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[ "(CNN) -- NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a rural Georgia nightspot early Friday, police said.", "Police talked to Roethlisberger, 28, and the 20-year-old woman at the scene immediately after the incident was reported at about 2:30 a.m. Friday morning at Capital City in Milledgeville, Georgia, said Deputy Police Chief Richard Malone.", "However, Malone said investigators still need to do a follow-up interview with Roethlisberger and witnesses.", "He added that nobody has been charged in the alleged incident and stopped short of calling the football player a suspect.", "The woman \"alleged that he is the perpetrator,\" Malone told reporters.", "He said the woman was part of a group mingling with Roethlisberger's friends at the restaurant and that the groups had gone to other bars and restaurants over the course of the evening.", "He said the woman was treated and released from a local hospital Friday morning.", "Roethlisberger's agent, Ryan Tollner, said his client would cooperate in the investigation.", "Roethlisberger has been the starting quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers for six seasons, guiding the team to two Super Bowl championships.", "\"Last night, Ben and his friends met a group of women and everyone mingled together throughout the evening,\" Tollner said in a written statement Friday.", "\"We have spoken to law enforcement.", "Based on information currently available, an allegation was made against Ben, which appeared to be dismissed after a preliminary investigation last night.", "\"Obviously, given the prior accusation against Ben, we are skeptical of motive, but we will continue to cooperate with everyone involved.\"", "Tollner was referring to a civil complaint filed against Roethlisberger last year, also alleging sexual assault.", "Roethlisberger has denied the allegations by an executive casino host at Harrah's Lake Tahoe, saying, \"I would never, ever force myself on a woman.\"", "Roethlisberger and eight Harrah's employees are named in the suit, which seeks at least $390,000, plus unspecified punitive damages, from the defendants." ]	[ "Accuser was with group of women that had been hanging out with Roethlisberger .", "Authorities have not charged anyone; follow-up interviews to take place .", "Civil complaint filed against Roethlisberger last year also alleges sexual assault ." ]	[ 5, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The mayor of Piedras Negras, Mexico, and the secretary of public works and transportation in the state of Coahuila were killed in a plane crash Wednesday, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.", "There was an explosion on the airplane while flying over the Escondido River, Notimex said.", "The news agency identified the men as Mayor Jose Manuel Maldonado and Coahuila official Horacio del Bosque Davila.", "The pilot, who was not identified, also was presumed dead.", "Coahuila Gov.", "Humberto Moreira Valdes confirmed the deaths, Notimex said.", "The aircraft, which took off from Piedras Negras, plunged into the Fragua Dam, the news agency said.", "Notimex said the aircraft was a Piper Cheyenne, a twin-engine turboprop plane.", "Patricia Rivero of the Coahuila's prosecutors office told CNN officials were still at the scene and she did not have further information." ]	[ "Explosion occurred aboard plane before crash, government-run news agency reports .", "Piedras Negras mayor and Coahuila secretary of public works and transportation were killed .", "The pilot, who was unidentified, also was presumed dead .", "Crash is still under investigation, official said Wednesday ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Companies involved in the sinking of the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon made \"some very major mistakes,\" Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday after meeting with executives from the oil company BP.", "Salazar would not elaborate, telling reporters in Houston, Texas, that the cause remains under investigation.", "But he said the failure of the rig's blowout preventer -- a critical piece of equipment designed to shut off the flow of oil in an emergency -- was \"a huge malfunction\" that has left oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.", "\"The investigation will lead to conclusions about what exactly happened, but it didn't work the way it was supposed to work,\" Salazar said.", "\"And from my own preliminary observations, there were some very major mistakes that were made by the companies that were involved.", "But today is not really the day to deal with those issues.\"", "The Coast Guard and the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service are leading the investigation into the loss of the drill rig, owned by BP contractor Transocean Ltd.", "The slick has been spreading across the northern Gulf of Mexico since late April, when the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up and sank about 40 miles off the mouth of the Mississippi River.", "Eleven missing workers who were aboard the rig are presumed dead.", "BP owns the damaged well at the heart of the slick.", "Efforts to shut down the well have failed, leaving it spewing about 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico.", "There was no immediate response to Salazar's comments from BP, which has blamed Transocean.", "Salazar's meeting with BP executives -- his second trip to Houston in less than a week -- comes as oil washed ashore on Louisiana's barrier islands and drifted west past the mouth of the Mississippi River.", "Workers also prepared to lower a massive containment vessel over the Gulf of Mexico's two-week-old undersea gusher.", "Have you been affected by the oil spill?", "Share your story, images .", "A pinkish-orange foam mixture of seawater and crude oil streaked across large stretches of water in the northern Gulf and turned up in the on the shores of the Chandeleur Islands, off southeastern Louisiana.", "Trace amounts of sheen had been reported on the shores of southeastern Louisiana over the past week, but the landfall reported Thursday appeared to the \"first impacts\" of oil from the spill, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry told reporters.", "Doug Suttles, chief operating officer for BP, said mild weather gave cleanup crews more time to attack the spill.", "More controlled burns were conducted Thursday, after BP and the Coast Guard used fire to destroy several thousand barrels of oil on the surface Wednesday, he said.", "But the spill was spreading westward and is projected to drift toward coastal parishes past the Mississippi River delta, spurring Louisiana to begin shifting preventive efforts to its southwestern coast, Gov.", "Bobby Jindal told reporters Thursday.", "\"That obviously opens up many more vulnerable areas along our coast,\" Jindal said.", "\"We're going to do everything we can to keep this oil out.\"", "The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration already has closed the area to fishing, restricting a multibillion-dollar industry in the region.", "Suttles said BP held a meeting with parish governments and state officials, who offered ideas for beating back the oily tide and leveled criticisms.", "\"What's clear is this is their home,\" he said.", "\"And what's also clear is they're passionate about protecting their home.\"", "Under federal law, BP is responsible for capping the well and paying for the cleanup.", "The company shipped a four-story-high containment vessel to the site overnight and expected to lower it toward the seabed nearly a mile below the surface late Thursday, Suttles said.", "The hope is that the container will collect the leaking oil, which would be sucked up to a drill ship on the surface.", "If the operation is successful, BP plans to deploy a second, smaller dome to deal with a second leak in the ruptured pipe.", "But getting the large structure into position could take several days, and the technique has never been attempted at the depth of these leaks.", "\"If all goes according to plan by early next week we hope to make it operational,\" Suttles said.", "\"As we always do, though, we stress this has never been done before.", "We'll likely encounter numerous challenges, but we'll remain committed to make it work.\"", "BP has stopped the flow of oil from one of the three existing leak points from the sunken rig, but it was the smallest of the three leaks and did not affect the amount of crude pouring into the ocean.", "CNN's David Mattingly contributed to this report." ]	[ "Firms involved in rig's sinking made \"very major mistakes,\" Ken Salazar says .", "Coast Guard scrambles to clean up first patch of oil known to reach shore .", "Containment dome arrives on site above source of massive oil spill .", "Officials hope dome will capture oil leaking 5,000 feet beneath Gulf of Mexico ." ]	[ 0, 2, 30 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- A ship billed as the world's largest skimming vessel has begun testing its effectiveness in the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman for its owner, Taiwanese company TMT Shipping, said Saturday.", "The A Whale has been assigned a 5-mile-by-5-mile area to test its capability, spokesman Bob Grantham said, citing Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft.", "Testing is expected to continue Saturday and Sunday, with initial results probably available Monday, Grantham said.", "The skimmer works by \"taking in oily water through a series of vents, or jaws, on the side of the ship and then decanting the intake,\" Grantham said.", "\"In many ways, the ship collects water like an actual whale and pumps internally like a human heart.\"", "The testing area is just north of the underwater oil gusher, the statement said.", "The A Whale arrived in the Gulf on Wednesday and has been awaiting approval to join in cleanup efforts.", "The vessel is estimated to be able to skim 21 million gallons of oil a day, at least 250 times the amount that modified fishing vessels currently conducting skimming operations have been able to contain, according to TMT.", "Built this year, the vessel was meant to carry crude oil and iron ore.", "But after hearing about the oil disaster in the Gulf, TMT modified it to become the world's first large-scale skimmer, spokesman Frank Maisano said this week.", "Researchers have estimated that between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels (1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons) of oil have been gushing into the Gulf daily since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank off the coast of Louisiana.", "Also Saturday, response workers recovered boom suspected to have been vandalized in the marshes of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, the Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center said.", "It released several Coast Guard photographs of the boom, which appeared to have been cut open.", "\"Boom vandalism and mishaps involving small craft moving or cutting boom with propellers impedes oil recovery efforts, endangers workers who must return to recover and replace the boom and slows efforts to conduct booming operations elsewhere,\" a statement from the center said.", "In an effort to reduce boom damage, the Coast Guard has instituted a safety zone around boom sites and established a hotline to report damage.", "Meanwhile, Environmental Protection Agency scientists were set to meet with the agency's chief Saturday to discuss the chemicals BP is using to break up the oil slick.", "Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson's briefing on dispersants in Gulf Breeze, Florida, comes two days after the agency released results from its first round of toxicity testing on eight of the dispersants used in the Gulf.", "The EPA study showed that the chemicals, when not mixed with oil, did not significantly disrupt the endocrine systems of marine life.", "But the agency has said it plans to conduct more tests of the toxicity of the dispersant when mixed with crude.", "Dispersants have been a key part of BP's cleanup strategy.", "Since the beginning of the disaster, more than 1.6 million gallons of the dispersant Corexit 9500 alone have been injected into the Gulf.", "Critics say the chemicals could harm marine life.", "But the Coast Guard has said that dispersant use is \"evaluated daily\" and that it's using the \"safest and most effective methods available\" to protect the sea environment.", "A CNN analysis of daily dispersant reports provided by the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command showed that the chemical dispersants keep flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at virtually unchanged levels despite the EPA's May 26 order to BP to \"significantly\" scale back.", "Before that date, BP used 25,689 gallons a day of Corexit.", "Since then, CNN's analysis showed, the daily average of dispersant use has dropped to 23,250 gallons a day, a 9 percent decline.", "Over the past few days, bad weather has significantly hampered BP's oil cleanup and collection efforts.", "Hurricane Alex made landfall in northeastern Mexico late Wednesday, but its impact was still felt in the Gulf days later.", "On Friday, more oil than what would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool slipped by the cap on BP's ruptured undersea well because of the bad weather, Zukunft said.", "The cap on the well in the Gulf of Mexico, bouncing in the rough conditions, captured 20,000 fewer barrels (840,000 gallons) of oil than anticipated, Zukunft said.", "The rough seas also prevented skimming or burning for the past two days, displaced boom and made it unsafe to fly, he said.", "BP spokesman Mark Proegler noted that forecasters expect rough seas to calm a bit this weekend.", "Crews are standing by to resume skimming operations and survey inland waterways that may have been affected because of a storm surge.", "Shoreline cleanup operations continue with limited weather interruption.", "For the 12-hour period from midnight until noon Friday, approximately 8,665 barrels of oil were collected and about 4,155 barrels of oil and 28.6 million cubic feet of natural gas were flared, BP said.", "Thursday's total oil recovered was approximately 25,150 barrels.", "Newly retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen announced Friday that since June, the skimming capability in the Gulf has increased more than fivefold, from approximately 100 large skimmers to 550 skimming vessels of various sizes working to collect oil in all parts of the region as.", "To date, 28.2 million gallons of an oil-water mix have been skimmed from the Gulf's surface.", "CNN's Ed Lavandera contributed to this report." ]	[ "A Whale assigned 5-mile-by-5-mile area for testing .", "Testing to continue Saturday and Sunday; initial results likely Monday .", "EPA plans to test impact of chemical-oil mix on marine life .", "Containment cap bounced Friday, allowing 20,000 barrels to get by ." ]	[ 1, 2, 21, 29 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- In that strange intersection of economics and politics, there is a new fashion: Trillion is the new billion.", "One trillion $1 bills stacked one on top of the other would reach nearly 68,000 miles into the sky.", "A billion is a thousand million, and a trillion is a thousand billion.", "To provide some perspective on just how big a trillion dollars is, think about it like this: A trillion dollars is the number 1 followed by 12 zeroes.", "Or you can think of it this way: One trillion $1 bills stacked one on top of the other would reach nearly 68,000 miles (about 109,400 kilometers) into the sky, or about a third of the way from the Earth to the moon.", "Some Republicans are hardly over the moon about the growing size of the proposed economic stimulus plan.", "Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said this week that Americans have become desensitized to just how much money that is.", "\"To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion,\" McConnell said.", "CNN checked McConnell's numbers with noted Temple University math professor and author John Allen Paulos.", "\"A million dollars a day for 2,000 years is only three-quarters of a trillion dollars.", "It's a big number no matter how you slice it,\" Paulos said.", "Here's another way to look at it.", "\"A million seconds is about 11½ days.", "A billion seconds is about 32 years, and a trillion seconds is 32,000 years,\" Paulos said.", "\"People tend to lump them together, perhaps because they rhyme, but if you think of it in terms of a jail sentence, do you want to go to jail for 11½ days or 32 years or maybe 32,000 years?", "So, they're vastly different, and people generally don't really have a real visceral grasp of the differences among them.\"", "Everyone is tossing around the words million, billion and trillion.", "With the national debt now topping $10 trillion, following a $700 billion bank rescue and proposed $800 billion-plus stimulus package, have we become numb to the numbers?", "How much is a trillion?", "» . \" 'Number' itself can be parsed 'number' or 'numb-er.'", "And maybe in this case, the latter is a better pronunciation,\" Paulos said.", "\"I think to some extent, we have ... evolved in a context where such big numbers were completely foreign.\"", "Perhaps a better way to get a \"grasp of the numbers,\" Paulos said, is to use them to describe the budgets of government programs.", "\"The [Environmental Protection Agency's], for example, annual budget is about $7.5 billion.", "So, a trillion dollars would fund the EPA in present dollars for 130 years -- more than a century.", "Or the National Science Foundation or National Cancer Institute have budgets of $5 [billion] or $6 billion.", "You could fund those for almost 200 years,\" he said.", "Times have certainly changed.", "Back in 1993, President Bill Clinton wanted a $30 billion jobs and investment package.", "He didn't get it. Just last year, President George W. Bush signed an emergency economic stimulus of $168 billion --- a tally that seems paltry compared with the amount requested today.", "The economic problem, many say, demands huge spending.", "Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker has called it \"the mother of all crises.\"", "The numbers are big, but so is the United States economy.", "The gross domestic product, which measures the total value of goods and services produced in a country, is about $14 trillion.", "Still, many wonder if we can afford it.", "\"So we do have a big economy that may not be as vibrant as it was, but it is still a powerful economic engine.", "Knock on wood, we'll see what happens,\" said Paulos.", "Last week, the House passed an $819 billion emergency stimulus, and the Senate version is approaching $900 billion.", "In the end, whatever lawmakers hash out probably won't reach $1 trillion.", "But consider this: If all of the financial market interventions, loans, guarantees, bailouts and rescues are approved, they will total more than $7 trillion." ]	[ "One billion is equal to 1,000 million; One trillion is equal to 1,000 billion .", "One trillion stacked dollars would reach nearly 60,000 miles, one-third way to moon .", "Professor: You couldn't spend $1 trillion if you spent $1M a day since Jesus' birth .", "All financial market interventions, loans, bailouts total more than $7 trillion ." ]	[ 2, 4, 7, 39 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Recently, I was talking with an interviewer about men and war (I wrote a book about this), and she asked me, \"What is it about testosterone that gets us into war?\"", "There is no doubt that women can fight.", "They do so every day in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "Though not permitted in the infantry in the U.S., they have seen plenty of action on a battlefield with no fronts.", "They are brave. They are also prudent.", "Some men, maybe not so much.", "In his correspondence between 1886 and 1898, for example, Theodore Roosevelt wrote enthusiastically about the prospect of war with Mexico, Canada, Britain, Germany and Spain.", "Roosevelt may have been an extreme example -- charging up Cuba's San Juan Hill, he exulted, \"Holy Godfrey, what fun!\"", "-- but he was hardly unusual in his eagerness for combat.", "When war against Spain was declared in April 1898, President William McKinley asked for 125,000 volunteers.", "He got over a million young American men almost overnight.", "In those days, women were not permitted in the armed services.", "But what if they had been? Do women share the yearning for combat that has defined so many young men in so many societies, all through time?", "I am tempted to say that women would be less likely to get us into wars.", "But then I remember Queen Elizabeth I (if you can't, just picture Cate Blanchett in body armor), British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (saying to President George H.W.", "Bush before the Persian Gulf War, \"Now, George, don't go wobbly on me\") and Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War (ordering revenge for the 1972 Olympics slaying of Israeli athletes).", "Does anyone doubt that gun-toting Sarah Palin would be ready to fight anyone, anytime?", "Hillary Clinton?", "Still, I think women do not have the same primitive urge to test themselves in combat.", "Back in Teddy Roosevelt's time, upper-class men in particular were determined to prove their manhood, fearful that they might be somehow exposed as weak and effeminate.", "This was particularly evident in Roosevelt's correspondence.", "He scoffs at his political foes as \"hermaphrodites\": roughly, half-woman, half-man.", "Curiously, however, Roosevelt was introduced to the mythology and glories of war by a woman.", "Josephine Shaw Lowell was the widow and sister of two great Civil War heroes and martyrs, Charles Russell Lowell and Robert Gould Shaw.", "(You may remember Shaw's fatal charge with his doomed black regiment from the movie \"Glory\").", "The young Josephine, a family friend of the Roosevelts', would visit wearing her widow's weeds and thrill little Theodore with the exploits of her martyred menfolk.", "In her old age, Josephine Lowell turned against war.", "She had the wisdom to see that a war to free the slaves in America was noble but that foreign adventuring in Cuba and the Philippines had more to do with the atavistic urges of men than wise policy or moral duty.", "Indeed, women may respond to the test of their essential identity in a less macho fashion then men.", "Although there were reportedly some problems with having women in the frontline units of the early Israeli army, women fought courageously and well in the Russian army against Germany in World War II.", "In the American military, women have taken on dangerous jobs.", "After some initial resistance, women fliers have been accepted by the brotherhood of naval aviators and air force pilots.", "In the movie \"Courage Under Fire,\" about a brave helicopter pilot in Desert Storm played by Meg Ryan, the men are shocked when Ryan cries.", "There is a wonderful scene in which Ryan tells the men to stop staring.", "\"It's just tears. It doesn't mean anything,\" she snaps.", "Women are no less courageous than male soldiers, but they sometimes have less need to show off.", "They certainly can bring a certain sense of humor that is useful in deflating male egos.", "After Teddy Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders, his wife, Edith, went to Cuba to tour the battlefield.", "When she returned, she slyly told her husband that the hill of his famous charge was not quite as high as she had been led to believe.", "It is not known whether Roosevelt laughed.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Evan Thomas." ]	[ "Evan Thomas was asked, \"what is it about testosterone that gets us into war?\"", "He says women brave, prudent; historically, men, like Teddy Roosevelt, eager for combat .", "Women can make war (Thatcher, Meir) but lack men's macho urge to test themselves .", "Thomas: Women tend to have have less need to show off ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4, 18, 20, 35 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- An unlikely sponsor at this year's annual conservative conference is hoping to not only promote the issues that set it apart from many Republicans, but also draw attention to the beliefs they share.", "The group is called GOProud -- a name that combines GOP and gay pride.", "So far, the group is getting a mixed response at the Conservative Political Action Conference.", "GOProud was founded by former members of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay and lesbian Republican grass-roots organization.", "GOProud has a booth at CPAC just two spaces away from the exhibition for the National Organization for Marriage, which wants the government to define marriage as between a man and a woman.", "The organizations obviously see social issues differently.", "\"It's the ultimate Washington power grab to say let's have a federal constitutional amendment that will federalize the question of marriage,\" said GOProud chairman Christopher Barron.", "Through speaking at the event, exhibiting a booth and co-sponsoring the conference, GOProud hopes to highlight the views it has in common with other Republicans -- limited government and fiscal responsibility.", "But the members' nontraditional conservative views are rankling some attendees at CPAC.", "Liberty University Law School, founded by the late Rev.", "Jerry Falwell, boycotted the event after GOProud was announced as a co-sponsor.", "The younger activists, however, are more accepting.", "About 10,000 people are expect to attend CPAC, and a conference spokesman said at least 60 percent, and maybe as high as 80 percent, of the attendees are expected to be younger than 30.", "\"People in the under 40 age range have become a lot more accepting of homosexuality,\" attendee Deborah Corey said.", "\"But I think there's also more of an attitude among Americans that's sort of more libertarian that says people have the right to do what they want to in their own lives and to take the consequences for it, as well.\"", "Chris Plante, who is running the booth for the National Organization for Marriage, said being two booths away from GOProud wasn't an issue.", "As cameras rolled, he introduced himself to Barron.", "\"I hope we'll have more time to talk over the next four days.", "Maybe we can have a beer later,\" Plante said.", "\"We can have a beer summit later.", "It worked for Obama,\" Barron joked.", "A meeting, yes.", "But don't expect a meeting of the minds.", "\"Gays and lesbians have the right to live as they choose, but they don't have the right to redefine marriage for the rest of us,\" Plante said.", "The organizers of GOProud will be participating in a roundtable on Saturday, but they won't be talking about issues that affect gay Americans.", "Instead, they'll be talking about technology and outreach.", "They say that's their choice." ]	[ "GOProud's nontraditional conservative views are rankling some attendees at CPAC .", "GOProud hopes to highlight the beliefs it shares with other Republicans .", "Liberty University Law School boycotts event after GOProud announced as co-sponsor .", "GOProud participating in a roundtable on Saturday about technology and outreach ." ]	[ 7, 8, 9, 10, 25 ]
[ "Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba's Roman Catholic church has identified 12 more jailed dissidents who are expected to be freed in what would be the largest Cuban prisoner release in more than a decade.", "The announcement Saturday raises the number of prisoners to be released in the next few days to 17, roughly one-third of the total amount the government plans to release by mid-November.", "The move follows a visit by Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, who met with Cuban President Raul Castro and Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega on Wednesday.", "Cuba's church earlier announced the names of five other prisoners to be freed, and identified six others to be transferred to prisons closer to their homes.", "The 52 political prisoners Cuba plans to release are the remainder of a larger group of 75 dissidents who were jailed during a government crackdown on political opposition in March 2003.", "They represent roughly one-third of all known political prisoners left on the island, according to Cuba's unofficial Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.", "The prisoners will head to Spain upon their release, Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman Juan Lugo told CNN.", "Wednesday's announcement also brought an end to a 134-day hunger strike by Cuban opposition activist Guillermo Farinas.", "Farinas stopped eating solid foods in February following the death of jailed hunger striker and political dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who was protesting what he described as poor conditions in detention.", "Zapata's death sparked international condemnation from Europe and Washington and drew a rare statement of regret from President Castro." ]	[ "The 12 dissidents would be part of largest prisoner release in a decade .", "They were detained in a 2003 crackdown .", "Release follows visit by Spanish foreign minister ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An American serving an eight-year sentence in North Korea recently attempted suicide, North Korea's official news agency said Friday.", "The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that Aijalon Mahli Gomes attempted to take his own life \"driven by his strong guilty conscience, disappointment and despair at the U.S. government that has not taken any measure for his freedom.\"", "The news agency said the Swedish Embassy, which represents U.S. interests in North Korea, had \"acquainted itself with the condition of the patient at the hospital.\"", "The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it does not comment on individual cases and refused to confirm or deny its involvement.", "Gomes was arrested after crossing the North Korea-China border on January 25.", "In April, he was sentenced to eight years of hard labor for what state media described as \"a hostile act committed against the Korean nation.\"", "The American was, according to South Korean press reports, an English language teacher with strong Christian convictions, who had taken part in anti-North Korean protests in the South.", "Last month, KCNA reported that North Korea may consider a tougher punishment for Gomes if the United States \"persists in its hostile approach\" toward Pyongyang.", "Two American journalists -- Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had crossed the border last March and were arrested and sentenced to 12 years hard labor -- were released in August after an intervention by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.", "Robert Park, a Korean-American Christian evangelist who was arrested after entering the country on Christmas Day, had given a media interview in which he stated his aim to force change in North Korean human rights conditions.", "He was released in February after telling North Korean state media that he had been wrong about human rights conditions there.", "CNN's Per Nyberg contributed to this report." ]	[ "North Korea sentenced man to 8 years of hard labor .", "Gomes detained January 25 for trespassing into North Korea from China .", "Sweden, which represents U.S. interests, reportedly looked into the case ." ]	[ 2, 4, 5 ]
[ "Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls himself \"America's toughest sheriff.\"", "He is famous for creating a tent city jail in the Arizona desert; for providing pink underwear for inmates; for bragging that he spends more to feed his dog than a prisoner in his jail.", "This year he has made national headlines for his tough enforcement of Arizona's anti-illegal immigration laws and for his vocal support for a controversial new immigration law that takes effect at the end of July.", "But the 77-year-old lawman is himself the subject of serious allegations of abuse of power.", "Arpaio's critics say he has a long history of launching bogus criminal investigations against political opponents and anyone else who gets in his way.", "This year a federal grand jury started looking into the allegations.", "Former Maricopa County School Superintendent Sandra Dowling says what happened to her is a case in point.", "Dowling says was locked in a political battle with some members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over school district funds when the sheriff's SWAT team came in the dead of night to search her home.", "Dowling was charged with stealing money from a school for homeless students.", "There were 25 felony counts in all.", "\"Never could I have imagined what a nightmare was waiting ahead,\" Dowling said.", "Arpaio promised to uncover massive public corruption -- \"We are looking into all avenues of this investigation,\" he said -- and to win a speedy conviction.", "From the start Dowling maintained her innocence: \"I kept saying I didn't do anything.", "I didn't do anything.\" It took three years, but finally a judge threw out all the felony counts against Dowling.", "She entered a guilty plea to a single misdemeanor charge.", "But she said her reputation had been shattered, her career destroyed, and she owed more than $100,000 in legal fees.", "\"I still don't think that everybody knows I was innocent,\" she said.", "Dowling is not alone.", "Arpaio has launched -- either on his own or in conjunction with the county attorney -- high-profile criminal investigations against a who's who of Maricopa County politicians and officials.", "The list includes the mayor of Phoenix, a former police chief, two members of the board of supervisors, Superior Court judges, and even a former state attorney general.", "The charges have included public corruption, misuse of taxpayers' dollars, bribery, rape and even child molestation.", "What all these investigations hold in common is that they were launched with great public fanfare, but rarely resulted in convictions.", "Among the investigations recounted in this report, the only conviction has been on the misdemeanor charge against Dowling.", "Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon calls the sheriff's long list of investigations a \"reign of terror.\"", "Gordon came under Arpaio's scrutiny, he says, after speaking out against the sheriff's neighborhood sweeps to round up illegal immigrants.", "The mayor says he received a torrent of records requests from sheriff's investigators, and he was later told that he was under investigation on possible child molestation charges.", "Gordon says the sheriff \"bragged that he was watching my office from his office with a telescope.\"", "The sheriff's department confirmed that Gordon was investigated on child molestation accusations.", "In the end charges were never filed.", "\"He is a coward,\" said former Buckeye, Arizona, Police Chief Dan Saban.", "In 2004 Saban challenged Arpaio's bid for a fourth term in the sheriff's office.", "That was when the local news reported that Arpaio was investigating his rival on charges of rape.", "It was a claim made by Sabin's foster mother.", "She claimed the rape occurred 30 years earlier, when Saban was only 15 years old.", "Saban says he was the victim, not the foster mother.", "Once again charges were never filed.", "But Saban noted the sheriff alerted the media to the details of the sordid accusation.", "\"They put out a media campaign against me,\" he said.", "\"That I was the subject of a criminal probe.\"", "It sounds familiar to County Supervisor Don Stapley.", "\"They indicted me on 118 counts.\"", "he said, \"none of which I'm guilty of.\"", "Those 118 counts of public corruption against Stapley made big headlines before they were thrown out of court by a judge.", "Arpaio has refilled many of those charges and Stapley is still fighting to clear his name.", "Arpaio turned down CNN requests for an interview, citing the federal grand jury investigation and a series of threatened lawsuits from these and other cases.", "However, one of Arpaio's long-time assistants was eager to defend his boss.", "Deputy Chief John MacIntyre says that in each and every case, the sheriff's investigations were fully justified.", "\"Was there probable cause?", "There was a ton of probable cause,\" he said.", "In the rape investigation of the sheriff's political rival, Saban, for example, MacIntyre says it was a case the sheriff had to investigate.", "\"We didn't make up the mother's testimony,\" he said.", "\"It came in here like a bombshell.\"", "MacIntyre says it was just coincidence that the sheriff benefited when the story was leaked to the press.", "Andrew Thomas is another Arpaio ally.", "He is the former Maricopa County attorney who participated in a number of Arpaio's high-profile cases.", "He is currently running for the Arizona attorney general's office.", "He, too, defends Arpaio's investigations, saying, \"The reality is these were legitimate cases that needed to be brought.\"", "\"It wasn't just brought up out of thin air, there was evidence to back up those cases,\" he said.", "The sheriff's critics, he said, are \"being portrayed as martyrs and I feel that's absolutely inaccurate.\"", "Thomas paints a picture of Maricopa County as a pit of corruption that includes the judicial system, which he blames for his lack of convictions.", "\"We had to go into courts where the judges were collaborating with the targets of the investigations,\" he said.", "\"They were working together to thwart investigations (and) prosecutions.\"", "The Arizona Bar Association takes a different view.", "Its ethics committee is currently considering a case against Thomas for his role in Arpaio's investigations of public officials, the association said.", "MacIntyre says it is up to the public to untangle the web of political intrigue surrounding Phoenix and its environs.", "\"The electorate is going to have to say we don't want to do this anymore, and we will vote one or more people out,\" he said.", "\"Right now the sheriff's polls indicate that the public still supports him rather overwhelmingly.\"", "Whether the grand jury investigation or the threatened lawsuits bring change remains to be seen.", "Mike Lacey, a newspaper editor who was once arrested after criticizing Arpaio, says the end is not yet in sight: \"If you are a critic of the sheriff, or if you represent an opportunity for publicity, you become a target for this man.\"" ]	[ "Maricopa County sheriff is known for being tough on prisoners and illegal immigrants .", "Critics say Arpaio has launched bogus criminal probes against political opponents .", "Federal grand jury is looking into those allegations .", "Sheriff declines comment, but deputy chief says all of the investigations were justified ." ]	[ 4, 5, 17, 18, 46 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Hadiya Masieh, a 32-year-old mother, was born a Hindu, received her early education in a Christian school, converted to Islam and joined a radical group in college.", "It's a story that makes her feel emotional and nervous as she recounts her past -- a past she has since renounced.", "Hadiya was only 18 years old when she became interested in Hizb ut Tahrir, a radical Islamic group.", "While studying for a degree in business at Brunel University in England, she became closely involved with the activities of Hizb ut Tahir.", "As a teenager, Hadiya had a natural inclination to learn about different religions and was drawn to Islam because of the focus on one God as the creator.", "Her quest to know more about the religion led her to meet members of Hizb ut Tahir on her college campus.", "Speaking of her early days with Hizb ut Tahrir, she reflects on her interaction with other members of the group: \"I was initially looking for spiritual understanding of Islam and they were trying to say that spirituality is important but their main focus was on politics and that the politics was just as spiritual in Islam.\"", "She learned soon that the main aim of the group was a call for \"Khilafah,\" establishing a Muslim state.", "As a member of Hizb ut Tahir, Hadiya held regular talks and tried to recruit others to the group.", "She remembers that even though the group by itself did not get involved in acts of terrorism, the members never denounced violence perpetuated by others.", "Despite Hadiya's close and prolonged involvement with Hizb ut Tahrir, her parents remained unaware of the degree of their only daughter's involvement with a radical organization.", "Hesitant to speak of her relationship with her family, Hadiya reminisces, \"at the end of the day I was still a loving daughter towards them, and that's what they saw of me.\"", "Sometime toward the end of her 10-year involvement with Hizb ut Tahrir, Hadiya began to question her work with the group and the message that was being sent out.", "\"When you are in a group like this, they talk about the same thing over and over again and eventually human nature will start to think it's not making a difference,\" she said.", "The July 7, 2005, London bombings killed more than 50 people and left the world in shock.", "And it proved to be a major turning point in Hadiya's life.", "\"I was heavily pregnant with my third child and when I was in the waiting room, looking at the screen, I just felt like hiding.\"", "She shakes her head at the memory.", "Recollecting the images of 7/7 bombings, Hadiya adds, \"I think it was wake-up call for anyone in [Hizb ut Tahrir] who is living in Britain, whether they wanted to admit it or not.\"", "After she gave birth to her youngest child, Hadiya began exploring a different path, a more moderate and spiritual approach to Islam.", "It was in 2008 that she finally severed ties with Hizb ut Tahrir and instead started giving talks in colleges to foster closer ties among communities.", "Both Hadiya and her husband, Dawud, who also is a former member of Hizb ut Tahrir, now work toward building better understanding among religions and communities.", "Hadiya recently helped organize a movie screening in North London for more than 70 Jewish and Muslim women as part of her work with a faith-based organization called Three Faiths Forum.", "\"I feel more at peace with what I am doing now,\" Hadiya says with a determined tone, \"because all of the messages that I am talking about now are very positive.\"" ]	[ "Hadiya Masieh, 32, joined the radical Islamist group Hiz ut Tahrir while in college .", "Hizb ut Tahrir members' \"main focus was on politics,\" she says .", "London bombings of July 7, 2005, were a turning point for her .", "She and her husband now work to bring faith communities closer together ." ]	[ 0, 6, 14, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In October, when her newspaper merged with a competitor, Jamie Smith was laid off.", "\"I became one of the thousands -- maybe millions -- of people in the United States who became displaced,\" she told CNN iReport in December.", "\"Due to nothing of my fault, really no one's fault; it's the economy right now.\"", "Smith, 30, who lives in Bentonville, Arkansas, began collecting unemployment and looked for opportunities to write on a freelance basis.", "She also decided to create her own public relations company .", "Through the first few months of the year, her goals seemed on track.", "She was writing for a variety of publications and a spring expo that she'd planned to launch her business was sold out.", "But in April, she ruptured her appendix.", "Complications developed, including the onset of gangrene, and she had to spend two weeks in the hospital.", "\"Basically, life halted,\" she said.", "Watch as Jamie talks about her hospitalization on CNN iReport .", "Luckily, her husband had \"great insurance,\" so they weren't saddled with expensive hospital bills.", "And the expo went on as planned in June.", "\"This is really not the most intelligent time to make a career change,\" she said recently.", "\"But life forces you to make some hard choices.\"", "Selling a home ... in this economy?", "Michael Andrews faces a choice as well: Does he sell his home now?", "Or wait until the market gets better?", "Andrews, 33, lives in Bowie, Maryland, with his wife and 4-year-old son.", "He bought the home in 2005 but wanted to move to a bigger house in a nicer area.", "However, as the housing market collapsed, the price of his home fell.", "\"The cost of our home is such that we can't really leave until it flips back around to some kind of profit,\" he said when he first spoke to iReport in December.", "But as the year went on, the Andrews family realized it may be wiser to stay.", "\"You get more home for the value, schools are great, great amenities -- so we had to re-evaluate that,\" he said.", "Instead, Andrews, a college administrator, said he's spent the year investing in his career.", "He created fivemikes.com, a website devoted to his motivational speaking engagements.", "\"I work for the state of Maryland, and the state government is not really thriving right now,\" he said.", "\"I think that when times are as rough as they are right now in the economy, you really have to rely on yourself to take that extra leap.\"", "A forced transition .", "Last year, Bruce Pollard retired from his information technology job of more than 25 years after his company filed for bankruptcy.", "He took on a consulting job, but it only made up for 20 percent of the salary he once earned.", "He set about looking for more work, but it wasn't necessarily what he ideally wanted to do.", "\"What I'd really like to do is teach [high school students] and contribute,\" he told iReport in February.", "\"But I can't afford to do that with my family and two kids going to college and another one coming up.\"", "His wife, a psychologist who used to work one day a week, began working more, and between the two, they're \"filling up the work week,\" he says.", "Pollard, 58, says the first half of the year has been a transitory period, coping with the emotions and adjustments of no longer working a steady job.", "\"I'm trying how learning to take in the duties that my wife handed over to me,\" he said recently.", "\"You think that when you go away for five days a week and come back that things just happen around the house.", "But they don't.\" A year for expansion .", "It's been a different sort of transition for Susan and David Nethero.", "Owners of Intimacy, a specialty bra company, they've overseen the opening of several stores across the U.S. this year.", "The company has been around for 18 years and had 11 stores at the start of the year.", "They've already opened three more stores: A second New York location, one in Los Angeles and another in Orange County.", "They have plans to open two more stores this year.", "Despite an economy where growth has been anemic and shaky, Intimacy has done well, the Netheros say.", "\"Our sales are trending exactly where we hoped they would be.", "In fact, we're a little bit ahead,\" Susan Nethero told iReport recently.", "\"That gives us great confidence for the economy and for the balance of our sales for the year.", "\"We're feeling very strong and very bullish.\"", "Where tax season is 'like Christmas' Guy Daniels, the owner of Expressions Ink, a tattoo parlor in Wausau, Wisconsin, says he was a bit nervous when the year began.", "At the time, Expressions Ink relied on longtime customers and people who were using gift certificates from the holidays.", "Walk-in traffic \"took a dive with a lot of layoffs in town,\" he told iReport.", "As the year progressed, he began cutting costs where he could and invested a bit of money on a new computer and advertising.", "\"Figured you have to spend money to make money,\" he said.", "Things began looking up when tax season arrived, a time when refunds give customers more disposable income to spend.", "\"People are more spontaneous with their money at tax time,\" Daniels said.", "\"It's like Christmas for us.\"", "The shop is holding steady for now, but Daniels predicts the next six months, when revenue from tax season and other such bumps will recede, will give a better indication of what the economy is like for his business.", "'A personal tiredness' Kathy Kirkpatrick, like Guy Daniels, is a small-business owner hoping to ride out the economy.", "She is the owner of Life Café.", "She has two locations in New York City, one in the East Village and another in Brooklyn.", "In the more than 20 years that Life Café has been around, 2008 was the worst economy she's ever seen, Kirkpatrick told iReport.", "But as this year began, she sounded optimistic.", "\"I have jobs for people, and I'm able to provide that.", "I'm so grateful for that,\" she said.", "Business has been good, but not strong, for the past six months.", "The springtime, when tourists frequent the café, wasn't similar to years past.", "However, she says, in retrospect, the recession has been something of a benefit.", "The café's management has cut down on costs and learned how to make better decisions, she said.", "\"You have to understand profit and loss, for the small business owner, comes incrementally,\" she said earlier this year.", "\"A few hundred here and there in costs adds up. ...", "It's the difference between success and failure, life or death.\"", "The economy of the past two years has also made her more pragmatic.", "\"Besides a personal tiredness, the recession has made me cautious of the eggs I do have in my basket,\" she said.", "\"I don't have the time in front of me to take any more risks like I used to. I have to be realistic.\"" ]	[ "CNN iReporters are following people they know throughout 2010 to get a measure of how things are going in the economy .", "At the six-month mark, they relate stories of perseverance, reinvention, doubt, success .", "Follow their stories for the rest of the year ." ]	[ 1, 27, 40, 41, 47 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Large and small donations flowed in Monday evening as dozens of celebrities answered phones for Larry King's telethon to help the people of the U.S. Gulf Coast suffering from the oil disaster.", "\"A hundred dollars?", "Wow! Thanks you so much,\" rocker Tyson Ritter told one donor who called in.", "The two-hour CNN show raised $1.3 million with proceeds going to three charities deeply involved in the efforts to help humans, wildlife and the environment.", "\"Everyone's really pissed off,\" actress Jenny McCarthy, who was monitoring online messages in the telethon's \"Tweet Suite,\" told host Ryan Seacrest.", "Donors could choose to send their money to the United Way, National Wildlife Federation or The Nature Conservancy.", "Celebrity journalist Giuliana Rancic said she was on the phone with \"Barbara\" from Kokomo, Indiana.", "\"She's saying it's the animals,\" Rancic said.", "Actress Victoria Principal sat next to her on another call.", "\"We're just talking about the wildlife,\" Principal said.", "Singer Aaron Neville, a New Orleans native, said most of the calls he answered in New York were from people concerned about animals impacted by the oil.", "\"People are crying on the phone and giving money,\" Neville said.", "Actor Ted Danson said it was important for him to \"hear people's emotions, their fear and sadness\" when they called in donations, .", "CNN correspondents reported live from the Gulf Coast, interviewing people whose lives have been interrupted by the oil disaster.", "\"The toughest thing I see is losing a way of life that we've had down here for generations and generations,\" said shrimper Archie Dantin in Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana.", "A BP spokesman issued a statement Monday saying the oil company is \"proceeding with urgency to make the situation right for the environment and for those who have affected by this tragic event.\"", "\"We stated from the beginning that we accept responsibility for cleaning up the spill and for paying all legitimate claims for those directly impacted financially by this environmental disaster,\" BP's statement said.", "The company said over 65,000 claims have been submitted and more than 32,000 payments have been made, totaling more than $107 million.", "\"The average time from filing a claim to checks being issued is only a few days,\" BP siad.", "\"Even for more complex business claims that have provided supporting documentation.\"", "\"I don't think they're responding fast enough,\" shrimper Keillen Williams said.", "Retired NBA star Jalen Rose, who was helping answered phones at CNN's Los Angeles bureau, said he is sure President Barack Obama will make BP pay.", "\"But it will take time for that to happen, so we're here today to provide immediate relief to those in need,\" Rose said." ]	[ "Larry King telethon for Gulf raises $1.3 million in two hours .", "Money going to United Way, National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy .", "Singer Aaron Neville, a New Orleans native, said, \"People are crying on the phone.\"" ]	[ 1, 5, 11 ]
