at least two previous reports in recent days out of Pakistan about similar incidents, but the United States has said neither of those reports was true.", "Reza Sayah in Pakistan, CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and CNN senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre contributed to this story." ]	[ "NEW: U.S. says it returned fire after Pakistanis fired shots at American copters .", "Pakistani president says military fired only flares .", "Attack comes after president, general warned foreign troops to stay out .", "Pakistani, U.S. officials say they are working to resolve the issue ." ]	[ 0, 6, 24 ]

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