[ "Oakland, California (CNN) -- Police arrested dozens of people in downtown Oakland, California, Thursday night after hundreds protested the verdict in the trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man, Oakland police officials told CNN.", "Police issued a variety of charges, including failure to disperse, resisting arrest, burglary, vandalism and assaulting a police officer.", "Police initially reported 83 people had been arrested, but later reduced the number to 78.", "The former officer, Johannes Mehserle, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a conviction that usually carries a maximum four-year sentence.", "But some in Oakland hoped for conviction on a charge that would carry a tougher penalty for the former police officer, and took to the streets in protest.", "Crowds broke the glass of a Foot Locker and other stores.", "Others threw sneakers out of the store as police wearing gas masks stormed the area.", "At the high point of the protests, about 8 p.m., there were an estimated 800 people in the streets, Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts said.", "By 10:30 p.m., there were about 75 left, he said.", "The protests were contained to the downtown area, police said.", "Police said they were still collecting information on the total number of businesses that were vandalized.", "Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums downplayed the demonstrations.", "\"People were preparing for everything to explode, but I am extremely happy that so far it has not, and I hope that it doesn't,\" Dellums said.", "\"We're not going to tear our own community apart, because we've got issues that we've got to deal with.\"", "Oakland police had prepared for protests and ways of quelling the demonstrations days before the verdict.", "Mehserle could have been found not guilty, guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of voluntary manslaughter or, as the jury decided, guilty of involuntary manslaughter.", "Mehserle, a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer at the time of the incident, was accused of shooting 22-year-old Oscar Grant on an Oakland train platform on January 1, 2009.", "The trial was moved from Alameda County to Los Angeles because of pretrial publicity.", "Mehserle, wearing a gray suit, blue shirt and red tie, showed no emotion during the reading of the verdict.", "The former officer did not say anything to Superior Court Judge Robert Perry or attorneys.", "About a dozen Los Angeles County deputies escorted the handcuffed defendant out of the courtroom after the verdict was announced.", "Outside the courtroom, Grant family members expressed outrage at the verdict.", "\"My son was murdered.", "He was murdered. He was murdered. My son was murdered,\" said Grant's mother, Wanda Johnson.", "\"The system has let us down, but God will never ever let us down.\"", "Johnson and other speakers said African-Americans have been the victims of police abuse and a biased judicial system.", "She said Mehserle wasn't found accountable.", "\"We couldn't get even six hours of deliberations,\" said Johnson, who accused jurors of being unfair.", "Sentencing is set for August 6.", "Involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of up to four years in prison under California law.", "But the judge could add an \"enhancement\" that could provide a longer sentence because a firearm was used.", "Members of the jury, which included no African-Americans, said they were unanimous in their decision.", "Their finding indicates that Mehserle was criminally negligent.", "The shooting was captured on a bystander's cell-phone video camera.", "The video was widely circulated on the Internet and on news broadcasts, and it spurred several protests in and around Oakland.", "The video showed Mehserle pulling his gun and fatally shooting Grant in the back as another officer knelt on the unarmed man.", "Mehserle and other Bay Area Rapid Transit police had been called to Oakland's Fruitvale station after passengers complained about fights on a train.", "Officers pulled several men, including Grant, off the train when it arrived at Fruitvale.", "Mehserle said at the trial that he intended to draw and fire his Taser rather than his gun.", "He resigned his position a few days after the incident and was later arrested in Nevada.", "CNN's Sara Weisfelt contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: 78 protesters arrested in Oakland after verdict .", "Charges include burglary, vandalism, assault, police say .", "A former officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting .", "He says he had meant to draw and fire his Taser instead of his gun ." ]	[ 1, 3, 14, 38, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Arguments over the massive overhaul of the health care system -- which congressional Democrats hope to pass by next month -- are expected to keep shaking up the country long after the vote.", "Congress' plan could be the first legislation of its kind passed along strict partisan lines.", "In modern history, legislation of such scope -- including Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965 -- has had at least some support from the opposition.", "\"The bottom line is that, unlike other major legislation which has passed with more bipartisan support, health care is going to remain a political football, and people are going to have a sense that it is not fully settled yet for a while,\" said David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN who also worked in the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton administrations.", "\"It's sign of the unhealthy quality of our politics that a bill this significant in our social history is passing with only one party in favor,\" he said.", "Sarah Binder, an expert on Congress and legislative politics with the Brookings Institution, said that in the past two decades, Republicans and Democrats have become increasingly polarized.", "\"It just seems that the incentive to disagree seems to be growing,\" she said.", "Because of the ideological polarization, the parties are growing further apart in policy terms, and thus reaching across the aisle is becoming a tougher task, Binder said.", "The polarization, coupled with another development in recent history -- partisan team play -- has contributed to the heightened partisan rancor surrounding the health care debate, she said.", "Partisan team play is more about keeping a party cohesive and opposed to the other party than it is about underlying policy, she added, comparing this session of Congress to the 103rd, the last time Democrats controlled Congress and the White House.", "There was a \"whole slew of Democratic initiatives in '93-94 where Republicans said, 'We're not going to vote for these,' \" Binder said.", "Ilona Nickels, a congressional analyst and lecturer, said that with the current health care legislation, there was never much hope for bipartisanship, because the divide between the parties over the role and size of government intervention is \"a pre-existing issue.\"", "\"Once you grow government to tackle any major societal problem, it is doubtful you would be able to bring any Republicans aboard,\" she said in an e-mail to CNN.", "No Republicans supported the bill passed in the Senate, and the House version received just one Republican vote.", "Before a final bill can be sent to President Obama's desk, the two versions must be merged into one and voted on again.", "Senior Democratic sources say that a traditional House-Senate conference committee is unlikely to meet to work out differences, because that would allow the GOP to slow the progress in the Senate.", "Democratic leaders from both chambers may instead circumvent the traditional process through informal, high-level talks, the sources said.", "Most Americans disapprove of the current health care legislation, according to CNN's most recent polling.", "\"In addition to the polarization that already exists, there is deep polarization in the country about the bill itself on the merits,\" Gergen said.", "\"There may be instances, but I can't think of them, when a major piece of domestic legislation has passed in the teeth of public disapproval.\"", "Nickels, who spent several years as a congressional staff aide, pointed to the 1980s for an example of the risks of acting on legislation without public support.", "Congress passed the Catastrophic Coverage Act in 1988.", "The legislation was intended to expand Medicare to protect seniors against catastrophic medical expenses.", "To pay for it, enrollees saw higher monthly premiums and a surtax.", "Senior citizens became livid when they fully understood its impact, Nickels said.", "Democratic Rep. Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois championed the legislation, which was enacted with the help of the AARP.", "Nickels recalled that angry voters booed the congressman and pelted his car with eggs.", "The law was repealed in 1989.", "\"In the battle of the spin wars to come on the health care bill, no one should underestimate the public's reaction once the impact of the bill's provisions become clearer and, if enacted, actually felt,\" Nickels said.", "Still, it's an important historical win for Obama if he signs the health care bill into law, Gergen said.", "\"What the White House hope would be is that over time, people would come to appreciate it.", "People will adjust and find that the benefits of the bill far outweigh the negatives and that it will be a major plus for his party over time.", "Right now it's not,\" he added.", "Debate over the legislation will play a key role in the upcoming midterm elections, with Democrats pushing its benefits and Republicans slamming its costs.", "\"It's pretty clear at the moment that unless opinion swings in favor of the bill, as it may, then Republicans will run against the reform in 2010 elections and probably in 2012.", "And that will present the prospect that over time they can change it,\" Gergen said, noting that even some Democrats have said they intend to change the bill over time.", "But in order for Republicans to make gains at the polls, it would take a \"delicate balancing act\" since those gains would likely come from independent voters, said Republican strategist Karen Hanretty.", "Independent voters are fiscally conservative and wary of the massive price tag attached to health care reform, but they also don't like partisanship, she noted.", "Anticipating some conservative Democrats losing in this year's congressional elections, Nickels said she thinks the White House is knowingly sacrificing some members of its own party in exchange for what the administration believes will be a seminal accomplishment.", "CNN's Dana Bash and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report." ]	[ "Partisan vote a sign of \"unhealthy quality of our politics,\" David Gergen says .", "Ideological polarization, \"team play,\" contributing to partisan rancor, expert says .", "Leaders may circumvent the normal conference committee process .", "White House knowingly sacrificing some Democrats to get the bill passed, analyst says ." ]	[ 4, 9, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Concerns about alcohol abuse have been making headlines this week.", "A woman who drinks two glasses of wine every day is at risk for developing liver trouble, a doctor says.", "First, the Indian state of Rajasthan reportedly announced it would shut down 800 alcohol shops.", "Then, in Britain, chief medical officer Liam Donaldson recommended Thursday that anyone 15 years old and younger avoid alcohol completely.", "It's no wonder people are worried.", "A recent survey of alcoholism studies in the Lancet suggests that men have more than a 20 percent lifetime risk of developing alcohol-use disorders, while women's risk is 8 to 10 percent.", "Much of that risk is inherited.", "Studies show that as much as 60 percent of the risk of alcohol-use disorders is genetic, said Dr. Marc Schuckit, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the alcohol and drug treatment program at the Veterans Affairs-San Diego Healthcare System, who wrote the Lancet article.", "The risk for alcoholism is four times greater for children of alcoholics, even those who are adopted by non-alcoholic families, Schuckit said.", "But people who have a genetically influenced disorder can control it by behaving responsibly.", "Just as someone at risk for diabetes shouldn't exacerbate the problem by becoming overweight, someone with a family history of alcoholism must avoid drinking too much.", "\"If you know you're at risk, it's your responsibility to avoid the problems,\" Schuckit said.", "Why is the risk so much greater in men than women?", "Psychiatrists point out that young women also have twice the rate of depression and anxiety that men do, and daughters of alcoholic fathers tend more toward depression than alcoholism, said Dr. Charles Raison, psychiatrist and director of the Mind/Body Institute at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.", "\"There may be a similar underlying neurobiology to a lot of psychiatric conditions, and how they manifest in particular has something to do with circumstances, has something to do with gender, and has something to do with age,\" Raison said.", "There are also cultural factors in this gender pattern, but less is known about them, he said.", "He said women tend toward alcoholism in their 40s and 50s -- which may be their way of counteracting anxiety -- around the time that men tend to develop depression.", "Another genetic trait is involved in sensitivity to alcohol.", "Japanese, Chinese, and Korean people tend to have a mutation in their alcohol-metabolizing genes that makes them more sensitive -- meaning they tend to drink less than people from other backgrounds, he said.", "Data show that the earlier you start drinking away from your family, the greater the risk of alcohol problems later in life, he said.", "On average, people begin drinking apart from the family at 15, a number that hasn't changed much in decades, Schuckit said.", "How much is too much? Male livers can metabolize about twice as much alcohol as females', meaning men can drink about twice as much as women before it becomes dangerous, Raison said.", "\"A woman who drinks two glasses of wine every day of her life is actually at risk for developing liver trouble,\" Raison said.", "Recommended drinking habits vary from person to person.", "To reap the health benefits from wine, a glass to a glass-and-a-half a day is recommended for women, and twice that amount for men, he said.", "Getting help .", "Treating alcoholism is similar to helping people with other chronic conditions -- for example, getting a diabetic person to be compliant with medications, Schuckit said.", "With both alcoholism and diabetes, therapy involves working with a person to alter behavior and help watch for signs of relapse.", "\"The core of treatment for any long term chronic disorder that requires changes in how you do things in life is to help people to recognize that they have a problem, and they can do something about it,\" Schuckit said.", "A combination of medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy is usually the best treatment option for alcoholism, Schuckit said.", "Cognitive-behavioral therapy involves changing a person's mindset -- recognizing the problem -- and improving behavior.", "Three medications are available in the U.S. to treat alcoholism, Schuckit said.", "A drug called acamprosate targets the nervous system and helps people decrease their craving by allowing them to sleep better and feel less anxious.", "Naltrexone, on the other hand, blocks opioid receptors and dampens the good feelings that would normally come along with drinking.", "These two in combination work slightly better than either alone, he said.", "A third option is disulfiram, which actually paralyzes the ability of one of the alcohol metabolizing enzymes to work, he said.", "That makes it especially nauseating and, in rare cases, deadly, for a person taking the drug to drink alcohol.", "Support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous that offer 12-step programs are great resources, and they're free, Schuckit said.", "While imperfect, 12-step programs are often the best option, Raison said." ]	[ "Study: Men have more than a 20 percent lifetime risk of alcohol-use disorders .", "Three medications are available in the U.S. to treat alcoholism .", "As much as 60 percent of the risk of alcohol-use disorders comes from genes ." ]	[ 5, 6, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Chicago police officer was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon during a struggle with a suspect in a police facility parking lot, police said.", "Officer Thor Soderberg was walking to his vehicle in the parking lot at 61st and Racine on the city's South Side, after completing a shift with the department's Operation Protect Youth program, when he encountered the offender, said James Jackson, assistant superintendent of police operations.", "\"The 24-year-old suspect disarmed the officer and then shot him,\" Jackson said at a news conference Wednesday night.", "The department believes the suspect then was involved in an armed robbery a short distance away from the shooting, where he fired additional shots, said Jackson.", "\"Several officers quickly responded and there was an exchange of gunfire with the offender.", "The suspect was shot.", "His injuries are non-life threatening,\" said Jackson.", "The suspect was in stable condition at Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, according to a police spokesman.", "Soderberg was 43 years old and an 11-year veteran of the department, said Jackson.", "He was most recently assigned to the department's education and training division." ]	[ "NEW: Chicago police identify officer killed in struggle .", "Shooting occurred in police facility parking lot .", "Suspect shot in gun battle with responding officers .", "Suspect hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Polygamist sect leader Warren Steed Jeffs, who is awaiting trial in southern Utah, was charged with eight additional felony counts from Arizona in two separate cases, authorities said Thursday.", "Polygamist Warren Jeffs is facing eight additional counts related to alleged incest and sexual contact with a minor.", "A grand jury indicted Jeffs May 10 on two counts of sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of incest for alleged incidents that occurred in 2002, according to a statement issued by Mohave County Attorney Matthew J. Smith.", "On Thursday, another grand jury indicted him on two additional counts of sexual conduct with a minor and two additional counts of incest.", "Those offenses took place in Colorado City, Arizona, in 2003, according to the indictment.", "Both indictments state that Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), committed the offenses \"as an accomplice.\"", "According to Arizona law, sexual conduct with a minor is a Class 6 felony punishable upon conviction by up to a year in prison.", "Incest is a class 4 felony punishable upon conviction by up to 2½ years in prison.", "\"The cases involve two separate victims,\" Smith said in the statement.", "\"Mr. Jeffs will not come to Mohave County to face these charges or to have an initial appearance on them until his Utah case is resolved.\"", "Jeffs, 51, is awaiting trial in Washington County, Utah, on a charge of being an accomplice to rape by arranging the marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her 19-year-old cousin.", "The trial initially was set to begin in April, but Fifth District Judge James Shumate postponed it earlier this year, and a new date has not been set.", "At the time, Shumate said the delay was due to \"recent information in the case,\" but he did not elaborate.", "The judge in March refused a defense request to move the trial out of Washington County because of press coverage, but he said he may reconsider if attorneys encounter difficulty during jury selection.", "Utah prosecutors say that because Jeffs forced the underage girl to marry, and therefore forced her to have sex with the adult man, and because Jeffs insisted she stay married, he is an accomplice to rape.", "During his preliminary hearing in December, Jeffs' defense attorneys said that he never knew whether the marriage he arranged was consummated and, if it was, whether the sex was consensual.", "The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, testified at the preliminary hearing that she was \"so scared\" during the forced wedding.", "\"The whole time I was crying,\" she said.", "\"I wanted to die.\"", "The rape as an accomplice charge is a first-degree felony in Utah, carrying a penalty upon conviction of five years to life in prison.", "Jeffs previously was charged in Arizona with two counts of sexual conduct with a minor for allegedly presiding over arranged marriages, along with an additional charge of conspiracy.", "Those charges, from 2005, were put on hold while Jeffs faces trial in Utah.", "Jeffs was captured August 28, 2006, in a traffic stop near Las Vegas, Nevada.", "At the time, he had been on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List for months.", "The FLDS freely practices polygamy in the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, which straddle the state line.", "The sect maintains groups of followers in Texas, South Dakota, Nevada, British Columbia and Mexico.", "The offshoot sect broke from the mainline Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, over the practice of polygamy.", "The Mormon church, which gave up plural marriage more than a century ago, has no ties to Jeffs' group.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "In May, polygamist leader indicted on charges in 2002 case .", "On Thursday, he's indicted on additional counts in 2003 case .", "Both indictments state that Jeffs committed offenses \"as an accomplice\"\nJeffs is leader of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ." ]	[ 0, 5, 26 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The tale contains elements of a spy thriller: a soldier in Iran's feared Revolutionary Guard turns spy for the CIA after concluding that the government that had promised democracy had instead ushered in oppression, violence and death.", "But Reza Kahlili says this is no novel.", "In his new book, \"A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran,\" Kahlili offers a first-hand account of how he turned against the Islamic regime that he said has oppressed its people for three decades.", "In one of his first public appearances, Kahlili addressed a packed hall Friday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.", "Flanked by a bodyguard and disguised in a hat, mask and glasses, he spoke through a modulator that led Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to liken his voice to Darth Vader's.", "Even his name is a pseudonym, all in an effort to protect his family, friends and contacts, he said.", "The author said that, after a peaceful childhood in Iran, he came to the United States in the 1970s for college, studying computer science at the University of Southern California, where he enjoyed a carefree life of parties, watching football and listening to Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull.", "He returned home after the sudden death of his father to find a country embroiled in change.", "Kahlili describes the immediate aftermath of the 1979 revolution against Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as a special time in Iran.", "Iranians had been led to believe democracy was theirs, the clergy wouldn't interfere in their lives and the people would have freedom of speech, assembly and political affiliation, he said.", "Everyone was excited about the direction of the country, he said.", "It was then that Khalili's friend told him about an opportunity with the newly formed, elite Revolutionary Guard, which hired him immediately.", "Reza said he quickly became disillusioned when he saw people being tortured and murdered and women raped in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.", "Repressing his countrymen, he said, was not what he had signed up for.", "But rather than quit the Guard and endanger his family, he contacted the CIA and began work as an American agent under the code name \"Wally,\" he said.", "There was no magic watch or pen or fancy car like James Bond, he said, just a pencil and a notebook.", "He was trained in communications and deciphering codes.", "Kahlili said his role \"was to look and act the part of a devout Muslim enforcing all the new rules laid down by the mullahs.\"", "\"A full black beard was a mandatory accessory to the Guard's uniform, and I sported one along with every other member of the Guards.", "The image of a scowling, black-bearded Guard in uniform mustered fear and garnered respect.", "Playing the part of a zealot did not come naturally to me, and there were times I had to do things I dreaded: cautioning young girls to cover up, barking at kids for not displaying proper Islamic behavior, taking on the persona of a fanatic.", "I knew I would have to try to convince myself that doing these things allowed me to maintain my role -- and maintaining my role allowed me to contribute to the downfall of the organization to which I so fervently imitated allegiance.\"", "He said he provided critical information to his CIA handlers about Iran's role in the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-contra affair, the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which he said was masterminded by Tehran.", "Kahlili described a CIA that knew little about what was going on inside Iran and was complacent about finding out the truth about the regime.", "He said he warned his case officers in the mid-1980s about the growing danger of the Guard, but said U.S. officials sat idly by, alternating indifference and negotiation with the regime he was working to take down.", "This \"misconception\" of Iran, he said, has plagued America's decisionmaking for three decades.", "After a few scares in which he thought his cover was blown, Kahlili left Iran, was granted asylum in the United States and moved to California.", "He said he no longer works for the CIA, but still provides the agency with information from his contacts in Iran about the regime, its nuclear program, its terrorist activities in the region and its continued oppression of the Iranian people.", "He said that, after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2005 election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, he decided to speak out publicly to raise awareness of the brutality of the regime.", "He predicted that Iran will eventually attack Israel, Europe and the Gulf and advocated a preemptive military strike against the regime but not against the Iranian people or infrastructure.", "Kahlili accused the Obama administration of naivete and betrayal for seeking to engage Iran.", "Not only does the regime see this as weakness on the part of the United States, he said, but the Iranian people view it as a betrayal of the highest order as they fight for freedom.", "\"Stop dreaming, please,\" he said Friday.", "\"You are not dealing with rational people.", "Every time you extend a hand, it is not seen as sincerity, but stupidity.\"", "The CIA's public affairs office in Washington was not open Friday night and its telephone number would not accept messages; its e-mail account rejected two attempts to send it a message." ]	[ "Former member of the Revolutionary Guard describes life as a CIA spy .", "Newly published book describes disillusionment after 1979 revolution .", "Code name \"Wally\"" ]	[ 8, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Aruban authorities are urging Natalee Holloway's father, Dave Holloway, to delay volunteer search efforts in her disappearance until police get better information on the case from Peruvian investigators who have spoken to Joran van der Sloot, prosecutor Peter Blanken said.", "Police do not want their investigation jeopardized or possible evidence contaminated in the Bubali Bird Sanctuary, a swamp area where Joran once said he dumped Holloway's body, Blanken said.", "Aruban authorities wish to search a more focused area once they receive more information from van der Sloot and his laptop, which may include files linking him to the Holloway disappearance.", "Earlier, Blanken said investigators from Aruba would not be able to question van der Sloot until Peruvian authorities finish their probe of the May 30 slaying of Stephany Flores.", "The formalities of Peruvian law also will determine the time frame, the prosecutor said.", "Aruban and Peruvian authorities agreed to \"help each other\" in the Flores case.", "Van der Sloot, a 22-year-old Dutch citizen, was arrested twice in Aruba in connection with Holloway's disappearance but released for lack of evidence.", "Aruba is part of the Netherlands.", "He said he was in Peru for a poker tournament and met Flores while gambling.", "Police have said they think van der Sloot killed Flores to steal money she won.", "Van der Sloot told authorities he attacked Flores on May 30 after she read an e-mail on his computer connected with the Holloway case." ]	[ "Natalee Holloway's father wants to search swamp area for daughter's remains .", "Authorities want to wait until Peruvian authorities give more information .", "Aruban investigators will not question van der Sloot until after Peruvians ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "Paris, France (CNN) -- Thousands of travelers in France were stranded after lightning shut down a main train station on Saturday, the first day of the summer holiday for students.", "Lightening struck an electrical facility in Bretigny-sur-Orge, on the outskirts of Paris, forcing the closure of the Austerlitz station and affecting 40,000 travelers, a French National Railway official told CNN.", "However, traffic at Austerlitz station had resumed as of 6 p.m. (noon ET), CNN affiliate BFM reported, citing officials with railway agency.", "Electronic repairs on the railway had been completed by the evening, and traffic was expected to run smoothly by Sunday.", "Earlier, railway officials had warned of delays and encouraged passengers to postpone their trips.", "Passengers who were unable to take trains Saturday will be issued refunds, BFM reported.", "The station is used by trains leaving for southern France and Spain as well as commuter service to other parts of Paris." ]	[ "NEW: Report: Traffic at Austerlitz station resumes .", "Lightning strikes electrical facility in Bretigny-sur-Orge, outside Paris .", "Forces closure of Austerlitz station in capital .", "The station is used by trains leaving for southern France and Spain ." ]	[ 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Portugal took a big step to escaping the World Cup's so-called \"group of death\" by crushing North Korea 7-0 in a rematch of the two nations' famous 1966 clash in South Africa on Monday.", "Forty-four years ago, the communist country's team shocked the soccer world by taking a 3-0 lead after only 24 minutes of their quarterfinal in England, but the Europeans hit back to win 5-3 with four goals from star forward Eusebio.", "There was to be no repeat in rain-drenched Cape Town, as Portugal found form after the disappointing opening draw with the Ivory Coast and claimed second place in Group G ahead of Friday's final round of matches.", "Carlos Queiroz's team led just 1-0 at halftime thanks to a 29th-minute strike from Raul Meireles as the North Koreans again showed the fighting spirit that tested Brazil in their opening 2-1 defeat.", "But the floodgates opened in the second spell as Simao Sabrosa, Hugo Almeida and Tiago scored in the space of eight minutes, then substitute Liedson netted to clinch the biggest winning margin of the tournament so far.", "Captain Cristiano Ronaldo and then Tiago again compounded the Koreans' misery, giving the Portuguese a massive goal-difference advantage over the Ivorians ahead of their eagerly-anticipated showdown with leaders Brazil.", "The Brazilians have already qualified for the second round, with six points from two victories, while the Portuguese have four points and the Ivory Coast one.", "\"We got seven goals but only three points.", "We need to be more ambitious and determined for the next phase,\" Queiroz told AFP.", "\"We were very determined to win this game but the game we played today will not help us overcome Brazil.", "We don't want Brazil to score any goals because this will put our reputation, our prestige, into question.\"", "Portugal went close to opening the scoring in the seventh minute when defender Ricardo Carvalho hit the post with a powerful header from a corner.", "Meireles, who scored the winner in the second leg of Portugal's qualifying playoff against Bosnia, broke the deadlock when he ran onto a fine threaded pass from midfielder Tiago and slotted coolly past Ri Myong-Guk.", "Eight minutes after halftime, winger Simao fired a shot through the goalkeeper's legs after being set up by Meireles and Almeida.", "Striker Almeida, recalled after missing the first match, then headed in Fabio Coentrao's left-wing cross on 56 minutes before Ronaldo laid on the third goal for Tiago on the hour mark.", "Ronaldo, the world's most expensive player, hit the crossbar in the 71st minute as he was denied his first goal of the tournament -- a similarly spectacular effort against the Ivory Coast also smashed into the woodwork.", "Liedson made it 5-0 after the besieged Korean defense failed to cut a cross by fellow substitute Duda 10 minutes later.", "Ronaldo finally found the net with two minutes to play, showing his trademark cheeky skill as he pushed the ball past the keeper and then juggled the rebound on his back before slotting into the empty goal.", "Tiago added his second just a minute later with a powerful header from a cross by another replacement, Miguel Veloso." ]	[ "Portugal take a big step to escaping the World Cup's so-called \"group of death\"\nTiago nets a double as Europeans thrash North Korea 7-0 in rematch of 1966 clash .", "Cristiano Ronaldo scores his first goal of the tournament as Portugal go second in Group G .", "Ivory Coast need to defeat Koreans by a similar margin and hope Portugal lose to Brazil ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "Jerusalem (CNN) -- An aid ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza still plans to aim for the Palestinian territory, its organizer told CNN on Sunday, despite Israel's foreign ministry saying it would likely dock elsewhere.", "But the activists on the boat will not resist if they are confronted by the Israeli military, said Youssef Sawani, the executive director of the Gadhafi Foundation, which is sending the boat.", "Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called the ship \"an unnecessary provocation.\"", "The ship, launched by a charity headed by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's son, set sail from Greece on Saturday carrying 2,000 tons of aid.", "It should take 70 to 80 hours -- about three to three-and-a-half days -- to reach Gaza, Sawani said.", "The Gadhafi Foundation refers to the ship as the Hope, although it appears to be registered formally as the MV Amalthea.", "It is Moldovan flagged and run by ACA Shipping, based in Greece.", "\"This is purely a humanitarian effort,\" he said, adding \"The Israelis should seize this opportunity and allow the goods into Gaza.\"", "Aside from the ship's crew, Sawani says nine others are on board: Six Libyans, one Moroccan and one person from Niger, all of whom work with the Gadhafi Foundation, plus a journalist from Al Jazeera, Sawani added.", "Israel insists on controlling the entry of all goods into Gaza, which is run by the militant movement Hamas, because it says it must keep weapons out of the hands of people determined to attack it.", "Barak said Israel would not allow the aid ship to dock in Gaza, but said it could unload goods elsewhere and Israel would allow them to enter the Palestinian territory by land after Israel inspects them.", "\"Goods can be transferred into Gaza through the port of Ashdod after they are inspected, but we will not allow the transfer of weapons or ammunition into Gaza,\" he said.", "\"We recommend to the organizers of the flotilla to allow navy vessels to escort it to the port of Ashdod or sail directly to el-Arish\" in Egypt.", "Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish aid ship in May, resulting in violence between the troops and the activists on the ship that left nine Turks dead.", "The raid prompted international condemnation and threatened Israeli-Turkish relations.", "CNN's Frederik Pleitgen and Guy Azriel and journalist Elinda Labropoulou contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Ship should take about three days to reach Gaza .", "Israel says it will not let ship reach Gaza, calling it \"a provocation\"\nActivists on boat will not resist if boarded, organizer says .", "Israeli defense minister: We will allow goods into Gaza if ship docks elsewhere ." ]	[ 1, 2, 4, 9, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Federal Reserve Board announced an $85 billion plan Tuesday to bail out troubled insurance giant American International Group Inc. Suze Orman says it's a good thing the federal government bailed out troubled national insurer AIG.", "The federal government decided to intervene after determining a failure of the company, whose financial dealings stretch around the world, could hurt the already delicate markets and the economy.", "Personal finance expert Suze Orman appeared on \"Larry King Live\" on Tuesday to discuss what the AIG bailout means to you and how safe is your money during this economic downturn.", "The following is an edited version of the interview: .", "Larry King: A few months ago, you said on this very show that you would be worried if there was another big government bailout.", "It's now happening. Should the government be helping AIG?", "Suze Orman: Well, in this particular case, I have to tell you they should.", "Bear Stearns, very different.", "Lehman, very different.", "AIG is an international giant that just doesn't have ramifications here in the United States.", "It is worldwide. They're like in 130 countries.", "They have 100,000 employees.", "Everybody has an AIG insurance policy.", "So in this particular case, my opinion, thank God, they bailed out AIG.", "Watch Orman discuss what AIG's bailout means for consumers » .", "King: What about Barclays and Lehman?", "Orman: They're selling Neuberger Berman to Barclays, that's fine.", "That will all work itself out. The major danger that we had here, which is why you saw the stock markets go up today, is that rumors were circulating that AIG was going to be saved.", "The big downfall would have been if AIG, in my opinion, had gone under.", "King: Sen. McCain is saying this involves fraud -- or let me use another word similar to fraud -- on Wall Street.", "Do you agree? Orman: It starts way back when there was nobody overseeing and regulating.", "Nothing. It's how many times have I said on this program, what were they all thinking?", "Why were they lending money to people who shouldn't have been borrowing money?", "Why were they packaging these things?", "What about the rating agencies?", "Why weren't the rating agencies rating everything the way they should have been and now they're making matters worse?", "So whether it's fraud or not, was there deceit going on?", "I don't know if it was deceit as much as just total irresponsibility is what caused this.", "Watch Larry's cure for US economic problems » .", "King: Is this a good time to get into the market?", "Orman: No. It's not a good time to get in with brand-new money.", "I would let these markets kind of wash themselves out.", "On the other hand, if you're investing in a 401k every month with small amounts of money, that's OK as long as you don't need the money for 10, 15, 20 years.", "If you just got an inheritance and you have $50,000, should you be putting it in the stock market now?", "Are you kidding? These are the markets that you just sit on the sidelines and wait on the sidelines and stay away from them until everything works out.", "iReport.com: Are you worried about the Wall Street crisis?", "King: Oil settled down today to $91.15 a barrel.", "What does that mean? Are gas prices going to go down?", "Orman: Yes. Gas prices probably will go down, I hope, to essentially $3 a gallon.", "What you're essentially seeing here is like a tax rebate for everybody.", "That's a lot of people that will help them a lot.", "Lehman, AIG -- I get that's all bad news, but the good news is for the main people that have to get by every single day.", "Your gas bills, in terms of what you put in your cars, aren't going to be as high.", "Your heating bills aren't going to be as high.", "To go from $150 a barrel down to $91, that's significant.", "King: The Federal Reserve decided to leave short-term interest rates unchanged today at 2 percent.", "Good or bad? Orman: I personally think it was bad.", "Listen, the banks in the United States of America are in trouble.", "Anything we can do, in my opinion, to help the banking system so they can make a little bit more money, I think, would have been a good idea.", "If we had lowered interest rates, the Fed funds rate, the banks would have been making more money on the money that they lent out, which would be helping everybody in the long run.", "So I think they should have lowered, but they left the same.", "King: Could other major financial institutions go under?", "Orman: Absolutely, they can.", "You would think that they couldn't, but when you see dinosaurs -- Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, AIG -- going down the drain, anything can happen.", "Nothing is beyond the imagination at this point in time." ]	[ "Suze Orman: It's good that federal government stepped in to save AIG .", "Nation's economic woes stem from total irresponsibility, Orman says .", "Orman says it's not a good time to enter stock market .", "Orman warns other financial institutions could go under ." ]	[ 0, 30, 44, 51, 52 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- BP said Sunday that it is \"pleased\" with how the operation to place a new cap on its ruptured undersea well is proceeding.", "Officials hope the containment cap will stop oil from gushing into the Gulf.", "But while robots replace the old cap, crude is flowing freely.", "The procedure -- expected to take four to seven days -- continued to progress Sunday as crews worked to position a transition spool over the gushing well to prepare for the new connection, according to BP's Senior Vice President Kent Wells.", "\"We're pleased with how it's going,\" Wells said, but cautioned that the operation, which began Saturday with the removal of the old cap, is only in its second day.", "Robots removed six giant bolts from the apparatus early Sunday so that the new cap could be positioned.", "If successful, the effects of the containment cap operation could halt the oil gusher that started April 20 after a deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.", "But officials have said the new containment cap would be a temporary fix, and the permanent solution would still be completion of a relief well.", "There are two relief wells under construction.", "Wells said Sunday that one of the relief wells could intercept the ruptured well as early as the end of July.", "\"We're feeling very good about how we've positioned that well,\" he said.", "The other relief well is expected to be completed in August.", "The old cap had been diverting about 15,000 barrels a day (630,000 gallons) to a ship.", "BP still is recovering an additional 8,000 to 9,000 barrels a day (336,000 to 378,000 gallons) through a line connected to another vessel, the Q4000.", "\"As we start to ramp up the additional containment capacity, we should see less and less flow,\" Wells said.", "The Helix Producer recovery vessel is expected to begin collecting oil Sunday evening, Wells said, and officials hope to reach its full collection capacity of 20,000 to 25,000 barrels (840,000 to 1.5 million gallons) per day within three days.", "Over the next two to three weeks, 60,000 to 80,000 barrels (2.52 million to 3.36 million gallons) a day should be collected as part of the containment process, Wells said.", "Scientists estimate that 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil are spewing daily from BP's breached well.", "BP says there will be a period of decreased oil and gas capture from the wellhead during the cap replacement.", "It said another recovery vessel, the Q4000, \"should continue to capture and flare oil and gas.\"", "There will be other recovery vessels and skimmers deployed.", "Two more oil skimmers were added to the Gulf Sunday bringing the total to 48 collecting an oil and water mix from the surface, BP officials said.", "And another 15 burns were conducted in calm seas.", "\"It was a good day in trying to contain the oil that made it out to the surface,\" Wells said.", "Wells also said there will be \"significant measurement capability\" added to the new cap so officials can get a good idea of the flow rate.", "BP said in a statement that the new cap \"should improve containment efficiency during hurricane season by allowing shorter disconnect and reconnect times.\"", "Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Friday that the new cap would allow responders to collect more accurate oil flow data and that, once the switch is complete, the resulting capacity to contain oil \"will be far greater than the capabilities we have achieved using current systems.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Crews position transition spool to prepare for new connection .", "NEW: New recovery vessel expected to begin siphoning oil Sunday evening .", "BP: Cap replacement is proceeding as planned .", "Old containment cap removed from Gulf well .", "Switch will take another 3 to 6 days, during which oil will flow unimpeded ." ]	[ 1, 3, 15, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A month of intense competition reaches its climax Sunday when either the Netherlands or Spain will make history by claiming its first ever World Cup title.", "Hours before kickoff at Johannesburg's Soccer City Stadium the drone of vuvuzelas could be heard thousands of miles away at Amsterdam's Museumsplein, where some 200,000 fans are expected to watch the match.", "Supporters milled in the streets wearing the national color orange as construction workers fitted the final nuts and bolts to television screens erected around a vast lawn.", "Towering above them was a poster of Queen Beatrix's grand-daughter blowing a vuvuzela.", "Anticipation was also thick in the air in Spain, where hundreds of fans, decked out in red and yellow, arrived early in Madrid's main boulevard to reserve a spot to watch the action on four huge television screens.", "Rather than vuvuzelas, fans brandished small trumpets known as \"pitos\" or whistles.", "The pitos joined the cacophony of singing, chanting and tooting of car horns as children milled about with painted faces.", "Writing in Spain's largest circulation daily El Pais, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero called Sunday \"the most glorious day in the history of Spanish football.\"", "It is the first time the two nations have clashed at a World Cup finals.", "Spain is appearing in its first World Cup final.", "The Netherlands has been there twice before, but has lost both times -- 2-1 to West Germany in 1974 and four years later they lost 3-1 to Argentina.", "On Sunday, at 6.30 p.m. GMT (2.30 p.m.", "ET), several hundred million viewers are expected to tune into watch the final game in the month-long competition.", "Football's world governing body, FIFA, says this final could set viewing records, not only for the World Cup, but in television history.", "\"We don't want to speculate in numbers but we're hoping this will be the biggest [event] ever,\" Niclas Ericson, FIFA's director of television, said in a press conference from Soccer City Stadium, the final's venue.", "Around 715 million viewers worldwide watched the Azurri beat France to the title in 2006.", "The largest television event to date is thought to be the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.", "In 2008, a global audience of one billion is thought to have watched at least part of the spectacle.", "Advertisers aren't the only businesses benefiting from the World Cup excitement.", "Spain's progression to the final has lifted consumer spirits in the middle of a severe economic crisis where unemployment is running close to 20 percent.", "Spanish flag sales were up six-fold thanks to the tournament, according to a leading flag maker in Colmenar Viejo, near Madrid.", "Pablo Verguilla, a store manager in Madrid, told CNN the World Cup had definitely boosted sales of his shirts and Spanish souvenirs.", "And local media reported about one million official La Roja team jerseys had sold at about 70 euros each, along with an unknown number of cheaper imitation merchandise.", "Spain's goalkeeper and captain Iker Casillas was quoted as saying that knowing that people are going through hard times has motivated the team.", "Fans who spent money to fly to South Africa for the final started converging on Soccer City Stadium hours before the kick off to soak up the atmosphere and the sunny weather at the Soweto-based arena.", "Dutch fans outnumbered the Spanish by ten-to-one at the southern end of the stadium, with Holland fans living up to their reputation as the \"Orange Army,\" with most in attendance dressed head to toe in the national hue.", "CNN's Al Goodman, Don Riddell, Diana Magnay, Jonathan Wald, Per Nyberg and Ben Wyatt contributed to this report." ]	[ "Excitement mounts in the Netherlands, Spain as fans await World Cup final .", "200,000 expected to watch match in Amsterdam's Museumsplein .", "Thousands also expected to crowd around four big screens in Madrid .", "Kickoff is at 6.30 p.m. GMT (2.30 p.m.", "ET) in Soccer City Stadium ." ]	[ 1, 4, 9, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- After eluding authorities for years from Washington state to Indiana, a notorious teenage fugitive called the \"barefoot bandit\" was arrested Sunday following a high-speed boat chase in the Bahamas, police said.", "Police said 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore was taken into custody without incident following the chase in the waters off Harbour Island.", "Authorities responded to a reported sighting of Harris-Moore just after 2 a.m ET Sunday, said police commissioner Ellison Greenslade.", "However, an account of the arrest offered by a spokeswoman for Romora Bay Resort and Marina described a dramatic capture befitting a James Bond film.", "The marina's security director, Kenneth Strachan, saw a barefoot young man about 2 a.m. Sunday carrying a gun with a knapsack over his shoulder running up the dock.", "\"They're going to kill me,\" the man told Strachan, according to a statement issued by the resort.", "The man had arrived on Harbour Island from the nearby island of Eleuthera in a 15-foot skiff, said resort manager Anne Ward in the statement.", "Strachan put out a call for help, telling Ward to come as soon as possible.", "Upon her arrival, Ward told guards to disable the skiff's engine as the man ran through the resort property, attempting to steal a boat from a nearby house as a crowd gathered at the marina, the statement said.", "However, Ward said he ran aground in the second boat, as he didn't realize how shallow the water was.", "Police and marina authorities surrounded his boat, and police shot out its engines, she said in the statement.", "\"At one point, the boy threw his computer in the water and put a gun to his head.", "He was going to kill himself.", "Police talked him out of it.\"", "Authorities loaded the suspect into the resort's work truck and took him to the Harbour Island police station, she said.", "Harris-Moore was being transported to Nassau, Bahamas, on Sunday, authorities said.", "Greenslade said police seized a gun and other items from him.", "The fact that Strachan could call for help was significant, the resort said, noting phone service on Harbour Island has been erratic since an underwater cable was cut recently.", "The FBI held off on confirming that the suspect was indeed \"barefoot bandit\" Harris-Moore, with the agency saying it wanted to positively identify him through fingerprints.", "But Sunday night, the FBI announced its conclusion.", "\"We've confirmed that's it him -- the 'barefoot bandit,' Colton Harris Moore,\" said Steve Dean, assistant special agent in charge for the FBI's Seattle, Washington, office.", "Greenslade said earlier Sunday that the suspect was positively identified as Harris-Moore by local authorities, and that he was seen by a doctor following his arrest and \"appeared to be in very good health.\"", "\"The first thing I thought was that it's my bad luck, because there's another one right next door he could have taken,\" said William Sport of Florida, who owns the second boat.", "He said he had just arrived on Harbour Island for his annual monthlong stay there, but that his 32-foot boat had enough fuel on board to make it back to Florida.", "Sport told CNN he had left the keys in the boat, although it had a cover on.", "The suspect took the cover off, found the keys and started the boat, he said.", "Sport said he believes he saw the suspect about midnight.", "He said he had just finished a dinner party on the boat and was walking down the dock when a young man ran past him.", "At the time, he thought nothing of it, he said.", "He found out later that the suspect had come back and swam to the boat from shore.", "Bahamian police have told him they will take care of repairs to his boat after shooting the engines out, he said.", "Harris-Moore is suspected of flying a stolen plane to the Bahamas.", "He has been on the run since 2008, when he escaped from a juvenile halfway house in Renton, Washington, after pleading guilty to three counts of burglary and being sentenced to three years.", "He was called the \"barefoot bandit\" because he was without shoes when he allegedly broke into houses.", "He has been linked to a series of home break-ins in Oregon and Washington, but authorities believed he moved eastward recently.", "He was suspected of breaking into airports in South Dakota and Nebraska, and also suspected in the thefts of several cars.", "Authorities in Madison County, Nebraska, issued an arrest warrant for him last month on charges of burglary and theft by unlawful taking or deception.", "The affidavit supporting the warrant details a crime spree fitting the alleged pattern of the elusive teen, who has amassed thousands of followers on Facebook.", "On Tuesday, a federal judge in Washington unsealed an indictment for airplane theft against Harris-Moore in the theft of an aircraft last year in Idaho, which was flown to Washington state and found crashed.", "DNA evidence and fingerprints linked Harris-Moore to the plane theft, the indictment states.", "Harris-Moore was linked to the theft of a single-engine plane last week at Monroe County Airport in Bloomington, Indiana.", "Bruce Payton, the airport director, said a 2009 Cessna 400 Corvalis was reported missing from a locked hangar.", "He said the owner of the plane was told by the U.S. Coast Guard that an emergency locator transmitter for the Cessna was sending out a beacon from the Bahamas.", "The plane was found just off Abaco Island in the Bahamas, police said, and evidence from the aircraft was taken by investigators.", "Authorities were also looking into several reported thefts and break-ins reported in the area since the crash-landing.", "The FBI had offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.", "An FBI statement indicated that agents believe Harris-Moore was involved in the Indiana theft, with the statement saying, \"Should you see Harris-Moore in The Bahamas, please contact the nearest Royal Bahamas Police Force Station.\"", "Greenslade said Harris-Moore is expected to appear in court later this week.", "Dean said he wasn't surprised at reports of Harris-Moore's arrest.", "\"I'm glad this is over,\" he said. \"There was a big effort to find him, and on a small island, there were a lot of burglaries ... eventually, he was bound to be caught,\" Dean said.", "In Yankton, South Dakota, on June 17, residents returned to find an intruder inside the house, said Assistant Police Chief Jerry Hisek.", "\"He'd eaten some of their food, took a shower, cut his hair,\" Hisek said of the intruder.", "\"He started to run and the guy chased him into the basement of the house.\"", "The intruder \"laser-dotted the guy and said, 'I have a gun.", "Get out of here, or I'm going to kill you.'\"", "Hisek said the owner did not know if the individual had a laser pen or a gun.", "Harris-Moore was suspected in the incident, and \"we're classifying him as armed,\" Hisek said.", "In December, Time magazine dubbed Harris-Moore \"America's Most Wanted Teenage Bandit,\" and a Facebook site for him showed nearly 58,000 \"fans\" as of Sunday.", "Harris Moore's mother, Pamela Kohler, has told CNN affiliate KIRO that she wanted her son to turn himself in, but said she was \"proud\" her son had actually taught himself to fly.", "20th Century Fox has purchased the rights for a film based on the exploits of the young fugitive.", "\"I think it's sad, very sad,\" Dean said Sunday of support for Harris-Moore.", "\"People have been making him an idol and a hero when he's hurt so many hard-working people, broken into homes, stolen property, ripped off businesses.", "It's pretty pitiful.\"", "CNN's Joyce Joseph, Padma Rama, Susan Candiotti, Ross Levitt, Gabriel Falcon and Patrick Oppmann contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: FBI confirms suspect is \"barefoot bandit\"\nColton Harris-Moore in custody in Bahamas, police say .", "Resort describes dramatic arrest of teen suspect .", "Police say the arrest followed a high-speed boat chase ." ]	[ 0, 31 ]
[ "San Diego, California (CNN) -- A moderate earthquake followed by dozens of smaller ones rattled Southern California Monday evening, just north of the Mexican border, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.", "The magnitude 5.7 quake struck at 9:26 p.m. local time and was centered 70 miles east of San Diego.", "\"Since the 5.7 occurred, we've had another larger series of aftershocks occurring,\" said geophysicist Amy Vaughan of the USGS in Golden, Colorado.", "\"We've had about 40 occurring since that with the largest being about a 4.5.\"", "CNN affiliate KSWB: Earthquake interrupts MLB game .", "The main jolt and subsequent aftershocks have been felt across a large area in the region, Vaughan said.", "Are you there? Share your earthquake experience with CNN iReport .", "\"We've had over 12,000 'felt reports' coming in from most of Southern California, parts of Arizona and parts of Baja California,\" Vaughan said.", "Authorities throughout Southern California reported no damage in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake.", "\"Were this a 7.5 it would be a different story probably, but because it's a 5.7 occurring in this area and also not directly in a large metropolitan area, like it's not downtown LA or downtown San Diego, helps as well,\" Vaughan said.", "CNN Radio's Shelby Erdman contributed to this report." ]	[ "Earthquakes felt over Southern California, Arizona and Baja California .", "Largest quake was a moderate 5.7 in magnitude .", "No damage reported ." ]	[ 1, 7, 8 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The Pentagon on Wednesday began sending out to troops a survey of more than 100 questions seeking their views on the impact of repealing the \"don't ask, don't tell\" restrictions prohibiting gays and lesbians from openly serving in the U.S. military.", "An administration official confirmed to CNN that the survey is being sent to 200,000 active duty troops and 200,000 reserve troops.", "The official declined to be identified because the survey has not officially been made public.", "The survey, which service members can expect to receive via e-mail, asks about such issues as how unit morale or readiness might be affected if a commander is believed to be gay or lesbian; the need to maintain personal standards of conduct; and how repeal might affect willingness to serve in the military.", "The survey also asks a number of questions aimed at identifying problems that could occur when troops live and work in close quarters in overseas war zones.", "For example, the questionnaire asks military members how they would react if they had to share a room, bathrooms, and open-bay showers in a war zone with other service members believed to be gay or lesbian.", "There also are several questions about reactions to dealing with same-sex partners in social situations.", "The Pentagon established a team to conduct the survey earlier this year.", "President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen have all publicly backed a repeal of the current policy.", "Defense Department officials insist the survey is aimed at determining the impact of a repeal -- not whether repeal should happen.", "Several members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have said they want to see the results of the survey before they offer their final advice on the impact of a repeal to Obama and Gates.", "In May, the House of Representatives approved a plan that would repeal the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy after the military's internal review is completed and Obama, Gates, and Mullen to sign off on the policy change.", "The Senate, however, did not pass the measure.", "According to a senior U.S. military official with direct knowledge of the review process, the military needs until the end of 2010 to figure out how to implement a repeal of \"don't ask, don't tell\" in terms of housing, medical and marriage benefits, as well as issues involving the reinstatement of gay soldiers previously discharged under the policy.", "A major problem might be determining how to reconcile the repeal of \"don't ask, don't tell\" with federal law that defines marriage as between a man a woman, the official said.", "In addition to distributing the survey, the Pentagon has also been soliciting opinions in a number of private meetings with troops.", "The results of the review will not be available until December, the official said.", "CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Troops are receiving a Pentagon survey on gays in the military .", "The survey was sent to 200,000 active duty and 200,000 reserve troops .", "It asks for thoughts on ramifications of a \"don't ask, don't tell\" repeal .", "Obama backs the repeal of restrictions on gays serving openly in military ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Garbage dumps are generally not associated with thriving coral reefs, vast mangrove plantations and rare bird species.", "Yet on Pulau Semakau off Singapore, this is exactly what you will find: just beside a secluded ecological zone that harbors dozens of rare plant, bird and fish species lies the world's first ecological offshore landfill.", "Located 8 kilometers south of Singapore and covering an area of 3.5 square kilometers, the Semakau Landfill was designed by engineers and environmentalists at Singapore's National Environment Agency (NEA).", "It consists of two small islands that have been connected by a rock embankment.", "The area inside the landfill is divided into 11 bays, known as 'cells', which are lined with thick plastic and clay to prevent any harmful material from seeping into the sea.", "Since the landfill was put into use in 1999, four of the 11 cells have been filled, covered with earth and planted with grass.", "The landfill, which cost around $400 million, can hold up to 63 million cubic meters of rubbish, enough to satisfy Singapore's waste disposal needs until 2040.", "Clean and odor-free .", "What distinguishes Semakau from other landfills is that it is clean and free of smell.", "Two thirds of the material that comes to Semakau has passed through one of the city's four incinerators, reducing it to approximately ten percent of its original volume.", "Waste from construction material is also processed, while toxic waste like asbestos is packaged in such a way that it cannot leak into the surrounding environment.", "Two mangrove groves that were destroyed when the embankment was built have been replanted near the landfill and today they serve as biological indicators for the local environment.", "If they were to start dying, it would be seen as a sign that harmful material had leaked from the landfill.", "Scientists expected that some of the mangroves would not survive the relocation, but today they cover 1.4 square kilometers around the island and even have to be cut back in places -- a sign that the landfill is indeed leak-proof.", "Flourishing wildlife .", "Together with the island's other ecosystems such as seagrass meadows, coral reefs and sandy shores, the mangroves serve as a habitat for a variety of birds, fish and plants.", "The decision to build a landfill off Semakau was taken in the 1990's when the previous landfill on the main island had nearly reached capacity.", "\"As land is scarce in Singapore, it was decided from the outset that the new sanitary landfill in the smaller islands would be designed as an environmentally friendly facility which would be used to meet Singapore's land use needs when it was eventually filled up and closed,\" the NEA explained in an official statement.", "Every effort was made to minimize the impact on the local environment so that the area beside the landfill, which always had a rich flora and fauna, has remained intact.", "\"Great effort went into making sure that the impact of the landfill on Pulau Semakau's biodiversity was minimized.", "In fact, biodiversity remains high and we have not lost a single species because of the landfill,\" says Wang Luan Keng, an education and research officer at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (RMBR) in Singapore.", "New species .", "She adds that as the island's various ecosystems continue to flourish, scientists are still discovering new species on Semakau.", "In July 2005, the government decided to open the western part of Semakau up to the public for recreational purposes.", "Today there are guided nature walks along the island's coast, while sports fishing and bird watching associations also organize special excursions to the island.", "\"When we do the tours around the island, we have a powerful message,\" says Ria Tan, an associate at the RMBR and owner of a popular Web site, wildsingapore.com.", "\"We tell people: 'Look how beautiful this is, and imagine what could be destroyed if the landfill had to be expanded.'", "This makes them think and when they go home they are more careful about how they deal with waste.\"", "Rich biodiversity .", "Thus, the Semakau Landfill project has inadvertently turned into more than just a trash dump; it is becoming an educational project and could serve as a model for sustainable urban development around the world.", "\"The rich biodiversity around the sanitary landfill shows that development and environmental protection can co-exist and need not be mutually exclusive,\" says the NEA.", "\"It is of course a compromise, but in the context of urban living I think it is a good one.", "Some nature lovers criticize the project, but in the end we have to throw our rubbish somewhere and this is a good solution,\" says Tan.", "Wang agrees.", "\"I see Semakau Landfill as a great way of striking a balance between the need of urban development and nature conservation.\"", "................................. Are ecological landfill islands a viable solution for our waste?", "Would you live on a landscaped landfill?", "Share your stories and read what others have to say in the forum." ]	[ "Singapore has built the world's first ecological landfill island .", "Birds, fish and plants have flocked to the island's mangroves .", "The island hosts nature walks, fishing and bird-watching excursions .", "The landfill will eventually be used to meet Singapore's land use needs ." ]	[ 17, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Best-selling author and director Sebastian Junger says experiencing the existence of U.S. troops' experience in Afghanistan was like being \"on Mars.\"", "Junger documented the reality of an Army platoon as its soldiers lived, fought and died at one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military, a 15-man outpost called Restrepo in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.", "It's the focus of Junger's new feature-length documentary, also named \"Restrepo.\"", "The outpost, Junger told CNN's Campbell Brown in an interview Thursday night, was hellish.", "\"The first time I was up there we were attacked four times in one day.", "No running water, they didn't bathe for a month at a time.", "No internet, no phone, no electricity at first,\" he said.", "Junger said that after a few weeks at their base in Italy, the platoon's members just wanted to get back to Restrepo.", "\"What was going on up there was brotherhood, very different from friendship.", "Brotherhood, you don't even have to like the guy, but if he's your brother, you'll protect him, you'll die for him.", "They all felt that way.\" While \"Restrepo\" is not a political film, Junger does believe NATO troops are making progress in Afghanistan, with violence in the country at a 30-year-low.", "\"Sixteen thousand Afghan civilians have died because of NATO combat operations in Afghanistan since 2001 -- a horrifying number, but it pales comparison to the civilian deaths in the '90s.", "Four hundred thousand Afghan civilians died in the '90s...", "The question is, does the world have the staying power to see it through.\"" ]	[ "Author and film maker Sebastian Junger documented existence of Army platoon in Afghanistan .", "Platoon was assigned to one of the military's most dangerous outposts, Restrepo .", "Junger's new feature-length documentary is \"Restrepo\"" ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican federal police have arrested a drug cartel chieftain who is a former police officer and is connected to more than 30 brutal killings, authorities said Wednesday.", "Miguel Ortiz Miranda, known as \"Tyson,\" was a leader for La Familia Michoacana in the city of Morelia, federal police said.", "Authorities consider him responsible for organizing the hit men who killed local officials as well as carrying out abductions and extortions, federal police anti-drug chief Ramon Eduardo Pequeno Garcia said in a televised news conference.", "Ortiz, 28, was arrested Tuesday in Morelia, in Mexico's state of Michoacan.", "Authorities say Ortiz became involved with La Familia Michoacana in 2005 while working as a state police patrol chief.", "The driver of a vehicle Ortiz had stopped offered him a large amount of money to let the motorist go, Pequeno said.", "\"As a result of that contact, he started his illegal activities in Morelia, becoming an informant at the service of that criminal organization, reporting the movements of suspicious vehicles in the city and alerting about the presence of different police authorities, in addition to providing security to members of the criminal groups,\" Pequeno said.", "Police say Ortiz was involved in some of the most publicized crimes of the past year, including the June 2009 attack on a federal police convoy that killed 12 officers, and the slayings last month of 15 criminals who were acting against the wishes of La Familia Michoacana.", "In addition, police said, Ortiz was involved in: .", "-- The deaths of four police officers in a June 2009 roadside ambush.", "Cartel members made an anonymous phone call to federal police so they would go the scene of the purported crime and could be ambushed on the way, Ortiz told police.", "-- A July 2009 attempt to free Familia Michoacana leader Arnoldo Rueda Medina by attacking several federal police stations with large-caliber weapons and fragmentation grenades.", "-- The July 2009 execution in a Morelia home of a group of men belonging to the rival Zetas drug cartel.", "-- The September 2009 death of Jose Manuel Revuelta, the state's assistant secretary for public security.", "-- The decapitation of state official Josafat Delfino Lopez Tinoco in October 2009.", "Lopez's head was left in a cooler with a message from \"The Resistance\" written on a piece of cardboard.", "The Resistance referred to an alliance between La Familia Michoacana and several other cartels against the Zetas.", "-- The December 2009 attack with heavy weapons and grenades on the Hotel Casablanca in Morelia, where federal police officers were staying.", "-- An attempt in April on the life of Minerva Bautista Gomez, secretary for public security in Michoacan.", "The attack, he said, was in retaliation for changes made in the police department that hindered the cartel's interests.", "The hit men walked away from the shooting believing they had killed Bautista.", "They hadn't. Ortiz told police he participated in training by the cartel, including firearms instruction and survival lessons in the Michoacan mountains that lasted a month and were taught by former military personnel." ]	[ "Miguel Ortiz Miranda is a former state police patrol leader .", "He is accused of being involved in more than 30 well-publicized killings .", "He is said to be a leader for La Familia Michoacana in central Mexico .", "Ortiz is known as \"Tyson\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- A former Argentinian dictator and an ex-army chief are scheduled to go on trial this week on charges of human rights abuses during the nation's right-wing rule from 1976-83, the government's Judicial Information Center said.", "Jorge Rafael Videla was among the coup leaders who overthrew then-President Isabela Martinez de Peron in March 1976.", "He ruled as dictator until 1981.", "Also scheduled to go on trial this week in a separate proceeding will be Luciano Benjamin Menendez, former head of the Third Army Corps.", "He is accused of violating the human rights of four people.", "There are 31 defendants in the two trials, the Judicial Information Center said on its website Tuesday.", "Another former dictator, Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone, was sentenced in April to 25 years in prison for kidnapping and torturing 56 people.", "He ruled Argentina from June 1982 until the nation's return to democracy in December 1983.", "Bignone, 82, faces two other trials: in the abduction and disappearance of doctors and nurses at the Hospital Posada and of two soldiers when he was head of the Military College.", "Up to 30,000 students, labor leaders, intellectuals and leftists who ran afoul of the dictatorship because of their political views disappeared or were held in secret jails and torture centers during the nation's eight-year \"Dirty War.\"", "In the trials that start this week, the proceedings for Menendez are slated to begin Thursday in the city of Mendoza.", "Six other defendants will go on trial with him.", "The trial against former dictator Videla is scheduled to start Friday in Cordoba.", "He will be joined by 24 other defendants, the Judicial Information Center said.", "Videla and the others face charges related to abuses committed at a penitentiary in Cordoba and in the kidnapping and torture of six people, the information service said.", "Videla, 84, has previously been found guilty of other human rights abuses, including kidnapping, torture and homicide.", "He was sentenced to life in prison in 1985 but released in 1990 under a pardon issued by then-President Carlos Menem to many former members of the military dictatorship.", "Argentina's congress and courts have struck down the pardons and amnesty laws of the 1980s, clearing the way for rights trials to be held again." ]	[ "Jorge Rafael Videla accused of kidnapping and torture .", "Former army corps head also will go on trial .", "Right-wing dictatorship ruled from 1976-83 .", "Up to 30,000 people were tortured or killed during \"dirty war\"" ]	[ 3, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- One of two gay men recently imprisoned and pardoned in Malawi has begun a relationship with a woman, according to a group that helped provide legal support to the men.", "Steven Monjeza began the relationship in his hometown of Blantyre shortly after his release from prison, Dunker Kamba, administrator at the Center for the Development of People, told CNN.", "He was together with his former partner, Tiwonge Chimbalanga, for only one or two days after their release, he said.", "Monjeza and Chimbalanga were sentenced last month to 14 years in prison for gross indecency and unnatural acts, prompting an outcry from human rights and gay rights groups around the world.", "The president of Malawi pardoned the men after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.", "Authorities had arrested Monjeza and Chimbalanga in December at their home in Blantyre after the couple professed their love in a traditional engagement ceremony.", "Police discovered the couple when local newspapers reported on the ceremony.", "The criminal case against them cast light on prevailing African attitudes toward homosexuality, which is outlawed in more than 30 nations on the continent.", "Some in the conservative southern African nation supported the prosecution, and government officials said they were simply upholding the law.", "Human rights groups and advocates for gays and lesbians argued that the arrests violated Malawi's constitution, which outlaws discrimination.", "Monjeza and Chimbalanga are in their 20s.", "While they were awaiting trial, they were subjected to medical examinations intended to find evidence of sodomy, according to Human Rights Watch.", "They also underwent psychiatric evaluations.", "All the exams were done without the men's consent, the group said.", "CNN's Lianne Turner in London, England, contributed to this report." ]	[ "One of two gay men recently pardoned is now seeing a woman, group says .", "He was together with gay partner only briefly after release from prison .", "The men were sentenced last month to 14 years in prison .", "Malawi's president pardoned them after international outcry ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Three journalists covering the World Cup in South Africa were robbed of money, passports, cameras and computers early Wednesday, police said.", "Armed suspects entered three hotel rooms where the journalists were staying near the town of Magaliesburg, police Col. Charmaine Muller told CNN.", "Two of the victims \"slept through the whole thing\", but a Portuguese photographer woke up as it was taking place at about 4 a.m. local time (10 p.m. Tuesday ET), she said.", "A suspect pointed a gun at him and told him to keep quiet, she said.", "Police were called after the suspects left and are still investigating, she added.", "No one has been caught yet.", "Hundreds of thousands of sports fans and journalists are descending on South Africa for the World Cup soccer tournament, the biggest sporting event in the world this year.", "It begins Friday." ]	[ "Armed suspects take money, passports, cameras, laptops .", "Portuguese journalist wakes up during overnight robbery .", "Suspect points gun at him .", "Hundreds of thousands of sports fans and journalists in South Africa for World Cup ." ]	[ 0, 3, 6 ]
[ "Rio Largo, Brazil (CNN) -- Federal aid is flowing to rain-ravaged areas of northeastern Brazil and the number of missing has diminished to less than 140, but more than 150,000 people remained homeless or displaced Friday, the government said.", "President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday he will not attend this weekend's G20 meeting in Canada to attend to the emergency at home, the Agencia Brasil government news outlet reported.", "Finance Minister Guido Mantega will take Lula's place.", "The death count in two hard-hit states still stood at 46 -- 29 in Alagoas state and 16 in Pernambuco, Agencia Brasil said.", "There were nearly 75,000 homeless or displaced residents in Alagoas and more than 80,000 in Pernambuco, the national civil defense office said.", "In addition, civil defense said, there were more than 19,000 homes in Alagoas that were damaged or destroyed, as were 79 bridges.", "In all, civil defense said on its website, 59 municipalities have been affected in Pernambuco and 28 in Alagoas.", "The number of missing in Alagoas, which had stood at more than 600 Thursday, dropped to 135 as residents in some flooded towns were rescued, civil defense said.", "The federal government announced Thursday the release of 500 million reais ($277 million) to help victims.", "The money comes on top of a previous 50 million reais ($27.7 million) destined for Pernambuco and Alagoas.", "Lula also signed Thursday an interim measure of 1 billion reais ($555 million) to purchase construction material and equipment for businesses affected by the floods.", "The Organization of American States and the United States, which offered $50,000, also have pledged aid." ]	[ "Number of missing drops to less than 140 in northern Brazil .", "Death count from flooding remains at 46 .", "The country's president cancels trip to G20 summit in Canada .", "Nearly 90 municipalities have been affected by heavy rains, flooding ." ]	[ 1, 6, 7 ]
[ "Guatemala City, Guatemala (CNN) -- Two fugitive brothers wanted in the much-publicized slaying of a Guatemalan lawyer last year were being held at a military base Tuesday, one day after they surrendered to authorities with a special United Nations commission, the Guatemalan Defense Ministry said.", "Businessmen Francisco Jose Ramon Valdes Paiz and Jose Estuardo Valdes Paiz had been sought since December on charges that they masterminded the assassination of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg.", "The lawyer left behind a videotape saying that President Alvaro Colom would be responsible if anything happened to him.", "The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, known by its Spanish acronym CICIG, determined that Rosenberg orchestrated his own death in order to implicate Colom, whom he blamed for the recent slayings of two close friends.", "The Valdes Paiz brothers were unaware that Rosenberg duped them into carrying out his own slaying, CICIG said in January, when the commission released the results of an eight-month investigation.", "Rosenberg had told them told them he was being threatened by someone and wanted that person killed, the CICIG investigation concluded.", "Colom had nothing to do with the killing, CICIG said.", "The brothers' surrender came suddenly Monday morning when their lawyer called CICIG headquarters at 8 a.m. and said they wanted to turn themselves in, said Carlos Castresana, head of the U.N. agency.", "The brothers were in custody less than a half hour later, Castresana said at a news conference.", "The men chose to turn themselves in to CICIG out of concern for their personal safety, said Castresana, a Spanish judge.", "They were handed over to Guatemalan authorities.", "The brothers are being held at the Matamoros military base, said defense ministry spokesman Col. Byron Gutierrez.", "Rosenberg was shot from behind in May 2009 in a brazen daylight attack while riding his bicycle in Guatemala City, the nation's capital.", "He was shot three times in the head, once in the neck and once in the back, Castresana said in January when he presented the results of the investigation.", "The two brothers, who own a pharmaceutical company, had been cousins of Rosenberg through a previous marriage and did not know that he was the target of the assassination, Castresana said.", "Rosenberg fed information to the hit squad leader that led to his own death, giving descriptions of what the target looked like and where he would be.", "\"It was the two brothers and no one else,\" Castresana said.", "\"Not a politician. Not a [government] minister.", "Not a police chief.", "No one. Just these two brothers.\"", "About 300 investigators from 11 nations reached their conclusion after an exhaustive examination of 100,000 telephone calls, 9,500 documents, surveillance videotapes and 135 interviews with 11 suspects and others, Castresana said.", "Colom had maintained since the May 10 slaying that he was innocent despite Rosenberg's explosive videotape, which was made public the day after his death.", "Before Monday's surrender by the brothers, Guatemalan authorities had already arrested 11 men on suspicion that they carried out the killing.", "Arrest warrants for the brothers were issued December 10, Castresana said.", "Rosenberg recorded the tape blaming Colom three days before his death.", "He said Colom wanted him dead because the lawyer had been blaming the president and some of his top associates for the slaying of prominent businessman Khalid Musa and his daughter, Marjorie, the previous month.", "They were killed, Rosenberg said, because they had refused to participate in acts of corruption as the president wanted.", "Rosenberg was Musa's attorney.", "Castresana indicated Rosenberg staged his own killing to get back at Colom and high-level members of his government, whom he could not prove were responsible for the Musa killings.", "\"He wanted to open a box of lightning and thunder,\" Castresana said.", "Castresana pointed to several indicators of Rosenberg's state of mind: His mother had died; he was going through a second divorce, and his wife had taken their young children to Mexico; he was bereft at the slaying of Marjorie Musa, with whom he had a close relationship; and he felt a sense of powerlessness because he could not prosecute the people he believed were responsible for the Musa slayings.", "May 10, the date of his killing, was Mother's Day.", "In two April 21 e-mails, seven days after the Musa killings, Rosenberg wrote, \"I can't stop crying\" and \"I feel like I'm disintegrating,\" Castresana said.", "Rosenberg made out his last will and testament on April 24 and started going public with his accusations against Colom regarding the Musa slayings on May 3.", "On May 4, he called a meeting at his law office and said he would be leaving the firm, in which he was a partner.", "The next day, Castresana said, Rosenberg asked a friend to buy two cell phones anonymously.", "Those cell phones, the lead investigator said, were crucial to cracking the case.", "Rosenberg used one of the phones to call threats to his personal cell phone and had the other delivered to the Valdes Paiz brothers, who gave it to the hit squad leader.", "Rosenberg then used the new cell phone he kept to give instructions to the hit squad leader through the second phone, Castresana said.", "Castresana detailed how the slaying apparently was meant to be paid through a check of about $40,000.", "According to the investigator, Rosenberg told his secretary before his death that she would be receiving a check from Panama that should be delivered to the Valdes Paiz brothers.", "The check had been made out by Luis Alejos, a Rosenberg friend and business associate who at the time was Guatemala's minister of communication, Castresana said.", "Alejos resigned from office in June, a few weeks after the slaying.", "After receiving the check, Francisco Jose Valdes Paiz destroyed it, Castresana said.", "The businessman paid the 300,000 quetzales ($35,900) for the assassination out of his own pocket, Castresana said.", "Alejos is the brother of Roberto Alejos, the president of the Guatemalan Congress, and a cousin of Gustavo Alejos, who was President Colom's private secretary at the time.", "In his videotape, Rosenberg said Gustavo Alejos would be among those responsible for the lawyer's death if it happened.", "\"If you are reading this message, it means that I, Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, was murdered by the president's private secretary, Gustavo Alejos, and his associate Gregorio Valdez, with the approval of Mr. Alvaro Colom and [first lady] Sandra de Colom,\" Rosenberg said.", "After the tape surfaced, Colom went on national TV with a strong denial that he or anyone mentioned in the video was involved.", "He expressed his sense of vindication in a televised speech in January.", "\"I don't have any rancor in my heart,\" Colom said.", "\"Just immense gratitude for those who waited patiently with us.\"", "The United Nations established the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala in 2006 to investigate corruption and political violence.", "More than 200,000 people have been killed in the nation since 1970, mostly as a result of organized crime, drug-trade violence and a 36-year civil war that ended in 1996.", "There were 6,451 slayings in Guatemala in 2009, in which only 230 verdicts were achieved, Castresana said.", "That means, he said, that more than 96 percent of the killings last year were not solved.", "Journalist Alexia Rios Hayashi contributed to this report for CNN." ]	[ "Brothers turned themselves in to special U.N. commission in Guatemala .", "They are being held at a military base .", "Lawyer staged his own death last year, investigation shows .", "He hired brothers but they didn't know he was targeting himself, probe finds ." ]	[ 0, 34 ]
[ "Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Acclaimed Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev has been charged with sexually abusing under-age children in Thailand, police said Wednesday.", "Pletnev was arrested and released on bail, a police official involved with the investigation told CNN.", "Pletnev was arrested and charged Tuesday with raping a 14-year-old boy in a Thai beach town, a crime that carries a maximum prison term of 20 years upon conviction, Thailand's official MCOT news agency reported.", "He was released on $9,000 bail and ordered to be back in the country by July 18, according to Itar-Tass, the official Russian news agency.", "Russia demanded clarification of the sex abuse charges against its Grammy-winning pianist, the state-run news agency RIA-Novosti said.", "\"The Russian Culture Ministry together with Russian Foreign Ministry have forwarded an urgent order to the Russian Embassy in Thailand to make all necessary efforts to clarify the situation and to offer maximum consulate protection to the distinguished musician,\" according to an online cultural ministry statement cited by RIA-Novosti.", "A Russian diplomat in Thailand said the pianist denied the charges, Itar-Tass said.", "\"He is calm and confident that everything that happens with him is a misunderstanding that would soon become clarified,\" the diplomat said.", "\"Pletnev has a Thai lawyer and is ready to testify in court.\"", "Itar-Tass said the allegations against Pletnev were based on the testimony of a Thai citizen who claimed that he helped arrange Pletnev's purchase of sexual services." ]	[ "Acclaimed Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev arrested in Thailand .", "He was questioned on allegations of rape involving an under-age boy .", "Thai court allowing Pletnev to leave the country ." ]	[ 0, 3, 8 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Military authorities have determined that a NATO airstrike that killed 6 Afghan soldiers Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan was the result of a miscommunication between coalition and national forces.", "In a joint Afghan National Army (ANA) and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) statement released Wednesday afternoon, officials said the Afghan soldiers were on a planned patrol in Ghanzi province and had coordinated the location with ISAF officials, however, incorrect location coordinates were shared.", "\"When an ISAF helicopter patrol came across a group of individuals digging beside the road, in an area that has experienced daily IED detonations and significant casualties, ISAF patrol was cleared to engage the individuals believed to be insurgents,\" the statement said.", "\"Unfortunately, after the engagement, ISAF forces discovered the individuals were ANA soldiers on patrol.\"", "\"This loss of life is tragic, and we offer condolences to all those who lost loved ones,\" said Navy Capt.", "Jane Campbell, ISAF Joint Command spokeswoman, in a statement Wednesday.", "\"We work extremely hard to coordinate and synchronize our operations, and we deeply regret the loss of lives from our Afghan partners.\"", "Two other Afghan soldiers were wounded in the incident." ]	[ "The NATO airstrike that killed Afghan soldiers was due to a 'miscommunication,' officials say .", "6 Afghan soldiers were killed in a friendly fire airstrike Wednesday .", "ISAF spokeswoman regrets the loss of lives ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Former British army officer William Shaw, who was serving a two-year sentence in Kabul's infamous Pul-e-Charki jail for bribery, has been acquitted, his daughter told CNN on Sunday.", "Daughter Lisa Luckyn-Malone could not provide additional information.", "Afghan officials could not immediately be reached for comment.", "Shaw, who served 28 years in the British forces, was sentenced for bribery in April -- accused of paying $25,000 to an Afghan intelligence official.", "Bribery under Afghan law requires the person who received the money to be a government employee.", "That was not the case for Shaw, according to his lawyer, Kimberly Motely.", "Shaw's employer, security company G4S, authorized him to pay the $25,000 in good faith as a fee to the Afghan intelligence service to have two vehicles released from their custody.", "That was in October 2009, and the vehicles were released.", "At the request of G4S, Shaw returned to the intelligence service on several occasions to ask for receipts for the cash, according to his family.", "Five months later, he was called in to the intelligence service for questioning and arrested.", "The former military serviceman who once received a top award from the Queen was sent to the Afghan super-max jail and locked up in solitary confinement.", "The Afghan intelligence service had sent two letters to the judges dealing with Shaw's case informing them the man who took the $25,000 from Shaw was not a government employee, according to Motely.", "The British Embassy in Afghanistan said it was pleased for Shaw and his family.", "\"We welcome the appeal court's decision which is now subject to finalization in the Supreme Court,\" an embassy spokeswoman said.", "\"The UK continues to strongly support the work of the Afghan government to counter corruption and reinforce the rule of law in Afghanistan.\"" ]	[ "Shaw served 28 years in British forces .", "He was accused of paying $25,000 to an Afghan intelligence official .", "He had been jailed in the super-max Pul-e-Charki jail in Kabul ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- FBI Deputy Director John Pistole appears before the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday for the first of two confirmation hearings to become the head of the Transportation Security Administration.", "The position has been vacant since Barack Obama became president in January 2009, with an acting head in place.", "Two previous Obama nominees have withdrawn from consideration due to Republican opposition and controversial issues.", "Pistole has been FBI deputy director since October 2004, and previously helped lead the investigation of the Egypt Air Flight 990 crash off Rhode Island in 1999.", "\"The talent and knowledge John has acquired in more than two decades of service with the FBI will make him a valuable asset to our administration's efforts to strengthen the security and screening measures at our airports,\" Obama said in a written statement in May when he announced the nomination.", "\"I am grateful that he has agreed to take on this important role, and I look forward to working with him in the weeks and months ahead.\"", "Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano immediately endorsed Pistole, calling him uniquely qualified for the job that involves counter-terrorism efforts.", "\"John's national security and counterterrorism expertise will be a great asset to the Department in our efforts to enhance the security of our vital transportation systems,\" Napolitano said in a statement.", "Two senators involved in security issues - Republican Susan Collins of Maine and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut - also praised Pistole as a sound choice.", "\"Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, he has been on the forefront of our nation's fight against terrorism,\" Collins said in a statement, while Lieberman said Pistole \"understands the threat of terrorism as well as anyone in the government.\"", "The TSA, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, oversees national aviation safety.", "It has 60,000 employees, including the approximately 50,000 Transportation Security Officers who provide security at airport screening checkpoints and elsewhere.", "Napolitano's statement said that if confirmed by the Senate, Pistole would oversee the Homeland Security Department's \"ongoing efforts to secure the nation's aviation networks, railroads, ports and mass transit systems, security operations for 450 federalized airports throughout the nation, and the Federal Air Marshal Service.\"", "The position has proven difficult to fill for Obama.", "His two previous nominees, Los Angeles Airport police department official Erroll Southers and retired Maj. Gen. Robert Harding both removed themselves from consideration for the post.", "Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, put a hold on Southers' nomination after Southers declined to say whether he supported unionization of airport screeners.", "Southers eventually withdrew his name from consideration after another controversy erupted involving a decades-old personnel matter.", "Harding, withdrew his name from consideration in March after acknowledging that his security company overbilled the government for work performed in Iraq in 2004.", "At that time, the head of the 25,000-member Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, Jon Adler, said the TSA \"cannot continue to operate on autopilot.\"", "Adler said his organization fully supports Pistole's nomination.", "\"Since the last two nominees withdrew, we re-emphasized to Secretary Napolitano the need to select someone who combines a national law enforcement background with credible intel(ligence) experience,\" Adler said in an e-mail to CNN in May.", "\"We are appreciative of her responsiveness to our recommendation.", "Deputy Director Pistole possesses the necessary skill set to lead TSA forward from a position of strength.\"" ]	[ "Pistole has been FBI deputy director since October 2004 .", "TSA oversees national aviation safety .", "2 previous nominees withdrew themselves from consideration ." ]	[ 2, 3, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Romanian authorities have evacuated 2,000 people from their homes over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of evacuees to almost 16,000 since heavy flooding began, an emergency official said Friday.", "Twenty-two people have died in the flooding, which began June 22, said Alin Maghiar, a spokesman for the Romanian General Inspectorate of Emergency Situations.", "One person is listed as missing, he said.", "iReporter describes flooding in Romania .", "Flooding is expected to continue into Saturday because of continued rainfall, with the heaviest rain falling on the northeastern county of Bacau, he said.", "The situation in eastern Romania, he said, is \"critical.\"", "Romania may request flooding assistance from the European Union Solidarity Fund, which is designed to deal with natural disasters in EU member states, the national news agency Agerpres reported Friday.", "Earlier this week, Prime Minister Emil Boc said the government will give the families of the flood victims 5,000 lei ($1,470) each, the news agency reported.", "In the meantime, Boc has ordered that flood victims be given food and water.", "CNN's Carol Jordan in London, England, contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Romania may request EU assistance .", "2,000 more people have been evacuated in Romania over the past day .", "Almost 16,000 have been evacuated since flooding began June 22 .", "The flooding is expected to continue into Saturday ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A 25-year-old soldier from Vermont was killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, the Vermont National Guard said Saturday night.", "Spc. Ryan J. Grady of West Burke died early Friday morning after his military vehicle struck a roadside bomb near the Bagram Air Base, the National Guard said.", "\"Specialist Grady has made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of a nation that he both loved and served as a member of the Vermont Army National Guard,\" said Maj. Gen. Michael Dubie, Vermont Adjutant General.", "Grady served as a combat engineer with Company A (Eng) Special Troops Battalion located in Bradford, Vermont.", "He joined the U.S. Army in 2003 and took part in military operations in Iraq from February 2005 through January 2006.", "He was given the Purple Heart for injuries he suffered during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the National Guard said.", "In October 2006, he transferred to the Vermont Army National Guard.", "Two years later, he transferred to a battalion in Oklahoma, but returned to duty in the Vermont National Guard in September 2009.", "He leaves behind his parents, two brothers, a wife and a daughter." ]	[ "Soldier, 25, dies when military vehicle hit roadside bomb .", "Spc.", "Ryan J. Grady received Purple Heart for wounds he suffered during Iraq deployment .", "He leaves behind his parents, brothers, a wife and a daughter ." ]	[ 1, 5, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Twelve people were killed and another dozen wounded when a bus fell off South Korea's longest bridge Saturday while trying to avoid a collision with a truck, local media reported.", "The bus was headed to Incheon International Airport, west of the capital Seoul, when it crashed through a guard rail and fell about 10 meters (32 feet) from the Incheon Bridge, the Yonhap news agency said.", "Police told the news agency that the bus may have lost control while trying to avoid a truck.", "The truck, in turn, had swerved to avoid colliding with a stalled car in the middle of the bridge.", "The Incheon Bridge, at 21.38 km (13.2 miles), is the country's largest." ]	[ "Bus plunges 32 feet after trying to avoid collision with a truck .", "Incident takes place on country's longest bridge, Incheon Bridge .", "Bridge is 13.2 miles long ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sylvain Chavanel reclaimed the leader's yellow jersey at the Tour de France after a bold attack in Saturday's seventh stage gave him his second victory in this year's 97th edition of cycling's premier race.", "The Frenchman finished the 165.5-kilometer leg from Tournus to Station des Rousses ahead of Spaniards Rafael Valls Ferri and Juan Manuel Garate, having burned the reluctant chasing pack in the hot conditions.", "He claimed an overall lead of one minute and 25 seconds over Cadel Evans, the runner-up in 2007 and 2008, who finished 14th in the 35-strong peloton -- who all came home 1:47 behind the Quick Step team rider.", "Previous leader Fabian Cancellara fell way off the pace as he finished more than 14 minutes behind Chavanel in 84th place, to be 58th overall with a deficit of 13:11.", "Defending champion Alberto Contador was 13th to be sixth overall, 2:27 behind Chavanel, while seven-time winner Lance Armstrong is 3:16 adrift in what is his final attempt at the race.", "Canada's Ryder Hesjedal moved into third place after finishing eighth, while Saxo Bank's 2009 runner-up Andy Schleck was fourth overall after coming home in 20th.", "Sprint points leader Thor Hushovd finished back in 179th, while his main 2009 rival Mark Cavendish could not follow up Friday's second successive stage win as he placed 161st.", "It was a good day for Quick Step as Jerome Pineau successfully defended his lead in the mountains classification, attacking in the opening kilometer and collecting first-place points at five of the six climbs before falling back to 44th.", "Pineau lead with 17km to go, but was caught by Chavanel at the foot of the final climb and the 31-year-old was not caught as the race favorites saved energy ahead of Sunday's eighth stage into the mountains at Morzine-Avoriaz.", "\"I began to think of the yellow jersey on the last climb, and I told myself that after having lost, it was quite a coup to take it back again,\" Chavanel, who also won a crash-marred second stage, told the Tour de France website.", "\"Tomorrow I will do everything to defend it, but I know that the battle will mainly concern Contador, Schleck and Evans.", "In the midst of it, I'll always give everything but if I lose it does not matter.", "\"Right now I'm on my little cloud, I'm floating and I don't know how else to describe it.", "But I see that I have great support on the road and everywhere.", "It warms my heart.\"", "Evans said he was happy to let Quick Step attack ahead of a testing stage on Sunday.", "\"Tomorrow is the first day with really big climbs and another mountain-top finish,\" he said.", "\"It'll be another day where the main contenders look at each other, test themselves and we'll see if someone really wants to lay it on the line and blow it apart -- for someone like Alberto or Lance, it's probably in their interests to try and do that.", "For me it's a case of see how they go and how I cope.\"" ]	[ "Quick Step rider Sylvain Chavanel returns to top of Tour de France standings .", "Frenchman wins his second stage of this year's race, the seventh leg to Station des Rousses .", "He leads two-time runner-up Cadel Evans by one minute and 25 seconds .", "Previous leader Fabian Cancellara fell more than 13 minutes off Chavanel's pace ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "Paris, France (CNN) -- On the second day of Manuel Noriega's money-laundering trial, the former Panamanian dictator told a French court late Tuesday that he had a once-strong relationship with the United States.", "\"I received high praise from the U.S., Interpol and other countries who all benefited from my fight against drugs,\" Noriega said.", "Testifying in Spanish -- and standing for a total of five hours with only two five-minute breaks -- he added, \"I was especially in contact with the CIA,\" describing himself as a \"mediator.\"", "Noriega was extradited from the United States to France in April to face charges that he laundered drug-trafficking profits of 15 million French francs, or 2.3 million euros (U.S. $2.8 million).", "He denies the charges, and claimed Tuesday he had documents proving that he was the victim of a conspiracy.", "His trial is expected to close Wednesday.", "Wearing a black suit, a gray tie and a red pocket handkerchief, Noriega presented reasons for the numerous bank transactions and cash deposits he had made throughout Paris in 1988 and 1989.", "When Judge Agnes Quantin began to press him over specific dates of certain transactions, he simply replied, \"I don't know\" or \"I don't remember.\"", "And after being asked to review his career, he often got dates confused and had to be prompted by his lawyers.", "The review lasted roughly one hour.", "The lawyers, Olivier Metzner and Yves Leberquier, told reporters in front of the court Monday that Noriega had always disclosed where his money came from.", "His lawyers repeatedly emphasized that Noriega had been awarded the Legion d'honneur, a highly prestigious award in France that is given to individuals with outstanding civilian or military achievement.", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cleared the way for Noriega to be sent to France in April after he spent more than 20 years in a U.S. federal prison.", "Noriega and his attorneys had argued that the United States was violating the Geneva Convention by not sending him back to Panama, where he was seized by U.S. troops after the United States invaded that country in 1989.", "U.S. federal courts ruled against him.", "U.S. forces removed the ex-dictator from office during Operation Nifty Package, the 1989 invasion of Panama.", "Noriega had fled his offices and tried to seek sanctuary in the Vatican Embassy in Panama City.", "U.S. troops set up large speakers around the compound, blaring music at all hours, a psychological ploy to rattle the general.", "He eventually surrendered on January 3, 1990, and was quickly escorted to the United States for civilian trial.", "After his drug conviction, Noriega was given POW status.", "His federal sentence, originally for 30 years, ended in September 2007 after time off for good behavior.", "In Panama, Noriega is wanted for the murder of a political rival.", "Panama has requested his extradition, but the United States honored France's extradition request instead.", "France has already convicted Noriega in absentia for money laundering but then promised him a new trial.", "Panama also has convicted him in absentia and has said he would get a new trial.", "While in U.S. custody, Noriega suffered from prostate cancer and had a stroke.", "The U.S. government has portrayed Noriega as the ultimate crooked cop -- a man who was paid millions by the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia to protect cocaine and money shipments.", "CNN's Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report." ]	[ "Noriega: I had a once-strong relationship with the U.S.\n\"I was especially in contact with the CIA,\" he tells court .", "Noriega testified in Spanish, stood for a total of 5 hours .", "His money-laundering trial is expected to wrap up Wednesday ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Actor Laurence Fishburne is visibly moved when asked to read an excerpt of remarks made more than a half-century ago by the man he now portrays onstage, the legendary Thurgood Marshall.", "The NAACP attorney was arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1958 over whether Little Rock, Arkansas, officials essentially had to follow the order of the courts to desegregate its schools.", "Marshall, a sharp lawyer, turned the tables on the all-white bench, making the issue not about black students seeking equality but about society's larger civic responsibilities.", "\"Education is not the teaching of the three Rs.", "Education is the teaching of the overall citizenship.", "To learn to live together with fellow citizens, and above all, to learn to obey the law,\" Marshall told the court.", "\"I worry about the white children in Little Rock who are told as young people that the way to get your rights is to violate the law and defy the lawful authorities.", "I am worried about their future.", "I don't worry about those Negro kids' future.", "They've been struggling with democracy long enough, they know about it.\"", "Fishburne commands the stage as the first African-American on the Supreme Court in a new one-man play \"Thurgood\" for a one-month engagement at the Kennedy Center in Washington.", "\"Powerful stuff,\" he said about hearing Marshall's own words in the rarely heard audio argument of Cooper v. Aaron.", "The 48-year-old actor thoroughly researched this role, but he was unaware of this all-but forgotten chapter in Marshall's colorful life.", "\"Before I read the script for 'Thurgood', I knew nothing about Thurgood Marshall,\" he said, sitting comfortably in a lounge just off the Eisenhower Theater.", "\"He was a very, very funny man. He was also a very serious man when it came time to be serious.", "I think he understood there was a time and a place for all kinds of behavior from human beings, and he indulged in those things at the appropriate times,\" laughing loudly.", "It takes a good man with an unwavering dose of self-confidence to stand alone on a stage for 90 minutes straight, and portray a giant of American history.", "Fishburne offers a little secret to making it work.", "\"The wonderful thing about this piece even though it's a one-man show, I have a scene partner.", "My scene partner is the audience,\" he said.", "\"So that makes it really important for me to be paying attention and seeing how people respond.\"", "Fishburne has won a Tony, an Emmy and was nominated for an Academy Award.", "The actor currently stars as a forensic investigator in \"CSI\" on CBS.", "He first did the role of Marshall on Broadway two years ago.", "After this Washington engagement, he takes \"Thurgood\" to Los Angeles and the Geffen Playhouse.", "The creator of the show is George Stevens Jr., who wanted to have Marshall \"make the case for himself,\" with just one actor onstage.", "\"One-hundred years after the end of slavery in the 1950s, he comes around and lives in a segregated society where people can't go to lunch counters, schools, swimming pools, all of that discrimination, housing,\" Stevens said.", "\"And decides that you can use the law to change it.", "And that was such an act of imagination.", "And that gives purpose to the play, but it is his sense of humor.", "His sense of narrative throughout his life; Marshall was a storyteller.", "And that gives us so much to work with.\"", "An example in the play has Fishburne as Marshall talking to his critics in the 1980s who thought he should leave the bench.", "\"They said I was too old, too liberal, too tipsy,\" says the character.", "\"I'd tell them, I accepted a lifetime appointment.", "I'm staying for life.", "I expect to die at the age of 110.", "Shot by a jealous husband!\"", "which prompts huge laughter.", "The play recounts through stories and anecdotes the remarkable journey of Marshall, who was born in 1908 and grew up in segregated Baltimore, Maryland.", "He was rejected from the University of Maryland law school because he was black, but after graduating from Howard University at the head of his class, he became chief counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and won 29 of 32 cases argued before the high court.", "He later joined that bench in 1967, retiring in 1991.", "He died in 1993. Marshall was in the news recently when President Barack Obama nominated the justice's former law clerk Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.", "Kagan recalled Marshall playfully called her \"Shorty\" during her 1988-89 clerkship.", "Fishburne was not the first choice to play the role.", "Stevens had produced a 1991 television miniseries based on the landmark Brown v. Board case that ended public segregation.", "Marshall was played then by Sidney Poitier, who backed out of the current project.", "So did actor James Earl Jones.", "But Stevens and director Leonard Foglia saw something in Fishburne.", "\"He's a compelling actor.", "And he's of an age which I originally thought was perhaps too young to do this part,\" said Stevens.", "\"But I learned the opposite -- he can come out as the older Thurgood Marshall.", "And when he goes back in memory to his younger days, he has the vitality that brings that alive.", "So he's just a wonderful choice for this role.\"", "Dressed in comfortable red sneakers, light khakis and a casual blue shirt, Fishburne said the role is one of the greatest acting challenges he has ever faced.", "\"It's all there,\" he said of Marshall, whom he never met.", "\"I mean, we deal with his flaws and we deal with his strengths, we deal with his history, we deal with his disappointments as well as his victories.", "So, it's all there. It's all there in the show. Warts and all.\" The actor said it helped that Marshall was a master storyteller, who combined wit with a touch of lingering bitterness over how he was treated as a black man.", "The story Stevens and Fishburne weave is more than a history lesson about race, but both men said Marshall's humanity makes it instantly relatable to a wide audience.", "\"It is a uniquely American life,\" Fishburne said.", "\"The last thing that he says in the play, he quotes [poet] Langston Hughes, and he says 'America will be.'", "This is a work in progress, that this is the great experiment.", "And it is. And that we all have a stake in it. That we are all sort of in a way responsible for realizing it.", "Whether we accept that responsibility or not, the fact of the matter is we're all here together.\"" ]	[ "Laurence Fishburne portrays Thurgood Marshall in one-man play in Washington .", "Fishburne also played late Supreme Court justice two years ago on Broadway .", "Show's creator: \"Marshall was a storyteller.", "And that gives us so much to work with\"\nActor calls portrayal -- \"warts and all\" -- one of his greatest acting challenges ." ]	[ 10, 23, 31, 57 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Psychic or just plain phony?", "If there was any reason to believe that a crystal ball is hiding in that bulbous head of Paul the octopus, be warned: This article might just disappoint.", "Ready? Some marine biologists and experts say it's more than likely that Paul doesn't have the gift of prophecy after all.", "What's more likely is that he's learned to recognize the German flag.", "The 2-year-old octopus, who was born in England and now lives in a German aquarium, has become a World Cup phenomenon after correctly predicting the winners in all six of the German national team's matches.", "\"He has a run that many gamblers will only ever dream of,\" said Tony LaCasse, a spokesman for the New England Aquarium.", "\"Paul is running a remarkable series of picks, but I honestly doubt that he has extrasensory abilities.\"", "During each prediction, two mussel-filled acrylic boxes labeled with a team's flag are lowered into his tank.", "Whichever box he chooses conveys the winning team.", "The eight-tentacled oracle has been relatively consistent, plopping himself over the German box in his first few predictions.", "But he drew cries of despair from assembled watchers before the semifinal round, when he lingered over the box for the German flag before opting for the Spanish flag instead.", "Spain won the match 1-0.", "For the final game of the World Cup, Paul picked Spain, again, to win against the Netherlands.", "Octopi are among the most intelligent sea creatures in the world, said Mike Henley, an animal keeper at the Smithsonian National Zoo.", "Being keen learners and natural hunters, they quickly figure out how to maneuver and finagle objects in the wild in order to sustain themselves.", "Yet when kept in captivity, as Paul has been, they must often be trained to accept prepared food, Henley said.", "LaCasse said that at the New England Aquarium, which has a giant Pacific octopus, marine biologists usually give the animals Plexiglas boxes with different latches, lids and arrangements to see if they are able to retrieve their food.", "And it's this ability to pick things up quickly that might explain why Paul is consistently picking the winning team.", "\"Looking at the series of predictions, it appears that this may have been a learned task,\" said Dr. Jean Boal, a marine biology professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.", "Boal, who has worked with cephalopods for more than 20 years, believes that Paul's first pick may have just been pure luck and that he has been picking the German flag since his Euro 2008 days because the sea creature has learned to do so.", "\"It's a simple form of conceptual learning,\" she said.", "By recognizing shapes and patterns, octopi will learn to gravitate toward them and even pick up skills, such as opening a jar or a box, that will lead them a food treat.", "\"They are very attentive to people.", "It's possible to train them, even unwittingly,\" Boal said.", "But what about the times that he didn't pick the German flag?", "Part of their learning process, Boal said, is that \"once in a while, they might choose something else.\"", "Then what about the red and yellow in the German and Spanish flags that Paul has been consistently attracted to?", "There's no truth in that either, experts say.", "While octopi have excellent eyesight, they're colorblind.", "\"They don't have color vision, but they are able to see different shades of gray,\" said Richard Learner, curator of fishes at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland.", "\"If anything, you have to factor distance and his trained abilities into this whole mystery of Paul's psychic powers.\"", "Paul's trainer, Oliver Walenciak, could not be immediately reached for comment.", "Henley, the Smithsonian Zoo animal keeper, said that fans will have to wait until Sunday to see whether the octopus will be able to prove to the world his powers.", "\"It'll be amazing to see what he does next,\" Henley said.", "\"He's just gotten lucky every time.", "We should take him to Vegas.\"" ]	[ "Experts say Paul the octopus has simply learned to recognize the German flag .", "Octopi are highly intelligent and can recognize shapes, patterns and even people .", "The creatures have keen eyesight but are colorblind ." ]	[ 3, 13, 22, 26, 27, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Obama said Monday that federal officials are \"gathering up facts\" to help ensure that embattled oil giant BP fairly compensates people and businesses suffering losses.", "Speaking at a Coast Guard staging facility in Theodore, Alabama, Obama said he hopes to hammer out with top BP officials Wednesday a new structure for processing claims so that they \"are dealt with justly, fairly, promptly.\"", "He said preliminary talks on the restructuring have already begun, but was cautious about how much progress can be made before Wednesday's meeting.", "He said that cleanup and containment of the spill won't happen overnight.", "\"It's going to take time for things to return to normal.\"", "\"There's going to be a harmful effect on many local businesses and it's going to be painful for a lot of folks,\" he said.", "Obama also announced an effort to ensure that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico remains safe to eat.", "Under the new comprehensive seafood initiative, federal authorities will increase inspections of seafood processors, strengthen surveillance programs and monitor fish caught outside restricted waters, Obama said.", "\"Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat, but we need to make sure that it stays that way,\" he said.", "The president arrived in Gulfport, Mississippi, earlier in the day -- his first stop on a two-day tour of the states, including Alabama and Florida, most affected by the oil disaster.", "This is his fourth trip to the Gulf Coast since the oil began to gush nearly two months ago, though previous trips were limited to Louisiana.", "Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the administration's point person in the region, briefed Obama shortly after his arrival.", "At the end of the briefing, Obama encouraged tourists to not cancel plans to vacation in the region.", "\"There's still a lot of opportunity for visitors to come down here -- a lot of beaches that are not yet affected or will not be affected,\" Obama said.", "\"One of the best ways to help is to come down here and enjoy the outstanding hospitality,\" the president said.", "The president, who canceled a trip to Indonesia and Australia, has faced criticism that he hasn't been fully engaged in the crisis.", "Gulf Coast resident Jim Hall said he is ready to see more action and less talking from the administration.", "\"Looking at the overall picture, I wish he would take more assertive power in what's going on as far as protection of our environment.", "My property values have probably dropped 30 percent, 40 percent in the last 50 days,\" said Hall, who has lived and fished on the Gulf since the '80s.", "\"I know all about the claims and I know all about the payment back, but I just wish the government would become a little bit more active in taking care of we, the voters,\" he said.", "Harry Jemison, owner of Jemison's Bait-N-Tackle shop, said his business was on course for a record year, but after the oil spill, everyone is \"afraid to fish.\"", "Obama acknowledged the toll of the massive oil spill.", "\"There's a sense that this disaster is not only threatening our fishermen and our shrimpers and oystermen, not only affecting precious marshes and wetlands and estuaries ... there's also a fear that it could have a long-term impact on a way of life that has been passed on for generations,\" Obama said.", "\"We are absolutely committed to working with [local and state officials] to do everything in our power to protect the Gulf Coast way of life so that it's there for our children, our grandchildren and our great grandchildren,\" he said.", "Following his visit to the Gulf Coast, Obama will update the nation about the situation in a prime time address from the Oval Office.", "Obama will talk about the oil-leak containment strategy, the reorganization of minerals management at the Department of the Interior and the beginning of a process to restore the Gulf to a place better than it was before the Deepwater Horizon exploded, a senior administration official said.", "BP has until midnight to present a new plan to the White House for containing the oil.", "Obama is scheduled to meet with BP executives in person at the White House on Wednesday.", "The president plans to push BP to create a BP-funded escrow account that will pay for damage claims from the oil spill, said David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Obama.", "In addition, Axelrod said, the plan would call for an independent third party to handle the claims process.", "\"The president will use every legal device at his disposal to make sure that this money is escrowed and that there is an independent administrator so that claims are not slow-walked, people can get the relief they need in a timely fashion and that we don't create more victims from this terrible disaster,\" Axelrod said.", "CNN's Ed Hornick, Kristi Keck, Dan Lothian and Xuan Thai contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: President gets briefing from Coast Guard admiral, urges Gulf Coast tourism .", "Obama touring Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and meeting with local residents .", "Small-business owner Harry Jemison says everyone is \"afraid to fish\"\nFollowing trip, Obama to deliver prime time address ." ]	[ 20, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The group of Hungarian teens and young adults had traveled to the United States to experience American culture during a three-week trip of hiking excursions, overnight retreats, home-stays and tourist stops.", "Now, the group will return home without two of its members, carrying memories of the tragic boating accident that took their lives.", "The bodies of Dora Schwendtner, 16, and Szabolcs Prem, 20, were recovered from the site of the boating accident in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday and identified later in the day, according to authorities.", "The discoveries came two days after a tour boat the group was on collided with a barge in the Delaware River.", "Rescuers saved 35 people on the tour boat, popularly known as a duck boat, an amphibious vehicle that takes passengers on land and sea to major destinations on Philadelphia's tourist track.", "Among those rescued were some of the Hungarians and their hosts from Marshallton United Methodist Church of West Chester, Pennsylvania.", "Schwendtner and Prem were missing for more than two days before their fate was confirmed.", "The 15 Hungarians arrived in the United States on July 2 on a cultural exchange program organized by Atlantic Bridge, a Netherlands-based group that describes itself as \"a Christian, international, cross-cultural team with a passion for young people.\"", "The team of Hungarian \"BridgeBuilders\" came from Mosonmagyarovar, a town in northwest Hungary known for its hot baths and large number of dentists, drawing Austrians from across the border in search of cheap dental work, according to Atlantic Bridge's website.", "The leaders of Atlantic Bridge did not respond to e-mails for comment Friday night, but the group's website provides a loose timeline of the youths' travels.", "Representatives from Marshallton United Methodist Church did not return requests for comment Friday night.", "After the youths arrived in New York they spent the Fourth of July weekend visiting ground zero, Central Park and Chinatown, and celebrating the nation's birthday with host families, Atlantic Bridge's director, John Oostdyk, wrote on the organization's website.", "On July 6, they set out in five cars to West Chester, Pennsylvania, to meet their hosts from the Marshallton United Methodist Church for the next leg of their trip.", "Marshallton sent a youth group to Hungary through Atlantic Bridge in 2006, and a team from Hungary first came in 2007, the church said on its website.", "\"Together the two youth groups share in Christian fellowship and fun, while the visitors stay with host families, and enjoy tours to various cultural and historic places in their respective countries,\" a statement said.", "The next day, seven members of the church accompanied their Hungarian counterparts on a trip to Philadelphia, where they boarded the \"Ride the Ducks\" tour boat at Penn's Landing.", "The boat had mechanical trouble and the engine shut down after a fire onboard, Lt. Frank Vanore of the Philadelphia Police Department said Wednesday.", "While the boat was waiting for help in the river, the barge hit it, Vanore said.", "The boat overturned and passengers were spilled into the river.", "\"When I saw the picture I realized how true it was when someone earlier said 'it is a miracle anyone survived this,' \" Oostdyk said on Atlantic Bridge's website.", "\"Ride the Ducks\" voluntarily shut down operations at all its locations across the country, and the NTSB is investigating the incident.", "\"Our thoughts and prayers are with our Philadelphia tour guests, crew members and their families.", "We are attending to their needs first,\" the company said on its website.", "After the passengers were brought to land, a count was taken and it was discovered that Schwendtner and Prem were missing, the church said.", "The group went back to Marshallton, where they were looked after by the Rev.", "Scott Widmer, the church's pastor, and members of the congregation and community.", "\"The church is continuing to provide comfort, prayer, pastoral care and sanctuary for the spiritual needs of the youth groups in the midst of their shock and grief,\" Marshallton said on its website.", "The Hungarian youths are still in Pennsylvania, according to an employee in Atlantic Bridge's Netherlands office, but it was unclear whether they would stay until their scheduled return on July 23.", "On Wednesday, Oostdyk flew to the United States to be with the group.", "On Thursday, prayer vigils were held at two United Methodist churches in the region, drawing attendees from churches and communities throughout the area.", "\"It was a world of grief, but also a world of compassion and prayer and of gathering around the team of Hungarian students who had seen their summer of high expectations destroyed in a matter of minutes just 24 hours earlier,\" Oostdyk said." ]	[ "Bodies of Dora Schwendtner, Szabolcs Prem, found near site of Pennsylvania boating accident .", "They were among 15 Hungarians on cultural exchange program with Pennsylvania church .", "They arrived in the United States July 2 to experience American culture .", "It is unclear if the rest of the group will stay until scheduled return date of July 23 ." ]	[ 2, 7, 27 ]
[ "Port St. Joe, Florida (CNN) -- One by one, with a hand as steady as a surgeon's, Lorna Patrick removes eggs from a sea turtle's nest on a Florida beach.", "\"If it falls, you probably killed the hatchling that's developing inside,\" said Patrick, a biologist with the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service.", "Patrick admits she holds her breath each time she takes an egg out of the sand and places it in the foam cooler.", "Sand is delicately placed in the cooler between and on top of each egg.", "Patrick uses the sand from the nest, which is located just a few inches from the beach's surface.", "This process is part of an unprecedented sea turtle relocation program.", "Moving sea turtle nests days before the eggs are to hatch has never been done before.", "It is also the first time that wildlife experts had to deal with oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.", "\"Shy of letting the hatchlings swim in oil, it's our best alternative,\" said Sandy MacPherson, the national sea turtle coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service.", "\"We're confident if they go into oil they're going to die.\"", "Patrick is working on the second sea turtle nest to be moved since the program started.", "Ninety percent of the United States' sea turtle population can be found on Florida's beaches, according to the U.S.", "It is estimated that 700 nests can be found in the Florida Panhandle, an area vulnerable to the oil spill.", "\"This is a huge relocation effort,\" said Thomas Strickland, assistant secretary of interior for fish and wildlife and parks.", "\"As many as 50 to 100,000 eggs over the next six to eight weeks will be dug up.\"", "An average nest has anywhere from 100 to 120 eggs.", "Sea turtles come out of the water a few feet from the coastline and lay their eggs in the warm sand.", "Loggerhead turtle eggs, the type Patrick is handling, usually hatch within 60 to 70 days.", "The eggs are moved just over a week before they are expected to hatch.", "Wildlife officials want to keep the eggs in their natural environment as long as possible.", "\"Through the eggs it's believed they actually connect to the landscapes where they were born,\" Strickland said.", "Once the turtles mature it is hoped that they will return to the original nesting area and the natural birthing cycle will continue.", "Once Patrick's two coolers are full, with the nest's 107 eggs, they will start a journey across the state.", "A special climate-controlled truck donated by Federal Express will deliver the eggs to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.", "The coolers will be stored in a special NASA building that will be regulated to the warm summer temperatures to which the eggs are accustomed.", "Instead of the beautiful white sandy beach, the hatchlings will be born in the transport coolers.", "Once they break out of their shells, the warm blue Atlantic Ocean will be awaiting them." ]	[ "U.S. wildlife experts are moving sea turtle eggs by hand to save them from the oil disaster .", "Such a relocation effort has never been done before .", "They are being taken from Florida Panhandle to Kennedy Space Center .", "They will be stored in a special NASA building, then released into the Atlantic Ocean ." ]	[ 7, 10, 24, 25 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- As oil again again flows freely, crews are working around the clock to replace a containment cap on the ruptured underwater well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP said Saturday.", "The company hopes to install a better-fitting one in the coming days, BP senior Vice President Kent Wells said.", "\"We're on plan,\" he said hours after the old cap was removed.", "Live video showed robots in the process of removing six bolts from the apparatus so that the new cap can be positioned.", "The bolts may all be removed by Sunday.", "The old cap had been diverting about 15,000 barrels a day (630,000 gallons) to a ship.", "BP still is recovering an additional 8,000 to 9,000 barrels a day (336,000 to 378,000 gallons) through a line connected to another vessel, the Q4000.", "Wells said the sealing cap operation is expected to take four to seven days, with favorable weather helping the process along.", "In upcoming weeks, there will be an increase in the current oil containment work.", "A fleet of skimmers will help recover the oil now making its way to the surface.", "\"As we start to ramp up the additional containment capacity, we should see less and less flow,\" Wells said.", "Wells said crews are in the final stages of hooking up the Helix Producer, another oil recovery vessel, to the well.", "The vessel is expected to begin collecting oil by Sunday and officials hope to reach full collection capacity of 20,000 to 25,000 barrels (840,000 to 1.5 million gallons) per day within three days.", "\"We're in the final stages in doing the pressure testing\" on the Helix Producer, Wells said.", "If successful, the effects of the containment cap operation could halt the oil gusher that started April 20 after a deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.", "Officials have said such a fix would be temporary, and the permanent solution would still be completion of a relief well.", "There are two relief wells under construction, with one expected to be completed in August.", "One could intercept the leaking well as early as the end of July.", "Over the next two to three weeks, 60,000 to 80,000 barrels (2.52 million to 3.36 million gallons) a day should be contained, Wells said.", "Scientists estimate that 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil are spewing daily from BP's breached Macondo well.", "The company also says the sealing cap work \"is intended to run in parallel with the installation and start-up of the Helix Producer.\"", "BP says there will be a period of decreased oil and gas capture from the wellhead during the cap replacement.", "It said another recovery vessel, the Q4000, \"should continue to capture and flare oil and gas.\"", "There will be other recovery vessels and skimmers deployed.", "\"This can be done very effectively,\" Wells said.", "Wells also said there will be \"significant measurement capability\" added to the new cap so officials can get a good idea of the flow rate.", "BP said in a statement that the new cap \"should improve containment efficiency during hurricane season by allowing shorter disconnect and reconnect times.\"", "Wells echoed much of what retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Friday.", "Allen said he approved the cap-switch plan in order to take advantage of favorable weather predicted for coming days and because, once the switch is complete, the resulting capacity to contain oil \"will be far greater than the capabilities we have achieved using current systems.\"", "Allen stressed that once the capping device is on, \"we would get the most accurate flow rate to date,\" he said.", "Meanwhile, Allen on Saturday announced that Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft is scheduled to relieve Rear Adm. James Watson as the federal on-scene coordinator Monday.", "Zukunft, who has been in the region for several weeks overseeing strategic planning, is the Coast Guard's assistant commandant for marine safety, security and stewardship.", "Watson will return to his previous duties.", "CNN's Sanjay Gupta, Vivian Kuo and Aaron Cooper contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Replacement process is \"on plan,\" BP official says .", "Old containment cap removed from Gulf well .", "Switch will take 4 to 7 days during which oil will flow unimpeded .", "Vessel may start picking up oil Sunday ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4, 7, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Thousands of mourners and supporters crowded hillsides near Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sunday, to mark the 15th anniversary of the massacre of nearly 8,000 men and boys.", "More than 50,000 people witnessed the burial of 775 newly identified genocide victims at the Centre Potocari -- the official Srebrenica Genocide Memorial where 5,000 genocide victims are buried -- a few miles outside the city, according to Bosnia-Herzegovina's official news agency, Fena.", "In 1995, Potocari served as a safe-haven for Bosnian Muslims.", "They were under the protection of a U.N.-Dutch-led mission.", "The massacre of men and boys occurred when ethnic Serb troops overran the United Nations safe area.", "The five-day slaughter was the worst European massacre since World War II and was described by the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal as \"the triumph of evil.\"", "Witnesses, human rights investigators and court testimonies documented the summary executions, as well the rape and murder of women.", "Sunday's burial was attended by top international officials, including a U.S. delegation whose members read a statement from President Barack Obama.", "In the statement, Obama called the Srebrenica massacre an \"unimaginable\" tragedy that has left an indelible \"stain on our collective conscience.\"", "\"Fifteen years ago today, despite decades of pledges of 'never again,' 8,000 men and boys were murdered in these fields and hills,\" said in the statement.", "\"They were brothers, sons, husbands, and fathers, and they all became victims of genocide.\"", "Obama also called on all governments to \"redouble their efforts\" to find and prosecute those responsible for the tragedy.", "\"This includes Ratko Mladic, who presided over the killings and remains at large,\" he said, referring to the former Bosnian Serb army commander.", "Mladic has been charged with genocide and remains a fugitive.", "Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic is now on trial at the tribunal in The Hague.", "Fena news agency reported that Boris Tadic, president of Serbia, also attended the burial memorial of the genocide victims and promised to find Serb war criminals.", "\"I, as the president of Serbia, will never give up finding them, and especially Ratko Mladic.", "When that ends, I will consider a part of my job completed,\" Tadic said.", "\"But before that, it is important that people reach out to one another and to continue living as people.", "A lot of time has passed, and I have done everything possible for Mladic to be arrested,\" he said." ]	[ "Obama: Massacre leaves \"stain on our collective conscience\"\nThousands watch burial of 775 recently identified genocide victims .", "Ratko Mladic has been charged with genocide and remains a fugitive .", "Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic is now on trial at the tribunal in The Hague." ]	[ 13, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A new audio recording released online Monday purportedly captures another profanity-laced argument between actor Mel Gibson and former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, in which he threatens her life and verbally abuses her.", "RadarOnline released the audio on its website Monday -- the second such recording since another tirade was posted Friday.", "The site claims the male voice is that of the 54-year-old Gibson.", "CNN has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the recording.", "In the audio released Monday, the man on the recording can be heard repeatedly using sexual slurs and profane insults as he grows increasingly enraged throughout the phone conversation.", "At one point, the man says, \"What, what are you threatening me?\"", "after the woman tells him he is \"going to answer\" for an alleged physical assault against her in which her teeth were broken.", "\"I'll threaten,\" the man says.", "\"I'll put you in the f*ing rose garden.\"", "The man also says of the alleged assault: \"You got what you fing deserved.\"", "In the recording released Friday, the man launches into a racist, sexist rant against the woman, telling her she looks \"like a fing b on heat and if you get raped by a pack of n*ers it will be your fault.\"", "It's unclear when either audio recording was captured.", "Grigorieva, 40, said the female voice on the recordings is hers and that the other voice is Gibson's.", "CNN's efforts to obtain comment from Gibson have been unsuccessful.", "Gibson's longtime publicist, Alan Nierob, said Friday, \"We can't comment due to legal nature of the matter.\"", "Also Friday, the William Morris Endeavor talent agency confirmed to CNN that Gibson is no longer their client.", "Gibson has been caught in a custody dispute with Grigorieva over the couple's 8-month-old daughter.", "Last week, the Malibu Hills Police Department opened an investigation into an alleged domestic violence dispute between Gibson and Grigorieva.", "Grigorieva filed a restraining order against Gibson alleging that the actor and director struck her in the face, according to her spokesman, Stephen Jaffe.", "Police said last week that they are still in the process of gathering information surrounding Grigorieva's allegations.", "Grigorieva has spoken with sheriff's deputies and has provided a statement to them in their domestic violence investigation, Jaffe told CNN Friday.", "The publicist said Grigorieva did not initiate the investigation.", "The recordings \"will be part of the investigation,\" Los Angeles County Sheriff spokesman Steve Whitmore said on Monday.", "It is not known how RadarOnline obtained the recordings.", "Jaffe said Friday that the site did not receive them from Grigorieva.", "She \"absolutely did not provide any tape to the media,\" he said.", "Gibson came under fire for a racially charged tirade in 2006, when he admitted to making anti-Semitic remarks during a drunken driving arrest.", "He issued an apology at the time, and appealed to the Jewish community to help him recover from his alcohol addiction." ]	[ "Recording purportedly captures fight between actor and ex-girlfriend .", "Site says male voice is that of Mel Gibson .", "Monday's audio clip is second to be released in four days .", "Police investigating domestic violence allegations against Gibson ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Facing political pressure, Madhav Kumar Nepal announced Wednesday that he is resigning as Nepal's prime minister.", "In a 20-minute televised address, Nepal said he wanted to avert crisis and find \"political resolution to the peace process and the drafting of the new constitution.\"", "\"Since it is not right to keep the country in a state of indecision and uncertainty, despite having a clear majority in parliament, I have decided to resign today so that the peace process and the constitution drafting process are completed,\" he said.", "Nepal has endured a fractious political transition since it was declared a republic in 2008 after the abolition of a centuries-old monarchy.", "This is the third government that has fallen since then.", "The opposition Maoists, who form the largest party in parliament, have demanded Nepal's resignation as the troubled Himalayan nation prepares a new constitution.", "Otherwise, the Maoists had threatened to disrupt the parliamentary session and block approval of the annual budget.", "The failure to adopt a new constitution by the late May deadline would have automatically dissolved the government.", "But the Maoists agreed to let the government amend the constitution and extend the deadline by a year.", "In exchange, the Maoists wanted the prime minister to step down so they could lead the government again.", "The Maoists fought a decade-long insurgency in an effort to topple Nepal's monarchy, leaving more than 13,000 people dead.", "They signed a peace deal in 2006.", "Elections in April 2008 made Nepal a republic and dethroned the king.", "The Maoists were the largest party in the previous coalition government, but their leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal -- commonly known as Prachanda -- resigned as prime minister a year ago because the president overturned his decision to fire a senrio military official.", "The Maoists declined to join the next coalition government under Nepal's leadership, upset that the government was not making moves to integrate about 19,000 former rebels into the Nepalese army.", "The government has been reluctant to integrate its former enemies.", "It's unclear who will succeed Nepal as the next prime minister.", "Journalist Manesh Shrestha contributed to this report." ]	[ "Madhav Kumar Nepal announced he was quitting in a televised address .", "He was under political pressure to avert a national crisis .", "The Maoists, who fought a 10-year insurgency, form the largest political party in Nepal .", "The Maoists had threatened to block approval of a new constitution ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Somali Islamist militant movement on Monday claimed responsibility for a trio of bombings that killed at least 74 people Sunday at two venues in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, where crowds had gathered to watch the World Cup final.", "\"And the best of men have promised and they have delivered,\" said an Arabic statement issued by Al-Shabaab's press office and obtained by CNN.", "\"Blessed and exalted among men -- (taking) full responsibility.", "...We wage war against the 6,000 collaborators; they have received their response.\"", "The 6,000 is an apparent reference to African Union peacekeepers in Somalia.", "Uganda contributes troops to the peacekeeping effort.", "\"We are behind the attack because we are at war with them,\" Al-Shabaab spokesman Ali Mohamoud Rage told reporters at a news conference in Mogadishu, Somalia.", "\"We had given warning to the Ugandans to refrain from their involvement in our country.", "We spoke to the leaders and we spoke to the people and they never listened to us.\"", "Rage said young suicide bombers carried out the attacks but did not specify their nationalities.", "\"May Allah accept these martyrs who carried out the blessed operation and exploded themselves in the middle of the infidels,\" he said.", "However, Police Chief Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura told reporters arrests have been made in connection with the bombings.", "He would not say how many people have been arrested or provide details.", "Earlier Monday, Sheikh Abu Al Zubeir, identified as \"the emir of Al-Shabaab in Somalia,\" said in an Arabic website posting, \"My message to the Ugandan and Burundian nations is that you will be the target for our retribution to the massacres perpetrated against the Somali men, women and children in Mogadishu by your forces.\"", "The statement was posted on an al Qaeda affiliated website that previously has carried statements and videos from Al-Shabaab.", "The website set up a page Monday to \"receive congratulations\" on Al-Shabaab's behalf for the \"blessed operations\" in Uganda.", "Suspicion had centered on Somali Islamist groups shortly after the explosions in Kampala.", "Islamic militants battling Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government had previously threatened attacks on Uganda and Burundi.", "The U.N. Security Council said of the attacks in a statement Monday: .", "\"The members of the Security Council reaffirm that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations is criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of its motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed, and further reaffirm the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.\"", "Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni declared a week of national mourning for victims of the bombings, beginning Tuesday, according to a government statement.", "All flags on public buildings will be lowered to half-staff during the mourning period, the statement said.", "Eighty-five people were injured in the Ugandan blasts, Kayihura told reporters.", "They were transferred from the national hospital to a privately owned hospital in Kampala, he said.", "U.S. officials said five Americans were among the wounded.", "\"This incident shows that it was terrorism,\" he said.", "Kayihura said he could not confirm that Al-Shabaab was responsible, but said the nature of the explosives used were consistent with the group.", "Police are using forensics to analyze the explosives, he said, and will deliver a report in a day or two.", "The 74 fatalities included 28 Ugandans, one Irish citizen, one Indian, one American and 11 people who are either Ethiopian or Eritrean, according to the Ugandan government.", "\"If you want to fight, why don't you attack soldiers or military installations instead of fighting innocent people watching football?\"", "said Museveni, who on Monday visited a rugby sports center where two of the blasts occurred Sunday.", "The blasts hit within 50 minutes of each other.", "The first one struck an Ethiopian restaurant in a neighborhood dotted with bars and popular among expatriates.", "Two others exploded at the rugby center.", "A senior Ugandan government official confirmed there were three bombs.", "The second one at the rugby club was the most severe, said the official, who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media due to the sensitivity of the situation.", "The U.S. Embassy confirmed the death of one American.", "An organization that works with children in Uganda identified him as Nate Henn.", "In a post on its website, the organization Invisible Children said Henn was in the country working with Ugandan students.", "CNN could not independently verify the information.", "\"Nate was not a glory-seeker and never sought the spotlight.", "He asked not to be made a hero of,\" the post said.", "\"But the life he lived inspires reflection and imitation.\"", "U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley said five other Americans were hospitalized, and that two of them \"have serious injuries requiring significant medical attention.\"", "The State Department is assisting in their medical evacuation, he said.", "Mike Hammer, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, said President Barack Obama is \"deeply saddened by the loss of life resulting from these deplorable and cowardly attacks.\"", "Obama called Museveni on Monday morning and offered to provide support and assistance, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.", "\"I'm told the FBI will assist in the investigation of the bombings.\"", "Crowley said a three-person FBI team is on the ground collecting evidence, with another team standing by ready to assist.", "Two diplomatic security officers also were en route to Uganda.", "He added the State Department has no reason to doubt Al-Shabaab's claim of responsibility, saying the \"evidence so far at the attack scene would suggest an Al-Shabaab connection.\"", "Museveni said, \"We wish to condemn the criminality of these attacks.", "From a casual look at the scene, I'm confident police will be able to reconstruct the crime scene.", "... We shall go after them because we know where they come from.\"", "The bombings, he said, show \"criminality and terrorism has always been hovering over us.\"", "In a government statement, Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said he \"condemns in the strongest terms the despicable terrorist acts that killed over 60 people in Kampala.\"", "\"The fact that the victims were enjoying the World Cup reveals the evil and ugly nature of the perpetrators and the need to uproot from [the] region those who do not value the sanctity of human life,\" the statement said.", "\"The president also denounces the fringe Al-Shabaab terrorist groups [that] rejoice of the carnage and stated that Somalia mourns with the brotherly people of Uganda.\"", "Stone Atwine was watching the game at the rugby center when the blast occurred.", "\"It happened toward the 90th minute of the game ... this loud explosion,\" he said.", "\"We didn't know what was happening, we were running around, scampering for safety.", "I saw dead guys still seated in their chairs with blood.\"", "Atwine said a second explosion struck the venue seconds later, knocking out power.", "\"At that point, we ran off. My friends and I ran into the car and drove off.\"", "Relatives flocked to hospitals and mortuaries to look for loved ones Monday.", "\"I was watching the game with my brother at the rugby center,\" said Ian Lule, who was among a group gathered at a city hospital.", "\"The blast left him unconscious.", "I don't know how he is.\" In the capital, crowds huddled around newspapers, talking in hushed tones.", "\"Everyone is shocked, everyone is talking about it,\" said Mark Keith Muhumuza, who was watching the game at a stadium near the rubgy center explosion.", "\"We were in panic mode at the stadium because we thought we would be attacked next.\"", "Muhumuza said when the game ended, he went to the rugby center.", "\"People were wailing, some were trying to find their relatives, others were trying to run away from the scene.\"", "\"You can never stop attacks in the world,\" said FIFA President Sepp Blatter.", "\"During the World Cup, the world should have been touched by the emotions of football.", "I'm very sad and I was very touched.\"", "\"I deplore what has happened and look forward to the good that football can bring to our world.\"", "The sites of the bombings remained cordoned off as authorities intensified security in the east African nation.", "Police and military forces patrolled the capital.", "Some of the injured at the restaurant included six members of an American church mission working with a local congregation, according to the Rev.", "Kathleen Kind, pastor of Christ Community United Methodist Church in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.", "All the church members were accounted for and families had been contacted, Kind said.", "Their injuries ranged from broken bones and flesh wounds to temporary blindness and hearing problems, she said.", "Kayihura said the bombings could have been avoided if the two venues had used security measures such as metal detectors and guards.", "The African Union summit is scheduled to be held in Kampala next week.", "CNN's Faith Karimi and journalists Samson Ntale, Mohamed Amiin Adow, Naisenya Leposo and Nima Elbagir contributed to this report." ]	[ "Eighty-five people wounded in blasts, including five Americans .", "Somali Islamist militant spokesman says Uganda had been warned .", "Ugandan president declares week of mourning for victims .", "Death toll from Uganda bombings at 74, including one American ." ]	[ 0, 20, 22, 24, 36 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The top U.S. military officer is reassuring his Pakistani counterpart that the U.S. military is not pressuring the Pakistani army to increase its operations against the Taliban there, a senior U.S. military official said.", "The message comes as the United States has turned up independent evidence that ties the suspect in the attempted bombing in New York's Times Square to the insurgent group.", "It stands in sharp contrast to tough talk from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who warned of \"consequences\" if the Times Square plot is linked to elements in Pakistan.", "Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, chief of the Pakistani army, to discuss the matter Sunday.", "Mullen called to \"reassure Kayani we are not trying to pressure him as a result of this case,\" a senior U.S. military official said.", "\"Mullen didn't call to say, 'You gotta do more because this Pakistani-American was trained on your territory.'", "\" Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, met with Kayani as well, and his spokesman denied McChrystal made any effort to pressure the Pakistani official.", "Clinton publicly took a tougher line, saying on the CBS program \"60 Minutes\": \"We've made it very clear that if -- heaven forbid -- an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences.\"", "The senior U.S. military official was adamant in saying the U.S. military is not trying to make the Pakistanis accelerate their timetable to move against Taliban strongholds in North Waziristan, a border region long believed to be sheltering al Qaeda and Taliban militants.", "Kayani has repeatedly said his troops would not expand their operations into North Waziristan until they have finished operations in other areas.", "\"We are very comfortable with the work they have been doing and where they are at the moment,\" the senior official said.", "Other senior military officials offer the same assessment.", "The military official said the current view has been reached even as intelligence increasingly indicates the Times Square bombing plot suspect, Faisal Shahzad, had \"strong links\" to the Pakistani Taliban.", "\"We believe right now the Pakistanis are doing everything they can,\" the U.S. military official said.", "He declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation.", "The United States now has independent intelligence to indicate Shahzad had ties to the Pakistani Taliban, according to a U.S. official.", "The official could not be identified because he is not authorized to speak publicly.", "The independent confirmation is important because it gives the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence community a better understanding of Shahzad's activities without just following leads based on his interrogation.", "The official said the United States is still trying to figure out \"how deep\" Shahzad's links are to the Pakistani Taliban and \"how high up\" his connections go into the organization.", "But he emphasized that public statements by top U.S. officials about Shahzad and the Pakistani Taliban are \"not just based on what Shahzad is saying.\"", "He would not discuss additional details about the other intelligence streams of information.", "\"People are looking into other streams of intelligence that point in a serious way to links to the [Pakistani Taliban],\" the official said.", "President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Sunday, \"It looks like he was working on behalf of the Tariki Taliban Pakistan, the TTP, that's the Pakistan Taliban.", "This is a group that is closely allied with al Qaeda.\"", "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" on Sunday, went further, saying that the plot was directed by the Pakistani Taliban.", "\"We know that they helped facilitate it; we know that they helped direct it,\" Holder said.", "\"And I suspect that we are going to come up with evidence which shows that they helped to finance it.", "They were intimately involved in this plot.\"", "The U.S. official also said the United States is trying to get a better understanding of the TTP's own source of financing.", "While acknowledging the risk posed by a single Taliban operative, he also said there are indications the TTP lacks extensive financial resources and it's not clear it could set up an extensive operation in the United States.", "If U.S. intelligence can determine and isolate a target precisely tied to Shahzad, such as the training areas where he might have been sheltered, the most likely scenario is that the U.S. government would call in drone strikes to ensure any lethal action is as precise as possible and potential civilian casualties are minimized, several officials have told CNN.", "In other news from the region, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan says the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan is as strong as it's ever been.", "At a White House news conference Monday, Karl Eikenberry acknowledged that there have been \"ups and downs\" in the relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.", "But Eikenberry said he expected the two countries \"to be able to work our way through difficulties and come back together and still find ourselves well-aligned\" as a result of Karzai's visit to Washington this week to meet with Obama.", "Also at the news conference, McChrystal said there will be increased violence in Afghanistan \"as our combined security forces expand into Taliban-controlled areas\" in the south." ]	[ "U.S. secretary of state had warned about Pakistan links to Times Square plot .", "U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman discussed matter with chief of Pakistani army .", "Senior U.S. military official says U.S. \"not trying to pressure him as a result of this case\"\nU.S. intelligence indicates suspect in failed bombing had ties to Pakistani Taliban ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4, 12 ]
[ "Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- There was no way he should have been on that medal stand.", "Going into the final turn of Saturday night's 1,500-meter short-track speed skating final, J.R. Celski was fifth.", "The South Korean skaters had a firm grasp on the gold, silver and bronze.", "And then inexplicably, two of the South Koreans crashed, and the 19-year-old Celski followed teammate Apolo Anton Ohno across the finish line to stunningly finish second and third.", "Kind of a miracle, but Celski has overcome much bigger odds.", "Five months ago, it would have impossible for someone to think Celski could win a medal, or even be here.", "He lay on the ice after a full-speed crash at the U.S.", "Trials, bleeding profusely, his left thigh sliced open by a skate blade.", "The cut was six inches wide and two inches deep.", "It would require 60 stitches.", "But first he had to remove the blade, which was still stuck in his leg.", "There was so much blood, he wondered if he was going to skate again.", "He didn't know it at the time, but the gash was just an inch from the main artery in his leg.", "Fortunately, the blade only cut muscle.", "\"When I was laying on that ice, I was in defeat at first,\" he said Sunday.", "\"I thought my whole career was over.", "But I guess in those moments is where we truly define ourselves.\"", "At the hospital, Celski asked someone to take a photo of the gash.", "It is a nasty picture, and while Celski is keen to show it to anyone who will have a look, it is the only time he reflects on the injury.", "\"After it happened, I knew I needed to get back on my feet, and the way to do that was to not think about it,\" he said.", "Celski jumped right into rehabilitation under the care of Dr. Eric Heiden, the speed skating legend who is now an orthopedic surgeon, and then Dr. Bill Moreau, the director for sports medicine clinics for the U.S. Olympic Committee.", "\"There are never any guarantees with an injury like this, but I will say this: Whatever happens to J.R., it will not be because of a lack of effort.", "He is working so, so hard,\" Moreau told freelance writer Joanne C. Gerstner in early November.", "By October, Celski was able to throw away his crutches.", "Though he still couldn't skate, he stayed motivated by going down to a rink near his place at the training center in Colorado and watching the skaters from a local club.", "He finally got back on the ice on November 16, just eight weeks before the Olympics.", "It was difficult for him, and he was tentative and he skated very slowly, he said.", "\"I did have flashbacks at first,\" he said.", "He even fell a few times during training, which was a good thing because it helped his mental recovery.", "He found a toughness inside, he said, and his family helped immensely.", "It was as important as his physical rehabilitation.", "Before his injury, Celski was the heir apparent to now six-time medallist Ohno.", "Before his first Olympic race, his first since the crash, he was just a question mark.", "Now, with two races, the 1,000 meters on Saturday and the 5,000-meter relay on February 26 remaining, he's a remarkable comeback story with an unending smile and a most unusual picture on his iPhone." ]	[ "J.R. Celski takes bronze in the 1,500-meter short-track speed skating at Olympics .", "Two of the South Koreans leading the group unexpectedly crash in race .", "Five months ago, Celski's left thigh was sliced opened by skate blade .", "He returned to the ice for first time just eight weeks before the Olympics ." ]	[ 1, 6, 7, 10, 25 ]
[ "Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- Many kids dream of being in the Olympics one day.", "When U.S. bobsledder Bill Schuffenhauer was a child in Salt Lake City, Utah, he had no idea the Olympics even existed.", "All he knew was his parents were drug addicts, that his mother was a prostitute who was often beaten in front of him.", "He knew that if he was going to survive, he had to do whatever it took to make it.", "He stole from people; he ate from garbage cans; he got locked up in juvenile detention for breaking into a bike shop when he was trying to get something he could sell for money so he could eat.", "He had few friends, most of them acquaintances of his mother or the other street kids, many of whom were in gangs.", "His mom and stepfather were constantly getting evicted.", "When he wasn't homeless and living in a park, he lived in foster homes.", "He skipped school a lot.", "He drank and got high on weed.", "Life was hard and at times terrifying, and he dreamed of finding a real home.", "\"I knew that there was something better,\" Schuffenhauer, 36, said last week as he readied for his third Olympic Games.", "\"And although there were a lot of horrible things that happened, it's made me a stronger person.\"", "Just around the time he was entering junior high, Schuffenhauer's maternal grandmother, Sadie Muniz, took him.", "She lived in the town of Roy, Utah, about 30 minutes north of Salt Lake City.", "As tears began to build, he talked about her steadying influence and how she was always there to pull him up or pull him back when he started messing up again.", "\"She reminded me to never give up and always push on,\" he said.", "Inspired by her, he began to go to school regularly, even though this multi-ethnic kid stuck out because of his big afro and his shabby clothes.", "He had one thing that helped him fit in.", "He could run fast.", "Something he had relied on to escape the dangers of the streets -- and the cops -- would lead him away from his terrible past.", "Track and field was to be a turning point; he had real friends now and the parents of one of his teammates eventually would adopt him.", "His coaches told him he had the talent to be an Olympian.", "Fueled by that dream, he worked hard in school and in becoming a decathlete.", "He went to Weber State University and while there he won the junior nationals in 1992.", "In 2000 he was preparing for the Olympic trials when his track career came to a painful end.", "An oft-injured ankle failed him again, and hurting so bad he couldn't walk, he had to give up on his dream of going to Sydney.", "He was crushed, but as he will often remind you, his upbringing, or lack thereof, taught him to be strong.", "His conversion to bobsledder came thanks to a friend who told him there was a new track in Park City where the U.S. team was training for the 2002 Winter Olympics.", "He went down there to check it out and kept going back until the bobsledders noticed the 6-foot, 200-pounder and asked him if he wanted to try out as a pusher.", "He joined the team and raced periodically but wasn't a regular member until fate seemingly stepped in.", "One of the Olympic team members on the top U.S. four-man team tested positive for steroids, so Schuffenhauer was called into duty.", "That crew, piloted by Todd Hays, won a silver medal at the Salt Lake Games.", "Schuffenhauer retired from bobsledding after the 2006 Torino Games, where he was part of the two-man team that finished 14th.", "He had two children and a girlfriend, Ruthann Savage, whom he met in 2004, and he felt responsible for them.", "Supporting a family on the meager money bobsledders get was impossible, and it was time to find a job and settle down in Utah.", "That worked for two years, until the desire to compete came back when he saw the team racing at Park City.", "He became obsessed with going to Vancouver.", "He and Savage had to solve a dilemma: either he would give up on the idea of another Olympics or he would go back to full-time training with the team.", "It was a risky move; if he left he wasn't guaranteed a spot on an Olympic sled.", "Now in his mid-30s, he'd be challenged by pushers much younger than him.", "\"It's been amazing that she's been able to stand by me,\" he said of Savage, now his fiancée.", "\"She's the financial supporter of my life.", "She's having to sacrifice to make my dreams come true.\"", "But Savage is a nurse, and her salary wasn't enough to pay the mortgage on the home they bought shortly after they first met.", "They weren't able to pay the loan on one of their cars either.", "The bank kicked them out, and Savage and the kids moved into a rental while Schuffenhauer went away for seven months at a time.", "Schuffenhauer tried raising money from sponsors.", "The owners of the store where he was caught stealing as a youth offered him one of their bikes to raffle off.", "But with the economy in free fall, he barely sold any tickets.", "There are still tickets available on his Web site, billschuffenhauer.com.", "And other companies didn't have the extra funds to give.", "It got worse. At the beginning of the 2008-2009 season, Schuffenhauer suffered a serious injury, two herniated disks in his neck, that made it difficult to use his arms to push the sled.", "He remained resolute that he would make the Olympics even though he was now an alternate.", "He worked closely with a chiropractor and a team physician to get back on track.", "In January, a healthy Schuffenhauer and his USA3 teammates went to a race in St. Moritz, Switzerland, with a very outside chance of qualifying for the Olympics.", "They finished sixth in the event, and Schuffenhauer's dream was realized.", "\"The dream is happening right now.", "I'm here. That's all I wanted,\" he said.", "Then he added, \"It would be nice to get a medal of any color.\"", "It is improbable his team will medal in the four-man competition, which begins Friday.", "But Schuffenhauer has faced improbable many times before.", "And even though many people come up to him to tell him how he is a hero, he can't see it that way.", "He figures himself just a regular guy who had a goal and was able to achieve it.", "Heroes are teachers and doctors, he said.", "After the Games, Schuffenhauer plans to return home, find work, take online classes towards a sports science degree and move to the next chapter of his life.", "Asked if those chapters will take written form one day, he said he had considered it, but right now he has a family to return to.", "And family is what matters most of all." ]	[ "As a child, bobsledder Bill Schuffenhauer often lived on the streets .", "His mother and stepfather were addicts .", "He turned to athletics in junior high and became a star decathlete .", "After his track career ended, he tried out and made bobsled team that won silver in 2002 ." ]	[ 2, 9, 24, 47, 54 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- The curious faces scrutinize the classroom kitchen, where pots and pans dangle from the ceiling and sharp knives glisten on the counter next to heaps of spinach and ripe green peppers.", "The one-night, hands-on course, called Food 101, is meant for them.", "They are the cooking inept, who can't properly to chop an onion, let alone sauté a medley of vegetables.", "First-time student Jessica Clark, 33, of Atlanta, is attending the course offered by Cook's Warehouse because she is dubious of her kitchen abilities.", "She only knows how to prepare grilled chicken and steamed broccoli (and on some nights canned black beans and rice).", "Her boyfriend is sick of eating the same thing at home.", "She is sick of eating out.", "\"I usually make whatever is easy, and I guess that's not much,\" says Clark, dressed in an apron with her fingers still wet from fumbling through the tomato dicing activity.", "\"I've avoided the kitchen for 33 years.\"", "Cooking dinner?", "There's an app for that . From British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to First Lady Michelle Obama, a food revolution is brewing in America, a push to return to the bygone days when healthy home-cooked meals were much more frequent.", "Despite the efforts to get Americans back into the kitchen, there still exists a group of adults in their 20s and 30s -- like Clark -- who are clueless in the kitchen.", "Ironically, these 20- and 30-somethings may have stretched their palates while traveling the world and even spend hours watching the cooking shows and \"Top Chef,\" but they are defeated when they enter the kitchen.", "They don't own cooking utensils in their Tupperware-filled cabinets.", "They rely on microwaves, restaurants and takeout menus to feed their empty stomachs.", "Simply put, they cannot cook.", "\"Lots of people think, read and talk about food, but they don't know how to do anything,\" said Jennifer Berg, head of the Food Studies program at New York University.", "\"There is an incredible disconnect to actually knowing how to do something.\"", "I never learned to cook .", "No one tracks precisely how many young noncookers exist, but it's easy to find them.", "Just ask anyone between the ages of 20 and 40, and they will shrug and say either they can't cook -- or point to a friend who can't make anything.", "They come with plenty of excuses for their cooking incompetence: \"My friends would rather eat out. ...", "I don't like cleaning the mess afterwards. ...", "Cooking for one person is impractical. ...", "I'm too busy with my job to cook. ...", "I live in a city with plenty of affordable restaurant options.", "... My New York City kitchen is too small.\"", "\"I couldn't tell if she wanted the big bubbles or little bubbles,\" says Sharita Robertson of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, reflecting back on a time in her early 20s when a friend asked her to boil some eggs.", "Robertson never had to boil anything before her friend asked her.", "She admits her mother cooked meals for her growing up, but she doesn't know why she never learned.", "\"I just never had to do any of it,\" she says.", "Robertson, now 30, has a 7-year-old daughter, but she rarely prepares anything more complicated than opening a jar of spaghetti sauce and boxed pasta.", "One time, she tried to fry some chicken, but the attempt ended with a disastrous blister on her leg.", "Most of the time, her mother cooks for her daughter.", "Restaurants, processed foods take over .", "At all ages, there are individuals who cannot cook.", "But NYU food studies expert Jennifer Berg theorizes the group of 20- and 30-somethings can't cook mainly because of a dependence on processed foods that took hold in the 1970s.", "Greasy snacks, frozen dinners and instant soups flooded the marketplace, replacing traditional home cooking as mothers joined the workplace.", "During this period, the feminist movement grew stronger, Berg explained.", "A stigma formed around mothers who cooked meals from scratch.", "They were labeled domesticated women tied to the household, Berg said.", "Home economics classes were out, working mothers were in.", "And so, Berg says a generation of children never learned from their mothers how to cook.", "Another reason why some people cannot cook, some food experts believe, is that the restaurant culture took hold of the American family.", "Dual incomes made restaurants more affordable to the growing middle class.", "In particular, fast food chains such as McDonald, Pizza Hut and Burger King began invading almost every community in America.", "Nearly half of spending on food in the American family went to \"food away from home\" in 2008, according to theU.S.", "Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service.", "In 1970, about 30 percent of food dollars were spent away from home.", "\"If you have a great food scene and so many affordable options, then you don't need to necessarily be in your own kitchen,\" said Amy Cao, 26, a food writer who created the AmyBlogsChow.com.", "\"Cooking is no longer a survival tactic.\"", "Cao 26, admits on her blog that she cannot cook even though her job is to dine and review restaurants across New York City.", "Her inability to cook inspired her video series called \"Stupidly Simple Snacks\" on her blog, where she helps young noncookers learn how to prepare a quick snack.", "In one of her fast-paced, three-minute online videos, she looks uncomfortable in the kitchen as she teaches her viewers how to make a Greek salad that only requires putting chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and feta cheese in a large mixing bowl.", "She struggles to use the pepper grinder, and then casually tops the salad with balsamic vinegar and a few pinches of salt.", "Cao hopes the simple recipe can make cooking less daunting for young folks like herself.", "The great obesity war .", "Studies have shown that eating out usually consumes more calories than cooking at home, which has complicated the obesity epidemic.", "About 34 percent of adults in the United States are considered obese, defined as having a BMI 30 or higher, according to the CDC.", "The obesity epidemic has motivated the food reform efforts by Jamie Oliver and Michelle Obama.", "\"If you don't know how to cook, then you have no options,\" writes Oliver to CNN.", "\"You're forced into a series of bad choices and a diet of mostly processed foods ... cooking skills are life skills and just as important as knowing how to manage your money.\"", "In the March edition of Newsweek, first lady Michelle Obama, who has embarked on the fight against child obesity, wrote about the lack of healthy home cooking.", "\"Back when many of us were growing up, we led lives that kept most of us at a pretty healthy weight,\" she wrote.", "\"We walked to school every day, ran around at recess and gym and for hours before dinner, and ate home-cooked meals that always seemed to have a vegetable on the plate.\"", "A cooking comeback?", "Some food experts argue a revival of cooking has emerged among the young adults, both male and female, over the last decade.", "The Internet is loaded with young foodies, blogging and posting about their culinary adventures.", "The popular Food Netwook will launch the Cooking Channel this month, a trendier sister channel that targets younger audiences.", "Cao writes on her blog that she's trying to learn to cook for the sake of her health and wallet.", "Several weeks ago she learned to bake tarragon chicken.", "It's a recipe that took three times to get right.", "She mashed the spices into the butter and then coated the chicken breast all by herself.", "Barbara Fairchild, editor of Bon Appetit magazine, said she's noticed subscriptions jumped among 20- to 30-year-olds over the past few years.", "\"Cooking is hip now,\" she said.", "\"It's not just for someone with a French accent who is 70 years old and lives in Paris.", "It's become much more inclusive.\"", "Back in the Cook's Warehouse classroom kitchen in Atlanta, there is only one bloody finger by the end of the night from a dicing and chopping exercise.", "The steam from the freshly made vegetable stock is simmering in the pot.", "A steak is being seared on a pan in a homemade sauce.", "The students are eager to enjoy a home-cooked meal.", "Clark says she is inspired by the course.", "No more chicken and steamed broccoli.", "With some basic cooking skills, she's going to throw her friends a dinner party, all from scratch." ]	[ "Ushered by Jamie Oliver and others, there's a push to get Americans back into the kitchen .", "A lot of 20- and 30-somethings have no idea how to cook .", "Food experts: Restaurants, processed foods took a toll on home cooking .", "Food shows and food blogging have become popular in the past decade ." ]	[ 11, 36, 46, 60, 66 ]
[ "(CNN) -- About as mature as a third-grade boy, the comedy web series \"The Annoying Orange\" proves once again that everyone secretly loves corny jokes.", "The semi-animated shorts, appearing on YouTube and elsewhere, generally feature the titular orange talking to another food, such as an apple or a pizza.", "The daft but relentless orange pelts them with asinine jokes, including those of the classic \"Orange you glad?\"", "variety. Launched earlier this year by animator Daneboe of GagFilms, \"Annoying Orange\" has amassed a hefty 137 million views.", "What does the unlikely success of \"Annoying Orange,\" say about the web, and entertainment in general?", "1. Short is in. The average Annoying Orange episode is about a minute.", "It is simple, bite-sized and addictive -- practically requiring people to jump from one show to the next.", "2. The web's a money-maker.", "Internet businesses make it easier for free web series like \"Annoying Orange\" to make an actual profit.", "Fans can visit the \"Annoying Orange\" YouTube page for t-shirts done by SpreadShirt and, via YouTube's ad program, Daneboe can make money on every view.", "It may be pennies on each visit, but it becomes serious dough when you're talking millions of visits.", "\"Annoying Orange\" holds several top 20 spots on YouTube, including among the most-subscribed channels of all time.", "3. People are noticing.", "The biggest proof of impact might be what some call a rip-off of the series in TV ads for Nabisco Cheez-Its.", "Set in a lab, a food scientist is verbally insulted by a wheel of cheddar cheese which he deems not \"mature\" enough.", "Should the \"Annoying Orange\" team be getting a payoff from Nabisco?Judge for yourself." ]	[ "The semi-animated shorts feature an orange talking to another food .", "Annoying Orange has amassed 137 million views and is highly ranked on YouTube .", "Internet businesses make it easier for free web series like Orange to make a profit ." ]	[ 1, 8 ]
[ "Beijing, China (CNN) -- There's no reason China's spat with Internet search giant Google should hurt relations with the United States, China's foreign ministry said Tuesday.", "A day earlier, Google announced that it had stopped censoring search results in China.", "\"The Google incident is just an individual action taken by one company.", "I can't see it having any impact on Sino-U.S. relations, unless someone wants to politicize it,\" foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Tuesday.", "\"It is not the image of China that has been undermined, rather it is that of Google.\"", "Google's announcement came amid speculation that the search giant would pull out of China entirely.", "In a post on its official blog, Google said it stopped running the censored Google.cn service on Monday and was routing its Chinese users to an uncensored version of Google based in Hong Kong.", "The special administrative region offers more freedom than mainland China.", "\"We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement,\" Senior Vice President David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, said on the blog.", "Google hopes the move \"will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China,\" Drummond wrote.", "\"We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services,\" he added.", "Google said it would monitor whether access to the site is blocked in mainland China.", "Early reports from China suggested that the government was already restricting access to Google's Hong Kong-based site, said Eddan Katz, international affairs director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.", "\"We've already heard indications that visitors to Google.hk are getting 'can't find page' errors,\" said Katz, whose group promotes free speech online.", "The company on Monday also launched a dashboard page, which it promises to update daily, that will show which Google services are available in China.", "According to the page, YouTube, Google Sites and Google's Blogger apps were blocked Monday afternoon.", "Observers said Google's actions amount to a withdrawal from China and highlights expectations that the government will censor search results.", "Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre, which studies the intersection of digital policy and human rights, said Google's move didn't come as a surprise.", "\"It's become unsustainable for Google to operate in this environment,\" he said.", "\"They've made a decision that the risks are too great for them, so they're going to pull out.\"", "Google launched Google.cn in 2006.", "That enterprise prompted complaints that the company was sacrificing Web freedoms by complying with Chinese censorship in return for access to a huge market.", "The company, whose slogan is \"Don't be evil,\" countered that operating in limited form gave Chinese users more information than than they would have had otherwise.", "Google also hoped its presence would advance online freedom in China.", "In January, Google announced that the company and at least 20 others were victims of a \"highly sophisticated and targeted [hacking] attack\" originating in China in mid-December, evidently to gain access to the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.", "The company said the attacker or attackers gained access to the header -- or subject-line information -- from the e-mails of two human rights activists through the Google network.", "Google-China move hurts businesses, academics .", "In a speech on Internet freedom and security in January, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to investigate such attacks and accusations of government involvement, saying they raised \"very serious concerns.\"", "China rejected the claims.", "\"Accusation that the Chinese government participated in [any] cyber attack, either in an explicit or inexplicit way, is groundless and aims to denigrate China,\" the official Xinhua News Agency quoted a spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as saying.", "\"We are firmly opposed to that.\"", "As a result of the attack, Google said, it was no longer willing to abide by the filters that the Chinese government demanded.", "Briefly afterward, Google.cn was retrieving results for sensitive topics, including the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, the Dalai Lama and the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.", "But about a day later, search results appeared to return to normal.", "It's not just China -- Google censors results elsewhere, too .", "Advocates of Internet freedoms cheered Google's move Monday.", "\"It demonstrates that a company like Google, with the business stakes in a market as large as China, can make the decision that free and open Internet is a better business alternative and a better ethical choice for its users,\" Katz said.", "Internet users gravitate toward sites with unrestricted information, he said.", "\"This is an example of how the genie can't be put back in the bottle.\"", "Deibert, who co-founded the OpenNet Initiative, said China might go further as a next step: blocking all outside search engines from accessing Web information in the country.", "\"If such a radical measure happens, that would have major implications for cyberspace as a whole,\" he said.", "\"It would point to a more regionalized Internet\" and perhaps embolden countries such as Iran to follow suit, Deibert said.", "Google.cn is the preferred search tool for about 13 percent of Chinese Web users, according to a state-sponsored survey.", "Baidu.com, a government-friendly Chinese search engine, dominates mainland China with about 77 percent of users, the survey said.", "Google's announcement had been widely anticipated.", "Internet companies operating in China face a March 31 deadline to renew licenses to do business there, according to the Beijing Communications Administration.", "The blog post by Drummond said Google plans to continue research and development work in China and to maintain a limited sales presence there.", "In an apparent attempt to protect Google employees in China, the post said the decision was made by Google's top brass in the United States.", "\"Despite all the uncertainty and difficulties they have faced since we made our announcement in January, [Google's China employees] have continued to focus on serving our Chinese users and customers,\" the blog said.", "\"We are immensely proud of them.\"", "CNN's John Vause, Doug Gross and Brandon Griggs contributed to this report." ]	[ "Dispute over censorship an isolated issue, foreign ministry spokesman says .", "Google routing Chinese users to site based in less restrictive Hong Kong .", "Decision fuels speculation that Google will pull out of China altogether .", "China could block all outside search engines' access to info inside China ." ]	[ 5, 6, 12, 28 ]
[ "Woods Hole, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Our need for oil almost wiped out the sperm whale once, and now our insatiable hunger for it threatens them again.", "Sperm whales were hunted in the Gulf of Mexico in the 18th and 19th centuries for their oil, but were somewhat spared when petroleum replaced whale oil as an energy source.", "Now, instead of hunters, the same oil that helped to save the sperm whales from extinction threatens their survival in the Gulf.", "Sperm whales, listed as endangered in 1970, are social animals.", "The young live with their mothers for years in stable groups, and the whales dive deep in search of food.", "Because they spend so much of their lives undersea, our knowledge of their behavior and community structure is limited.", "We have a lot to learn before we can say we truly know these animals.", "We do know that sperm whales depend on the deep ocean habitat.", "And we know that habitat in the Gulf is severely threatened by the disastrous BP oil spill -- particularly as the oil spreads through plumes that go deep into the water.", "[On Tuesday, the decomposed body of a juvenile sperm whale was found 77 miles from the well, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.", "Investigators are trying to determine whether oil played a role in its death; it was not found in oiled water.] ...", "Routinely holding their breath for about 45 minutes, sperm whales can dive half a mile to hunt fish and squid.", "When they arrive at the surface, they spend about nine minutes breathing and preparing for their next dive.", "About 1,665 sperm whales live in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service, and reports say about 300 to 400 of them depend on deep waters near the mouth of the Mississippi River.", "Whalers, centuries ago, found that the Mississippi Canyon, off the Mississippi River Delta, was a hot spot for sperm whales.", "A recent review of whalers' logbooks shows that from 1788 to 1877, about 204 voyages spent at least one season whaling in the Gulf.", "Recent research indicates about 40 whales at any one time live around the Mississippi Canyon, and females and immature whales prefer this area.", "BP's undersea well gushing out oil is in this canyon.", "The aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill offers a glimpse into what might be in store for the sperm whales of the Gulf.", "Many North Pacific killer whales died throughout the year after that 11 million gallon spill.", "Forty percent of the whales in the most exposed groups died, including all of the breeding females in one group.", "As more long-term studies emerge, we see that after 20 years, the killer whales still have not fully recovered.", "Risk factors for the sperm whales of the Gulf are similar to those for the killer whales of coastal Alaska: They are swimming in oil; females and juveniles depend on critical habitat near the spill, and the population is already small and isolated.", "Oil can damage and kill marine mammals in myriad ways.", "The major threat to sperm whales is probably breathing in volatile organic compounds at the surface.", "The residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, may smell a bad odor from the spill, but imagine, after a 45-minute dive, surfacing into a noxious cloud of contaminated air.", "Breathing these fumes can lead to pneumonia, damage to the brain, liver and other organs; unconsciousness and death.", "And the dispersants added to the oil are actually more volatile than crude.", "Oil could also contaminate or kill the fish and squid that sperm whales eat.", "These creatures are highly sensitive to toxic compounds in oil.", "As the oil spreads, it will create a greater risk.", "In the early 1990s, the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission warned about oil and gas exploration in the Gulf.", "Considering the risk of a large oil spill to marine mammals, the commission said \"such effects might result in the complete loss of a regional population and require three or more generations to recover.\"", "BP and its federal regulators ignored these warnings.", "But they were far from alone. Every single person in the United States who uses oil has a personal connection to this spill.", "As I watch footage of the oil flowing into this deepwater habitat, I realize that I am partially responsible.", "If Americans didn't use as much oil as we do, we wouldn't have to drill as much -- or at all.", "It's too soon to say what will become of the sperm whale in the Gulf of Mexico.", "But it is fair to say a new energy source won't suddenly emerge to replace petroleum.", "So, what can we do? We can support clean energy in every way possible, but we also must decrease our oil consumption.", "Maybe we will all be able to learn something from this disaster and adapt.", "The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Heather Heenehan." ]	[ "Heather Heenehan: Sperm whales once hunted for their oil; now oil threatens their lives .", "Their deep water habitat in Gulf severely threatened by the BP oil spill, she writes .", "Whales will breathe noxious fumes, she writes, and their food will be contaminated .", "We all share blame for this disaster because of our huge oil consumption, she says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5, 8, 40 ]
[ "(Mashable) -- AT&T is officially opening up its recommendation service, Buzz.com, to the public.", "We wrote about the project when it was still in beta in January.", "The service is essentiallyYelp meets Yellowpages.com and it shares a lot of similarities with the new Google Places.", "The idea behindBuzz.com is to leverage users' existing social graphs alongside traditional, location-based business search.", "So if I look up \"movie theater\" in Atlanta, Georgia, I can see not just a listing of places, but also how many people have rated the place as a \"favorite\" and if any of my friends have rated or favorited it as well.", "Right now, Buzz.com integrates with Facebook Connect, so you can ask questions via Buzz.com and on Facebook to receive recommendations and answers to your queries.", "We assume that Buzz.com will integrate with Twitter in the future as well.", "Although open to the public, the product is still very much in beta.", "While the interface seems easy enough to use, I had lots of duplicate or outdated entries in my search results.", "This is something that can be cleaned up, but right now it's difficult to rate or favorite a place when it is listed numerous times.", "While location-based search paired with reviews from others and from your own social graph is a very cool concept, it's also not very original at this point.", "AT&T has been developing Buzz.com for more than a year and a half, so this isn't so much a case of being late to the party as it is poor timing -- and poor naming.", "One of the biggest questions we have about Buzz.com is, in truth, its name.", "Yahoo Buzz came to the market first, followed by Google Buzz earlier this year.", "It's understandable that with a private beta already underway, AT&T wouldn't want to change product names; however, in this case, we think the company should have considered it.", "Google Buzz coupled with Google Places is extremely similar to what Buzz.com is all about.", "The only real difference is that Buzz.com is designed to plug into Facebook Connect, whereas Google is using its own social graph.", "Facebook integration sounds like a plus, but at this stage, the extent of the integration and how useful it will be largely depends on how many of your friends are going to sign up and use Buzz.com.", "Google Buzz isn't the only service that Buzz.com is going against; Yelp, Citysearch and more location-based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt are all in this same territory.", "What value is Buzz.com going to offer users that these already established services don't?", "From what we can see, Buzz.com is really an attempt to modernize the aging YellowPages.com ecosystem.", "With Google Places, YellowPages.com has increased competition, and we think that Buzz.com will need to get some killer features -- like pulling in recommendations from other location-based sites and promoting special offers or coupons -- and that the YellowPages.com database will need to be seriously culled in order for this idea to take hold.", "AT&T says it wants to use its experience in building mobile applications to make Buzz.com a more mobile destination.", "While a default Buzz.com connect/search bar might have worked in the pre-smartphone era, we live in the world of \"there's an app for that.\"", "Buzz.com will also need to make its mobile applications and mobile support robust.", "In time, the site might develop into something compelling and competitive.", "However, at this stage, the entire concept strikes us as being too derivative -- in name and in function -- with myriad other services.", "© 2010 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "New Buzz.com service is a cross between Yelp and Yellowpages.com .", "Buzz.com integrates with Facebook Connect .", "AT&T has been developing Buzz.com for more than a year and a half ." ]	[ 5, 11, 27 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday his televised health care summit with Republican leaders on February 25 should involve true give-and-take negotiations instead of mere \"political theater.\"", "In a rare appearance at the daily White House media briefing, Obama said he wants the meeting -- which also will include health care experts -- to \"establish some common facts\" on the health care issue and reach agreement on the most pressing health care problems facing the country.", "To signal his willingness to compromise, Obama said he would consider a Republican push to include limits on medical malpractice lawsuits in a health care bill if the proposal can be shown to truly reduce overall health care costs.", "The president acknowledged the issue could \"make my party uncomfortable,\" an apparent nod to traditional Democratic support among trial lawyers who oppose such limits.", "However, Obama said bipartisanship on health care reform cannot mean only that \"Democrats give up everything they believe in.\"", "\"Bipartisanship depends on a willingness among both Democrats and Republicans to put aside matters of party for the good of the country,\" he said.", "Obama's comments followed a meeting with top congressional leaders from both parties, the first since he pledged in last month's State of the Union address to hold regular bipartisan talks.", "Republican leaders in the meeting later repeated their past insistence that the upcoming health care negotiations start from scratch, instead of building on separate Democratic health care bills passed by the House and Senate.", "\"What we need to do is start over, go step-by-step on a truly bipartisan basis to try to reach an agreement,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, told reporters.", "\"My members are open to doing that.\"", "House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, indicated he and other GOP chiefs are ready to attend the February 25 health care summit, but have questions for the White House on the lineup and agenda for the meeting.", "Boehner noted Republican leaders sent White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a letter Monday asking for details of the proposed talks.", "\"The letter last night tried to understand what the purpose of the meeting is,\" Boehner said, adding: \"If we're truly going to have a bipartisan conversation, then let's just scrap this bill that the Democrats can't pass in the House or Senate and let's start over on a real conversation about how to make the current system work better.\"", "The half-day summit is an attempt by the Obama administration to rescue health care legislation, a top domestic priority for the president.", "Televising it also would help fulfill a campaign promise by Obama that health care negotiations would be broadcast live.", "The planned talks with Republicans are the first clear strategy by Obama and Democrats on how to proceed on health care after losing their 60-seat supermajority in the Senate.", "Republican Scott Brown was sworn in as the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts last week, leaving the Democrats one vote shy of being able to overcome GOP filibusters of health care reform and other major initiatives.", "Obama first floated the idea of face-to-face, televised talks with Republicans to seek a health care compromise last week.", "In a speech Thursday at a fundraising event, he said whatever legislation emerges from the talks should then go to Congress for a vote.", "He announced the planned meeting in a nationally televised interview with CBS before the Super Bowl on Sunday, and said Tuesday that the idea is to reach agreement on solving a problem that only will get worse.", "As an example, Obama cited a report his week that Anthem Blue Cross, which he called the largest insurer in California, was planning to raise premiums for individual health policies by as much as 39 percent.", "\"If we don't act, this is just a preview of coming attractions: Premiums will continue to rise for folks with insurance, millions more will lose their coverage altogether, our deficits will continue to grow larger,\" Obama said, adding that \"we have an obligation -- both parties -- to tackle this issue in a serious way.\"", "That means both Democrats and Republicans will have to accept a bill that lacks all they want, but does the right thing for the country, Obama said.", "\"I'm willing to move off some of the preferences of my party in order to meet them halfway, but there's got to be some give from their side as well,\" the president said.", "First lady Michelle Obama, appearing Tuesday on CNN's \"Larry King,\" said she's \"hopeful that Congress will come together\" to get health care legislation passed.", "\"We're spending billions of dollars on preventable diseases and new health care legislation could go a long way to improving prevention, first and foremost,\" the first lady said.", "\"People have to have a pediatrician in order to get good information from their pediatrician.", "People have to be able to take their kids to well doctor visits to have all this information tracked,\" she said.", "\"So, we have to get this done.\" The Republican letter to Emanuel on the February 25 meeting offered the GOP view, saying: \"Bipartisanship is not writing proposals of your own behind closed doors, then unveiling them and demanding Republican support.", "Bipartisan ends require bipartisan means.\"", "Republicans complain that the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate rammed through their preferred bills without giving GOP issues a fair hearing.", "Obama and Democrats respond that the bills went through the full legislative process, including lengthy committee meetings and floor debate, with Republicans taking part and offering amendments, including some that were accepted.", "Obama said last week that Democratic leaders were completing work on merging the House and Senate health care bills into a single Democratic proposal for the talks with Republicans.", "A key question for the February 25 talks will be whether Obama and Democratic leaders want their merged health care bill to serve as the starting point for an agreement.", "Republicans complain the comprehensive Democratic health care bills would lead to a government takeover of health care.", "They call for smaller steps focused on individual issues, such as limiting medical malpractice lawsuits.", "Democrats, however, say that spiraling health care costs that threaten the nation's future economic stability can only be addressed through comprehensive reform.", "Obama said last week that the merged Democratic bill would expand coverage to 30 million Americans who currently lack health insurance while reducing long-term health care costs.", "It proposes an insurance exchange to allow people and small business owners to pool together to purchase coverage, Obama said, but he made no mention of a government-run public health insurance option that Republicans have rallied against.", "Obama said the Democratic proposal would include reforms that prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing medical conditions or capping lifetime benefits.", "\"And by the way, all of it is paid for,\" Obama said.", "\"Not only is it deficit neutral, but the Congressional Budget Office, which is the bipartisan office that is the scorekeeper for how much things cost in Congress, says it is going to reduce the costs by $1 trillion.\"", "Obama called health care reform the \"single best way to bring down our deficits.", "\"Nobody has disputed that,\" he added.", "\"Nobody can dispute the fact that if we don't tackle surging health care costs, then we can't control our budget,\" he said.", "CNN's Ed Henry, Dana Bash, Tom Cohen and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report." ]	[ "President spoke after meeting with top congressional leaders from both parties .", "Obama: Summit a way to \"establish some common facts\" on health care .", "GOP plans have called for smaller steps, such as limiting malpractice suits .", "Obama: Health care reform is the \"best way to bring down our deficits\"" ]	[ 13, 35, 42 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Phyllophorous: an adjective meaning \"leaf-bearing\" or, alternately, \"the word that exiled me to the oft-fabled Crying Room at the 1986 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.\" Strangely, I didn't mind; I'd already gotten my prize.", "Very few of us are lovely on the outside at age 13, and even less so are those of us inclined toward worrying words down to their etymological nubbins.", "My light-socket perm, train track braces and penchant for unicorn sweatshirts weren't doing me any favors when it came to feeling at ease among my peers back home.", "Yes, I'd gotten attention from the local press, glossy plaques, a pep rally at my Fort Thomas, Kentucky, school and, creepily enough, an obscene phone call -- all accolades for my ascent through regional bee wins.", "However, I'd have gladly traded every scrap of that for a chance to feel like one of the girls who knew how to give herself Sun-In highlights and flirt adorably with the boys on the basketball team.", "That was until I met Karla. Upon arrival at the Grand Hyatt hotel, spellers were issued a blue, plastic-bound autograph book as impetus to mingle with our fellow contenders.", "After some initial hesitation, I actually began to enjoy the ritual of handing over the little talisman, scribbling something silly in the the book they'd handed me in return, then trading back and madly flipping through to see what they'd written to me.", "I liked Karla right away.", "She was \"bee royalty\" -- a brash, third-time competitor from Roanoke, Virginia, prone to yelling things like \"Nuke the French!\"", "and quoting British comedy shows.", "As she doodled an elaborate self-portrait that filled a whole page in the back of the book, she gave me the lay of the land.", "That kid over there -- rumor had it his family had hired a professional coach to prep him.", "That girl -- home-schooled.", "Don't look for her at any of the mixers or day trips.", "Her mom was going to keep her locked in the hotel room, cramming until the very last second.", "2010 Spelling Bee kicked off Wednesday .", "Karla, herself, wasn't going to be skimping on socializing and sightseeing, but she was going to sequester herself for some last-minute studying in the hopes of making one last run at the title in her final year of eligibility.", "And oddly -- very oddly -- for me, a kid prone to gut-grinding panic attacks, self-flagellation over academic success and generally ill at ease in my own skin, I began to sink into calm.", "I wasn't, for once, the dorkiest girl in the room, and instead was surrounded by kids who lived for language play, lovely books, good grades and a life of the mind.", "I'd suddenly found my people.", "And while there wasn't a gawky little ghost of a chance that I was going to beat them in the bee this year, I was cool with that.", "My cool lasted until we hit the ballroom stage the next day and a few hundred terrified, raw-nerved elementary school kids with pasteboard number signs around our necks had to stand in front of cameras from every major national news organization and spell words that I could have sworn the announcers were making up on the spot: gobemouche, phaeochrous, exiguous.", "Many kids hemmed, hawed, begged, borrowed and stole time with requests for definitions, etymologies, sentence use.", "I just went for it. Machine (duh!).", "Ethos (a word I shoehorn into conversation as frequently as possible).", "I think there's another round I'm still blocking out.", "And then: \"Phyllophorous.\" \"Could you repeat that?\"", "\"Phyllophorous.\" \"Uh...F-I-L...\" Buzz.", "Incorrect. My head, now freed of its duties for the day, floated somewhere off into the middle distance, and I trudged off to the Crying Room where some well-meaning volunteers offered tissues, cookies and hugs to spellers whose dreams had been shattered.", "I opted for the cookie and went off to apologize to my dad, who'd spent a goodly amount of his evenings on my training.", "That's OK, he assured me.", "He was just excited that we'd get to go to more museums.", "Did I want to hit the National Gallery now?", "I'd wanted to go to that museum for ages, but instead, I took my place in the audience and watched my friend Karla battle through several more rounds before butting up against, I believe the word was, \"dentifrice.\"", "She joined me in the ballroom, kibitzing at my side as speller 102, Jon Pennington of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, took home top honors for \"odontalgia\" - a fancy word for toothache.", "Karla grumbled that she totally could have gotten that one.", "I nodded in sympathy.", "Jon went on TV to visit David Letterman and spell against Johnny Carson, where I'm happy to say, one of Doc Severinson's bandmates spelled \"phyllophorous\" incorrectly.", "Jon got cash prizes and a place in the history books.", "I got a weird, funny friend who kind of understood me. And that was o-k-a-y with me." ]	[ "Kat Kinsman went to the National Spelling Bee at age 13 in 1986 .", "Back home, she was an outsider with light-socket perm, train track braces .", "Now she was with kids who lived for language play, lovely books, good grades .", "Kat didn't win trophy, but won a friend who kind of understood her ." ]	[ 2, 15, 18, 39 ]
[ "JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.", "Palestinians look at an damaged rocket launcher left behind by Israeli forces.", "\"The forces are now redeployed outside the Gaza Strip, and are prepared for any development,\" a military statement read.", "During their withdrawal, Israeli troops warned Gaza residents to avoid unexploded bombs or shells left behind and report their location to Israeli authorities.", "Israel said it had achieved its goal to halt Hamas' firing of rockets into southern Israel from Gaza.", "Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that has controlled the territory since 2007, also declared victory in the conflict during a rally in Gaza City on Tuesday.", "Israeli troops began to withdraw Sunday following tentative, separate cease-fire declarations by Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Hamas.", "U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who visited the territory Tuesday, criticized both sides and the international community for what he called their \"collective political failure\" in settling the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.", "\"I have condemned from the outbreak of this conflict the excessive use of force by Israeli forces in Gaza.", "I view the rocket attacks into Israel as completely unacceptable.", "We need to restore basic respect for civilians,\" he said.", "Watch troops prepare to withdraw » .", "The conflict, which began December 27, has left more than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.", "Confirmation of the Israeli withdrawal came within a day of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the new president of the United States, replacing George W. Bush, whose administration was among the most supportive of Israel in decades.", "Ban said he hoped Obama would consider settling the conflict \"a matter of priority.\"", "Speaking during a visit to Sderot, the southern Israeli city that has endured rocket fire from Hamas for years, Ban said the Bush administration was \"leading and heavily engaged\" in the region, but added, \"Unfortunately, we have not achieved the goals.\"", "Obama has vowed to move swiftly and has said he was assembling a strong team to be \"immediately engaged\" on \"day one.\"", "In a statement welcoming the new U.S. president, Olmert said Israel and the United States would remain \"full partners in advancing peace and stability in the Middle East.\"", "CNN's Shira Medding contributed to this report." ]	[ "Israel says it has removed its troops from Gaza after three-week offensive .", "Both Israel, Hamas have declared victory in conflict .", "U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized both sides for fighting .", "More than 1,300 people have died in Gaza operation ." ]	[ 0, 4, 7, 12 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Angelina Jolie was on a stage Thursday but wasn't performing.", "Instead, she paid tribute to the millions of uprooted people across the globe made homeless by war.", "Angelina Jolie said that sheltering countries can learn from the way refugees survive their difficulties.", "A U.N. goodwill ambassador, Jolie was in Washington to observe World Refugee Day, an annual event that falls on Saturday this year.", "The poignant ceremony was sponsored by the United Nations refugee agency.", "Tears flowed as refugees and displaced people shared their harrowing experiences and advocates related what they'd seen in refugee camps.", "\"I believe we must persuade the world that refugees must not be simply viewed as a burden,\" she said.", "\"They are the survivors. And they can bring those qualities to the service of their communities and the countries that shelter them.\"", "Jolie spoke of her visits to refugee camps in Tanzania and Pakistan.", "She met a boy about 15 years old in a Tanzanian refugee camp who, without a wheelchair, had to crawl since a shot in the back paralyzed him.", "His family was killed, leaving him as an orphan.", "Yet when he spoke with her, he did it with a smile.", "\"He had this really remarkable, unbreakable spirit,\" she told CNN's Anderson Cooper after the event at the National Geographic Museum.", "\"I think of him and I can't complain about anything ... he was grateful and he had nothing and suffered everything.\"", "The boy died a few months after she met him, Jolie said.", "According to a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees survey of displacement trends in 2008, there are 42 million uprooted people -- 15.2 million were refugees, 26 million were internally displaced people and 827,000 were asylum seekers.", "Afghans and Iraqis constituted almost half of all refugees worldwide.", "One out of four refugees was from Afghanistan, and 69 countries accepted Afghan refugees for asylum, agency officials found.", "Jolie recounted her meeting with a pregnant Afghan refugee.", "She lived in a small, roofless dirt house in an abandoned refugee camp in Pakistan and could not leave with the others because she was too far along in her pregnancy.", "Pakistan struggles with the largest refugee population in the world, about 1.8 million, according to the United Nations.", "The country also has more than 2 million internally displaced citizens, largely because of the fighting between the Pakistani military and the Taliban since April.", "Antonio Guterres, head of the U.N.'s refugee agency, elaborated on the plight of displaced people at the event.", "He said internally displaced people \"face the same plight [as refugees].", "They have lost the same as refugees.", "They don't have the same international protections granted to refugees.\"", "Conflicts like those in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Somalia have caused more people to flee their homes, though the number of displaced people declined by about 700,000 in 2008, the report said.", "Recent fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Somalia last year brought total displacement in each to 1.5 million and 1.3 million, respectively.", "More than 2 million internally displaced people were in Sudan's Darfur region, according to the report.", "When a genocide targeting Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 later spilled over into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rose Mapendo, a Tutsi, was caught in the middle.", "She spoke at the event and described her ordeal.", "Mapendo, her husband and seven children were thrown into a death camp, where her husband was executed and her children starved, she said through tears.", "While at the prison, she learned that she was pregnant.", "She gave birth in silence, on a concrete floor, Mapendo said.", "To her surprise, she had twins, and to her captors' surprise, she named her newborns after them.", "Soon after her gesture toward the prison commanders, her family was freed after their 16-month ordeal.", "Mapendo, named a CNN Hero in October, created Mapendo International, a nonprofit dedicated to identifying, saving and resettling endangered refugees.", "She was named humanitarian of the year at the event by the U.N. agency.", "\"I want to encourage the refugees don't give up,\" she said.", "Giving up \"is not an option.\"", "CNN's Khadijah Rentas, Shalina Wadhwani and Paul Courson contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Actress, U.N. goodwill ambassador spoke of visits to Tanzania, Pakistan camps .", "Chief of U.N. refugee agency elaborated on the plight of displaced people .", "Conflicts in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia have caused people to flee their homes .", "Tutsi described her ordeal amid slaughter in Democratic Republic of Congo ." ]	[ 8, 22, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Lewis Hamilton extended his Formula One drivers' championship lead after finishing second behind Red Bull's Mark Webber at the British Grand Prix.", "World champion Jenson Button, who narrowly missed out on his first podium finish at Silverstone after coming fourth, still trails McLaren teammate Hamilton in second.", "Third-placed Webber stormed back into title contention after winning his third race of the season.", "The Australian leapfroged fellow Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel, who is 24 points adrift of Hamilton in fourth.", "McLaren also lead Red Bull by 29 points at the top of the constructors' championship.", "Ferrari's Fernando Alonso stayed fifth overall but lost ground after earning no points, ending the race in 14th after being given a drive-through penalty for illegally overtaking Robert Kubica of Renault off the track.", "Nico Rosberg of Germany continues to outperform his Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher, recording his third podium finish this season to replace Kubica in sixth.", "Drivers' Championship (after 10 rounds): .", "1. Lewis Hamilton (GB) McLaren 145 points .", "2. Jenson Button (GB) McLaren 133 .", "3. Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 128 .", "4. Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 121 .", "5. Fernando Alonso (Sp) Ferrari 98 .", "6. Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes GP 90 Constructors' Championship: .", "1. McLaren 278 points .", "2. Red Bull 249 .", "3. Ferrari 165 .", "4. Mercedes GP 126 .", "5. Renault 89 .", "6. Force India 47 ." ]	[ "Lewis Hamilton continues to lead Jenson Button and Mark Webber in drivers' championship .", "Webber's victory at Silverstone sees him leapfrog teammate Sebastian Vettel into third .", "Mercedes' Nico Rosberg finished third to move up to sixth place in the standings .", "McLaren now 29 points ahead of Red Bull in the F1 constructors' championship ." ]	[ 0, 4, 6, 9, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The NBA has fined the Cleveland Cavaliers owner $100,000 for remarks he made after LeBron James announced he was leaving the team.", "NBA Commissioner David Stern said Monday that team owner Dan Gilbert's words, \"though understandable, were ill-advised and imprudent.\"", "In a letter posted on the team's website Thursday, Gilbert called James' decision to play for the Miami Heat a \"cowardly betrayal\" and a \"shocking act of disloyalty.\"", "James, who joined the Cavaliers straight out of high school and played forward for the team for his entire career, announced his decision to leave the team during a much-ballyhooed ESPN special Thursday entitled \"The Decision.\"", "In a press conference which was posted on the NBA's website Monday, Stern said that James was \"certainly entitled\" to leave the team, but he would have advised the basketball star to handle his departure and announcement differently.", "\"I think that the advice that he received on this was poor.", "But his performance was fine.", "His honesty and his integrity I think shine through, but this decision was ill-conceived, badly produced and poorly executed,\" Stern said.", "Stern also criticized civil rights leader Jesse Jackson for comments he made saying Gilbert's letter showed a \"property-owner's mentality.\"", "\"Equally imprudent I believe are the remarks by my good friend Jesse Jackson, which purport to make this into a racial matter... he really is mistaken,\" Stern said.", "Before deciding to join the Miami Heat, James, a reigning two-time NBA MVP, looked at several teams, including New York, Chicago and Cleveland.", "He said it came down to one thing.", "\"The major factor was the best opportunity to win now and to win in the future.\"", "James said.", "He led the Cavaliers to the NBA finals in 2007, where they lost to the San Antonio Spurs, but never reached the finals again, despite Cleveland management bringing in supporting stars such as Shaquille O'Neal and Antawn Jamison." ]	[ "NBA fines Cavs owner $100,000 for comments .", "Gilbert's letter described James' departure as a \"cowardly betrayal\"\nCommissioner says Gilbert's words were \"ill-advised and imprudent\"\nStern also criticizes James' handling of his decision to leave ." ]	[ 1, 2, 13 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Three African men suspected of ties to al Qaeda in North Africa have been arrested in Ghana and flown to New York to face charges that they engaged in drug trafficking and supported terrorism, federal officials said Friday.", "The three Mali natives will stand trial for an alleged drug conspiracy and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, authorities said.", "The Drug Enforcement Administration, which announced the criminal complaint, said the suspects will appear Friday in federal court in New York.", "Court documents released in Washington reveal a DEA undercover operation that included agents claiming to have ties to FARC, the guerilla army in Colombia that the United States has designated as a terrorist organization.", "The alleged plot involved shipment of cocaine from Africa to Europe, with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb helping facilitate the trafficking.", "The suspects are identified as Oumar Issa, Idriss Abdelrahman and Harouna Toure.", "Authorities said the apparent ties between the suspected African terror group members and the cocaine traffickers appear to represent an increasingly global effort to use the drug trade to support terrorism.", "While such a relationship is long-standing in Afghanistan, it has not been common in Africa, officials said." ]	[ "Authorities say Mali men conspired to to provide material support to foreign terrorist group .", "Suspects will appear Friday in federal court in New York, DEA says .", "Documents reveal DEA sting with agents claiming to have ties to Colombia guerilla army .", "Alleged plot involved Africa-to-Europe cocaine shipment, with terror group aiding trafficking ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Federal officials announced indictments Tuesday against four police officers and two supervisors in the investigation surrounding the post-Katrina deaths of civilians on New Orleans' Danziger Bridge.", "At least three New Orleans police officers were in FBI custody Tuesday afternoon, an attorney for one of them confirmed.", "Kenneth Bowen, Anthony Villavaso and Robert Gisevius surrendered to authorities.", "Announcement of the charges stemming from a federal civil rights investigation was made by Attorney General Eric Holder in New Orleans.", "\"Put simply, we will not tolerate wrongdoing by those who have sworn to protect the public,\" Holder told reporters.", "Holder promised the Justice Department will help restore the troubled New Orleans police department.", "\"Today marks an important step forward in administering justice, in healing community wounds, in improving public safety and in restoring public trust in this city's police department,\" Holder said.", "He was joined by the Justice Department's civil rights chief, Thomas E. Perez, and U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, the top federal prosecutor in New Orleans.", "The shootings occurred at the bridge on September 4, 2005, six days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.", "The indictment allegesthat two separate shootings at the bridge resulted in the deaths of a teenager and a 40-year-old disabled man.", "The indictment contends four officers -- Bowen, Gisevius, Robert Faulcon and Villavaso -- opened fire, killing 19-year-old James Brissette.", "Minutes later, Faulcon allegedly shot and killed 40-year-old Ronald Madison.", "The indictment says the officers violated the victims' civil rights.", "The indictment says police supervisors Arthur Kaufman and Gerard Dugue helped the other officers to obstruct justice during the subsequent investigations.", "An earlier investigation launched by the local district attorney resulted in charges but no convictions.", "Federal prosecutors then moved in and launched a new investigation which led to the newly announced charges.", "Letten said the federal case took so long because prosecutors waited for the local investigation to conclude, so as not to interfere or duplicate that probe.", "Although the charges announced Tuesday carry a maximum sentence of the death penalty, Letten played down that likelihood, saying an extended process will eventually be followed and any final decision on seeking the death penalty would be made by Holder.", "Attorney Frank DeSalvo, who represents Bowen, said of the indictment, \"We expected it and are ready to deal with it.\"", "The two shootings occurred on opposite sides of the bridge.", "In the first shooting, on the east side of the bridge, one person -- later identified as Brissette -- was killed and four people were wounded, prosecutors have said.", "In the second shooting, on the bridge's west side, Madison, a severely disabled man, was killed.", "Madison's brother was arrested but later released without indictment, authorities said.", "A witness to the shooting of Madison told CNN in 2006 that New Orleans police lined up \"like at a firing range\" and fatally shot the man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore.", "\"He just fell like he was collapsing,\" Kasimir Gaston told CNN.", "\"Like something just wiped him out.\"", "Gaston was one of many flood refugees living on the second floor of the Friendly Inn, a low-income motel on the city's east side.", "He said on Sunday, September 4, 2005, he woke up and stepped onto the balcony of the motel and saw a man running, hands outstretched and being fired upon.", "Initial police accounts said that Madison, 40, reached for his waistband and turned on police, but Gaston said Madison did not appear to have a weapon and that he was running away from police \"hands out, full speed\" when he was shot.", "Police declined CNN's request for an interview in response to Gaston's remarks.", "After the shooting, police said officers had responded to reported gunshots on the Danziger Bridge and that a running gunbattle ensued with six suspects.", "A police department press release from October 4, 2005, said Madison, described as an unidentified gunman, was \"confronted by a New Orleans Police officer.", "The suspect reached into his waist and turned toward the officer who fired one shot, fatally wounding him.\"", "When asked if Madison had a gun, Gaston said, \"I didn't see any on him.\"", "No gun was found on Madison's body.", "An autopsy report obtained previously by CNN and verified by the Orleans Parish Coroner said Madison suffered five gunshot wounds to his back and two in his shoulder.", "CNN's Terry Frieden contributed to this report." ]	[ "Four officers and two supervisors will face charges in post-Katrina shootings .", "Other officers previously pleaded guilty to an alleged cover-up .", "Police maintained they had fired in self-defense ." ]	[ 0, 29 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The company that made 44,000 helmets recalled by the Army has stopped all helmet manufacturing.", "Federal Prison Industries, the company that made the potentially defective combat helmets, was subcontracted to make the helmets by ArmorSource, the company named in the recall.", "Federal Prison Industries, also known as UNICOR, has also agreed to waive preferential status that gives it right of first refusal on U.S. government contracts.", "The Army recalled the helmets two weeks ago, when officials said the advanced combat helmets failed ballistic testing standards.", "Many were used by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "Troops have been instructed to exchange the helmets for ones made by another company, but the Army is still trying to find all the recalled helmets.", "The company's decision comes after the Justice Department launched an investigation into its helmet manufacturing and an amendment was proposed to the Defense Authorization Bill.", "That amendment would have forced the company to submit to competitive bidding.", "The author of the amendment, Rep. Chris Carney, D-Pennsylvania, said, \"Our military men and women deserve only the best equipment and it has become clear that Federal Prison Industries cannot meet the standards required in manufacturing helmets.\"", "The Federal Bureau of Prisons overseas Federal Prison Industries, which uses prisoners in some of its work.", "Traci Billingsley, the bureau's chief public information officer, said, \"Federal Prison Industries has always strived to make a quality product that meets or exceeds the needs and expectations of our customers.\"", "She said if the company resumes helmet production, it will voluntarily submit to competitive bidding.", "The company is one of several major manufacturers of combat helmets.", "A competitor, BAE, laid off some of its staff earlier this year.", "Josh Drobnyk, a spokesman for Carney, said, \"Absolutely there's a jobs element to it.", "I don't think it's widely known that prisoners are making the most basic part of a soldier's gear.", "And this company has quit making helmets right in the midst of an investigation by the Department of Justice.\"", "Army officials said the Justice investigation helped trigger the testing on the helmets that determined they did not meet standards.", "In addition to the 44,000-helmet contract, Federal Prison Industries had an Army contract to produce 600,000 helmets and a contract to deliver 100,000 lightweight helmets to the U.S. Marine Corps.", "Rep Carney said, \"FPI has not met protective standards, nor has it met required deadlines in its production of these crucial helmets ... and we can't wait any longer to protect our troops.\"", "Carney is a U.S. Navy Reserve commander, who also served in the Pentagon as an intelligence analyst." ]	[ "Federal Prison Industries uses prisoners in some of its work .", "Helmets fail to meet Army standards during tests .", "Justice Department investigating company, which has other defense contracts .", "Company, managed by Prisons Bureau, says it will waive preferential treatment ." ]	[ 2, 9, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Summer is a great time to barbecue, hit the beach or get out and explore the town.", "But for gamers it's often a huge disappointment, as the flow of new releases generally slows to a trickle.", "Mercifully, software publishers are beginning to wise up and use the slower months to issue an increasing number of promising but less high-profile releases that may otherwise have slipped beneath the radar.", "The following are among my top picks for the season -- sure to keep you happy while others fret about trivialities like fresh air and exercise.", "Xbox 360 owners can spare themselves the trouble of getting off the couch and download selections, like these three, from Xbox Live Arcade.", "Due out July 28, Konami's \"Castlevania: Harmony of Despair\" is a classic, 2-D monster mash that combines elements of platform-hopping and adventure to atmospheric effect.", "\"Hydro Thunder Hurricane,\" is a sequel to the blistering arcade speedboat racer that sees multiple wheelmen competing to cross the finish line.", "It even allows multiple players to tag-team the adventure.", "Completing a trifecta of notable, multiplayer-ready sequels, \"Tomb Raider\" spin-off \"Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light\" (PC and PlayStation Network versions are available, too.)", "also lets you explore, do battle and solve puzzles in the company of friends -- no sleepovers required.", "On the retail front, be sure to check out \"Madden NFL 11\" for PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 and Wii.", "The latest installment in the football franchise streamlines decision-making and play-calling, making for a faster, more engaging virtual gridiron experience.", "Spy thriller \"Alpha Protocol\" will also satisfy PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 fans' inner Jack Bauer, combining exotic settings, in-depth character customization and detailed stat-crunching with atmospheric espionage.", "Sci-fi fans should also have a look at \"Transformers: War for Cybertron\" on the PC and all major console platforms.", "It's predictable, but delves deeper into the Autobots' and Decepticons' origins.", "Freeform blaster \"Crackdown 2\" for the Xbox 360 is sure to make you feel positively superhuman, too, leaping tall buildings and annihilating adversaries as a futuristic lawman.", "Golden age mob yarn \"Mafia II\" for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 further makes an offer you can't refuse, offering open-ended adventures in the vein of underworld classics like \"Goodfellas.\"", "Handheld gaming enthusiasts also have it good thanks to titles like \"Puzzle Quest 2\" for the Nintendo DS and DSi, which blends fantasy role-playing and casual mindbenders together in a surprisingly addictive medieval epic.", "Creepy DS first-person survival horror outing \"Dementium II\" will additionally have you on the edge of your car or plane seat as well.", "While the PlayStation Portable's lineup is noticeably more anemic, military-themed stealth action offering \"Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker\" successfully shoots to thrill.", "Demonic role-player \"Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable\" should be on every fan of Japanese imports' list to boot.", "So, maybe summer can't compete with the holidays in terms of sheer volume of games.", "But never fear -- the gaming season is still bound to be hot." ]	[ "\"Madden NFL 11\" streamlines decision-making for a faster virtual gridiron experience .", "Handheld gaming enthusiasts have it good thanks to titles like \"Puzzle Quest 2\"\nSci-fi fans should also have a look at \"Transformers: War for Cybertron\" on the PC ." ]	[ 13, 17 ]
[ "United Nations (CNN) -- Six months after an earthquake devastated Haiti, a United Nations representative on the ground there says many challenges still lie ahead in the aftermath of the \"worst living disaster.\"", "Nigel Fisher, the deputy special representative for the stabilization mission in Haiti, told the U.N. press via video-conference Monday that progress has been made in rehabilitating the country, but that the nation still faces many problems.", "The January 12 quake left over 220,000 dead, over 300,000 injured, and over a million homeless.", "According to recent U.N. reports, the quake destroyed 60 percent of government infrastructure, and left more than 180,000 homes uninhabitable.", "Six months later, more than 1.5 million remain in overcrowded displacement camps, and Fisher does not anticipate the number in camps to reduce soon.", "According to the United Nations, 1,300 camping sites and 11,000 latrines have been built, and thousands of kilos of food and humanitarian resources have been delivered to those in need.", "Fisher said that despite a lack of communication, destroyed roads and lack of transportation and railway systems, food was delivered relatively quickly to displaced Haitians.", "The response from the international community, Fisher said, was \"quite significant.\"", "Houses that were not structurally damaged are being rebuilt at a relatively low cost, though tents and camps are undergoing their second \"phase of replacement.\"", "An unforeseen difficulty of \"land tenure,\" especially in a \"place where land ownership has been disputed for years,\" has significantly slowed down the process of building more permanent houses in preparation for the hurricane season.", "\"It is important to remember what Haiti was and what Port-au-Prince was before the earthquake: two-thirds of the population was living in poverty, many lacked access to clean water and were living in slums,\" Fisher said.", "According to 2009 U.N. reports, 55 percent of Haitians lived on less than $1.25 a day, and per capita annual income was US $660.", "Fifty-eight percent of children were under-nourished and 58 percent of the population lacked access to clean water.", "The earthquake followed the devastating 2008 hurricanes that affected 800,000 Haitians, and deforestation left the country with less than 2 percent forest cover.", "\"Then, the catastrophic earthquake left 230,000 dead, 300,000 injured and an estimated one million homeless.", "In addition, 17 million cubic meters of debris were scattered on the streets,\" Fisher explained.", "Fisher said the relocation of displaced families from the camps to newly built homes has posed a problem because of two main concerns on the part of family members: the need for a job and for a nearby school where their children could receive an education.", "Furthermore, the private sector, which has been damaged by the \"overwhelming response from the international community,\" has experienced a loss of clients and \"extremely high interest rates\" that Fisher said can be solved only through recapitalization of the private sector by the country itself.", "But with a focus more on urban reconstruction and the development of a closer link between government and education, Fisher said Haiti could become a better nation than it was before the earthquake.", "\"We have a long way to go, but things could have been much worse.\"", "Nutritional status and general health \"has not worsened in the months since the earthquake,\" he said.", "\"There has been no epidemic of cholera or measles,\" Fisher stated, because access to clean water and free medical facilities have reduced chances of an outbreak.", "He asserted even that the U.N. mission has seen improvement in some of the camps." ]	[ "U.N. rep in Haiti says progress has been made but many problems still ahead .", "U.N. says 1,300 camping sites, 11,000 latrines built .", "Rep cites access to clean water and medical facilities as preventing disease outbreaks ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Like many voters on Election Day, Nurul Aman and his family dutifully rose before sunrise and headed to the polls in Andover, Massachusetts, to cast their votes.", "Nurul, Nilufur and Samuel Aman voted as a family for Barack Obama in their first presidential election this year.", "But this election was especially significant for Aman, wife Nilufur and son Samuel, who were all voting for the first time.", "\"As the first-time voter, it was emotionally remarkable to perform my civic duty,\" said Aman, a Bangladeshi native who became a U.S. citizen in 2005.", "\"I felt great taking the ownership of this voting process that created a historic moment for the nation and the world.\"", "As a family, the Amans represented two major groups from the bloc of first-time voters, which accounted for roughly 11 percent of this year's electorate.", "Samuel Aman is a college student, and his parents, both in their 50s, are recent citizens.", "An overwhelming majority of first-time voters, including the Amans, voted for Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain by a margin of 69 to 31 percent, CNN exit polls show.", "For Aman, a business and economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, it was an easy choice.", "He felt that Obama's campaign reflected a \"paradigm shift\" that would restore the American dream that had drawn Aman to the United States as a post-graduate student in the 1980s.", "\"I expect Obama will restore the American dream and create economic security by creating new jobs in new fields like alternative energy, science and math, global warming and health care.", "That is the only way economy can get back on track,\" Aman said.", "Aman's views reflect those of first-time voters who were drawn to Obama for his pledges to restore the America dream.", "Now, with Obama headed for the White House, first-time voters are hoping he will stick to his campaign promises.", "Alex Patel became a citizen in 1995, but he wasn't inspired to vote until now because of America's deteriorating image abroad.", "\"This time, I felt it was very important to vote, because I saw where the country was heading, in a very opposite direction from the rest of world,\" said Patel, who moved to the Houston, Texas, area from India with his parents in 1990.", "Patel said Obama campaigned on issues that were important to him: working with allies on security issues, energy concerns, civil rights issues like closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and withdrawing troops from Iraq.", "For young voters, discontent over the Iraq war emerged as a key issue, according to CNN exit polls.", "\"The first thing I want Obama to do is to get our men out of Iraq; that's all that really matters to me right now,\" Clara Baldwin, a sophomore majoring in secondary education in English at Gallaudet University in Washington, wrote in an e-mail.", "\"We have really spent a lot on war; why not focus on our own economy?\"", "Like many college students, Baldwin also considered the candidates' positions on issues that affect her directly.", "As a deaf person, she looked for the candidates' disability plans and could find one only for Democrats.", "Gillian McGrath, a Temple University senior who is studying social work, hopes Obama will make good on his promise to implement funding for social services so that she can do her job -- if she finds one.", "\"A lot of families can't afford food and need food stamps and health care, even just child care so they can finish school or go to work,\" said McGrath, who volunteers with children at her local Police Athletic League.", "\"I'm hoping he'll start taking out troops and create more jobs, especially within social service agencies, because I'm going to need a job when I get out of school.\"", "About 66 percent of voters between the ages of 18 to 29 cast ballots for Obama, a number attributed to his campaign's use of new media, including the Internet and mobile media.", "But equally inviting among young voters was his fresh perspective and direct appeals to them to become engaged in the process.", "\"The fact that Obama appealed so much to the youth to make us feel like our voices count, they've grown to idolize him.", "That's what kind of sparked my interest.", "He really mobilized youth,\" said Sophia Le Fraga, a freshman at New York University.", "For many new citizens struggling with English, the act of casting a vote was their own form of civic commitment.", "\"When you don't speak English, it's difficult to be heard, but the person who votes speaks for himself and the community,\" said Ysidra Frias, a Dominican living in Lynn, Massachusetts, who became a U.S. citizen in January 2007.", "After becoming a citizen, Frias became active in the Massachusetts-based community organization Neighbor 2 Neighbor, which helped register 1,111 voters in low-income neighborhoods throughout the state.", "Frias said that for minorities like her, Obama was a sympathetic voice who understood the pervasive effect of poverty, unemployment and lack of social services in their communities.", "\"He talks about creating sources of employment and social programs, but he also talks about how the communities must help themselves,\"said Frias, who plans to continue working for Neighbor 2 Neighbor to help bring about the changes Obama has promised.", "\"To give a plate of food to the hungry doesn't help, because where does the next meal come from?", "Obama gives us hope for finding the tools to help ourselves.\"", "Then there were others who were dislodged from political apathy by the prospect of casting a historic ballot for the first African-American president.", "\"I actually started paying attention because Obama was a black man running, but once I started listening, he started making sense to me, and I decided to get out there and vote,\" said Michael Fogle, an African-American grocery store stocker and father of five from Lexington, Kentucky.", "Those who voted for McCain are less optimistic about what an Obama presidency will do for them.", "\"I hope he succeeds, simply because I care for our country too much, but I don't really expect him to,\" said Keith Neely, a senior at Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee.", "\"More specifically, I'm unsure as to which Obama will be inaugurated in January.", "Will it be the more liberal Democratic primary Obama, or will it be the more moderate general election Obama?\"", "Neely said in an e-mail to CNN.com.", "\"I firmly believe that Barack Obama has the ability to be a successful president, but that depends entirely on his willingness to stick to his campaign promises and avoid the temptation that an extremely liberal congress will provide.\"" ]	[ "First-time voters such as students, new citizens made up 11 percent of electorate .", "69 percent of new voters chose Barack Obama based on platform of change .", "College students want Obama to end war, improve job market for them to enter .", "New citizens hope Obama will boost economy, improve America's image abroad ." ]	[ 5, 12, 19, 36, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- On January 12, I went to basketball practice and then spent time with a kids' basketball league.", "The whole time my phone was in the car.", "When I finally looked at it, I had about 50 messages saying, \"Have you been watching the news about Haiti?\"", "It still haunts me to think that, as I went about my business that day, my homeland shuddered, crashed, and crumbled.", "More than 220,000 of my fellow Haitians died.", "Another 1.6 million were instantly left homeless -- most with nothing but the clothes on their backs.", "About 800,000 of them are children.", "Haiti has never been an easy place to be a kid.", "When I was growing up in Port-au-Prince, I felt lucky because I always had at least one meal a day.", "Some of my friends were starving.", "But we all shared what we had with each other. We figured out ways to have fun with nothing but a small patch of dirt to play in.", "We got along with very little, and we told ourselves that -- if we got just the slightest opportunity -- we would grab onto it and use it to do great things.", "That is what Haiti's children need now.", "They need opportunity.", "They need our help. It is amazing what kids can endure.", "Haiti's children have held the hands of parents as they lay crushed and dying beneath rubble.", "They've lost families, best friends, homes, schools.", "They can survive all that. But they can't thrive without us stepping up.", "Right after the earthquake, the immediate and enormous generosity from people in the U.S. made such a difference in Haiti -- and it made me very proud to be part of this huge-hearted nation.", "Organizations like UNICEF, which I have partnered with for years through my Samuel Dalembert Foundation, were able to provide emergency relief that stopped another wave of disaster in the form of disease and starvation.", "In the last six months, UNICEF has been providing water, food, shelter, immunizations, medicines, child protection, and education supplies to hundreds of thousands of Haitian children and their families.", "But in many ways, the hard work is just beginning.", "And the need remains huge.", "Those 1.6 million people left homeless are still living in tents and makeshift shelters -- and hurricane season is fast approaching.", "More than one third of the spontaneous settlements that have been created lack adequate sanitation, and this can make kids ill and lead to major disease outbreaks.", "People in settlements still rely on water being trucked in every day, and many don't get enough considering the near 100-degree heat.", "Learn more about helping Haiti at Impact Your World .", "Education is going to make all the difference to Haiti's future.", "Given the opportunity to learn, the children who survived the earthquake will grow up to transform their nation and lead it towards prosperity.", "But before the earthquake, only four in ten kids went to school, and that number is even lower now.", "Teachers are also absent because so many lost their homes and are now displaced.", "I was lucky enough to get the opportunity I dreamed of as a child in Haiti.", "And I started my foundation because I wanted to give other kids that chance, too.", "It's my deep belief that those who are lucky enough to have success in this life should do something -- anything -- to help others.", "So I ask: Even if you've already been generous, don't forget Haiti now that it's dropped from the news headlines.", "Organizations like UNICEF are there for kids, but they need funds to rebuild schools, train teachers, set up feeding centers, immunize against disease, dig wells, install water pumps...", "There are hundreds of thousands of very resilient kids in Haiti who are surviving despite all they've been through.", "They can endure a lot.", "Parents dying.", "Living in tents in 100-degree weather and rainstorms.", "Hungry bellies.", "But we don't want a nation of kids just barely surviving -- we want a nation of leaders.", "Haiti's children can't become leaders if they don't go to school.", "They can't become leaders if they're so hungry they can't concentrate.", "Or if they have to spend their days selling sodas in the street to make a few pennies.", "They can't become leaders if the water they drink makes them chronically sick.", "Or if they never get the vaccines that will keep deadly diseases away.", "If you join me in giving Haiti's kids the opportunities they deserve, I can promise they will do great things.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Samuel Dalembert." ]	[ "As Haiti recovers from January quake, children bear a heavy burden, says Samuel Dalembert .", "He says it's important that kids not only survive, but are educated and kept healthy .", "Dalembert recalls growing up poor in Haiti, sharing with friends who had less .", "He and other kids vowed if they got any opportunity, they would use it to do great things, he says ." ]	[ 11, 17, 36, 37, 47 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The mother and father of missing Oregon boy Kyron Horman repeatedly urged stepmother Terri Horman to co-operate with police during a news conference Thursday.", "\"I really want her to do the right thing,\" said Kyron's mother, Desiree Young.", "\"Kyron is still out there and needs to be home.\"", "Court records released Thursday revealed that Kaine Horman, the boy's father, believes the stepmother is involved in Kyron's disappearance.", "The revelation was made public after a restraining order against Terri Horman was unsealed by Multnomah County court authorities in Portland.", "The father alleges his wife knows what happened to Kyron, who was last seen at school more than one month ago.", "\"I believe respondent is involved in the disappearance of my son Kyron who has been missing since June 4,\" Horman wrote in his request for the restraining order.", "\"I also recently learned that respondent attempted to hire someone to murder me.", "The police have provided me with probable cause to believe the above two statements to be true.\"", "The restraining order bars Terri Horman from having any contact with Kaine Horman or the couple's 20-month-old daughter.", "When asked by reporters at the Thursday news conference in Beaverton, Oregon, how he processed the information discovered in the restraining order he said, \"I didn't process it.", "It's not important right now.", "Kyron is still missing.", "He's still missing.\"", "This is the second time in a week that the boy's biological parents pleaded with the stepmother to work with investigators.", "But there have not been any changes since the earlier request, said Young.", "\"She is still not co-operating.\"", "\"I'm so angry, I don't have the words,\" said Young.", "\"She is not taking an active role in trying to find Kyron.", "She is not telling the truth.\"", "\"I've known her for a long time, said Young, \"I know she's lying.\"", "All three adults have taken polygraph tests as the investigation into Kyron's disappearance continues, said Kaine.", "Terri Horman was subjected to two, but did not pass either, he said.", "Young and Kaine Horman said they have been totally blindsided by the disappearance of their son and by the events that followed.", "Terri Horman's lawyer could not be reached for comment later Thursday.", "Lt. Mary Lindstrand said the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office had no comment on the allegations made by Kaine Horman.", "Authorities have not named any suspect or person of interest in connection with Kyron's disappearance.", "Asked if the department believes Kyron is alive, Lindstrand said, \"We are going with the premise, that, yes, Kyron is alive and we are going to bring him home.\"", "Relatives of Kyron have said they are trying to keep the focus on finding the boy and not suspicions about the boy's stepmother.", "Kyron went missing after Terri Horman dropped him off at school on June 4.", "The stepmother said she last saw Kyron walking down a hallway toward his second-grade classroom at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, according to police.", "Sources told CNN affiliates that investigators believe that Terri Horman has lied to them, and cell phone records could show she wasn't where she claimed to be.", "Kyron's family members said they hope people will focus more on the missing boy.", "\"Our main goal is to keep Kyron in the front of everyone's mind because we have a better chance of finding him.", "So we are constantly working to keep him the focus of the story and not Terri,\" the family members said in an e-mail.", "Terri Horman was in the headlines Monday when CNN affiliates KGW and KATU reported that she had attempted to hire a landscaper to kill her husband several months ago.", "KGW reported that sources believe Terri Horman approached the landscaper, who had been working on the family's property in northwest Portland, and offered the man \"a large sum of money\" to kill Kaine Horman.", "Repeated efforts by CNN to reach Terri Horman have been unsuccessful.", "CNN's Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Kyron Horman's parents urge stepmother to co-operate with police .", "Restraining order against stepmother Terri Horman unsealed .", "Husband Kaine Horman believes she is involved in Kyron's disappearance .", "Family members \"remain hopeful\" that Kyron is still alive ." ]	[ 0, 3, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two of three American hikers who have been detained in Iran for nearly 10 months -- Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd -- have gotten engaged in prison and plan to get married after their release, their relatives said Monday.", "The third hiker, Josh Fattal, plans to be best man at the wedding, the relatives said in a statement.", "The three hikers' mothers learned of the engagement when they visited Bauer, Shourd and Fattal in Iran last week.", "\"Shane told me that he proposed to Sarah in the yard of Evin prison on January 6, the very same day that we applied for our visas to go visit them,\" Bauer's mother, Cindy Hickey, said in the written statement.", "\"We're all so overjoyed at the news but it's obviously impossible to know when the wedding will take place.\"", "The couple wears engagement rings that Bauer made from threads he pulled from his shirt, the statement said.", "\"Sarah couldn't wait to show me her ring,\" said Shourd's mother, Nora Shourd.", "\"It's one of the things that keeps her going -- knowing that she and Shane have this unbreakable bond and a friend in Josh who will always be there for them.\"", "Iranian authorities detained the three after they reportedly crossed the border into Iran by accident while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan.", "On Sunday, Iran's intelligence minister said the three Americans are spies, but he hinted that Iran may consider releasing them in exchange for the release of Iranian prisoners, state media reported.", "\"We expect the Americans, who claim to be advocates of human rights, to also commit humanitarian acts, because only after this can we decide on whether or not to have a swap,\" Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said, according to the IRNA news agency.", "Speaking on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting, Moslehi said there had been no official talks about a swap, Iranian state television reported.", "The trio made a brief phone call home March 9 and have had access to a few letters and messages sent by relatives, friends and supporters.", "They have not been formally charged, although Iranian officials have said they will face trial on espionage charges.", "Before their trip, the mothers had requested meetings with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but those meetings did not take place, according to the hikers' attorney." ]	[ "Relatives: Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd to marry after release .", "Third hiker, Josh Fattal, plans to be best man, the relatives say .", "Iranian authorities detained the 3 after they reportedly crossed a border into Iran .", "Iranian official calls the trio spies, hints at prisoner exchange ." ]	[ 1, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Day-long clashes between police and rioters marked a controversial holiday march in Northern Ireland, leaving dozens of officers injured and widespread damage in Belfast.", "The violence began overnight, on the eve of July 12, known as \"The Twelfth\" by Protestants who march to celebrate the victory of English king William III over his ousted Catholic predecessor James II in 1689.", "More than 100 riot police removed Catholic protesters from a road in north Belfast to allow the march to take place, journalist Peter Taggart told CNN Monday.", "Rioters pelted police with Molotov cocktails and other explosives, and officers fired baton rounds and used water cannon in attempts to break up the crowds, police said.", "A policewoman was struck in the head by an object thrown at her, and ambulance crews who rushed to the scene were confronted by rioters, police said.", "Her condition was unknown.", "Several vehicles were carjacked and set afire, police said.", "Police have not yet released details of the number of arrests made, or the number of people injured.", "However, authorities earlier in the day reported that at least 27 police officers were injured in the clashes.", "The injuries are not thought to be serious, police spokesman John Anderson had said.", "The violence took place in two different parts of the city on the eve of a holiday often marked by tension between Catholics and Protestants.", "Tensions in Northern Ireland as marching season begins .", "The disruption began minutes before the start of the holiday -- also known as \"Orangeman's Day.\"", "Because of the sectarian nature of the holiday, celebrations have sometimes been marred by violence in the past.", "\"This is utterly wrong and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms,\" police district Chief Superintendent Mark Hamilton said in a statement early Monday.", "\"Those involved in tonight's violence were intent on causing mayhem and destruction.\"", "Hamilton said police were investigating the incident.", "\"We have appealed for calm in the run up to the Twelfth of July and we continue to do so,\" he said.", "\"We would appeal to anyone with influence in the community to exert it to ensure that the next few days pass off without incident.\"", "On Saturday, police in Northern Ireland said a roadside bomb that exploded in a border caused significant damage to both a road and a nearby bridge.", "District Cmdr.", "Chief Alasdair Robinson said he believed that police officers were the target, and that the bomb was placed in the area in an attempt to injure or kill them." ]	[ "Rioters attack police on historic Protestant holiday .", "At least 27 police injured in two different locations, including three hit by shotgun blast .", "People throw objects and explosives .", "Disruption began on eve of holiday ." ]	[ 0, 8, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Australian MotoGP star Casey Stoner will leave Ducati at the end of the season to join Japanese manufacturer Honda.", "The 24-year-old actually made his MotoGP debut with the satellite LCR Honda outfit in 2006 before moving to Ducati, where he won the world title in 2007.", "\"We are very pleased that Casey will join Honda again next year,\" the factory-team's vice president Shuhei Nakamoto told the official MotoGP website.", "\"Clearly he is one of the top riders in MotoGP and he will bring valuable speed and experience to our team.", "\"We already have two very strong and experienced riders in Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso who are performing very well and currently hold second and third positions in the 2010 World Championship.", "\"We hope to retain these two riders for next year -- giving us what would be a truly formidable line-up.\"", "Stoner added: \"I have decided to move on.", "I will have new challenges in the future and different obstacles to overcome, but I will not forget these years with Ducati and the people I have had the privilege to work with.\"", "World champion Valentino Rossi is now expected to leave Yamaha to link-up with his fellow-Italians at Ducati.", "Rossi is currently recuperating from a broken leg suffered at the Italian Grand Prix last month but is expected to return before the end of the season." ]	[ "Australian MotoGP star Casey Stoner will leave Ducati at the end of the current season .", "The 24-year-old will rejoin Honda, the manufacturer he made his debut with in 2006 .", "Stoner will join Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso in a formidable line-up next year .", "World champion Valentino Rossi is now expected to leave Yamaha to link-up with Ducati ." ]	[ 0, 1, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A United States soldier captured by the Taliban says in a video posted on the Internet he is \"scared I won't be able to go home.\"", "Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl shown here in a video made by his captors, members of the Taliban.", "The soldier was identified Sunday by the Pentagon as Pfc.", "Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho.", "He was captured June 30 from Paktika province in southeastern Afghanistan.", "The Taliban has threatened to kill Bergdahl if foreign troops continue targeting civilians in the name of search operations in Ghazni and Paktika province, Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen said by telephone Friday after being contacted by CNN at an undisclosed location.", "NATO-led forces in Afghanistan and the U.S. military have repeatedly denied targeting civilians.", "In the 28-minute video, Bergdahl becomes emotional when he speaks of his family -- his parents, siblings, nieces and nephew -- and the girlfriend he hopes to marry.", "\"I have a very, very good family that I love back home in America, and I miss them every day that I'm gone,\" he says.", "\"I miss them and I'm afraid I might never see them again and that I'll never be able to tell them I love them again.", "I'll never be able to hug them.\"", "He adds that he is \"scared.", "I'm scared I won't be able to go home.", "It is very unnerving to be a prisoner.\"", "However, he says his captors are treating him \"like a guest.\"", "It was not clear whether some or all of Bergdahl's remarks were scripted by his captors.", "Watch excerpt from the video » .", "The last few minutes of the video show him eating a meal.", "In a statement released Sunday through the Idaho National Guard, Bergdahl's family said, \"We hope and pray for our son's safe return to his comrades and then to our family, and we appreciate all the support and expressions of sympathy shown to us by our family members, our friends and others across the nation.", "Thank you, and please continue to keep Bowe in your thoughts and prayers.\"", "Asked by his captors if he had any message for Americans, the soldier says, \"To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know what it's like to miss them, you have the power to make our government bring them home.", "Please, please bring us home so we can be back where we belong and not over here.\"", "The Taliban earlier claimed responsibility for Bergdahl's kidnapping, the military said.", "Last week, the U.S. military distributed pamphlets in eastern Afghanistan in an effort to locate him.", "\"As you can see, the American soldier is in good shape and good health, and he is being treated well based on the guidelines of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regarding war prisoners,\" said a statement on Islamist Web sites accompanying the video.", "\"Any decision regarding the American soldier will be the specialty of the high order of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, may God protect him.\"", "The U.S. military said it believed Bergdahl may have been moved to various locations.", "In the video, Bergdahl's captor makes reference to his being moved from Paktika to Khandahar.", "He acknowledges it, saying the move was accomplished \"very easily.\"", "The claim could not be independently verified.", "Asked the date by his captor, Bergdahl says it is July 14.", "Two versions of the pamphlets were distributed in Afghanistan, written in the Pashto language.", "They were made available to CNN by U.S.", "Forces Afghanistan.", "One shows the image of an American soldier shaking hands in a group of kids with the message, \"One of our American guests is missing.", "Return the guest to his home.", "Call us at\" -- and lists a phone number.", "The other shows a U.S. soldier kicking down a door, and then an outstretched hand with the superimposed image of a soldier, his head and arms drooping, and the words, \"If you do not release the U.S. soldier then ... you will be hunted,\" the pamphlet says.", "Days after Bergdahl went missing, a senior U.S. military official said Bergdahl and the Afghan soldiers were captured by low-level militants and then quickly \"sold\" to the clan and network led by warlord Siraj Haqqani -- believed to be deeply involved in the action.", "The Haqqani clan operates on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border and is well known to the U.S. military.", "Bergdahl apparently left his small outpost on his own on June 30 with no apparent means of defending himself, the official said.", "Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen said he visited a military post in the Yousaf Khel district in the Paktika province, got drunk, and was ambushed while returning to his car.", "Sangeen said the soldier was taken to a safe place.", "CNN could not independently verify Sangeen's claims.", "A source with the U.S. military denied the claim that Bergdahl was drunk.", "\"The Taliban are known for lying and what they are claiming (is) not true,\" the source said.", "In the video, Bergdahl says he was captured as he was lagging behind a patrol.", "Ketchum Mayor Randy Hall told CNN Sunday, \"Right now, the news is still breaking through town, and as the mayor, I can say this is a community situation.\"", "But, he said, \"I trust the leadership of this country, the wisdom of the people who are serving and the decisions that led up to the situation.\"", "Bergdahl is not a National Guardsman, according to the Idaho National Guard statement, but the organization said it was coordinating with the Department of Defense to provide public affairs duties and other assistance to the Bergdahl family.", "The family has requested privacy, the statement said.", "CNN's Barbara Starr and journalist Janullah Hashimzada contributed to this report." ]	[ "Soldier from Idaho says he's frightened he won't be able to see family again .", "U.S. military: Pfc.", "Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, was captured June 30 from Paktika province .", "Taliban commander: Taliban will kill him if foreign troops keep targeting civilians .", "He was taken by members of the Taliban, the military says ." ]	[ 0, 3, 4, 5, 14, 44 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A man arrested in connection with the 1990 abduction, rape and attempted murder of an 8-year-old girl appeared before a judge Thursday on an attempted capital murder charge, according to CNN affiliate KTRK.", "Dennis Earl Bradford, a 40-year-old welder, was arrested after DNA tied him to the crime, police say.", "Dennis Earl Bradford waived his right to a court-appointed attorney when he appeared Thursday, saying he would retain his own.", "For security reasons, the hearing was held at the Galveston (Texas) County Jail and not in a courtroom, the station reported.", "The judge ordered Bradford to undergo a physical and mental evaluation and set bail at $1 million.", "His next court appearance was set for Wednesday, according to KTRK.", "Upon conviction, an attempted capital murder charge could result in a sentence of life in prison.", "Bradford, a 40-year-old welder, was arrested early Tuesday in Little Rock, Arkansas, in connection with the 1990 incident involving Jennifer Schuett, who was abducted from her bedroom, raped and left for dead in Dickinson, Texas.", "Schuett shared her story with CNN two weeks ago in hope of someday bringing her attacker to justice.", "CNN normally does not identify victims of sexual assault, but Schuett decided to go public with her story to increase the chances of finding and prosecuting her attacker.", "\"It's not about me anymore,\" she told CNN in September.", "\"It's about all the little girls that go to sleep at night.", "I know there are so many girls out there who have been raped and hurt.", "You have to fight back.\"", "Bradford's arrest came after DNA and other forensic tests led police to him, authorities said.", "\"This is a huge day for me,\" Schuett told CNN on Tuesday.", "\"And I want to see this through the end.", "The rest will come out during the trial.\"", "Schuett said she was alone in her bed August 10, 1990, when a man crept in through a window.", "She remembers waking up in a stranger's arms as he carried her across a dark parking lot.", "She said he told her he was an undercover cop and knew her family.", "He drove her through the streets of Dickinson, pulling into a mechanic's shop next to her elementary school.", "\"Watch the moon.", "The moon will change colors, and that is when your mom will come to get you,\" she recalled him saying.", "\"Oh, it looks like she is not coming.\"", "Schuett said he drove her to an overgrown field next to the school and sexually assaulted her.", "She passed out. When she regained consciousness, she was lying naked on top of an ant hill with her throat slashed from ear to ear and her voice box torn.", "She was found at 6 p.m. on a hot August day after lying in the field for nearly 12 hours.", "She was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.", "\"Three days after the attack, I started giving a description.", "The doctors told me I would never be able to talk again, but I proved them all wrong,\" Schuett said.", "She believes that she got her voice back so she could tell her story.", "Houston FBI Special Agent Richard Rennison is one of the lead investigators in the case, along with Dickinson Police Detective Tim Cromie.", "Both men were discussing the case when Rennison received a memo from the FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) team, seeking child abduction cases that had gone cold and could be retested for DNA evidence.", "Schuett's was one of the cases selected.", "\"This is the only one that I can think of that the victim has suffered some traumatic injuries and survived,\" Rennison said.", "\"The main reason the CARD team picked this case was because she was alive.", "In cases of child abduction, it is rare that the child is recovered alive.", "Frequently, you recover a body.", "And most times, you never find them.\"", "The investigators found evidence collected 19 years ago, which was retested.", "It included the underwear and pajamas Schuett was wearing, as well as a man's underwear and T-shirt, which were found in the field where Schuett was found.", "The clothes were tested in 1990, but the sample wasn't large enough for conclusive results.", "But now, modern techniques allow DNA to be isolated from a single human cell.", "They were still awaiting the results when CNN featured Schuett's story in late September.", "CNN's Mayra Cuevas-Nazario contributed to this report." ]	[ "40-year-old held on $1 million bail in girl's abduction, rape, attempted killing .", "He could get life in prison if found guilty .", "\"I want to see this through the end,\" victim says .", "DNA and other tests led to suspect, police say ." ]	[ 0, 6, 14, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The U.S. reinforced its close ties with Jordan this week by increasing aid to the Kingdom by 48 percent.", "MME spoke with Dr. Bassem I. Awadallah, Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court, about Jordan's relationship with the U.S. Washington says the increase in aid to $663 million this year shows \"the bipartisan support in America for the difficult choices Jordan has made in its homegrown reform efforts.\"", "Jordan has been a close political ally of the U.S. for decades.", "The strength of their relationship was recognised in 2000 when Jordan became the first Arab country to sign a free trade deal with the U.S.", "When Jordan's King Abdullah bin al-Hussein II came to power in 1999, he put economic reform at the top of his agenda.", "Since then, the Kingdom has moved to liberalize trade, eliminate fuel subsidies, crack down on corruption and reform the tax system.", "Dr. Bassem I. Awadallah is a former economic advisor to the Prime Minister of Jordan.", "He's now Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court, and Vice Chairman of the King Abdullah II Fund for Development.", "John Defterios spoke with Bassem Awadallah and asked him whether the increase in U.S. aid to Jordan is recognition of the role that Jordan's been playing in the Middle East, both economically and politically.", "Bassem Awadallah (BA): There is a definite recognition of what Jordan has been doing over the last two years.", "Particularly the efforts that have been conducted by His Majesty the King over the last two years in helping to bring the peace process on track again.", "But equally, there is recognition in Washington, as elsewhere in the world, of the reforms that are taking place in Jordan.", "(Recognition) of what we are trying to do with fiscal management, enabling the investment environment to become much better, and to attract private capital to come in and invest in key sectors of our economy.", "As a result of this, we have witnessed an increase in the assistance levels from the United States and we hope that this will continue over the next couple of years.", "(JD): One could say that U.S. relations in the Middle East specifically in the Gulf are at a historic low.", "Does this one-week tour by President Bush really alter the outlook between U.S. and Middle East relations?", "(BA): To the extent that the Arab countries and the Arab people feel that the United States is committed to play an honest broker and bring about a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue, which we feel to be the core issue in the Arab Israeli conflict.", "To the extent that we see a deliverable on the ground, which means a real improvement in the lives of Palestinians and a real commitment to the peace process.", "I think you will have a substantial increase in the credibility that the United States commands on the Arab Street.", "This is the major factor in our opinion that really provides for the U.S. image to be improved in the Arab countries.", "(JD): It was a historic week if you look at the big picture: an arms and missile deal worth $20 billion with Saudi Arabia; and at the same time, Gulf investment funds investing in Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.", "Do you think eventually this will lead to investment protectionism where there's resistance to this money coming from the Gulf and into U.S. and European Markets?", "(BA): I think you're going to see a real financial power in the Gulf countries.", "Obviously, they will be able to afford to develop their economies more.", "I think they are going to feel that the regional threats are of such magnitude that they would be required to arm themselves more, and this explains why there have been big contracts, not only with the United States, but other countries as well in Europe.", "You are going to have some kind of recycling going on which is clearly manifested in the Merrill Lynch and Citigroup investments by Sovereign Wealth Funds.", "We do hope that these big funds in the Gulf will find some attractive opportunities in the Arab World as well -- in Jordan, in other countries which do require this huge capital investments to improve the infrastructure and to be invested in key sectors of our economies.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "U.S. increases aid to Jordan by 48 percent, says shows \"bipartisan support\"\nClose ties between U.S., Jordan evidenced in 2000 with first U.S.-Arab FTA .", "Bassem Awadallah is Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court in Jordan .", "Awadallah: \"You are going to see a real financial power in the Gulf countries\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 8, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Bristol Palin and the father of her child, Levi Johnston, are engaged again.", "The couple reconciled three months ago during custody discussions about their 18-month-old son, Tripp, Us Weekly magazine reported Wednesday.", "According to the magazine, the couple said Bristol Palin's mother, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, did not know about their plans until now.", "\"We got engaged two weeks ago,\" the magazine quoted Bristol Palin as saying.", "\"It felt right, even though we don't have the approval of our parents.\"", "She acknowledged in the article that \"it is intimidating and scary just to think about what her reaction is going to be,\" adding: \"Hopefully she will jump on board.\"", "The Palin family issued a statement later Wednesday that stopped short of a full-throated endorsement.", "\"Bristol, at 19, is now a young adult,\" said the statement attributed to the Palin family.", "\"As parents we obviously want what is best for our children, but Bristol is ultimately in charge of determining what is best for her and her beautiful son.\"", "The family statement added that \"Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.\"", "\"We pray that, as a couple, Bristol and Levi's relationship matures into one that will allow Tripp to grow up graced with two loving parents in his life,\" the statement said.", "According to the magazine, Johnston, 20, had no expectations of a reconciliation when he and Bristol Palin got together to discuss custody arrangements involving their son.", "\"I really thought we were over.", "So when I went, I had no hope,\" the magazine quoted Johnston as saying.", "\"I think we both just started talking -- and then we took Tripp for a walk.\"", "Us Weekly Senior Editor Lindsey Powers told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Wednesday that \"they opened up to us about how they had the baby so young and it was really hard for them to work together to raise Tripp.\"", "\"But as they got a little bit closer, Bristol moved out of her parents' home to a condo in Anchorage, they got accustomed to parenting and as they worked out a custody plan, they started spending a lot more time together then started realizing they wanted to reunite,\" Powers said.", "The engagement \"would fit in with (Sarah Palin's) 'family values' platform,\" Powers said.", "\"What better than to have your daughter reuniting with the father of the baby and reuniting the family?\"", "Johnston sent Bristol Palin a text that said, \"I miss you.", "I love you. I want to be with you again\" and she was in shock, Powers confirmed to CNN.", "\"They realized that they're really in love and they're together.", "And she was thrilled when he popped the question with a one-carat diamond ring,\" Powers said.", "\"They say they want it to be quick so, certainly, we'll see them walking down the aisle shortly,\" Powers added.", "Their teenage relationship fell under an intense public spotlight after Sen. John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate in August 2008.", "The couple broke off their first engagement about two months after their son's birth in December 2008.", "After they broke up, Johnston posed in Playgirl Magazine and said on \"The Tyra Banks Show\" that they had been allowed to live together, a charge the Palin camp denied.", "Johnston irked Sarah Palin last fall by claiming that she referred to her infant son Trig, who has Down syndrome, as \"retarded.\"", "According to Us Weekly, she fired back, telling reporters that anyone who posed for Playgirl would \"say and do anything for even more attention.\"", "Later, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, she called his \"aspiring porn\" career \"heartbreaking.\"", "During a nasty custody battle last year, Johnston asked that the case be conducted in public to protect him from Sarah Palin, whom he said was \"powerful, politically ambitious and has a reputation for being extremely vindictive.\"", "Bristol Palin said in the custody hearing that Johnston wanted a public case so he could \"continue to make a spectacle of this custody dispute for his own self-promotion.\"", "Bristol Palin noted in the court case that Johnston's mother, Sherry Johnston, pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge this year.", "Bristol Palin asked that the paternal grandmother be barred from having any unsupervised visitation with Tripp.", "Her petition said she \"may re-offend, keep medications around the house which could be accessible to the baby, have illegal drug users come to the house (or she could take the baby in her car during a drug sale).\"", "Johnston's response said his mother's \"chronic pain condition is currently being managed in coordination with the Department of Corrections.\"", "On July 7, Johnston publicly apologized to the Palin family in a statement to People Magazine, saying some of his comments about the family were not totally true.", "\"Last year, after Bristol and I broke up, I was unhappy and a little angry.", "Unfortunately, against my better judgment, I publicly said things about the Palins that were not completely true,\" Johnston told People.", "\"I have already privately apologized to Todd and Sarah.", "Since my statements were public, I owe it to the Palins to publicly apologize.\"" ]	[ "NEW: The Palin family issues a statement wishing the couple well .", "Bristol Palin says she and the father of her child are engaged - again .", "The couple reconciled 3 months ago during custody discussions, they tell Us Weekly magazine .", "Former Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin has not been told about their plans until now, the magazine says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The tale contains elements of a spy thriller: a soldier in Iran's feared Revolutionary Guard turns spy for the CIA after concluding that the government that had promised democracy had instead ushered in oppression, violence and death.", "But, Reza Kahlili says, this is no novel.", "In his new book, \"A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran,\" Kahlili offers a firsthand account of how he turned against the Islamic regime that he said has oppressed its people for three decades.", "In one of his first public appearances, Kahlili addressed a packed hall Friday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.", "Flanked by a bodyguard and disguised in a hat, mask and glasses, he spoke through a modulator that led Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to liken his voice to Darth Vader's.", "Even his name is a pseudonym, all in an effort to protect his family, friends and contacts, he said.", "The author said that, after a peaceful childhood in Iran, he came to the United States in the 1970s for college, studying computer science at the University of Southern California, where he enjoyed a carefree life of parties, watching football and listening to Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull.", "He returned home after the sudden death of his father to find a country embroiled in change.", "Kahlili describes the immediate aftermath of the 1979 revolution against Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as a special time in Iran.", "Iranians had been led to believe democracy was theirs, the clergy wouldn't interfere in their lives and the people would have freedom of speech, assembly and political affiliation, he said.", "Everyone was excited about the direction of the country, he said.", "It was then that Khalili's friend told him about an opportunity with the newly formed, elite Revolutionary Guard, which hired him immediately.", "Reza said he quickly became disillusioned when he saw people being tortured and murdered and women raped in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.", "Repressing his countrymen, he said, was not what he had signed up for.", "But rather than quit the Guard and endanger his family, he contacted the CIA and began work as an American agent under the code name \"Wally,\" he said.", "There was no magic watch or pen or fancy car like James Bond, he said, just a pencil and a notebook.", "He was trained in communications and deciphering codes.", "Kahlili said his role \"was to look and act the part of a devout Muslim enforcing all the new rules laid down by the mullahs.\"", "\"A full black beard was a mandatory accessory to the Guard's uniform, and I sported one along with every other member of the Guards.", "The image of a scowling, black-bearded Guard in uniform mustered fear and garnered respect.", "Playing the part of a zealot did not come naturally to me, and there were times I had to do things I dreaded: cautioning young girls to cover up, barking at kids for not displaying proper Islamic behavior, taking on the persona of a fanatic.", "I knew I would have to try to convince myself that doing these things allowed me to maintain my role -- and maintaining my role allowed me to contribute to the downfall of the organization to which I so fervently imitated allegiance.\"", "He said he provided critical information to his CIA handlers about Iran's role in the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-contra affair, the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which he said was masterminded by Tehran.", "Kahlili described a CIA that knew little about what was going on inside Iran and was complacent about finding out the truth about the regime.", "He said he warned his case officers in the mid-1980s about the growing danger of the Guard, but said U.S. officials sat idly by, alternating indifference and negotiation with the regime he was working to take down.", "This \"misconception\" of Iran, he said, has plagued America's decisionmaking for three decades.", "After a few scares in which he thought his cover was blown, Kahlili left Iran, was granted asylum in the United States and moved to California.", "He said he no longer works for the CIA, but still provides the agency with information from his contacts in Iran about the regime, its nuclear program, its terrorist activities in the region and its continued oppression of the Iranian people.", "He said that, after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2005 election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, he decided to speak out publicly to raise awareness of the brutality of the regime.", "He predicted that Iran will eventually attack Israel, Europe and the Gulf and advocated a preemptive military strike against the regime but not against the Iranian people or infrastructure.", "Kahlili accused the Obama administration of naivete and betrayal for seeking to engage Iran.", "Not only does the regime see this as weakness on the part of the United States, he said, but the Iranian people view it as a betrayal of the highest order as they fight for freedom.", "\"Stop dreaming, please,\" he said Friday.", "\"You are not dealing with rational people.", "Every time you extend a hand, it is not seen as sincerity, but stupidity.\"", "The CIA's public affairs office in Washington was not open Friday night and its telephone number would not accept messages; its e-mail account rejected two attempts to send it a message." ]	[ "Ex-member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards describes life as a CIA spy .", "Newly published book describes disillusionment after 1979 revolution .", "Author, whose pen name is Reza Kahlili, says U.S. has long misperceived Iran's regime .", "Kahlili says Obama administration is naive, predicts Iran will attack Israel ." ]	[ 1, 2, 8, 30 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Like most college students, Jake McCoy had to apply for several loans to pay for his education.", "After a rigorous check of his credit, he secured the loans and has been paying them back since graduating from Baylor University in May 2006.", "Then, in October 2008, he received a letter from Baylor with bad news: A laptop computer with his account information had either been stolen or misplaced.", "\"They told me my information was on it, and that's pretty much it,\" McCoy said.", "\"I assumed that my information was in good hands; it was so hard to get the loans that I figured surely they'd protect it very well.\"", "The university set up a credit monitoring service for McCoy, now a first-year medical student at Baylor.", "The service expired in a year, and McCoy worries that he's still at risk for being on the hook for thousands of dollars that someone using his identity could spend.", "\"The biggest concern is always that you don't know what someone is going to do with your financial information,\" said McCoy.", "\"I was really worried that someone out there was going to be ruining my credit and how big of a headache it would be to resolve it.\"", "And McCoy is not alone.", "In March, a portable media device with personal data for more than 3 million people was stolen from Minnesota-based Educational Credit Management Corp.", "It is believed to be the largest breach of its kind.", "The thieves who stole the USB drive, like in other cases, may not commit identity thefts themselves, according to Jonathon Giffin, a system and software security researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology.", "\"They may sell the information to others who have the knowledge of making money from those identities,\" Giffin said.", "Most credit card companies and banks offer some recourse if a customer becomes the victim of internet fraud.", "But when personal information is lost because a company is the victim of crime, it is often unclear who is ultimately responsible.", "There are U.S. laws that hold companies accountable when major breaches occur, and new legislation is being considered.", "The Personal Data Privacy Act of 2009 would require companies to notify, in writing, anyone affected by a security breach.", "Under the act, which is still pending a vote in Congress, companies would also be required to notify major media outlets if there are more than 5,000 people affected by a security breach.", "The company that carried McCoy's loans simply provided him with a basic $15 credit monitoring service that lasted for one year.", "\"For me, it's not a one-year ordeal,\" said McCoy.", "\"If I had ruined my credit, it would have taken me forever to get back on track.", "One year was a nice gesture, but I definitely wish it would have been more than just a year.\"", "More than 350 million personal records at hundreds of universities, government agencies and businesses have been at risk because of data privacy breaches since 2005, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit group that publishes reports on cybercrimes.", "Sometimes, that's a result of simple mistakes, and other times, it's the result of a criminal act.", "Either way, Giffin says everyone needs to protect their personal identity.", "\"We can encourage organizations to try to protect our data using mechanisms such as data encryption, so that if a USB drive or a laptop is stolen, the data is encrypted and cannot be retrieved,\" he said.", "\"But we would be relying on companies to do that for us.\"", "Encryption causes a slowdown for companies.", "System users would have to encrypt and decrypt the data every time they access it, which creates extra work, and companies may not have an incentive to pay for safer data.", "New legislation could change the way companies look at data safety costs.", "The Data Accountability and Trust Act, which has been passed by the House and awaits a vote in the Senate, would protect consumers by requiring companies to take reasonable measures to protect data containing personal information.", "If a security breach occurs, companies would be required to provide nationwide notice.", "But even if the bill is enacted, it may not be enough.", "Many laws dealing with internet protection haven't always been able to catch up to evolving cybercrimes.", "But that doesn't mean there hasn't been any progress in the ongoing battle to protect personal data, according to Adam Palmer, the lead adviser on cybersecurity issues for Norton.", "\"There are some very good, tough laws right now on both the state and federal level, and there's a lot of legislation in the pipeline to try to address some of these crimes,\" said Palmer, a former cyber-crime prosecutor.", "But new challenges exist for fighting crime in a virtual world.", "Palmer says cybercriminals often use sophisticated technology to launch attacks.", "\"You can't go to a crime scene and take pictures and interview witnesses, so it's in some ways a very old crime that still relates to stealing money, stealing people's identities,\" he said.", "\"It's done with such complexities, that makes it very difficult for prosecutors.\"", "Giffin says there has been a significant shift in cybercrime over the last decade, including new techniques such as \"botnets,\" which are computers that can transmit viruses to other computers without the knowledge of the owner.", "Although cybercriminals continue to develop new methods of attack, there are no new ways for users to protect themselves other than what experts have advised for years: .", "• Maintain good security practices .", "• Exercise greater awareness of how your information could be used .", "• Check credit reports .", "• Tell your financial institutions to track your accounts .", "• Report any cybercrimes to law enforcement .", "But even in doing so, consumers -- like McCoy -- still face a potential risk when their personal information is in the hands of others.", "McCoy says he is more careful with his information, and he hopes that businesses take more precautions with their customers' personal data.", "\"It still put that doubt in my mind about how easy it could be for businesses that I trust to lose my information or have it stolen,\" McCoy said.", "\"I don't know why they were carrying around information on a laptop.", "I feel like they should be a little more protective with information than that.\"" ]	[ "Most credit card companies and banks offer help to victims of internet fraud .", "However, it's unclear who is responsible when the company is a victim of crime .", "A student loan company lost a laptop with Jake McCoy's personal data .", "\"I don't know why they were carrying around information on a laptop,\" McCoy said ." ]	[ 14, 15, 20, 51 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 14-year-old cruise passenger was killed in a crossfire Monday as she rode on a tour bus on the U.S. Virgin Islands, police said.", "Authorities said the shooting happened just before noon in the Coki Point area of St. Thomas.", "They found the girl wounded on the bus and a man who had been fatally shot in the street, police said in a statement.", "She was identified as Liz Marie Perez Chapparro of Puerto Rico by the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism.", "Chapparro was taken to a hospital, where she died from her injuries, police said.", "The shootout between the unidentified man and the driver of a red Honda occurred at the funeral of Joseph Ferrari, who was shot to death at a mall parking lot on June 29.", "The driver in Monday's shooting ran away from the scene, police said.", "Three others were arrested as police searched the area.", "Police said they found ammunition on the dead man's body.", "Chapparro's family immediately flew home to Puerto Rico, the tourism department said." ]	[ "Teen tourist killed in crossfire on St. Thomas .", "An unidentified man also fatally shot .", "Shootout happened at a funeral ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A man who shot and killed two people at a fiber optics company in New Mexico Monday before turning the gun on himself has been identified as 37-year-old Robert Reza, a police spokesman told CNN Tuesday.", "Police responded to a 911 call Monday morning from Emcore Company that multiple shots had been fired.", "When officers entered the building, they found a total of seven people shot.", "Three were dead, including the shooter, said Nadine Hamby with the Albuquerque Police Department.", "Among the wounded victims was a woman who has been identified by police as the shooter's estranged girlfriend.", "Adrienne Basciano, 49, was in guarded condition Tuesday at the University of New Mexico Hospital, said Hamby.", "Michele Turner, 36, died at the scene and Sharon Cunningham, 47, died at the University of New Mexico Hospital, Hamby said.", "A woman and man, both 58, and a 54-year-old woman were released from the hospital.", "Conflicting information emerged in the hours after the shooting.", "Authorities first reported that six people had died, and later said three people were killed.", "Earlier reports also mistakenly identified the shooter as a woman.", "Police said miscommunication among officers and emergency personnel was to blame for the erroneous reports.", "\"We believe this incident to be a domestic violence workplace situation,\" Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz said Monday.", "Police also said that they have located the children of the gunman and his estranged girlfriend.", "Schultz would only say that the children are \"OK.\" The roughly 85 Emcore employees who were inside the building at the time of the shooting were later interviewed at a community center near the building, authorities said." ]	[ "NEW: Police identify a gunman in New Mexico as Robert Reza, 37 .", "NEW: A woman identified as the shooter's girlfriend is listed in guarded condition .", "Albuquerque police believe it was a domestic violence situation that spilled into the workplace ." ]	[ 0, 4, 5, 12 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Kenneth Slayton wants to get a message to Jaycee Dugard, the California woman kidnapped as a child and held captive for 18 years.", "Slayton would like to get together with Dugard and her two children on Father's Day, but he said he is being blocked from communicating with the 29-year-old he believes is his daughter.", "When Dugard went missing in 1991, FBI agents investigating the 11-year-old's disappearance knocked on Slayton's door because the truck driver had been identified as her biological father.", "Slayton said he was shocked by the FBI visit because until then he didn't know about Jaycee was his daughter.", "The 64-year-old truck driver said he was shocked again last August when he heard a radio report his long-lost daughter had been found alive.", "\"I almost wrecked my truck,\" Slayton said.", "But Dugard's return to her family did not include Slayton.", "He said he is desperately trying to change that.", "\"Since she has been found, I have done everything I could to make contact with Jaycee, but to no avail,\" Slayton said at a news conference Friday.", "Doing everything included hiring celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred.", "\"Sunday is Father's Day,\" Allred said.", "\"Our client has missed celebrating Father's Day for 29 years.", "He is thrilled that his daughter has been found alive and that he has two grandchildren he never even knew he had.\"", "Several letters from Slayton sent to Dugard through her lawyer were returned unopened, he said.", "They included photos of his other children who would like to meet their sister, he said.", "Allred would not speculate on who decided not to open them.", "\"They only thing she knows about me is something that maybe somebody said that maybe didn't like me too well,\" Slayton said.", "\"That's wrong.\" A spokeswoman for the Dugard family issued a statement recently which acknowledged Slayton as the father but questioned his motives for wanting into Dugard's life after many years.", "\"I was very upset by the verbal missiles that the spokesperson fired at me when she targeted me,\" Slayton said.", "\"I guess they're trying to kill my spirit, reputation issuing totally false statements.", "I mean, these things are over the hill.\"", "\"The statement that I had no interest in Jaycee is a completely false statement,\" he said.", "\"Ever since I learned certainly that I had a daughter I wanted to see her, protect her and love her.\"", "He said he never would have abandoned a daughter if he had known she existed.", "\"I'm not a runner.\" \"I would have been there,\" Slayton said.", "\"I would have been a good loving father, and involved in supporting her and helping in any way that I could.\"", "He filed a paternity suit last month.", "Legally establishing that he is her father would guarantee Slayton a courtroom seat when the couple charged with kidnapping Dugard are tried, Allred said.", "Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, are charged with 29 felony counts in the kidnapping of Dugard, who was 11 when she was snatched in 1991 from the street in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe, California.", "\"I am also a victim of Phillip Garrido because he kept me separated from my daughter and because he inflicted terrible pain on her,\" he said." ]	[ "Slayton wants to legally prove he's Dugard's dad .", "Agents probing case in 1991 told him he was her dad .", "His letters to Dugard have been returned unopened ." ]	[ 2, 7, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland's former finance minister, recently said his country is enjoying \"its best period in 300 years.\"", "CNN looks at how the country emerged from communism to become one of eastern Europe's most stable and thriving democracies.", "Solidarity leader Lech Walesa addresses striking workers in Gdansk, Poland in 1989.", "Modern Poland gained independence in 1918 only to be overrun by Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War.", "Almost six million Poles, including the majority of the country's large Jewish population, died during the devastating six-year conflict.", "The shadow of Stalin continued to loom large over Poland after the war, when the communist-dominated government ensured that Poland would become a Soviet satellite state for the next 40 years.", "The following decades were punctuated by revolts against the repressive authoritarian regime in Warsaw, but none had a greater impact on Poland's political future than events in 1980 at a shipyard in western Poland.", "With a struggling economy and rumors of corruption and mismanagement within the state causing widespread discontent, a series of strikes by workers paralyzed the country.", "Eventually the government was forced to negotiate and on August 31, 1980, workers at the massive Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, led by an electrician named Lech Walesa, signed a deal giving workers the right to strike and form trade unions.", "This heralded the creation of the Solidarity movement, which would ultimately be instrumental in bringing Poland's communist era to an end.", "The presence in the Vatican at the time of Polish-born Pope John-Paul II was also a significant influence on the movement throughout the 1980s, as the Catholic church had remained a very potent force in Polish life.", "The Pope even made a visit to the country in 1979.", "Despite Soviet-endorsed attempts to slow the erosion of the regime's grip on power -- including the declaration of martial law by General Wojciech Jaruzelski in 1981 which outlawed Solidarity -- Poland's worsening economic situation, compounded by further nationwide strikes, meant that the government had no alternative but to negotiate a date for free elections with Walesa and the Solidarity movement.", "Solidarity members won a stunning victory in the election of 1989, taking almost all the seats in the Senate and all of the 169 seats they were allowed to contest in the Sejm or parliament.", "This gave them substantial influence in the new government.", "Activist and journalist Tadeusz Mazowiecki was appointed prime minister, while Lech Walesa was elected as president the following year.", "After years of economic mismanagement under the communists, Poland embarked on a painful reform program under finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz -- especially in traditional heavy industries such as coal and steel -- which moved away from the inefficient state-controlled system of economic planning.", "Despite growing unemployment and a dilapidated infrastructure, Poland was slowly transformed into an investment-friendly, market economy.", "Banking and lending policies were reformed, while newly reshaped ownership relations, independent enterprises and strengthened domestic competition all had a massive impact.", "Over a relatively short period of time, Poland had become one of the most dynamically developing economies in Europe and by the mid-1990s, it became known as the \"Tiger of Europe.\"", "Poland also liberalized its international trade during this period.", "The national currency -- the zloty -- became convertible to other currencies and internal convertibility was also established, providing another platform for dynamic economic growth.", "New markets in countries that had been treated not so long before as ideological as well as economic enemies were opened up to Polish companies.", "The EU and U.S. were now the key markets for Polish goods.", "This realignment of policy was emphasized by its accession into the European Union in 2004.", "It had also joined NATO in 1999.", "Unfortunately the continuing problem of high unemployment and the promise of better salaries encouraged many Poles to work in other EU countries after 2004.", "However this trend started to reverse in 2008 as the Polish economy enjoyed a boom period.", "Politically, Poland has also successfully transformed itself into a fully democratic country.", "Since 1991 the Polish people have voted in parliamentary elections and four presidential elections -- all free and fair.", "Incumbent governments have transferred power smoothly and constitutionally in every instance to their successors." ]	[ "Poland was ruled by Soviet-backed regime after the Second World War .", "Solidarity movement became a key factor in the fall of communist regime .", "Centrally-planned economic system replaced by free market economy .", "Poland joined the European Union in 2004 ." ]	[ 3, 5, 24 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The oldest known surviving copy of the New Testament gets the modern touch Thursday when parts of it go online for the first time.", "The full manuscript of the Codex Sinaiticus will be online a year from now.", "The British Library plans to begin publishing the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century text handwritten in Greek, on its Web site.", "The Gospel of Mark and the Book of Psalms go online Thursday.", "The full manuscript is to be online in a year.", "Translations of the Codex Sinaiticus have long been widely available, but publishing images of the manuscript online will let anyone see pages that, until now, have been viewed in detail mainly by academia.", "As the Web site becomes operational, it will show photographs of each page of the text, with links to translations in English and German.", "There will also be a search function.", "\"It contains the earliest complete copy of the New Testament,\" said Scot McKendrick, the head of Western Manuscripts at the British Library.", "While the Codex contains all of the New Testament, it also includes part of the Old Testament and originally contained the entire text of the Christian Bible.", "The manuscript also includes the Apocrypha, 14 disputed books of the Old Testament that are usually omitted from the Protestant Bible.", "It also includes two early Christian texts: the \"Epistle of Barnabas\" and the \"Shepherd of Hermas.\"", "The library announced plans three years ago to digitize the 1,600-year-old book, a tough job since pieces of the manuscript reside in four countries.", "\"It was a challenge, but it was ... also very exciting,\" said Juan Garces, the curator of the project.", "Photographers took digital pictures of the text in United Kingdom, Russia, Germany and Egypt to put the entire manuscript online.", "\"It unites something that belongs together,\" he said.", "The complete text once was housed at the Monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai, Egypt, before it came to the attention of a German scholar, Constantine Tischendorf, in the 19th century.", "He took parts of it to Germany and Russia.", "The British Library later bought several hundred pages from the Russians.", "Digitizing the text is a windfall for scholars, but the main goal was to make the Codex available to everyone.", "\"It makes it accessible, and it opens up to anyone who can access it via the Internet,\" Garces added.", "Eventually, the manuscript will be translated into Russian and modern Greek.", "\"The user will come to the Web site and will be able to look at images of each page of Codex Sinaiticus, will be able to zoom in and out and look around the page and see the page lit in standard light.\"", "Garces said." ]	[ "British Library plans to publish world's oldest surviving Bible online .", "Codex Sinaiticus contains all of New Testament, part of Old Testament .", "Web site will have photographs of pages, search function ." ]	[ 2, 7, 9 ]
[ "Editor's note: In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events.", "Here, Anderson Cooper goes to the Congo where he covered the killings of endangered mountain gorillas.", "Ten mountain gorillas reportedly have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last year.", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- You hear them before you actually see them.", "Some branches snap just ahead of you.", "The adult male silverback grunts somewhere off to the side of you.", "He even pounds his chest.", "You approach slowly.", "Mountain gorillas have been used to seeing scientists for decades, but these are wild animals, and you have to be respectful.", "When you see them, it is shocking.", "I've been visiting mountain gorillas since I was 17 -- I've probably been about six or seven times -- but each visit is extraordinary.", "They are among our closest animal relatives, and when you stare into their eyes, you see the spark of intelligence.", "You know these are individuals, with personalities, thoughts and feelings.", "Each gorilla group or family is headed by an adult male silverback.", "They are massive creatures, weighing up to 500 pounds, and are fiercely protective of their brood.", "Around them baby mountain gorillas tumble and play.", "They beat their chests just like their father, though the display is far less impressive.", "If you look closely, you may notice some of the mountain gorillas have lost a hand or a foot.", "Poachers' snares are a problem, even in a well-protected park in Rwanda I visited.", "There are about 700 mountain gorillas left in the world, according to Flora and Fauna International, an organization that acts to conserve threatened species and ecosystems, and they live in a lush forest that straddles Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.", "Watch a close-up view of a mountain gorilla » .", "In Rwanda and Uganda, where they're well-protected, the mountain gorilla populations are thriving.", "They are major tourist attractions that bring millions of dollars each year to both countries.", "The real problem right now is in the Democratic Republic of Congo.", "For the last 10 years, there has been fighting in that country, and in the last year, according to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 10 mountain gorillas have been killed, shot to death.", "We went to the Congo to find out why those mountain gorillas were murdered.", "And the answer is we just don't know.", "Because of the fighting, the mountain gorillas are completely cut off.", "The rangers who protect them have had to flee the park, and no one's been able to check up on the gorillas.", "What we do know, and what is so sad, is that these gentle giants trust us.", "You see it when you sit with them, when they allow you to come so close.", "They've been taught that man won't hurt them.", "This year, in the Congo, the gorillas have been lied to.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Conservation organization says 700 mountain gorillas are left in the world .", "Ten mountain gorillas have been killed in the Congo in last year, U.N. agency says .", "Mountain gorillas weigh as much as 500 pounds ." ]	[ 2, 24, 27 ]
[ "Miami, Florida (CNN) -- A Miami, Florida, court appearance for Colton Harris-Moore, the so-called \"barefoot bandit,\" has been postponed until Friday, as he did not have a U.S.-based attorney to represent him Wednesday.", "Wearing government-issued socks, sandals and shackles, the 19-year-old Harris-Moore told the judge his mother hired an attorney whose name he did not know.", "Public defender Hector Topico offered to assist Harris-Moore in contacting the attorney in Washington state.", "Harris-Moore was taken into custody on Harbour Island in the Bahamas early Sunday.", "He was sought in a string of home and airport break-ins in various U.S. locations along with thefts of vehicles.", "In the Bahamas, Harris-Moore pleaded guilty to a charge of illegally landing a plane, paid a $300 fine and was ordered deported, his lawyer said.", "He was then flown to Miami on Tuesday, the FBI said.", "Typically in extradition cases, the accused makes a first appearance in the federal court closest to where he was arrested, said Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of Washington.", "The Southern District of Florida, in Miami, is the closest jurisdiction to the Bahamas, said Langlie.", "In his initial U.S. appearance, he will be told of his rights and read an initial charge of interstate transportation of stolen property, Langlie said.", "The complaint, which was sealed until last week, was filed last December and stems from his allegedly stealing a plane in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, and crashing it outside Granite Falls, Washington, she said.", "After his initial appearance, U.S. marshals will take him to the Western District of Washington in Seattle.", "Under the federal system, the case will then go to a grand jury.", "If an indictment is returned, more charges could be filed.", "The federal charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.", "Federal prosecutors are working with other states to determine the best way to go forward in this case, but the Washington courts will get him first since he was arrested on their warrant, Langlie said.", "\"He seems to be very remorseful,\" attorney Monique Gomez, a Bahamian lawyer who represented Harris-Moore in Nassau, told CNN in a telephone interview.", "Asked whether he acknowledges guilt in the other cases, Gomez said, \"Let me put it this way -- he wishes he had done things a little differently in his life.\"", "Still, she added, he appeared \"in good spirits.\"", "Authorities in Madison County, Nebraska, issued an arrest warrant for Harris-Moore last month on charges of burglary and theft by unlawful taking or deception.", "The affidavit supporting the warrant alleges the youth waged a crime spree.", "He faces charges in Washington state in the theft of an aircraft, and police have said they believe he stole a Cessna in Indiana and flew it to the Bahamas, where it was found in the shallows off Abaco Island.", "The teen had been on the run since he escaped from a juvenile halfway house in Renton, Washington, in 2008.", "The FBI had offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.", "Harris-Moore is called the \"barefoot bandit\" because he was without shoes when he allegedly broke into houses.", "He also was barefoot when apprehended in the Bahamas at the Romora Bay Resort and Marina by police responding to a reported sighting Sunday.", "The youth has amassed more than 80,000 Facebook fans.", "In December, Time magazine dubbed him \"America's Most Wanted Teenage Bandit.\"", "Also, 20th Century Fox has purchased the rights for a film based on his exploits.", "CNN's Ashley Hayes, John Couwels, Patrick Oppmann, Susan Candiotti, Tom Watkins and InSession Correspondent Jean Casarez contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The hearing for Colton Harris-Moore will be held Friday .", "NEW: The 19-year-old had no legal representatives in court Wednesday .", "At Friday's court appearance, he will be told of his rights and read his charges .", "In the Bahamas, he pleaded guilty to illegally landing a plane ." ]	[ 5, 9 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A trio of wildfires burned through Southern California on Tuesday, threatening homes, shutting down roads and prompting some residents to evacuate, officials said.", "There were no reports of injuries from the three fires in Camarillo, Walnut and at Camp Pendleton.", "Capt. Ron Oatman of the Ventura County Fire Department estimated the fire in Camarillo -- about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles -- to be about 15-20 acres.", "Oatman said some homes were threatened, but residents were not yet evacuating.", "In Walnut, 25 miles east of Los Angeles, a 5-acre wildfire prompted residents in 24 homes to evacuate, though the fire was later extinguished without burning any structures, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.", "Meanwhile, fire officials at Camp Pendleton -- home to a U.S. Marine Corps base north of San Diego -- had that blaze 60 percent contained Tuesday evening after it burned 2,700 acres.", "Firefighters expect to have it fully controlled Wednesday, according to a statement from the base.", "The Camp Pendleton fire, which started Tuesday morning during a training exercise, forced the closure of at least one road that will remain closed through the night, the statement said.", "CNN's Sonya Hamasaki contributed to this report." ]	[ "There are no reports of injuries .", "Some homes are under threat in Camarillo, fire official says .", "Residents were evacuated in Walnut, fire department says .", "Camp Pendleton fire officials expect to contain that blaze by Wednesday ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Break out your D20s and your \"New Mutants\" collection!", "It's \"Embrace Your Geekness Day,\" and Wall Street embraced geeks by letting them ring the starting bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning.", "Those bellringers are also known as members of Best Buy's Geek Squad, who drive to the rescue of people trying to master the computers they bought from the store.", "This embracing holiday is just one of a handful of geeky observances: \"Darwin Day,\" \"Pi Day,\" \"Towel Day\" (think \"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"), \"Geek Pride Day.\"", "There's even a \"Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day.\"", "But this particular day -- \"Embrace Your Geekness Day\" -- is copyrighted by Wellcat Holidays, and meant for people who are \"into dungeon games, comic books and doing vampire dress-up,\" as well as those who \"spend endless hours going strange places on the internet.\"", "According to Wellcat Holidays, \"this is your day to roar!\"", "So why do Americans celebrate people who are defined by Webster's dictionary as, \"any person considered to be different from others in a negative or bizarre way, as a teenager seen as being socially or physically awkward\"?", "According to Benjamin Nugent, author of \"American Nerd: The story of my people,\" a geek is \"a nerd who is defined by his knowledge on a certain subject.\"", "(Nugent points out that this is a far cry from what the word \"geek\" used to mean -- a carnie who was so unskilled that all he or she could do was bite the heads off live animals.)", "Thanks to Silicon Valley and the charismatic representation of geekdom by people like Apple's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and Microsoft's Bill Gates, geeks are fashionable and associated with economic power, Nugent said.", "Even their interests, like video games and computer technology, \"have become so refined that they're irresistible to a huge percentage of the population,\" said Nugent.", "Genevieve Bell, a cultural anthropologist with Intel Labs, agrees.", "\"There are far more products, programs, services and applications than there's ever been before,\" she said.", "\"And they speak to a wider market than ever before.\"", "Since geeks are strongly inclined to master technology, said Bell, they now represent dominance over a domain the general and less geeky members of the public would like to conquer.", "Geek holidays, while probably not necessary for true geeks to accept their quirks and interests, give others ample opportunity to celebrate and nurture their inner geek.", "Along with the mainstreaming of geek interests comes a bittersweet trade-off for geeks who had been marginalized in the past.", "Nugent said that when geeks and nerds were not as readily accepted in American culture, they had a thriving, fraternal community spirit.", "Now that technology, sci-fi, comics and gaming are mass consumer experiences, Nugent said, geek communities are fracturing.", "But in 2010, letting your geek flag fly has become a source of pride for many Americans.", "Bell said it's a natural fit for a country that's known as a nation of individuals.", "Scott Kauffman, CEO of Geeknet, the company that runs popular sites Slashdot.org, SourceForge.net and ThinkGeek.com, said that geeks will define the 2010s much as the GenXers defined the 1990s.", "Read Techland's interview: Hey, Wil Wheaton, what's the geekiest thing you've ever done?", "Kauffman likens geek obsession to the fan in everyone.", "\"People are getting in touch with their inner geekdom and that can take the form of many different kinds of passions or obsessions.", "It used to be a 'sports fan' or a 'sports nut,' now it's a geek,\" he said.", "Geek mainstreaming began decades ago, said Nugent, when \"Star Wars\" and the \"Lord of the Rings\" books burst on the scene to unprecedented popularity.", "Science fiction and fantasy, once the bastions of geek and nerd culture, became huge entertainment moneymakers thereafter, he said.", "\"More recently, our pop culture has become generous towards nerdy characters,\" said Nugent.", "Through TV shows like \"The OC\" and Judd Apatow's movies, geeks have become protagonists -- leading men, even -- and not just comic relief, he said.", "Bell goes so far as to say being geeky is downright American.", "\"Think about the railways or the electrification of America or the moon shot, even the Manhattan Project,\" she said.", "\"There's always a strong sense that to have technical prowess is a quintessential piece of what it is to be American ... and what it means to be successfully American.\"", "The mainstreaming of geek interests naturally leads to another American pursuit: capitalism.", "Wellcat Holidays does, after all, make money on its copyrights.", "In the last year, Geeknet, a company that harnesses the natural talents of geeks and caters to their interests, saw an explosion of sales.", "Geeknet offers geeks a one-stop shop: geek-written content, free open source code and all the niche tchotchkes a geek could want.", "Companies appealing to a broader audience are ready to use images of geeks in order to see that same kind of success.", "Apple's PC and Mac commercials showcase two geeks -- old school and new -- while Intel's \"rock star\" commercials show off how geeky the company is (because their rock stars are inventors.)", "\"Communications technology, especially, has such a patina,\" said Bell, \"and geek culture puts a face on all this technology.\"", "Geeks evoke the ideas of diversity and innovation, she said, and it's valuable for companies to commodify that.", "Nugent agrees.", "\"I think what those companies are exploiting is a desire for the reassurance of technical expertise,\" he said.", "\"This sort of cuddly nerd character who fixes your computer and makes everything right is reassuring,\" said Nugent.", "\"This isn't an intimidating expert who will say things you don't understand and condescend to you.\"", "Best Buy's Geek Squad, for example, uses the image of geeks to appeal to a large audience.", "Kauffman said this kind of marketing says to customers, \"If you're not a geek and you want what geeks have, because geeks are cool and have cutting edge -- bleeding edge -- technology, we can bring that to you.\"", "Nick Devita, a member of the bell-ringing Geek Squad team, thinks Best Buy has plenty of geek.", "\"We are a group of people ... that take the passion we have for technology and help other people embrace it, so they can have passion about it as well,\" he said.", "Ironically, geeks need little marketing and even less convincing.", "\"I think what's interesting about geek culture is that it doesn't need to be marketed to, much,\" said Nugent.", "\"If you have a new product, they will embrace it on its own merit, because they're geeks.", "They read the trade magazines, and they read articles in Wired and they obsess about these things in chat rooms. \"" ]	[ "The Geek Squad rang the NYSE bell Tuesday for \"Embrace Your Geekness Day\"\nPop culture and ubiquitous technology make geek culture mainstream .", "Businesses use geeks and geek interests to market to non-geeks .", "New products aimed at geeks need little marketing -- geeks already want them ." ]	[ 1, 16, 50 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A missing Iranian researcher, who Tehran claimed the CIA abducted, has sought sanctuary in the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, a senior U.S. official and two senior Pakistani diplomatic sources told CNN on Tuesday.", "\"Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who was kidnapped by the Americans, had gone to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C. and taken refuge at Iran's Interest Section.", "He has requested to be sent back to Iran quickly,\" Iran's semi-official news agency Mehr said Tuesday.", "Since he is an Iranian national, the Interest Section will prepare his papers, buy him a ticket and send him home, the Pakistani sources said.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Amiri is in the United States \"of his own free will\" and is \"free to go\" back to Iran.", "She also repeated the U.S. request that Iran release three American hikers jailed there.", "Amiri told the United States of his plans to return to Iran, and he was scheduled to travel Monday but was unable to make the appropriate travel arrangements in time, State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley said.", "Responding to a question about a potential \"prisoner swap,\" Crowley said the United States remains concerned about three American hikers being held against their will in Iran and Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran two years ago.", "But he denied any suggestion of a swap.", "Last week, the United States returned 10 alleged spies to Russia in exchange for four people who had been jailed in Russia.", "Abdul Basit, a spokesman for the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Amiri came to the embassy at 6:30 p.m. Monday.", "The Pakistani diplomatic sources said no one in Iran was aware of Amiri's whereabouts until his arrival at the embassy.", "Because Iran and the United States do not maintain diplomatic ties, the Pakistani Embassy looks after Iran's interest in Washington.", "Iran's Interest Section is in a separate building on the grounds of the embassy.", "Basit said it is controlled and staffed by Iran -- with about 70 to 80 Iranian diplomats.", "Pakistan has no control over the section, Basit said, adding that Amiri was not a guest of, nor was he in the custody or protection of the Pakistani government.", "Amiri, a researcher at Tehran's Malek Ashtar University, mysteriously disappeared in June 2009 while on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to Iranian media reports.", "Iran has accused the United States of involvement in Amiri's disappearance, saying the researcher was taken to force him to give up data about Tehran's nuclear program.", "But the Pakistani sources said Amiri is not considered a top scientist in Iran and would not be privy to highly sensitive information, so his alleged captors apparently concluded he offered little use to them.", "The U.S. State Department has denied involvement but has been tight-lipped on whether Amiri defected and per policy, the CIA does not comment on defections.", "But a U.S. official who is not authorized to speak publicly said Amiri's actions show the reality of the situation.", "\"His multiple videos and now his trip to the Iranian Interests section -- clearly prove he was not held in the United States against his will,\" said the U.S. official.", "\"He came to this country freely, he lived here freely, and he has chosen freely to return to Iran.", "The United States, to be sure, isn't standing in his way.", "He himself gives the lie to the idea he was tortured or imprisoned.", "He can tell any story he wants -- but that won't make it true.\"", "The U.S. official also said that Amiri \"may well be feeling some pressure from back home.", "... That could be one explanation for his contradictory messages.", "That said, he's decided of his own volition to go back, and the U.S. won't stop him.", "He's been a free man here, and that includes the freedom to make his own choices.\"", "On Sunday, Iranian media quoted a top Iranian lawmaker as saying that newly found documents back up Tehran's claims that the CIA is responsible.", "\"The U.S. move to kidnap Amiri runs counter to international regulations,\" said Javad Jahangirzadeh, a member of Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.", "He said Iranian officials had turned over the documents to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran.", "Last month, two videos surfaced on the internet of a man claiming to be Amiri in which he said he had escaped from U.S. agents and was hiding in Virginia.", "That was the third time that videos allegedly showing Amiri had circulated on the internet.", "In one, he said he had been kidnapped by U.S. agents.", "Another contradicted that claim and said he was living freely and studying in Arizona.", "In one of the videos posted June 30 on YouTube and dated June 14, the man again said that he was brought against his will to the United States and fears he will be discovered and re-arrested.", "\"I am Shahram Amiri, the son of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who with God's help succeeded in running away from the U.S. security agents in the state of Virginia.", "I am [temporarily] at a safe place and I am trying to do this video but it is quite possible that I may shortly be again arrested by American security agents.\"", "He went on to say: \"I am not free here and not allowed to contact my family or other people.", "If I face any problems or if I do not return to my country soon, the government of the U.S. would be directly responsible for it.\"", "CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the videos nor the identity of the man in them.", "\"If he is who people think he is, the U.S. would be in contact with the person,\" a CIA official said last month.", "And if he were being held against his will, \"how would he have been able to produce any of the videos?\"", "the official asked.", "In the second video that surfaced June 30 and dated June 23, the man claiming to be Amiri reassures his family about his well-being.", "\"I want to let my beloved family know that I am OK and they should not worry about my health,\" he says.", "\"With God's help I shall return to my beloved country in the next few days.", "I want them to be, as always, strong and patient and to pray for my safe return.", "I hope to see you in our beloved country.\"", "Tehran blamed Washington for Amiri's disappearance shortly after revelations surfaced that Iran has been building a second uranium enrichment facility near the city of Qom.", "After that, tensions over Iran's nuclear program mounted.", "Iran says its nuclear energy is solely for civilian purposes.", "But the United States pushed the United Nations to punish Tehran for its nuclear ambitions.", "The Security Council recently slapped a fourth round of tough sanctions on the Islamic republic.", "CNN's Pam Benson, Shirzad Bozorgmehr and Elise Labott contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Secretary of State Clinton says the scientist is in the United States of his own free will .", "The Iranian scientist arrived at the Pakistani Embassy on Monday .", "Iran claims U.S. kidnapped Amiri to force him to give up data about Iran's nuclear program .", "U.S. has denied charge but remains tight-lipped on whether Amiri defected ." ]	[ 4, 18, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Michele Witte woke up about 1 a.m. on December 12, 1997, and went to change her son's diaper.", "Then she rocked him and laid her 10-month-old back in his crib.", "Later that morning, she went into his bedroom to wake him and found his lifeless body.", "She immediately fell to her knees screaming.", "Witte's son, Tyler, had gotten his neck stuck in a gap between the side rail and headboard created when a single screw had become loose.", "She called 911, but her baby boy was cold, and she knew in her heart he was already dead.", "As her 2-year-old daughter came bounding into the bedroom, she grabbed her so she wouldn't see her brother.", "Witte, an English teacher in Bellmore, New York, said the coroner ruled the death an accident, but she and her family notified the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.", "Thirteen years later, the commission voted Wednesday in favor of new proposed mandatory standards for cribs.", "The new rules, likely to go into effect next year after a final vote by the federal commission, would render many cribs in the country as not up to code, regardless of whether the crib style and model was ever considered unsafe, and essentially would ban the manufacture and sale of drop-side cribs.", "In addition to eliminating drop-side cribs, the new rules will mandate better mattress support, sturdier hardware and better quality wood for crib construction.", "Between November 2007 and April of this year, there were 36 deaths associated with crib structural problems, according to Commission Chairwoman Inez Tenenbaum.", "Hazards in cribs include faulty hardware, dangerous gaps created from mattress support failures, and poor wood quality with crib slats that can be broken easily.", "The new standards aim to eliminate gaps where babies could become entrapped and suffocate, and to prevent babies from falling out of the crib.", "After Tyler's death, Witte, now 36, began to believe it was an isolated incident after a series of frustrating conversations and research.", "But in 2004, Witte heard about another couple whose baby had died in a drop-side crib just miles from her Bellmore home.", "She was outraged that the accidents continued to happen and ramped up her advocacy efforts.", "\"The coroner said it would take 15 seconds for him to asphyxiate,\" she said, her voice quivering with the memory of Tyler's death.", "\"My bedroom was close.", "I had the baby monitor on, but it's the silent killer.", "If you can't breathe, you can't scream out.\"", "While Witte said she is happy about the latest developments, she is still worried about parents who have drop-side cribs.", "Since the accidents first started getting attention years ago, Witte said she's heard of some parents who let their babies sleep in beds with them, which the American Academy of Pediatrics discourages.", "Others have used duct tape or lodged their cribs against a wall.", "\"What does that mean for cribs already out there?\"", "she said. \"We need to have new safe cribs for people who can't afford it.\"", "Witte's oldest daughter, now 14, slept in the oak crib with steel hardware that kiled her baby brother.", "Since then, Witte has had two more children, a girl, now 6, and a boy, 1.", "Both have slept in a new stationary crib with no movable parts.", "In fact Witte said the current crib will only come apart now with a sledgehammer.", "\"The problem is of hardware.", "Whenever you have something you are moving, the hardware is bound to fail,\" she said.", "When Witte puts her son down to sleep tonight, she will face the same stress she has dealt with for years.", "\"The safest places for a baby is safe, securely built, stationary crib,\" she said, adding that she has a video monitor in her son's room and gets up \"about 14 times a night checking on him.\"", "\"I'm happy for the day when he's out and in the bed, and we're done with cribs.\"" ]	[ "Michele Witte's 10-month-old son suffocated in a drop-side crib in 1997 .", "The baby's neck became stuck between side rail, headboard when screw loosened .", "Witte has been working to get drop-side cribs banned .", "Consumer Product Safety Commission approved standards that would ban drop-side cribs ." ]	[ 1, 4, 9, 26 ]
[ "Paris, France (CNN) -- France's lower house of parliament Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a ban on any veils that cover the face -- including the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women.", "The vote was 335 to 1.", "The measure must still go to the French Senate before it becomes law.", "The Senate is expected to vote on it in the week of September 20.", "Amnesty International immediately condemned the vote.", "\"A complete ban on the covering of the face would violate the rights to freedom of expression and religion of those women who wear the burqa or the niqab in public as an expression of their identity or beliefs,\" said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's expert on discrimination in Europe.", "French people back the ban by a margin of more than four to one, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found in a survey this spring.", "Some 82 percent of people polled approved of a ban, while 17 percent disapproved.", "That was the widest support the Washington-based think tank found in any of the five countries it surveyed.", "Clear majorities also backed burqa bans in Germany, Britain and Spain, while two out of three Americans opposed it, the survey found.", "The French Council of Ministers approved the measure in May, saying veils that cover the face \"cannot be tolerated in any public place.\"", "Their approval sent the bill to parliament.", "The parliamentary vote is the latest step in France's efforts to ban the burqa, niqab and other Muslim garments that cover a woman's face.", "A panel of French lawmakers recommended a ban last year, and lawmakers unanimously passed a non-binding resolution in May calling the full-face veil contrary to the laws of the nation.", "\"Given the damage it produces on those rules which allow the life in community, ensure the dignity of the person and equality between sexes, this practice, even if it is voluntary, cannot be tolerated in any public place,\" the French government said when it sent the measure to parliament in May.", "The bill envisions a fine of 150 euros ($190) and/or a citizenship course as punishment for wearing a face-covering veil.", "Forcing a woman to wear a niqab or a burqa would be punishable by a year in prison or a 15,000-euro ($19,000) fine, the government said, calling it \"a new form of enslavement that the republic cannot accept on its soil.\"", "The measure would take effect six months after passage, giving authorities time to try to persuade women who veil themselves voluntarily to stop.", "The French Council of State has warned that the ban could be incompatible with international human rights laws and the country's own constitution.", "The council advises on laws, but the government is not required to follow its recommendations.", "If the French bill is approved by the upper house and signed into law, it will be the first national ban in Europe on the burqa, a full-body covering that includes a mesh over the face, and the niqab, a full-face veil that leaves an opening only for the eyes.", "The hijab, which tightly covers the hair and neck but not the face, and the chador, which covers the body but not the face, apparently would not be banned by either law.", "However, a 2004 law in France bans the wearing or displaying of overt religious symbols in schools -- including the wearing of headscarves by schoolgirls.", "The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life estimates that France has about 3.5 million Muslims, or about 6 percent of the population.", "France does not keep its own statistics on religious affiliation of the population, in keeping with its laws requiring the state to be strictly secular.", "CNN's Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Amnesty International condemns the vote, saying the ban violates religious freedom .", "Ban passes the lower house of the French parliament by a huge majority .", "French people overwhelmingly favor a ban, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found this spring .", "The bill still needs Senate approval to become law ." ]	[ 4, 6, 11, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Andres Iniesta could miss Spain's opening game at the World Cup after suffering a thigh injury in a warm-up match.", "The Barcelona midfielder set up two goals for Spain in their emphatic 6-0 win over Poland in Murcia on Monday, but was substituted after just 39 minutes.", "Iniesta missed a large chunk of Barcelona's season with a thigh complaint, but team doctors insisted the injury was only minor.", "\"We substituted him because he had some discomfort in the back part of the thigh,\" Spain's team doctor Dr Oscar Celada was quoted as saying by the UK Press Association.", "\"He didn't notice any tear and it has not got any worse.", "It was at the start of the match and as he wasn't comfortable, we made the change - it's a minor muscle injury.", "\"We will calmly carry out tests on Wednesday, but we can initially rule out any muscle tear.", "It's a minor injury, but we have to take precautions,\" he added.", "Two of Spain's other injury doubts, Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas and Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, both came on a substitutes against Poland -- and scored -- as they look to step up their fitness.", "It was Torres' first action since playing for Liverpool against Portuguese side Benfica back in April.", "\"It was almost two months without playing since the Benfica game and I was really keen to come back,\" he said after the match.", "\"They have let me play for a while today and it was great to go out there and score.\"", "As for Iniesta, it remains to be seen whether he will play any part in Spain's opening Group H game against Switzerland on June 16." ]	[ "Andres Iniesta is a doubt for Spain's opening match of the World Cup .", "Iniesta was substituted after 39 minutes in warm-up match against Poland .", "Fernando Torres and Cesc Fabregas both came on as substitutes as Spain won 6-0 ." ]	[ 0, 8 ]

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